Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1939 — Page 31

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FRIDAY, DEC. 1, 1939

Whiteman Still Monarch Of Music After 20 Years

NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (NEA) — Kings have been dethroned and empires have crumbled in the two decades that Paul Whiteman has

been King of Jazz, but he still is the absolute monarch of music. There are numerous pretenders to his throne, of course, but pin them down and they will admit that his baton is the sceptre that sways the do re me on America’s musical scales, He has outlived, professionally, a dozen modes of song and behind him trails a retinue of orchestral climbers who would have seized his kingdom.

20 Years As Bandleader

man’s ears an unfamiliar but exeiting rhythm, which was dubbed ragtime and slangily, jazz. He had heard these savage strains along the Barbary Coast, purveyed by small bands of three or four men and irreconcilable as these sounds were to his symphonic background, he knew when he first heard them, that he had found his metier. So he quit the symphony orchestra and bravely organized a jazz band — the original aggregation which he ecajoled the Alexandria Hotel to hire for a peanut-stipend. The news of this new orchestra reached the ears of the Barbary Coast musicians, and much as swingsters prey upon each other

now, they came to hear him. Their

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Church Groups To Give 3 Plays

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plays this week-end two tonight and]

one on Sunday evening. The Senior Choir and Christian Endeavor Society of Zion Evangel jcal Church are to present “The Sunbonnet Girl,” a comic operetta by Geofrey Morgan and Frederick Johnson, at 8 tonight in the church parish hall. Y At the same hour, members of the Young People’s League of St. Paul Evangelical Reformed Church will give a three-act play called “Who Said Quit?” The Sunday night performance will be presented by the St. Cecilia Dramatic Club of Sacred Heart Church at 8:15 p. m. in St. Cecilia Dramatic Hall. The play is a threeact comedy, “East Is West.”

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SEEKING TO KEEP CHILDREN ABROAD

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1 (U.P) .— Eleanor Boardman, star of the silent pictures, contended today her two children are safer in school in France, at a distance from the war zone, than attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean to America. She made this allegation in affidavits filed with the Superior Court in fighting the effort of her former husband, Director King Vidor, to obtain final custody of Antonia, 12, and Belinda Vidor, 9.

MANUAL MINSTREL TO CLOSE TONIGHT

“Showboat,” annual Manual Girl's League minstrel show, will be given its final presentation tonight at 8 o'clock in the school auditorium. The cast is made up of student

Butler. Thespis Will Give ‘Fool’

Butler University's re-organized dramatic society, Thespis, has announced a production of Channing Pollock’s “The Fool” for Dec. 14 and' 15 at Caleb Mills Hall, Frederick Winter, faculty sponsor, is directing the play, assisted by

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Mary Lou Over. Max Wildman of Peru is the society's president. Cast members are Morris Hendricks, Marc Holeman, William Kruse, Laurence Kryfer, Ralph | Martz, Reed Shields, Robert Ulrich, | John Walker, Max Wildman, Jean | Buschmann, Margaret Brooks, Mar{ion Dreiss, Patricia Graves, Pequetti | Helton, Margaret McCracken, Jean | Pickett, Suzanne Queisser, Julia Raymond and Sonya Schlee. Butler fraternities and sororities | will handle ticket sales.

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IRENE FRANKLIN ILL talent from all school classes. HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1 (U.P).—| An almost capacity throng of 1100 Irene Franklin, the blond movie and | witnessed the first performance in musical comedy star, was in St. Vin-| the school auditorium yesterday cent's Hospital today with neuritis.' afternoon.

He celebrated his 20th anniver- agmiration conquered their resent: sary as a bandleader the other night! nent and soon the hame of a new and from the festivities, you would| japs wizard, Paul Whiteman, was! have thought that a holiday had| passing from west to east. been declared in honor of a heroic) prom there, Whiteman’s rise to statesman, The celebrity list defied) {he throne he has long held, was an accurate tabclation, for so many|rapiq and secure. He increased the came to help “Pops” Whiteman (as|gjge of his band, made jazz into a the musie world calls him) celebrate wejl-groomed medium by smoothing | a jubilee, ldown the cacaphony, taking away It was a vastly different scene, he ch of the crudeness and adding recalled, from the one just two dec- form to the ragtime. He created | ades back when, with a skeleton what was later to be known as crew of seven men, he made his| symphonic jazz.” band debut in the Alexandria Hotel| . in Loos Angeles. Appeared at Carnegie That was the night of Nov. 23,| In later years, he was to have the]

1019, and young Whiteman was a|honor of bringing this new form to] ; he world premiere of “Gone With the Wind” pretty nervous, but confident, fel-|a pinnacle, That was the night of| Thats Atlanta as the wo p : d

| CRetits © ; | approaches. Not since Sherman's men marched out in ‘64 and left _. Others $3.95, $5.95 up. low when he clambered up to the the histerie ore RO at ae ashes behind them has the city been so completely ablaze. fla5¢ Down—25¢ Week lofty podium. gie Hall in 1923, when he introduced | The movie premiere has been turned into a three<day civie celeFather Educator

to the world a young American com-| io that will bring every hoop-skirt out of every attic trunk in ||| ] He was to initiate himself into the | composition was “Rhapsody in Blue”| ty

poser named George Gershwin. The Atlanta ( s nts’ rajazz world that evening after an|/ which many regarded as the most iy i Juve iy a STREY. ardent schooling in the classics. His important contribution to American tickets to the opening show at $10 father, Wilburforce James White-| music ever made. a head, proceeds to go to the Com-| Leigh to the theater, man, had been music superintend- | Through 20 years, a host of “dis-|ynity Fund. People are trampling] Hollywood directors have taken ent of Denver schools and his/covered” talent became famous be-|on each other in lines four blocks| over the square in front of the mother was a well-known coloratura | cause of its association with White- jong to get tickets to the Junior|theater. It will be decorated with soprano. So they naturally reared|man. League ball the night before the big| antebellum scenery, floodlighted, him in the masterpiece tradition.] “Pops” Whiteman has earned show. {and roped off two hours before the He was an adept violinist in his/more money than any other con-| The National Guard will be out on first show, so that the 497969 peo-| early teens and at his parents’ be- ductor on this or the other side of opening night, Dec. 15, to preserve le who didn't get tickets can watch hest he had secured for himself a the Atlantic. His was the first order, and they'll see more action|the arrival of the stars and local place in the San Francisco Sym- American band to tour Europe. than some of the troops in the Mag- dignitaries, phony Oichestra as a viola player. | He has paid out over 10 million inot Line. pre But between rehearsals and after dollars in salaries over the past 20 Seating Capacity Limited

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Vivien Leigh's escort to the premiere: Confederate Veteran J. A. Skelton (left) wins the straw drawing from G. R. Jones for the honor, ” = ” s 8 »

Not Since Sherman Marched Out in '64 Has City Been So Ablaze; National Guard to Keep Order At Film's Premiere.

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