Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1938 — Page 13

y TUESDAY, NOV. 22, 1938 English’s Next to Be That Hardy Perennial, ‘Blossom Time, Dec 1

‘Another Long Lived Favorite, "Tobaéco Road,’ Coming Christmas Week to Satiate Opposite Tastes: 'What a Life' Folds Up.

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By JAMES THRASHER English’s schedule of revival services for December offers two concrete | § and contradictory examples of American theatrical taste. “Blossom Time,” which comes back again for three days beginning Dec. 1, would seem to reaffirm the suspicion that hokum with music is a deathless ingredient

of the dramd. “Tobacco Road,” which will take its fourth stand during Christmas week, provokes the thought that stern reality is our dish.

You can take yo choice, for there are arguments to support both theories. At any rate, be it known that “Tobacco Road” will begin its sixth consecutive Broadway year in about a fortnight. It has been on the road for nearly five years, during which time the initial critical lambastings have ‘ been forgotten, familiarity has buffeted the shock of Jeeter Lester's profanity and personal habits, and the play seems to be surviving on its not inconsiderable dramatic merits.

Best of ‘Jeeters’ Coming

For the coming engagement, Indianapolis will see John Barton as Jeeter. He is the uncle of James Barton, who succeeded Henry Hull and James Bell as Jeeter early in the New York run and has abode on Tobacco Road since then, except for a brief vacation this summer when the uncle took over the part. = To this writer, who fancies himself something of a Jeeter Lester connoisseur by this time, the elder Barton does the best job of the three actors who have played the part - here. His predecessors were Charles (Slim) Timblin, of vaudeville fame, and Taylor Holmes, who was the vastly amusing Secretary of the Treasury in “I'd Rather Be Right.”

Incidentally, Vincent

Manager

Burke of English’s predicts that our

‘the best yet.

imminent “Blossom Time” cast is The principals are Everett Marshall (the singer, not the wrestler), who will play Franz Schubert; Charlotte Lansing, Mary McCoy, Roy Cropper and Douglas Leavitt, who supplies the “comedy | * relief” and who made a vaudeville appearance at the Lyric last summer. . Tours Annually for 15 Years

It is interesting to note that «Blossom Time” has toured every season since its first production, nearly 15 years ago. In the course of time it has hung up many attendance and endurance records, outdistancing such popular musicals as “The Student Prince,” “The Desert Song,” “Rose Marie” and several others which at one time seemed here to stay and stay. Mr. Burke isn’t certain how many times “Blossom Time” has played here, but he thinks it must be nearly nine. ” ”n ” What promised to be English’s busiest December .in many years

- found a breathing spell today when

George Abbott comedy, “What a Life,” folded its tents. The play was to have been seen here for three days beginning Dec. 8. That still leaves the Christmas month with four attractions, only one of which will be new. “The Women” will play a return engagement for a half-week beginning Dec. 5, and the highly touted “Shadow and Substance” will be with us on Dec. 16 and 17. This is the Broadway hit of last season (and the past summer) which rocketed its author, the $30-a-week Glasgow school teacher, Paul Vin-

‘cent Carroll, to fame and fortune

in true storybook fashion. Road cities will see the original Broadway cast, headed by the three distinguished principals, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Julie Haydon and Bara Allgood. An. interesting possibility in our unpredictable theater season is the

appearance here of Sinclair Lewis

in sis new play, “Angela- Is 22.” The play, now in rehearsal, has Fay Wray as its costar and, according

* to rumor, its coauthor.

Mr. Lewis made his first appearance as an actor this summer at Cohasset, Mass., in a revised ver-

sion of his novel play, “It Can't Happen Here.” For one reason and another, Mr. Lewis was a big success. So, though he turned down an offer to tour in that play, the stage bug apparently has bitten the famous novelist. Incidentally, Richard Hoover, the former Civic Theater press agent who fills a similar post at Cohasset, says that those who haven't seen Fay Wray on the stage haven't seen her at all. Though she made her reputation in the movies, Hollywood didn’t scratch the surface of Miss Wray’s talent, according to Mr. Hoover. She has made several appearances at Cohasset and is a reigning favorite with the summer theater devotees there. 2 2 =

