Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1940 — Page 4

PAGE 4

Critic Subs for Sammy,

Decides to

By DAVID

Did vou ever It all happened because of week to find Indianapolis’ best called "Do You Want I didnt and I still don't

lead a hand? Well, Sammy amateur band to Lead a Band?”

Stay a Writer

MARSHALL I did. It's awful,

leader, The contest is

Someone connected with the Lyric management slipped Sammy the

the show the

Names of ing the cluded testants Sammy gets vou out bare stage and tries fer] it isnt going to But it’s no goon Your hands feel ike warm clams Your fingers quiver ana vou suddenly are sure vou have an engagement She oe But vou can’t get awa " spotlight i over ton and brings out the flush coming up from vour collar to your hair line

Play,

+» You grab the microphone to keep from collapsing in front of all those people. Sammy asking rou questions but aont even Know what back al him though rocking in

newspaparmen covers So they were mnn first batch of conon that big, make vou hurt a bit

1o

n-brieht

Critic, Play

answers vou Ther must because the audience is then vou hope hands vou a baton {oesn t

aur hanas

guryie

be gooa

clatiel are

0 reason it to the floor is that too sticky How'd the band The Old Sammy You eve remember A say but find yourself face i have to be wi seems Executioner

to lead Mare

vy

like in psks what ing that nu

\ 13 men

mber) the Lo Aid for the Up goes the bate been reflex act haven mR

nom

to be Sufferer

It mst pecaunse

First

a cymbal lly reason

You

ovel

Nile Sammy

“ DINE and DANCE

apphire Room

apes i Ee Ty VIER

Go to the Lakes’ It's Cooler In the Sapphire

Room

Thrilling New Dance Muse

Jack CHAPMAN

n ™ Extra i

Lsenenan and

Ay

by

hestra

"ADAMS

Nance

RHUMBA NITES Every Monday & Tuesday Lischeron & Adams Will teach you how {to dance the Rhumba.

toerat f e Floor

x India

The BRONZE ROOM

BERNARD J

STEVENS

ATI WASHINGTON

ELM LOAM CECILIA

pumps vour hand and thanks for leading the lads You stumble off inte the wings where a stagehand grabs vou and asks how vou felt. Thats a good one. If he hadnt been there you would have folded up like a punetured balloon, He gives van a glass of water and other svmpathetic samaritans of the stage crew sort of mold you back into something resembling & human being. When rou head back to your seat the high school kids who also lead the band are standing in a group talking to Sammy. They all look as Barrymore, Boy! Can

12,000 Signatures Win in Contest

HOLLYWOOD. July 22 (U. P).Vera and Phame Johnson, who have than 12.000 signatures ce coming to Hollvwood six vears Ago, expiained today that combined persistence and courtesy the key to their “art.” For George Broadcasting who held a contest autograph some of

you

suave @&S RR

take it

they

collected more

18

McCall, Columbia Svrstem commentator to find the ehamhunter, they disthe secrets of thei

pion closed hobby, Autographs are obtained eas ilv along the film colony's thoroughes where novices pester the stars, Johnsons disclosed They get their natures bv a svsematic search of cafes, siation wagons and night spots somet imes thev seek out the help rd parties. For instance, they i Luise Rainer's was the signature to obtain, but

wought her in,

sort not

fay

tal he

most of sig

of nal 16st

Scouts §

DRIVE IS DIRECTED Sy MARY PICKFORD «

U IAS opelita wil Wher of women mdusiry’s for the

» oll ©

sie

H LYWOOD. July Aa Picklord al he Goldwn will direct a committee the mo

funds

Stwaio

ie 10 Red C Pickiord was the com chairman ‘of

alse TOSS req O\ me committee Gola-

neaaq-

appom

ldwyn, Red Cross butlding has been set aside for

on the

«a JEFFREY LYNN BARBARA O NEIL

——

[Fe Armstrong-Jenkins

Fight Fim

joy the Show Out of Doors !™

fate Trevor

EAST SIDE

(TET UA

20¢ 388 Tal

SAINT TAKES OVER” “LONE WOLF MEETS A ANY ANDEN! Charlie Chase THE HECKLER

EMERSON

Parethy Lamon Anna Neagle IRENT S116

Sheridan , °.'. COOL!

