Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1938 — Page 11

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agabon From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Peru Is Governed by a Dictator, But You Mustn't Call Him That: His Countrymen Wouldn't Like Tt.

J TMA, Peru, Nov. 15.—When an American newspaperman comes to South America to write up the place, ‘he immediately has put before him various mental hazards, bunkers, traps, water holes, groves of trecs and even a few blind turns. As I say, these are mental hazards, not actual. Nobody is telling me what to write, and as far as I know, ndbody is watching me. It is your own friends : who throw up the mental hazards, by explaining how Peruvians feel about things. For example, everybody you meet has something to say about the article on Peru published in the magazine Fortune last spring. This article was one of a series on South American countries. When it came out, the Government confiscated every copy. “What was wrong with the piece?” I asked. “I read it, and I don’t remember anything so awful about it.” I asked that of half a dozen people, ahd never got much of an answer, except that the.Peruvian people had been insulted. “But give mes an example,” 3 said. thing insulted them?” - “Well,” came the answer, “they called the President a dictator.” “Well, isn’t he?” I asked. “Yes, sure, but you don’t have to say it that way. There are lots of ways to say a thing. You can say something without saying it right out.” So there you have it. ence between the Latins and us.. We say things right out, and no offense meant. Latins wrap it up and tie a ribbon around it before saying it. There is no such thing as a personal column in South American newspapers. There couldn't be, because in South America you can’t write intimately about people. Not that there’s a law against it; there’s a whole personality of a people against it. If I were a South American columnist, and were to write the kind of column I frequently do about people, I wouldn't be a newspaperman two days. Down here, that’s impudence. We hear a lot about government censorship in Europe. But they have it down here too. A censor sits in the cable office. - He blue pencils the press association copy. Papers here can’t print anything about. big strikes in the States, or about victories of one side or the other in Spain.

Self-Censoring by Editors

No censor actually sits in the newspaper offices, but the editors know very well what they can print and what they can’t. Just for example, if a Peruvian Army aviator crashes and gets killed, they can’t print that.

But to get back to the dictatorship business. President Oscar Benevides is a dictator, even if you

Mr. Pyle

“What one

» mustn't say so. But he is a di¢tator who is doing a

swell job. Peru is pretty well off right now. Mr. Benevides is a sincere and serious man, he has all kinds of fine things under way—roads, schools, forward-looking developments. ! ; Before leaving New York, I read that South America was not fertile ground for Naziism. Well, South America may net be fertile ground for an actual Hitler infiltration; I don’t know. But if by Naziism you should mean the theory of one-man dic- “ tatorship government, then South America is not only fertile ground, but it has had some bumper crops al-. ready, and as far as my feeble mind- can make out? that’s about the only way some South American countries can be run anyway. I suppose I'll catch it in South America and from my friends at home, too, for straying off the reservation like this and trying to think.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Nazi Cruelties Are Bound to React: Visits With Cousin Alice Longworth.

\INCINNATI, Monday —We left Albany last eve- ' ning. Not having had time dll day to read the papers, we spent some going through what news one can assimilate from the voluminous metropolitan press. We woke to the sunny Ohio countryside and the first Ohio paper I looked at while I waited for breakfast in the diner carried Dorothy Thompson's rcolumn. I cannot somehow believe that under any circumstances in any country if’ can be good for human nature to deal cruelly and oppressively with any group .of people. It seems to me to show such a wqeful lack of imagination not to be able to achieve legitimate objectives of orderly government without a procedure which in the end harms most those who carry it out. Dorothy Thompson is right, I think, what is done to people is never so harmful as what people do. We were greeted in Cincinnati by the Mayor and our lecture sponsors. The. press conference was through in record time, and we were driven along the river over a most beautiful road which WPA labor has just made possible. It is such a sleepy, quiet river, one can hardly imagine that it ever gets out of hand. Today, the sun shining on it and the warm autumn air made it seem particularly placid. We passed the country club and reached what looked like real country places. At first, no one could find the way to my cousin, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth’s house, so we drove around aimlessly. Finally, we found a closed gate and there before us was the old house built in 1848. There are still extensive grounds around it and Paulina, who is apparently a born horsewoman and loves animals, showed us a Jerusalem donkey, her own horse and a fat little pony whose -usefulness:is long past. These animals wander around the grounds entirely free, so that the closed gate really had a reason back of it.

