Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1943 — Page 16

VOICE from the Balcony “by RICHARD LEWIS

Picking a Critic's Pocket Sometimes Pays THE MAIN trouble with picking a critic’s pocket is the likelihood

of coming out empty-handed, in view of the peculiar rewards of the

newspaper business, the least of which is ready cash, Mr. Will H. Smith, collector of internal revenue, please note. However, I am taking the liberty of saying that if was different in the case of my capable colleague, Mr. Corbin Patrick of The Star, who had his pockets picked

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OPENING TODAY . CIRCLE

On: stage, Vaughn Manroe and orchestra, at 1: 05, 4, 6:55 and 9: 35. “Lucky Jordan,” with Alan Ladd ard Marie’ McDoBald, at 11:20, 2:15, 5:10, 7:50 and. "10:

CURRENT oe KEITH'S

“This Is The Enemy,” Russian Yocumentary film, at 12:10, 2:45, ©5:18, 8:06 and 10:28. On stage, “Let’s Be Gay,” a 1:39, 4:12, 6:45 and 9:28.

INDIANA

“Immortal Sergeant, with Henry Fonda, Maure O'Hara and Thomas Mitohell, Re 12:35, 3: 47, 6:59 and 10:11, “Margin For Eiror,” with Joan Bennett and Milton Berle, at 11:21, 2:33, 5:46 and 8:57.

LYRIC

“Star Spangled Rhythm,” ‘Inherited from the Indiana with all stars intact; at 11:30, 1:40,;3:50, 6, 8:10 and 10:20.

CIRCLE

On stage, Glen Gray and the Casa ome grehesia,. at 1:20, 4, 7:05 and 9 “Life i at 8:30,” with Monte Woolley and Ida Lupino, at 11:40, 2:15, 5:20, 8 and 10:30.

LOEW'S “Random Harvest,” with Greer

Garson and Ronald Colman, at 11, 1:40, 4:25, 7:05 and 9:50.

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by Fred Roner, the magician, on Keith's stage yesterday, in full view of everybody.

If you ask me, Mr. Patrick was the hit of the show, demonstrating just the right amount of unwillingness as a victim. His per-

‘formance was, I might say with

full objectivity, all there, although at the end of Mr. Roner’s act, he was missing his wallet with some real money in it, his wrist watch, his specs case and as fine a fivecent cigar as any theater manager ever handed out. The other two victims the magician-pickpocket selected from the audience were a defense worker and a young man whose occupation was not identified. Mr. Roner kept showing them card tricks and lifting the contents: of their pockets with a

savoir faire that might make hit a menace in crowded places. I might say with pride that I,

too, was considered as a victim,’

but didn’t make the grade, which was fortunate indeed for Mr. Roner: who would have had to prove himself a miracle man indeed to have found anything in my pockets. It.came out all right in the end, though. The entertainer, who is pretty slick at his trade, gave everything back, including Mr. Patrick’s suspenders and the wrist watch he lifted from Joe May, the master of ceremonies. It might have been better if he had swiped that flounder gag from Mr. May. That gag has been fluctuating. back and forth between the Circle and Keith stages so lorig now, it’s due for a modest pension and a cottage in the country. The vaudeville bill over at Keith’s this. week also presents the versatile Malone Sisters, one blond, one brunet. They sing light classics with pleasing harmony, play violins, the piano and accordion. Mr. May's partner, Margie Green, executes a lightning striptease down to her working clothes and dives into a fast line of acrobatics, winding up a comedy act which is not exactly scintillating with new material. Alex Perrell is the shadowgraph man, casting a variety of animal shadows on a portable screen by manipulating his hands in front of a strong light. The show opens with the Three Flying Behees, an aerial act, and closes with the trio of Duval, Merle and Lee, an act which starts out as an acrobatic dance and winds up in a free-for-all.

” » 2 ON THE SCREEN, Keith's presents a Russian propaganda film, “This Is the Enemy,” a series of melodramatic and amateurishly filmed war sequences, preceded by a symbolic cartoon a la Disney showing the history of the war. Keith’s talent contest, featuring five local amateur acts, goes on at 7:45 tonight.

