Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1938 — Page 13

WIDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1938

' Uosef Hofmann: Mischa Eman to Appear With Orchestra.

By JAMES THRASHER Six =rtists, whose names read like the Blue Book of contemporary musical aristocracy, are-to appear as

soloists with the Indianapolis Sym-.|

Phony Orchestra next season.

The orchestra, management today |.

‘announced the engagement of Josef Hofmann and Dalies Frantz, pianists; Mischa Elman, violinist; Gaspar Cassado, cellist; Lauritz Melchior, tenor, and Margaret Halstead, soprand. Mr. Frantz, young American pi- ‘ anist, will be the first soloist, appearing at the Dec. 2 and 3 concerts. He made his first Indianapolis appearanee—and an impressive ore—last spring as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra at the National Federation of Music Clubs convention. Melchior’ From Metropolitan !Mr. Elman has been engaged for Jan. 6 and 7. The following concerts, or Jan. 20 and 21, will bring Mr. Melchior, famous star of the Metropolitan and acknowledged as the finest Wagnerian : tenor of ree cent years. Mr. Cassado, the Spanish cellist, has established himself among the top half dozen performers upon that instrument in his few years as an international recitalist. He will appear here on Feb. 17 2nd 18. Soloist on March 3 and 4 will be Miss Hzl!stead, English soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Co. Last on the list will be Mr. Hofmann, schedule. for March 17 and 18. The distinguished pianist this season celebrated his 50th anniversary of American concertizing. He remains today at the height of his powers, =n eminent survivor of the “golden =ge” of piano playing. Popular Concert Sunday The 1938-39 season again will contain 10 pairs of subscription concerts. Four pairs without so,loist are scheduled, on Nov. 18-19, Dec. 16-17, Feb. 3-4 and March 31April 1. The Indianapolis Symphonic Choir also will appear on some of the programs, the dates to be selected later. Three cvents will conclude the orchestra's activities for the present season. Fabien Sevitzky will conduct 211 added, all-request concert at popular prices in the Murat at 3 p. m. Sunday. On Saturday morning, April 2, the last of the seasbn’s children's programs will be presented. The same evening and the followng afternoon Mr. Sevitzky and the orchestra will return for the 10th pair of subscription concerts. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony will be performed, with the Symphonic Choir assisting. Jeanette Vreeland, Edna Merritt, Edward Grobe and David Blair McCloskey wil sing the symphony’s solo parts, and Bomar Cramer, Indianapolis pianist, will appear as soloist on the first part of the program.

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To Clear Up Mystery The Indisnapolis Symphony Or-

chestra today was awaiting word |’

from Deem: Taylor to clear up a controversy regarding a first performance of Mr. Taylor's music. At last week's concerts here, Fabien Sevitzk7 directed the orchestra in a world nremiere.of the Second Suite from Mr. Taylor’s opera, “Peter Ibbefson.” The music was broadcast over some 65 Mutual network stations, Saturday night. Now the Columbia Broadcasting System has announced that Two Scenes from ‘Peter Ibbetson”: Inn Music, Act I; Dream Music and: Finale, Act III, will be heard “for the first time on the air” during the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra broadcast next Sunday. This, says Mr. Sevitzky, is the same music contained in the Suite. The conductor said he discussed last week's performance in New York with Mr. Taylor in January. The meeting was at the office of George Fischer, president of the J. Fischer Co. the composer's publishers. ‘Mr. Taylor agreed at that time to arrange the music and allow the Indianapolis Symphony to give the first performs nce. “Apparently the Columbia Board-

. casting System and the New York

Philharmonic-Symphony were uninformed of fhe fact that we gave the music ifs first performance,” Mr. Sevitzky said today. Mr. Taylor, besides being “Peter Tbbetson’s” composer, is the Philharmonic = Symphony’s broadcast commentator and CBS music consultant.

FARMERS PROVE Ee MOVIE MINDED

Pimes Spebiat WASHINGTON, March- 23 —The farmers of tiie nation spend 29 cents of every dollar budgeted for recreation on- motion pictures, according to a survey by the Department of Agriculture. . Results of the study, which were ounced tocay, showed that of the 9407 families which were interviewed in 140 villages in 20° states, the hichest percentage of moyle spending was found in the

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Margaret Halstead

Lauritz Melchior

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'Ghost' of Will-Rogers

ghost—of Will Rogers. \ It is no ghost, at all. Merely A. in “The. Great Ziegfeld” and who

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Walks Streets of City,

Carries on Business of Selling Maps.

