Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1938 — Page 13
DAY, NOV. 1, 1038 bor Revue re Tonight; ‘Season's 1st ; “Pin and Needles’ Marks = New Day; Emhardt Is
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ly. grayhaired: women, changed 1h mind today about demonstrating her art in court. \ It was too drafty. ; : she wasn’t on trial for wearing ostrich feathers. She was charged with "biting, clawing and otheryise mauling Farmer, Ray Stanford and His girl friend at a theater. : So. Sally, wearing more clothes than anybody in court, abandoned : : a | her plans to give the nine women HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 1 (U. P.)—|and the three disappointed men in Sally Rand , who wanted bald-|the jury box a sample of her dance, ~ in favor of refuting the story of her -accusers. ;
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ally Gets Mixed Jury Calls Off Court Fan Dance; 'Bite' Shown in Photo.
HIS FIRST PLAY WAS PANIC’ ||I300 Arrive For Theater ~ Convention
TRIGGS HERE FRIDAY, AT PURDUE U. SUNDAY
Harold Triggs, who gave a recital this morning in the War Memorial Auditorium under sponsorship of the St. Margaret's Hospital Guild; will round out a busy week with appearances in the American Central Life Insurance Auditorium Friday night, and at Purdue Universtiy Sunday afternoon. His Purdue appearance will be in a joint recital with Joseph Lautner, tenor. Zeta chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, national music sorority, is presenting Mr. Triggs in his Friday recital at 8:30 p. m. The program of Bach, Purcell, Peerson, Paradies,
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son as soloist with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra in Honneger'’s Concertino. The: listed program for his local recital .is of a distinctly un-
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hackneyed nature, beginning with a
Triggs, Brahms, Debussy .and de “The Sisters,” with Bette Davis,
Approximately 300 members of the
Associated Theater Owners of Indiana were here today for the opening of the group’s 12th annual two-day convention. Business session and the annual banquet tomorrow night will be held in the Hotel Antlers.
This morning’s registration was
Purdue appearance.
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WEDNESDAY, 2:30 and 8:30
ROLLICKING MUSICAL REVUE
Toccata by Michelangelo Rossi, continuing with seldom-heard music of Bach and Schumann, and conclud« ing with a modern group of Blanchet, Hindemith and Scriabine. ” 2 = Sixteen piano pupils of Miltred Allen, assisted by Muriel Garrett, violinist, will be presented in recital at 8 p. m. Friday in the Irvington Presbyterian Church.
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“Five of a Kind,” with the Dionne uintuplets. Claire Trevor, Jean ersholt, at 11:25,- 2:35, 5:45 and
8:55. ENGLISH’S
Falla, which he played this morning, will be repeated. Mr. Triggs’ sonata, “Prairie,” and a Brahms Intermezzo will be omitted from the program for the Mr. Lautner will offer a German group of Schubert, Schumann, Wolf and Brahms, and Russian songs by Rachmaninoff, Gretchaninoff and Mussorgsky. Both artists are members of the Jor-
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They're going to meet them at _ _English’s, of all places, and in a
followed by an exhibition of new theater equipment. The first general session was to take place this afternoon, with the board of direc-
dan Conservatory faculty;
: Mr. Lautner is head of the school's new opera department, while Mr. Triggs
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“Pins and Needles,” a revye preSented by Labor Stage. Curtain at
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‘play. For a new day seems to be 8 wning with the opening of our A. « 1938-39 legitimate season. We'll be ] seing one of the most discussed joductions in recent theatrical ’ nistory—“Pins and Needles,” a re7* ¥ vue of and by the Labor Stage and - 4 for the general public. It’s a play § ‘that came out of the Union’s social
heads the piano department, 2 8 8 2 Anna Kaskas, the young Metropolitan contralto, will make her Indianapolis debut Friday afternoon, when she is presented by the Matinee Musicale in the second of its season’s artist recitals. A winner of the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air contest, Miss Kaskas has included the roles of Lola in “Cavalleria Rusticana,” Maddalena in “Rigoletto” and Orpheus in Gluck’s “Orpheus and Buridice” during her brief operatic career. Her New York notices would indicate that she is a gifted and promising young artist. 2 ” ”
retta Toung. Annabels, 4° 15. 1114 hs a, a 3 3:28, 5:42, 7:56 and 10:10. “March of Time,” at 12:55, 3:10, 5:25, 7:35 and 9:50. b 1 LOEW'S “The Citadei,” with Robert Donat. Rosalind Russell, at 13:15, 3:30, 6:50
and 1C “Girls’ Schoo!,” with Anne Shirley, Nan Grey Ralph Beilamy, at 41, 2:15, 5:30 and 8:45 LYRIC “Brother Rat,” with Priscilla Lane, - Wayne Morris. Johnnie Davis, on Screen at 11:11 1:57, 4:53, 7:39 and
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tors’ election as the chief item of business. The directors then are to elect new officers. : ~ The Variety Club will hold open house for delegates from 8: to 11:30 o'clock tonight, followed by a preview of “Men With Wings at the Cinema. Tomorrow's business session, at 1 p. m., will near committee reports on the film product survey, block booking, play dates, guaranteed percentages, overbuying, clearance and protection, score charges, weekly short-payment plan, the forcing of “shorts,” radio competition, the national advertising ’ campaign and other items of interest. Abram F.
