Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1938 — Page 8

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Shep Fields ~ Orchestra

Due Friday]

Shiavindey of the Straw found Inspiration in . Chocolate Soda.

l By JAMES THRASHER

\/5 weren't for a certain leniency in his Brooklyn upbringing, I'll bet She; “Prelds never would have made seeh a success in “Rippling Rhs 'm.” Be’ “re offering proof for this start’ 1g statement, it might be well to e7plain ito an unenlightened hanc il just ° what “Rippling Rhyt m” is, and to state that Mr.

"Field: and his orchestra will be on |}

the C cle: stage for a week beginning “riday. “Ri~aling Rhythm” is a realistic

* music. { touch which suggests bab-{]

bling Hrooks in ‘bosky dells. It is achie =d by the simple expedient of - blowi- E$hrough a straw into a glass of w> It’s something esthetically A to the phonograph recordin= of. a nightingale ‘in “The Pines -f Rome,” which Mr. Sevitzky end cr symphony orchestra performe: a couple of weeks ago.

Bubbling Genius

You could have discovered Rhyth 1,” because it’s so simple. But no. Fact is, anyone might have discovinhibi‘ions, the result of stringent Victori n training. To make it De fotly clear, you will h=ve to know how Mr. Fields stumbizd upon his ebullient inspiration. T° seems he was sitting in a . drug siore one day, thinking about musie i= general, and probably pondering ‘he reason why people don’t apprec: te musical talent. In de:peration, it is recorded: that Mr. Fic is ordered a chocolate soda. But he only half enjoyed the deli-

might think that anyone “Rippling

ed it were it not for certain

cacy, siping abstractedly while he | 398

continu-1 his brooding. Suddenly there vs a: gurgle as he reached the en; of ‘the soda. Mr. Fields stopped. transfixed—and “Rippling Rhythn was born. Now :11 of us have made that same g; 'gling sound in a soda at one tin" or other. Where I come from, ‘ever, it earned the gurgler a slap ¢ | the wrist. It was taboo, like dur_ing. Probably it was the same in¥ home, too.

gces Greener Fields

Most ¢° us, having discovered this rhythmic ipple, would have blushed, arisen hu -iedly, paid our check and departed. Not Mr. Fields. To him the gurgi® was no cause for embarrassment. Hut a new day in music. Mr. Fie _s let no grass grow under his feet. 2 bought himself a week’s supply o straws, rounded up his band anc began experimenting. Of course, tf"? very name,/ “Rippling Rhythm,” was something of an inspiration ‘a itself. Anyway. the band and its bubbles caught o: like magic. The - first thing Mr. “ields knew, he had been hired to &zceed Paul Whiteman on a commer al radio series. His original contrat of 13 weeks was extended to 9. Last ye: he and his orchestra broke the: house record at New York’s Pa: =mount, and later he was ; given a foatured spot in “The Big Broadcast of 1938.” His popularity has becon= so great, in fact, that he has issi2d a statement covering the procedure and ultimate aim of his discove 7. Here it is: * ‘Ripplinz «Rhythm’ is the embodiment 7 all the musical expressions prod: ced by a babbling brook. The reeds, “ddle and sharply muted trumpet p27 staccato melody with either the --cordion or vidla filling in for cont:=st.

veals Secrets

“It may Iso be one or more of the melody cections playing a much ‘tripletized’ chorus. More simply, it features an accordion that speaks, a viola tha’ talks, a sweet sax section, a trio of mellow violins, a generous use ¢- the drummers’ temple blocks to achieve the chop-chop effects.” ! And, of course, there's also the original str: 7 and glass of water. Altogether, they form the newest musical “mcusetrap”—and the Circle’s Mr. Beer is hoping the ‘world will beat a path to his door.

VETE" AN IN FILMS

Jean Hersholt’s appearance in “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” will be his 440th rol: in films since he came to Hollywood 25 years ago.

| WHAT, WHEN, WHERE APOLDO,

rderto—1,” with Paul Muni, Davis aad JBugene Palette, at 1:24, °:33, 5:42, 7:51 and 10.

JIRCLE

“Helly woo. ‘Hotel Revue” on stage, with Mart fay and others, at 12:57, 3: 41, 6:43 A

“The Baroness and the Butler,” with W William Powell and Annabella, at 11:18, 2:02, 5:04. 7:48 and 10:32.

INDIANA Up Baby,” with Katha-

pac d Cary Saat. at a ne Heghv Wr 08 and 9:44 OEW’S

“Bo. Bette 11:18,

“Merrily W- Live,” with Coustance Bennett and ° 0s.

rian Aherne, at 12:4 4, 7:15 and 10.