Open Fire in’ Every Room

I judge the inside of the house has not been changed since the Eighties. There are many good pieces of furniture of that period and the woodwork is beautifully carved. It is a comfortable house nd now it has been made briglit and liveable with light ‘walls and chintzes. I am sure there was & period when dark reds and greens predominated and then it must have been very gloomy, but that is no longer the

case. : Open fires burned in every room and, though the "period of the Eighties is not at present our ideal of architectural beauty, still we must acknowledge that it had quality and real comfort and I enjoyed the | house very muh. I always enjoy my cousin, for while we may laugh at each other and quarrel with each other's ideas or beliefs, I rather imagine if real trouble that we ht be good allies. We mie Roosevelt - characteristics | gravitate ede each other in times of stress. Now we are back at the Joiel and there is apparently no clamor for me $ anyihine, so I shall have a lazy afternoon.

Bob Burns Says—

J OLLYWOOD, Nov. 15.—Fve always heard that the : only way to find out what a woman really looks vo like is to see her at 6 o'clock in the morning. I al-] Ways that a woman was at her worst then because she hadnt had a chance to put on any

cosmetics. ~The other night I kinda got in bad with an notress’ agent when he pointed her out and began ‘avin’ about how beautiful she was. ‘He says “That's 2 ] that don’t have ‘ta use cosmetics to make peautiful!”

you be willin’ to have her in “mornin 0

The fundamental differ-

Beginning of Good Music in City Traced to Chicago Fire Benefit

This ploisgrsgh, the ropetty of Hugh McGibeny, shows the first Gibeny is the soneertimasten and Adolph Schellschmidt, cellist, is just to Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Karl Schneider, conductor, on the stage | the right of the soloist, identified by Mr. McGibeny as Minnie Marshall, Mr. Schneider is on the conductor’s stand. Mr. Mc- | Boston violinist. The picture was taken about 1896.

of Tomlinson Hall.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1938

The Symphony Comes of

(First of a Series)

By James Thrasher

HE present Tidisnapolis Symphony

Orchestra, a

~~ fourth-generation musical youngster, is approaching its first calendar birthday as the healthiest, most promising member of the family. For a modern orchestra, like a modern baby, is born with the greatest life expectancy

in the country’s history.

If the Indianapolis Symphony attains a ripe and illustrious manhood, it will be not alone because of its excellent conductor, gifted players and astute management. For it was born into a world: of cultural pediatrics of which its

ancestors never: dreamed.

Though the young orchestra still faces a world of stern reality, beset with difficulties, it has a head start. Obviously, a growing artistic maturity throughout the na-

tion, and the radio’s broad dissemination of good ‘music have encouraged the feeling that an orchestra is a civic. necessity. But there are other forces, subtle and almost forgotten, which have prepared the city for an orchestra of major pro-

portions.

These . forces were the untiring efforts :of ‘music-loving men and women—men and women who re-

fined the tastes of a pioneer.

town, loved music with an infectious devotion, advanced. slowly with a growing public Spots and worked for little or remuneration. It is largely through them that Indianapolis today has assumed the ‘support of an orchestra with a six-figure budget.

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UR musical beginnings were in the Fifties and Sixties of the last century. The small orchestras and choral societies of that - day were formed by men who had brought from Germany’s rich musical soil a love of the art and, more important, a certain proficiency. Their taste was for vocal music, as the hardy and venerable Maennerchor reminds us. Instrumental music was a rather minor adjunct. | There is no knowing how long Indianapolis might have ,gone without ' public orchestra concerts if it had not been for the Chicago fire. Bernard Vogt, Adolph Schellschmidt Sr,, Henry Beissenhertz and Emil Zumpfe were among the 35 or 40 players who banded together for a benefit concert to raise money for the refugees. Mr, Vogt conducted.

Apparently, the concert was an:

artistic as well as a financial success... For shortly afterward the group ‘was giving Sunday evening concerts in the old Washington Hall. They steered clear of the word symphony, as befitted modest and reverent amateurs, and called themselves the 'Indianapolis Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Vogt and his men regaled their Sunday night audiences with the overtures of Von Suppe and the waltzes of Strauss, Waldteufel and Labitzky. Once they splurged and brought here the famous Italian tenor, Tagliapetro, paying him the then princely sum of $600. But the brave Philharmonic died, The fatal symptoms are not recorded, but one may suspect a complication of sour notes and public apathy.

