Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1940 — Page 21

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Times Special | ' YORK, March 22—When Walter Damroseh was 15 his piano

| formidable contraption in which his fingers, slipped through metal rings, fought to touch the keys, against the pull of a strong steel spring, 2 pull so strong that it! seriously strained the third finger of his right hand and ended his hopes of a career as a pianist, That was years ago, and he blithely turned ito conducting, but about two years ago he returned to serious piano practice. He perfected over months a new kind of silent fi nger technique that spared’ his family the maddening sound of repeated scales. He drilled himself in | Chopin studies. With three hours of (furious daily practice he limbered his fingers and worked to regain his touch. And now in two weeks—at the age of 78—he makes his debut as a concert pianist in Town Hall with two Brahms and Franck pieces in a program of chamber music. | “And if this is a success,” he said today in his ‘home at 168 E. Tist St, “and if I then progress

[ RCH 22, 1940 __ i . Walter Damrosch at 78! To Make Debut as Pianist Pe

(ily it would be sheer torture.

and a half at practice, and appear | |

as a recitalist—at 80.” The inspiration for his renewed

interest in the piano came two years ago when he started rewriting ‘his opera, Cyrano, which was performed 15 years ago at the Met. He entirely reorchestrated it, re- | wrote -three-fourths of it and pro-

duced a 900-page score. | “But I realized then,” he said, “that while my fingers'|were still supple, I couldn't play | well, and my fingers were techinifally deficient. ‘Now I hate the sound of the scales, and for my wife and famSo I devised these silent exercises for the fingers. “I am waiting for the, concert to see if they prove successful. And if they do, I will find some way to release them to a suffering world. They will shorten the time necessary for acquiring a technique —and will stop those dreadful scales.” Dr. Damrosch said his technique is simply “gymnastic of the fingers,” with loving attention paid to the difficult fourth finger. | The Town Hall debut will be | March 27 with the Musical Art Quartet,

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HOLLYWOOD, March 22.—Walter Hampden, who since 1901 has - been playing Hamlets and Macbeths and Shylocks in the theater, is about to lend his lanky dignity to the role of Chief Big Bear in Cecil DéMille’s “North West Mounted Police.” This will be the 60-year-old actor’s second picture. the cardinal in “The Hunchback of Nofre Dame” a few months ago,

Mr. Hampden asked “How long has this been going on?” And decided to stay in Hollywood. But he didn’t want to be typed as.a fuddy-duddy character, and he did want to work for the veteran epic-maker he had heard so much about. ‘So he stuck a feather in his hair and went around to DeMille’s office and said, “How! Also ugh! I. am Injun chief in your picture.” “Youd be fine,” said the pro-ducer-director, “except that you've got gray eyes, and this colossal entertainment spectacle is to be filmed in glorious Technicolor. I'm afraid that lets you out.” A few days later Hampden reentered the office and said “How” again. Only this time he said, “How does big white chief likum brown eyes?’ The miracle-man of the cinema looked and was as= tonished. He sent Hampden over for a test, and the eyes photographed brown, all right. ‘DeMille then “asked, “How?” Hampden explained that he had had some contact lenses made from a crystal-clear cellulose product. (Contact lenses, you probably recall, are-thin little shells, ordinarily of optical-glass, which are perfectly ground to fit under: the lids and against the! eyeballs. They're invisible and are worn without much discomfort by several actors whose vision is faulty.) Anyway, Hampden had the lenses hollowed out very slightly on the concave side to leave a little space next to the irises. A couple-of drops of caramel colored . syrup are put into each of the depressions just before the lenses -are put in place. They adhere so closely that they move with Hampden’s eyes. The brown fluid slightly obscures the black pupils, but not -enough to appear unatural. And the actor can see through the sugar soiution— which, incidentally, was the only coloring he could find that didn't irritate his eyes—well enough to read coarse print. - So now there's virtually nothing the movies can’t change— eyes, hair, facial and -body contours, teeth, and voices (by dubbing in another person’s). I don't know why: studios go to so much trouble to hire handsome gents and beautiful gals. Demille’s epic is working at Fort Carlton, an outpost on the Paramount lot. The place is swarming with Indians, 'halfbreeds, white hunters and trappers, Mounties in scarlet tunics, and ‘DeMille’s yes-men. A flock of visitors was on .the set when I watched a scene. DeMille’s voice boomed over the public address system: “Will everyone please] be quiet?” A minute later: “I asked you politely to be quiet. Now settle down!” Another minute and his angry voice crackled: “Dammit, I want this set quiet or 1'll clear it of visitors and employees as well! If .you can’t understand

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The first literary fruits of Sinclair Lewis experience as playwright and actor reach the book stalls today in “Bethel Merriday.” Though the book is based upon the author’s first-hand observations behind. the footlights, he follows a prevalent movie custom by claiming, in substance, that ‘any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.” “No character in this novel,” he writes in the preface, '* is the portrait of an actual person ... I declare vigorously that the Nutmeg Players of Point Grampton in my tale are not drawn from the Stockbridge, $Sohasset, Ogunquit, Provincetown, Clinton or Skowhegan companies, and that the tour of a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ company here chronicled is not the history of my ‘Angela Is 22.” .

DANCING TO HALT FOR GOOD FRIDAY

Tom Devine’s Music Hall will suspend its Friday-night dancing policy| this evening as a Good Friday observance. Activities will be resumed with Easter dances tomorrow and Sunday nights, with music by George Wald

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Votes for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s all-request “pop” concert, which will close the Orchestra season on March 31, indicate that Johann Strauss is still the Symphony patrons’ favorite composer. All the request blanks h been counted, but present tions show that Strauss’ From ‘ the Vienna Woods” | is the’ favorite of some 250 different compositions named ‘by nearly 1000 voters. In the only other request program played by the orchestra in the past three years, Strauss’ “Beautiful Blue Danube” was the leader. The current poll shows, however,

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musical literature during the past three years, and has developed decided ideas about the music it wants to hear,” Franklin Miner, Orchestra manager, said today. Conductor Fabien Sevitzky has expressed satisfaction with the caliber of music indicated by the present request. A sizable number of persons—although not quite enoigh—asked for a complete symphony on the program, Mr. Seviizky sai And it seems likely that two mo ements of the. Tschaikowsky Fifth Symphony will be played. The orchestra’s final week-end of the season will be a full one. For the request concert will be preceded by the last pair of subscription concerts on Friday afternoon and Saturday night, March 29 and 30. All performances will be-at the Murat,

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