Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1942 — Page 6
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by RICHARD LEWIS
Sevitzky Scoops the Press
THE SIXTH season of the Indianapolis symphony orchestra and the second front in North Africa opened Saturday night, the orchestra under the direction of Fabien Sevitzky who scooped the local press
vasion two-hours_ “Before any newspaper could get out on the street
with it.
by halting the concert and announcing the American in- .
That, it seems to me, is not only good showmanship, but good journalism. We have an opening
charged the atmosphere of the hall for the playing of “To Old on this newspaper for a man like Glory,” Mr. Sevitzky’s own medthat. I'll speak to the boss about | ley arrangement for orchestra of it. “The Caissons Go Rolling,” “The Lit up once more, the Murat Marines’ Hymn” and “Anchors theater fairly breathed delight | Aweigh.” : and excitement. Everyone seemed | This was the surprise feature to be happy, including the of the program. It was dedicated maestro and the men and women | to the orchestra boys who are of the orchestra, who performed | Now in the service. with new energy and spirit. I liked the idea of it a great Everybody I met seemed to be Sel) but 1 can’ say 1 cared for satisfied with the program, with | . Ss plored Satarday LE by the exception of an old crony of the orchestra Sine whe uiljersd Some pysiest However, I am sure it deserves ent leather shoes since the 1941 repetition, not only because it
represents some daring and orignd opening and his feet inality on the part.of the maestro,
but also because it proves that His innate sense of propriety inhibited him from taking his | OUT Symphony is no ivory tower
shoes off on opening night, al- organization and is ready to though both of us are firm be- | adapt its programs to times and lievers in comfort at concerts, | Events. opening night or not. During in- 2 x 8 termission, he stumbled off across MR. SEVITZKY had planned
the street to soothe his feet in to play the late Frederick Stock’s
the privacy of his car, but he couldn't find his car, the lot was arrangement of the Bach chorale, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,”
so crowded. as a memorial to the Chicago
He walked around outside for a while, then rushed in only to find symphony conductor whose death last month was a great loss to
the doors to the auditorium closed against him as Sevitzky and the | American music. Unfortunately, orchestra took up the Brahms | the score did not arrive, so Mr. fourth symphony. This friend of | Sevitzky played his own arrangemine loves that symphony and mént of another Bach chorale, “How Fervent Is My Longing.”
he had to stand all the way through the first movement. The main portion of the program was well selected.
When I bumped into him on the way out, he was looking pale, | cluded Schubert’s overture and but announced firmly he wouldn't | ballet music to “Rosamunde,” a romantic play which died on the
have missed the concert for anything and was I ath market | second performance in Vienna for a'pair of patent }eather shoes, | more than 100 years ago and size 10 double A. ich I was | probably would have been forgot-
not. ten had it not been for Schubert’s 2 8 8 gloricus incidental music. THE NEWS that our troops had By way of contrast, and con.opened a mighty - offensive | trasts are pleasant’ at a concert,
= Stravinsky’s “Fire Bird” suite followed. This, of course, is fantasy which requires lightness, deftness and a high degree of co-ordina-tion. I thought the ine 05 did an excellent job on the e Bird” which sent the audiegce out during intermission full of praise and in the playing of the Brahms fourth symphony which occupied the second half of the program. There isn’t any doubt in my mind that the orchestra, despite its losses to the service, met the expectations of its patrons who turned out, many in formal dress, to welcome the opening of its sixth and largest season under Mr. Sevitzky. Newcomers to the orchestra who appear to be outstanding acquisitions are Fritz Siegal, 25-year-old concertmaster; Reba Robinson, harpist, who comes here from the Philadelphia orchestra, and Meyer Rubin, former member of the Chicago civic orchestra, bassist.
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Violinist Fritz Kreisler, recovered from a near-fatal auto accident last winter, will make his only Indiana appearance this year in a recital Thursday night at Indiana university’s auditorium at Bloomington.
Times Amusement
“Tobacco Road,” ue John Barton as Jeeter, at 8:30
CURRENT FEATURES CIRCLE
“Between Us Girls,” with Diana Barrymore, Robert Cummings and Kay Francis, at 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15
and “Give Out, Sisters,” with the Andrews Sisters, at 12:40, 3:25, 6:10 and 8:55.
