Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1943 — Page 6
hanges Verdi Music to Condem Fascism. NEW. YORK, Feb. 1 (U, P.). — Arturo Toscanini, distinguished lian musician and long-time opnent of Benito Mussolini and his Fascist regime, today launched an artistic broadside at his country’s internal enemies that was expected to have widespread repercussions. Toscanini conducted for the first fime yesteday his adaptation of “The Hymn of the Nations,” by Giuseppe Verdi, Italy's best-loved composer. Verdi's libretto started with “Italia, Patria Mia”; Toscanini’s version started with “Italia Tradita”—Italy betrayed. ~ When broadcast to Italy by short-wave radio, the change was ~ expected to further shatter the wavering loyalty» of .the Italian masses to Mussolini. The masses revere Verdi and they know that he was an out-spoken opponent of all tyranny, believer in democracy. Italy betrayed, it was said, would give expression to a sentiment gnany Italians instde Italy have been feeling for a long time.
Adds American Music
Verdi included in his score the hational anthems of France and
n appended to the end, : -Spangled Banner.” He per“formed the work yesterday in all- ~ Verdi concert of his NBC symphony
Toscanini, best-known and prob-
ably best loved of living Italian mu- |:
sicians, has always been ‘in the black book of the fascists for his outspoken hatred of tyranny and * his belief in democracy. In 1931, . while conducting in Italy, fascists asked him to start his concert with the Fascist hymn. He refused, and . Fascist terrorists beat him up. : ———————————————————————————————————
MRS. JAYNE TO SPEAK
! Pirst aid workers of civilian de- ~ fense district 35 will meet at 8 p. m. . tamorrow in room 101, Jordan hall, | Butler university. Mrs. Rose Jayne of the emergency medical staff will
VOICE from the Balcony by RICHARD LEWIS
‘No More Proclamations
THE APPEARANCE of Sigmund Romberg and troupe Feb. 9 at Murat and the opening of Franz Lehar’s “The Merry Widow” Feb. 11 at English’s, followed by Valentine's day, lend next week a peculiar aura of romance, - It may turn out to be one of the most romantic weeks
the town has undergone in years.
I am almost tempted to suggest it
is about time we had a proclamation from the statehouse or the city
hall, just for old times’ sake. It. used to be that nearly every week in the year was recognized officially in one way or another,
like consume more dairy products:
week or remember your insurance man week. It was u pleasant custom and it kind of broke up the
‘ year.
Nowadays, however, with everyone’s mind on the war, officials are busy and one week is very like the next. Af the statehouse, the Democrats are ‘engrossed in watching ‘the Republicans and at the city hall, the Republiéans are busy watching each other. Anyway, it isn’t my place to suggest a proclamation or two at this time when the statehouse people are busy with wartime problems, like who is to appoint
, whom to what job.
Nor it is the time. to suggest
|: anything of ‘this nature to city
hall, where some of the folks are staying up nights trying to dope out a plan to raise their pay in the 1944 civil budget without raising the tax rate. No, this is # time for concentration on vital issues. I must admit that issuing proclamations sounds too much like business as usual to tear our public officials away from wartime considerations. 2
Paging Mr. Romberg
ONE OF THE features of the Romberg show is the personal appearance of the composer himself, whose existence to millions of Americans has seemed to be as mythical as some of his operetta heroes. One of the most active myths in showbusiness today, Mr. Romberg is a heavy-
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weight Bots: musically and physically. He weighs 190 pounds and has .acquired the reputation of snoring on trains in the key of C. He is another musician who doesn’t believe that a good war song has yet emerged from this war, at least a war song that will live on after the war is over. - “This lack, he attributes to mechanized warfare. When men marched into battle, they sang, he said, but singing stirring songs is sometimes difficult in a jeep. The roar of motors, he thinks, has drowned out - the battle song. Mr. Romberg was born in Hungary in 1887 and attended high school in Vienna where he also learned to play the violin, piano, organ, ‘cello, bass viol, triimpet and drums. His ambition was to ‘become a civil engineer and build bridges. At the age of 18, he was conducting the 70-piece orchestra of the Budapest College of Music in a composition of his own called “The Soldiers of Mercy,” which he had dedicated to the Hungarian Red Cross. The song was an instant success. After serving in the Balkan wars, Romberg turned to music seriously in 1910. He ‘came to America and hung around Broad+ way for three years before he got anywhere. It was his “Whirl of the World” in 1913 that started him on his way. For seven years, he wrote the musical scores for Al Jolson dnd Willie and Eugene Howard shows. His first operetta yas “The Blue Paradise” in 1914, from which the waltz, “Auf Wiedersehen” is remembered. Then followed “Blossom Time,” Prince,” “My Maryland,” Desert Song,” first operetta to he made into a talking picture, “The New Moon” and “Nina Rosa.” In recent years, he has been arranging and producing musical programs for radio networks. He went to Hollywood in 1936 and collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein II on “The Night Is Young.” Then he joined M. G. M. His most recent film score was written for “New Moon.” He lives as unostentatiously as one can live in Beverly Hills where he collects pianos and ore gans and throws stag parties for his friends.
