Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1940 — Page 12

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Included now in ming up of the first four years -of Edward Johnson's regime, as well ‘as some discussion of the most recen which have lashed threateningly| (but so far, vainly) about the lyric temple ‘since October, 1883. However, Mr. Kolodin's additions amount tq less than 60 of 'the volume’s more than 800 pages. So any review must be largely a reappraisal of the original history. tropolifan Opera” is, in case you don’t know it, a detailed, complete and | illuminating work, and practically| indispensable to anyone with more than a passing interest this famous theater, its tenants its audiences.

Describes Production st of all, Mr. Kolodin has given

po an’s productions. His - book contains ti . cast and principals of t every opera down through But the book is more a catalog of operas and singa is consideration of the ideals of the Metro-.

ch jan are devoted to Toscanini

of other famous artists. s was necessary, Mr. Kolodin into| iccount ‘the opera’s social y uences which shaped the 1stitution’s course from long before opening performance until very cently. He shows the reader that, + far too many years, the Metroi House was a temple 11, and

sical art. P| Wit Is Clever | It is |particularly interesting to

the lost lingering .influence: of the iamond Horseshoe” has all but ppeared; when trust funds ind of fashionable box-holders

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years ago; the general public is being beseeched to “Save the Metro tan. ” fe In addition to his painstaking’ assembling of material, Mr. Koladin has written with a high-minded discernment and with a wit which is often caustic and always clever. Not the least of book’s virtues is a. compilation of works presented at the -Metropolitan, with the number of their performances, from 1883 through 1938.

As an appendix to his “The Oxford Companion [to Music,” which appeared last |year, Percy A. Scholes has' wuitfen, or rather assembled, “A List of Books About Music in the glish Language” (Oxford). This slender volume of. 64 pages is not quite so inclusive as the name implies, since the author has listed only those books which, to his| mind, were most representative and generally best. Apparently, howe fer, he has chosen wisely. Such a bibliography ou been needed badly, and seems destined for a well-thumbed existence in a great many music libraries.—J. T.

° , @ Big Names Aid ‘ ° r™e In Charity Film HOLLYWOOD, March 25 (U. P.). —Hollywood’s top-ranking British and French movie stars co-operated with the major studios today in a plan for [producing an all-charity|| movie for| the Community Chest and iti nd French. Red Cross organizations. Among| those who pledged support were Brian Aherne, Charles Boyer,. Madeleine Carroll, Ronald Colman, Errol Fl nn, Cary Grant, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Laughton, Her bert Marshall, Vivian Leigh, Ray Milland and Laurence Olivier. The picture will feature all .the stars. In the credit list their names will appear in alphabetical order. Dr. A. H. Giannini, campaign chairman of the Los Angeles Com-

munity Chest, and George Schaffer

of RKO Pictures, are pple

HOLLYWOOD, March 25 (U. P). —@Gracie Allen, comedienne candidate for President, can’t wait until she knows whether she will be a public official or not before acting like one. She will toss .the first ball of the season when the Pacific Coast eague opens a week from tomorfo Heretofore it has been the Mayor of Los Angeles.

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Newest members of the Metropolitan Opera roster are Arthur

ing, W. Va., who were named in yesterdays finals of the fifth annual Metropolitan Auditions of the Air.

'The Saint's’ Sixth Celluloid Adventure Is Being Filmed

Enter; Equipment Held ‘By Sheriff.

HOLLYWOOD, March 25 «Y. P). —Hollywood’s big-time movie gam-

blers today surveyed the wreckage of the famous Clover Club, to which 'sheriff’s officers had applied bat

= [ing rams in lieu of admittance

Eleanor Steber, soprano of Wheel-

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By PAUL HARRISON

teris; in fact, it’s one mystery afte

first work, a poem, was published at 17. For a few years after that, he concentrated on young:love ficion, but since hitting on | the idea f ,the mystery-detecting Saint he 1as done nothing else.’

