Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1940 — Page 14
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"SPENCER TRACY ‘GOES CALLING' SCHOOLS OBTAIN SYMPHONY SETS
When the photographer happened along, Spencer Tracy, out of character but still in whiskers and
buckskins for
“Northwest Passage” role, was calling on Star Eleanor Powell and Director Norman
Taurog on the “Broadway Melody” set. Both films are booked for Loew’s screen in the near future.
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Civic Rehearses
For 'What a Life
The Civic Theater is now in rehearsal for Clifford Goldsmith's comedy, “What a Life,” which Director Edward Steinmetz will present at the Playhouse for six evenings beginning March 8. This comedy of high school life was one of last year's Broadway hits. As produced by George Abbott it played at English’s last season and later made its appearance in movie form at the Circle. William W. Brenn, the Civic’s technician, is designing the sets. The ticket sale will open Friday.
FILM PART WAITS 'UNKNOWN' BOY
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 26.—A motion picture role today awaited a boy who looks like the youngster in a Hugo Ballin ‘illustration of “Jody,” a character in Marjorie Kinnan Rawling’s best-selling novel, “The Yearling.” He must be between 10 and 12 years old, slight and between 4 feet 6 inches and 5 feet tall.
WHEN DOES IT START?
APOLLO
ay Little Chickadee,” pith Mae We Ww. Fislds, at 11: 1:49,
est. - 4:33. 7:17 ood 10 nsneymess Detcrred,” with Ednd Lowe Margaret _oalindsay. at
12:30, 3:34, 6:18 and 9 CIRCLE Sidewalks of London,” Mam, gharles Leigh, at
* 10: Sw ““The Llano Kid,” with Tito Guizar Gale Sondergasrd. a 12: 35, 3:25, 6:15
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“I Take This Woman,” with, Spenser ay oa at 12:43, 3:58,
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LOEW'S
“His Girl Friday,” with Cary grant . Rosalia (Russell, Raloh I Bellamy, at
Uephedd Little Peppers at Home,’ with Edith Fellows. Dorothy Peterson, at 12:39, 3:29, 6:19 and 9:09. LYRIC “Fairest of the Fair.” an N. T. G.
revue, with Jackie Heller, Diamond 4: Pa stage, at 12:49, 3:52, 6:45
d “Village Barn Danes, »” with Richard Cromwell, Doris Day, on screen, at 11:25, 2:18, 5:11, 8:04 and 10:30.
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MUSIC
Full
House Greets
" By JAMES THRASHER
Fabien Sevitzky
On Return for 'Pop' Concert Yesterday.
A FULL HOUSE greeted Fabien Sevitzky yesterday upon his return from his annual midwinter jaunt to Philadelphia to conduct his
Chamber String Sinfonietta there.
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Yesterday's occasion at the Murat was the Indianapolis Symphony
Orchestra’s third popular concert of the season.
It would take a
more discerning analyst than this writer to explain ‘why the popular
concerts sold out during Mr. Sevitzky’s - first season here, languished last year with plenty of seats available for the Sunday performances, and then perked up this season to attract S. R. O. audiences once more. Being merely a reporter, I can only say that this is the case, and welcome the return of the “pop” concerts’ popularity. A generous. program of seven numbers was offered yesterday's enthusiastic throng. Included were two works new to Indianapolis, besides more familiar music from this and other seasons’ concert lists. o o ”
AS SOLOIST Mr. Sevitzky presented Cloyd Duff, who regularly presides over the orchestra’s kettledrums. For his featured appearance Mr. Duff played Schreiner’s Concerto for Percussion Instrunients, subtitled “The Worried Drummer.” The subtitle is more of a clue to the work's aim and’ content, for ‘the music is delightful fun for the audience and a double hand-foot-and-mouthful for the soloist. = Mr. Duff performed, jointly and severally, upon the tympani, snare and bass drums, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, castanets, spurs, sleigh bells, slap stick, orchestra bells, Xylophone, bird whistles and other plain and fancy noisemakers. Mr. Duff’s cadenza was a wonder to behold. He sprang about with unerring skill upon the platform: which contained his instruments. He grasped first one and then the other with the deftness of a surgeon involved in an emergency operation. He even took
. the sleigh bells in his teeth and,
with motions- of negation and affirmation, shook sound out of them. It was a feat which the audience was neither slow to appreciate nor loath to applaud.
