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High School | Music Fills

Hoosiers Win Top Honors| In Opening Contests of | Regional Event. |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

HERE'S LATEST WORD IN WINNING OF WEST

Scales and arpeggios, issuing from |

most of the available downtown| auditoriums, again competition to the din of city traffic

are offering! §

as the National School Music Com- | §

petition Festival, Region 3, goes into, its second day of contest per-| formances.

More than 5000 high school musicians, with parents, teachers and] chaperones, crowded streets, the-| aters and hotel lobbies between! practice and performance sessions.

resume this morning, while the or-

Solo and ensemble contests were to |

chestra judges, Fabien Sevitzky,| Howard Hanson, Emil Heermann and Louis Wersen, were to convene again at 1 p. m. in Caleb Mills Hall] for an “eight-hour day” of awarding prizes to the larger instrumental] units. Indiana Students Lead |

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Indiana student musicians took | NN \

top honors in yesterday's opening contest, winning 125 awards in five divisions. Illinois placed second w ith| 101, while Ohio contributed 27 win-

ners and Michigan 10 in the solo and |

ensemble field i Aside from orchestras, judges yesterday heard hundreds of competi-| tive performances in 40 classes of in-| struments or ensembles. Everything was represented, from piccolo to tuba, and the Pesfopinatices includ- | ed such out of the ordinary offerings! as marimba, fluegelhorn, alto and| bass clarinet solos, a flute quartet, al clarinet quartet, a drum quintet and a baton twirling contest. The judges were Reinhardt Elster, piano and marimba; Richard Czerwonky, strings and string ensembles; | Alford Fenboque, flute and piccolo; | Albert Andraud, oboe: Clarence Warmelin, B flat clarinet soloists; George Waln, alto and bass clarinet | and saxophones: Ernst H. Michelis, clarinet and flute ensembles; Vincent Pezzi, bassoon; Vincent Capasso, French horn solos and ensem-| bles; Ernest Glover, cornet and trombone solos and ensembles; Pattee Evanson, cornet and fluegelhorn | solos; Forrest Buchtel, tuba, and Forrest McAllister, percussion

Orchestras Compete Today

Today's program includes orches- | tra competition in Class A (schools | of more than 750 enrollment) and | Class B (schools of 250 to 750 enroliment), and Class A solo and en- | semble contests. The regional competition, which | was preceded by district and state] contests, will close tomorrow night. An extracurricular feature of to-| day's activities will be a special Music Convention dance at the Indiana Roof, to which the student] visitors are to be admitted at spe-| cial prices.

LIEN ON 'LETTY' ENDS | IN LEGAL LETDOWN

HOLLYWOOD, May 19 (U. P).— Charlotte Greenwood, stage comedian, was the victor today in a court] contest with Oliver Morosco, theatrical producer, who claimed he created the role of “Letty” and held rights to the name. A Superior Court judge ruled in favor of Miss Greenwood. Mr. Morosco has sued for profits of the aciress’ latest stage vehicle, “Leaning on Letty.”

ALICE CLEVELAND APPEARS IN PLAY

Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind, May 19.— Alice Cleveland of Indianapolis, a graduate of Technical High School and senior this year at Indiana State Teachers College is appearing in the Terre Haute Community Theater's production of Thornton Wilder's play, “Our Town.” She plays the part of Mrs. Soames. She has played the leading role in many campus productions at Indiana State.

FILM TONIGHT AT Y. W.

A movie showing the problems of white collar workers, ‘Tomorrow Four Million,” will be presented at 8 o'clock tonight at the Y. W. C. A. 329 N. Pennsylvania Ave. The showing is sponsored by the United Office and Professional Workers of America, Local 25. There will be no charge

GREENER PASTURES

NEW YORK, May 19 (U. P)— Ruth Hurst, who lives in Santa Barbara, Cal, had to go to Italy for a film career. She was back today on the liner Saturnia after playing the lead in an Italian film. She is under contract for other pictures, she said.

WHEN DOES IT START?

APOLLO

“Man of Conquest,” with Richard Dix. Gail Patrick and Sdyarg Ellis at 12:35 3:4 41, 6:47 and 9:33. “Woman Doctor,” with Frieda In-. escort, Henry Wilcoxon and Claire Dodd at 11:30, 2:36, 5:42 and 8:48.

CIRCLE

Washington Square,” Power, Alice Faye and 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 and

82 rority House,” with Anne Shirley ana James Ellison at 12:45, 3:35, 6:25 and 9:1o :

CIVIC

“Oliver Oliver,” Otborn, with a Civic Theatér cast directed by Edward Steinmetz Jr. Ene Eggermont through Friday: curtain

LOEW'S

“Lucky Night,” with Robert or and Myrna Loy at 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:35 and 10

y JANN er with Walter Virginia Brune and Leo Carrillo at 12 25, 3:20, 6:10 and 9.

