Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1939 — Page 11

‘Red’ Lewis Talks Back

To Critics}

He'll Class Any More Bad|

Reviews as Plain 'P lagiarism.” AF

= Sin -him .the “critics. » Such as: “I wish some drunk “ typesetter would reverse the review that begins ‘Mr. Lewis is lousey, “ while Flo (Flora Campbell), the ‘leading lady, is beautiful.’ From now on anybody who takes a crack at my posture or acting ability will be “guilty “ plagiarism from other reviewers.” | :

Lewis you ays just call

Lounging, in a comfortable over-

stuffed chair in a Hotel Lincoln ‘suite yesterday, he admitted to the “press the lead in his play, “Angela Is Tye 0,” is too difficult for an “a >» And so he has plann for himself the “most diabolical role ever created for the stage.

The Play opens tonight at Eng--lish’s | continues Wednesday

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Be an Epilogue’ “It will e an epilogue in which I take the part of a portable Walter . Winchell pe an ad libbing Greek chorus,” the Nobel prize-winning “author and playwright said yesterday. | . “In| this new role, I can say any- - thing I please within bounds of libel cand blasp emy laws.” Philip Merivale, a veteran actor, ‘will join the company here Wednesday and take over the lead, a midespe physician married to a younger woman, within two weeks, Mr. Lewis said. “It| is hard for a writer to be“come an actor,” he said. “I was “Just Jeun as a pinch-hitter in the play.” He said| he would devote .much. time to rewriting and revising the play 'so that it would be as perfect as possibl before the company goes to Broadway in May. He’s a Professional Now s Krown or two decades as one of ® ican novelists, Mr. Lewis made his ‘amateur cting debut at Cohasset, Mass,, last summer in the dramatization of one of his novels, “It Can't Happen Here.” Now he’s a member o Equity and so, a professional. It took xe months of working

-17 hours a day to write “Angela Is Twenty-Two” in collaboration with Fay Wray, movie actress, he revealed. - Turning to a discussion of books, he said there is no new trend in novels, because the United States has gro too big for any one trend. Once there was a He way, or roughneck, trend, he said, but that is gone. “The job of searching for trends is for rey professors, who get paid for it. They can lock themselves up in some secret. den and when they find one, roar with laughter or else go mad.” Asked if George Babbitt, character in 4 book by that name which has been |interpreted as a prototype of small town businessmen, is dead, he answered with a question: “Has the population decreased?”

Tired of Complaining In explaining why he may seem to have [become reconciled to the ‘provincialisms of small towns, Mr. Lewis said he merely had grown : tired of complaining about the same things. | “I'm so full of benevolence that I never ins anybody—except occa-

sionally in a novel,” the author said. He asserted there is no more one great erican novel than there is one most beautiful girl in the world. Hitting at fascism, he declared *lots of people falling in love is much more of an important phenomenon than men putting on fancy striped pants and saluting dictators.” As to the future, he forecast that in 1939 we would “go on living like the electrical cavemen we are.”

LILLYAN EVANTI | SINGS TONIGHT

The Attucks Alumni and Youth Movement will present Lillyann “Evanti, [Negro soprano, in recital at 8:15 p. m. today in the Crispus At‘tucks High School auditorium. Miss Evanti’s program is as follows: “Care Selve” ... wt

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(CONTRACTS ToP TWELVE MILLION

|Bids on 17 New Bridge

Projects to Be Opened Tomorrow.

The State Highway Commission awarded contracts for highway, bridge and grade separation ‘con= struction totaling more than’ 12 million dollars during 1938, Chairman T.. A. Dicus announced today. - Meanwhile, the Commission an-

|nounced it would open bids tomor-

row on ‘17 new bridges and repair work on three others at a total estimated cost of more than $300,000. The 1638 awards included bridge and grade separation work amounting to $2,725,393 and $9,454,519 for paving, grading and surfacing highways and feeder roads. Cites Modernization

the projects were for modernization of the State highway system and the elimination “of safety hazards.

| Although most of the projects were} completed last year, a number of

the fall contracts call for construc-|.

tion during 1939.

Marian Anderson, the Negro contralto, will raise one of the world’s - great voices in song when she appears at English’s the afternoon of Jan. 29, on the Martens _Concerts series.

City Symphony in La Porte; Chicago Debut Auspicious

By JAMES THRASHER ? Times Staff Writer . CHICAGO, Jan..9.—The Indianapolis Svnphony Drctiestid, on the first extended trip of its youthful existence, was to play in La Porte tonight, following its unquestionably auspicious Chicago czbut. The orchestra’s first journey outside Indiana, an¢ its first appearance in a “big league” musical center, occurred on one of Chicago's most beautiful and busy Sunday. afternoons of the winter. the Chicago Tribune said, “the most fenssiically ere wded date of the

It was, as

season.” orchestra’s concert in the Auditorium Theater were recitals by Beniamino Gigli and Myra Hess, concerts by the Chicago Civic and Illinois Symphony Orchestras and, in the evening, a performance of “Louise” at the opera. Despite the crowded: schedule, however, an audience estimated at 2500 heard Fabien Sevitzky and the local musicians; heard them and approved them with a demonstration that left no doubt in the mind of anyone present.