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ANOTHER DELIGHT, of a more purely musical sort, was Douglas Moore’s “The Pageant of P. 'T. Barnum.” It is a sparkling biographical sketch of the great showman and three of his more famous attractions, as the movements’ titles would indicate: “Boyhood at Bethel,” “Joice Heth, 161-Year-Old Negress,” “Gen. and Mrs. Tom Thumb,” “Jenny Lind” and “Circus Parade.” Mr. Moore's pages are filled with clever and provocative devices— the four-square hymn tunes of Barnum’s boyhood; and querulous voice of the sesquecentenarian Negress, with suggestions of spirituals; Gen. Thumb’s pomposity in miniature; the roulades dear to the heart of the Swedish Nightingale and all other coloraturas, before and since; the pageantry of the circus parade, from lumbering elephants to shrieking calliopes. The other first performance was of a Notturne and Noveletta by Martucci. The first is a delicate piece of elegiac melody, while the Noveletta is a captivating morsel, original in thematic structure and skillfully orchestrated. . More familiar were the Overture to Rossini’s “Barber of Seville” and the Saltarello from Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony, which stood first on the program, and the Prelude to Saint-Saens’ “The Deluge” and Ravel's ‘“Bolero,” which closed it.
Concertmaster Leon Zawisza
was soloist in the Saint-Saens.
work, delivering the sugary melody with a luscious tone. The “Bolero” created a tremendous effect, which must be put down to Mr.
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no longer a novelty. His admirable choice of tempo, his cool, con= trolled means of working his listeners into a taut frenzy were ex‘actly what the music needs to achieve its unique ends. Mr. Sevitzky was, in fact, at top form for the entire concert. And being likewise in an altruistic mood, he added as an encore the “Ride of the Valkyries.” Here was excitement of another and older order. But the conductor proved that he was able to whip his players into a Teutonic as well as a Gallic lather. And the result succeeded in bringing down the house for a second time. 2 2 2
AT THE ATHENAEUM SATURDAY NIGHT, the Indianapolis Maennerchor added another concert to its impressive list in an 85-year history. George Newton, Indianapolis bass-baritone, was
soloist, and Clarence Elbert, who 1
is in his first year as the club’s director, once more demonstrated that he is a musician who knows what he wants and\is able to gain fullest co-operatioh from the excellent chorus. Mr. Newton, with Dorothy Merrill Ritter as accompanist, sang two groups. .In the first were Bach's “Bist Du bei mir”; Mozart’s delightful lyric, “An Chloe”; two Loewe songs, ‘Die Uhr” and “Der Erlkoenig,” and “Verachtet mir die Meister nicht,” from Wagner’s “Meistersinger.” The second group included two Vaughan Williams songs, “The Roadside Fire” and Lea”; a song from “Omar Khayyam” by Harris; Cowen’s “Bore der Ballad”; Farwell’s arrangement - of “The Hours of Grief,” and Sullivan’s “Ho, Jolly Jenkin.” Mr. Newton has been in better voice than he was Saturday night, and he certainly has sung in more grateful auditoriums than the Athenaeum concert hall. But his selection of- songs was exemplary—which incidentally is always the case, since Mr. Newton is an artist of taste and sincerity. . It was particularly interesting to hear this setting of the “Erlkoenig” by Schubert’s gifted contemporary. Goethe is said to have preferred Loewe’s setting of his
.poem to the now famous and,
it seems, matchless one by Schubert. And there certainly is much to be said for Loewe’s dramatic musical narrative. It is remarkable to note the similarity of general style between the two settings, and specifically of the parallel choices of major and minor tonality, of similar accompaniment figures and of emphasis. Schubert’s song is deservedly more admired for its overpowering results by simple means, its unmistakable characterization and its highly dramatic -impact. But Mr. Newton is to be thanked for calling our attention, in both the Loewe songs, to a balladist whose music has suffered unmerited neglect,” "To open the concert Mr. Elbert conducted Beethoven's “Gott ist mein. Lied” and one of the Maennerchor’s particular favorites, “Sturmbeschwoerung.” Fol-
,, lowing Mr. Newton's first group
came “In dem Himmel ruht die Erde,” by Otto; Juengst’'s “Wo des Douro Wellen fliessen” and Schmidt’s “Des Liedes Kristall.” For the concluding number, soloist and chorus joined forces in Hadley’s “Song of the Marching Men.” The audience was large and liberal in its applause.
