Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1942 — Page 4

0ICE from the Balcony by FREMONT POWER

CHARLES O'CONNELL, THE

MAN BEHIND THE scenes wiien

. the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra makes records, came out front | yesterday afternoon at the Murat and stepped up on the podium where

all could see. The crowd was not

large but as the program wore on

- (not literally), the handclapping grew louder. In fact, before they'd . go home, Mr. O'Connell had to explain that the orchestra simply had

. no more music to play. Thus, the

end.

As musical director for RCA-Victor, Mr. O'Connell has had a lot _ of orchestras under his scrutiny and attached to his headphones. One

might conjecture that this has made of him a man devoted to_the the |

technicalities, The impression fades somewhat, however, when ‘he takes over as guest director, . as he did yesterday. Mr. O’Connell is not one to . work himself up into much of a . froth when doing such work, though in the end he doesn’t fall far short of achieving the ends ' obtained by those who do. With flowing (also greying) hair and sans baton, Mr. O'Connell led . the orchestra through a well-bal- . anced program. "|| Apparently the record-maker-director. logks upon conducting in its simpler senses. He devotes ‘ his main attention to rhythms .and cues, rather than shadings and soul-searchings. ® | ® The Mighty Is Calmed . AFTER A bit of “God Save the || King” in Weber's “Jubel Overture,” the orchestra plunged right ' into the Beethoven No. 8 in F . Major, a symphony not often heard any place. As Mr. O’Con=nell himself says in his book on the symphonies, “Beethoven was perhaps too concerned with troublesome and unmusical ig when this music was written, to ‘abandon himself thoroughly to ‘his inspiration. His deafness, ‘already a handicap iin his pro'fession, was beginning to prey upon his mind. His brother, Johann, had involved himself in ian affair with the landlord’s daughter . . .” . | There is the essence of Beet‘"hoven’s might in the Eighth, but not the genuine article. It is light {in places, scherzando and meninuetto, and that is fine, but its booms are not of the V-for-victory kind, Throughou! stayed right which produ odd at least ‘with the sco;

it all, the orchestra ith Mr. O'Connell, d some queer rests, to one not familiar

attraction came ussy Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra, at which point Julio Mazzocca stepped out of the woodwind section and deSer himself excellently.

The rhapsody is good Debussy. The faint, wandering impressionisms of the Frenchman emerge from the orchestra like wisps of smoke on a quiet day—and it’s

On all scores—tonguing, tone and fingering — Mr. Mazzocca made high marks. What's more, and much more, he seemed to have a flair for modernism, a liking for the rare, haunting dissonances. For the more “popular” half of the program, there were the Sevitzky transcription of Bach's “How ‘Fervent Is My .Longing,” the same by Calliet of Bach’s Pre-

chestra was first-rate), two of McDonald’s Poems on Aramaic Themes and Tschaikowsky’s “Romeo and Juliet,” one of the many sources of Tschaikowsky raided by the song writers. Then, when the applause warranted it, Mr. O'Connell threw in the beautiful, sweeping “Valse des fleurs” from Tschaikowsky’s Nutcracker Suite. The audience could have stood lots more of this.

Notes, Etc.

TONIGHT THE orchestra, with Fabien Sevitzky back at the helm, goes to Bloomington, Ind., for its third concert this season. Mildred Dilling, the harpist, will be saloist, with the emphasis on Debussy and Ravel . |L. Leon Zawisza steps from the SE conc ertmasters posit Mildred Dilling Thursday night for a recital at the War Memorial. No charge to the public and the time is 8:30. ... | When Katharine Cornell comes to English’s next Monday night in “Rose Burke,” her hotel accomodations will depend on what hostelries have no objections to dogs. If Miss Cornell can’t have her pets in the room with her, then she doesn’t stay. Just-°a little something for the road manager to keep in mind. Mark down Year,”

“Woman of “the opening Wednesday at Loew's, as a holdover for * two weeks. I$ it doesn’t make the mark, all concerned will be ‘surprised. . . . At the O'Connell reception yesterday evening at the I. A. C~Herbie Lewis of the hoe ey Capitals and Fabien Sey¥. A wedding of the stick and a bow ?

URGES WOMEN REGISTER | NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (U. P.). em Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt urged registration of women for war work in her weekly sponsored radio

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For all her smiles you'd think Fanchon Fattig never heard of superstitions. - She’s co-starred in “Mr. and Mrs. North,” which opened at the Civic on the 13th and will play through Wednesday. That black cat she’s holding is as member of the cast, and further-

more the play is Fanchon’s 13th. It’s also the 13th for Harold Arnholter — but R. Kirby kK Whyte (above—the “Mr. North” of the play) appears to have no such spooky ‘qualifications. So far, though, he reports everything going along all right.

OUTLAW PLANE

Head of State Air Patrol Calls on Army to Halt Mystery Flights Here.

