Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1939 — Page 13

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By JAMES THRASHER “A glance at the program chosen by Ferdinand Schaefer for this week-end’s brace of Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra concerts re veals that musical novelties are

not confined to 20th Century works nor to forgotten composers of the past.

"F The orchestra’s venerable founder and conductor emeritus has chosen he | §

examples of the composers knows = and loves well: Bach Mozart, © Mendelssohn, Bruckner Yet, of the program’s five numbers, only the “Midsummer

really familiar, while the BachAlbert Prelude, Chorale and Fugue likely wili be new to many in the audience, though it probably is “standard equ.,pment” in most conductor’s repertories.

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Mozart works. in eral months of Sunday performances, while the Bruckner Symphony No. 3 has been announced, with‘ no contradictions to date, as ‘the first

Indianapolis performance. "\ Writes New ‘Ending Mozart's opera, “The Abduction From the Seraglio,” is not so frequently performed as “Figaro”: or

“Don Giovanni,” and the Overture, which we are to hear, is almost il

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infrequency of performance may be due to a condition which Mr. Schaefer has sought to correct.

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' IN NEW YORK —

Long Run Predicted for 'The American Way,' Drama's Gift to

EW YORK. Feb. 1.—That new mammoth spectacle, “The American

GEORGE ROSS

U. S. Patriotism.

; Way,” at the Center Theater in Radio City, is Moss Hart's and

Feeling the work to be overlong|George S. Kaufman's testimonial to this country’s democratic insti-

and repetitious, the conductor has| made a substantial cut and written

tutions. |

A gigantic show, costing more than $200,000, with a cast of more

a new ending, 48 measures in| than 250 people of whom Fredric March and Florence Eldridge are

length. : The other Mozart composition, the Symphonie Concertante for violin and viola solo, will present the concerts’ guest performers, Eudice Shapiro, violin, and Virginia Majewski, violist. This double concerto is even more of a rarity. Mozart himself had little to say about it, and the exact date of its composition is not known, though it probably._was 1779. In selecting the third of Bruckner’s nine symphonies, Mr. Schaefer has chosen one of particular historical interest. Among other things, it was the first of the Bruckner symphonies to be played in the United States, Anton Seidl having introduced it with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Decem‘ber, 1885. But its chief claim to attention lies in its connection with that famous Hatfield-and-McCoy feud of music, the long and bitter battle between the followers of Wagner and Bruckner and the champions of Brahms and the Viennese critic, Hanslick. Bruckner had met Wagner a few years before he composed this symphony in 1873 (he subsequently revised it in 1877 and 1889). He immediately became an ardent admirer of the master of music drama, and dedicated his Third Symphony to

: ‘His Name Is Bruckner’

In accepting the dedication, Wagper made the enthusiastic but rash statement: “I know of only one symphonist worthy to be called Beethoven's successor, and his name is: Bruckner.” However, Brahms’ First Symphony had been heard the year before the Bruckner symphony’s first performance in 1877. Brahms’ admirers had hailed it as the “10th symphony”’— meaning, of course, the successor

- to Beethoven’s nine.

So the fight was on. A complicating factor was the coincidence that both rivals’ names began with B. Wagner entered his musician as a contender for the “third B” of music—a fit companion for Bach and Beethoven. Brahms was put forth by his cir€le and, as everyone knows, finally won ® permanent possession of the alphabetical distinction. ‘The battle finally narrowed down pretty much to Wagner and Hanslick. Both were voluble and vituperative. Brahms was too broadminded and intelligent a man and artist to fail to see the merit of Wagner's work. Bruckner, the devout peasant, was too | naive to carry on his part of the literary conflict. But it disturbed him; when the Emperor Franz Josef asked him if there was any way in which he might honor the composer, Bruckner asked: him if he please ‘could not stop Hanslick abusing him in the press.

