Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1941 — Page 36

"PAGE 34 Symphony 2d In U.S. Works

Plays Numerous American Pieces, Survey Finds

Times Special NEW YORK, April 11.—Indian- | apolis’ Symphony Orchestra ranked | second among the nation's 16 major orchestras in percentage of works by American composers performed during the 1939-40 season, a | National Music Council survey showed today. Of the 52 composers whose works | were played by the Indianapolis group, nine were Americans. Ranked first in the country was the Detroit Orchestra, which includes many recent American works on the Sun- | day Evening radio hour,

The Music Council said that] “American orchestral composition | has reached a point in its develop- | men where the works of our native composers should be accorded increased attention by every orchestra in the country. “Some of our orchestras do not | need to be reminded of this, while others lag far behind in their rec-| ognition of the achievements of American musicians in the field of orchestral music. The Council plans to continue each year its survey of the compositions performed by the major symphony orchestras.” Prior to the ASCAP break with radio, Director Fabien Sevitzky of the Indianapolis Orchestra made it a custom to play the work of at least one American composer for each subscription concert Because of the Sunday morning broadcasts over CBS, this practice by the Sevitzky organization was | considerably curtailed during the season just past. Several American composers were heard, however. Among those works

Civic Star

Winifred Skyrme... “Edith Jones.”

When Sara Moonlight discovers she is remaining young while her friends and family grow old, she leaves her husband, Tom, and he marries a former sweetheart, by name Edith Jones. This is the essence of the play, “Mrs. Moonlight,” which opens Monday at the Civic Theater for a six-night run. The Edith Jones role will be played by Winifred Skyrme.

HOAGY TO SUE FOR BACK ROYALTIES

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NEW YORK, April 11-—Hoagy

publishers, seeking $20,000 damages for alleged failure to pay foreign

royalties, according to Variety, trade paper. Defendants were to be Mills Music, Inc., and Gotham Music

] Wedded Life

Just a Wave

Studio Keeps Prestons Busy at Work.

HOLLYWOOD, April 11 (NEA).— The newlywed Robert Prestons (she | was Kay Feltus at Indiana University) have decided that movies and marriage won't mix, but it’s no | item for the busted-hearts columns. | They're getting along fine both un- | der contract to Paramount, and |

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|—when theyre on the same lot, which hasn't been often in the five] months of their marriage. | | In that time, Preston has been] lon location trips for two pictures,|

waving to each other across the lot |

loaned to Universal, and, just finished with “The Night of January 16th” at his home studio, he went next day to RKO for ‘Parachute Battalion.” Mrs. Preston didn't |tag along; she was busy making |three pictures collecting paychecks. | They haven't been in a picture [together. It took considerable wii [ranging even to get them together | (for a luncheon-interview, with /| [Miss Craig due on the set of] “Nothing But the Truth” and Pres-| {ton going back to RKO in an hour. | : They didn’t hold hands just 3 |srinned and said, “Hiyah?” | ; No Eclair for Robert | | They aren't even going to be in "3 {the same picture, either, she ex(plained. “It might be all right if we were established, like Joan Blongell and Dick Powell; they're] equally well known. Pres is being |

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| Carmichael, the song writer, was/starred now and I'm just starting to file suit this week in New York |in pic—" | Supreme Court against two music| “But you're getting better roles,

[interrupted Preston. “Why, in this one, they even let ya talk! Say, Kay, kin I have a chocolate

(eclair for dessert? I haven't had | {one since you put me on this diet.”

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| Lloyd Nolan,

Movies Get New Toughie

Familiar 'Mugs.'

| HOLLYWOOD, April 11 (NEA).— There's a new guy from the Brooklyn mob who's muscling in on Hollywood. Just because he pulled a couple of big jobs right after he hit town, he's taking over as the {new head-man of movie gangdom.

|Not that Sheldon Leonard's so | tough—it’s just that the films need

new thugs almost as badly as they need new leading men.