+ The Army Air Corps pursuit command at Columbus, O., will be asked to step in to halt “mystery” plane night flying over Municipal Airport if the outlaw plane continues operations, Walker W. Winslow, Indiana Air Patrol Wing Commander, said today. A plane on an unauthorized flight without lights was reported ciroling the. airport Friday night, Mr. Winslow said. Under war time regulations, no planes are allowed to take to the air without specific authorization and flying without light is unlawful even in peacetime, he explained. Mr. Winslow theorized that the plane was probably piloted by per-

{sons unable or unwilling to meet

the Civil Aeronautics Authority requirements and abide by wartime restrictions. : “With so many vital industries concentrated here, we can't afford to take chances with unknown planes,” he said. “If these flights continue, we will ask the Air Corps to station pursuit ships here to shoot these mystery ships down. “Maybe, th terious then.”

NUSSBAUM HEADS NEWSPAPER GUILD

Lowell B. Nussbaum, of The Indianapolis Times editorial staff, has been elected president of the Indianapolis chapfer of the American Newspaper Guild, succeeding Sexson E. Humphreys, also of The Times editorial staff. . Others elected were Herbert Gilligan, of The Times circulation department, first vice | president; George Briggs, of The Times advertising - staff, second vice president; Walter F. Morse, of The Indianapolis Star editorial staff, secretary; John Cromie, of The Times circulation department, treasurer. Miss Marian Anding was named correspondent for the Guild Reporter and Edward Decker “and Joseph Shepard, delegates to the Industrial Union Council.

BLOOD PLASMA TOPIC FOR CITY CHEMISTS

Dr. J. A. Leighty of Eli Lilly & Co. will address the local chapter of the American Chemical Society at its regular noon luncheon tomorrow*in the Hotel Severin. Dr. Leighty, who has charge of the preparation of all blood plasma received at the Indianapolis Blood Bank, began the de-hydration and freezing of blood plasma as an experimental project. He will describe the details of the process by‘ which blood is frozen and dried so it can be kept in perfect condition for years, Neil © Kérshaw, Indiana section chairman, is in “charge of the meet~

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Vladimir Horowitz, the pianist, will play a recital at 8:30 o'clock tonight on the Martens series at English’s. Son-in-law of - Toscanini, Mr. Horowitz’ collaborations with the director on records have made him a highly sought after concert attraction. His appearance here is expected to draw -a capacity house. The program will be comprised of a group of Chopin, one of Liszt and one of Bach, Schunbert and Brahms. ’

JOHN CARTER, 'MET' TENOR, JOINS NAVY

CHICAGO, Feb. 16 (U. P.).—John Carter, youngest tenor in the Metropolitan Opera Co. of New York, awaited assignment to active service in the Navy today as a chief petty officer. Mr. Carter, formerly of Evanston, T1l., was sworn into the Navy Saturday at Great Lakes Naval Praining Station. He will not assume his official duties until the conclusion of a series of recitals. -

EXPERT TO APPRAISE: COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

An appraisal of the community problems of Indianapolis will be made by Thomas H. Reed, director of the National Municipal Consultant Service, and author of many books on civic problems, before a meeting of the Indianapolis Rotary Club tomorrow noon in the Claypool Hotel. Mr. Reed’s visit has been arranged by the club’s public affairs committee, headed by C. D. Alexander. Committee vice chairman is Everett E. Allison, and members include John W. Atherton, Homer E. Capehart, Ralph H. Edgerton, Dr, Charles R. Jackson, Theodore E. Myers, Harry Reid, Ernest M. Sellers and W. Carleton Starkey. This is one of a series Of talks by experts in various fields, arranged by the committee, the object of which is to clarify for Rotarians the problems of administration and expansion that confront Indianapolis citizens.

WHEN DOES IT START?

CIPCLE “The Wolf Man,” with Lon Chaney, Claude Rains, Warren William, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya and Evel n Ankgrs, at 12, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45 a 10:2! “Juke Box Jenny, Ca with 2.5 Murray. Harriet Hilliard, Charles Barnet and orchestra, W ad orchestra, the Milt

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Chapter Xlll—Thailand Duped

THE SUCCESS OBTAINED by Japan in French . | Indo-China and in adjoining Thailand, by combining

military pressure with political ‘intrigue, immeasurably increased the vulnerability of the American position in the Philip- | pine Islands, placed the British position in Malay and Burma in new jeopardy, and caused justifiable alarm in the Dutch East Indies. 1 found the Netherlanders in Batavia and other cities of the East Indies particularly perturbed. last October. Their strategists feared that the HullNomura talks in. Washington might lead to some compromise between the United States and Japan, and that would have meant an indefinite ocontinuance of enormous preparedness expenditures.

stability or peace.

| and no possibility of feeling any assurance of

The Netherlands -army and navy strategists felt strongly that America, Britain and themselves

should have struck hard at Japan when the Japanese began the occupation of Indo-China last At that time, they said, the Japanese