| Five of Charteris’ ‘stories have been ‘made into movies by RKO, and a sixth is in production now. Since coming to Hollywood he has found t easier to write the scenario first, en polish it into a book. “That's why people exclaim, ‘Isn’t it amazing how closely the picture follows the book! ” he said. “The picture we're making now, ‘The [Saint Takes Over,” will be published lsoon. Incidentally, I. didn’t write that title; I still can’t figure out ‘what it is that the Saint takes over.” Another minor mystery, to him, is why he’s being paid to help: with filming the story. I asked what he does, and he said, “Nothing. I just hover around and get in everyone's way.” 8 8. 8% i. CHARTERIS IS. TALL,’ well tanned and wears glasses while-do-ing his hovering. But when he sits down to talk he removes the glasses and inserts a monocle, looking very forbidding and British.. He's British, all right, but not austere; says he really needs the monocle, and besides it's good for glaring at people. He- declared that he never makes his fiction character do anything that he can’t do himself. Before writing “Saint Overboard,” he rented a diver’s outfit and did some sea-bottom exploring. Then he was perfectly confident in describing the Saint's diving adventures. - While writing “The Avenging ‘ Saint,” which dealt with ‘flying, the author learned to fly. If he hasn't already b there, Charteris also visits the ldcale of each story. But there are few places to which he hasn't been. He went around the world three times, and also spent 18 months traveling by car and trailer from north to

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ica. “I was bon in Singapore, of |P a. middle-class, non-amazing family,” he said. “They all disapproved of my writing mystery stories — at least until I began making money at it.” 2 » ”

I ASKED ABOUT his writing formula and routine. He explained: “1 start with the first word of line 1, page 1, and carry on from there. I never make an outline and I never rewrite a story. The way it comes from the typewriter the first=time is

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“And I must say that I write honestly. “That is, I don’t cheat the plot by going back and putting in

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he's reading one to see how the other whodunnit experts are faring. None of them is faring any better than this prolific wonder-boy, who at 32 has whipped up 21 books in his “Saint” series.

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His when he was 7, and his first book

things to get. my characters out of tight places.” : His books run about 80,000 words. He may bat out one in 10 days and then sweat over the next for six months, along with some travel or other research. Charteris ca:: work very rapidly when keyed to it. Once a press association “hired him to cover a quadruple electrocution at Sing Sing, and he produced a 2000word story in 35 minutes.

i| ADVENTURE CLUB AWARDS 'OSCAR'

HOLLYWOOD, March 25.—The Hollywood Adventurers’ Club decided today to have its own academy award—even if it is a little late. The Adventurers, headed by Capt. John W. Roulac, announced they would select for a special award the best adventure picture! produced annually, basing their decision upon historical verity, development of plot, action was authenticity. Three hundred members chose Warner Brothers’ film “Dodge City,” starring Errol Flynn, as the first winner of a belated “Oscar.” Runners-up to “Dodge City” were Columbia’s. “Only Angels Have Wings.” United Artists’ “Stage Coach.” Republic's “Man of Conquest” and Alexander Korda’s “Four Feathers.”

WRITES MUSIC OF 'OUR. TOWN' Times Special HOLLYWOOD, March 25—Aaron Copland, American composer, has been engaged to do the musical score on “Our Town” by Sol Lesser, who is producing the film version of Thornton Wilder's successful play. 2 Mr. Copland, who also composed the incidental music for the picture, “Of Mice and Men,” made the following statement concerning his new commission: * “It provides an opportunity to express in the medium of music the very essence of American life, which Mr. Wilder caught so successfully in his play. “Any composer would be proud to accept such an assignment, and I am particularly happy to be given this chance to write the score for what I consider a great work of art.”

STAR OF 'SILENTS' OFF TO HONOLULU

' HOLLYWOOD, March 25 (U. P). —Marguerite Clark, famous actress in the days when most of the pres< ent stars were in kindergarten, was en route to Honolulu today after a brief visit with’ old friends. : Because she registered at a Beverly Hills hotel as Mrs. [H. P. Williams, her identity was not discovered until she sailed. Her husbafd, sportsman and aircraft company executive, was killed in a plane

crash four years ago.