Movie Week
THE INDIANA will show “Pittsburgh,” with Marlene Dietrich, for the Wednesday opening, teamed with “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” “In Which We Serve” will be on Loew’s screen Thursday. The Circle's next attraction on stage is a chapter or two from the “Scandals,” a roadshow on the order of the®*Billy Rose extravaganza a couple of months ago. “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” is the picture that goes with it. The manager for Charlie Barnet, whose band occupies the stage of the Circle at present, explains that Charlie and the boys just couldn’t help overriding the demands of the fans for more of Marion Hutton and the Modernaires. There just wasn’t any more, said the manager, and we had to go on with the show. From what I am able to learn, the Huiton-Modernaires ensemble goes through a set routine and then it's done. The only way to hear more, presumably, is to sit through to the next show.
RELAX REGULATION HOLDING MEN OF 38
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U, P).— The war department has relaxed requirements for the discharge of
“Maytime.” “The Student
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|men over 38 by dropping the rule
that a trained replacement must be available before an older soldier can be returned to civilian life. Hereafter the older men who meet the other discharge requirements will be released from military duty unless such an action will seriously affect the efficiency of the organization to which they are assigned. Applications for discharge must be made voluntarily, in writing, to the soldier's immediate commanding
LODGE TO INITIATE Initiation ceremonies are scheduled for 1 p. mi. tomorrow by Indianapolis lodge 137, Ladies society, Brotherhood of Locoraotive Firemen and Enginemen. Mrs. Wanda Nowling will preside at the mest ing in Castle hall.
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FOR SMOKERS) SORE THROAT
“The
British sailors dive into the sunlit waters of the Mediterranean as their destroyer heels over, bombed and torpedoed by the enemy. From their struggles in the sea, emerges the flashback story of Britain at war as told by Noel Coward in “In Which We Serve.” The British
film opens i Loew’s Thursday.
Warners Denies Crystal Ball Helped in Timely 'Casablanca’
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood«Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 1.—The boys hereabouts are claiming now that the Warner brothers make movies with the aid of a swami and a crystal ball. 3 Everytime anything important happens, seems like, the freres Warner have a movie about it, ready to go. Take the time Ann Sheridan and John Litel made a movie called “Alcatraz Island.” Just before it was released the lads in Alcatraz made tng first break ever attempted from ‘that fortress in San Francisco bay. Then the Warners posted guards around their studio, locked all the doors and made a film called “Confessions of a Nazi Spy.” This was a sensational job about spies in America. By the time it hit the screens, J. Edgar Hoover and his G-men were making newspaper headlines by capturing a whole
| gang of Nazi spies.
Then Came the Cohan Film
Came “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” a biographical movie about George M. Cohan. He died shortly after it was released. And that’ brifigs us to a scenario the ' studio purchased nearly two years ago, titled “Everybody Comes to Rick’s.” In December, 1941, the Warners, with or without their crystal ball, retitled it “Casablanca.” They finished he film about a year ago and put ition the shelf to wait for an appropriate release date.# They got it, all right. Roosevelt met Winston Churchill in Casablanca and next day you-guess-which producres had advertisements in all the. newspapers
about you-guess-which movie.
