Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1940 — Page 8

Family portrait, lor Kay Francis, Deanna Durbin and Walter Pi dgeon in: a domestic huddle during Its a Date, ” Deanna’s seventh starring vehicle which comes to the Indiana tomorrow.

Alec Templeton’ s Agent | Tells All About His Boss

The | only thing wo Stanley North has against Alec Templeton is the blind young glish pianist’s passion for radio listening. And even the fact that he wakes Mr. North up| in the morning by turning on a fromnh opera can’t dampen the latter's enthusiasm very much, | | Alec Templeton, says Mr. North, is a man of boundless energy, prodigious memory, terrific power of concentration and| “the wisestcracking son-of-a- gun you ever saw.” I Mr. Nprth, who describes himself as Alec's|ex-companion, was through Indianapolis to assure himself that all was| going well in preparation for Mr. I Templeton’s recital at the April 30, under sponsorship of the Rdishapelis! Orphans Home

Looks Like keiion?

Apparently things were in order. In faet, Mr. North opined, it looked like another sell-out. The Indianapolis appearance will be Mr. Templeton’s 80th of the season, and at least 80 of these have been to soldcut houses. Since last October the pianist has traveled 125,000 miles, playing from coast to coast and dipping south almost to the Mexican border. In addition, of course; there is a weekly radio broadcast to prepare. Practically every note heard on these broadcasts, says Mr. North, is -dictated by Mr, Templeton to Gene Ostergren, his copyist and arranger. When the announcer says “a Templeton arrangement,” he’s not speaking idly.

‘How Does He Do It?

The question naturally arises, “How does he do| it?” And Mr. North’s explanation is the “terrific concentration” referred to earlier. “The radio is going from morning

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listen to the opera, dictate from the

“has four or five going at once.”

i | fast for the blind boy from Britain.

till night,” says Mr. North. “Perhaps | it's a Saturday afternoon opera broadcast. Well, Alec‘ can

piano and carry on a conversation, all at once. It drives his arranger crazy.” Mr, Templeton is a rather frail looking young. man. But, says Mr. North, “he can take more beating than anyone I ever saw. Much of the time he is tense and keyed-up. But he can drop off, to sleep on two minutes’ notice any time he wants to. [And he wakes up perfectly alert land ready to go again.” Besides the radio, Mr. Templeton’s| favorite diversion is the movies, his faithful ex-companion reveals. He always speaks of “seeing” a picture, and goes whenever he gets a chance! “He listens intently to the incidental music as well as the dialog,” Mr. North explains, “and he sometimes can tell you more about a movie than you know yourself. He has his favorite actors and actresses, too. | We chased the Heifetz picture, ‘They Shall Have Music,” all over the country before we finally caught up with it.”

Scripts Are Problem

In the field of sports, Mr. North: says he finally has persuaded Alec that basketball isn’t a “sissy” game. But as yet he’s had no luck in drousing in the Britisher an enthusiasm for baseball. Mr. Templeton prefers music boxes to athletics. He has a collection of about 25,

some of them old and ‘valuable. “And,” says Mr. North, “he plays them by the hour—sometimes he

The famous “Templeton impressions” which delight an admiring radio public often are thought up at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, according to Mr. North, who on occasion has been awakened from sleep to hear about them. Apparently the only thing that really stumps Mr. Templeton is the matter of memorizing scripts for his radio show. “After Alec made a long announcement Monday night the announcer ad-libbed a line, ‘You can relax now, Alec,’” Mr; North said. “And I could almost hear Alec ‘breathe a sigh of relief.” ut in the line of music, one gathered, you can’t throw ’em too

STILL COMING

Although the script of “The Life of, Knute Rockne” is completed, Robert Buckner, the author, still receives hundreds of letters a week offering anecdotes and advice concerning the late football coach.

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Famed British Actress Is Dead

LONDON, April 11 (U. P.).—The Press Association reported yesterday that word had been received of the death of Mrs. Patrick. Campbell, famed British actress, at Pau, France. She was 77. Mrs. Campbell was a star of the British and American stage in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras,

flashing into fame as the star. of|

Sir Arthur Pinero’s “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray,” first presented in London May. 27, 1893. Her wit and charm were fabulcus. George Bernard Shaw and Sir James Barrie were her close friends in a time when she was the toast of London and New York . In recent.years she had lived in retirement, some of the time in Hollywood and briefly in New York. Her first: -husband, handsome young Capt. Pat Campbell, was killed in the Boer War, and she later married George Cornwallis West. But she was always best known as Mrs. Pat Campbell.

For 25 years during the height of Warfield,

her fame she had a virtual choice

on a story by Louis Bromfield.

