Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1940 — Page 26
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Lau rel- Hardy
Phone Call |
a “Is Ne Ln Trick
By DAVID MARSHALL
- “This is Stan Laurel, » of Laurel and Hardy.”
‘the daytime.
said the quiet British voice on the phone,
+ “Hello,” I ar |stalling for time, Yesterday seemed a little early for
“how are you?”
The voice assuréd me he was fine and iat Oliver ‘Hardy was much
the same condition, too. (At least this Jokester wasn’t missing a trick.) : We're here in’ Chicago appearing 5 on the stage of the Chicago Theagor the suave voice continued. Then—as they say in the movies— came the dawn.
y First a ‘Bumper’
Si “recalled that lier this week © & “mysterious” Mr. Seltzer had dropped in the office quite casually and in the course of conversation had mentioned—very slightly, mind you-~that Laurel and Hardy were on their way here. | : Mr. Laurel, under 1 ding, said he was n in Ulverston, England. (I told s0), that he ,. trouped England and the continent | until he was 15 and came to Amer- ; ica with a vaudeville Jesup, includ-
gentle prod-
. boat. ih He rose in ~vaude jille by taking -; falls as what the’ trade calls a I bumper.” It was while directing a +. Hal Roach picture t he met Mr. . Hardy. The latter, seems, came out second best in al tussle with a ‘ roast of lamb ending up in the studio hospital with some un- . pleasant burns, |
Funnier in Alien Tongues
Not too well suppl with actors, Mr. Laurel took the great one's (300 pounds) place. Thus the duo was born and in its fowering it has in 16 years made 139 shorts and 12 features, many of them in foreign languages. The latter were uch’ funnier than the English versions, Mr. Laurel said, because of the team’s hisprouyhelation. They had learned the- languages wisely, (but 3 none too . well; phonetically.
Mr. Laurel confided he goes in for the gentle art of grafting. Not-of the O. Henry, but of the Burbank, school. Already he has crossed a potato and tomato. The result was pleasant to look upon but had no taste at all. i
Chickens For Hardy
“Now I'm working on crossing a tomato with a grapefruit,” He said seriously. “Then when the pefruit squirts, it squirts tomato juice.” > He also has in mind mating sugar
cane with corn. You've heard of sweet corn, of course. After he accomplishes that he wants to make a hybrid potato-onion—=a - potato with an onion flavor. . Mr. Hardy's major worry at the moment, he said when Mr. Laurel handed him the phone, was chickens (the poultry kind). He owns a ranch and is .quite a fancier of Rhode Island Reds, Plymouth Rocks, etc. “t don’t know what to do with them, though,” he moaned. “They're too pretty to eat.”
. Neither Lawyer Nor Singer
« Mr. Hagdy has other frustrations. His father, who was district attorney in Georgia, wanted him to become a lawyer. Oliver wanted to be a singer, The operator at Chicago said our. three minutes were up. Mr. Hardy, however, had one more thing to say. “We'll get into Indianapolis about 4:2. m. tomorrow for a week’s appearance at the Lyric Theater.” It certainly would have been tragic if the operator had cut us off.
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Triggs Work Published
Composer's Piano Music to Be Presented Here.
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J. Fischer in New York has just published the “Six Surrealist Afterludes” by Harold Triggs, some of which Mr, Triggs introduced to Indianapolis - audiences during his year as head of the Jordan Conservatory piano department. From the works of the painters who specialize in flexible watches, drooping telephones, disembodied eyes and hands and other similar artistic extravagances, Mr. Triggs selected pictures by. Ernst, Picabia, ‘Dali, Miro, de Chirico and. Tanguy as starting points for his impressionistic suite for piano. The titles are “Two children are menaced by a nightingale,” “Catch as catch can,” “Personage throwing a stone at a bird,” “Melancholy and mystery of a street” .and “Mamma, Papa is wounded!” The next to last of these pieces is dedicated to Helen Earle of Indianapolis. ‘® 8 = Some of Mr. Triggs’ music for
. |two pianos will be heard during a
concert at 8 o'clock tonight at the
* North Methodist ‘Church, played by
Marian Laut and Louise Swan, both of whom were his students during his stay here. The program also will include songs by Edna Tyne Bowles, contralto of the DePauw University music faculty, and Charles Hamilton, tenor. ”, ” ”
. Pupils from the Central Studios of Music will provide music, for the Fifth District Democratic Rally tonight. They are George E. Lucas, baritone; a trio composed of Ann Maloof, Helen Jones and Mary Fern Lambert, and Pauline Bade, pianist ahd accompanist.