The experts figure that the president's meeting with the prime minister in the proper African town can add up to $1,000,000 extra mm returns on the picture. This is
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fine, according to the Warners. It certainly is. Only thing that bothers the brothers are these crystal ball rumors. - Nothing to ’em, they say. The fact is, they claim, theyre loaded for bear. -From now on it doesnt matter what happens anywhere in “the world. They've got a movie about it. Say our fliers, as seem likely, go after Tokyo with a load of bombs. Boom! The Warners have a movie called “Air Force,” which is about our fliers after Tokyo With a load of bombs. If there's a big battle on the ocean somewhere between New York and London—and there may be one any day—the brothers are ready with “Action in the North Atlantic.” Recently they watched closely the French attempt at revolt in Marseilles. This seems to be a part of the underground movement against the Nazis. Soon as this movement gets a little stronger, there’ll be the Warners again with “Watch on the Rhine,” which concerns the secret fight against the Germans.
- Moscow Film Ready
Say President Roosevelt turns up one of these days in Moscow. There's the Warners’ “Mission to Moscow” ready to go. And if the allies do decide to invade Europe by way of Norway, the boys have a movie about that, too. It is called “Edge of Darkness” and it stars Ann Sheridan and Errol ynn. } That brings up the only unhappy item in this sequence. If Flynn, who’s on trial now on charges of statutory rape, should be convicted, “Edge of Darkness” wouldn't be worth the film on which it’s printed. On the other hand, if Flynn is acquitted, “Edge of Darkness” will be a multi-million dollar moneymaker, Norway or no Norway.
DRUM SEES ARMY ‘AS WORLD SAVIOUR
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U. P.).— Lieut. Gen.. Hugh A. Drum, commander of the first army and the eastern defense command, hopes that the army’s “pioneering job of the future” will be so completely fulfilled that historians will write of it: “They were an army of intrepid soldiers. They conquered a wilderness and liberated the oppressed. They restored to the people of the world their dignity as creatures of God. Few armies have served their country more gloriously.” - He made that statement yesterday to graduates; of Georgetown university, many of whom will join the armed forces. He emphasized in his’ address that Americans who participate in the ultimate invasion of Europe must help rehabilitate the people they free from axis ‘tyranny.
GIRAUD SAYS TIME WILL HEAL DISPUTE
LONDON, Feb. 1 (U. P.).—Gen. Henri Honore Giraud today told Daily Mail Correspondent Ward Price that he and Fighting French Leader Gen. Charles de Gaulle have agreed on aims but that differences remain “about means to attain them.” Giraud admitted disagreement with de Gaulle on the matter of personalities, explaining that ‘de Gaulle “objects to the presence of certain people in my administration.” “I maintain that these are ¢ quite secondary matters which time will solve,” he said. Giraud, referring to exitieiam of his administration for alleged partiality to Vichy adherents, declared he would be “the last of all Frenchmen to try or wish to impose a Vichy-minded administration either on North Africa or France.”
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‘MURDER IN ERROR’
ROCHESTER, Ind. Feb./1 (U.
P.) —The Fulton county grand jury|.
met today fo investigate the fatal shooting of Robert Hoffma: = 7, at
ag | ar7on, Jan. 24
The jury originally met le =~ .eek, but since Judge Kline D. Recd disqualified it when it was learned one
of the jurors did hot live within| }
the county. State Detective ‘Estil Bemenderfer filed first degree murder charges against Mrs. Beatrice Dowling, 23-year-old expectant mother, after her
| Tetand, Arrilie, said the shotgun of | blast which killed Hoffman. was in-|
tended for him.
