Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1938 — Page 15

La Crawford and Cagney Coming Back

“Symbol Stars Return Roles of Dancer And 'Toughie.'

By JAMES THRASHER . The speed with which movies change and progress is giving even our reminiscences a streamlined as:pect. Films of the Prohibition Era already have the dated, distant charm of a Currier & Ives print.

So the news that imminent local|®

‘pictures will give us Joan Craw-| SESS

“ford, dancer, and James Cagney, gangster, should call up a few glis“tening tears of memory.

Before the orchestra proceeds Basssizons:

with “Hearts and Flowers,” however, let us be soberly factual. Miss - .Crawford is one of the shining lights -in “The Shining Hour,” which opens at Loew’s tomorrow. And Mr. Cagney may be seen in “Angels With # Dirty Faces” at the Indiana Friday. These two stars came to the cinema when the studios, for purely practical purposes, were viewing the -national scene with alarm. It was .the twilight of the flapper and the gangster, and Hollywood was making the most of the fading day.

Both Became Symbols

, Somehow, Miss Crawford and Mr. Cagney became symbols of the boot--leg-and-black-bottom period. The Aatter, to be sure, shared the public enemy honors with Edward G. “Robinson, and Paul Muni threatened ‘briefly to muscle in. But Miss Craw“ford, with “Taxi Dancer,” “Dancing :Daughters,” “Our Modern Maidens,” “Dance, Fools, Dance,” “This Modern Age,” “Dancing Lady” and all the rest of the terpsichorean titles, scertainly kept alive the fading embers of the Twenties’ flaming youth. : Both stars changed, of course, Copter urn tastes and times. Mr.

-Cagney turned to Shakespearean comedy in “A Midsummer Night's Dream.” He and Mr. Robinson zjoined up with the G-Men. Then “Mr. Cagney had a little studio trou“ble, nearly dropped out of the pic‘ture, embraced the bucolic life on his Martha's Vineyard farm, and finally came back in a bit of wacky ‘Hollywood comedy, “Boy Meets Girl.” 3 Miss Crawford, meanwhile, went :historical in “The Gorgeous Hussy”; \ went sophisticated in “The Last of - Mrs. Cheyney” and almost went to pieces in “The Bride Wore Red.” It was rumored that she was culti.vating her voice toward grand opera, or at least, a series of German lieder recitals. But now she’ll be tossing hair and heels again as a night club dancer who married a Government Farm Board member.

O’Brien Plays Priest

“The Shining Hour,” by the way, was enjoying a brief Broadway suc‘cess in Keith Winter's original dramatization back in Miss Crawford’s “Dancing Lady” days. The part which Melvyn Douglas plays 4n the picture was taken by Ray-

mond Masssey, currently the theater’s No. 1 hero for his performance in “Abe Lincoln in Illinois.” * It was Ogden Nash (he whose verses don’t scan but do scathe) who . helped prepare Mr. Winter's melo“dramatic play for the screen. Hollywood certainly tames ‘em down. As for Mr. Cagney, he is switching from his last role of a movie ‘scenarist back to that of a “foughie” who finally winds up in the electric 4 chair. Less faniiliar will be Pat “O’Brien’s assignment. Mr. O’Brien is playing a priest, and it’s the first ‘time in 37 tries at nearly every other “sort of part that the Irish actor has donned the cloth. : Sl

‘Ada Bicking Is Conference Aid|

- Miss Ada Bicking, Jordan Conservatory of Music director, has been chosen music education representative at the annual Vocational Information Conference for Women now in session at Ohio State University. Miss Bicking will act as consultant at the music session to be held Friday morning. Mrs. Walter Ferguson, Times col--umnist, is among other nationally known consultants at the four-day conference.

JOAN MARSH AND WRITER TO WED

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 16 (U. P.).— Joan Marsh, blond screen actress, and Charles Belden, scenarist who won her hand when she played in one of his pictures, filed notice day of intention to wed. They “about Thanks-

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Bloch, Cramer ‘Alumnus,’ Gives ‘Stunning’ Recital

Another young pianist from the small colony of Bomar Cramer “glumni” now studying with Rudolph Ganz was heard in recital last

a capacity audience in the War Me-

morial auditorium. Mr. Bloch is no stranger, of course, being a native son and musically active since boyhood. But this was his first public recital here since he began work with the Chicago pedagog-pianist. Last night's program embraced the last four centuries, beginning with Michelangelo Rossi, continuing through Bach and Schumann to Blanchet, Hindemith and Scriabine of modern vintage. The pianist exhibited a commanding technic from the start. The Ressi Toccata which he chose bristles with scales and octaves, though it seems to have lost a good deal of charm in Bela Bartok‘s bravura transcription.