Alamo “BURIED ALIVE”—With Beverly Roberts, Robert Wilcox.

by Victor Halperin. | ' A “big house” melodrama in which ho one is buried alive.

“BULLETS FOR RUSTLERS”—With Charles Starrett, Lorna Gray.

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“IT ALL CAME TRUE”—With Ann Sheridan, Wthphtey Bogart, Jeffrey Lynn, Zasu Pitts, Una O'Connor. Directed by Lewis Seiler; based

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Boy, girl and gangster converge on boarding house run by mothers of first two. Mothers baby the gangster, who waxes sentimental, turns the place into a night club to pay off .the mortgage, goes off to jail, leaving the young lovers in command. “THE COURAGEOUS DR. CHRISTIAN”—With Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett, Robert Baldwin. Directed by Bernard Vorhaus.

: Indiana “rvs A DATE”—With Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Lewis Howard, Eugene Pallette. Directed by William Seiter; screen play

by Norman Krasna. In this one a young lady who aspires to dramatic fame, and her

mother, who still fancies herself an ingenue, battle over a wealthy pineapple tycoon and the title part in a play called “St. Anne.” “HALF A SINNER”—With Heather Angel, John Ring, Constance /Collier. Directed by Al Christie. Loew’s “YOUNG TOM EDISON”—With Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Virginia Weidler, Eugene Pallette. Directed by Norman Taurog; screen play by Bradbury Foote, Dore Schary, Hugo Butler. Many actual incidents of Edison's boyhood in Port, Huron, Mich, are included in this screen biography of the great inventor. “AND ONE WAS BEAUTIFUL”—With Robert Cummings, Laraine Day, Jean Muir, Billie Burke. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair.

Lyric WAYNE KING AND HIS ORCHESTRA (on stage) —With the Tanner Sisters, vocal trio; Chick and Lee, comedians; Lynn, Royce and Vanya. “VIVA CISCO KID” (on sereen)—With Cesar Romero, Jean Rogers,

Chris-Pin Martin. Directed by Norman Foster. - In this one the Cisco Kid again falls in love and, just to prove it, he saves the heroine from being buried in a mine.

John Barrymore Tops All In New Popularity Poll

John Barrymore is the greatest performer in the memory of 86 persons who voted in a recent poll conducted by Billboard, the theatrical weekly. The voters, representative of theatrical fields on both sides of the footlights, were permitted to name anyone in any entertainment medium, with choices limited to five. Out of 152 periormers mentioned, the Great Profile led ‘Charlie Chaplin, Helen

Hayes, Paul Muni and Enrico Caru-

the dashing, |so in the first five.

The second five were Arturo Toscanini, George M. Cohan, Al Jolson, Sarah Bernhardt and Fred Allen. After them came Lionel Barrymore, Katharine Cornell, David James Barton, Feodor Chaliapin, W. C. Fields, Otis Skin-

of special roles written for her by ner, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo and

Pinero, Shaw, Barrie, Wilde, Isben phe Materlinck. he was a key figure in the sensa-

— Ellen Terry-Shaw correspond- ickev Rooney. Sonja Hen-|O0f his vocal greatness seems still to ence published several years ago Fogeny Mithey a ia a be as vivid as it was when he was blit would offer no comment on the Williams, Marian Anderson, Kirsten |2live.”

letters in which her name was Flagstad, Richard Mansfield, Al-

sprinkled. “You know,” she said at that

time, “I said in my own biography win Booth, Bing Crosby, Lauder and Lily Pons.

most of the things I care to tell of

I never knew her and saw her act only once.”

NEWTON SINGS AT LAFAYETTE TONIGHT

George Newton, Indianapolis bassbaritone, will sing tonight for the State Federation of Music Clubs’ annual convention in Lafayette. His program will consist of an aria from Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and a group of American songs. Included in the American group will be “Ein Schwann” by Noble Kreider, Goshen composer who dedicated the song to Mr. Newton; and “The Last Hour,” a setting by A. Walter Kramer of a poem by Mrs. Demarchus Brown of Indianapolis. Walter Whitworth will be Mr. Newton’s accompanist.

JIMMY GLEASON LOSES AT POLLS

HOLLYWOOD, April 11 (U. P.).— James Gleason, motion picture comedian, was defeated wiht two running mates” in Beverly Hills’ municipal election, unofficial returns showed today. “ Edward E. Spence won by a substantial majority over Mr. Gleason and Fred L. Cook and James L. Kennedy defeated Albert H. Chotiner and William E. Edwards in the contest for the three council posts.

DOUBLE BILL HELD OVER AT SHERIDAN

“Vigil in the Night” and “Swiss Family Robinson” will be held over at the Sheridan neighborhood theater tonight through Saturday. The double bill opened Sunday for | a scheduled four-day run.

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Adams finished out of the running.

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