Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1942 — Page 20

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Unity Urged For Anthem

Make It More Singable, wal Office Asks. |

MILWAUKEE. Wis. April 2 (U. P) ~The U. S. war department has| suggested that the national drive | for high morale and unity would be} served by a semblance of unity in| the singing of “The Star-Spangled! Banner.” | The recommendation was made at} the music education's national conference before a clinic of top-flight musical leaders considering ways to make the national anthem more “singable.” Objecting to the present national “differences” concerning “The StarSpangled Banner” which prompt the army, navy and marines each to use a separate version, Maj. Howard Bronson, war department music officer, asked that the clinic devise a version acceptable to all.

Stanzas Change Tune

Peter W. Dykema, emeritus pro- | fessor of music education at Columbia University Teachers college, who | overhauled the anthem to make it more singable, explained that some of the confusion resulted because bands fail to allow for certain differences in fittting music to the words of the various stanzas C. V. Buttelman, Chicago, executive secretary of the conference, told ti that improvements in | phrasing and note value would make the anthem easier for the voices of untrained singers and detract nothing from its instrumentation

URGES MOBILE FIRE UNITS LONDON, April 2 (U. P) —Barry | gj Bingham, Louisville, Ky, U. S. embassy attache, urged today that highly-mobile fire fighting, first aid, | rescue and cleanup squads be es-| tablished in the United States to meet wartime emergencies i

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ware chairman of the Y. W. C. A. of| in the group are hiring a national opinion surveying outfit to conduct Denison 0O..! a continuous poll on attitudes and preferences of the public toward

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Second Recital

Miss Barbara Hickam, young In-| now studving in| her second recital at the Indiana World War Memorial at 8:15 p m| Friday, April 10.|

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college. In Indianapolis, she studied | under Bomar Cramer and is a Vassar col-| lege graduate.

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Can Public Opinion Polls Tell Producers Anything?

THE HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS’

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rendered its claim to the secrets of public opinion. So major studios

motion pictures.

All information would be available to the whole industry. It pre-

sumably would guide the producers, not only in pleasing the regular customers, but luring the big bloc of movie-haters into the theaters, Comment on this scheme from the coast approves of the idea, but doubts that it will work. How is it possible to tell a Hollywood producer anything about his business? The onlookers want to know,

2 2 Why the Poll? ONE INDICATION OF HOW the public opinion poll may work can be seen in the experience of the Walter Huston film, originally titled “The Devil and Daniel Web-

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ster” after the story from which it was taken. Studio brass hats began to worry about such an obvious historical title. They wanted to change it to “All That Money Can Buy.” But before making the switch, they took a poll. The survey showed that 364 to one were in favor of the title, “The Devil and Daniel Webster.” So the studio went ahead and released the picture as “All That Money Can Buy.” It was a fine film, but it did bum business. 2 o 2 INDIANA HAS 530 theaters with a total seat capacity of

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1. That man is here again. Frankenstein as “The Ghost of Frankenstein” comes to the Lyrio tomorrow for a first run. Lon Chaney is the spookyman, 2. Dorothy Lamour on the firing line of “The Fleet's In,” the feature film at the Indiana beginning tomorrow. : 3. Can this be love? Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland in a glaring scene from the “Male Animal,” tomorrow's lead comedy at the Circle.

207,382, according to a survey by Film Daily. Compared to other states, this isn't many theaters at all. New York state, of course, leads with 1438 theaters and California is second, with 1203. Texas comes a close third, though, with 1189. The state with least theaters is Delaware, It has only 38.

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The Hollywood Way

ONE OF THE MOST lavish productions in years, reminiscent of the follies series of five years back, is a forthcoming Warner Bros. production, “Sweethearts of 1042." . . . Actor Lyle Talbot and actress Veda Borg suffered burned uniforms while making a scene for “She's in the Army” when a magnesium bomb exploded. . . . Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse team up in Walt Disney's “Symphony Hour.” Seems that Donald was left out of “Fantasia” and squawked about it. . . . Tim Holt leads the trail of westerns. He's just made his tenth series of action melos. , . . Harry Langdon is back in films again, in “House of Errors.”

How Spies Work

“DON'T TALK,” one of the most powerful shorts of the year, will be shown publicly at Loew's the week of April 8 for the first time in Indianapolis. A private showing about a month ago impressed defense plant public relations men, newspapermen and police officials. Shows how spies

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CAGNEYS TO MAKE 2 FILMS THIS YEAR

HOLLYWOOD, April 2 (U. P.) = Film star, executive and stockholder James Cagney has announced . INDIANA that Cagney Productions, Inc., capi “Rings on Her Fingers,” with Gene talized at $6,000,000 and featuring Jigpney pnd Sonty nda, at 12:43, “The Night Before the Di » James Cagney as its star, would| | on "Fonn® Bart Josepn Allen Jr. produce at least two movies a year| | and Nils Asther, at 11:36, 2:40, 5:44 for United Artists. : i" " seed TES re ‘Ju » Book,” s story He said he and his brother, Wil-| | ny Ril vard Kipling. eI Bau. Jon . seph Calleia an atric O'R ‘Ke, liam, sole owners of the new firm, an Alexander Korda production. rr had signed a long-term contract 12, R20, 8.35 aid 10. th Virgin i “Bo © sing," wit Jirgin with the studio. William, formerpP | weidler and Ray McDonald, at 10:35 producer and manager of James,| | 1:95 5:15 and 8b. will serve as president. “Song of the Islands. with Betty | Organization of the new : ended Actor Cagney's 12-year association with Warner Bros. |

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