A great many interesting and unusual things have happened to Shakespeare's plays in the last century. Besides being attributed to Francis Bacon, they have inspired operas and symphonic poems, they have been made into movies, “streamlined” for radio, done unabridged in all their imposing length and performed in modern dress. Orson Welles even gave “Macbeth,” a Haitian setting and presented it with an all-Negro cast. But it took George Abbott, with the assistance of Richard (Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, to turn the most novel trick. Mr. Abbott has taken the Bard's “Comedy of Errors,” needled the text with a little current jargon, embellished it with words and music by his collaborators, made it into a Broadway musical comedy and called it “The Boys from Syracuse.” The two Dromios will be played by Jimmy Savo and Teddy Hart (Composer Lorenz’ brother), and the cast also includes Eddie Albert, who appeared in the stage and screen versions of “Brother Rat.” The show opens in New York tomorrow night. ® ” 8 The latest is that George M. Cohan wants $150,000 to star in a film of his own life. Dickerings with studio representatives have kept him flying back to New York on week-ends from his current tour irr “I'd Rather Be Right.” 2 8 8

Speaking of big money, M-G-M, which wants Mr. Cohan’s services, is reported to have turned down a aos $300,000-a-year offer for broadcast rights to the popular “Hardy Family” series. ” n #

It seems that there is more of the Milholland family in the Circle’s current film, “Submarine Patrol,” than had been suspected. As you know by this time, Ray Milholland, local author, wrote the book from which the play was made. His brother, Charles, made the book’s screen synopsis and sold it to 20th Century-Fox. But a card from W. M. Bailey brings further enlightenment. “The Milhollands of ‘Submarine Patrol’ fame have poked a little fun at their brother, Don,” writes Mr. Bailey, “by casting the character ‘Professor’ to look exactly as Don did when a youth that age. See photographs at E. M. T. H. S. of the June, 1913, class.” Probably the literary Milholland team didn’t do any deliberate funpoking at their brother, for Charles has stated that when the deal was closed they left the screen script in the laps of the studio gods. But it is nice to know that “Submarine Patrol” can be recommended as a family picture—in every sense of the word. Incidentally, the film has collects ed some glowing New York reviews.

Leopold Godowsky, Pianist And Composer, Dies at 68

Times Special

NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—Piano playing “in the grand manner” has lost another exponent with the death here yesterday of Leopold Godowsky.

The pianist-composer died at Lenox was 68.

Hill Hospital after a long illness. He

Mr. Godowsky was a survivor of the “golden age” of Liszt and Rubin-

mann and Rosenthal. Born in Poland, the pianist toured his own country and Germany when he was 9 and made his first Amercan tour with the violinist, Ovide Musin, when he was 14. Two years later he returned to Europe for study with the French master,

. Saint-Saens.

A favorite of royalty, Mr. Godowsky gave several command perforin-

: Zivances, was appointed director of the

"mperial Royal School for Piano by he Austrian emperor and later

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Married an American

Mr. Godowsky married an American, Miss Frieda Saxe, in 1901, and

_» "ater settled in this country. His ~~ son, Leo Godowsky, is a violinist,

and his daughter, Dagmar, was a

star of silent films.

Among the pianist’s musical posts

_ in this country were those of editor-in-chief of the Art Publication So-'|

stein, which also produced such famous living artists as Paderewski, Hof-

Denises Are Guests Here

Explorers Add to Drama

Revealed in Film.

When Africa speaks through the medium of Mrs. Leila Roosevelt Denis, one is inclined to listen. For Mrs. Denis, beyond question, is as attractive an explorer - as ever trekked across the Sahara in a truck, helped shoot pictures of an elephant roundup or sat down to a pygmy version of Mulligan stew in the interest of science ard the cinema. The Denises were in town today as guests of the Universal Club, appearing at the Indianapolis Auto Show and on a WFBM broadcast. Mr. Davis “whose first name is Armand, was cornered by a feminine reporter in their room at the Hotel Lincoln, leaving Mrs. Denis to the writer. That was all right, too. The couple's latest African Dpicture, “Dark Rapture,” was previewed last night, and it is the sort of film to stimulate conversation. Only deadlines and speaking engagements kept the interview from going far into the night for, after 11 months in the Belgian Congo, the Denises fund of stories is almost inexhaustible. Saw Pygmy Bridges Their expedition, sponsored by the Belgian Government, took them among the pygmies and to the tribe of giant Watusis. They got pictures of pygmy bridge building, the ceremonial dances of sevenfoot Watusi tribesmen, a Sahara sandstorm, 40-foot heather and ferns as tall as trees in the Watusi country. And, most thrilling of all, the capture of wild elephants and the party’s escape from a roaring jungle grass fire. These scenes, included in “Dark Rapture,” make up only a few thousand feet of the 125,000 feet of pictures . and 25,000 feet of sound track obtained. Most of the pictures, of a scientific nature, are the property of the Belgian Government. Mrs. Denis had time to give some further information on the vivid pictures seen last night. The pygmies, she explained, are unbelievably primitive. Their own language has been lost, and their vocabularly consists of only about 60 or 70 words picked up from Negro tribes. They have watched the Negroes forging iron arrow heads for centuries, yet lack any capacity to imitate them.