NEW YORK, March 23.—Many a New Yorker has stopped dead in his tracks the past week with a feeling that he has seen a ghost—the

A. Trimble, who doubled for Rogers has been going his rounds, selling

maps for Rand-McNally. Acting is just a sideline with Trimble; maps are, and have been, his business, for the past 26 years.

a producer the services of his own map which is a startlingly similar topography to sthe face of he late humorist. Personally, I hold all ghost eis suspect, and so does the stage star who told me the following tale. That is why she refuses to let me use her name, but .her story, nevertheless, has some intriguing elements. Two weeks ago, she tells me, while hastening through the wings to make her entrance, the actress felt what seemed to be a cold hand on her shoulder. She stopped short and quickly turned to see who had There was no one there. She was frightened, but with her “cue” only a moment off, the lady walked on to play her part—only to have her leading man mutter under his breath: “What's the matter with you? You look as if you'd seen a ghost!” The star—her name is famous— hasn’t been able to get the incident out of her head. But she said nothing about it until the other day when she received a letter from a prominent lawyer. He told her how much he had enjoyed her performance: and went on to say that though -it might strike her as silly, he had to report a strange experience he had had while attending the theater. “Just as you made your entrancey’ this attorney wrote, “I felt a hand on my shoulder. Of course, I thought it was someone in the seat behind me. However, when 1 turned around I found the seat vacant!” Br-r-r-r-r.

Brothers Under Brogue

Sam Lyons, the amiable and dialectic Broadwayite, was out in Hollywood recently to retail some talent and dropped in on Sam Goldwyn one day to talk business. : Mr. Lyons happens to be even more celebrated than Sam along the Rialto for a fanciful use of the Enyglish language, but: Mr. Goldwyn wasn’t acquainted with the Lyons reputation. conference, Sam rose stormily from his seat and protested, “What are you doing, héckling me?” Mr. Lyons tried righteously to explain, stum- |: bling over a £iple of good English words while he did. Finally, he despaired of exonerating himself. He lifted a’ phone and

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called a friend of his. “For God's sake,” he pleaded, “speak to Sam Goldwyn and tell him I talk with his accent!” .

Few veterans are left of that colorful school of stage players who come under = the ' classification of “ad-libbers.” Ad-libbers are impulsive stagefolk who are not afraid of diverging from the script and saying something on the spur of a playful moment. Ed Wynn, for example, will utter any gag that comes to mind, without warning, in shows in which he appears. His fellow-players never know what he will say next.

George M. Cohan is an incorrigible ad-libber. and so are Bill Gaxton, Alfred Lunt, Beatrice Lillie and Tallulah Bankhead. The most formidable monitor of ad-libbers is the playwright, George S. Kaufman, who comes around to the theater often and checks up on the actors. Once he heard an actress speak

a telegram which read, “I like your performance, but not your lines.” Usually, poor business at the theaters and clubs is explained by

lines he did not write. He sent her

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apologetic proprietors with a variety of reasons including: (1) “It’s Lent”; (2) “It’s raining”; (3) “It’s the Recession”; (4) “Business

| bad everywhere.”

Sometimes these reasons are valid and sometimes they are not but during the past few days, the apologists have had a valid explanation for the thin amount of trade. Namely, the mounting war scare on the front pages. It is a fact that the reports from abroad have proved depressing - enough to the revelers who don’t ordinarily let the world's affairs interfere with their personal pleasures. The ominous, from Europe have frightened them off to their own parlors where, with their friends, they can contemplate terrible future possibilities.

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Indiana, Tells Why “He Wears Toupee. :

and he’s’ going to’ stay that way.| Duting Hs fist day, on the set “The

; Indiana, > toupee was" suggested. |

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pion, and we were making some shorts here at’ this studio. I was just as bald then as I am now, and

they figured a fighter had to have

hair.. So they: glued:a: wig on me. “That was ‘when Dempsey: first

had his busted ' schnozzle. fixed. | They built up the bridge by. pumping it full of wax or putty or ‘somes { thing. Anyway, he. .was plenty’ proud of it. “Boxing - in the picture, | en

he began to belt the side of my head with his thumb. Every time he'd catch the edge of my wig, which was glued. tight, it would rip some skin off my scalp. It hurt. “I got mad and went after ‘his phoney nose. I'd yelp when he'd peel my scalp and he'd bawl whenever I reached his nose, which was spreading all over his face. After that scene my head looked like a smashed. crate of tomatoes, and I've stayed bald ever since.”

