Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1939 — Page 17

THURSDAY, NOV. 2, 1939

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

June-Moon Song Rhymers | DIX SPREADS CHEER IN LYRIC Si

Rolling in Financial Clover

NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (NEA).—Many a poet has shuffled off this world

without leaving much legacy behind, but the popular song industry has | changed all that. Scoff at the June-Moon rhymers, if you like, but they,

often sell their wares for the ransoms of semi-millionaires. The boys who, scribble sentimental meters for Tin Pan Alley don’t wear ragged garb

and inhabit Grub Street. : More’ often, you will find them well-groomed, stepping out of liveried ‘limousines on Park Avenue. “June and Moon” not only rhyme, but pay handsome dividends, besides. Lyricists today are called “song - writers,” although most of them have no knowledge of music and + depend upon collaborators to set music to their words. A few of them, like Mitchell Parrish, who did the lyrics to ‘Star Dust” and “The Lamp Is Low,” have .the ability to set words to music already written. Another so talented is Johnny Mercer, while a third is Clay Boland, Philadelphia dentist who pulls teeth and rhymes, alternately.

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business. Mr. Brown was, perhaps, one of the most prolific of the lyricists, with several thousand song words to his credit. third of a famous trio. The team of DeSylva, Brown and

Henderson was one-of the most important combinations of Tin Pan Alley in.the Twenties. Then Buddy DeSylva, who also wrote song words, went to Hollywood. Mr. Brown became a producer. And only Ray Hénderson remained content to linger and rhyme love with dove. Another who made his Broadway debut as a lyricist was Billy Rose, who converted a swimming pool into

Fair. When the diminutive showman launched himself upon the waves of musical success, he was a champion shorthand writer and stenographer. He probably is proudest of such rhapysodizing as “That Old Gang of Mine,” “Me and: My Shadow, » and “Without a Song.”

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Marx Brothers Antics May Be Zany But Their Secretary Is Quite Sane

By PAUL HARRISON

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ment and qualities of a woman who could bear up under eight years of being personal secretary to the Marx Brothers. She'd have to be shockproof.

The pattern seems plain:

need an acid wit to quell her ebullient bosses. Anyway, she'd be about 60 and likely would have

Edna May Oliver. served somewhere as the head matron of a psychopathic ward. But Rachel Linden isn’t like that at all. She's less than 35, attractive, and sweet as | Shirley Temple. Shockproof, perhaps, but in the same way that Baby Sandra Henville would be unruffled by a stag party anecdote. Miss Linden, I am trying to say, is naive. When the Maxes came to Holly-

for Parhmount, Miss Linden was secretary to Writer Herman Man-

kiewicz, who loaned her efficient services to the comedians. They borrowed her the second year, too. She didn’t know what to make of them, nor was she sure how many Marxes there were. Her correspondence identified only four (Zeppo was an actor then), but there seemed to be at least a dozen when they'd storm into the office and toss ,around gags: and furniture. “But they wouldn't come ‘in if they had any real business there,” recalled their caretaker sadly. “They'd stand down in the studio street and yell up at my secondstory; window: “Take a letter to So-and-So—" and then they'd dictate at the tops of their voices with half the studio listening to them. “They still don’t come to the office very much except when they're working on the lot; and I work in Mr. Harpo’s dressing room, so I see them then. Some-

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times I wonder if they don’t like me.” 8 8 =» THEY LIKE HER, all right. In 1933, when Mr. Mankiewicz moved to M. G. M. and Miss Linden decided to go along for the preservation of her sanity, the Marxes telephoned her every few minutes during her first day, asking her to return. She didn’t get much work done. Late in the afternoon, just as she answered another ring a bookcase fell over with a crash, her desk slithered wildly and the room began to roll. “Now will you come back?” demanded the voice of Harpo. “Yes!” screamed Miss Linden and dashed for the door. It was March 10, the day of the earthquake. Later in 1933 the Marxes themselves moved to Metro, and their secretary went along, feeling safe enough that time. She says they've never played jokes on her in the. office, but once she threatened to quit because of an indignity on the set. “There were hundreds of people around,” she said, “and I went out to give Mr. Groucho some mail and he was on a sort of huge dias and he sat me on his lap and said, ‘Take a letter, Miss Linden.’ Why, I was never so terrified! There were thousands of people looking at us!” During the Marxes® encounters with other victims, she avoids embarrassment by not listening, and sometimes by not looking — as when they took the pants off a producer and tossed him out into a crowded corridor.

BESIDES THEIR PERSONAL correspondence and fan / mail, Miss Linden handles the three ‘brothers’ individual bank accounts and social engagements, and reminds them of birthdays and anniversaries,

Thespis to Give 2 Plays Friday

Thespis, Butler University dramatic society, will present two plays Friday at 8 p. m. under sponsorship of the Women’s Association of the Broadway Methodist Church, at the church. The plays are “Happy Journey,” directed by Frederick Winter, and

“After the Curtain,” directed by

Miss Mary Lou Over.

Mrs, A. R. Williams, president of = (the Women’s Association, will have y [charge of arrangements for the two plays and she will be assisted by Mrs. C. H. Over, chairman of the ways and ‘means committee, and Mrs. Lester Williams, chairman of ticket sales, Members of Thespis taking part :n the “Happy Journey” production

‘include Miss Joan Colgan, Max]

Wildman, Miss Jean Pickett, Marc . Holeman, Lewis = Vogler, ‘Morris Hendricks 4nd Miss Julia Raymond. Included in the “After the Curtain” cast are Miss Marjorie Hale, John Walker, Miss Daris Artibee, Lawrence Kryter and Ralph Martz.

Janssen Leaves Symphony Post

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 2.—Walter

the resignation of Werner Janssen as conductor of the Baltimoré Symphony Orchestra in order to devote his full time to film commitments.

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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 2 (U. P.)— Bette Davis’ second war with Warner Bros. ended yesterday, and it was announced that she will return to Hollywood from New England next week to start a new picture, “Woman Brown.” Miss Davis stayed away from the

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