Impeccable Cackles

The Bach items were relatively unfamiliar: A Fugue, with the theme imitating a cackling hen, the program told us, and a Toccata in E Minor. The fugue was a charming bit of naive program music in which the fowl, needless to say, uttered her cry in impeccable counterpoint.

Mr. Bloch then proceeded to the early Sonata in |F Sharp Minor by Schumann. Despite some lapses of memory in the final movement, the young pianist gave an excellent account of the work. Though brimming with melody, this sonata is inclined to be diffuse, and offers its interpreter, besides endless technical problems, the severe task of maintaining the listener’s interest in its line of thought. Mr. Bloch’s | performance * was more forthright than poetic, and the result was happy. The playing was well thought out, the outlines clear, and the music seldom failed to move toward |its goal with sweep and breadth. |

Leans to Modern

In the final group the recitalist really came into his own. There seems little doubt that his gift and sympathies are toward the modgrn writers. It seems a pity, then, that his selections could not match their performance in value. Blanchet’s “In the Garden of the Old Harem” certainly belies any

picture of mooniit nights and perfumed breezes the title might call up. Obviously the Sultan’s wifely cplony is embroiled in some furious afiray. One feels that old harem garden can’t possibly hope to escape with flower beds intact. The Hindemith March's chief claim to attention is the fact that treble and bass are in different keys. And the - three Scriabine compositions with which Mr. Bloch closed the program emphasized again the fact that the Russian composer’s once bright sun is set long since.

Chopin Did It Better

As to the Album Leaf and Etude in Thirds from this group, Chopin wrote the same sort of music earler and infinitely better. The Sonata, Opus 53, says what little it has to say in the first few minutes, then spends an interminable time being alternately sentimental and ridiculously pompous. Though one may question the wisdom of devoting time and effort to such compositions, it cannot be denied that Mr. Bloch did them in stunning fashion. His is certainly piano playing in the grand style. He has the technical command which overcomes timidity, a colorful temperament that never oversteps itself, and a modest but impressive stage presence. All these qualities would seem to promise more and better things to come. LT.

WOOLSEY WILL FILED

The will of the late comedian, Robert Woolsey, filed for probate, left his widow, Minnie, the bulk of his estate, which was described only as “in excess of $10,000.”

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7th District Federation * Benefit Scheduled.

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will play its first “sponsored” concert at 3 p. m. Sunday, Nov. 27, when Fabien Sevitzky conducts a program in Cadle Tabernacle for benefit of the Seventh District Federation of Clubs. The popular-priced performance will be open to the public. A lengthy program will feature

first appearance of the season. The 200-voice group is directed by Elmer A. Steffan. The overture to Weber's opera, “Der Freischuetz,” is to open the program, to be followed by the second and third movements of Bee-

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in White's “Voy age of the Mayflower,” and Grieg’s “Peer Gynt” Suite, No. 1, for orchestra, will follow.

For its final two selections, the choir is to sing Coleridge-Taylor’s arrangement of “Deep River” and “Bells,” by Arthur Foote. Closing the concert will be the orchestra’s “Voices of Spring” ' waltzes, and the “1812 Overture” of Tschaikowsky. Governor and Mrs. Townsend, Mrs. Edwin I. Poston, Indiana Federation of Clubs president, and Mr. Poston head the list of the concert’s patrons and patronesses. Proceeds will go to the federation’s foundation funds. Mrs. W. D. Keenan is the Seventh District president. Individual seats will not be reserved, it is announced, but blocks of seats may be reserved with Mrs. George Van Dyke, Mrs. Frank X. Kern or Mrs. W. G. Stayton. Remaining seats will go on sale at the Cadle box office the day of the

performance.

Present Plays , At Odeon Friday

A one-act play and the first act of Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” will be presented by the Jordan. Conservtory of Music drama department at 8:15 p. m. Friday at The Odeon, 106 E. North St. Frederick B. Overman is director. The cast in the one-act play, Gertrude Allen's “A Paternity Case,”

includes Doris Dronberger, Marion

Bruce and Elizabeth Slocum.

Appearing in “Hedda Gabler” will be Dorothea Craft, Miss Slocum,

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