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DAY, ARCH 24, 1938 Sate-Wide Ticket sale for Crooks Recital Reported: LePauw Choir to Sing Here

Metropolitan Tenor at English's April 11 Is Favorite |

Of Radio Listeners; Cincinnati Symphony | To Give Moeran's Work.

"he popularity of Richard Crooks, radio singer, will attract a statewide audience for the Metropolitan Opera tenor’s recital at English’s

Apri M:ny "mail orders have com from Indiana ' towns where Mr. Croos is known only as a broadcaster: And‘most of these, ac-

_cordi 8 to Mrs. Martens, want to

be sire that it is the same Mr. Crooks before purchasing tickets. A good percentage of Mr, Crooks’ audience will be made up of persons attending the Martens concerts for

-the first time.

Besides being a leading Metropolit tenor of the French and Italien repertory, Mr. Crooks, enjoys -the distinction of being rated the natio’s greatest tenor. “box-office draw’ by the theatrical trade Variety. American born and

four other boys until he secured a job z: tenor soloist -in the Fifth

_Avenus - Presbyterian Church.

- He won the New York State hand-

‘ball championship the morning of

his New York recital debut, and was offere a Metropolitan contract five years before he accepted .it. On the occasion of his debut at the New York opera house, he stopped the show with 37 curtain calls. Mr. Crooks’ appearance here will

* close ‘he Martens Concerts sub-

scription season. #2 = =

The 27-voice DePauw University Choir 2nd its organist-director, Van Denm:=n Thompson, will give a con-

te at 2: 15 p. m., tomorrow in the

Presbyterian Church, ns: ind Johnson Aves. Mr.” “Thompson, well known as a

ser as well as organist, will

Pen of Music Clubs’ rent. of choirs and choral

Stirs. may be obtained at the church hefore the concert. ® 5 »

On 2nril 8 the Indianapolis Matinee WV iusicale will present Sonia Sharnova, contralto of the Chicago City Opera Co. in recital in the L S. Ayres &Co. Auditorium. ‘Mme. Sharnova was heard last in Indian= polis during the 1929-30 tour of the C-erman Opera Co. Since then she has heen a member. of thé Chicago: Sompany, Her early. raining that - city,

but ‘wa: ‘with the Nice Opera Co., and she sang with several other Europes companies before returning to:tlhe-United States. ©. ~

the St. ".ouls production of “Tristan

11,-Mrs. Nancy Martens, .concert manager, pretlicts.

and Isolde” and in “Die Walkure® at the Chicago City Opera. The

contralto also has made guest ap-|

pearances in’ Cincinnati operatic performances, and has been heard with several major symphony orchestras. # 2 » Eugene Goossens will conduct the Cincinnati Symphony Ofchestra in the first American performances of

the Symphony in G by E. J. Moeran, |

English composer, on Friday after- |.

noon and Saturday night in the Music Hall, Cincinnati. Mr. Goossens has characterized the work as “the most important piece of sym-

phonic music produced in the past.

15 years.” The program also will include the Haydn Symphony No. 83, in D Major; Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor and the Overture, “Phedre,” by Massenet. Soloist will be the young American pianist, Charles Naegle. os 8 o Mrs. Frances Wallace Strickland, John Bumgardner and Richard Strother have been announced as soloists for the Tabernacle Presbyterian Choir’s performance of the Brahms “German Requiem.” This will take place at 8 p. m. on April 5 in the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, 34th St. and Central Ave. Paul R. Matthews, organist and director, has selected the Requiem as- the choir’s contribution to the city’s Lenten observances. The work will be sung in English by the soloists and mixed chorus of 50 voices. » # f J

Miss Ada Bicking, Jordan Conservatory of Music director, is to leave Saturday to attend the 25th meeting of the Music Educators National Conference, which opens a six-day meeting Sunday. - As conference vice president, Miss Bicking will preside at the Thursday morning session in the Civic Opera House. Speakers on this oc-

casion will be Dr. Howard Hanson, |

American composer, conductor and director of the Eastman School of . | Music; John G. Paine of New York, representing the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and Kenneth Farmer of the St. Louis local, American Federation of Musicians. : “The centennial of music teaching in American schools will be cele= brated as part of the St. Louis meeting,” Miss Bicking said. “Several thousand musicians, educators and laymen will attend and contribute to the meeting. More than 10,000 elementary, high school, college and

ve university students will “have: part" his i | in concerts, demonstrations and musie clinics.”