I. Beany “Ruck Beuny Rides Again” Chas. Ruggles OPENED BY MISTAKE

Goat PARRER Der ton,

Andy Deviv “DANGER ON WHEELS Jah Payne RING OF LU MBERIACKS N\ le

The Mecca 20¢ Rochester

Jack Renny “RUCK RBRENNY RIDES AGA" OF TRE NAW”?

Dunn “PRIDE 20cC

COOLYTRILLY 20

D812 FE Wash Bing Croshy “IF IT RAD MY WAY" MAN OF CONQUESTT ™i 6

Richard Dn 20¢ NR. KILDARE

SERENADET

WR

CooL Ye to §

TYrRooN”

oi ith

Ae

\

las

WASH, r M

»: FE

OF GATL(CHO

SECRET Autry

ICICI REET

Clark Gahle Toan trawfard

“STRANGE CARGO” Weaver Bros, "Jeepers Creepers”

TUXEDO

“WATERLOO Give You Anything

NORTH SIDE

ZARING

“MY

Sanders

fyene

4000 New York Rabert Tavler Vivien leigh RRIDGE

Rut Lave

“Can't

Fall Crk Dunne Grant

Central at Irene Lary WIiry

ITE . FAVOR! ITE RE VER

Gea Al

-

Goel.

w carat WY SON, MY SON”

an \hern id Bande Broadway’

soth & Mineis

2? Girls On

FIRST LOVE” ACCIDENT?

at 22nd Croashy Jean

Deanna Darhm Raby Sandy LITTLE

TALBOTT Talbott

Bing Glare “IF 1 RAD MY WAY" Wallace Beery "20-MULE YE AM” Westinghouse Air-Conds tioned 5 College at 834 Free Parking Lot ‘MY SON. MY SON W-MULFE TEAM

20¢c 1.

Sor »

Carvall Beere

Madeleine Wallace 19th &

‘Stratford College

Jane With ‘SHOOTING Laurence Olivier “REBEC

John Wayne

In “Allegheny Uprising”

Wheelers wa Road 63

"Graham,

OLSON THEATERS

STRAND

1300 FE. Wash. —F ree OVE R} A HELD ILD EE Crowds Demana

Vivien Leigh—Raobt. Tavier

“Waterloo Bridge”

Cary Grant—lrene Dunne

“My Favorite Wife”

GREEN HORNEY” Once at 6 p.m Thars Susan and God Torrid Zone”

CL ) La EE We 20¢

— Ft. Way Oberan—Rex Harrison

A 6 Merle

“OVER THE MOON"

Bing Croshyv—Glovia tean

“IF | HAD MY WAY" EY Ald LET

Spencer Traev—Rita Johnson EDISON THE MAN Vivien Leigh—Robert Tavier

WATERLOO BRIDGE lL ISLE LS SII [SAR Mickey Rooney “Young Tom Edisan™ ‘SAINT'S DOUBLE TROUBLES WEST SIDE

THE DAISY 340 W

Spencer “EDISON THE MAN Robby Rreen “ESCAPE TO PARADISE™ IM NW STATE Tenth 20¢ Res

Deanna Durbin “IT'S A DATE” Dorothy Lamour "TYPHOON™

SPEEDWAY iiaidaw

Vivien Leigh Robert Tavier “WATERLOO BRIDGE Eddie Cantor 10 LITTLE MOTHERS”

BELM Beimont ana Wash ONT Vivien leigh Robert Tavier “WATERLOO BRIDGE “LONE WOLF MEETS A LADY” Plus: “THE FLAG SPEAKS Westinghouse Air-Conditioned

SOUTH SIDE

Open 3:4) : Adults Til 6 20¢ Irene Dunne—~Cary Grant MY FAVORITE Wire" “THE SAINT TAKES OVER" Alwavs

TTT Pleasantly COOL!

