Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1942 — Page 15
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1942
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Hoosier Vagabond
TUCSON, Ariz, April 9.—You remember Esther Henderson, the eminently successful show-girl photographer of Tucson? Oh, of course you do, it was only yesterday I told you about her, Well, Esther Henderson has really’ got life by the throat. She quit the stage before it was too late, went at photography with hooks and tongs, now has the finest studio in the southwest, and keeps hours that would make the traditional banker look like = peon. She is now a little past 30 She's as big as half a pin, and still as pretty as a picture, She is very tanned, and wears & checkered shirt and faded cowboy overalls. I cant imagine her in a dress. She gives you the impressiort of being the happiest person alive. She smokes nd takes a drink when she can get somebody to drink with her, and now and then a nice “damn” oats into her conversation, but if that gives you the impression she's a hard gal, youre clear off the track. Seven years on the stage didn’t harden her. She's as fresh and enthusiastic as if she were just seeing her first circus.
The Guy From California
A COUPLE OF years age Esther made some pictures for a tourist pamphlet the Sunshine Club was getting up. Then suddenly she heard the state was bringing in a photographer from California to complete the pictures. Esther hit the roof. She went storming downtown and probably pounded the desk and said, "What is this? You cant even have the booklet printed in Phoenix because it would be disloyal to Tucson, vet vou bring in a photographer from California, What is this? What is this, anyway?” They tried to pacify her by saving this man was more than a photographer, he was an experienced dude-ranch organizer, and could run barbecues for
By Ernie Pyle
the eastern guests and make everybody happy, as well as take pictures. To which Esther replied, “What the hell is this guy, anyway, a cook or a photographer?” And then she huffed out. They brought the California guy anyway. His name was Chuck Abbott. Esther kept hearing about this fellow, but never saw him. She didn't want to, for she had a hate on him. The whole idea of an imported cook-photog-rapher still rankled in her.
Old Photographer Pyle
THEN ONE NIGHT just before Christmas a year ago, Miss Henderson's secretary said Mr. Abbott was outside to see her. At first she wasn't going to go out, but then she thought, might as well be decent about it. So she came out and offered him a drink. He wouldn't take more than one, and that made her mad, too. . They were married not long afterward. They're two of the happiest people I've ever seen. Chuck is one of these prematurely gray men—his hair is snow white. He wears overalls and cowboy boots, and is quiet and kind. He has a separate studic downtown. As a couple they're doubly happy, for they've both escaped from careers that would have been ceaseless grinds. Esther escaped from the stage and the nightclub circuit; and Chuck escaped being a dude-ranch owner. He'd been saving for years to buy a dude ranch. When he met Esther, that was all off. Nobody yet knows why Arizona brought Chuck over from California, because actually Esther is much the better photographer. But all's well that ends well, so what's the difference? I happened to hit the Henderson-Abbott home about 11 o'clock, just as Esther was dismissing a young man who had got all dressed up to have his picture taken. By 11:30 we were all calling each other by our first names. By 12 we were out in the kitchen eating! sandwiches. By 12:30 we were talking about going into business together. Thank God, I had to leave at 1 o'clock.
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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
CANNONBALL BAKER attended 8 recent South side track elevation meeting and lured some of the boys’ minds off the elevation problem with his stories about the fine results hes been getting with his newly invented gas and oil saving device. He said hes been making several cross country trips—at the tire-saving speed of 45 miles an hour—in his Nash and that he's been averaging from 45 to 60 miles per gal. lon. Its too bad he doesn't have the device in production yet. He could have done a landeffice business right there at the meeting. . Tom Ruckelshaus tells us that the governors on his Red Cabs are set to stop the motor at 35 miles an hour. It used to be 40. Just before the car gets up to 35 miles an hour, the governor causes the horn to blow as a warning to the driver. Personally, we wish he'd put governors on the meters, too.
