Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1938 — Page 19
THURSDAY, NOV. 17, 1938
2 Explorers To Be Guests Here Nov. 22
Me and Mrs. Denis to - Speak at Universal Club, Over Radio.
Armand Denis and Leila Roose-
| velt, -explorers and motion picture | producers, will spend Tuesday in | Indianapolis as guests of the Universal Club,
Their day’s schedule includes anj, engagement as principal speakers).
| at a Universal Club luncheon in | the Columbia Club, an address be-
| fore local members of the National|:
| Photoplay Endorsers, an appearance | at the Indianapolis Auto Show in | the evening and a radio broadcast | They will leave for Columbus, O., | Wednesday morning. Mr. Denis and Miss Roosevelt | (Mrs, Denis) filmed and produced | the Balinese picture, “Goona | Goona,” and their latest, “Dark | Rapture.” This picture was mage | last year during an official expe- | dition for the Belgian Government ‘ into the Belgian Congo. In the course of their trip they lived with jungle pygmies, seven-foot giants and the Manbetu head binders. On | their return, Life magazine devoted
14 pages to still pictures fromi.
“Dark Rapture,” which is scheduled for an Indianapolis showing sometime in December or January. A native of Belgium, Mr. Denis fought in the Belgian Army and the British Royal Air Force during the World War, enlisting when he was 17. He remained in England after the war, took his chemistry degree at Oxford, then came to the United States. married Miss Roosevelt, daughter of Andre Roosevelt, the explorer, and second cousin of both Theodore and Eleanor Roosevelt. * The Denises started: the tourist jnvasion of Bali with “Goona Goona,” filmed in 1929. Then, “while Mr. Denis went to Malaya to direct Frank 'Buck’s second picture, “Wild Cargo,” his wife and another young woman drove a truck around the world, traveling 24,000 miles in 14 months—just for fun.
‘Li'l Abner’ Comes Home
Frank Wilder and Band Due At Beech Grove.
Frank (Li'l Abner) Wilder, the Beech Grove boy who made a hit in Western movies, is back home this week-end with his “Colorado Hillbilly. Band” of eight members. They will play engagements tomorrow and Saturday nights at the Grove Theater, Beech Grove.
Mr. Wilder has appeared with Gene Autry in “Land. of Fighting Men” and “Old Bara Dance,” which will be seen at the Fountain Square Thanksgiving Day. The comedianmusician and his band have the distinction of being the only hillbilly outfit ever to play the swank Trocadero in Hollywood, and they broke the house record in a recent engagement at Seattle’s Palomoor. The band is ending a tour of the West and Middle West which has brought it as far as Ft. Wayne and Anderson for regular engagements. Mr. Wilder made a special trip to Beech Grove to play for his home ‘ town audience. And the town’s merchants have responded by donating lumber and labor to build a stage for the two performances.
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Two local high school plays and DePauw University’s annual “Moron Review” will be presented today, tomorrow and Saturday. The Tech High School Choir, directed by J. Russell Paxton, will present Victor Herbert's operetta, “Naughty Marietta,” today and tomorrow night at- the school gymnasium. Mary Ledbetter: and James Cullings play leading roles. Other members of the cast are Jeanine Smith, Barbara’ Sims, Betty Ann Freeman,
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Pelz in Charge of Series by Indiana Division.
I The first program in a series presented by the Federal Music Project, Indiana division, will be given at 8 p. m. tomorrow in School 54, 3150 E. 10th St. William I. Pelz, State Music Project director, is in charge of the series. ’ Participants in to Orrow’s program will be the Indianapolis Federal Band, Danvers Julian, conductor; the Mothers’ Chorus of School 54: the WPA Colored Male Quintet, and Edmund Leane, flute soloist with the band. | Music by Wagner, Krantz, Weber, Wadams, Wolfe, Brahms, Humperdinck, Goldman and Smetana is included on the program. (a 8 Pasquale id harpist, will be soloist with the Indianapolis Saengerbund, in a concert at 8 p. m. Saturday in the Athenaeum. William Kappelhoff, who came to the Saengerbund last January, will direct the 90-voice mixed chorus. Joe Harrieder is the society’s president.
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Members of the Indianapolis Piano Teachers Association will present 34 pupils in recital at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the D. A. R. chapter house. Mrs. Frank Burris, soprano, accompanied by Miss Pauline Clark, will assist. Teachers represented on the program include Margaret Rasbach Camfeldt, Grace Eaton, Maebelle Ellis, Gladys Fowler, Mabelle Hendleman, Marie Kyle, Charlotte Beckley Lehman, Eve Maurice, Esther) Ruschhaupt, Edna Schofield and Zillah Worth. #2 #8 Wilma Ault, a violin pupil of Nathan Davis, Indianapolis, will give a recital at 3 p. m, Sunday in the Greenfield Christian Church. Assisting will be Mary Margaret Myers, reader, and Mrs. Elizabeth Floyd, accompanist.