IN NEW YORK —+ GEORGE ROSS

Bill,

Rose. ny of Manhattan's 5 Lustiest

Cabaret, Has Nowhere to Go at Night.

NEW YORK, March 24.—Ironies of the Island: Billy Rose, host and impresa-io of the town’s lustiest cabaret, the Casa Manana, is constantly searchin: for a place to go—at night. Thers's nary a statue of Abraham Lincoln anywhere inthe Viemity

of Lincoln Square.

That much publicized siding for private Pullmans, beneath the

Waldorf - Astoria, has been used byo— only a handful of itinerant plutocrats during the past few years. Knickerbocker Village, Gotham'’s model housing exhibit, is only a stone’s ti:row away from some of the world’s’ most sordid tenements. A chap named Freeman runs a Chinese “eanery on W. 48th St. One of -the City’s largest departs ment ste dg is now offering exhibition walizes by a leading dance team every afternoon in the misses” ready-to-7ear section. The principal emporium fronting Pershing “iquare is a sprawling store Jabeled: “Navy Goods.” Jack Kirkland,” atithor of that rowdy rural saga, “Tobacco Road,” has just moved to a farm ‘locale— four year: after the premiere of the aforementioned play. ‘Not a single playhouse named -@& living actor has a legitimate pri tion n it—they’re all cinemashops. x 3 2 8 =» i 1 sk Room ‘Only NOTHIN 3 is’ too big for Billy Rose, ‘exccot the desk especially

built for him in the penthouse offices

so massive that Billy could have

skiing to be done on the snow slopes in Canada. So the glamorous Gertrude ap-

Too. hole to Classify

* he recently vacated: The desk was |

slipped int~ one of ths drawers gl-| ;

most any t ‘ne, and eleon an after

; erammed doorway. ‘Vell, now the can't the 's big, chromium-edged

Billy's : { desk ‘out and an: neighbor can. off a piece for firewood, for all y

cares. i 2 & ®

Siiffs at Sporis

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One Night Only A . Next &inday

[SLEN,

folk told he:

Here are two scenes. which won’t be on Loew's screen when “The

Girl of the Golden West”

arrives there tomorrow. On the ‘left,

Jeanette MacDonald submits cheerfully to an impromptu serenade, with Buddy Ebsen and Cliff Edwards as the’ perpetrators. The gentleman contemplating the large mouthful on the right is, of course, Nelson Eddy. And you should recognize his luntheon companion as our home-town starlet, Priscilla Layson, Who makes Her first featured

appearance in the new film.

Varied Song Recital Wins Praise for Mrs. Burroughs

By JAMES THRASHER

A nrogram judiciously chosen and well sung pleased an: audience in the Worid War Memorial auditorium last night when Jane Johnson Burroughs, soprano, gave her first Indianapolis recital of the season.

Mrs. Burroughs’ songs were grouped in the traditional manner, but the music itself was unhackneyed. One seldom finds a song recital, in fact, containing so much of merit without sacrifice of interest and variety. To begin with there were six Italian songs, ranging from Carissimi to. Respighi, and containing the names ‘of Mozart and Handel. The German Lieder group was confined to five examples by Richard

‘Strauss.’ There were the familiar

“zZueignung,” “Staendchen” and “Traum durch die Daemmerung,” &s well as the less known “Heimliche — ————————

pealed to her employer, John Golden, and arranged to have the- Monday

performances of her hit show,

“Susan and God,” canceled. This ‘dispensation would afford

‘het a long week-end out of doors.

Miss Lawrence spent her first week-

end at a Canadian St. Moritz and

returned on Tuesday morning, sniffling. - The. cold grew worse and not only ‘Monday’s, but Tuesday’s show had to be called off. You can un-

derstand her depression, then, about:

taking: ‘Wintry exercises. ; = » » Honors, Wynn Won

for the: foment forsaken his many funny ‘hats. | Interring them the other day with many mementoes, he exhumed the following: 187 certificates as an honorary “Fire Chief” ‘all around the United States, one honorary. chiefdom in the International Fire Chiefs’ Association; one

honorary ‘admiralty bestowéd by}

Governor Davey aboard. the flagship 8.8. Cleveland, one honorary permanent mayoralty of Passaic, N. J. Moreover, Lie is an honorary. citizen of the State of New Jersey, cities of ‘Kansas City, 8t. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Troy, Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia. His lack of a college education is amply compensated for by a document from the Yale alumni of 1924, who elected him an honorary “classmate.” Curiously enough; he. is not a Kentucky colonel!

