Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1939 — Page 26
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939
With or Without His Ariel Barrymore's Still Due Here
Ariel or no Ariel, Mr. John (Caliban) Barrymore was still hooked today to appear at English’s in a three-day engagement of “My Dear
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PAGE 26 Loomis Adds Own Melody
To Foster's
Former Local Sends His 'Susanna’ Into Rehearsal.
» AUSTIN T. ROGERS Times Special Writer YORK, April Foster, one of America’s folk-song writers, died mn
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mis, former teacher at the JorCox nservatory yapolis, and will be sung as part a folk opera, “Susanna, Don't “ou Cry,” which has just gone nto rehearsal here and is scheduled for production next month by the new! American Lyric Theater Mr. Loomis has devoted his mu-| sical lie to the study of Stephen] Foster's work since he frst became interested in Foster's songs while at the Jordan Conservatory. He has written the words and music “Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts”| in what he believes to be Stephen Foster's own spirit. Finds No Flaws “I have never found a flaw in musical form in Stephen Fosters songs,” he said ‘He Was not a technical genius; his was the genius of simple melodic rdeas. Insofar as we have an indigenous music in America, it is the work of this one man, and my settings of his songs help, I hepe, to bring out the true beauties of his melodies.’ In the score of his forthcoming opera, Mr, Lioomis has incorporated 33 of Foster's songs, around which he has woven his own beautihal music. Sarah Newmeyver has written a libretto which has in it all the nostalgia and charm of the prewar So uth. The opera is to open May 22 as one of the first productions of the Aw yerican Lyi ic Theat rr, an or ganization wi oe ras with special & nphasis on the) rk of American composers and! tt and with American
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work on the Foster Loomis met J. K. Lilly, apolis manufacturer who years has been collecting all] ilable Foster material and who! Foster Hall in Indianapolis house his collection of Fosterna. Not long ago Mr. Lilly pre-| ited his entire collection to the miversity of Pit ely which was, Fosters home ci
Lilly Chose Loomis It was Mr. Lilly who decided that foomis was the one person y could write an opera based on music of Stephen Foster, and granted the composer oppor- ¢ for several years of research 1 composition. The Ha is “Suna, Dont You Cry,” and Mr plans to be in New York for premiere r. Dioomis composed the score partly in Santa Monica, Cal, and partly here where, with his wife and his huge black police dog, he has taken an apartment in the city's m 1sical center, 5Tth St. where he wi stay until the opera is launched From the 214 or more tunes written by Mr Foster, Mr. Loomis has selected about 33 to use in his opera. | The plot is not based on the lite! of Foster, but x a romance of Civil War times in which Mr. Foster plays a small but vital part Discussing the great composer Mr Loomis said in part today: My father and mother used to sing the Foster songs to us children the North Dakota farm where lived. Many of these songs I not know were Fosters until years after, but I remembered Mm, as My parents had done. Wrote of Tduching Things ter wrote about things which IS Americans very deeply, oing back home where your about vrour friends and ones. Its something that DERN, something very nd very humble—and very
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‘Oomph’ Baby,
Judith Ann Miller Wins in Indiana Theater Contest.
Judith knows it “oomph” the judges’ Theater's “Personality Baby” con-| test. The decision was reached) after examination of more than 100 photographs submitted. Eight-months-old Judith Ann is | the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel-| vin Miller, 2138 Sugar Grove, Indianapolis, who have a $25 check; in the mail today as a reward for | their daughters photogenic Webel sonality. Second prize of $15 goes to Jimmy | Dean Montgomery, did not give their names, but who lives at 2442 N. Olney St. Wray Ford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Ford of Edinburg, was awarded the third prize of $10.
Others Win Mention
A pair of tickets to the Indiana's current “Dark Victory” or to “East Side of Heaven,” at the Apollo, goes to the parents of each of the following babies, whose pictures won them honorable mention: Gordon Lee Walker, 701 Liv ingston | Ave: Arthur Ray Knickerbocker, | 5170 Hovey St; Louis Yawkey Jt. | 527 Rybolt St.; Billy Chriswell, 1720 Gerrard Ave, Speedway City; Philip | Stanley Strohl, 122 S. Hawthorne | Lane; Darelle Blaine Grunden, 320 IS. 11th St, New Castle; Donna Joan Mary Lou 1315 Homer Ave. | Gary Walter Pisher, 3008 N. Dela- | ware St: Jimmie Buis, R. R. 6 Box 186; Billy Gilligan, 1110 S. Richland | St; Kenneth M. Price II, 424 State) Life Build ling: Kenneth Hadley, 1602 Harlan St. Ariene Beverly Rabin,’ 986 N Tibbs Ave.; Eugene Steinprook, 503 BE. Raymond St; Mary | Roberta Ramsay, 825 S. Taft St. Caroline Jo Jans, R. R. 5 Box 353; Thomas J. Long, R. R. 2, Box| $36: Ronald Thomas Alstot, 22 N.| State St; Suanne Shirley, 35740 Broadway Terrace; Donna Mae Barnard, Nray wood : Ronald Lee Snyder, 901 N. Denny St; Don Louie | Engler, 710 N. Grant St; Jackie| Mclaughlin, 2162 S. Penney Ivania | St: Kathryn Anne Winnefeld, 4840 Winthrop Ave
Additions te List
Tommy Lee Barber, W2 S man Prive; Helen Jo Hensiey, W. Vermont St.; Larry Arthur) Mabry, 35 8. McKim St.: Robert Duane Layne, 111 B Wabash Ave, | rawfordsville; Ronald Mitchell, | 852 N. Temple Ave: Richie Lyneh, | R. R. I, Camby ; Kenyon R. Blocher, 3815 Wi nthrop Ave; Lester Sime mons, 2164 COA Judith E. Herschell, R. R. Sa 284 RB: BobW. Washing« | , Greencastle. | Linda Sue Shinogle, 110 Woodfawn Ave, Crawfordsville: Barbara m MeC ready, 3510 Guilford Ave.; Sh aron Kay Smith, 922 Warren Ave., Barbara Elaine McCreary, R. R. 3, Box 919; Kermit O. Cox Jr, 1329 Lee St; Deanne Smith, R. R. 1, Whitestown; Sandra Kay Schmidt, 2035 Wilkins St; Jeanette Kaye) Thomas, 349 D St. N. BE, Linton. Linda Andrew, Cole Apts, Green« castle; David Dale Mahurin, 2601 Butler Ave; Phyllis Louise John son, 1248 Edgemont St.; Carol Eliza« beth Bischoff, 444 S. Denny St.) Peggy Ann Ridgway, 4825 Guilford Ave ; Freddie Faye Buckingham, 960 English Ave. and Judy Ann Baggs, 341 N. Tremont St.