Doors Open 6:43—Show Starts at § Vivien Leigh—Robert T avior "WATERLOO BRIDGE “LONE Sout SETS A LADY” Mickey Rooney

SANDERS Prospect Geo, Bancroft

“YOUNG TOM ¥FDISONT Ramera “VIVA CISCO KI” NORTH SIDE Any

Time Air Coanditinand “DOCTOR TAKES A 3%

John Wayne "DARK COMMAND"

Mich. St Traex Johnson

Seat Time

Cesar

we \

Kave's contest at the Lyric this

W315 & Northwestern

The Pirates

Shirley Graham . .

Imes Photo,

. she helped start Gilbert and Sullivan swinging.

It's Deliberate This Time, Says Operetta Director

JAMES THRASHER

with malice aloreirlevy Graham has In a discreet and learned wal course. For by profession Miss Graham is a8 composer, playwright and sometime play director, conductor and pianist Nevertheless she has a good number of summer students at the Phyllis Wheatley branch Y. W,. C. A, the groove,” as the saying goes The reason for all this the Wheatley students’ forthcoming performance of “The Puates of Penance” at Keith's on Aug. 9. The performance will be swung streamlined equipped with some Latin- rican rhyvihians, And the cling we Gilbert and Sullivan peretta been moved from the of Cornwall to Cuba

temember "The Mikado?!

Miss Gralw he Jitterbug ranks. Bul perience, like greatness, was thrust upon her. She was directing an allNegro production of “The Mikado for tlle Chicago Federal Theater project. It started out. savs Miss Graham, to be a traditional and reverent recreation of this minor classic. But somewhere in the process the cast got. “in the groove” in spite of themselves Quite unconsciously a Harlem downbeat would find its way into the tripping Savovard measures And the results—well, mavbe vou remember them “The Swing Mikado” haa all Chicago running to see it. Finally it got so popular that it was taken to Broadway. Michael Todd, the vouthful mmpressario, paid it the sincere flattery of imitation, put together “The Hot Mikado,” with Bill Robinson &s Is and up both in New and

in AA oad

By This summer thought, Miss Sh turned jitterbug

of

in mn

1S

and

Ane of tl

3 AAS

un joined that ex-

Once Letore

Star, Cleaned York on the 10s Deliberate This Time Miss Graham Swing Mikado” mall its tons, for the reason that Rosenwald feliowship at Yale in the mast of the ran she learned a lot mom So climax NE suiiner lteachang sie 's deliberately doing “The the Lines down predecessol a

follow “The peregrina-

shie gol &

didu t

ut I" as A lo here, Pirates along Laud by 1s ancous tie course ol around Gilbert floy-floy, Miss she was born

here when

Spot In built with & called that apolis. She an infant, and hasnt staved very long in any one place since then, So her birthplace was more or iess of a casual recollection. Her father was the Rev, D who was pastor of Bethel A. NM. E. Church here assignments took him and his family to all parts of the country and for a time, to Africa as a missionary, His daughter Shirley didn’t ac-

conversation and Sullivan Graham Indianshe was

put

lel el

the His

20c+8

A. Faye, BH Fonda, “Lillian Russell’ tdmund Lawe, ‘The Crooked Road"

cooL! 15¢ « 6

e o First Indianapolis Showings eo Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, “Carson City Kid; Charles Starrett, “Texas Stageconch,” plas "Adv, of Red Ryder”

raf TAX

2%e TILL ¢ $0.40e EVE

(

WILLIAMHOLDEN MARTHA SCOTT

There's fun in

PRIDE ... PREJUDICE

company him, but as a student

Paris. Her

spent that time at the Sorbonne in hrother, however, went to Africa and wrote down for her native melodies and rhythms which she later incorporated into the opera “Tom Tom.” which was produced in Cleveland a few vears ago.