Cellist to Give
Annual Recital
Ernest Friedlander, the Indianapolis Symphony ' Orchestra’s principal cellist: and a mnember of the
pJordan Conservatory teaching staff,
will give his annual recital at 8:30
p. m. Thursday at the Odeon, 106
E. North St. Marie Friedlander, the soloist’s wife, will be at the piano. Thursday’s recital originally was scheduled for early December, but Mrs. Priedlander’'s illness forced postponement until this later date. The program is announced as follows: y -
Two Choral Preludes Sonatina from the Cantata, “God's Time Is the Best Time” Sonata in D, Opus toa No. 2..
Sonat a in D
J{thoven set.
! been made available at a small price ‘by the music campaign for persons
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Music Appreciation Drive Popular Among Pupils | And Teachers.
Hoosier schoolteachers and pupils are showing a marked interest in
the Indiana music appreciation movement, campaign leaders said today. Scores of public and parochial schools have made arrangements to
obtain the entire collection of the 10 symphonic masterpieces being distributed from the headquarters, 245 N. Pennsylvania St. » Beethoven's “Pastorale” Symphony No. 5 in C Minor is the second of the series to be released. This set of four. double-faced, 12inch records maye be obtained fot $159. Many persons still are. getting the Schubert “Unfinished” Symphony No- 8 in B Minor at the same time they receive their Bee-
In the music department at Tech High School, the 2000 pupils enrolled are being encouraged to acquire the classical masterpieces. Each Wednesday a separate movement of each symphony is broadcast over the school’s public address system to the classes. . Faculty members of the radio department said that nearly 50 teachers had inquired how to wire the turn-table attachments to their radios. (These attachments have
who have no. phonographs. Parent-teacher | organizations of many schools are making gifts of the 10 famous symphonic recordings to the schools.
TOLERANCE WARPED,
~ By SEXSON E. HUMPHREYS
national 4-H Club champion. * Now she is Mrs. Leroy Flint, a home-maker at 2243 Brookside Parkway and she thanks 4-H work for having given her a “practical point-of-view” on home problems. She began in the 4-H program
JUDGE ALLEN SAYS when it started in Marion Count
Indianapolis had a warning today pack in 1922. There were no proj-
that “in the hearts of the people” ects except sewing then; so she took the religious tolerance prescribed by sewing and won a State Fair prize the First Amendment to the Consti- the first year.
tution is “not properly enshrined.”| Mrs. Flint believes present-day Judge Florence Allen of the Fifth 4. girls have a better chance when Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincin-|it comes to experience that will
nati spoke to 1500 persons of all help them in home-making. Now, faiths and races represented in In- i dianapolis yesterday. The meeting besides various kinds of sewing, was planned by Jewish, Protestant there are . projects in canning, and Catholic groups as a celebration cooking, baking and. room improveof “Goodwill Sunday.” Judge Allen ment. These would have helped her a lot, Mrs. Flint says.
spoke on “Tolerance.” Religious persecution leads in “a| As it is, however, Mrs. Flint sews thousand interwoven ways” to ala number of dresses fer her 3-year-drastic limitation of freedom, Judge |old daughter Suzanne and some for herself. Her biggest sewing job is,
Allen declared. “It is a truism,” she said, “that| however, taking out hems in Suzanne’s dresses, she says.
