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

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South Siders Plan Circus

Juniors to Combine Event With Fair. The South Side Junior Citizens,

who presented their revue last! spring at the Fountain Square the-| ater, will open a combination circus!

and fair at the Keystone grounds! |

700 S. Keystone ave, July 13, it] was announced today. The event will continue untill July 18. On opening night, the] Bandstand post, V. F. W_ will present a flag to the Keystone com-| munity center at 7 p. m. and a! parade of 1000 children will follow. The Junior Citizens who are active in south side theatrical and; recreational activities have: as-! sembled 12 circus wagons for their show which will feature Ey round and other rides. The group is sponsored by the adult council of the city’s communi-| ty centers.

SHERWOOD NAMED TO POST

Lieut. Elmer Sherwood, former editor of the National Legionnaire, | has been named public relations| officer at Ft. Harrison by the war | department He succeeds Capt. | Clifford S. Miller, who has been as-| signed to Camp Atterbury. Lieut. | Sherwood has also been designated | a member of the army emergency] relief of Indiana and military intelligence officer.

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=] Saroyan Offers Play Rights "To Revive Dead Theater’

SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 (U. P.).—William Saroyan pronounced the American theater dead today and offered to restore it to life.

! Again refusing to hide his light under a bushel, Playwright Saroyan | designated himself as the saviour of the drama and issued this proclama-

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the only American writer of plays who is seeking to bring forward the {new theater, which must, sooner or | later, take the place of the old.” Saroyan, who frequently jumps {out of the literary groove, said that {| “In my opinion, which is not hum- { ble,” the 1941-42 American theater | season ended in collapse and death. { “The better writing of this the- | ater was ineffective and irresponsible, not insofar as it did not seek to achieve grace and wisdom, but insofar as it accomplished only second-rate grace and wisdom. “Only one or two plays intended to say anything at all, but even these had only obvious and generally journalistic things to say... They were earnest, but they were boring. At best they gossiped about Alexander Woollcott, fooled around with the ridiculous dreams of wretched women, or got heavy on the theme of 10-cent heroics or million-dollar greediness.” To rectify this allegedly miserable condition, Saroyan offered “to the country at large” all the rights to about 20 of his plays. He suggested that “somebody with a little sense, endow a theater in New York to produce his plays; that a producing unit establish itself to direct and present them; that the “best players in the coun{ry make themselves available” to act them; and that all profits be returned to the project.

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by RICHARD

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The Critic's Critic A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

who appears to be one of the more voluble apologists for the movies, has taken the movie critics to task in the current issue of “Holly-

wood,” a nickel movie magazine.

The title of his essay is “Cracking Down on the Movie Critics,” whom he views as a bunch of “Typhoid Marys,” polluting popular

entertainment with their nasty cracks. The burden of his soul is: What right have these insensate reviewers to club down the beneficent motion picture industry which knows what is for the public good without being told by outsiders? “Who's right?” demands Mr. Underhill, “Is a movie that satisfies 2,000,000 people worth the effort? Or are six guys sitting in a cocktail lounge the ultimate arbiters of the worth and destiny of an enterprise that has employed the brains, skill and ingenuity of 1000 professionals who know their trade as well as the doctor who did your tonsillectomy?” Naturally, you are supposed to react to this philippic with an upsurge of wrath against the six guys sipping cocktails in their effete way and absently deciding the destinies of the entertainment world while fishing for plives. The six guys, of course, represents us underworked overpaid, and supercilious critics. Only for mine, I'll have a tall beer, Sam.

What Nerve!

MR. UNDERHILL'S great thought in his polemic is that we cocktail loungers have some nerve presuming to criticize the efforts of the motion picture genii who know the business so much better than we do. Instead, says he: “The function of a movie critic, if you are to credit the West Coast guys, whose life and livelihood are dependent on producing entertainment, is to be a guidepost and indicator to the jolly old public as to which theater they should squander their money in. “The critic's place in this scheme of things, as a matter of cold efficiency, is to stand halfway up the Olympian mountain and say, figuratively, ‘catch this one!” or ‘miss that one!” His only useful purpose in the movie set-up is to act in the capacity of an gnimated signboard.” Well, now, isn't this interesting? The pungent paragrapher of the pulps blithely assumes that since the industry alone is qualified to judge its own work, the only purpose of a critic is to try to make himself useful to the industry as a cinematic tourist guide. And here I am, laboring all these months, under the impression that the function of the critic was to serve the public and raise the standards of entertainment. »

Animated Sign

I DON'T THINK I'd care to accept the role which “the West Coast guys whose life and livelihood are dependent on producing entertainment” would assign to me: That of being an animated signboard. I can picture myself hiking up and down N. Illinois st. my animated sign flashing on and off, bellowing to passersby: “Catch that one! Miss this one! Hey, don't go in there, it’s lousy!” The critic's critic supports his theory that we cocktail SOps should be seen and seldom heard with the assertion that films like “Shanghai Gesture,” which received a pasting in the press, were gobbled up by an entertainment-

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hungy public like hamburgers in Berlin. This, says he, proves that the critics who shanghaied “The Shanghai Gesture” were ‘“sensationally” wrong. It seems to me that one of the flaws in Mr. Underhill’'s moviemagazine logic is his naive belief that box-office receipts are the test of A-1 cinema entertainment. Even the motion picture industry itself wouldn't dare to make its academy awards on that basis. If it did, we would be presented with annual spectacle of Gene Autry films being hailed as the best motion picture entertainment this nation can produce.