Christmas Is Over
WILLIAM DUDLEY PELLEY, amested by the feds because of some rather indiscreet writing, was all set to play Santa Claus to the boys in his cell block the other day. He sent an order down to the jail office for 30 packages “of cigarets and 30 candy bars. The hard hearted jailers sent him the usual daily sllowance—one package of cigarets and two candy bars. . . . Some of the soldiers and sailors who have visited Chicago recently have asked why Indianapolis doesn’t emulate Chicago's example of free rides for service men. The busses yp there cary signs announcing that all soldiers, sailors and marines
From China
CHUNGKING. April 9 —China is the best illustration of how mighty a weapon freedomn can be. By western standards, China is fighting with nothing. Yet one high official expressed the difference by saving that whereas Americans use high-precision watches that keep perfect time but are ruined if a few grains of sand get into the works, China uses the old-fashioned sun-dial which is not so accurate but serves approximately as well. That tells the whele story of how this capital of free China goes on under conditions that we would think impossible, Homes are destroyed and rebuilt as many as four times. Soldiers go into battle with oniv rifles, tommy guns and hand grenades agsinst heavy artillery, tanks and planes. Because the fire power of the Japanese is so much greater, China must use two divisions against one, making human bodies overcome the lack of weapons. In the recent Toungoe fighting 40 per cent of the Chinese casualties involved bayonet wounds. meaning hand-to-hand fighting. Severe damage was inflicted on the Japanese despite their heavy weapons. When tanks come, the Chinese must jump into ditches and throw hand grenades. They are helpless against aircraft. What little artillery they have is of small size compared to that of the Japanese, They are also short .of ammunition, so their artillery is of relatively little help.
Lucky if China Is Saved
AN INDEX TO the desire of the Chinese to resist is seen in the action of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in appointing Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, U. & A, as his chief of staff. This is the first time the Chinese have accepted a foreign command over their armies. 1t is an especially
My Day
WASHINGTON, Wednesday—Yesterdav's sale for the Scottish clan evacuation plan was unique. A real piper piped me in and out and looked very gallant in his pipers costume. A fresh faced woman sat spin-
ning in the window and sang a song just as she had for Queen Elizabeth. There were some delightful plaid ties on sale, two of which I brought home to the President. The picture of the home in Scotland where the little children are now being cared for by this group warms the heart. After all, little children should be Saved from as much suffering as possible, for they are not to blame for what may come about in the world as a result of their elders’ actions. After a very pleasant party last night, which was given by some young friends, we drove around the basin and along the river to get a glimpse of the cherry blossoms. I know nothing lovelier than the reflection of the light in the Iver The pet Shi plete Jems 0 3Ne one
in uniform may ride without charge between 9 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. It looks like a chance for Indianapolis Railways to get the soldier (and sailor) vote,
Herve and There
WALTER I. LONGSWORTH, the local Red Cross| chairman, is in Washington on business for the R. C. . . Harry Cruse, Harold Jackson, Gentry Haun and Carl Ritzi are planning to go to Freeman lake Friday evening on a very important business trip; some-| thing to do with fish. . The annual I. A. C. sniff tournament will be plaved "Monday evening. Sniff, in case you didn’t know, is nothing more than the oid] fashioned game of dominoes, slightly dolled up. It's one of the favorite diversions in the I. A. C. third] floor card room. . . . Did you ever nctice all the hat stores on the Circle? A hasty calculation disclosed] no less than six. Its getting so & fellow doesn’t dare! walk his wife around the Circle any more.
Tire Insurance
WE'VE BEEN CURIOUS why the tires on West Baking Co. trucks have two white stripes painted on them, so we investigated. The company savs those stripes are tire “insurance.” The drivers are conscious of the stripes and try to keep from scraping the paint off against curbs. Patriotic, and economical, t00. . . . Whoever arranged for the Girl Scout cookie sale this year had a bright idea. The girls are taking orders now for Cookie Day, April 25. Their goal is to sell 65,000 packages, each containing 23 cookies— just one short of two dozen. Some of the girls sat down and got to figuring yesterday. The extra cookies they save that wav—one to the package—are enough to make 2821 additional packages. We'll take vanila. * & 8
By Raymond Clapper,
| Considered that way it's a lot of fun.
handsome tribute in view of the facet that we have, no fighting forces and very little equipment to offer—| only Gen, Stilwell and his staff. Stilwell has spent |
do, don’t brood on it. If you do, chances are
anybody connected with Lilly's.
ONE WAY OF enjoying on view at the Herron art museum, Accept it as a phase of fantastic art and let it go at that.
many vears in China. The Chinese trust him, and | hence are wiling to put their men under his! direction. | This is not going to win the war. Furthermore! we shall be lucky if China is saved from encirclement. Unless Rangoon is retaken, it will be a long time | before heavy supplies can arrive. But until supplies] arrive, Rangoon can't be taken. So it is a vicious circle. That isn’t pessimism, but reality. i The best offset would be a heavy influx of planes, | especially fighters, during the next months, which are going to be critical. If the planes don’t arrive, it is possible that the Japs mav complete their job. But the Japs are far extended. Thev haven't got] Rangoon working yet, so they are short of supplies themselves.