The Second Presbyterian Church's centennial celebration is to begin with a family dinner on Nov. 17. An afternoon reception and tea will follow the special Sunday services on Nov. 20. Features of the services include a historical sketch written by Mrs. Berkley W. Duck; greetings from the mother church by Dr. George Arthur Frantz; message from the only living ex-pastor, the Rev. Joseph A. Milburn; “Gratitude from the Past” by Dr. Stnaley Coulter | and “Looking Forward” by the present pastor, Dr. Jean S. Milner,
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hall in downtown New York up to Broadway. There, having been seen, - +it conquered. The revue is still playing, after almost a full year, and two touring companies have been ‘doing nicely on their road trips. “Pins and Needles” came about ‘pecause a man with an original idea met a man who put that idea. into effect. T.ouis Schaffer, executive di-
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and cultural program, wanted to stage a revue that had something to say of social importance,
‘Had to Entertain’
“But,” Mr. Schaffer explained re--cently, “it had to. be said in terms of entertainment. Nobody wants to go to the theater and be preached - gt. I had watched productions staged by other labor groups and "found most of them soapbox orations. So I vowed and determined that this wouldn't be so where the ILGWU was concerned. “Most of the fellows who write ‘stuff for the successful Broadway musical haven't the labor slant in the work. It was the same the other way around. Those who have the labor slant lacked humor. They were too serious. I wanted fun and relaxation in my show.” : One day Mr. Schaffer met Harold J. Rome. A recent Yale graduate, Mr. Rome had two diplomas (law and architecture), a WPA job, and
. 5% an ambition to do something in the > 8 theater.
_ Mr. Rome got the job and started in, with Charles Friedman’s assistance, to write and stage the show. The rest, to coin a phrase, is history. Except that during the past ‘summer, Messrs. Rome and Friedman knocked out a revue for Max Gordon called “Sing Out the News.” That’s a hit, too, and the boys really ‘have set up shop in the show business, << All Union Members
_All the players in “Pins and
@ Needles” are ILGWU members. Un-
til the show became a hit, they Held down their regular jobs by day and acted by night. But the press of success has transferred them, at
least temporarily, from cutting, sewing and pressing to taps, songs _ and gags. "A majority of the touring company’s players apparently want to continue on the stage. A few are ready to go back to garment mak.ing when the tour is over, and some just don’t care either way. But all »~ of them are glad to pay double dues “to - ILGWU and Equity—just in B ® 8 = _ “Another actor who won't have to : gony about the next meal for some 3 e is Robert Emhardt of Indiangpolis and, currently, of London. . Civic Theater patrons and students in the Jordan Conservatory drama department will remember Mr. Emhardt. Like Orson Welles, he i$ blessed with ample girth and a . Boundless enthusiasm for the the“ater. And like Mr. Welles he shipped “off to England to learn more about His chosen profession. - Mr. ‘Emhardt enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He was seen in the Academy’s production of “Mourning Becomes Electra” by Michael MacOwen; original . ‘producer of the O'Neil play at London’s “Old Vie.” . * “Mr. MacOwen Thane Parker, Ronald Jeans and J. B. Priestly were starting a season of six-weeks reperory at the Westminster Theater. They signed Mr. Emhardt up for the full 40 weeks. - » And it was no less a person than Mr. Priestly himself who made ar- . ts with British Equity to : ‘Mr. Emhardt work in England, tht-through to next July.