Colonel Praises His Jap Battalion
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (U. P.). —The war department today releafed a statement by Lieut. Col. Farrant IL. Turner praising 'the 100th infantry battalion which is composed of men of Japanese ancestry. : “I have never had more wholehearted, serious-minded co-opera-tion from any troops than I received from my present co - mand,” Turner reported to hquarters. The war department said the statement was considered worthy of official release “not because it
differs from the feeling that most commanding officers have about their present outfits, but because it doesn’t.” All of the soldiers in Turner’s - outfit are American citizens, born in the Hawaiian islands, and are memters of the Hawaiian national guard
SEES LUFTWAFFE DOOM
LONDON, Feb. 1 (U. P.).—Brig. Gen. Frank D. Hunter, commander of the eighth U. S. army air force fighter command, predicted the end
of the luftwaffe as a fighting force
this year. “The Hun fighter force started down in 1942, and in 1943 it will all go down,” Gen. Hunter said. “Ours is going up and up and up.”
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__IBob, Say It
° Il 3 % Ain't True! Comic Doesn't Read Fan Mail, Kin Claims. HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 1 (U. P.).— Bob, Hope's fans were left to ponder in disillusionment today his sister-in-law’s claims that he doesn’t even see his tons of fan mail, doesn’t sign his own autograph and pulls his gags from 4a filing cabinet containing hundreds of stale ones. Sister-in-law -Marie Towns Hope made the disclosures when she went to court to get a raise. She said the comedian paid her $12.50 a week for wading through his fan mail and cataloguing his jokes, “some of them terrible.” She asked $2300, which she claimed would make her salary just about right for the last two years. Hope -countersued, setting forth that it was none of anybody’s business what he does with his mail, that the sister-in-law was anything but underpaid for the work she did, and that anyhow she had borrowed
$1425 from him in the interim and neglected to return it.
Tonnage Interested Him
Bob's brother Jim, “whose signature is very much like Bob's,” signs those photographs with everything from “sincerely” to “in memory of that heavenly night,” practically, Jim's wife said, depending on what the occasion appears to demand. As fox Bob's interest in his fan mail: “All he was interested in was the tonnage. He was advised only of thé volume and fluctuations. 1 answered everything that Tefuired answering.” Every time she'd ask for more money, Mrs. Jim related, Bob would reply: “Just sit tight and I'll fix it up.” “The tighter I sat,” she said, “the less fit got fixed, so I finally had’ to come to court.”
‘MARY C. MILLIGAN
ENLISTS IN WAVES
‘Miss Mary Catherine Milligan, 44 S. Bolton ave, fis one of four Hoosier women who have enlisted as WAVES at naval officer procurement headquarters here, Ensign Mary Richmond announced today. Other recruits include Miss Dora Elizabeth Stansbury, Burns City; Miss Dorothy Mildred Walker, Wabash, and Miss Caroline Louise
Stilley, Anderson.
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CIRCLE stage, Charlie Barnet and |p at 1, 3:55, 6:40 and My Dead Body,” with milton Berle and “Mary Beth | Hughes, at 11:25, 2:30, 5:10, 7:55 | and 10:35.
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LOEW'S | “The Crystal Ball,”. with Ray | Milland bin Pauletfe Soddard, at | 11:18, 1:55, 4:88, 7:20 and 10. “Lucky Lefs’ wiih Juiz Falke Snpurs. Tat 12:40, 3:20, 6:03 and
INDIANA
“The Palm Beach Story,” with | Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea,
Mary Astor and Rudy Vallee, at | 12:40, 3:48, 6:56 and 10:04. “Wrecking Crew.” with Richard Arlen and Jean Sarker, at 11:27, 2:35, 5.45 and 8:5
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“Casablanca,” with Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Renreid at 11, 1:55, 4:50, 7:45 and
“Behind the” Eight Ball,” with: the Ru; Rus Bros. at 12:55, 3:50, 6:45 and 9:4
JUNIOR LODGE TO MEET
The Ben Hur junior lodge will meet at 7:30 p. m .tomorrow at Castle hall, 230 E. Ohio st. Meet-
ings will be held the first and third Tuesdays of each month,
MONDAY, FEB. 1, 1 RETIRED RAILWAY
EMPLOYEES TO DINE
Members and invited guests of
-| the - association of retired railway
employees 2 will attend a dinner at 12:30 p. m. Thursday in the social
hall of the Y. WwW. C. A, 329 N. 15%
Pennsylvania st. Arthur R. Harrison, special repre= sentative of railway retirement board, will speak, and enteriain. : ment will follow.
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