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Aufforderung” and the surpassingly beautiful “Ruhe, meine Seele.” It cannot be said that Straiss is not a popular composer of songs. Yet he often is represented so briefly among other German masters on a program that his depth of feel-

ing and admirable expression ‘of a

poem’s content are not appreciated fully. This was not true last night, and we were privileged to revel in lovely music intelligently. projected. Mrs. Burroughs limited her choice of French music to the. deservedly admired aria, “Depuis le jour,” from Charpentier’ “Louise.” = After this

came six songs by English and American composers. It is in this. cate-|

gory that most program builders

fall from grace, but last night's solo-

ist maintained a high musical plane places usually reserved for hum catchers. : group . contained. Dunhill’s “To the Queen of Heaven: and Quilter’s. “Now Sleeps t. Petal,” both sincere € ile lyrics; “Wings of the Mo: Gaines; Alice Stempel’s e Two, Together,” “Grieve Not, Beloved, » by La Forge, and Wintter ‘Watts’ “Joy.”

- Program Improved

regards voice and interpretation, the singer grew steadily better as the evening progressed. The first group lacked vocal poise, and there - were numerous deviations from pitch. Likewise the Mozart “Allelujah” was taken at an unusually slow tempo which robbed it of its jubilant quality. e In the German songs, however, the recitalist was on firmer ground,

ous numbers and other applause ;

Shep Fields a and his “Orchest stage at 23, 3:42,.6:35 a nd. 9: is e Datk.® with Gladys Swarthout and John DE, on screen at 11:10, 2:04, 4:57. § 750 and 10:34.

INDIANA

“Mad About Music,” with Durbin d Her bert

12:4, 3:48. 6:60 and 0:4. 3 an ra and Do Bona : dul at 11:36; 3:4

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. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” ; with Tommy Kell obs and d May Robson, an

: at 12:40. 5:45. 6: “Start ng.” oh Jimmy Du- : Jante a3 aa 8:40, gona, | a un: 15.

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“Sophie Lang Goes West,” with Gertrude Michael. Also “Missing ‘* Witness,” with Dick Purcell.

ALAMO : “Handy Andy,” with Will Rogers. Also “Border Y Wolves,” with Bob Baker, AMBASSADOR apa Man of Brimstone,” with

Wallace Beery. iso *‘She’s Got Everything.” with Ann Sothern,

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and there was increasing enjoy- :

ment through the aria and English

songs. Mrs. Burroughs’ mezza voice was particularly beautiful, which more than balanced the occasional stricture of her fortes.

This was the first song recital 1{

had heard in the comparatively new concert hall, and it proved to be an ideal setting for the vocal art. Acoustically perfect, or very nearly so, it likewise is small enough to do full. justice to. every subtlety of in-

terpretation. And ‘a forte of sini-| mum efforts brings a. full reward, ji ¢

since ‘a great volume of tone is not necessary to fill the auditorium. The moderate-sized, but appreciative; audience did not neglect the accompanist, Walter Whitworth, in_ its ‘applause. Mr. Whitworth; who

is :a sensitive: and intelligent mu- |

sician in practice as well as precept, contributed ately to He Svenings success.

Ar nual Dancers’ School Is April 10

The annual Indianapolis One Day Normal School of the Chicago’ Na‘tional Association of Dancing Masters will be held at the Hotel Antlers Sunday, April 10. The meeting, a forum for dancing teachers and students, is led by ‘a group of nationally-known artists. Ruth Pryor, . former premiere ‘| danseuse of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., and a Fokine pupil, will head the ballet classes. Bobby Rivers will have a class in tap dancing, Grace ‘Bowman Jenkins is to be in charge of adagio and acrobatic work, J. Allan MacKenzie will conduct the class in novelty dancing and Pearl Allen will give instruction in balle room. dancing. The program will begin Saturday night with a party at the Variety Club. Classes will begin.at 10-a.; m. Sunday. A grand’ ball, featuring Lynn Williamson's Variety Serenaders, will be held in the evening.

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