“Rose of with Tyrone & gotson at 11

a comedy by Paul

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Hollywood, which has been contemplating the winning of the West |

recently,

now gives us “Man of Conquest,

* the story of Sam Houston

HOLLYWOOD

By PAUL HARRISON

OLLYWOOD, May 19 (NEA).—AIl aver the lot: They're expecting censor trouble, especially in England, with But whatever happens, Metro is determined to tailor this picture (and Taylor it, too) to fit the sultry exoticism that has settled itself like a diaphanous negligee on Hedy Lamarr. And if the censors are strict they'll still not be doing Miss Lamarr The publicity value of one deletion is worth a thousand “Ecstasy; a

an unkindness. 24-sheet billboards. of it. The reason England and most of the British empire are likely to be shy of “Lady of the Tropics” is that the screen isn't permitted to show marriage between whites and natives—even people with mixed native blood. = = =

Miss Lamarr is supposed to be a haif-caste of Indo-China who marries an American (Robert Taylor). It's a happy union, too, until the wicked Joseph Schildkraut hatches some passport difficulties which prevent the couple from going to Paris to start a new life.

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= 5 5 Schildkraut has designs on the gal, but he finally agrees to let her go in return for an adulterous tryst of several weeks during an absence of the bridegroom. Taylor returns, learns about the deal and is about to do a chore of homicide when Miss Lamarr spares him the trouble by killing the villain and herself, too. The story is all very elevating. Eyebrow-elevating, I mean. = = =» IONE: BARRYMORE and Bobs Watson finished a long and difficult scene in two takes for “On Borrowed Time,” and the youngster received congratulations from others on the set. “By the way,” asked Director Harold Bucquet of Mr. Barrymore, “were you a kid prodigy?” “No, I wasn't,” said the veteran. “Why, if my folks had ever put me out in the back yard I'd probably never have found my way home.”

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For a big plantation scene in “Way Down South,” 175 Negroes performed a frenzied dance in the stubble of a cane field. There were the voices of the Hall-Johnson choir and the music of drums and cigarbox fiddles, jugs and guitars and gourds. Children clapped and yelled while 50 girls with harvesting knives twisted and leaped like barbaric jitterbugs. = = =

But all this was a “silent” shot. The music and the shouting pre= viously had been recorded, and now it was booming from the horn of the playback machine. The cur= rent problem was to match action to the music, and it was quite a job. Clarence Muse, colored actor, singer, writer and codirector, dashed around the sidelines yelling instructions to the players. When things didn’t go right he'd snatch off his white hat, throw it on the dirt-covered floor and jump on it.

DANCE

Summer Opening Tonight

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TERRACE Louie Lowe’s Orch.

Heated on Evenings

EVERY NITE EXCEPT MON.

A minute later off solicitously.

“Lady of the Tropics.”

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After a few more attempts at the scene, though; the hat wasn't white any longer. Nor did it look much like a hat. They've suggested to Muse that he try a cheaper emotional outlet—maybe chewing up handkerchiefs, like John Ford. " » 2 N the film Alan Mowbray plays the part of an innkeeper who tries to be a rascal but is so goodhearted he usually winds up cheating himself. Mr. Mowbray has appeared in about 75 pictures in his career, but in the last four years he hasn't seen himself on the screen. “It isn't that I don't like movies,” he said, “because I do go to them. It's just that I can't stand Mowbray.” = = 2 Walter Brennan came on the “Music School” set dressed in white tie and tails. Supposed to be a music master, he looked like a waiter. “First guy who says, ‘Two beers,’ I'll kick him in the shins,” Mr, Brennan snarled at the company. A

few minutes later, for a

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the film’s battle of San Jacinto, and below,

left to right, are Edward

Ellis as Andrew Jackson: Robert Barratt as Davy Crockett; Richard and Texas, which opens at the Apollo today. Above is a scene from | Dix as Houston, and C. Henry Gordon as the Mexican, Santa Anna.

laughing crowd in the studio street, he gave an imitation of his boss. He pounded his boiled shirt front and exclaimed, “Beneath dis rough exterior, my frands, lies a heart of Goldwyn!”