Ann Miller, whether she or not, Indiana's baby. At least, that was
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HOLLYWOOD, April 28 (U. P) — Sam Wood today had been named temporary successor to victor Fiem-« ing as director for Selznick Inter nationals technicolor production,
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Four dramatic scenes from a highly dramatic picture, “Dark Vie= * which begins a week's engagement today at the Indiana. 1. Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) visited Dr. Frederick Steele (George Brent) who finds, behind her rebellious exterior. fears and symptoms of serious iliness. 2. The doctors diagnosis Is brain tumor, and Judith is confronted with the choice of blindness and death or an operation. 3. Here is the moment where Judith realizes the approach of in evitable loss of sight which follows the unsucceseful operation. 4 But. married to the doctor, she finds eventual peace and ac ceptance of her rate.
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JACKIE TO LOSE TONSILS TODAY
MITLER REWARDS AMERICAN DANCER HOLLYWOOD, April 28 (UP).
BERLIN, April 28 (U. P). ~ | Jackie Cooper, youthful movie star, Fuehrer Adolf Hitler today had re- jo in a Hollywood hospital today warded 19-year-old Miriam Verne, for a tonsilectomy. Jackie has been
Pittsburgh dancer for her terpsis) | having trouble with his tonsils for chotean entertainment. [10 years but delayed the operation & until his case became $0 aggravated Herr Hitler went to the Metropole (hat he suffered pains in his back
Theater Wednesday night and while at Palm Springs, Cal, last
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Night” for the second time with | DANCE BEFORE 8:30
Miss Verne in a featured role TONIGHT
At Herr Hitler's request she was| awarded a two months contract be[ginning Monday to appear in nel | Merry Widow" at the Gaertner Platz Theater in Munich, which the | Fuehrer often visits.
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The soreen’s grandest prizes winning star flings herself « + « body and soul . . . inte the finest performance of her career . . . 88 a bravely reckless young woman whe wins her greatest love im detent!
Crosby resumed their progressive golf match at Lakeside when Weiss muller finished work on “Tarzan In Exile.”
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Sheep's Blood Put on Films
Investors Contend Process Brings Out True Colors.
HOLLYWOOD, April 28 (U. PJ). —The motion picture studios were offered sheep's blood today in a film manufacturing process believed by its investors to foreshadow a more general production of colored movies, The sheep's blood provides the coloring “seat” in the reproduction of pictures, said Chalmers C. Smith and Ray H. Pinker. They explained that they had developed a process using the blood corpuscles as dye carriers in the production of both negative and positive motion picture photographs of “remarkably true colors.”
Sheep's blood corpuscles are immersed in an isotonic salt solution and are then dyed in three groups— red, green and blue-violet.
chromatic emulsion. When the film is exposed the light passed through the blood corpuscles as though through millions of tiny filters. Upon being de-
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Children,” beginning May 15. The current rift between young Mrs. Elaine Jacobs Barrie-more and her 57-year-old husband brings their marriage to a state of chaos and confusion matching that of the play’s local engagement. Vincent Burke, English’s mane ager, secured a date for “My Dear Children,” and then the barrage of
conflicting rumors started: Mr, Barrymore was ill and the play would close: Mr. Barrymore's indise position was slight, and the ° ‘clos= ing” was simply the traditional Holy Week layoff; “My Dear Chile dren” was going to skip Indianapolis and go on to the West Coast; “My Dear Children” had a week in St. Louis, another week in Omaha plus some one-night stands, then wouuld be through town en route to New York; the play would go into Chicago and settle down for an indefinite stand. None of these reports, however, was official. So far as any news from the company goes, the Barrye more vehicle still will play its mide May engagement at English's as ad« vertised. All of which leaves our waning theatrical season still up in the air, and caused Mr. Burke to miss seeing a single game of the Indians’ first home stand. Another dramatic prospect also is hanging fire. That is the hoped-for
dyed corpuscles are sprayed on the appearance here of Walter Huston film stock and covered with pan-/in Maxwell
Anderson and Kurt Weil's musical, “Knickerbocker Holiday.” The piece took to the road after a successful season on Broadway, and at present is in Chie cago for a limited stay.
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