° Hurls No Abuse

Today the only echo of this heated and, in retrospect, often amusing war of words is the Bruckner Society of America and its magazine, Chord and Discord. The magazine hurls no abuse at the memory of the departed Brahms, but its occasional issues are filled with reverent analyses and appreciations of the music of Bruckner and his distinguished pupil, Gustav Mahler. It ‘also reprints favorable criticisms of performances of these composers’ works. -The Society has awarded Bruckner and Mahler medals to numerous conductors for these performances. Fortunately, - the musical world has not been shaken by the tremors of any similar “battle of the century” in the past 40 years. It may be that the public has become indifferent to relative merits. And certainly there are fewer musical giants walking the earth today. But it also may be that we have learned something with the passing of time: To ‘recognize various levels of genius, and to enjoy, admire and love a composer’s music without insisting that the composer be another Wagner or a fourth B. |

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pageants that have been splashed over the same stage in Rockefeller Center. It’s a grand spectacle and no doubt will still be at the Center a year from now. This show is, first to last, a lavish demonstration of patriotism. It begins with the strains of the Star-Spangled Banner and ends with a stirring rendition of the National Anthem, as a silent audience stands stiffly at attention. A cavalcade of the last 43 years in American life is spread across a wide expanse of footlights between the prologue and finale. 2 ” ”

T is our notion that “The American Way” is the most ambitious job undertaken by a native playwright, and is only paralleled by Noel Coward’s unforgettable “Cavalcade” in London. : For the authors of “The American Way,” like their English fel-low-craftsman, are telling a poignant, personal story of a luckless American family against a large and intricate background. This is the drama of a pair of German immigrants who embrace this country’s ideals and institutions from the day they stare, wideeyed, at the new land from the shore of Ellis Island. It is the story of their prosperous rise in the land of opportunity and the conflicts they must face with the outbreak of the War and the depression. The War takes a son from these naturalized Americans. The collapse of 1929 takes all the property they have accumulated over the happy, unhappy years. But they have embraced the American way of life for good or bad and when their other son nurtures his| discontent at a Nazi Bund

Tanner Wed

Theater patrons are hearing an added trill of happiness as Elmo Tanner whistles at his work on the Lyric stage today. For Mr. Tanner, Ted Weems’ star warbler and popular radio favorite, is a bridegroom. He was married between acts last night to Miss Eleanor Jones, 21-year-old brunet school teacher of Birmingham, Ala. at the home of the Rev. Howard F. Lytle, 723 Fletcher Ave. Mr. Tanner is'34. ’ If ‘the whistling virtuoso breaks in on a swing chorus with the gurgling call of the love bird today, it may be in lieu of a honeymoon. After all, it’s four shows a day— married or single. .

but the stars, it dwarfs a few other -

meeting, the father goes there to defy the brown-shirted fanatics. He is mobbed to death by the Bundsmen and in the final, rousing scene, he is borne in a coffin draped in an American flag through, a crowded square where he is eulogized as a true American. That is the simple story of “The American Way” and that is the story which Fredric March and Florence Eldridge are acting with such undoubted sincerity that a few reviewers confessed to tears on watching them.

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TATURALLY, the authors of “The American Way” are not unaware that a New York World Fair is due to open shortly and that the thousands of visitors pouring into town would be ready for such a patriotic pageant.

It’s our notion that “The American Way” will be one of the top exhibits of Manhattan while the Fair is in progress out at Flushing Meadows. : This. $200,000 enterprise, incidentally, is the joint property of an unprecedented number of “angels.” Although Sam H. Harris and Max Gordon are the nominal froducers, it is no state secret that Bernard Baruch, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Darryl Zanuck, Nicholas Schenck, William Paley and a few other titans are financially interested. Some critics raved ecstatically, others found fault in some places and others objected to the undue flag-waving. : :

TECH PLAY SERIES WILL END FRIDAY

Booth Tarkington’s “The Ghost Story” will be presented in the Technical High School gymnasium at 3:30 p. m. Friday, last of a series of four matinee performances this season by senior class players. iss Clara Ryan directs Friday’s production, and the cast includes Robert Glass, Jean Gray, John Graf, Duncan Lane, Virginia Jordan, Jean Draper, John Devine, Mildred Landers and Harlan Johson.