RE followed what might be called a golden decade of song. Carl Barus came from Cincinnati in the early Eighties to direct the Maennerchor. Under his guidance they gave popular performances of the standard German light operas. The Lyra Society offered comic operas in English, especially the new works of those delightful Englishmen, Gilbert and Suilivan. Alexander Ernestinoff, a Russian singer who later became a prominent orches- ' tra conductor in Infiznapolls, was the director.

The city’s first major musical event occurred in 1886, when the Grand Army of the Republic sponsored a festival. Soloists, including the great Lilli Lehman, were engaged, and Mr. Barus directed a chorus of 600 and an orchestra from Cincinnati, fortified

‘by about 20 local players.

Out of this grew the May Fes-

tival Association, formed in 1889. .

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And the May Festivals brought Indianapolis into international prominence. Music critics from European newspapers were among the audiences of these annual events, which flourished for nine years. After this successful direction of the 1886 festival, Mr. Barus was a logical choice to organize and lead these further ambitious undertakings. He conducted the first four, and was succeeded by ‘PF. X. Arens, of the Indianapolis Conservatory, and Frank Van Der Stuecken, phony: Orchestra’s conductor.

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NOTHER important day-by-.

day factor in this period’s growth was the Conservatory. It was founded in 1890 by Clarence Forsythe, a Stuttgart-educated native son who staffed his school with ably * equipped musicians from New York and Europe. Since that time the city has not lacked for competent musical instructors. The Indianapolis Conservatory gave way to the Metropolitan School of Music.

The Metropolitan, in turn,

.merged with the Indiana College

of Music and Fine Arts to form the present Jordan Conservatory. These two schools provided, at least indirectly, the backbone of our orchestral leadership . until the advent of Fabien Sevitzky. Our first real “symphony” con=ductor was Karl Schneider, of -the Metropolitan teaching staff. And to those with the easy quip about “singers and musicians” on their lips, be it known that Mr. Schneider, like Mr. Ernestinoff, was a voice teacher. Mr. Schneider also was ideally suited for his pioneering job. He had an enthusiasm for orchestra playing, he knew the symphonic literature, he knew the .correct manner of presenting it. His audiences were both impressed and puzzled. Until Mr. Schneider came along, they never had seen an orchestra conductor wearing white kid gloves, though a maestro of the Nineties considered them an indispensable part of his They noticed on the program that Hugh McGibeny was - billed as “concertmaster,” though it was apparent to the casual observer that he played no more nates than the rest of the fiddlers. » 2 2» ROBABLY they were equally puzzled by the music. Nevertheless, Mr. Schneider lived up to his orchestra’s name by presenting a symphony on each program. He fed his listeners good solid fare: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven,

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Mendelssohn, Raft. And he presented them with some famous soloists. The orchestra’s guests included Vladimir de Pachmann, Harold

Bauer and William Sherwood

among the pianists; Mary Nichols, the Boston violinist; Elsa Ruegger, cellist, and Mme. Seville of the Metropolitan and Sarah Lay= ton Walker, singers. Nor did Mr. Schneider fail to give the local virtuosi a hearing in his Tomlinson Hall concerts. Mr. McGibeny and Adolph Schellschmidt, both of whom are still active members of the Jordan Conservatory faculty, appeared as soloists. The singers included Lottie Adam (Mrs. Leo Rappaport), Elma Ingelman of the Burroughs School of Music faculty, and Mrs. Philip Goetz. Oliver Willard Pierce was a piano soloist, and Emma Schellschmidt, now

Mrs. Frederick Rouse of Philadelphia, gave Indianapolis its

st hearing of a harp concerto. Among Mr. Schnejder’s qualifications, and of a more mundane nature, was the fact that he was both willing and able fo pay his players when no one else was. There were some unpaid amateurs among his 60-odd players, but there were also.local professionals, as well as imported string and woodwind players from the Cincinnati Symphony. : 2 2 = O for the years 1896 and 1897, the Indianapolis Symphony was its conductor’s responsibility as well as his dream. But after two years a women’s orchestra board was formed, and the concert management entrusted to Mrs. Ona B. Talbot.