The actors who consistently play movie mugs — Warren Hymer, |

Horace McMahon, Edward Brophy, | Biberman, |

Abner Allen Jenkins and | the rest of the local mob—are so familiar that they've almost lost| their menace. Fans recognize them as readily as a neighborhood cop spots every poolroom hoodlum on his beat. Leonard wasn't thought sinister when he was at Syracuse Univer- | sity. He was president of the dra- | matic society, a crack swimmer, | on the crew, and all-state tackle. | Nor when he was a customer's or a theater]

Joseph Calleia,

| manager in Rochester and Brook- |

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Fireball Dancer Eleanor Powell shakes right out of her skirt and | contract

lyn. Also, the new gangster fine record as a Broadway comedian; he was the suave city guy of "Having Wonderful Time” and the producer in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye.” Then he made his first | false step—took the role of the murderer in “Another Thin Man.” Coming west last September to] try out in a new play, he signed] up as Cesar (Butch) Romero's | gangland rival in “Tall, Dark and Handsome.” Now on a long-term to 20th-Fox and being

has a

Sheldon Leonard Replaces

Stars at Fox

attractions be Senorita

One of the Fox's starting today will Garcia, a “Mexican spitfire.”

"Tis said the senorita is

FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1941

| TOOTING THE HORN

| Irving Berlin, Inc, music “ pub= lishers, will publish “When Johnnv Toots His Horn,” one of the new tunes in James Roosevelt's movie, “Pot 0’ Gold.” The song is played on the harmonica and sung by Jimmie Stewart in tl} film

2 Days nd ENGLISH ® Beginning Next Mon.

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PERSONAL APPEARANCE Admiral RICHARD E. BYRD

TELLING THE STORY OF HIS RF CENT .T ADVENT RES IN LITTLE AMERCIA ILLUSTRATED BY %00 FEET OF FILM

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| “What kind of sherbet do they jumps into a new dance called “New Shoes.” The movie will be called [loaned all over town for sinister

rarticularly well received here were i : ] : Service, Inc. roles, Comedian Leonard is typed

David Van Vactor’s “Overture to a Comedy No. 2” and Arthur Foote’s | “Aria for Strings.” Introduced to Indianapolis listeners at the all-American concert this year, the Foote composition was chosen by the orchestra’s audi- | ences for the “popular” subscription | concert, series, which concluded the |

~_|have?” Mrs. Preston asked mild- | Songs involved were “What Kind |ly. (He ate sherbet) “I'm just

“Lady Be Good.”

| O’ Man Is You,” “Star Dust,” “Man- starting in pictures and, in a way,

“My |and I don't ever want to trade on [his reputation. {

When she was asked whether |

Hitchcock Makes the Old | 'I| Spy’ Game Easy to Play

(NEA) —Alfred Hitchcock, the British di-|

{Preston had pulled any strings to HOLLYWOOD, April 11

luntil a newer and tougher | takes over the movie mob.

STUDIO CAT FIGHTS

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HOLLYWOOD, April 11 (U. P.).—| A 1-year-old lion and a cat tangled |

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O'CONNELL JOINS ACTORS IN ARMY | HOLLYWOOD, April 11.—Hollywood was trying today to dope out

HOLLYWOOD, April 11 (U. P.).— who will get the George Gershwin| |,

The latest actor to be inducted into rple in Warner Bros.’ 0S Im i . hp the Army is Arthur O’Connell, 33, musical, “Rhapsody in Be E ny a FH or EN ny A Jam. who came home from London in| “Just in case they want a guy Who knew that, by golly. if Ci In “Rebecca” he strolled in a : 1939 because things were “getting ern wisy. a Steinway and also act, dian’t land a job. then the movies rows Ie Urliscoveral Engen. bY SH a TD: ender | didn’t want me and I'd stick to A Ni Hee Se a reportedly confided to friends Dur- radio and the theater.” briskly as a cement mixer through (The test recently landed her alan outdoor set of “Mr

ing his New York engagements, Mr. ; { | 5 role in "Las Vegas Nights.” Smith.” ]

and Mrs. | Duchin has been studying acting at { : She doesn’t know where Hollv- Hitchcock made two appearances | . : y. am fB Ce in M-G-M’s ‘Men of Boys Town,

get her into his studio, she said, rector with plenty of poundage, has decided he's entitled to more foot- { IN GERSHWIN ROLE “I'd like to think he didn’t, but &ge in future pictures. That's going to end the game of I Spy Hitchf I know Paramount took more care cock!” which Hollywood and many movie fans have been playing. with the test than any other studio! BY now, his whim of appearing in ——— I p— had. | each of his films is a sort of tradi“Pres Was Wonderful” | tion, but heretofore, his acting has been brief and inconspicious—so It was wonderful to have Pres much so that only trained Hitch-

this week in the Alexander Korda | Studio and the lion got the worst] | of it. |

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The lion, brought to the studio by its owner for a screen test, walked too close to the cat and her kittens In a flash, the cat was on the lion's | back, raking it viciously with her claws. Studio workers had to pull her off.