INDIANA «Springtime in the Rockies,” with Betty Grable, John Payne, Carmen Miranda and Harry James and his music makers, at 12:21, 3:44, 6:49 and 10:12. “Manila Calling,” Nolan and Carole Landis, 2:23, 5:28 and 8:51.
LOEW'S «Seven Sweethearts,” with Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin and ‘Marsha Hunt, at 11:40, 3:10, 6:40 and 10:10. “Eyes in the Night,” with ‘Edward Arnold and [nn Harding, at 1:25, 4:55 and 8:25.
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«Jceland,” with Sonja Henie and Jack Oakie, at 12:10, 2:45, 5:25, 8 and 10:40.
with Lloyd at 11,
‘Tobacco Road’ Opens Tonight
“Tobacco Road,” Jack Kirkland’s sharecropper saga, which holds the record for stage performances in the American theater, will open its eighth Indianapolis engagement tonight at English’s for a week’s run. John Barton, who began playing Jeeter Lester in 1937, is still playing the part and tonight will register his 2091st appearance in the part. Sara Perry has enacted the be‘draggled wife, Ada, more than 1700 times; Lillian Ardell, as gran’ma,
Phiilips has played Sister Bessie more than 2500 times.
played his part 3530 times. °
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Indiana branch, National Vocational Guidance association, - will open with a dinner at 6:30 p. m. Thursday in the Canary cottage. Members not able to attend the dinner may attend the second section of the meeting at 7:30 p. m. Miss Gertrude Thuemler, dean of girls at Technical high school, will speak on the topic “Counseling for Girls in Wartime.” Other speakers will be W. S. Barnhart, vice principal at Manual Training high school, who will talk on “High School Victory Corps”; Col. L. D. Macy, head of R. O. T. C. training here, whose topic will be “Counseling on Military Matters,” and R. Edward Hayes, manager of the USES, who will talk on “Allocation of Manpower.”
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Edwin Walter, the banker in the play, holds the record, though. He’s
fall meeting at 9 a. m. Tuesday at Ft. Friendly, 512 N. Illinois st., with Mrs. Bertie Martin, president, in
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"Wolf Man’ |
Tells Story
Standin Now.
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 9 (U. P.)— Some weeks ago, as you may have read, Universal studios scheduled a
Man Meets Frankenstein.” G-r-r-r-r. Only the boys felt that there was something wrong with that name.
thought. And they thought. And they came up today with a new and final title, thus: “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.” Honest. is the monster.
That's it. Bela Lugosi
Massey is the lady over whom they growl—and show their claws— while Roy William Neill is the di-
rector. Monster Lugosi wasn't on Clock call today, but Wolf Man Chaney OPENING TODAY was there in full regalia, with his ENGLISH’S standin.
The standin was an overgrown dog, named Moose. Chaney's dog, and smart. So we had a talk with Miss Mas-
| sey, who has one of the nicest sing-
ing voices in Hollywood and never gets to use it. We also had a talk with the wolf man, who told the kind of a story most actors try to keep quiet.
Hungry But Got a Job
Back in 1932 he started movie acting, but wherever he went the folks compared his acting with that of his late, great father. This wasn’t fair, but that’s the way it was, and young Chaney's movie career languished. “Came 1939 .and my wife and I were in a bad way,” he said. “I'd paid 22 payments out of 24 on my furniture, when they hauled it away. They took my automobile and the Chaney’s didn’t have any-
“That's the truth. Neither of us had eaten for 48 hours and we were wondering whether we were going to starve to ‘death, when I got a job.” It was a little stem-winder, that job. Chaney got the role of Lonnie, the half-wit, in “Of Mice and Men.” He was an outstanding hit. He’s been busy ever since.