As in the case of the early Philharmonic, however, circumstances were not right for survival. The city was expanding, - commerceminded. Doubtless the orchestra’s proficiency was not great enough to demand its continuance. So, in the early 1900s the first Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, after distinguished missionary service, departed ‘this musical life. There still remained, however, the Musikverein Orchestra of the German House, conducted by Mr. Ernestinoff. Though private and less musically pretentious, it was popular and served as an excel lent training ground for things to come. The orchestra appeared first at the dedication of the large auditorium of the German House (Athenaeum) in 1893. It continued until the World War years when, with waning funds and interest, it was disbanded. Most of the ' German House

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‘ment in 1922. On Oct. 15 of that

~ other difficult job lay ahead, an=

musicians moved across the street to become members of Mr. Ernestinoff’s Indianapolis Orchestra, which gave one Sunday concert a month in the Murat. This was Indianapolis’ first example of a co-operative orchestra of symphonic proportions, though Mr. Schaefer’s Indianapolis Symphony was a more famous one. It was organized by Leo Rappaport and H. P. Lieber in 1912, and survived the German House Orchestra by only a short ‘time. Mr. Ernestinoff was a more important figure in our musical life than he appears in retrospect. Tall and impressive in appearance, his broad-brimmed felt hat and Windsor “tie set off a commanding presence—commanding even in a day when the practicing musicign bore ‘ the inevitable and ‘deferential title of “professor,” without regard for

Alexander Ernestinoff, however, was no mine-run musician. Born in St. Petersburg in 1853 (Liszt is said to have been his godfather), he had studied with the famous Anton Rubinstein. A singer, pianist and conductor at 16, he came to America and had the distinction of conducting the first performance of Wagner's “Rienzi” in this country. He likewise ine troduced “Lohengrin” and “Tannhaeuser” to the Middle West. Coming to Indianapolis from St. Louis An" 1882, Mr. Ernestinoff successively was conductor of the Maennerchor, the Lyra, and its successor, the Musikverein. He prepared the choruses and was assistant director of the May Festivals in the years that Van Der Stuecken conducted. Illness finally forced his retire-

year a concert was given at ‘the Circle by a specially recruited orchestra, and sponsored by a distinguished list of patrons, to honor “Papa” Ernestinoff -for- his 40 years of valued service to the community. But the veteran musician was unable to attend. A week later he died on a train en route to California. With Mr. Ernestinoff’s death (Mr. Schneider no longer was liv= ing in the city) a phase of the city’s orchestra history came to an end. The efforts of P. Marinus Paulsen to organize a symphoric body was brief and fruitless. An-

other fight against publi¢ indifference, woeful lack of funds and inept performances, before the present orchestra could come ino be

ing.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—On which continent is. the Congo River? 9—What is the legal voting age in each State? 3—How many ounces are in a Troy pound? 4—Who is to be the next opponent of Joe Louis in his defense of the heavyweight championship? 5—Which State borders Arizona on the north?

6—What is the correct pronunciation of the word disputant? 7—What is quicksand? 8 8 # Answers 1—Africa. 2—-Twenty-one years in all the . States. 3—Twelve. - 4—John Henry fawh,. 5—Utah. 6—Dis’-pu-tant. 7—A mixture of fine roundgrained sand and water.

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feel that she is keeping me tied down.,

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h 1% Anion Scherrer

Here's More About Dr. Homburg; Didn't Want to Die in Bed and Sot: His Wish, Thanks to Mr. Barbacher.

: MY life would be a drab affair, indeed, were

it not for the vivid material sent in by cash customers (bless their hearts) who know more about writing a column than I do. Thus, the otlier day I ran a little piece

‘about the fear of Friday in the course of which I une

hestitatingly put the blame on Dr. Konradin Homburg,

1844 and stayed long enough to scare the daylights out of Indianapolis. Apparently, I didn’t do more than scratch the surface of my subject because soon as my piece appeared, a cash customer took me to task for forgetting to say anything about the part Mr. Barbacher played in the. life (and death) of Dr. Homburg. If you've kept track of my stuff the way you should, you’ll remember Mr. Scherrer that I got as far as saying that Dr. Homburg never slept in bed. Well, it now turns out that he didn’t want to die in bed, either. Indeed, to

so far as.to tell Mr, Barbacher, his handy-man around the house, that when 1t came time (he was sure it was going to be on a Friday) he wanted to die standing up. Well, that’s just what happened. When the end

up Dr. Homburg as best he could, in order that his master might have his way. Considered technically, Mr. Barbacher didn’t quite succeed because when the end came, Dr. Homburg didn’t really die standing up. That was because Mr. Barbachér couldn’t hold him any longer. Seems that Dr. Homburg was a very big ‘man, another point I forgot to mention when I reviewed the doctor the other day.

