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Says Ann Harding

Owes for Jane

HOLLYWOOD, May 2 (U. P.)— Actress Ann Harding faces a $5000 suit for attorney’s fees, allegedly incurred six years ago in a long legal battle when she won the custody of her daughter from her former husband, Harry Bannister. The suit was filed in Superior Court by Charles S. Glass, administrator of the estate of the late Max D. Steuer, who represented Miss Harding when Mr. Bannister sought the childs custody in New York courts. Mr. Glass charged she had agreed fo pay Mr. Steuer $10,000, but had paid only half of it and refused to pay the balance. Miss Harding is now married to Conductor Werner Janssen. The daughter, Jane Bannister, is 13.

Riverside Is ‘Dressed Up’

Amusement Park Opens Season Tomorrow.

Riverside Amusement Park, plugged as a home owned and home operated amusement center, opens its 38th annual season with ceremonies beginning tomorrow |

Miss Lewis To Be Soloist

Appears On Thursday's Jordan Program.

Agatha Lewis, young dramatic soprano from Chicago, will be soloist at the closing concert of the Jordan Conservatory’s second American Music Festiva’ next Thursday night at the Murai. The announcement came from Fabien Sevitzky, conductor of the Indianapolis Sy m phony Orchestra, under w h ose supervision the festival is being planned. The four-day program will open at 8:30 p. m. Monday with = oa chamber music at the Odeon. Agatha Lewis Tuesday’s ¢oncert, at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, will be presented by the JordanButler Philharmonic Choir and Wednesday's, at the Odeon, will consist of operatic excerpts sung under the direction of Charles Hedley. The final program Thursday night, presenting Miss Lewis as soloist in McDonalds choral symphony, “Tragic Cycle,” will be played by the Jordan Orchestra and choir un-

night and continuing through Sun-|der the direction of Mr. Sevitzky. .

day. Complete renovation of the fun] center will be finished today. New fandscaping and lighting effects have been installed along the midway and some new concessioks added, according to the head man, H. E. Parker. A little later in the season, the Showboat refreshment gardens will be opened by George Golding. The Roller Rink which had its biggest season in several years this past winter will remain open during the summer. No change in the free admission, parking, checking and picnicking policies will be made.

SUES FOR PROFITS OF CHAPLIN BOOK

HOLLYWOOD, May 2 (U. P).— Toraichi Kone, describing himself as valet and secretary to Charlie Chaplin for 17 years, charged today that he had collaborated with Authoress Gerith von Ulm on a Chaplin biography, and received nothing for his labor. : He demanded an accounting of the profits of the book, Chaplin: Xing of Tragedy” against Miss Ulm. Mr. Kone said the book which he was entitled to half.

“Charlie | in a suit | “Lucky”

| Miss Lewis, critically acclaimed as

| the possessor of a clear, natural and

| well- trained voice, has a record that | includes:

Soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, appearances at the Cincinnati May Festival and the Worcester, Mass., Festival, and

{Chicago winner of the Chicagoland | Festival Contest.

All programs of the Jordan festival will be open to the public with no charge, but fer the final concert complimentary tickets for reserved seats will necessary. They may be obtained at the conservatory’s office, 1204 N. Delaware St. or by mailing a self-addressed envelope to the institution’s registrar at the same address.

HUMBERSTONE IS LUCKY ONCE MORE

H. Bruce (Lucky) Humberstone, director of Sonja Henie’s films. suffered a broken nose, cuts and bruises Wednesday when his automobile skidded in the rain. He has had to relinquish his present assignment to Mal St. Clair. Mr. Humberstone has been called since he ran his automobile

|into a telephone post several years had earned $20,000, of | | vived.

ago at 90 miles an hour and sur-

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She Dared to Be Two Women Just to Please the Men in Her Life!

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Mayor Greets Cast of "George Washington Slept Here'

The New York cast for “George Washington Slept Here,” arrived abeard the train yesterday and who should meet them but Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan.

Katherine Meskill. The other lads and lassie are, left to right: Director J. Edward Shugrue, Walter Gilbert, Whitner Bissell, William Roerich, and Valerie Co ssart.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Keith’s first presentation Monday night, The don’t blame him a bit) is Betty Goodrich. Wedged between them is

HOLLYWOOD, May 2 (NEA).— —To make the very best boogie-

woogie you mix equal amounts of Little Italy and an F. F. V, throw in a left-handful of Bach, a dash of Harlem, and beat thoroughly— eight to the bar. So it’s crazy, but that’s the combination that has made the most successful team of boogie songwriters in the country, the one that turned out most of the recent hot and dark tunes: “Rhum-Boogie,” “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” (100,000 records scld in one month), “Beat Me Daddy,” and “Scrub Me Mama.” And there's more cook-

These high priests of eight-beat are in Hollywood now, writing the numbers for another Abbott and Costello movie. They're a couple of youngsters named Don Raye (lyrics, 29 and blond) and Gene de Paul (music, Latin and 21), as opposite in temperament and background as you'd ever find.

Here’s How It Works

For “Abbott and Costello in the Navy,” they were told to whip out a number that “mustn’t be patriotic, but it must be Navy, and have a chip on its shoulder.” Another was for “four guys, like the Three Mus-

keteers, only four of ’em; make it |a one- for-all-and-all-for-one song, but light and with belly-laughs.” With this sort of mad request, the team usually starts with the | words. Don writes 16 basic lyrics, to which Gene writes the front strain. So far, there hasn't been a single complaint from the neighbors, who evidently appreciate better boogie. Another routine question is “What's the difference between ordinary music and boogie?” and as

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eight definite, prominent beats to the bar; swing has a steady fourbeat, jazz had only two to the bar.

