Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1941 — Page 10

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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18. —Dorothy pamour also is appearing in a pieture called “The Fleet's In” and she always can see the fleet coming In because she lives in a house at the top of a bluff. There are 325 eps to be climbed, and she and illiam Holden climbed them the pther day, with a camera crane pccompanying them part way. When the scene was finished, Miss Lamour sighaled for a rest. “And to think” she gasped to Mr. Holden, “that I quit a good job as an elevator operator for this!”

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This gilded musical offers a pure diversion which is now rare and it will be at English’s for two more nights and a matinee tomorrow

afternoon.

Twenty years old, the American version of the musical is not for those ne want their entertainment to zip and race. For this is the

story, of the essence at least, of Franz Schubert, the composer. He was a humble man, His melody making is the thing. Hearing and seeing “Blossom Time” on its 20th anniversary tour, one finds many stiff dramatjc devices and some rather naive lines. Naivety combined with simple music, however, often produces some glorious results,

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A Labor of Love

IN THE star role as Schubert is Everett Marshall, who, though having sung and acted the role many times before, obviously still harbors a great deal of admiration for it. At times he verges on creating a concrete character. His acting may be overdrawn (which is not always undesirable in a musical) but his general conception of the part and his singing combine for a positive result. Most of the audience, I think, grew to like Franz Schubert in a short time. And there is very adequate singing in other roles. Marthe Errolle and Frank Hornaday make “Let Me Awake” a lovely duet in the second act and in this single opinion, it was the vocal highlight of the evening. Betti Davis, too, displayed a voluminous and catching voice in the very opening number. From the standpoint of this brief bit of singing, it appeared Miss Davis would have done well in a larger part. For comedy, there was Douglas

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Leavitt again as Christian Krang, and Harry K. Morton as Novotny, the detective. Both got their measure of laughs by the simple vaudevillian trick of never abandoning a piece of comic business until it has been twice and sometimes thrice repeated until all are aware of what is going on.

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A Love Story

“BLOSSOM TIME,” if we may review an old case, tells of the love of Schubert for Mitzi Krang, a love which is never wholly returned. In fact, his realization that he could never win Mitzi is the reason his Unfinished Symphony was never finished—or so the libretto goes. It makes a good story, one which has proven its popularity time and again. The music, of course, is the reason: “Serenade,” “Song of Love,” “Tell Me, Daisy,” “Only One Love Ever Fills My Heart” and “Lonely Heart” ete. “Blossom Time” is a stilted bit of wonderful sentimentality. The production, by the Shuberts, is attractive in a traditional manner,

POSES LIKE VETERAN HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 (U. P.) .— —Mary Heller Halliday, 5-week-old daughter of Actress Mary Martin and film story editor Richard Halliday, has made her first appearance before the camera for a private movie. Cameramen said she posed “like a veteran. 2

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NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (U. P)—A lowly corporal on one-day leave from camp introduced the President of the United States last night in one of the most unusual radio programs ever heard in this country. It was the Bill of Rights broadcast which was put on the air from Hollywood and then switched to Washington for an address by President Roosevelt. One of the features of the broadcast was that acting talent which would have cost $1,000,000 a year at a conservative estimate participated without pay and, in most cases, anonymously. The talent included Corp. Jimmy Stewart of Moffet Field air station, who hurried away from the studio after the broadcast to catch a train so he wouldn't overstay his leave. The Bill of Rights broadcast started in the mind of Archibald MaclLeish, Librarian of Congress and a well known poet, who took the flea to President Roosevelt and obtained his approval. Norman Corwin, a radio script writer, prepared all the material except the President's speech.

Corporal Presents FDR

Bill of Rights

W. B. Lewis, vice president of Columbia Broadcasting System, lined up the following “million dol lar” cast: Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Bob Burns, Walter Huston, Edward G. Robinson, Rudy Vallee, Orson Welles, Marjorie Main and Corp. Stewart. The actors’ parts were not identified and the listening public could not be certain who was enacting which role until the end of the broadcast. There was no studio audience. Even the executives of the radio networks were not pres ent. Only persons to witness the show were technicians in the control booths. Several of them were deeply affected and said they almost were in tears at some stages of the show, particularly when Corp. Stewart gave his description of Washington. Mr. Barrymore opened the broadcast and then turned it over to Corp. Stewart as narrator. The program traced the development of the Bill of Rights and then Corp. Stewart introduced President Roosevelt.

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

Societies to Hold Party—The Federated Patriotic Societies will hold their monthly meeting and Christmas party tomorrow night at 512 N. Illinois St. The Mothers’ Chorus of Speedway City will sing. Joseph R. Gordon W. R. C. No. 43 is the entertaining organization. Miss Evelyn Compton will preside.

W. R. C. Holds Party—The T. W. Bennett Circle 23, Ladies of the G. A. R, will meet at noon Thursday for a covered dish dinner, Christmas party and gift exchange. A short business meeting is also scheduled with Mrs. Irene Compton presiding.

Fidelity Review to Meet—Members of Fidelity Review 140, the Women’s Benefit Association, will hold a special meeting at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow in Castle Hall, 230 E. Ohio St. Mrs. Hanna Hiatt is review president.

0. E. S. Stated Meeting—Millersville Chapter No. 300, Order of the Bastern Star, will hold its regular stated meeting and conferring of the degrees Wednesday, Dec. 17, 8 p. m, at the Millersville Masonic Temple. Frances Lee is worthy matron and Albert Jeffers worthy patron.

Legion Leaders to Meet—The 12th District American Legion post come manders and post national defense chairmen will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the 40 and 8 Chateau, 119 E. Ohio St.

