Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1940 — Page 4
NEW YEAR TOLL NEARS 300 DEAD
(raffic Fatalities Again Lead ~~ As Nation| Observes Second ' Holiday.
By UNITED PRESS
The nation counted almost 300]
_@eaths by violence|after a three-day New Year's holiday, but national safety officials were. encouraged because the total was lower than had been anticipated.| More than 500
died by violence over the Christmas|:
holiday. A United Press survey showed that
292 lost their lives|in automobile ac- |.
cidents, fires, train wrecks, by suicide, drowning or other. violence. Traffic deaths again led the rest. They totaled 166. Forty died by suicide, 10 in fires land 76 of other causes. California led the states in num-} her of dead and number of suicides. “Twenty-one died in automobile acci- . dents, nine were suicides and seven died of other causes. Illinois ana Pennsylvania each reported 2b deaths, : One passengers others injured in Illinois Central trains at Arcola, Ill. The Panama Liniited crashed into the rear of the Louisiane which had pped to pick up a passenger. Four children of Mr. and Mrs. John Gaile in their Perth
was killed and 40 a collision of two
. Safety officials ttributed the re‘in part to their campaign.
“drive carefully”
Killed When Train Hits Auto at| Elkhart
ELKHART, Ind, Jan. 2 (U. P.) — Emil Helbling, of near Elkhart, was killed yesterday when his car was struck by a New York Central Railroad train at ja crossing here.
VALPARAISO, | Ind., Jan. 2 (U. P).—Mr. and Mrs. William Clark, 45 and 43 respectively, were killed yesterday when their car went out of control near here, plunged off the highway and crashed into a utility pole. They were [returning from a New Year's Eve party.
SECOND NEW YEAR'S DAUGHTER IS BORN
, dan. 2 (U. P).— At 12:30 p. m. © ' New Year's Day, 1939, a daughter, was born to Dr. and Mrs. P. Victo Brunelle at Shaw
At 12: 30 a. . yesterday, Mrs. Brunelle gave birth to another New Year's Day daughter at the same hospital. Today mother and baby were reported “doing nicely.”
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New Duties; Raced in Early 500-Mile Mile Events.
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National car in the‘ first 500-mile race in 1911, was fourth in a Stutz in the 1912 race, third in a Stutz in 1913, and failed to finish In his Peugeot racer in 1916. He was the first American holder of the World's 24-hour record, set in November, 1905, at the Indianapolis Fair Grounds, and won the famous Elgin Road race in August, 1912. The preceding year, he won the Panama-Pacific Road Race in San Francisco.
With Stutz Company From 1905 to 1912, he was an experimental engineer and race driver for the old National Motor Car Co., of Indianapolis, serving the Stutz Motor Car Co. in a similar capacity from 1912 to 1914. For the next three years, he was engineer for the Rayfield Carburetor Co. . During the World War, he entered the U. S. military service as a captdin. He was promoted to major in the U. S, Army Air Corps while in France, and now is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Corps Reserve. From 1920 to 1925, Mr. Merz was assistant to the president of the
H. C. S. Motor, Car Co. and re-.
ceiver for the company from 1925 to 1927, when he organized his own company. Member of S. A. E,, Rotary
The new appointee has been a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers for a decade, and headed its Indiana - section from 1934 to 1935. He is a member of the Indianapolis Rotary Club and a former member of the governing board of the Indiana Fish and Game Commission. = . In announcing the appointment of his new assistant, Mr, Myers said: 3 “I feel that Charlie Merz is well qualified to assist the Indianapolis Motor Speedway organization in the conduct of this great international event. Charlie was raised within the shadow of the Speedway and raced here in the inaugurating events.”
BOXER LEAPS TO DEATH BUDAPEST, Jan. 2 (U. P.).~— Stefan Enekes, who won the featherweight boxing championship at the Los Angeles Olympic games, died
today after jumping from a window|
on the third floor of a hospital in which he was receiving treatment for a stomach ailment.
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Who Were Not Affected - Come Under Provisions.
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now notifying these lump-sum recipients that they can get monthly ‘pensions if they are not now working, or when they Stop if they are now employed. Their monthly payments will not begin, however, until the amount of money that was given them is de-
received a lump sum settlement of $100, and ‘has a pension rate of $50 a month, would get no check for “|two months after he became eligible to receive the pension.
eligible for pensions in 1940 is com~ posed of persons in covered employment who will become 65 during that year. They will be notified, as their birthdays approach, that they can get monthly incomes if they wish to retire. | No one has to quit work because of the Social Security Plan, of course. He can keep on working as long as he wants after 65, and each year that he works in covered employment will add a little to the pension that he will get when he quits. Based on Earnings
A person who becomes 65 in 1940 or later may have to work in covered employment for more than six quarters to be eligible for the penar The regulations were so set up that persons now 65 or over could retire in 1940, but, generally speaking, a person must have worked in half the calendar quarters between the first of 1937 and the time he retires. So much for eligibility. Let’s see how much the payments will amount to in 1940.
size of the earnings that have been taxed and the length of time that the worker has been in the system —40 per cent of the first $50 of average monthly salary, plus 10 per cent of everything else up to a salary limit of $250, plus one per cent of the sum of those two items for each year in the system.