Mildred Schaler, | Myra Wilson, ‘Betty Cardenas, Gene Oaks, George Willeford, John Montgomery, Ford Blanford, Henry Feldman and Gordon Williams. Rosemary McInturf is the pianist. Manual High School's senior class will present Sidney Howard's “The Late Christopher Bean” this afternoon and tomorrow night. Included in the cast are Marjorie Roempke, Elizabeth Scott, Nadejda Popchefl, Joe Schmalz and Noble Pearcy. The “Monon Review,” written, directed and produced by DePauw students, will be presented tomorrow and Saturday nights under auspices of the Association of Women Students. |
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About the night club dancer who comes into her husband’s farm
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Torchy Blane, the sob dister-slewth, again cutwits her detective friend, Steve McBride, in the matter of crime detection.
STAR MAY START YULE CARD FAD
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 17 (U. P.).— Ann Rutherford, young movie starlet, announced today that she would mail her Christmas cards this year from Rutherford, N. J. If the fad spreads it was oloied out that Robert Taylor could use Taylor, Pa.; Robert Montgomery, Montgomery, Ala.; ‘Lee Tracy,
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INDTANAPOLIS TIMES European Swing Ideas
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Adopted by Fats Waller
Times Special
NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—The-genially eruptive Fats Waller has just
returned from a three months’ professional tour of England, Scotland
and the Scandinavian countries, and he brings back some superior tales of the intelligence and artistry of European bands and their audiences.
It was a high spot in his career® and may influence American dance music, for he has appropriated some of Europe’s swing ideas, and Fats being a kevman of the keyboard, some of his respecting colleagues may borrow a leaf from his scores. Already he has softened up his own band, accenting rhythm, softpedaling stridency and presenting his music in sophisticated though not “sweet” arrangements. It has made the Yacht Club, where he is now featured with Val Irving, a smart. and intimate rendezvous among New York's 52d St. night spots. It is a fact that many patrons stop dancing when Fats and his band go into their stuff, preferring to listen—an unusual tribute. “Throughout the British Isles and Scandinavia, audiences like to listen,” said Fats. “Unlike the jitterbugs over here, they will often stop while dancing as a band builds up to the climaxes. I never saw such an intelligent appreciation of swing. After one concert I gave in| Sweden a chap came up to me and said: ‘What did you play in that 17th bar of the fourth chorus?’ He killed me. but it’s typical of the response you get.”
Know Their Stuff
Fats says it is because they study American records “Really study them,” ‘says Fats. “They will play a phrase over and over again, and then they’ll say: ‘Well, now, that isn’t right” — and then they'll go ahead and write in their own arrangement, and all I heard were better. “Why, in any of the English spots where they have good orchestras you can hear the Lambeth Walk played 15 different ways before the night is over. Take a piece like ‘Night and Day.’ They'll play it as a tango, a waltz, a foxtrot, rhumba, whatever. Then sometimes they'll play Bach, Mozart, Brahms, and first thing you know they’ll slide gently into swing, and it kills you. And they take our popular stuff and make it interesting, make it amusing, too.”
Funny Hats for Trombones
Many of the orchestras, Fats says, put screens before the sax players so you can see just their lips, and they use large and funny hats to put over the trombones which already
sell the idea of softer stuff over here, but -I never have been able to get away with it until now,” says Fats. “I used to tell ’em down at Victor I ought to tone down, but theyd just say, ‘No, go ahead and give ’em
that hot, primitive stuff; that is what they want.” But I don’t think so any more,” said Fats.. “I think Europe’s way is the right way, and a|I think it'll take on over here, and I hope it does before we lose our eardrums.” In Glasgow, Fats got a shock trom which he still is recovering. “Somebody brought me an old record I'd made years and years ago of ‘St. Louis Blues.” And this guy says: ‘In the middle of this record are two bars of a Baeh chorale; how do you explain that?’ Well, I just couldn’t explain it. In fact, I'm still trying to figure it out—how
| two bars of a Bach chorale got into
the ‘St. Louis Blues.’ It must have been one of those nights,” said Fats.
STONE FETED ON 59TH BIRTHDAY
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 17 (U. P)~— Lewis Stone, the kindly “distin‘guished gentleman” of the screen,
began the 39th year of his acting career today. ’ Mr. Stone’s 59th birthday and the 38th anniversary of his career were celebrated simultaneously yesterday at a studio luncheon. Producer ‘Louis B. Mayer presented him with silver spurs.
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