Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1938 — Page 13
Pins and ‘Is ‘Corking
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“English's Play Deftly Ribs . Both Capital and Reaction.
..By JAMES THRASHER Indianapolis seems to have made .~ up’its niind that “social significance is your best entertainment.” That - impression’ was gathered, at least, from ‘the audience reaction at the opening of English’s season last
“night. The audience cheered things in “Pins and Needles” which traditionally should arouseé no enthusiasm in a Midwestern metropolis. Of course, nobody needs be told what “Pins and Needles” is. The " fame of this Labor Stage revue is an-old story by now. And the wonder has ceased that a company of - Vgarment workers could put on a . + shew for blase Broadway and make ’em like it. But the local public did ‘not know until last night whether the cheers were for a brave new venture or for an entertaining evening in the theater. Well, the secret is out—it’s a corking good show, -
He Does It With Grace
The evening's hero certainly was Harold J. Rome, author of the music and lyrics. Mr. Rome has succeeded in being controversial with a lilt. . He flings darts of righteous indigna- _ tion “with all the smart sophistica- - tion of a Cole Porter or Rodgers and Hart. There isn’t a dull tune in the . whole lot. The lyrics are smarter and more amusing than those you'll find in most of the top-flight conventional revues. Rome burns, perhaps, but he does it with grace and the light touch. The company does a thoroughly professional job. In fact, they are professionals, what with a solid year behind the footlights, Equity memberships and everything. Since no individual bows were taken, it may be out the spirit of things to pick “out any individual performances. . But the comedy of Harold Clark and Millie Weitz is as deft as you’ll find in any season of musical comedy. ."As entertainment, which is this column’s chief interest in the production, a couple of the scenes may be a little wide of the mark. They are earnest protests, with chants
New Sonata |ntroduced
Adds With 'Prairie."
Triggs
Beginning his second year’s residence in Indianapolis, Harold Triggs seems to have . established himself solidly in three fields of musical endeavor. He brought an international reputation as a duopianist to his teaching post at the Jordan Conservatory. To this he has added further fame as a solo player and, more recently, a composer.
Our acquaintance with Mr. Triggs, the composer, had been limited to
to Renown
> Three little aviators and how
O’Connor.
house and forgot to incrude a of our friends of other preposterous Architects who designed Music Box Theater here, for example, forgot to build a box-office, probably the most important feature of a playhouse. And when the mammoth International Casino was erected on Broadway, the builder simply forgot about dressing rooms,
his shorter works until yesterday, when he included his sonata,
although the show accommodates a couple of hundred performers. And when the Main Station of the
youngsters on the left with the box-kite airplane model are Virginia Weidler, Billy Cook and Donald Both the children and aviation have.
IN N EW YORK By ‘GEORGE ROSS
George Tells 9) Theater That Didn't Have int Office: Postoffice Without Mail Chute.
EW YORK, Nov. 2—We told the story of the man who built a
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grown up. in the opposite picture, as witness Fred 4 MacMurray, Louise Campell, Ray Milland and a full-sized biplane. The scenes are from the Indiana’s next attraction, “Men With Wings.”
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stairway—and that reminded some cases of absent-mindedness.
came up. Here is the Lindy poll on the all-time output of Tin Pan Alley: 1. “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tope 2. “Sonny Boy.” 3. “Always.” 4. “I Wonder What's Become of Sally.”
5. “It’s Three O’clock in the
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father, mother and son have played the same roles in a motion picture. The Rivoli’s second attraction will be “Sky Giant,” with Richard Dix, Joan Fontaine and . Chester Morris featured.
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Three Pedestrians, Bicyclist|,. ~ Are Overnight Victims of Local. Traffic.