Engineering Amazing

In matters of the forest, however, they are at-home and amazingly resourceful. . Their vine bridges across the rivers are major engineering feats. They live by trapping game in the forest, and have no villages or. permanent homes. The Watusis, on the other hand, preserve a high and ancient civilization which Metropolitan Museum authorities believe to be a survival of ancient Egyptian culture. Though there are only about 20,000 of these

nation of three million by the ancient feudal system. Mrs. Denis is the First Lady's second cousin, but was pleased to recall, at the interview’s close, that the conversation had stayed close to Africa to the exclusion of politics.—J. T.

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NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (U.P.).—The Metropolitan Opera opened the new

season last night. There were enough diamonds and emeralds and gold around the “golden horseshoe” to stock a Tiffany's and enough brocades and silks and satins to reach from here to St. Louis. Society and finance were resplendent in the boxes and the orchestra and the music lovers were crowded rather uncomfortably. in the balcony and the aisles. All in all, it was a brilliant occasion.

At about the time the dowagers and the debutantes were ladening themselves with necklaces, tiaras, rings and bracelets, and the French maids were bringing in the ermine wraps and the chauffeurs were taking the limousines around to the front, the ghost of another opera and another Metropolitan—whose music had not been a local thing, but had penetrated to every corner of the country—was being wafted unostentatiously over the city.

The managers of the little broadcasting station, WQXR, had gotten hold. of some very old phonograph recordings by Geraldine Farrar—the very mention of whose name brought back to their memory Caruso, Scotti, Melba, Journet, Chaliapin, all familiar personages even to the schoolboy of their day. The station intended to broadcast the records for novelty’s sake and someone thought it would be nice to have Miss Farrar around to comment to the. radio audience between records. So, without much thought Phas she would accept, they invited er :

Sang English Ballads for Kaiser

Miss Farrar, white-haired now at 56, was delighted. She intended to come down from her Connecticut home, where she has been, in rerirement for seven years, for the first night of the opera, and on her way she dropped by to bring to life again for an hour the glories of her career. Wistfully, she- recalled that 36

with the German Imperial Opera, her German was so bad she Lad to sing an Italian opera, Il Trovatore. And from the wax poured the silvery, girlish beauty of the voice that had been hers. When the Kaiser had her ‘sing for him privately, he

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liked English ballads, she said, because his grandmother was Queen Victoria, and the Geraldine Farrar of 1904 sang an English baliad. And from the wax poured the youthful lilt of Farrar’s Carmen singing the Habanera, which doub*less recalled to those old enough, the Farrar of 1908, the most baautiful of the prima donnas.

‘Stood Hand-in-Hand and Sang’

She didn’t say what she thought as she listened to the voices of her dead friends—Scotti, Caruso, Journet, Chaliapin—come strong and

clear from the wax, blended beautifully with her own. But her voice was exultant when she said: “Caruso, Journet and I stood hand in hand in front of the recording horns and sang.” That was the prison scene trio of Gounod’s Faust, and when the needle: had run its course on the wax impression made in 1912, she said: “Well, I'm off for the opera. Goodnight.” And, gathering her wrap around her shoulders, she hurried out of the studio. At the opera, she heard Verdi's “Otello,” the great opera of his final or “third” period. She heard Maria Caniglia, the Neopolitan soprano, make her American debut as Desdemona, the role she used to sing, Marnell as’ Otello, Tibbett as ago. |

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