He Got His Reward, Too

The fact, however, that Dr. Homburg died with his feet on the ground coupled with the: fact that Mr. Bars bacher’s intentions were good persuaded most people to dismiss the technicality. With the result that whea Mr. Barbacher opened a barber shop on E. Washing= ton St., all of Dr. Homburg’s friends gave him’ their business, secure in the belief that Indianapolis had a man, to say nothing of a barber, who could be de=pended upon to do as he was told. Which leaves me just enough room to tell another Kaese Mueller story. Sure, I got it from the same oldtimer who told me about Mr. Barbacher. Seems he also read my piece about the men with Mueller monikers. Well, once upon a time, Mr. Mueller ran out of

| limburger cheese, a terrible calamity because it put

all the free-lunch counters out of business. The frantic saloonkeepers put their heads together and de= cided that the only way to move Mueller to do something about it was to stage a run on his place. They came from all parts of the town, all begging for lim= burger cheese. It just about drove Mr. Mueller crazy, Finally, he couldn’t stand it any longer and loeked ‘his shop. What's more, it stayed closed until he got stocked up on limburger again.

Jane Jordan— .

Advice Given Youth Who Would Wed, but Feels He Must Aid Mother.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a young fellow in my twenties and hold a good job except that permanence is always doubtful. I have been going with a very nice girl for several years and I am very much in love with her. I only see her week-ends as I work out of town and I told her to go out during the week and have a good time. In January of this year she started to go steady (as she called it) with another fellow. In spite of this we still had dates. When he would bring her home early we would go out after=ward. I have put up with it for six months and have asked her to stop but she tells me she is‘in love with him and doesn’t want to. I know that this is not true. She says it merely to make me jealous. We are very much in love and would probably have been married by now except for financial reasons. My income helps to relieve the burden on my mother which I feel is the right thing. for me to do. My father has been dead for years and there are just two children and mother left. Both children are now married and living away from home. My mother has repeatedly told me not to feel tied down on her

My girl friend knows the circumstances fully an am afraid she has decided that we can never be situation and I cannot tell her for fear © will I am not worried that my girl friend ’ not love

me but how can I keep her from marrying this other fellow who has proposed to her several times? Should

cause trouble. Or should I ask her to marry me and be ‘burdened with my financial difficulties? PERPLEXED.

Answer: Evidently it is either put up or shut up where your girl friend is concerned. The trouble is that she can’t see anything ahead. If she knew you could get married in one year or two years she ould hive something definite to wait. for, but as it is she can’t see that youll be any more ready to leave your mother then than now. Nothing is more wearing than a long drawn out engagement. Many a girl has died on the vine wait« ing for a man to make up his mind to leave his mother. When, if ever, he is ready to marry, the thrill of anticipation is long since dead. The disappointed woman walks to the altar because she lacks the courage to do anything else. I wonder if you're fair'to your mother in protect-

her the innocent stumbling block which stands between you and the realization of your hopes. . You say, “I do not feel tied but I cannot leave het.” This simply- does not make sense. If you don’t feel tied, then why can’t you leave? Something more power= ful than you are prevents you. Call it love, call it

all right and a mighty one. What about those other two children who are

they share the care of your mother? = JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a Tort to J _ answer your r problems in this olumn daily. Jordan, whe wil:

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came (sure, it was on a Friday) Mr. Barbacher held :

account and I do not feel tied but I cannot leave her

I give her up? To continue going with her will only

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hear my correspondent tell it, Dr. Homburg even went

ried. Mother is unaware of the :seriousness ww:

ing her from knowledge of the facts? You make

duty, call it pity, call it what you will, but it’s a tie

married and living away from home? Why can’t 2

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