Robert Woolsey Funeral Friday
». HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 1 (U.P.)— “Funeral services for Robert Woolsey, the sardonic, cigar-smoking comewho earned $100,000 a picture ab “height of his fame with Bert
will be held Friday at the Little Church of the Flowers in Forest Lawn. He was 49. ~ Mr. Woolsey, a native of Cincin-
He was in a coma the His wife, the former
Isey, under contract to forced to retire a year se of a kidney ailment. r, Woolsey retired, Mr. deft the movies and opened
broadcast the other night was a presentation of the Mercury The-
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Orson Welles . . . ‘Panic’ echoes in his ears.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—An acting boy marvel named Orson Welles made his first important Broadway appearance «panic!” a play written by Archibld MacTeish. This fits in, by with the fantastic events of Sunday night, when a
three and a half years
raid from Mars. No one regrets the subsequent mass hysteria more than the young star whose dynamic performances in the past have been greeted by critics as “stark,” “vivid,” “grim,” “dramatic” and “eccentric.” As “The Shadow” whose hollow laughter used to trickle eerily through the air-lanes, Welles would give radio listeners the mild creeps. But little did he realize the other night that he was to plunge a vast audience into terror. For a youth who is not yet 24, this is the climax in a turbulent life. On Broadway he has been regarded for two years as the most exciting personality and most remarkable youth in the theater, and he is the pioneer spirit and star actor of the troupe which shot up like and is called the Mercury. His
ater of the Air. Defies WPA Ban It was only a year ago that Welles
national panic broke out over Welles’ too-realistic broadcast of an air
his superb voice and his amazing talent kept him employed in Ireland’s most famous theater for 40 weeks. But he had both the wanderlust and the stage in his blood and the mixture led him onward and upward. Now he was 17 and in London; the Labor Ministry would not permit him to work. He returned to New York. He was rejected wherever he applied for a part. He took passage on a tramp steamer and went to Africa. The sun was hot, the sights were quickly seen and there was nothing left to do but to write a book. He wrote “Everybody’s Shakespeare.” It was published eventually and at the last audits, had sold 70,000 copies.
Hired for ‘Panic’ The - African interlude over, he came back to America and settled temporarily on the family hearth in Chicago.. He met Thornton Wilder,
rocked blase theatergoers out of their seats to stand up and cheer for his stark production of “Julius Caesar.” That was the fuse that touched off the Mercury and skyrocketed the group to top ranking on Broadway.
Before the Mercury scraped together enough money to produce “Julius Caesar,” Welles was on WPA rolls with the Federal Theater Project and there he had staged two smash hits for Uncle Sam—a Negro performance of “Macbeth” and a highly stylized production of “Dr. Faustus.” Then he was in the midst of preparing Marc Blitzstein’s potent opera, “The Cardle Will Rock,” under the WPA banner when officials refused to allow it to open in New York. Welles and the cast called a dramatic revolt. From the theater where “The Cardle Will Rock” was to have played, the entire company and a large audience marched uptown to dn unused playhouse and gave a performance on the bare stage. It was charged with theatrical dynamite. And Welles’ career with WPA came to an abrupt end. Not much time ensued after that evening and the founding of the Mercury Theater.
Bluffed Way to Stage
Welles was 16 years old and fresh from the Todd School in Woodstock, Ill. (Illinois is his home), when he
left America to take up landscape painting in the Scotland highlands. But on his first night in Dublin he visited the Gate Theater and saw the Abbey Players. He discarded his brushes and easel the next morning, called backstage and introduced himself as a Theater Guild actor from New York. . He never played anything but leads, he told them, but he was willing to break a rule. So he was hired and his gift for macabre make-up,
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who said that Katharine Cornell needed a Marchbanks for her tour of “Romeo and Juliet.” He was 18; he got the job and he was good, but the other members of the troupe recall how he lived aloof during the daily hops from city to city, sitting cross-legged like a Chinese Buddha in an upper berth brooding over his plans and ambitions. The tour ended and Welles went back to Woodstock. He directed a drama festival there and met a young woman who had been a classmate at Todd School. She was Vir=ginia Nicolson, and they were marsried that summer. Together they came to New York, and the 1915-year-old actor went on the employment rounds among hard-boiled managers.
Myers will speak on “The Progress of Allied.” Mr. Myers, general counsel for the Allied States .Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors, will be a speaker at tomorrow night's banquet, scheduled for 7 p. m. Other speakers will be Bo McMillin, Indiana University football coach, and the Rev. Bob Hall, radio commentator from the State Prison at Michigan City. Entertainment for delegates’ wives is planned for both days, including attendance at the “Pins. and Needles” matinee performance at English’s tomorrow.
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An “Eastern Journey” will be Dr. John F. Cady’s subject when he addresses the Indianapolis Baptist Association Woman's Mission Society in the Garfield Park Church, Tuesday beginning at 10:30 a. m. Dr. Cady Franklin College after a term of teaching in Judson College, Burma. The theme for the day will be “My Church and Its World Parish.” Mrs. George charge of the devotions; Mrs. Bert Barnard will review “Jothy” by
Wyckoff; Mrs. Royal McClain, pres-| department] : chairmen will outline the work for|: the coming year. Women of the: host church will serve luncheon at|:
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