Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1938 — Page 16

Loow’ s Gets Western in Cpera Form

"Girl ofthe Golden West’ Is Ne west MacDonaldEddy Musical.

By JAMES THRASHER

Having appeared in various guises and undergone some foreign entanglements. “The Girl of the Golden ‘ West” finally has come back to the land of her birth. Having been just about everything but a ballet, this story-play-opera will get in town from the West Coast Friday to become I.oew’s movie attraction for . the ensuing week. Origins ly the story of Mary Robbins, who ran the Polka Saloon, and the dashing Lieut. Dick Johnson and Jack Rance,-the ‘gambling sheriff, spranz from the active imagiration of Bret Harte. Then in 1905, the twilicht of the “curse you, me proud bezuty” era, David Belasco made it over for the stage. It took

to the staze of Mr. Belasco’s theater

on Nov. 14 of that year. Eccomes an Opera ; ~ About that time the Italian composer, Giecomo Puccini, was getting able to think of Mr. Belasco again without fiinching. The year before he had ‘brought out his operatic version of “he American playwrightproducer’s “Madame . Butterfly” in Milan. The audience didn’t like it. They scarcely could wait for the curtain to rise before cutting loose with hisses and the Milanese equivalent of ‘he Brooklyn thrush, or Bronx che-r. In 1905, however, Mr. Puccini moved the work over to London, where it scored a tremendous hit. That prob=bly set the composer thinking about more Belasco efforts. Anyway oz put two gentlemen named Zengarini and Civinini to work on “The Girl of the Golden West.” i By Dec. 10, 1910, everything was ready, anc the first performance was giver at the Metropolitan Opera House. Enrico Caruso and Emmy Desiinn had the parts taken by Nelson Zddy and Jeanette MacDonald in ‘he coming picture. Un-American But Successful Opera audiences being what they are, it evidently didn’t seem too incongruous ‘hat New Yorkers were to an’ opera about early California days, composed by an Italian, sun: by an Italian and with an Italian in the leading tenor role. These pas few years things have been prett: quiet on the Golden Western Front. Mr. Puccini's opera seems to k=ve bowed out in favor of the -olc favorites, “Rigoletto,” “Lohengrin.” “Faust” and the rest: Then the M-G-M people turned loose their Committee in charge of Eddy-MacDonald Musical Plots on the old story. You'll recall that in “Maytime” they took the operetta story and fixed up Tschaikowsky's Fifth Symphony for the big musical moments. They did a fine job of it, too. Well, this time they have followed the same practice. First of all they threw out all the Puccini music. Then, to Xkeep the international flavor, they hired Sigmund Romberg, who is 2 Hungarian, to do the new tunes. If this pans out as well as : “Maytim=” did, probably Mr. Puccini never will be missed.

IN NEW YORK — GEORGE ROSS

Doroth y Si Does

With Her Husband in "Hooray for What!"

NEW YORK, March 22—Dorothy, Stone is aptly tagged as “one of the Steppinz Stones.” And now the ‘drama items herald the fact that Dorothy anc her husband, Charles Collins, are replacing June Clyde and Jack Whiting in “Hoeray for Wane the musical success

Look back in the record:

'PUPPET-TOONS' LATEST IN

NEW YORK, March 22 (NEA) .— Just about the time "everyone ‘was becoming accustomed to .the wonders of animated movies a young Hungarian named George Pal comes over with an entirely new idea, It's new to America, at any rate, although European audiences have already had a chance to:see what the young man can do. “Puppet-toons” is: what Pal calls his productions. But you shouldn’t think that means just making films of moving: marionettes or snapping shots of dolls with’ their: postures changed in between times to give the illusion of continuous action. No, such is too crude; it spoils the fluidity, he says. The dolls are all rigid as statues. No single dojl ever moves. ‘But ‘every doll is only an instant in the life of one gesture as far as the completed movie is concerned. _ For a shot of a trumpeter blowing a blast it takes a collection of 28 dolls. The difference een one of these trumpeters and the next is a matter of cheek contour. The face of the first is composed. The face of the last seems about to burst. Twenty-six phases of blowing lie in between, and that means 26 ® ices rentionl dolls.