No Position to Criticize
THEIR FAILURE to undertake bombings for which they have planes on hand indicates they are short of bombs in Burma. So we have a few weeks | in which it might be possible to turn and hold or even drive back the Japanese. Plenty of Chinese divisions are available If they had arms. they could run the Japanese into the ocean. But the hard fact is that the arms aren't here and there is not much chance of getting! them soon enough. It is the same story over again. American production and American shipping could have done
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you'll go completely nuts. Fantastic art has always existed and always will as long as men toss in their sleep and have dreams devoid of reason, reality or relationship. In support of which I cite “Jabberwackey” and the “Book of Nonsense,” r e p resenting, r e s pectively, the dreams experienced and recorded by Lewis Carroll two notorious-
Anton Scherer
Iv restless sleepers. So much for literature unless we classify the cinema as a form of literary art. Some people do. In which case “Mickey Mouse” is a prize example. » » » NOW FOR THE graphic aris:
| As early as 1500, two Dutchmen
—Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder—startied the natives with painted records of
much to prevent the present adverse trend of the
THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
Painted in 1931, this picture is shill the most famous of Dali's dreams; at any rate, in this country. Broken down, its elements consist of four watches, limp as dead flounders and crawling with insects. Soon as you look at it, the picture establishes a sympathetic attitude toward the artist—the pieasant surprise, for instance, that Dali, too, believes that in the end the bugs will inherit the earth,
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the Salvador Dali show, now
is to do what 1 did:
Whatever you
what happened to them in their sleep. After that fantastic art developed with alarming speed, each century contributing its share of bad dreams, until today we have the unbelievable nightmares thought up by Rube Goldberg, Clarence Day, George Price and Henry Thurber. Maybe it's slipped your mind but, once upon a time, Clarence Day enhanced his jingles with terrifying illustrations of his own. = = =
By Way of Definition
CONCERNING MUSIC I hardly know where to begin. Somewhere along the line, however, I would include all operas as manifestations of fantastic art. If this offends your lily-white soul permit me to say that grand opera, if it can be classified at all, is an attempt to probe the stuff dreams are made of with no other purpose than to reveal a world in which reason plays no part. Well, that (more or less) happens to be the official definition of Surrealism, So there,
THE
SUBLIME MOMENT
Painted in 1938, this dream is one of the most beautifully painted and
one of the most difficult to understand. looking down on two fried eqgs, sunny-side up. smelt and an edible snail. It might help to know that Dali considers the telephone as a disastrous symbol of our civilization. Significant, too, is the fact that The Sublime Moment was painted at the time of the Munich Con
ference.
A CHEMIST LIFTING WITH EXTREME CAUTION THE CUTICLE OF A GRAND PIANO
This picture is owned by Miss Ruth Page. It reveals eight items: A portrait of an engaging boy with a hoop, portraits of two fashionably dressed women distinctly of this world, the figure of Richard Wagner sitting on top of what looks like a licked Parisian apache, a copy of Le Temps and, of course, the chemist lifting the cuticle of a grand piano. The piano has only 25 black keys. As for the chemist, he looks more like a member of the Steinway family than
It embraces a telephone leerfully Included, too, are a dead
OLD AGE, ADOLESCENCE
AND
This picture, painted in 1940, expresses one of Dali's more recent nightmares. Compared with his earlier ones, his present dreams are bigger in scope, including enough things to make several nights exciting. this one, for instance, are architectural fragments, bits of elegiac landscape, portraits of people of both sexes, ripe olives and a legume resembling broccoli. The Hollandaise sauce is missing. Disappointing, too, is the discovery that
INFANCY
Included in
Old Age is represented by a man. Goodness knows, women grow old, too.
The Dali Show
There are 20 drawings and 36 paintings in the Dali exhibit at the John Herron Art institute, 16th and Pennsylvania sts. The exhibit will remain at the institute all
playing one’s dreams in publie, there's no denying the fact that Dali has something on the ball, For one thing, the quality of his dreams is superb and of such high average—of such wide range, too—that one wonders what he
through the month of April. museum is closed on Mondays, open every other day including Sunday afternoons,
Admission is free. The
Which brings me to the point of today's piece, namely that Surrealism is a connotation for the kind of dreams experienced and recorded by artists of today; more specifically those of Salvador Dali and Joan Miro. Both men are Spaniards and represent, each in his own pixylated way. the two phases of sure realistic art. Young as it is, Surrealism is old enough to have two phases, I don't know why this should be so unless it be that some Spanish babies are weaned on green olives and seme on ripe ones.