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Christmas Party Thursday—The annual Christmas party and gift exchange of the Past Chiefs As< sociation of Myrtle Temple Pythian Sisters will be held Thursday noon at the home of Mrs. Lena Darnell, 502 E. Maple Rd.

Lions to Hear Malan—Dr. Clement T. Malan, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, will speak at the Lions Club Incheon tomorrow.

Society Meets Wednesday—The Women's Society of Christian Service of the Riverside Methodist Church will meet at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday in the church. Mrs. Ray Wise will lead the devotionals, Mrs. Blaine E. Kirkpatrick will direct Christmas carols and Mrs. Robert Gould will give the Christ mas story.

O. E. 8S. to Exchange Gifts — The Cumberland O. E. 8. auxiliary meets at noon Wednesday at the home of Mrs, Orif Brinkman at Cumberland for the annual Christmas party. - Gifts will be exchanged and cheer baskets will be filled for distribu= tion among the sick. Officers will be installed for the coming year. They are: Mrs. Rex Smith, president; Mrs. Ivan Parks, vice president: Mrs. Frank Black, secretary, and Mrs. Naomi Johnson, treasurer.

Social Circle to Meet—The Olive Branch Social Circle will meet at the home of Lizzie Techenbrock, 720 Prospect St, at 2 p. m. tomorrow. A gift exchange and entertainment by the officers are scheduled.

0. E. 8. Choir Gives Program The O. E. 8. choir, consisting of members of various local chapters, will give & program of Christmas music at 8 p. m. today in the Broad Ripple Masonic Temple. The singing will be part of the dedication ceremonies of the new labyrinth for use of the Broad Ripple Chapter 315 O. E. 8.

Auxiliary to Give Party—The Big Four Railway Unit, American Legion Auxiliary, will hold a public card party at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow at 960 S. Keystone Ave. Mrs. Lloyd Farrington is chairman.

EX-DETROIT MAYOR CONVICTED IN RACKET

DETROIT, Deo. 16 (U. P).~ Former Mayor Richard W. Reading and 22 other defendants, including

John Roxborough, co-manager of heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis, faced maximum penalties of five years imprisonment and $2500 fines today for participation in a $10,000,000-a-year numbers and policy racket. A Circuit Court jury convicted them last night. Specifically, they were accused of conspiring to obstruct justice. Reading accepted s” while he was 1038 and 1039, as did the

convicted. Roxborough was one of the operators of the racket.

RECORDINGS

Franck: Symphony in D minor; the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting (Columbia). With an eye to the Yuletide trade, perhaps, there is a slight rush by the record companies now in toward this “choice of the people,” by Franck. (Victor has a new release of it out now, too, you know, with Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Orchestra.) Letting the great pace and rich melody speak for itself, Sir Thomas’ reading sticks pretty much to the straight-and-narrow lines originally drawn by the composer. And that is sufficient to put this work across. The Beecham version follows in less than a year that of Dimitri Mitropoulos and the Minneapolis Orchestra, which leans more to the dramatic, lusterful side. Your choice will depend on whether you like yours “straight” or with flourishes. Except for some screeches in high places, both the Beecham and Mitropoulos recordings are technically ample.

Dvorak: Quartet No. 3 in E-flat major; the Busch Quartet (Columbia). Here is a lesser known side to the creativeness of Dvorak. Writ ten in 1879, more than 10 years before Dvorak came to America, the No. 3 Quartet was spun amidst a literal Bohemian atmosphere, in an environment of Czech dancing and singing. There is freely-flowing, gay, effortless melody throughout it all. The playing of the Busch Quartet is accurate to hair-line degrees and at the same time luscious—and no see-sawing. Those who find chamber music a little too starchy for their tastes may have to make an exception here.

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Smetana: Vitava (“The Moldau”); the New York Philharmonic - Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting (Columbia).

Descriptive music may not be your forte—and neither is it mine —but here is music that is at once descriptive and also authentically musical. Bohemia had awakened to a great, new national consciousness when Smetana returned to Praha after a voluntary exile. The composer was quick to see the opportunity and he turned his talents to nationalistic operas and tone poems based on his country's song and legend. During the years of his deafness, Smetana went to work on a cycle of tone poems on his native land, Ma Vlast. . The Vitava, or “Moldau,” is the second part of this series. The work describes, in magnificent orchestration and melody, the course of the great Moldau River—its source in the forest, its setting for the play of water sprites of the night, its tumultuous fall over the St. John rapids and its majestic flow into the city of Praha as a full-blown river. One, however, need know nothing of its purpose to appreciate the music, for it is of a quality that speaks for itself. The performance here of the Philharmonic is fully commensurate with the attractive task at hand. For good measure, the fourth side of the two-record album is devoted to a peppy playing of Dvorak’s Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C major.

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Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche; the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Atur Rodzinski conducting (Columbia). In Latin America, they call him Pedro Malazarte; in Italy, Polichinello. The Nordic version is Till Eulenspiegels. Anyway, he’s sort of a universal cheat and rogue, a figure in the iegends of many countries. In the story at hand, Till cavorts, plays, deceives, tries occasionally to be lordly—and ends up on the gallows, Mr. Rodzinski's bent for R. Strauss is perhaps nowhere more apparent than here, for he keeps the thing going along well at all points and makes it as lifelike as possible. Some unreserved honors are due, too, to the unidentified horn player who has such a big role in Till Eulenspiegels. Such feats on this instrument are sel dom heard.—F. P.

DIRECTOR WORKING IN WHEEL CHAIR

HOLLYWOOD Dec. 16 (U. P.).— Anatole Litvak, ranking film director, was working from a wheel chair today after tripping over a camera dolly truck and breaking his foot,

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