28 Dolls for a Kiss

It takes 28 dolls for a close-up shot of a kiss—a matter of getting the girl's eyes to shut themselves with a convincing show of feeling. That gives an idea of ,the massproduction and large-scale planning involved in the making of an entire show. George Pal has started putting the bee in the ear of Hollywood already and if Hollywood likes what it hears, the nation’s unemployment figure ought to take a nose dive. Making the dolls is only one detail in the production activities. The movies are in color, of course. And the characters speak. And the whole thing is synchronized with a musical background. The visual background is another, thing to consider. Three-dimen-sional figures can’t play on & twodimensional set the way cartoon figures do. That means miniature

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,* George Pal, originator ‘of “Pup-

pet-toon” movies, is pictured be-

low with one of his dolls. Right—

a pubpet-toon. set, showing how

the dolls are arranged for a single shot. Lower right—a. puppet-toon villain of darkest hue.

sets, in perfect scale, miniatures. props, pint-size lighting, the creation of complete Liliputian production studios. .

. Cartoons Are Drawn

Before the dolls ever come into being, cartoon figures are drawn as models. Making a puppet-toon involves at the outset making a complete cartoon movie. . The twodimensional ‘show is never screened, save in the production studio for the puppet-toon staff’s guidance. For a kiss close-up, 28 dolls. For 28 dolls, 28 cartoon-patterns. For the dolls, toy-makers. For the cartoons, artists. Figure it out. Pal has come to this counfty from Eindhoven, Holland, where he and a staff of 30-odd assistants have been working on rather an experimental basis for four years. Now 30 years old, Pal got into film work as an animator for a Budapest studio at 20. Three years later he joined ‘the UFA movie studio in Berlin. Two weeks after he was hired he was made chief of the animation staff. - He couldn’t speak a word of German, but he got along. He got along so well that he struck out for himself before two years had passed. He seems to keep right on getting along.

They call him “The Toy Wizard”

in Europe. ;

Arothor Reslacaniont

When Ruby Keeler was in Flo) :

“Show Girl”

night in her dressing room. A hurry’ call was put through to Dorothy Stone in California and she offered to take the next plane East. Ruby hung on’ a few days until Doroth:" learned her routines and stepped info the show. . When Claire Luce injured her leg while performing in “Gay Divorcee” —that was 1933—they phoned out for Dorothy who heeded the clarion as soon as it sounded, for she stepped ‘into “he show on 24 hours’ notice. And ‘vhen fatigue overtook the late Mar yn Miller during the run of “As Thousands Cheer,” they - summoned the ubiquitous Dorothy to replace hex. And she did, according to the cl: 2s, a grand job on all these occasions,

~~ Jagel, Too, Holds Record And over =’ the opera houses, a

Met habitue confides, the man of

the 11th hour is Frederick Jagel, the Brooklyn-born tenor who went

to bat for Ma -finelli the other afternoon. If you don’t believe it, says this operatiy>, here's. ‘dagel’s replacement rec sed: Back in February, 1032, Georges Thill fell ill just before the curtain was to have gone up on “Lakme”

‘and they ser: for Jagel, who was

having a casual drink around the corner. ‘He ‘ook the part on 10 minutes’ notice. When Paul Althouse lost hi: voice in a performance of “Pagliacci” in 1935, they sent out for Jagel who was about to go on in “Cavali-ria Rusticana” in the

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double bill, He sang the lead roles in both operas that night.

-Again in 1935, Jagel answered the emergency call when Edward Johnson, who now runs the Met, took sick during “Tosca” and it was not the first time he had jumped in at the last moment for Johnson. Five years earlier, he filled the breach for the managing director of the Met, just before the overture of “Sadko.” And as recently as November last year, Jagel made a record plane dash between here and Chicago, to step into Martinelli’s shoes in “Norma,” after the tenor took sick. They held the curtain 30 minutes that time until Jagel could dash from the airport to the opera house, slip into costume and catch his breath. And as the Met's men will tell you, he proved -a lifesaver when Martinelli went down.