With Home Town Fervor

Here the orchestra met a throng of impersonal, though kindly disposed listeners. There was no -ques= tion of “local pride” in their attitude, nor, of course, was good orchestra playing any novelty to them. But this discriminating, ‘'metropolitan audience applauded Mr. SevitZky and his players with all ‘the fervor of home town admirers. The program consisted of Berlioz’ “Roman Carnival” Overture; Dubensky's Fugue for 18 Violins; three excerpts from Wagner's “Meistersinger,” and the Tschaikowsky Symphony No.; 5. . After repeated bows, Mr. Sevitzky added Gretry’s “Pantomime,” for string orchestra, as an encore. Said he: “In our home town I do not allow - encores; but for: Chicago —yes. » The orchestra was aided in its debut by the Auditorium Theater’s excellent . acoustics. Every effect, from the massive walls of tone in the symphony to the almost imperceptible pianissimos of the “Pantomime,” came over exactly as 'it was intended. The hall likewise projects: every imperfection of performance with

In competition with the®

were surprisingly few. The young:

orchestra was weil poised and re-

sponded to “the conductor's baton

with alacrity.

Mr. Sevitzky conducted in his usual artistic and compelling: manner, with due knowledge and respect to the comjosers’ wishes, and wim excellent judgment of “tonal effec

delegation, the event attracted several leaders of (Chicago's musical circles. Among them were Hans Lange, the Chicago Civic Orchestra’s conductor; Dr. Felix Borowski, composer; Ruth Page, the dancer, formerly of Indianzpolis; Maria Kurenko, Russian s¢prano; Ennio Bolognini, Argentinizn cellist; Rudolph Reuter, the well known pianist; Mrs. Rudolph Ganz, wife of the famous pianist and pedagog, and Dr. Frederick Stock, the Chicago Symphony

_ |Orchestra conductor.

Among the men with the baton, statements concerning other orchestras and conductors usually are given grudgingly, if at all. But the venerable and distinguished Dr. Stock did not hesitate to congratulate Indianapolic upon a fine orchestra and conductor—“backed by what must be a fine civic spirit.” He characterized. Mr. Sevitzky as .a musician with “a great deal of personality.” Robert, Pollak, music critic of the Chicago Times, said: “It is a crack young orchestra, and surely one with a considerable future. To me, the remarkable thing is that a metlium-sized city like Indianapolis can have such an orchestra as could not have been imagined 10 years ago. 9” In short, the local boys and girls

equal clarity, yet technical slips

made good.

Holiday Business Was

EW YORK, Jan.

cording to the boys who renovate. signs of good times. Phil Cooper, who is one of Man- | hattan’s cleaning and dyeing titans, has polled his own tabulation of the gravy turnover and what he reports is encouraging. Following a nation-wide tally, our Mr. Cooper says: “The marked increase in gravy stains. as compared to the amount of those counted in other surveys made in recent years around this time, prove that more turkeys were bought and cooked this Thanksgiving than at any other since ill-fated 1929.” There were 6,500,000 gravy stains, if you insist upon knowing how many folk slipped their napkins— and New York led with more spots, than any other city in the country.

8 # 2 OW our Mr. Cooper doesn’t want to start any fracas about their respective table manners between the sexes, but accuracy compels him to report that there were at least a million more gravy stains on milady’s clothing : than = there were on men’s. Of course, this may be due to the fact that Papa: was

up the dainty organdie along with the tablecloth. Mr. Cooper won't

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9.—Wall Street may gauge the upward and downward trend by graphs and charts and dizzying columns of figures, t| But when'a cleaner and dyer sees myriad spots before his eyes, then he | knows that prosperity has turned the corner. A grayy stain is no blot upon the nation’s financial esoutcheon, ac-

our wardrobes, They are, rather, allow himself to be put on the spot about that. Jubilant as i he is about the Thanksgiving returns, Mr. Cooper seems to be happier about the Christmas and New Year results. Last year’s celebration, he confides in us, yielded more than a million liquor stains from dress suits, tuxedos and evening gowns. And le expects an incr ease from that figure for 1939. He can recall the days when lik ker stains called for weaving, instead of cleaning, because the stuff was more inflammable than potable.’ Back in the prohibition era

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' The projects to be bid on tomorrow are parts of the Commission’s 1939 construction program. Several of the bridges are to replace structures with narrow roadways and other are included in road construction work, according to Mr, Dicus. Counties ‘included in the project list are Parke, Warrick, Hamilton, Madison, Huntington, Lake, :Vermillion, Hendricks, ©wen, Shelby,

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Professor ‘Will Give Report On Trial Planting to Conference.