“Arsene Lu-in,” with Melvyn D las and Jizsinl nia Bruce, at 1I: 10,

32:20, 5 LYRIC

Louis Armsi: and His Orchestra on stage. acl i: 303 :52, 6:46 and 9:30. “Penrod Brother,’’ with the Mage: Bayh yins, at 11:51, 2:35,

5:29, 8:13 and a OHIO with ‘Sylvia’ Si X se Ea A aire 3 AMO

Also “Ebb Tic for He with Ken Ms, Al: 0 : X,” with Gladys George. .

AMI SSADOR x with Dorothy Laa Te ™ Cupid with Ken

Mow'25cts | ops Topper’] | Constanc: BENNETT BRIAN \HERNE!

“MEI RILY| WE LIVE

Hal Ro: Comedy Smash! -

hot (really hot) chocolate. (3) On the “Mad About Music”

Mae Jones.

A 15th birthday was a happy but busy occasion for Deanna Durbin, star of “Mad About Music,” which comes to the Indiana Friday. (1) The day began with a hurried breakfast of tomato juice and (2) Study can’t be interrupted, even for pictures or birthdays, so a session with American history came next.

Deanna’s birthday cake, while Arthur Treacher and Herbert Marshall, supporting players, waited for a bite. (4) There were presents from her youthful coworkers in the picture. O'Driscoll, Miss Durbin, Jackie Moran, Helen Parrish and Marcia (5) Last event in the busy day was a trip to Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, where Deanna left her signature and handprints in wet cement, just like the grownup stars.

set, Director Norman Taurog cut

Left to right, Martha

IN NEW YORK—+ GEORGE ROSS

City Chips Down on Rialto Foon:

Lieber Boasts Doubtful Praise.

NEW YORK, March 15 naitses The sad-faced little lady who for years has. solicited alms for a dubious orphanage, the beggars with the outstretched palms and the “Nickel fer a’cup o’ coffee” panhandlers are about to be banished from the Broadway playhouses; by order

of the ‘city fathers. ‘No intermission crowd is immune from the charity-seeking clique that quickly collects around the lobby doors between the acts, and the Welfare Commissioner says they ought to go. Theater programs now carry a note asking patrons not to aid professional beggars on the street, explaining that the City provides food and shelter for all the destitute.

Many. of e : alms-seekers ‘on Broadway aren't bona fide; one or two of them are legendary possessors of wealth: The story still goes that a certain pannzndler along the Rialto was accustomed to knocking off at 12 and slinking to a “side “street, where he would slip out of his tatteredyouter clothes, clamber into an expensive car and drive home!

On the Fritz

Fritz Lieber distinguishes himself with each appearance in Shakespearean tragedy and he is an inveterate barnstormer.’ In his long

the country and has played in lavish auditoriums and in hastily commandeered barns. To avoid insolvency, he has peddled Shakespeare in film houses, too, and it amuses him to recall his first engagement in. a cinema theater. It was on the stage of the Roxy five years ago that he rendered scenes from. “Hamlet” and in trade parlance, “Laid a round egg.” When he came off the stage, after an emotional’ upheaval, he was tendered a reception that was anything but complimentary. He was approached by one of the stage-

performance from the wings. “Don’t take any notice. .of ’em,” sympathetically, “I've been watching

| your act, Mr. Lieber. and I think

you're darned funny.” . Publicity—Like This

Alice-Leone Moats in Town & Country's Almanach de Gotha writes a scintillant expose of how :some of | in our better-knowns live comfortably in print, Hope - Hampton and Jules Brulatour, she tells us, owe their pub-

-| licity to constant attendance at first

nights; Mrs. S. Stanwood’ Mencken to her costly and: flamboyant costumes at masquerades; Beth Leary to a table she reserves for herself permanently at the Colony; Peggy Hopkins Joyce to prolific marriages; A. C. Blument to his attachment to pretty ladies; Libby Holman and Marian Saportas to their friendship withthe official Boswell of cafe society, a newspaper columnist: Clara

CHEZ PAREE]S

career, He has junketed all around.

hands who had been watching the |

he said ‘Times Special

‘dinand Schumann-Heink, son of the late Madame Ernestine Schumann-| Heink, has started work ‘as a cen- |.

Bell Walsh and Elsa Maxwell "to their lavish parties. - To gain print steadily, Miss Moats adds, it is a good idea ‘to be unconventional like Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, the society woman, who invites reporters to tug at her hair and prove it isn’t fake; or Bill Plankington who. sports a Dino Grandi beard; or Mike Romanoff who gets stranded frequently on Ellis Island. Anyway, it’s easy.