Amateur Competition

Pity the poor night club entertainer. First her job is threatened by the amateur troupes of Big Apple dancers and now an even more insidueus attack from the social register. Such a menace was on the wane for a while but it has risen again. The number of bluebloods singing professionally in night clubs is growing so rapidly that one of the smaller spots felt itself out of place and advertised for a “debutante entertainer.” They got ra of applications.

Lovey.

CHEZ PAREE

Ralph Penley, M. C.

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Paul Collins’ Band

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WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” . at 11:43, 1:49, 3:55, .6:01, 8:07 and 10:13. CIRCLE

Shep Fields and his Orchestra, on : stage at 12:49, 3:42, 6:35 an nd 9:39. omanc i the Dark,” Gladys Swarthout and John Be e, on screen at 11:10, 2:04, 4: 780 and 10:34. CIVIC “The First Legion,” by Emmet Lavery. Curtain at 8:30. INDIANA

“Mad About Music,” with Deanna bert Marshall, at

n :50- an “The Black Doll,” with Nan Gra and Donald ‘Woods, at 11:36,

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' “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”

and “Start Cheering,’ with Jiminy Du=rante and Wal tar r Connolly, at 11:15, 2:25, 5:30 ana LYRIC Vaudeville, with Borrah Minevich’s Harmonica Rascals and stay e at 1:05. 3:50, 6:45 and® 9:30 alking' Down Broadway with Claire revor and: Mic Whalen on screen at 11:41. 2:26, esa end

OHIO “The Awful Truth.” with 1Irene Dunne. Also “The Barrier,” with Leo

Carillo. : ALAMO Bulldog m s. vith" 085 Bariymor vd Also oe aaa OWS © riqnt,” with’ ; Toom: _ AMBASSADOR “Hurricane,” * with rothy‘ La-

mour. _ Also “Saturday ey at the Trocadero.

LAST DAY! The Academy Award Winner IRENE DUNNE “The Awtul Truth” AN PARKER “The .Barrier”

Norwegian Story Surprises: Gurie

NEW YORK, March 22 .(U. P.).—

actress was American-born. Arriving from Hollywood they averred they had no idea how: the stories started that- she: was a Norwegian’ "product discovered abroad by-the producer. Miss. Gurie said she mever had made any secret of her Brooklyn nativity. She added: she was seeking a .divoree from her husband, Lawrence Stewart.

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‘Tomorrow night Jane Johnson Bur‘roughs, soprano, will be heard: there

lin’ a song’ recital at. 8:30 p. m., and lon: Sunday afternoon Sara Miller,

pianist, is to play a program.at 3 poms; Mrs: . Burroughs, difector of the

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rderung.” . Following the aria, “Depuis- le jour.” from - Charpentier’s opera “Louise,” Mrs. Burroughs will con< clude the recital with songs by -Dunhill, Quilter, Gaines, Stempel, LaForge’ and Waltts. 2 2 » Miss Miller's recital is to be :the

‘|1ast ‘of ' three presented by. faculty :

members ‘of : the | Bomar Cramer

announced as yet. . The pianist isthe datighter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence: Miller, Michigan

| Road. Her entire training. has been ‘| received with Mr.: Cramer in Indianapolis, except for: two years. at

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Sponsor. a. concert and tea. at 3 p. m, Saturday.: Music will be . furnished by the orchestra-and students of the | Indiana State School for the Blind at the Banner-Whitehill Auditorium. On: April 4 the school’s orchestra will give a joint concert with violin students ' of : Olive - Kiler ‘in the school’s sugitrm, 7125 “ooilege| Ave, Ex iF 2.» 2

‘A concert by! ‘the Dartmouth College Glee Club has been booked for April 6 in Caleb Mills Hall. Sponsors are the Indianapolis Day Nursery. Junior Auxiliary and the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Indianapolis. ‘The Dartmouth .group, oldest col- | lege glee club in America, is to begin its spring tour on March 30. The singers will appear. in East Orange; N. 'J., Syracuse, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Elkhart, - Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.

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