- Here’s an Example
Since none of the workers who will retire in 1940 will have been in the system more than three years, the 1 per cenf yearly increase can bé ignored to simplify the figuring. It will amount to less than a dollar a month in most cases. A man who has been making $50 ‘a month since he has been in the Social Security system will get a pension of a little over $20 a month. If he has a wife who is also 65 when he retires, the pension will be increased’ by one-half, bringing it up to $30 a month. And if, perchance, the couple has children under 18, the pension will be increased another half the father’s basic sum (or $10 in this case) for each child. This provision for additional sums for wives and dependent children is new, being one of the amendments made last summer. If the wife is younger than the husband, as is frequently the case, the pension will be increased as soon as she reaches 65. Here, in table form, are the approximate monthly sums that will go to workers who retire in 1940: Mo. Pension for Husband Wage husbandonly and wife $75 $22.50 $33.75+4 $100 $25.50 $37.50 $125 $27.50+ $41.254$150 $30.00 $45.00+ $175 $32.50 $48.75+ $200 $35.00 $52.50} $225 $37.50+ $56.25 $250 $40.00 $60.00, - and above All ‘of the above pension sums would be increased somewhat if the 1 per cent yearly increment were added. If the man getting the $22.50 pension had worked a
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The belated appearance of Bidu Sayao, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, on the Martens Concerts series will take place Monday night at English’s, The Brazilian singer’s scheduled recital in October was postponed because of illness.
HOOSIER WINS FILM BID
The winnah! Lee Bonnell of South Bend (left) is congratulated by Jesse L. Lasky, veteran movie producer, after taking first place in the “Gateway to Hollywood” radio auditions on Sunday. Mr. Bonnell wins a movie contract and the right to be known henceforth as Terry Belmont. Ned LeFevre, WFBM ‘announcer, was was nosed out in the nationwide finals by his fellow Hogsier.
HOLLYWOOD By PAUL HARRISON 'Gone With the Wind' Means High Finance in Movieland
HOLLYWOOD, Jar: 2.—Imagine that you're standing in a con-crete-and-steel film vault watching a couple of uniformed, incongruously armed men carrying in some tin cans. : The cans are addly shaped—two-inch-thick discs about a foot in diameter—and 19 of them are stacked on a shelf. As i go out, one -of the men says, “There’s your pitchur, boss.”
Hand-scrawled with brush and black paint on the top container are some numerals and the words, “Gone With the Wind.” You look at the unimpressive stack of cans and shiver a little at the thought that their contents are all you've got to show for an expenditure of nearly $4,000,000. Only four pictures in movie history have grossed as much as this one cost, and you'll have to fork over at least another half million dollars to get duplicate prints for exhibition. What can you do with the stuff? How should you distribute it? How much should’ you charge the theaters? Is the public really in« terested in “Gone With the Wind,” or merely curious? 2 » ® ALL SUCH SITUATIONS and problems have faced an M-G-M
executive vice president named Al Litchtman. David Selznick produced the picture, hut Metro took control of its destiny at the same time that it put up about half the capital and provided the services of Clark (iable and Director Victor Fleming. Mr. Lichtman, a veteran showman who is supposed to know the picture market and distribution better than anybody else, worked out the initial deal and has been working out details ever since. I went to see Mr. Lichtman, who is pleasant but very busy. He: talked over a 3 o'clock luncheon on g tray in his office. I got some information, and he got cold soup, cold steak and cold tea. iHe said: “To know what to do with those cans of film, we had to figure the state of public mind and the public ' pocketbook. We paid for a survey that told us 58,000,000 people on this continent wanted and intended to see ‘Gone’ That was encouraging.
Then we reckoned that for general admission, a dollar would have to be the. top price. The pjcture runs three hours and 45 minutes, so with the intermission and an interval between shows it can be run only three times a day. In a few large cities we're trying two shows a day, with reserved seats "at $1.65, top. “This is a modern version of ‘what we used to call ‘road-show-' ing’ a picture. When big ones like ‘Birth of a Nation’ were roadshowed they were put into legitimate theaters and handled like plays—prices and all. That was bad business. Regular exhibitors complained, naturally, and most of the public stayed away because ‘it knew that in a few months it could see the picture at the ordinary rate in its local movie house.” ” » »
FROM THE BEGINNING, “Gone With the Wind” will show only in movie theaters, and Metro’s contracts provide that it
prices. “What I hope and believe,” said Mr. Lichtman, “is that this will help establish a better scale of entertainment values. The public shouldn't expect to see an unusually costly picture for the same price as‘ a program feature.”
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several changes made in Mr. Coward’s dither in a drawing room to make it; suitable to the star and to the present time. For one thing, the leading character has now become an American and, we are given to understand, a considerably younger person than on her original appearance. ¥ I don’t believe that “Easy Virtue” came as far afield as Indianapolis when it first reached ‘America. But those who know Mr. Coward should find it all reasonably familiar. For the playwright. here is up to his favorite trick of burrowing inside the stuffed shirts of well-to-do, middle class England, and causing considerable discomfort and embarrassment.