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OME jokers at Metro told Hedy Lamarr that she'd never be rated locally as a great star until she had atmosphere music on her set between scenes “Garbo and Shearer and Crawford have music,” they said tauntingly. So she demanded music and a phonograph has been installed, with a young man to tend it. The publicity department says that the glamorist likes “only Strauss waltzes and fine symphonies” On the set I asked the young man. “Only Strauss waltzes and fine symphonies,” he confided in a whisper as he shuffled a stack of swing and jive discs. Miss Lamarr left a scene then and he hastened to put on a record— a beogie-woogie number called

“Home, James.” = 2 8

FEW of the stars are protesting the making of department store dummies which look like them. Sign on a goldfish bowl on Sardi's bar: “Free Lunch for College Boys.” . . . Sign on an antique dealer's window: “Glorified Junk.” . . . In 10 years there have been only five pawnshops in Hollywood, and they usually have moved to other localities after a few motths. It

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comedian wants to play tragedy.

The dialect comedian who has revues on Broadway since 1919, was a standard feature on the airwaves for seven years. But when his contract expired in January, 1938, he refused to sign another. Since then Mr. Pearl has had more than $500,000 worth of contracts offered to him to return. The answer always has been the same—‘No.”

First Play Folded

Mr. Pearl had his first taste of a dramatic play in December, 1937, when he appeared in “One Flight Down.” It should have stayed there. After touring for three weeks it folded. Since then he has been trying to find another. “After a man gets enough money to keep him from poverty he'll go back to his first love and mine is the theater,” the curly-haired comedian explained today. “I want to be a dramatic actor. I have agents looking for a play. I want something psychological or philosophical; something with a pretense to life. “In the meantime I've taken the next best thing—a musical, ‘Yokel Boy’, which Lew Brown is producing.” The show goes into rehearsal next week and it marks Mr. Pearl's first appearance on Broadway since “Pardon My English” in 1933. “But my contract with Brown

Flynn Gets Boat Back—for $1000

HOLLYWOOD, May 19 (U, P.) — Actor Errol Flynn can keep his $40,000 yacht—provided he obeys a Government order not to use the boat for “commercial fishing or coastwise trading.” Federal Judge Leon Yankwich released the yacht, the Sirocco, after fining Mr. Flynn $1000 for having it registered falsely. The actor con-

tended he was unaware that his foreign birth prohibited his having the boat under American registry. Mr. Flynn, an Australian of Irish parentage, said he has taken out first citizenship papers. Until he

{becomes a citizen, the maritime laws

bar him from commercial fishing or coastwise trading, the court informed him. The Sirocco is a luxurious sailing yacht.

Today—LAUREL and HARDY in

Plus Frankie Darro “TOUGH KID”

STARTING TODAY AT 11 A. M.

TOLD IN THE HEART SONGS AND HIT

SONGS OF [SOI Y

AND YESTERDAY

the story of Rose, who loved the way some women can, and thought it worth the heart-breakl

TYRONE POWER ALICE FAYE

The stars of "Alexander's Ragtime Band”

AL JOLSON

singing his famous songs again

ROSE OF

MSIE ONS

WILLIAM FRAWLEY JOYCE COMPTON HOBART CAVANAUGH

13 grand old songs... and in today’s swing, Gordon & Revel’s “I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak’!

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NEW YORK, May 19 (U, P.).—An axiom of the theater is that

Dare Sharlie?”

appeared in musical comedies and |

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calls for at least one scene with | pathos,” he said. “As a matter of fact, I've always had that in my show contracts.” An’ that, it turned out is why “Baron Munchausen” is no longer |

serial copied after the feature he said he

telling his fabulous stories on the] Re made Samous

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FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1939 ‘So, | Only Play in Drama |Hi-Ho, Silver

Lawsuit Lost

HOLLYWOOD, May 19 (U, P.).—~

eVEIY| Buck Jones, cowboy film star, today

That's the reason you haven't heard the punch line, “Vas you dare Dad lost his suit to restrain RepubSharlie?,” eminate from your loud speaker in the last 16 months—Jack lic Pictures from using the name Pear] thinks he is as good an actor as Paul Muni and intends to prove it. B ‘Silver” for a horse and. the call,

“Hi-Ho, Silver Federal Judge nonsuit

Harry Hollzer motion of the

Jones contended the Lone Ranger of: Republic Pictures was as a star of

The defense contended the only

‘is a great form | similarity between the Lone Ranger

of entertainment and I'd go back series and the Jones picture was

if I could do comedy for one scene | and then some drama in the next. Today, everyone on the air is a

the common use of the white horse

tnown as Silver.

comedian—the announcers, the or- | chestra leaders. Why, the stooges | are bigger than the principals! “But as long as I was selling the | sponsor's product, they wouldn't let | me change my formula,” Mr. Pearl said. “In the old days you had to have ability, durability and stability; today you need only good Crosley rating or good b. o. appeal.” At any rate Mr. Pearl is coming | back to Broadway which will make | many people happy. Maybe next | year he'll find that drama. If he] does, and his dramatic ability is| anywhere nearly as good as his| comic efforts, beware, Mr. Muni, | beware! |

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