Holds Oberlin Degree

Miss Graham's American education includes a degree from Oberlin College as well as the graduate work at Yale. And she has taught in Morgan College at Baltimore and Tennessee State College in Nashville, Gradually enthusiasm music, hei the theater “1 think." 8) is the perfect expression It his talent for and his love are a dramatic

avs Miss Graham, her been turning from accomplishment,

has first {0 the the ul

and

ie says, “that place for ; gives Qt drama color. people, Our this country is dramatic Negro laughs a lot » time we laugh to

3 { theater I Negros play

im Ol

usic “We situation They say but much Keep from cryi

Agrees With Welles

ae ol

Miss Graham saves she agrees with Oo; Welles that we need indigenous theater; that, as Booker T. Washington put vou should put < where vou are,

down vour bucket “Drama is truly the people's expression,” she insists, “And you should build your drama from your own race and soil. 1 guess I'm still a preacher's daughter with the miscionary instinct. But I have discovered here and in Chicago and elsewhere that amazing things can be done if someone will just work with the Negroes, and bring them alive.”

PROTEST ON GONE" FILM TAX IGNORED

HOLLYWOOD, July 22 (U. P) — Selznick International Pictures and Loew's, Ine, got no sympathy today (rom the county supervisors on thei complaint that $433,705 was Wo large a lax assessment on the negatives of “Gone With The Wind’ The supervisor arched their evebrows. looked at a record stating “G. W. T. W.” had grossed nearly $13.000000 and still was playing to reserved seat audiences, and decided Selznick and Loew's could survive the assessment,

SHIRLEY VISITS DEANNA ON SET

HOLLYWOOD, July (U. Pp.) Shirley Temple, who retired” at the ripe old age of 11, took a postman’s holiday and visited Deanna Durbin voung singing star, on a set at Uni(versal Studio Saturday Shirley said she didn't know it was so much fun to watch a picture in the making. After the scene was filmed, the young stars had ice cream sodas in Deanna's dressing room

son an

29

WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE and Heaven, Tee.’ with 1 Boy 3 Barbara Weidle at

“All This, Davis, C

1 { enkins fight . pictures

6.01 and §:12 LOEW'S “Our Town,” with Will riha Seo! rand int ak “Sporting \ M vy 0

Armstrov bt 11:3

a =

iam Hol den, “ay

® 5: and 8:45

10

Kave and his orchestra, on 350 B.40 and 9 30. Honor and Oh-Baby' ith rd, Mona Barrie, on sevesn 20, 5:10, 8 and 10:31

Sammy

® Tuesdays ® Thursdays * hs

How did fn she ever marry off five daughters without a cent of dowry?

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Swing

{championship and {Rifle and Revolver Club captured

ARE AWARDED

‘State Marksmen Honored

Following Dedication of Camp Fowler.

FRANKFORT, Ind, July 22 (U. P.).—Lieut. Charles H. Rice of Company L, 151st Infantry, won the state rifie championship and Doyle V. Rhymer, South Bend policeman, won the state pistol championship today in the state shoot of the Indiana National Guard and the In-

'diana State Rifle Association at

Camp Walter S. Fowler near here. Championship medals were awarded following & ceremony dedicating the camp to the memory of the late Maj. Walter S. Fowler. Maj. Fowler, who had been prominent in the National Guard for 17 years, died last fall. During the dedication ceremonies, the Walter S. Fowler trophy to be awarded annually to the championship team of the National Guard was presented by Mrs. Margaret Fowler, his widow. It was won by

{Company L of the 152¢ Infantry in

today’s contest. Th: Three Rivers Club of Ft Wavne won the civilian rifle team the Ft. Wayne

the civilian pistol team title Pistol team honors for the National Guard went to Company I. 152d Tnfantry in the Class A Division, and to Company I, 151st Infantry in the Class B Rroup.