Bergere Stoges Crash, Is Unsure

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, March 23.-— The daring that has stood Cliff Bergere good stead in nearly a score of the Indianapolis Speedway Classics didn’t fail him yesterday during the shooting of the picture “Maid’s Night Out” here yesterday. Bergere was directed to drive a new roadster into a fish truck at 40 miles per hour, leaving a scrambled mess of fish, scales and other equipment. The race driver escaped unscathed, but two extra players appearing as spectators suffered minor

is cuts from the flying glass.

KIBBEE SIGNS UP AGAIN

tract with M-G-M studio and will begin by taking a role in “Three Comrades,” with Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young and "Franchot Tone. Kibbee’s latest role was in “Of Human Hearts.”

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(HEARTS BEAT FAST WITH LOVE SONGS By Sigmund Romberg and Gus Kahn

‘Shadows on the Moon’ ‘Who Are We to Say’ ‘The Wind in the Trees’

Present “The Royal Fam. | ly’ Tonight: Musical at _Oaklandon.

The popular George S. KaufmanEdna Ferber comedy, “The Royal Family,” is to be: ‘presented . as the Manual Training High School senior play tonight and tomorrow night in the school ‘auditorium. It is a satire of an American theatrical ‘dynasty. E. Edward’ Green has directed. the oi Zon, ‘Principal parts are tak‘Webber, Jack as and Doris Brakender. Others in the cast are Reid McFall, James Maschmeyer, Mary Zimmerman, Edgar Siegel, Fred Henry, Dorothy Egger; David ‘Fogle, - Paul Moehlman and Stonko Angelkovich. Menka Guleff is assistant student director, and ' seniors will assist Manual Mask and Wig Club members in the staging.

” ” 2 Z The Oaklandon High School Chorus has scheduled a performance of “Bits o’ Blarney,” two-act musical

comedy, at 8 o’clock tonight in the Oaklandon = Universalist Church. Amos Smith is the director. Included in the cast are Vera Scott, Morris Apple, Paul Klepfer, Eunice. McConnell and Maurice Byers. Miss Ruth McLaughlin is directing senior class members in a threeact comedy, “The Antics of Andrew,” which is to be given April 14 and 15 in the .Oaklandon High School building.

Gordon L. Combs, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Combs, 6123 Broadway, is appearing in the cast of “Othello” this week at the Carnegie Institute of Technology Theater in Pittsburgh. This 1s the school’s 27th

Mr. Combs is sophomore class president and a member of Scimitar, sophomore honorary society.

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PAXTON AND DUKE AT FRENCH LICK

Times Special FRENCH LICK, March 23.—Mussical background for the spring social evenings at the French Lick Springs Hotel ‘will be provided by Glenn Paxton, organist, and Jules Duke and his orchestra. “Mr. Duke and his players are to begin their engagement Friday

night. Mr. Paxton opened the resort program this week with dinner and dance music. The organ solos are to be carried to all parts of the spacious hotel

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Noted Statesmen Take Part

In "March of Time."

Times Special NEW YORK, March 23.—“Arms

land the League,” the major subject

of the current March of ‘Time, ree veals nations today: building made ly in history's greatest peacetime armament race. This timely treatment reports the

stand taken against Fascist powers by Anthony Eden, Great Britain's former foreign secretary, and the League of Nation's failuse to come pel respect ahd compliance with agreements. Great figures of diplomacy, past and present, pass in this new March of Time issue. Wilson, * Briand, Stresemann ‘and MacDonald form company with the present leaders in the world’s political drama. “Brain Trust Island” is another feature, revealing how Uncle Sam’s magic wand has brought Key West back to life after years of semitropical slumber. It recounts a com munity’s success story after the 1935 hurricane made a shambles of it, and the rehabilitation of the once pauperized island into a playground for the nation by the Works Proge ress Administration. ;

through an amplifying system designed by Mr. Paxton. Both he and Mr. Duke are beginning their second season at the Indiana spa.

‘Walking Down Sreaimy’ CLAIRE TREVOR PHYLLIS BROOKS MICHAEL W WHALEN EAM RAY TOM BECK DIXIE DUNBAR DOUGLAS FOWLEY #LYNN BARI WAR WoourKING | JAYNE REGAN JED PROUTY

Tense d Thrill o > Tense and Thrilling... out. of the adventurous West ‘comes the- (reds blooded drama of the bold bandit and the excit> ing beauty... The singing sweethearts of "Maytime"’

and “Naughty Marietta” in their rousing triumph »..a grand entertainment leaps from the screen

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