TWO FILM WRITERS WIN $10,000. SUIT

HOLLYWOOD, March 15 (U. P.)’— —Two writers had a $10,000 judgment today in a suit charging that their scenario was pirated for the Marx Brothers’ latest picture, “A Day at the Races.” The * writers, Henry Barsha and David Weissman, won the judgment against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio and Loew’s Inc., which produced and distributed the picture. They originally had. also. sued - Chico, Harpo and Groucho Marx, but. they eliminated the brothers from the case before the trial started. - They said their work, entitled “High Fever,” was rejected by the studio, ‘and then partly lifted for the ‘comedy scenario. They had asked-$150,000.

DIVA'S SON WORKS IN' MUSICAL FILM

HOLLYWOOD, Match 15.—Fer-

tral European : police - officer with Olympe Bradna and Gene Raymond

in “Stolen‘ Heaven,” featuring the}

music of Chopin, Liszt, Moszkowski, Strauss and other-masters.. Schumann-Heink said that his

mother in her latter years was con-|

vinced that motion. pictures: would soon : become ' the :most important medium ‘of good music. . She was enthusiastic about the. use of ¢ c music in films, ‘he said. . \

3 LAST DAYS!

Nae THE

HL ] KIRG of SWING!

|MECCA | ° Shrafford

An “all-girl” program will be presented by Jordan - Conservatory drama and dancing students tonight at 8:15 o’clock at the Odeon. Those taking part are from: the classes of Jane Ogburn Bruce, Bernice Van Sickle, Alberta Speicher and Alma Meyer of the drama and speech department, and Gloria Randolph of the dancing departmen Two of the. plays given will be by Jordan teachers: Miss Van Sickle will be represented by a one-act play, “The Evening Bag,” while

'BUCCANEER' USED BY SOAR. PUPS

Times Special 2 ; HOLLYWOOD, March 15.—A script of Cecil B.' DeMille’s “The Buccaneer” will be’ used: in visual education classes of the Los Angeles Public Schools. ‘Autographed by DeMille, ‘Fredric March, Franciska Gaal and otker principals, a copy of; the script has been ‘sent to the visual ‘education department at the request of school officials. Product of the writing talents .of Harold Lamb, Grover Jones and 'C. Gardner Sullivan, the script of the Paramount production is’ also in use in a: number of university writing classes, and is. being. supplied to others as fast as requests come in.

JEAN ARTHUR: IN: RETURN TO WORK

HOLLYWOOD, March 15° (U.P). —Another quarrel between a: film star and studio was settled today

Cohn, Columbia Pictures president, that Jean Arthur has returned to ‘work. - She ‘had parted - with the studio in a dispute over the roles

been “satisfactorily adjusted.”

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by Miss- Meyer. defits are ‘to appear in gram. i. 2 ” of the Jordan piano faculty. is to i play a recital at Indiana World War Memorial. Her. program will include music by Beethoven, Mozart and Scarlatti, two Bach transcriptions and two Capricecii and the “Paganini” Variations of Brahms. i : 8 8 = Two other Jordan faculty members, Mae Engle, pianist, and Virgil Phemister, basso, are to be guest soloists with - the Apollo Club af | Newcastle tonight. . The: = Apollo. male chorus will sing under. Donald Rogers’ direction.”

ss = ” wr The - In-and-About Indianapolis School Music Club will hold a band clinic at the conservatory’s main building, 1204 N. Delaware St. at 9:30 a. m. Saturday. At a luncheon in ‘the Student Hall Dr. Clarence Morgan, Indiana State. . ‘Teachers College, . is t6 Speak: on: “Radio Broadcasting.” : J. Russell Paxton is club presi. i and H. E. Winslow. is. secre-

LILA LEE iS SUED BY VETERINARIAN HOLLYWOOD, March 15 (U. P.). —Lila Lee, a leading star of .the silent films, was sued for $23 today by a veterinarian, C. A. White, who

her dog.

“THE DIONNE DARLINGS “Annette, Cestle ‘Emelie, Marie ; Bo¥aene An

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“Marie - Curie,” also: in one act, is| Twenty-nine stu- | the :pro-

On Sunday afternoon Marie Zorn

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said he was never “paid for resting ;

Hollywood—As Pyle Sess It Ernie Pyle, the Vagabond from Indiana, is in Hollywood again. ' For "breezy, informative chat: ter ‘about ‘the goings-on in the film capital, follow Ernie daily in’ The Times. His Column, today is on Page’ 9. ;

THIRD DIMENSION CARTOON FILMED

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, March 15. ~—Max Fleischer has started production of

length cartoon which is being filmed in full color with the third-dimen-sional effects developed and patented by the creator of “Popeye” and “Betty Boop.” ] started in the Mr. Fleischer’s New York studio and will: be completed inthe new Miami plant on which construction wore is under. way.

