Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1942 — Page 6

VOICE from the Balcony by RICHARD LEWIS

Burlesque Hits a New Low

AFTER ONE HOUR and 11 minutes of research into the burlesque situation, I can report the distinct impression that this ancient and sometimes enjoyable artform has hit a new low in Indianapolis. I can remember when a good burlesque show was entertainment. There were risque gags, to be sure. But sometimes they were funny

and usually harmless.

Stars in Opera

William Haine. tenor, will sing the role of Rodolpho in the opera, “La Boheme,” which will open the 1942-43 Martens Concerts se- | ries here Oct. 19. The concert | series includes Ballet Theater and | Helen Traubel, soprane.

Marcus Circuit Purchases Ritz]

Purchase of the Ritz theater at) 34th and Illinois sts. by the Mareus| Circuit Mannie Marcus.

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was announced today by! The theater was riv operated by Iouis Markun. Beginning tomborrow, the theater, der new management, will} feature two changes a week with short subSerials will be run on week-| ends for The theater is to be renovated as mich as priorities on building materials permit. Robert Hesselldenz will continue as manager. Tomorrow's opener will show the double bill, “One Foot in Heaven” and “How Green Was My ye.

TRAVELER 0 SPEAK | BEFORE TOWER CLUB

The Tower club of the North] Methodist church will hear Wayne] Hanson of Chicago at their annual dinner to be held at] 6:30 p. m. Mayr 1 at the church. Mr. Hanson has visited all but) two of the countries of Europe and South America during the past few vears, and his subject will be “A New World to Live In.” J. F. Price is president of the] club and Dr. C. A. Ni¢Pheeters is| pastor of the church.

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But now it seems to me the fun has gone out of burlesque and what is left is so crude and adolescent that it makes you hope that no one you know saw you enter or leave the show. The old time burlesque was raw, but its peculiar form of broad humor was rarely directed against particular racial and religious groups. This, unfortunately, is not true of the kind of burlesque being trotted out around town today. I am not alarmed at the effect on public morals of a tired female or two stumbling through a slow strip-tease. that two-line gags which hold up anv racial or religious group to public ridicule are decidedly offensive.

You are treated to the spec- | tacle of two gents—one invariably

in baggy trousers—who begin to ad lib with some mighty dull talk. After getting their cues mixed and repeating themselves to make it all clear to even the dullest wit, they pull off the kind of a crack that might have come from the Goebbels propaganda machine. This is supposed to be rich, The comedians stand there and smirk at the audience. But hardly anyone laughs and that, I think, is a tribute to the innate good taste of an Indianapolis audience. It took me an hour and 11 minutes to find this out. First, I must suffer through a picture

| of ancient vintage in which the

dialog and lip movements don't

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Buy a Souvenir THEN THERE

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is a comedy

| short which looks as though it

was made up as it went along. The ending is rather spectacular, though. It just cuts off as if the just couldn't stand it any longer. Ah, then the house-lights go up. People seem to look about apprehensively and a little resentfully at being exposed to brightlight glare in a burlesque house. A stout gentleman appears on stage and explains that while the stage is being readied for the | show, he has an important message. For a guarter—one fourth of a dollar—gents, you can have a wonderful, little, tricky burlesque souvenir. It is a picture book, what kind is left to the imagination. But

| the stout gent explains he can't

sell this away. With it, he is also giving a little strip of pictures which you ean rotate with your hand to give the That, too, can’t be sold. What you buy is some kind of an art folder, show-

book. He is giving it

| ing real, live artists’ models. Only

gents, who starts the Someone in the

a quarter, rolling ?

| front row makes the first buy and

| after that sales are slow.

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Peddle More Wares MEANTIME, GUYS in white coats appear out of nowhere hawking cold pop. They parade

| up and down the aisles making | change and opening bottles.

Again, the salesman appears. This time he is selling a tricky little booklet with cartoons. He asks vou to recall the “French” cartoons you have seen in your youth. Well, that, he says, is the

| idea.