TRIO QUESTIONED IN LOCAL MAN'S DEATH

SheriflT Al Feeney today questioned three persons in an effort to untangle their conflicting stories as to how Joseph Hughes Harper, 32, an unemploved carpenter, met his death early today. Harper, who lives at 2022 Broadwav, died at City Hospital shortly after he was brought there by Irving Cummings, who said he lived at Sth St. and Capitol Ave Cummings, held on a vagrancy charge under $5000 bond, told police at the hospital that he, Harper and Carl M. Owens, 37, who said he lived in the 500 block of N. East St, were in a car a quarter of a mile north of 10th St. on Girls School Road and that a fnght started. Harper was wounded and Owens fled. Owens, however, later sought aid at the farm home of Oscar Blank in the neighborhood and appeared to have been badly beaten. Deputies picked him up there and took him to City Hospital for treatment, He told them that an attempt was wade to rib him and that he fought in self defense and escaped. Deputies later picked up 8 31-year-old woman, B® rooming house Keeper, who admitted she had been with the men but denied being present when the ficht started. She was charged with vagrancy and held on a $1000 bond.

JOHN HARVEY, 17, IS HUSKING HEAD

NEWPORT, Ind. July 22 (U. John Harvey, Ti-vear-old rail, lion County farmer, has been named head the state committee which one of the co-sponsors of the Indiana state corn husking contest to be held near here Oct, 25 Mr. Harvey, on whose farm the contest will be held, staged the first county corn husking contest under the present rules 15 vears ago. Six hundred volunteer workers will aid in the staging of “Indiana's largest farm sports event.” Roads are being widened near the contest farm to take care of the 60,000 visitors who annually attend the event. Sixteen of the best huskers in Indiana will compete for cash prizes and the honor of representing Indiana in the national contest in lows,

STATE POSTMASTERS PICNIC AT HENRY PARK

NEW CASTLE Ind. July 22 (U P..—The Indiana State Postmasters Association held its annual picnic meeting here vesterday at the Henry County Memorial Park. Approximately 350 postmasters, representing two-thirds of the counties in the state, attended the meeting. Algy Murphy of Troy, O.. a member of the national committee of the organization, paid tribute to George Purcell of Bloomington as being one of the instigators of the national organization of postmasters to which more than 30000 of the country’s 46.000 POSUnRSter belong.

SLAYER OF FLORIDA SCHOOLGIRL TO DIE

July 22 (U

0 is

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. P.) —Governor Fred P. Cone today signed a death warrant for Thomas McBride Cochran, ordering his electrocution next week for the at-tack-murder of Frances Ruth Dunn, Miami schoolgirl, last August. The day of the week for the execution will he fixed by L. F. Chapman, superintendent of the state Prison at Raiford. where Cochran has been in a “death row” since shortly after the death sentence was imposed on him Oct. 7 in Palm Beach County circuit court

LLL ERY

(M-G-M hit starring GREER GARSON & LAURENCE OLIVIER) Ine Coming Soon!

RED

cell.

TARGET HONORS Butler Coed, 18, to Reign As Elwood's Tomato Queen 10 MORE WANT.TO GO

ELWOOD, Ind, Leslie Shippey, ler University

July 22 18-year-old Bute co-ed from Green-

jwood, will reign as queen of the

fourth Indiana Tomato Festival this week. She was selected from a field of six contestants and wiil he crowned Wednesday on the opening day of the three-day celebration. Prominent speakers, including Governor M. Clifford Townsend, 50 floats, 11 marching bands and gaily decorated shop windows here are on the program to honor one of Indiana’s leading industries. Originated in 1937, the Festival has grown rapidly in prominence and general énthusiasm throughout the State and Nation. A small group of enterprising businessmen and merchants met May 31 of that year to make plans to honor the tomato. The festival was So successful jt was. incorporated on issue from ‘the secretary of state,