$150,000 ASKED IN COLMAN SUIT

. HOLLYWOOD, March 25 (U. P). ~The motion picture, “A Tale of Two Cities,” grossed $2,500; 000 and Ronald Colinan, the star, has been

Suit was filed by the actor's assignee, Ralph | K. Trotter, against Loew’s, Inc. 20th Century-Fox films, He p To

“TRIPLE PREMIERE So eager is London, England, to see the work of Vivien Leigh, as Scarlett O'Hara in “Gone With the Wind,” that the film will open si-

ded an additional |-

multaneously in three theaters there

cards, and sought a new location|. for perhaps erica’s biggest dice! games. Those picture makers who gamble daily with a fickle public in the production of every film they make and then gamble some more at night with the Clover’s coupiers found that Sheriff Captain George Con-

‘|treras had shown no respect for

their plush-lined réndezvous.:

‘ He had confiscated ‘a list of “members,” which he said contained the names of dozens of -movie notables, smashed mirrored doors and secret panels, carted away roulette wheels and dice tables, shooed formally dressed patrons home, and left two deputies in the lobby to see that the wheels didn’t start clicking again. He made no arrests, but said

: brie - ;| he was investigating the club’s mysHOLLYWOOD, March 25.—Life is a mystery to Leslie Char-

terious owners. . Sphinx Club Also Raided

Then he had moved over to the Sphinx Club, also. on Sunset Blvd., and also catering to the movie érade. He confiscated more gambling paraphernalia there and ordered ar-

his brother, Maurice, Ray" Hallor, and two'waiters. Capt. Contreras ignored the Llover Club’s restaurant and bar to start poking through another door, which led info a many-turned and many-mirrored corridor. The Captain claimed most of the mirrors were transparent for one-way vision and that the gambling operators could see him coming. Before a door at the end! of the hall Capt. Contreras and his 10 helpers brought out crowbars, sledge hammers and the oaken battering ram they had used to enter the club. They burst through this final door. They burst inside in a shower of glass into a series of salo s, all with ankle-tickling rugs and handsome furnishings, but no customers and gambling equipment.

Earned Spurs on Rex

The Captain, who earn his spurs when he smashed the wheels and tables of the S. S. Rex in Santa Monica last summer, for two hours led his men [through the maze of

{doors and corridors within the club.

Finally he found a. pine-paneled room which looked peculiar. He rammed a hole in one of the panels and | discovered '@ another chamber piled with roulette wheels, chuck-a-luck| “cages and greencovered tables. Capt. Contreras said the equipment was $10,000. He found no slot’ machites. Clover Club/ catered only to the wealthy. Many actors the establishment for dinner and dancing, but, few, were prosperous enough for bouts with the Clover’s dice. . Most of the roulette wheels used $5 chips for starters, while the dice tables Eaton on a sky’s-the-limit basis. 5 The Clover Club was a speakeasy in an old mansion during prohibition. Seven years ago it moved into its magnificent new headquarters in the center of Hollywood's gayest district. It had been raided intermittently since, but | never closed for more than a few weeks at a time.

RESCUE STRAY DOG FROM SUDDEN DEATH

‘BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 25. —Blackie, a small black: crippled dog, has been saved from death by a police bullet through the efforts of two local youths, 13 and 11. The stray dog, who has been roaming about Bloomington without a license, was to be shot unless someone claimed him. Then Sam and Marion Foddrill marched home with Blackie. In was Blackie’s tailwagging friendliness that saved him.

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Purchasing Agents to Meet—The ‘Purchasing Agents’ Association of Indianapolis will meet tomorrow night .in the Indianapolis Athletic Club to honor association past

_|idents and to hear Tom Jolly, national organiaztion president, + spes

Dr. Row to Speak—The : apolis Medical Society of Mar County will meet at 8:15 p. m.