last, they work up to the clinch again, come out of their corner at (the sound of the ice cream man's bicycle bell. “You were right, lady,” he says humbly. “I forgot pistachio.”

too hot He has played several stage and movie roles. the last in “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles’ first proeduction (the American Academy. —— | Strongest reports here are that Wood got the idea she was a school- in “Foreign Correspondent” —one John Garfield will get the role. teacher, unless it was because she Obvious. just to make the game bet-|

T Vv BE TY DI IDES LOYALTIES owns a Phi Beta Kappa kev. (Pres- ter for his fan-spies. The first was]

GOODMAN GRADS |ton is monstrous proud of that piece IN an |of jewelry and marvels that such a Walked under the Carlton Hotel Benny Goodman numbers among | Smart girl as Kay would pick a dope | Canopy. The second, which he | who never got out of high school) | P0asts no one noticed, was in the hotel ballroom scene. Now, in “Before the Fact,” which Actually, she has more theatrical! stars Cary Grant and Joan Fonbackground than her husband. She|taine, the portly director will be traveled with her father’s circus| seen coming out of a shop in an when she was a child, used her| English village. He’ll walk over to uncle’s theater for Saturday morn-|a street corner letter-box, struggle ing productions with a neighborhood | to force an over-size envelope in

Betty Field, feminine star in “The | early sequence, where he|

Shepherd of the Hills,” is taking ad- | vantage of a contract which per-| mits six months of each year in|the bandleaders who used to play stage work, by appearirig on Broad-!in his organization, Harry James, way in Elmer Rice's “Flight to the | Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson and Bud Freeman.

Speech Assistant at I. U.

men whe © 0 dinner! 0

“Goes we're in the soup agen!’

cast. At I. U. she was assistant to| the speech instructor and won sev-| eral dramatic awards.

They made the Paramount test! {on Monday, Nov. 4, last year, Para{mount handed her a contract on Thursday, and on Friday they were married in Las Vegas. Christmas Day is the only vacation they've had together, and lately, working hours have been 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Luckily | for Mrs. Preston, she says, her hus-| . |band doesn’t want breakfast at | home. | It pleases him, though, that she's a good cook, especially because | Preston Sr, is, too. Invariably, {papa-in-law asks about each dish. ‘Did vou make this?” Even if it's drugstore ice cream, Miss Craig demurely assures him she did.

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RHAPSODY’ LEADS | BMI SHEET SALES

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NEW YORK, April 11.—Broadcast | Musie, Inc., which was born out of

ASCAP’S quarrel with radio, re-| ported today that it has disposed of about 1,165,000 sheets of piano music during its year's operation. | “I Hear a Rhapsody,” with 190,000 | sales, was tops and “There I Go,”| with 150,000, was second. Total] ASCAP sales for the same period | | were estimated at 16,000,000,

and George Murphy—parks.

its slot, it, and saunter away Hitchcock's dog also will be in this picture, but not because the director wants the whole family in the cast—just that he knows his Sealyham will obey him. | This caused a little rivalry at the| studio. When Director Garson Kanin heard that Hitchcock was hiring his own dog and collecting $16.50 a day for him, Kanin cast his sports roadster in the sequence in “Tom, Dick and Harry’ where there's a lakeside woo-party crowd. It's purely a matter of principle, be- | cause hoth directors will give the money to movie charities. | That woo-flinging, incidentally, | ought to get appreciative chuckles] from fans under 30. The scene opens | with the unmistakable sound of a | sharp slap, then the camera moves in on # girl, rather disheveled and quite indignant, jumping out of a car. As she stalks away, the car backs out and follows her and another car—carrying Ginger Rogers

conquer

Just as they are in the middle of some tender phrases and going into a clinch, an ice cream vendor sticks his head in the window and says jovially, “Good evening! And what does everybody want? Vanilla, chawklit, strawberry, banana, black walnut—and peppermint stick.”

“You left one out,” admonishes Miss Rogers sourly. Rid of him at

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