\

(U. P).q

Several reasons are given for staging thé event in Elwood each year. First ,the celebration was conceived and inaugurated there and secondly, the city has numerous facilities

for growing and canning the vegetable. Finally, Elwood is in the heart of the nation's tomato growing and

‘canning area,

300 POUNDS OF FISH— AND ALL TO BE EATEN

If vou don't like fish vou can get other things but there will be 300 pounds of fish served at the fifth annual fish frv gponsored hv St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church. It will be held Wednesday through Friday at the corner of 13th St. and Park Ave. Three bands: will play and prizes will be given away each

I night.

At Fairway

MONDAY, JULY 22,

SCOUT CAMP FULL:

' ers.

1940

Laden with blankets they'll get a chance to use them— sewing kits, notebooks, soap, and other camping material, 320 Boy Scouts will start the third scout camp period today. Ten unlucky seouts on the waiting list meanwhile will be hoping for some last minute cancellations. The 330 scouts represent a capacity

wonder if

{attendance at the camp.

Three Eagle Scouts will try for Minisino, highest camp award, Thev are Wesley Brown, who will major in astronomy; Jack Shideler, in trees and plants, and William ¥Newlin, in electricity Commanciant for be Robert Smith. James Halli, Miller, Phil

the period will Other officers are adjutant; Martin Robertson, Jack Shideler and James Kirkhoff, section leaders, and Reiman Steeg, Jack Patterson, Dan Crewiler, Robert Albright, Max Tuttle, Bruce Hflkene Hans Mengering, Norris Archer and George Sommer, senior patrol lead-

N13 BLN OFFER i110 SALE of GAS RANGES

While Limited Number Last!

WATERLESS COOKER and

8” ELECTRIC FAN... GIVEN WITH EVERY GAS RANGE SOLD

With

Imagine a fine fully equipped gas range . . .

vou would expect to pay 864.30 $45.50.

at no added cost,

NEW

Waterless cooker and R-inch electric fan

Featuring

ee Heal k controlled in with f(amaus ® Gleaming full horeelain nich ® Antamatie all ® Latpet hrailey dnar! ® Two large,

FALL

nne stele

for . now only

UTHTS

wl

9-PIECE Beuroom—$55

Refurnish your bedroom complete for only $55. A regular £79 outfit. Come in and see this outfit tomorrow,

® Bed ® Chest ® Vanity ® Mattress ® Coil Bed Spring ® Pair Vanity Lamps * Throw Rug ® Boudoir Chair

$7 9 Values

SPRING MATTRESS

solid comfort at a price no one van afford to miss, Scores of incoils, Ticking i celert colors— Ordinarily vou’d pay a great deal more for this mattress,

Here's

50c a WEEK

sQ 95

GIVEN

antomatically

fname

lighting on fan hurneps!

ronvenient compariments!

Rohert. shaw heat control,

rall.nnt

with drop.

Fully Equipped

GAS RANGE

Automatic Heat Control —

nven

$ af 50 re $1 2 WEEK

PAY hinged,

vOu white cover! falloven

ALL ® Tull ft tap Sparians sulated

size ine

JJ

$7 A WEEK

Pays for Either Outfit

9-Pc. Living Room—%$55

A real saving on a beauntiful ensemble, Regular §79 value, Come in and see this outfit tomorrow.

® Modern Davenport & Club Chair to Match ® Cocktail Table ® Floor Lamp ® Metal Smoker ® Lamp Table ® Two End Tables ®* Magazine Basket

Have an extra hed at your convenience roll “8 - way inte a closet when not in une, Sturdy otl-metal link spring hed with telted cotton padded mattress,

25¢ a Week

A

A Genuine Glass Bake Pie Plate for Only 10 Wrappers Crystal White

Laundry Soap. Bring to This Store.

00 — Same As Cash—Otherwise Small Charge

Hundreds of Other Values at Similar Low Prices!

OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT UNTIL 9