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THE BOX OFFICE proves only one thing and that is whether or not a picture makes money. That is something quite apart from ga

film’s artistic and entertainment value. Box office doesn’t even prove the public liked the picture. It merely indicates they paid to see it, not quite knowing what to expect. Some of the finest film ever made were financial flops. Conversely, some of the poorest made millions. Others, like “Gone With the Wind,” achieved both classic status and financial success. The second pitfail into which Mr. Underhill sp artlessly stumbles is the smug belief that “the professionals who know their trade as well as the doctor who did your tonsillectomy” have a divine right to be exempt from objective criticism, simply because they are in the business. Well, the day that Hollywood decides to be the final arbiter of its excellence—the day that the six opinion peddlers in the cocktail lounge drink up, fold up and go home—that will be the beginning of the end of the motion picture as popular entertainment. So let's give ’em hell, boys, and how about another beer on the cuff, Sam?

SUE CAROLYN GROUP WILL GIVE RECITAL

The Sue Carolyn studios will pre-| sent students of voice, piano and] Hammond organ in a recital at 8:15 p. m. Friday at the D. A. R. chapter house, 824 N. Pennsylvania st.

Voice pupils of the Central stu-| dios of music will hold an outdoor group meeting and picnic Thursday night at the Beech Grove park. Mrs. Pauline Bade, Mrs. Ann Ma- | loff, and Miss Alice Swartz are the dinner committee. The entertain- | ment is in the charge of Miss! Esther Carpenter.

TROOP 83 TO VISIT SPRING MILL PARK

Boy Scout troop 83, sponsored | the Hayward-Barcus post, American Legion, will take its first outing of |

the season next Saturday and Sun- |

day, going to Spring Mill state park. |

The overnight jaunt was planned | particularly for the following scouts who have completed the Red Cross first aid course, thereby making the troop an emergency organization for the duration: Angelo Auda, Willis

Brinson, Riley Chilton, Sam Johnson, Albert Ritchey, William Ritchey, Bill Green, Lyle Frost, Joseph Saba, George Saba, James Pappas, Efthemus Pappas, Richard Bigelow, Leonard Riley, Jack Taylor, Robert Taylor, Harold Parson, Richard Finney, Charles Woodall, Eugene Smith, Robert Mosier, Guy Scofield, George Thayer, Donald Gardner, Raymond Jung, Camillus Bondy, Robert Cunningham, Dickey Anderson, Ronald Reeder and Billy Mitchell and four new tenderfeet scouts, Richard Jacobs, Truman Wood, Charles Cutshall and John Owens.

OFFERS NEW COURSE | IN SOCIAL AGENCIES

A new course in community social | agencies and facilities is being offered for the first time in the Butler summer session. Taught by Paul Seehausen, president of the Indiana council for social studies, the class is believed to be the first of its kind in American colleges. It is designed to acquaint students planning to teach social studies with agencies in their own communities. Visits are to be made to the federal building, state house, city hall, city high schools, local parks, department stores, banks, hotels, schools for the blind and deaf, housing projects and representative industries.

PRINCESS TO VISIT U. S,

OTTAWA, Ont, June 16 (U. P.). —Princess Juliana of the Nether- | lands, with her daughters Irene and | Beatrix, will establish a summer residence in Iee, Mass, a piecturesque Berkshire mountain town near Stockbridge, according to the Netherlands Indies News agency.

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ACTOR TOM BROWN CASHES IN ON IOU'S

HOLLYWOOD, June 18 (U. PJ. —Actor Tom Brown had a $1202 judgment today in place of a handful of IOU’s he said he received as part payment for his work in a traveling show, “Hollywood on (he Loose.” Brown told Superior Judge Alfred E. Paonessa that producers Sam Howard and Irving Yates had promised him $1000 a week, but paid part of it in IOU’s which

Howard filed a cross-complaint, claiming that the show went on the

the producers drop Ginger Man-

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PLAN MASS MEETING OF 2 DEFENSE AREAS

Civilian defense districts 21 and 22, comprised of the Riley and Rhodius park areas, respectively, will hold a mass meeting at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Rhodius eommunity center, 1000 S, Belmont ave. Albert Stump, Indianapolis attorney, will discuss “Price Fixing,” and Mrs. Earl Moore of the local Red Cross chapter will display bloofl plasma kits. Motion pictures of Gen, Douglas MacArthur and bombing raids of London and Pearl Harbor will be shown.

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