It Isn't All Bass

Getting into the subject, they'll tell you that people usually think b. g. is all bass. It isn’t. The left hand should be completely independent of the right, which needs lots of imagination to embroider nimbly on the theme. “It wasn’t until I got into boogie that I really appreciated Bach,” said Gene. “I mean, the time I spent studying him, because Bach's written for separate, independent hands. And you can’t play good boogie if your right is imitating or repeating your left.” Mr. de Paul grew up in New York's tough Little Italy section and got his first piano lessons from his father. Gene loafed from one teacher to another, earned his first money at 13. Papa dePaul shook his head in disbelief — who was crazy enough to pay 50 cents to hear anybody play the piano? He didn’t change his mind when Gene got bigger pay, in theater bands and orchestras, and has quit listening now to the silly stories about movie salaries and record and sheet-music royalties. Lyricist Don Raye’s father never thought much of his son's profes-

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144, “Mr. District Attorney” (screen), with Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre, at 11:05, 1:35, 3:55, 6:15, 8:35 and 10:44. Sunday—Stage show at 1:09, 3:19, 5:20, 7:39 and 9:49. Picture at 132, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40 and 10:49.

Experts of Eight-Beat Give Us a Boogie Recipe

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sion, either, until he got into boogie woogie! Next week he’ll receive a recording of “In the Navy,” which Raye Jr. hopes he'll like. Actually, he’s Donald McRae Wilhoite, Jr., son of Lieutenant Commander Wilhoite. The family arrived at Jamestown on the 1607-boat and has been around Virginia ever since. Don grew up at Norfolk but lost all Navy notions when he won a state Charleston contest. The prize money took him to New York, where he got into vaudeville and night club work. The first hit he wrote was “Well, All Right,” popularized by Andrews Sisters. : The Raye-de Paul team was formed three years ago, when their publisher introduced them, suggested they work together. Newest type of eight-beat they've composed is ‘Hula-ba-luau” (Hawaiian boogie) but they're working on “cow boogie” for the next film, when the come-a-ti-yi’s sung by a ranch hand whom, the lyrics say, has “a knocked-out western accent with a Harlem touch.”

Eddie Duchin at The ‘Record Spot’

EDDIE DUCHIN, nimble fingered pianist and leader of one of America’s popular dance orchestra’s, will be in the “Record Spot” at L. Strauss & Co. at 11:15 a. m. Saturday for a public reception. Mr. Duchin and his orchestra are at the Lyric Theater for a week’s engagement. The public is invited to attend the reception. On the reception committee will be representatives from such schools as Butler, DePauw, Indiana University, Howe, Shortridge, Tech, Broad Ripple, and Manual High Schools, and the Park School for Boys.

SCOTT WALTZES

Raymond Scott, the bandleader of the screwy song titles, has recorded a waltz for the first time. The title is “The Band Played On,” from the movie, “Strawberry Blonde,” and the label is by Columbia.

Starts TODAY!

Marlene Dietrich comes to the Circle screen today in plenty of frills and furbelows and a movie called “The Flame of New Orleans.” Marlene is the flame.

Gable Wants a Versatile Auto

HOLLYWOOD, May 2 (U. P.).— —When Clark Gable vacations next time, he hopes it will be in a vehicle which literally can wade streams, glide over marshes and climb anything short of the side of a building. This isn’t one of those trick automobiles built by the prop department, nor something existing only in the imagination of a press agent. It’s the four-wheel-drive vehicle which was developed for military maneuvers. Mr. demonstration model all over the Metro lot and his ranch, but he may not be able to get delivery now. National defense orders come first.

to get one is because his hunting and fishing junkets are no tame trips, and he carries plenty of equipment. On the last expedition, deep in Mexico's interior, he wasted two days while his overloaded car was dug out of the mud.

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Ruby Ends 4-Year Loaf

She's Tapping Again In

Front of Camera.

HOLLYWOOD, May. 2 (NEA). — Ruby Keeler, the girl who started the cinema tapping its feet, is in front of the cameras again. She hasn’t changed much—maybe browner from mornings on a golf course and thinner from learning three new routines in a week and a half. It has been four years since she made a musical film, For a couple of years, she loafed and had fun with her youngster—he’'s 6 now. Now she's back, in Columbia’s “Betty Co-Ed.” Miss Keeler, Ozzie Nelson and his band, and Harriet Hilliard save the day for dear old Lambeth Technological College— you know the plot. There've been some changes made in musicals since she starred in “Forty-Second Street,” “Go Into Your Dance” and “Shipmates Forever.” The hardest, she said, is the new system of “post recording”: first, the music’s recorded; then a dancer goes through routine that’s filmed by the camera but without taps. Later, listening to the playback and watching herself on the screen, the dancer puts in the taps for the sound track. She adapted herself to it, just as she has to the new trend of more specialty numbers — she learned three, under Louis DaPron, in 10 days. Miss Keeler never has danced with Fred Astaire, although she'd like to, but in one film she was partner to Paul Draper—as tireless and as much a perfectionist as Astaire. They got off to a flying start when the just-introduced Mr. Draper said flatly, “I'll have to tell you, I can’t bear you on the screen.”

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