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DISREGARDING NUANCES and the like, it is quite possible to define the two phases of Surrealism as: 1. The expression of simon-pure abstract dreams (Dali) and: 2. The expression of automatic impulses (Miro),
Dali, for instance, collects and catalogs every item of his dreams and you have no idea what he gets in the way of dizzy patterns. Invariably his dreams reveal a rich and restless night. After a specially good night his pictures can stand beside the best. As for Miro, he doesn't confine himself to dreams; at any rate, het the kind experienced in bed. His art springs from some inner urge not unlike the spontaneous wanderings of a pencil on a pad practiced by all of us, in an amateur way, when listening to a hore on the telephone. For the life of me, I don't know why I'm telling vou so much about Mr. Mire. There isn't a thing of his in the Herron Show.
The Meaning? Well—
WHICH LEAVES Salvador Dali. Granting the propriety of dis
eats before going to bed. Moreover, his sensitive drawing and exquisite color are worth going miles to see. Curiously enough, his technique is of this world and recalls the precise and pree cious manner of the realistie Duteh masters; more particularly, the art of Johannes Vermeer, Still to be settled is the meane ing of Dali's dreams, It involves reconciling the weird titles of his pictures with what's in the pice tures and if I were you I wouldn't try it, not even with the help of Freud. To do so would rob the Herron adventures of all its fun. Don’t get the idea I don't take art serie ously. Goodness knows I do. Ine deed, I'm going to end on a see rious note. If Surrealism stands for anye thing, it means first of all {hat its exponents are sick and tired of reason. I don’t know but what they're right when I see the present plight of a world so carefully brought up on reason,
war. The Chinese have been fighting almost five vears and they can't understand how we. with our big industry and boasted strength, can't give them just a little help instead of money, which won't lick the Japanese. Until we get the shipping tc move weapons into | hands that are ready to use them, we are in no! position to criticize others. |
Times Special { VINCENNES, nd, April 9. —Dis- | missal of the morals trial of Superior Judge Herman M. Robbins appeared possible today because a 14-vear-By Eleas or Roosevelt jold boy Stas On his constitutional [rights in refusing to testify. temperature snd When the boy was called to the j witness stand before Special Judge give courage to winjam S. Dudine yesterday, he
up so gracefully to changes in the sharp spring winds that they must
those who work in these busy offices day in and | was asked whether he knew the
dav out. I listened to & news commentator this morning who gave such a gloomy picture of the future and of the leaders in every field in this country, that I wonder whether the effect would not be to discourage people. Just to give the gentleman a ray of hope as to the good intentions of some people, I would like to draw his attention to an item in the newspaper wires on Aprii 7: “The executive board (of the United Automobile Workers) proposed today a legal unit of $25,000 a year on family and individual incomes for the war's duration, in return for which union workers would accept non-negotiable defense bonds in lieu of all overtime pay for more than 40 hours a week.” The gentleman said that there was no unselfishness left in any of us. I am not going to contend that this suggestion is entirely unselfish, but at least it is a constructive suggestion showing that someone is doing some thinking. ; will sponsor a card p
{ defendant. “I refuse to answer,” replied. Car! Gray, defense attorney, as- | serted the boy was within his constitutional rights because an answer might incriminate him. Judge Dudine was to hear arguments of opposing counsel on the question today. Mr. Gray told the jury in his opening statement that police had forced the boy, who was held on a petty theft charge, to sigh & statement accusing Judge Robbins. “It was nothing more or less than a political frame-up,” the attorney declared.
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LEND-LEASE FOOD [x WAR QUIZ_
total, reported today. The February
bulky foods.
Another factor,
SHIPMENTS ROP —
WASHINGTON, April 9 (U. P).| | —The transfer of cargo ships to other uses cut lend-lease agricultural shipments to the united na-| tions to 309,000,000 pounds in Febru-| ary, less than half the December | the agriculture department |
$52,000,000, was 25 per cent under the January volume, although dol-| lar-value of shipments for the three! months remained about the same because of concentration on less!
Shipments from the start of the! tlend-lease program on April 29, 1941, to March 1 totaled 4,064,000,000! pounds, valued at $469,000,000, the department said. Britain received | the bulk, although some flour and | other foods went to Russia. The department said the transfer of cargo ships to other uses began | with American entry into the war. Greece and Turkey.
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1—=-Do you know what type vessel in the American navy this | picture shows? ¥en 2—Italy claims British airmen have been bombing Italian islands in the Aegean sea. Where is that {body of water? 3—The Japs have won Java, Ig this island one of the sparsely pope
ulated spots of the world, thickly | occupied, or just moderately so?
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1—Picture shows a U. 8. eruiser, 2—The Aegean sea is between
that of axis sub-| 3--Java is one of the n