Only he can't sell these cartoon books. Hag to give them

| away with a bar of chocolate,

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10-cent size. Is this a bargain, gents, or isn't it? And in adadition, theres a lueky coin hidden in some of the bars. Who gets “gift® bar, gents? Again, someone in the front row starts “the ball rolling.” Oh, yes, the little cartoon books which ge with the bars have blank pages. The gent says these pages are treated with a special kind of something-or-other to glow in the dark. So when the theater lights go down, you can amuse yourself

by looking at what appears on |

the blank pages. At this point, when you are half | expecting someone to produce a shell game, the show goes on with a blast from the band in the pit. The curtain rises on an under-nourished-looking chorus and do their

bit. That is where I went out.

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Heath, Marilynn Mackey, Matian Ball and Jeanne Bundy.

Cancels Premiere

Of ‘My Gal Sal

Plans for the Indianapolis world premiere of “My Gal Sal” ‘at the Indiana May 4 have been cancelled, it was announced today by Thomas Thompson, Twentieth Century-Fox Midwest representative. The pieture will open May 8 instead. The original plans were to hold a special evening showing of the film, based on the life of Paul Dresser, Hoosier songwriter, Members of the east, including Victor Mature, Nancy Kelly, Rita Hayworth and Arlene Whelan were expected to make personal appearances. Mr. Thompson explained that the government has drafted the services of the stars for army and navy relief road shows beginning April 29. It was not deemed arvisable to premiere the picture here under these circumstances, he said. The premiere is scheduled at the Roxy theater in New York.

PUPILS IN RECITAL Students of Mrs. William Byram Gates will present a ballet recital at 8 p. m. Thursday at the Women's Department club ballroom. Choveography is under the direction of Miss Barbara Brown, assisted by Miss Nancy Briges.

Friday, are (left to right) Geraldine

WHEN DOES IT START?

CIRCLE

“Almost Married,” with Jane Frazee and Robert Paige, at 11:40, 2:45, 5:55 and e “The Spoilers,” with Randolph Scott, SORE Wayne and Marlene Dietrich, at 12:45, 3:50, 6:55 and 10:05.

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“Kin Row,” with Ann Sheridan Betty Field, Robert Cummings and Ronald Reagan, at 11:29, 2:05, 4:41, 07 and 9:42

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“The Invaders,” with Olivier, Leslie Howard yas and Glynis Johns, 2:50, 6:25 and 10. “Ka Hhigen, » with goniriey Temple, at 1:05, 4:40 and 8:1

LYRIC

“To the Shores of Tripoli,” with Maureen O'Hara, John Payne ane Randolph Scott, at 11, 1:50, 4:45, 7: and 10:30. “On the Sunny Side,” with Rody MeDowall and Jane Darwell, at 12:4

3:35, 6:30 and 9:25.

Laurence Raymond at 11:15,

CONSERVATORY CLUB TO PRESENT CELLIST

The Cincinnati Conservatory Music Club of Indiana will present Marjorie Von Staden Bernat, cellist, and Eugene E. Mogle, baritone, in a recital at 3 p. m. Sunday at the home of Mrs. Harold *B. Ogden, club president, at Greensburg. Lucille Lockman Wagner will accom=

pany Mrs. Bernat, and Kathryn N.

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Mogle will accompany Mr. Mogle.

7 HIGH SCHOOLS TO STAY OPEN

Summer Elementary Course Also Scheduled, Morgan

Announces.