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‘Mississippi’ Due Friday at Apollo

A revival of “Mississippi,” starring Bing Crosby, and “Little Miss Marker,” one of Shirley Temple’s early pictures, will be shown at the Apollo, starting Friday. “Mississippi” was made in 1935 and offers, plus Mr. Crosby, W. C. Fields as Commodore Jackson and Joan Bennett cast as Lucy sRumford. Shirley was 5 years old when she completed “Little Miss Marker” in 1934. Appearing with her in Damon Runyon’s story are Adolph Menjou, Charles Bickford and Dorothy Dell.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

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“Torchy Blane in Chinatown,” with Glenda Farrell, Barton McLane, at 11:40, 2:45. 5:50 and 8:55.

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By PAUL HARRISON (NEA). —Short - takes: - George Burns tries to smuggle Robert Young out of a hospital in a coffin and is discovered. . .. In “Artists and Models Abroad,” Jack. Benny gives the police a necklace smuggled from an exhibition by Charles Grapewin. Mr. Benny observes: “Honesty is the best policy.”

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picture called “The Bishop Who Walked With God.” It’s supposed to be a factual drama based on Nazi persecution of the Rev. Martin Niemoeller, head of the German Lutheran Church, who was tossed in prison for preaching religious freedom. 3 A Four-Hour Nose

There has been quite a lot of ribbing about the title change from “The Phantom Crown” to “Jaurez,” so that Mister Paul Muni could play the title role. And now some

studio announcing that the name has been switched to “Torchy Blane in Mexico” .. . Mr. Muni gets to the makeup department around 6:30 a. m., and takes four hours tq

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After “Bambi,” “Pinocchio” and the Stokowski animated concert, Walt Disney expects to make a:cartoon feature on “Pilgrim's Progress.” But that will be a long time. . « . Norman Krasna and Garson Kanin are working on a script together, but not at RKO. They made so much noise whenever they conferred in the writers’ building that the studio shooed them off to Yosemite. . . . George Raft didn’t quit Paramount in a row over that picture role. Paramount fired him. An executive said, “We either had to let him go or move out and let him run the studio.” 3

Salesman’s Delight

There'll be a race between Samuel Goldwyn and 20th Century-Fox to film the life of Young Abraham Lincoln in Illinois. Mr. Goldwyn has announced Gary Cooper for the role, and Mr, Zanuck’s entry is Henry Fonda. Maybe he'll play it on stilts. . . . Clark Gable’s in high spirits lately; bought four new cars in three months. . . . Director of the next Jones Family flicker will be Buster Keaton. . . . Bob Taylor is considered virile enough now, so studio strategists have decided to kid his good looks; in “Lucky Night” his nickname is “Handsome.” “Raffles” will be filmed again, and someone asked W. P. Lipscomb how he expected to modernize the screen play. He said, “That's simple. Whenever Raffles cracks a safe I'll have him make his exit- doing the Lambeth Walk.”

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“I didn’t think I'd ever seen said McLaglen. “But then, I don't go to the movies much.” Casting for “Beau Geste” brought stories that Director William Wellman would give preference, for the small parts, to actual veterans of the French Foreign Legion. You can imagine what happened. There were 134 applications from men who claimed to have served with the outfit. Wellmann told his technical adviser, a former legion officer named Louis van den Ecker, to call them all in, issue rifles, and put ‘em through the manual of arms in French. The confusion was terrible

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only two of the 134 applicants ever had done any soldiering in Africa.

‘Whiteoaks’ Play Will Open Friday

The parade of plays by leading novelists on our local stages seems to be growing into a full-sized theatrical trend.

First we had Sinclair Lewis’ “Angela Is 22.” Then came Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” and now, on Friday and Saturday, we shall see Ethel Barrymore in Mazo de la Roche’s “Whiteoaks.” Miss de la Roche never won a Nobel Prize, like Mr. Lewis, nor a couple of Pulitzer Prizes, such as Mr. Wilder garnered. But her novel, “Jalna,” was the fiction best-seller of 1927, and the succeeding four novels about the same family established her among our most popular story writers. The series, which began with “Jalna” is g sort of Canadian “Forsythe Saga,” and includes “Whiteoaks of Jalna,” “Finch’s Fortune,” “The Master of Jalna” and “Young Renny.” Miss de la Roche has drawn on all these volumes in fashioning the present play. Four generations appear in the drama, with the action centering about the 101-year-old Gran, played by Miss Barrymore. This role was created by Nany Price in London, where “Whiteoaks’” ran for 865 performances before coming to New York. Li

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