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were “over-extended and disorganized,” and could easily have been thrown back with heavy losses. But once established in Indo-Chind, and with many air bases ready, all of Malaya and the Indies were

wide open to air raids, and Saigon and Cam Ranh afforded ideal bases for Japanese naval units in case of hostilities. Early summer of 1940 found the Japanese army and navy advantageously placed for further southward pressures and advances. Hainan Island and the Spratley Islands were securely occupied, Japanese forces were in southern Kwangsi Province and near the northern borders of French Indo-China.- They held the important walled city of Nanning. Tokyo watched Europe, hoping for an early and decisive German victory. That would have meant the transference of at least half of the American fleet to the Atlantic Ocean, and Japan felt that she could then take Hongkong, wrest Indo-China ‘from the French, probably capture Singapore, and take her pick of the rich islands of the Netherlands East Indies. The dream of the “New Order in Greater East Asia” broadened in scope and took on the bright colors of hope. Then came the collapse of Holland and Belgium, the surrender of France—a magnificent chance for “manifest destiny” to manifest itself in all its rapacious aggressiveness. n ” ”

Tokyo Tightens Screws

THE MOVES WERE swift and the pressure strong, Britain, intent after Dunkirk on preparations to repel an expected Ger= man attempt at invasion of England, agreed to close the Burma Road for three months, and Japan thought that with this source of supplies cut off she could soon force ‘Chungking to come to

‘terms. With France prostrate, French .

Indo-China was in no position to resist Japanese pressure and soon

became an easy victim of Japan's '

demands. These demands had first. to do with the narrow-gauge railway running from the port of Haiphong, in northern IndoChina, and from Hanoi, its capital, into the southern Chinese province of Yunnan and on to its capital city, Kunming. This railway was never of prime commercial or strategic importance, for at a maximum it could transport only a little more than 18,000 tons of freight a month, and 3000 tons of this total was usually maintenance tonnage. But for China, cut off from her own seacoasts by Japanese occupation and blockade, any avenue of import or export, however, limited, was of value. Enormous accumulations of American - made motor trucks, tires, barbed wire, drugs and chemicals belonging to the Chinese Government littered the waterfront at Haiphong. All of this was later grabbed by the Japanese army. Japan demanded and was given the right to station Japanese inspectors along the railway, along the two highways, and at the In-do-China-Yunnan borders. These inspectors were army and navy men, in uniform, with a few civillians for the sake of “face.”

All Just a Mistake!

THEN BEGAN CHARGES of bad faith; Japan said she had to have troops along the railway and highway. The Chinese, on their side, dynamited bridges and tore up trackage; frontier fortifications were hastily thrown up, and Chinese troops began to move toward the Indo-China borders. Then Japan, for “self-protection,” said

‘she had to have the use of air-

fields in Indo-China—at Hia-.

* phong, at Hanoi and three others

along the northern borders. The Japanese authorities, negotiating with Hanoi reiterated that they wanted a “peaceful settlement,” but meanwhile Gen. Ando, commanding the Japanese army in Kwangsi, based on Nanning, wanted his share of glory. He moved toward the border, then attacked French positions, and there was a lot.of disgraceful and particularly gory fighting. Tokyo and the Japanese negotiating at

"Hanoi

Haiphong said Gen. Ango’s move was “all a mistake.” A lone Japanese aviator at Haiphong bombed the native section of that port city, killing a score of men, women and children, and wounding twice that number. Japan was “very sorry” for this, of course. Another mistake. The young aviator, it was explained, acted entirely without orders and solely because of “personal enthusiasm.” The wounded and relatives of the dead were given a handful of piasters, and meanwhile military trains from the northern front hauled into hushed trainloads of French wounded soldiers and . flatcars loaded with encoffined dead. All Just. a mistake!

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Soldiers Moved In

THE JAPANESE HAD their way in the end. They moved about 12,000 soldiers into northern French Indo-China.

While all this was going on?

Japanese agents had been unusually busy in Bangkok.

Siamese southern border, where Thailand joins Malaya, is only 400 air-line miles from Singapore. The Thai Government in Bangkok soon began making demands upon prostrate China. Thailand demanded redressing of “historical wrongs,” insisted upon a rectification of frontiers, the ceding of islands in the Mekong River. Border

skirmishes began to be increas- '

ingly frequent, then artillery was brought into play by both the French and the Thai forces; both sides began using airplanes for border bombing raids.

Finally Japan acted as nego- |

tiator, and a “peace” was are ranged, giving Thailand everything she wanted. ' Then; last summer, under Hitler's pressure,

Vichy gave Japan permission to |

move into southern Indo-China,

to occupy Saigon and Cam Ranh |

The |

Malay Peninsula and attack Singapore by land, to capture Penang easily, and thus obtain a land air base from which to raid British shipping in the Indian Ocean, and attack ships taking goods to China by | fas, of Rangoon. On Dec. 5, 1940; both Tokyb and. Bangkok admitted the secret conclusion of a treaty of amity under which each was pledged for five years to respect the other nation’s territorial integrity and to consult together on all questions of common interest. Japan had the stage set then, and the democracies made the mistake of permitting her to ring up the curtain on the first act at a time of her own choosing.

At first the people of Thailand .

thought they had made a smart deal. But they began to change

Freneh Indo-China the Japanese soldiery began to misbehave in the way they always do, From Annam and Cambodia came to Thailand reports of truculent aggression. There were lootings. The women were being raped by the Japanese who professed to waging a “Holy War” to free the peoples of East Asia from ‘“oppression by the white man.” Thailand began to be anti-Japae

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