our advance in spiritual’life has not After two.years in sewing work,
kept pace with our advance in mechanical life. In the application of piss White became a 4-H Club leader, started a number of the
ethical truth to our daily life, we Warren Township Clubs,
are less adaptable. Otherwise the or sim Yue long ago have|iyr out national and international : champions. Except: for the years she was in Purdue University, she kept up her club leadership until after Suzanne was horn. It was this leadership that won her, in 1931, a trip to the National 4-H Camp at Washington. She was
Cramer Concert Numbers Listed
Bomar Cramer, Indianapolis’ leading concert pianist, will play at 2:45 p. m. tomorrow in Caleb Mills Hall at Shortridge High School. Proceeds of the concert, open to the public, will be used by the
Shortridge music library. The concert has been arranged by the Baton Club of which Miss Geraldine, Trotter is sponsor. Mr, Cramer’s program is:
this prize and, until this year, the only one.
cher Trust Co., he never was a 4-H champion because Jefferson County didn’t have boys’ club work when he was the right age. But he and Mrs. Flint believe. that her club work was
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LOUIS FIGHT FILM SHOWN AT RIVOLI}
Pictures of the recent Joe Louis- | Arturo Godoy heavyweight championship fight are to be shown at the Rivoli Theater tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday. The full 15 Souls of action are included in the m Sonja Henie’s latest picture, “Everything Happens at Night,” and “City of Chance” complete the theater’s three-day program.
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Mr. Flint is a teller at the Flet-|
Suzanne Flint helps a lot . . . but her mithes finds there are. many hems to lengthen,
Club Work Gave "Practical Viewpoint," Says Champion
valuable, not only because it made her ‘look at house-work in a practical way,” but because of the valuable contaets with interesting people it gave her.
Suzanne isn’t old enough for 4-H Club work yet, but already she is getting a “practical viewpoint”— she helps wash the dishes (she hasn't broken a dish yet, although she dropped one this week) and she is learning how to sew on buttons. Mrs. Flint said that there has been one disadvantage resulting from her girls’ club -experience— “In 4-H you learn to make everything just perfect and that makes sewing of everyday things harder— at least slower.”
BONDSMAN IN CELL KANSAS CITY, Mo. Feb. 26 (U. P.).—Joseph C. Cirese makes his living putting up bonds—at a price —s0 other people can get out of jail. Indicted on charges of grand larceny of water worth $550. Cirese found himself in the embarrassing
position of spending an hour in a
cell while a friend Posted a property bond of $2000.
‘attend are Mrs. of Washington Township, Mrs. Car-
18 CAKE QUEEN
Garalee Wisehart™ to Give “Adults Lessons at 4-H Training School. . A 10-year-old girl is to be one of
| the instructors at a training school
for 108 4-H Club leaders in the War Memorial tomorrow and Wednesday. The school is being sponsored by Rotary Clubs of the central district. Two men and two women will represent each of the 27 counties of the district. Most of the instructors will be state club leaders from Purdue University and there will be one national 4-H Club veteran, A. B. Graham, now public relations director of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Frank FPF. Stafford, In-
dianapolis health and physical education expert, also is on the pro-
proud is 10-year-old Caralee Wisehart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Wisehart, 6050 Massachusetts Ave. She is a member of the Shadeland 4-H Club and will demonstrate
i cake-mixing before the whole crowd
of adult leaders. Marion County leaders chosen to Charles W.' Hyde
rie McFarland of Franklin Township, Earl Pruitt of Warren Township and Joseph Hardin Jr. Wayne Township. Horace E. Ab-
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Agent, is general state chairman of. the three 4-H ‘training schools be~ ing sponsored by Rotary Clubs. Miss Janice Berlin, county home demon stration agent, is a member of the committee for the local school. Purdue instructors at the school will be Z. M. Smith, state club’ leader; H. F. Ainsworth, Miss May Masten and W. R. Anick, associate
| state leaders, and T. M. Shanklin,
Miss Edna Troth, F. L. McReynolds, J. C. Ralston, Miss Mary Wilsey and A. P. Stewart, assistant state leaders. .
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No boy ever had a more amazing career than young Tom Edison — the butt of his townfolks’ scorn one day and their hero the next. The story of this mischievous, fun-loving, “different” lad is as amazing and amusing a yarn as the screen ever told — particularly as it is re-created by Mickey Rooney in his greatest role...
And it’s a forerunner of another great motion picture in which Spencer Tracy stars as “EDISON THE MAN”. Watch for both!
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