Seven Indianapolis public high schools will hold summer session classes this summer to give local high school boys and girls an opportunity to speed up their training and complete graduation requirements in less than four years. Besides the high school program, classes will be held for elementary school children who need strengthening or review in certain subjects at School 2, 700 N. Delaware st, and Crispus Attucks high school. Classes during the summer term will be in session from 8 a. m. to noon daily June 15 to July 31. DeWitt 8. Morgan, superintendent of schools, said that instruction will be given in all subjects for which the demand justifies the organization of classes. A fee of five dollars a subject will be charged and eredits may be earned on the same basis as during the winter session. Instruction will be offered for those pupils who wish to acquire some particular skill which will make them better qualified for service in the war effort. These include parts inspection, machine shop practice, airplane mechanics, first aid, physical education, selder= ing and sheet metal work and radio assembly. Gardening and agriculture also will be included at Technical. Directors of the respective summer schools will be Emmett Rice, Shortridge; H. H. Anderson, Tech= nical; Russell A. Land, Crispus Attucks; Bertram Sanders, Manual; Walter Gingery, Washington; K. V. Ammerman, Broad Ripple, and Charles M. Sharp, Howe. Mrs. Elizabeth Witt will direct the elementary classes at School 2 and Mr. Land will supervise the classes at Crispus Attucks.

DEFENSE COUNCIL TO MEET AT PARK

District 47, Indianapolis and Marion county civilian defense council will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Brookside park community house. Maj. Herbert Fletcher, chief raid warden of Indianapolis, will be in charge of the meeting. Fire defense pictures will be shown under the direction of Russ Johann, director of education of the Indiana fire marshal's office. Boy scouts of the district will be special guests.

William H. Beck

ALUMNI IN CITY JOIN IN 1. U. DAY

New Yorker Will Speak at Thursday Dinner, Noting 122d Anniversary.

Indiana university alumni in Ine dianapolis will celebrate the 122d

anniversary of the university's founding at a dinner meeting Thursday at 6:30 p. m. in the Indianapolis Athletic club. Principal speaker for the tradi tional dinner will be James S. Adams, New York business execus= tive, native Hoosier and university alumnus. He will also deliver the main foundation day address on the campus at Bloomington. Honor guests include Dr. Herman B Wells, university president, Bloomington; Dr. C. J. Clark, clin ical professor of cardiology of the Indiana university school of medicine, Indianapolis; Dr, Charles F. Thompson, associate professor of orthopedic surgery of the Indiana university school of medicine, Ine dianapolis; Prof, R. R. Ramsey, university physics department, and Prof. S. BE. Stout, dean, college of arts and sciences. April 23 was designated as the date for the observance of foundation day by President Wells because the university's accelerated war program made it more advisable than the traditional date early in May. A feature of the dinner this year is the issuance of invitations to parents of Indianapolis youths who are now on the Bloomington campus.

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TELEPHONE MEN T0 DISCUSS WAR

Meeting at Claypool May 6 and 7 to Hear

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Dealing almost entirely with problems brought about by the war, the 23d annual convention of the Indiana Telephone association will be held May 6-7 at the Claypool hotel. William H. Beck, secretary treasurer and general manager of the association, said that a panel discussion of war-time operation of a telephone company will open the convention at 10:45 a. m. Wednesday, May 6. R. V. Achatz, Aurora, president of the association, will officiate and F. O. Cuppy, Lafayette, W. J. McWilliams, Indianapolis, W. J. Scheidler, Greensburg, Frank Baker, Ft. Wayne and R. F. Lucier, Warsaw, will take part. Questions will be formulated by the delegates and will be answered at a continuation conference Thursday morning. Governor Schricker will speak at a luncheon the opening day of the convention and Francis X. Welch, Washington, associate editor of “Public Utilities Fortnightly,” will speak at 2:30 p. m, on “Washington and the Telephone Industry Under the Emergency.” He will be followed by Lieut. Col. William C. Henry of the signal corps, who will describe the work of his branch of the army. The convention banquet will be held that night in the Riley room with Jeff Williams, Chickasha, Okla., as speaker and entertainer. George Steele, Warsaw, will conduct a traffic conference for operators Thursday morning. Louis F. Pitcher, Chicago, executive vice president of the U. S. Independent Telephone association, will talk on the national situation. Officers will be elected and the convention will close at noon,

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