Lots of Food Canned
“So I don't complain about anything, not me,” he said. “This almost seems too good to be true. I'm only worrying that maybe people will say I'm a hoarder. But I can’t help it. I still remember those days when my wife and I didn’t eat. “When I got some money I bought me hundreds of cans and some apparatus for using them. I've canned food of all kinds. I've gone out "in the ocean and caught tuna fish and canned them. I've shot game and canned it. It makes me feel better to see all that food, because a fellow never can tell how long his luck’s going to run in the movies.” Moose, the standin, is the ferocious wolf you saw Chaney wrestle in “The Wolf Man.” “The script said I had to wrestle a wolf,” he said, “so the studio rounded up some dogs it said looked like wolves. Only they wouldn't wrestle. There was a studio watchman who had this Moose, the police dog. I said, why not try him?
Broke Chaney’s Hand
“So Moose got -in ‘there with me and gave me a real fight because he was a smart dog and knew what to do.” Underneath his hairy paws, Chaney wore three pairs of leather
half an inch thick. Even so, when Moose clamped his jaws on Chaney’s hand, he broke the bones between the thumb and forefinger. “So,” said Chaney, “Moose and me, we fell in love. I bought him from the watchman and he is a very wonderful dog.” Moose makes a first-class standin for the wolf man. Moose stands there while the boys adjust the lights, without even twitching an ear. When Director Neill is ready to shoot, Moose trots off the scene and the wolf man trots on. -
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the Ammunition,” based on a remark of a navy chaplain at Pearl Harbor, who manned a machine-
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Tin Pan Alley Still Hunts
Popular War Song.
NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (U. P).— The government is beating the ears off Tin Pan alley these days, cause no alley cat has yet written a war song that soldiers will sing. The men who give with the clefs and bars have been practically ordered by Washington to sit down
at the piano and write half a dozen “Over. Theres” by midOctober. In between worrying about what Jimmy Petrillo is doing to the record business, they are trying hard, but results so far have been singularly discouraging. The troops are singing, “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle,” or, in the case of the British, “Beer Barrel Polka,” neither of which has even a remote w [connection with the war. Sydney Kornheiser, young music pyblisher whose father published
not yet ripe for a fighting song. Writer Must Be Realistic
“The country doesn’t know it’s at war yet,” he said. “We're not fighting mad and a song won't make us feel that way. It will only express what we feel.” As an example of the need for popular, topical songs to be in tune with , realities and not wishes, Kornheiser recalled the music situation just after Pearl Harbor. The market was flaoded with sweet little numbers like, “We're Going to Slap the=Dirty Little Jap.” One of the reasons it was strictly mortal, Kornheiser believes, was that at that time the Jap was doing most of the slapping in such spots as the Philippines and Malaya. “Right now,” he continued, “our mail from the camps shows the soldiers want songs that will let them forget drilling and sergeants. Now the white hope for a war
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Irina Baronova will appear will Ballet theater at English’s Dec. 1 as a Martens concert pres"entation.
Once a Clerk, Now a Star
Jerseyite Completes the
Climb in Year. HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 9 (U. P.)— Now comes William Bendix, New Jersey grocery clerk with a broken nose, to full-fledged movie stardom in one year flat. Nobody is more surprised than William. The Bendix isn’t handsome, though he claims that if he hadn’t smashed .is smeller in a sandlot football game, he would be a very good looking guy. As it is, he is a mug with curly hair and there is a market for same in pictures. He has one of the stellar roles in “Wake Island,” he’s the leading heavy in “The Glass Key,” still to be released, he’s going at once into “China” with Loretta. Young. Better han running a grocery, any way you look at it. “I was doing all right in the grocery business,” Bendix said. Comes 1935 and blooie!” Bendix lost his job. For a while, he dabbled in amateur theatricals. Then he got a role at $21 per week for the the WPA in Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can't Happen Here.” “I moved over to Broadway,” Bendix said, “and got work in six different plays.” In 1939 he got work—steady work —in William Saroyan’s “Time of Your Life.” An M.-G.-M. scout saw Bendix while he played in Los Angeles, .screen tested him, and eventually gave him the role of the bartender in Katherine Hapburn’s “Woman of the Year.” That was exactly one year ago. ~ “And it was a swell role,” Bendix said. “I worked on full salary for nine and a half weeks, .then the boys got to cutting the film and about all they could find to cut was Bendix. When the film came out, I was on the screen for less than five minutes.” That was long enough for Hal Roach to sign Bendix under a seven-year contract.
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