Three pedestrians and one cyclist were injured in automobile accidents]. overnight, while 14 persons were ar-
reported today. Thomas Flanery 67, of 58 S. Arsenal: Ave. received injuries to his head and right leg when a hit-and-| run driver knocked him down at Oriental and. Southeastern Ave. last night. He was thrown nearly 40 feet by the ‘impact witnesses reported. He refused medical aid. Louis Mangold 56 of 426 W. Pearl St. was taken to City Hospital yesterday with a broken right leg and right arm. He told police he was struck by a hit-and-run driver at Pearl and West Sts. Struck by Truck
Mrs. Eliza Leyden, 73, of 3130 Newton Ave., suffered injuries to her back and head yesterday when tl was knocked down at Newton Ave. and Dearborn St. by a truck driven by Walter G. Ray, 51, of 516 N, Ta-| coma St. She was taken to the ‘City Hospital. Ray was not held by police. 2 Ira J. Swartz, 39, of 1217 St. Paul St., ‘was arrested on charges of drunken driving, leaving the scene of an accident and reckless driving yesterday when the car he was driving allegedly collided with two autos parked in the 60 block of Wegnorst St,
Injuies Fatal to | Delphi Cyclist
. DELPHI, - Nov. 2. — Freeman Voyles, 12, died late yesterday in|
Jack Oakie and Lucille Ball ce “THE AFFAIRS OF ANNABEL"
Winchester: Doctor Dies. |0f Crash:Injufies WINCHESTER,’ Nov. 3: 2 cv. y.
prominent iE County’ © Harry ‘Day was" killed stantly io the same ‘actident. Y
rested for traffic violations, police |§ | °
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Miss Weitz a Hit
A classic of comedy is Miss Weitz’ song of the plain but hopeful maiden, “Nobody Makes a Pass at Me.” she delivers Mr. Rome’s lines of the poor girl who has dutifully followed all the glamour ads—and who pleads with Beatrice Fairfax to: give her the bare facts—with a talent reminiscent of Fanny Brice. The famous “Four Little Angels ‘of Peace” is a telling satiric sock dt dictatorships. What's more, it rolls you in the aisle. “Sunday in the ‘Park” is excellent in every department. There are a couple of striking sets, especially for the alsofamous “It Isn't Cricket to Picket” ‘and “F. T. P. Plowsd Under.” ~ What saves the day as much as ‘anything is that “Pins and Needles” “ribs labor and the New Deal as it slaps at capital and reaction. Con.sequently no tender audience opinions: feel that theyre being preached at or singled out for the whole attack. Whoever said the left 5 wing had no sense of humor had
“ff “best hie himself to English’s this
afternoon or tonight and be con“viriced.
‘BROOKSIDE PLAY GROUP TO MEET
The Brookside Players are to hold open ‘house at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Brookside Community House for new and prospective members. Plans for the coming season and casting for the group's first production, “That Person From Paris,” are to. be discussed. Walter Rothschild is the club’s president, and G. W. Rodgers Bn the newly appointed di--rector.
DECORATOR
‘Virginia Bruce is taking a course in .interior: decorating. The actress will supervise the furnishings of two riew homes, one for her parents and the other for her husband, J. Walter Ruben and herself.
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WHAT, WHEN, WHERE
APOLLO
*§: _ “The Sisters,” with Bette Davis, Priol. Jun LL Louise, at 12:35,
“The Affairs of Annabelle,” with Jack” Osile. Lucille ‘Ball. at 11:35
40, 5:55 Oath © “The Mad Miss Manton,” with Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, at 18:50, 4, 7:10 and 10:20.
Jive of a Kind,” with the Dionne Jets t Claire Lievor. Jean glans, 11:25, 2:35, 5:45 and 55. 2
: tas “Pins and Needles,” a revue preSyed: by Labor Stage. Curtain at hes INDIANA “Suez,” with CI Power, Pots i Fs Apnohelias at 11, 1:1 +28, 5:42, 7:56 “}. “March - Time." i 12:55, 3:10, 8:25, 7:35 A :50. : LOEW'S
Citadel,” with Robert Donat, Ros ind Russell, at 12:15, ‘4:30, 6:50
d 10 Girls School.” with Anne Shirley. 1. ‘Nap Gres R Ralnh Bellamy, at 11, 2:15,
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“Brother Rat,” with Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris. Johnnie Davis, on 11:11, 1:57, 4 53, 7:39 and
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Margaret's Hospital Guild in the War Memorial Auditorium. |
This sonata, like most of the composer's music, is of a programmatic nature. As is his custom, he gives his hearers a motto or clue which aids them in their listening as it served him for inspiration. In the case of “Prairie,” Mr. Triggs included two lines from William Vaughn Moody's poem, “A RoadHymn for the Start.” The first stood as a subtitle: “We have felt the ancient swaying of the earth before the sun.” The second was appended to the fourth movement, a toccata: “Careless where our face is set, let us take the open way.”