NEW INSTRUMENT In “Rascals” Borrah Minevitch, the mouth-organ king, and his.gang 1 use for the first time a new armonica which was recently invented by Minevitch. The instrument has the tone of a bass fiddle and looks like a small suitcase.

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[Enrico Caruso I Seeks Met Audition—but Finds

a Little Sticky

Son of Famous Tenor Claims to Have Lost Fortune Built Up.by. Father: So I's Strictly a. Case. Of Singing for His Supper.

“By FRANK T. FARRELL Times Special Writer - ew YORK, March 15—Enrico Caruso Jr., is- i town, with -tales of how, in sunny Italy, where they know an opera from a pimiento, they cheer snd jeer, by turn, the singing progeny of the great Metro politan tenor. He tells also of how difficult it is for a young man with his name to get even a menial ‘position in business here and of how he is starving for the necessities of life and an audition at the Met,

78th St., where he is living with and on his sigging coach, Pietro Della Rosa, and in 8 pair of nally arl-gray spats, oxford gray s Davchod collar and semiformal cravat, 33-year-old Mr. Caruso related the events : of. six months of training and recitals in Italy, which he recently completed in .preparation for his tryout at .the Met. “Ah, at the mention of my father’s name all doors are -open. to me, but once. I get inside”—he shrugs his shoulders— “well, I am not the old man, you know.”

Gave Concerts in Italy

‘He gave concerts in: Florence, Parma, Reggio and Piacenza, where the audiences are small but in-the-

on the first note. They shout “Bis” and “Bravo,” stomp on the floor and throw their hats in the air if they approve. They whistle and throw ripe vegetables in: the reverse. “Nevertheless, says Mr. Caruso. “How did they go?” : The 183-pound SB inely hand‘some Italian, whose torso gives prospect of great volume, though his voice has yet to prove its existence, shied and put out his hands imploringly. Fifteen Curtain Calls

“It is not easy for one to say how his recitals were appreciated in some :instances by 15 curtain calls.” “Fifteen?” “Yes.” “No: whistles?” ' Mr. Caruso was cut bone-deep. He first came here after the war to study at Culver Military Academy, where, it seems, his first sing-

I gave “recitals,”

was on him. Prankful classmates built him ‘up as the son of the great Caruso, who

“Vesti la giubba,” from “Pagliacci.” He was not to sing at all, but merely go through the

vocal. Victim of Hoax

Mr. Caruso applied himself diligently to a month’s synchronization of gestures with the record. He was all set the night of the play. He strode on stage and flubbed the first few bars and then ran for- the wings in blushing retreat, for the selection his classmates ‘played was from néither “Pagliacci” nor the lungs of a male.

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know. They can tell a bad ~singer{#ine Della

It was the soprano voice of Gallie Curci warbling “Caro Nome.” He studied first with Den Adolfo de la Huerta, former President of Mexico- and singing maestro friend of Caruso Sr. -but his premature capitalizing attempts in movies and radio shortly after his father’s death flopped. He had, it is said,

the lungs and tone of his worshiped

parent, but none of the elders poise. For that . reason his voice in serious moments has beén mise taken for a nervous gulp. But he applied himself. He rooms with his maestro and lives only for his music, he says. “Tsk, tsk, tsk—too many cigarets, You have three today,” chides bo-

t matter,” returns Mr. . “Today I have a cold. : shall not sing, maestro. Maybe I also shall take a drink with the signore to help break up the cold.” Signor Della Rosa “tsk-tsked” and shook his head sadly.

Has Elegant Manner

Things are either “lousy” or “pretty good” with Mimi Caruso these days. There are. no outward evidences of his having stooped to floor-mopping or any sort of manual labor.. He has a fine coat of tan, an elegant manner and speaks of

| operas, movies, parties and of a

valuable stamp collection in bank vaults.

He even has a press agent—which is a luxury mi us cannot afe ford—but he swears that nine years of litigation and some dissipation of his own wiped away all traces of the wealth left intestate by his padre.

- He has a brother, Rodolfo, seek= ing his fortune in Mussolini's serve ice in Abyssinia, and a half-sister, Gloria, whom he hasn’t seen in years. He has lost everything, he says. He has only a voice left, and now that’ he must sing for his supper it has to be good.

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