Times Special " LAFAYETTE, Jan. 9.—Results of experiments conducts -in “trial gardens” maintained by the Purdue

‘University horticulture department

will’ be discussed .by Prof. E. R. Honeywell, head of the department, at tomorrow’s session of the annual Agricultural Conference here this week. Purdue has kept up the gardens several years, Prof. Honeywell said. Plants grown in them . are subected to several cultural and climatic conditions in order to determine their hardiness and resistance to unfavorable conditions. Meanwhile, it was announced that the Purdue Section of the American Chemical Society will sponsor a conference on chemical crime- detection here Feb. 2. Don L. Kooken, supervising lieutenant of the Indiana State Police, will discuss “General Methods of Crime Control in Indiana” at the conference. Other ' speakers will include Dr. R. N. Harger, professor of biochemistry and toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine; Dr. W. D. McNally, Rush Medical College toxicologist, and Dr. J. H. Mathews of the University of Wisconsin. Chemistry Department.

FUNERAL TODAY FOR CHICAGO TRIBUNE AID

CHICAGO, Jan. 9 (U. P.).—Funeral services will be held late today for Rober} Morton Lee, 55, managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, who died Saturday night at his home. Death was caused by a heart attack. He had spent an evening of leisure and had retired when he was stricken. His wife, Virginia, and his daughter; Mrs. Donald J. Eaton, were with him when he died. . The Rev. John Evans, religious editor of the Tribune, will conduct simple funeral services at the Lee home. Only relatives and office associates of Mr. Lee will attend. Burial will be in the Lake Forest cemetery. He began his newspaper career as a printer’s helper.

FIRE LEADS TO DEATH OF BEDFORD WIDOW, 50

oner Roland E. Wynn said today that an accidental fire apparently caused fatal burns to Mrs. Lola Reynolds, 50-year-old widow who lived alone in the Fishing Creek area. Her burned body was found in the farmyard near her home by a son, Arnold, who was making a customary visit. Mr. Wynn said the woman's clothing apparently had caught fire while she was working near g stove.

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BEDFORD, Jan. 9 (U. P.).—Cor-|

school one day every two weeks

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their training. The postgraduate course is conducted "by the hospital’s Division of Graduate Nurse Serv.

to brush up on:

with Indianapolis physicians as lecturers. left to right, are Miss Marie Schulz, Mrs. I. B. Ashmore, Miss Dorothy Golden, Mrs. Yvonne Cox and Miss Virginia Cox. . .

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‘ An ‘advanced’ course in first po

The class will meet from 7:30 p. m. to 9:30 p. m. in the Indian World. War Memorial ‘B ; will be under the guidance of Ivana S. Glidewell, director of First Aid and Accident Prevention for the local chapter. Since the course is one of the community = services ' of the Red Cross, there will be no charge. The enrollment is limited f{o those who already have received certificates from standard courses. Students who successfully meet the requirements of the course will ke given advanced certificates, accord = ing to Mr. Glidewell.

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SAFETY DRIVE T0 BEGIN SOON

Interfleet Contest Sponsors Hope to Double List Of Participants. Enrollment of commercial car

terfleet. Safety Contest will - start shortly it was announced today by Jerry C. Scher, contest committee general chairman.

made to double the approximately 2500 drivers who participated in the 1938 contest.

The new campaign will be launched officially at a meeting tentatively set for Jan. 31. Awards in the contest last year will be presented to winning drivers and companies. A decrease of 30 per cent in acci-

last year’s campaign was reported by Mr. Scher.

SHOT THROUGH WALL KILLS AT BARN DANCE

YATES CENTER, Kas. Jan. 9 (U. P)—~—Mrs. Clovis Lathrom, 22, was sitting besides .her husband at a barn darice when a bullet tore

the back. She stood up, then fell

forward dead 4s the orchestra played “Home, Sweet Home.” .Charles O’Brien, Woodson County Sheriff, arrested Clyde Guatney, 26, at his home near Neosho Falls and quoted him as saying that he had fired his revolver outside the barn early Sunday “just to give ‘em a little scare.”

TODAY IS BEGINNING OF HOSPITAL WEEK

the week beginning today as Indianapolis Hospitalization Week. In a proclamation issued over the week-end, the Mayor invited the public to inspect the City Hospital

where a series of exhibits, demonstrations and lectures is being held during the week. The series is sponsored by the Seventh District

Clubs.

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Angela is Twenty-Two

(written In collaboration with FAY poe Bri ant Cost of B of Seadway Players

The Jones Family “Down, on the Farm”

and truck drivers for the 1939 In-|

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Mayor Sullivan has proclaimed]

Federation of Indiana Women’s

Local Poet Wins Fi irst In Contest

A poem, “Blindman’s Appreciation,” written by Kenneth ¥. Hughes, 25, a clerk in his father’s grocery at 1179 ° W. 20th St., has been accepted : for publication in a national anthology of love poems, edited by Lucia Trent, nationally-known poet and writer.

The poem was awarded first prize by the poetry journal “Quickening Seed,” in its Spring, 1938, edition. It was one of seven poems Mr, Hughes submitted.

The Indianapolis poet attended Butler University through the junior year but later was forced to leave school. He hopes to obtain a degree - and continue his career as a writer. A number of his short stories have been published by the McClure syndicate and five publications for children regularly use his juvenile stories.

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CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES RUSHVILLE, Ind. Jan. 9.—John Alter, one of the last two surviving Civil War veterans in Rush County, died at his home in Milroy yesterday. He was 93. Mr. Alter served for three years during. the war as a

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