: #2 8 = IN THIS INSTANCE, the lovely Larita becomes the bride of steady, young John Whittaker, in the course of a vacation at Cannes. When he brings the bride home to his “veddy British” family circle, she discovers that. she has come to bat with two strikes on her. Not only has she upset the family’s plans for John’s marriage, but she is American and a divorcee. So, before she sets foot on the Whittaker premises, : she’s done for. Plumped down in.the midst of English country life, the inevitable happens. Not only the famly, but the cold summer, lack of central heating and preoccupation with tennis become estranging factors. Col.'Whittaker, John’s father, is kind, tolerant but ineffective. His mother is .a whining, neurotic, snobbish martinet. The older sister is a flat-heeled confusion of hearty, back-slapping, neo-Vic-torian religious fanaticism. The younger sister is a little brat who uncovers a scandal in Larita’s past life which leads to the inevitable showdown. i . » ” 2 THERE IS A GRAND ROW in Act II, done in Mr, Coward’s most sparkling manner. Larita ruthlessly “tells off” the whole family. It’s devastating but useiess. Not only does she find no Achil-
STARTING THE NEW YEAR with a new venture in her successful career, Constance Bennett played her first stage role as the star of Noel Coward’s “Easy Virtue” at English’s last night. The engagement continues tonight and for two performances Wednesday. Perhaps one should call this resurrection of : the 14-year-old. Coward play a revisal rather than a Tevival.
For there have been
lean heel in the Whittaker’s armor of respectability, but also Larita discovers—or at least the audience does—that her own philosophy of life is a bit casuistic. So, after duly embarrassing her “in-laws” before her guests. Larita goes “back where she came from,” which, she explains to the butler, “js not a place but a state of mind.” ~ Somehow, the familiar the- | atrical objects of the English drawing room are beginning to look a little threadbare. In the face of Anno Domini 1940, all the excitement over the postwar upheaval of moral standards doesn’t seem to matter very much. Nor, for that matter, does Mr. Coward’s third act, which, to me at any rate, seems decidedly anticlimactic. » » ®
MISS BENNETT, you will not be surprised to learn, is stun-
ningly . gowned and extremely good to look upon. There is also considerable charm in her performance. Yet it is, after all, her first “legitimate” role, despite all her picture experience, And no one need be told that stage is a pregsy broad and fearsome arena after the confines of the camera's range. This is the second step in Miss Bennett's tour. And it is quite possible that as the tour . proceeds her performance may gain in grace and poise and conviction. There are some excellent players in the supporting cast, notably Reginald Mason and Viola Roche as the elder Whittakers, Richard Ainley as John, and Mary Nen-ham-Davis as his sister Marian. John Koenig's set is bright and tasteful—almost too much so, one might think, for the native haunts of as stuffy a tribe as the Whittakers. A large audience turned out, to welcome Miss Bennett, undaunted by wintry cold and Postiidliday lassitude.
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Included on the program will be what the recitalist has announced as the first local performance of six compositions: Honneger’s Prelude, Arioso and Fughette on the Name of Bach; two Debussy pieces, “Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut” and ‘“Pagodes”; the Mazurkas Nos. 1 and 2, Opus 50, by Szymanowski, and the Prokofiev Toccata. Also listed are the Beethoven “Appassionata” Sonata and a& Chopin group. “Miss Gottman has been a student of Jeanette Gardiner, Bomar Cramer and Rudolph Ganz. : » » ® From the Jordan Conservatory comes word that Marie Zorn, of its piano faculty, will play a recital at Concordia College in Milwatkee
on Jan. 14. Her program will include music by Bach, Brahms, Schubert, Rachmaninoff and Turina. The conservatory also announces that plans are under way for Miss
Born’s Chicago debut as soloist with a symphony orchestra sometime early in the New Year.
SCREEN REUNION
Frank Morgan and Charles Ruggles are united in “Balalaika” for the first time since making their screen debut together in 1929 in “Queen High.”
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Mary Gottman, Indianapolis pianist and teacher, will play a recital p- m. Friday at the World War Memorial auditoirum. The
Though Miss Gottman has given several recitals in other Indiana recital will be her first public performance in Indianapolis.
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10w, Ariz., and were married Mr. Funk’s | brother, Harold, married Evelyn June Paine of Denver in the same ceremony. Eighteen months ago Miss King came here from Dallas, Tex., to sell the movies a song she composed. The movie-makers looked at her, instead of her song, and the Texas girl was placed under contract as an actress. %
SUIT [INKS STARS TO RIDING STABLE
HOLLYWOOD, Jan, 2 (U. P.).— A damage suit revealed today that Robert Young and Allan Jones, film stars, are in the riding stable business. Theye were sued for $16,287 damages by Nancy C. Andrews, 18, who claimed she was thrown from a “wild and unmanageable” horse rented from a stable owned by the stars.
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Immediately after New Year's Jeanette MacDonald will start rehearsals for a nationwide. concert tour which is to begin Feb, 1. Cur-
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