Club. Dr. W. F. Hughes and Dr.| Hamilton Row will speak. :

Grotto Gives Party—Roy Maws master of ceremonies of S¢ Grotto and mir chairman of the e n tertainment committee, will be in charge of a memb ership party at the . clubhouse at 8:30 o'clock tonight. Roy Allred, co-chair-man, is in charge of the ; stage show. Lon M Tracy is chair- Mr. Mawson man of the committee in- charge of refreshments. Prophets associated with | the International - Harvester Co. will be honor guests. !

Clubs to Fete Langdon-Fay Langdon, Indianapolis Motor Transportation Club president, will be guest of honor. Thursday at the Dayton: (O.) Transportation Club meeting and April 2 at the Cincinnati Motor Transportation Club meeting.

Inspect Publishing Plant—Members| of the Indianapolis Club .of Printing House Craftsmen will inspect the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. plant at Springfield, O., April 5. The group will make the trip on a special Big Four train.

Sponsors Police Schools—The Federal Bureau of Investigation will hold police training schools this week and next in Shelbyville and Columbus, B. Edwin Sackett, agent in charge, announced today.

Sackett to Address Lions—B. Edwin Sackett, head of the Indiana division of the Federal Bureau, of Investigation, will speak at the Lions Club luncheon in the Claypool Hotel Wednesday.

hobby show in which more than 1000 exhibits are expected will be sponsored by the Y’s Men's Club at the Y. M. C. A. April 25, 26 and 27: The entire second. floor of the Y. M. C. A. will be made available for exhibits. | Emsley W. Johnson,

worth about |club president, has named Kirkwood

Yockey general chairman of the

The show and Russell Abdon chairman|

of the entries committee. .Registra-

patronized | tion will close April 15. Blanks are

available at schools and ihe, Y. M. C. A.

FAMED FRENCH RADIO

PARIS, March: 25 (U.| P).— Edouard Branly, French physicist credited with discovering the means of detecting and receiving wireless impulses, died last night. He was 96. Guglielmo - Marconi, - inventor of the wireless, gave M. Branly credit for his part in the discovery and his first wireless message from England to France in 1899 said “This splendid achievement. being due i part to the remarkable work of Branly.”

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“ Hobby Show Planned—A city-wide |

INVENTOR, 96, DEAD|

Ry is a Ry ed be resients have switched to canned | water. When a well supplying part of the town collapsed, officials of ithe New Jersey Water Co. an- ? [nounced that residents would re{ceive their water in cans until re-

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Cathedral Men to Have Party—|{ ' The Men's Club of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral will close its ann drive with a party at the Knights -|of Columbus auditorium Wedne night. Club officials include Geral

Anthony Concilla, secretary, an William Brady, treasurer. The Rev. Fr. James A. Hickey, assistant pasto

School vacation time next wee will be kite-flying time to 100 os * 150 members of the English Ave ‘nue Boys’ Club. They are gettin ready this week for the ann kite-flying contest sponsored b; the club.’ Practically all the terials are being furnished by : club. Kites of all shapes and are being made, including | “Eddie” kite, “Star” kite and b kite, along with several of orig design, according to William Stew ard, assistant club director, w originated the contest 13 yea ago and will supervise it this year. Judging will be based on neatness, originality and flying. Harry G. Gorman, club executive directer, extended an invitation to the ‘public’ to’ attend the contest and to visit the club at 1400 English - Ave, and see the: ‘kites being made.

Townsend Club 48 to Meet— Townsend Club No. 48 will meet at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at the I. PF. Hall, 1336 N. Delaware St. news letter from .the Washington’ headquarters of the Townsend Plan will be read? The Rev. R. M. rill of the Broadway Baptist Church will preside.

For The Sake Of HEALTH and HAPPINESS Every day you prolong the truth about your eyes it is costing you an. untold amount in life's mare gift— HEALTH and HAPPI- . NESS! Hurry, have our optometrist © ' examine your eyes today.

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Property Owners to Meet—Fropincorporation of a section outside the city limit on W. Washington St. as West Ridge will hold a meeting at 7:30 p. m. tomorro 4424 W. Washington St. The proposal is'to incorporate a section extending ‘about eight blocks west of 4400 W. Togimpan,

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