Chicago Stages Huge Premiere
Times Special CHICAGO, Oct. 25. — Chicago vowed it ‘would have the biggest premiere in the world. And today, for better or for yorse, they knew they’d had it. The occasion was the first American showing of Cecil ®8. DeMille’s two million dollars’ worth of technicolor epic, “Northwest Mounted Police.” The picture's stars were there—Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston, Foster, Robert Preston and the rest. And practically all of Chicago was there to look at them.
crowd in State St. at 600,000. The weary army of 1200 foot-policemen and 300 mounted bluecoats who tried to maintain a semblance -of order were inclined to put the figure higher. They could have sold a halfmillion tickets to the showings at the Chicago and State-Lake Theaters. But only a -fraction of the crowd, 9800, could be accommodated.
they could to the “bridge of Stars,” an 80-foot ramp between the two theaters, and cheered the glamore ous guests from Hollywood.
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CIRCLE Gey e+ White’s “Scandals,” with ue, Billy Rayes . Craig Maines, on stage at 12:55, 3:40, a : “The uarterback,” ¥ith Wayne Morris. Virginia Dale, at 11:25, 2:15, 5:10, 7:55 and 10:35.
CIVIC “Of Thee 1 Sing,” the Kaufman Ryskind-Gershwin musical presented’ by a cast of Civic Theater Pi ers Eades Richard Hoover's direction. gement through Saturday; | curs at gal.
he, 12:37, “Mexican Spitfire Out West, ” with Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, at 11:20, 2:31, 5:42 nq
NDIsnA mpar ts We Watch. ” at 3:48 9 and 10:1
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LYRIC and Hardy, on stage at : 5:11, 7:37 and d Moonlight.” with Melo (Vera Vague) Allen a d Johnny Downs, os 1:15, 1:31, 3:% . 8:29 and 10:43.
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On Bill at Loew's,
Having been previewed and applauded by several hundred members of the Ninth District Naval Reserve, the M-G-M short sub-
Ject, “Eyes of the+Navy,” takes its|:
place on Loew's new bill today. The film is a 20-minute study of Navy Air Corps activities, and was made with Government co-opera-tion at Pensacola, Fla, and San Diego, Cal. It was booked here to coincide with Navy Day, Oct. 27. The “premiere” was held Wednesday night at the Naval Reserve Armory, and was arranged by Lieut. Comm. F. F. Knachel.
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In White s Scandals
Lamarr in “Come Live With Me.”
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RECORDINGS
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Upon occasion Brooks Atkinson, the New York Dimes drama critic, delivers himself of a thousand words or so under the heading, “No Sunday column today.” And for a time I thought I might have to adopt his expedient. For, if anyone has taken the trouble to notice, there has been+ho record column here for the past two weeks. .The reason is a pleasant one to report. Business is good in the
record field—so good, in fact, that Columbia has not yet been able to ‘send out its October Jeloases to revigwers in the hinter. And Victor's October offe: arrived only the other day. It’s interesting to note that the triumph of demand over supply is in the field of serious, not pop‘ular music. “Variety, the omni« scient theatrical weekly, reports that business is “hypoed” from 700 to 1000 per cent in this division of the wax works. The cause of this phenomenal upturn is not hard to find. Not long ago both Victor and Columbia cut their record prices in half—at least, in most instances. And ever since the customers have been falling over each other in their haste to sap up the bargains, Smart business, gentlemen, and nice going! Mendelsshon, Symphony . in A Minor (“Scotch”); Jose Iturbi and the Rochester Philharmonic "Orchestra (Victor). This album marks Mr. Iturbi's recording debut as a conductor. And I, for one, must confess surprised pleasure at his performance. As a pianist he has seemed to me to be least at home among the German composers of the first -half~of the 19th Century. But there js nothing wayward or noe tional about the present reading. He has caught the thoughtful, sometimes somber quality of the symphony, as well as the more characteristic Mendelssohn grace and lightness. The symphony itself is rather elusive .in its pleasant melody. Although it is not deep music, its measures are- atmospheric and evocative. It merits an occasional performce at the expense of its overworked companion, the “Ital ian” Symphony.
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Bobby Gordon and Leo Gorcey, original members of the “Dead End Kids,” make their appearance today at the Alamo as the “East End Kids” in a film “Boys of the City.” Gene Autry is the attraction in the other picture, “Radio Ranch.” It is a feature version of the Autry serial, “Phantom ‘Empire.”
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