Form Is Lucid
Too often a poetic idea serves to deflect the mind from a composition’s structural weaknesses. Mr. Triggs, however, has written a real sonata which would be excellent and enjoyable as ‘“‘absolute” music. The form is admirably lucid; there are no lost motions, no pompous paddings to hide a hesitant inspiration. As a composer, Mr. Triggs has an original expression, unhampered by any particular devotion to isms. Harmonically, he relies upon current practice. But he has a gift for melody, and there is no losing the way in a maze of dissonance. Furthermore, his writing is eminently pianistic, a quality not so prevalent today as might be imagined. If the above paragraph’s emphasis is on technical aspects, it is because everything can’t be heard at once. But on first acquaintance, Mr. Triggs seems to have lived up to the sonata’s poetic idea in admirable fashion. The last movement especially catches the poem's mood of restless, relentless wanderlust. Program Varied
Mr. Triggs, the pianist, though pianistically the occasion was highly satisfying. In fact, it was this writer's first occasion to hear Mr. Triggs when both acoustics and instrument were working entirely in his favor. He accorded his own work a happier interpretation than most composers bestow on their offspring. Throughout the varied program, Mr. Triggs played with unhampered
style and mood, from the austere sonorities of the Bach-Siloti organ prelude which opened the program, to Debussy’s tempestuous “Joyous
ing “Ritual Fire Dance,” brought it to a close. The other listed items were an Air by Purcell, Peerson’s “The Fall of the Leafe” and the Paradies A Major Toccata in the first group; Brahms’ B Minor Rhapsody and the Intermezzo in the same key from Brahms’ Opus 119, and three Debussy compositions: “General Lavine, Eccentric,” ‘“Canope” and “Minstrels.” © Mr. Triggs added his own prelude, “The Persistence of Memory,” as an encore. An audience of fair size received him cordially.
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an official throng was chagrined to jearn that everything was complete except in one detail—a mail chute for city delivery had been ignored. NTG recently made elaborate preparations to launch his cafe, the Midnight Sun, and an hour after he opened, he was shocked to find out that he couldn't sell liquor because it was Primary Day. We went to a press review at a place the other day where they had forgotten to set aside tables and chairs for newspapermen. It is an open secret that the New York Athletic Club was erected sans heating equipment because someone had overlooked it. A huge dance ballroom, now demolished, once opened around here without a coatroom wherein lies all
!the profit. Someone didn’t think of
it, that’s all. 2 ” ® HE other night, a well-dressed young fellow stepped out of a night club, approached the chauffeur of a waiting limousine and said: “Your boss told me to tell you to drive me to Brooklyn.” The chauffeur opened the door; the man clambered in. Three hours later, when the chauffeur returned, he found his employer at the curb in a fury. Who told who what? He never had even heard of the stranger!
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A group of songsmiths were conferring at Lindy’'s the other night— and that means that they were Kkilling time in amiable chatter—and the subject of the Ten Best Songs
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6. “Whispering.” > “There’s a Long, Long Trail.”
. “Smiles.” 5. “Down the Old Mill
by Stream.” 10. “Schooldays.”
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An actor who has played every role in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” from Tiny Tim to Scrooge, was discovered by Edwin L. Marin, directing the Yuletide classic for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The actor is Leo G. Carroll, who will play Marley’s Ghost.
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