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Bob Hope is the m. c. of the Paramount talent parade in “Star Spangled Rhythm,” which holds over to the Lyric for a third week.

SCRAP SALVAGE UNIT RAPS WPB

Charges ‘Interference’; Nets 8522 Tons of Five Million Goal.

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 26—W a r Materials, Inc., half-billion-dollar federal agency charged with raising 5,000,000 tons of scrap, actually has recovered 8522 tons. This was disclosed today by B. C. Moise, president of War Materials, Inc, and former Pittsburgh steel executive, who charged that war production board interference had so incapacitated the corporation that it was a waste of money. A second wave of resignations loomed in WMI's unhappy history as Mr, Moise, its second president, reported that WPB has so muddled War Materials’ affairs that it was now in the position of having to pay public money for not getting

scrap, instead of recovering it for war-busy mills.

Threatens to Quit

Announcing he would resign if WPB chairman Donald M. Nelson did not restore WMI to an active status in the scrap program, Mr. Moise said the federal corporation “will not countenance any further expenditures unless it can meet war needs for scrap in reasonable volume.” “WPB insists upon retaining the exclusive right to initiate scrap projects for war materials, yet has failed completely in doing so,” he asserted in a statement to WMI’s board of directors. Assumption of War Materials’ scrap-gathering powers by WPB’s conservation division led to the resignation of J. M. Hopwood, first president of WMI, and other high officers last October, two months after the agency was founded. “Mr. Hopwood said WPB’s action

‘|had reduced WMI to the status of

“check-signer” for the special projects section of the conservation division. Objects to Ceiling

WMI was organized at WPB's request to recover heavy scrap too costly to be salvaged by the scrap industry under government ‘price ceilings. Yet, Mr. Moise revealed,

TWPB last November set a limit of

$71 a gross ton beyond which WMI could not go in the recovery of scrap. This limitation made it impossible to execute contracts for a number of projects, he said. Then, in December, WPB limited WMI to $40 a gross ton and later made this order retroactive. But WPB continued to select scrap projects for WMI, “without apparent regard to the actual cost of recovering the scrap.” In January, Mr. Moise continued, Mr. Nelson issued another directive prohibiting the WPB -for the time being from initiating scrap projects for WMI in 30 states. To five previous directives, WPB added a sixth this month that calls for cancellation of contracts executed by WMI, even if payments have to be made to contractors to obtain such cancellations. “This means,” Mr. -Moise said, “that War Materials is now to pay government money for the purpose of not getting scrap, instead of for the purpose of obtaining it.” About 54,000 of the 140,000 tons have been contracted for, but only 8522 tons actually have been recovered ‘and sent to mills. Of the 54,000 tons, 44,812 represented trolley rails, which cost WMI an average of $50.30 per gross ton, Mr. Moise Teported.

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Parronchi Tak es Honors: Audience Small.

found the Indianapolis symphony orchestra in great form. for the season’s fourth pop concert at Murat theater. Ironically enough the season’s thinnest audience fell heir to the season’s most attractive program on the pop series to date. The series ends March 18 when Arnaldo Estrella, pianist, and the

with the orchestra. The main event of the evening was the performance of the soloist, Benjamin Parronchi, first cellist with the orchestra, who played the B-flat major concerto for cello and orchestra by Boccherini. This performance came within a week of the 200th anniversary of the Italian composer's birth. ; The concerto offers a variety of gymnastics for cello and Mr. Parronchi made the most of them. It is not at all times an attractive work, although there are passages of rich beauty which seemed to delight the cellist as much as the audience.

Sevitzky Announces

Mr. Parronchi, an outstanding instrumentalist, was particularly effective in this work, which demonstrated an admirable technique. Also,

|it seemed to be something he par-

ticularly wanted to play. Mr. Sevitzky announced each number on the program in his own, inimitable style, and this heightened the audience’s interest in the symphonic arrangements of eight Russian folk songs by Liadov. These were played at a subscription concert several weeks ago without the conductor’s comment and it should be said that Mr. Sevitzky’s brief explanation of each one made the set much more attractive, since it gave you an idea what you were listening to. The program provided a different and heavily underlined version of Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody,” which showed off the precision qualities of the orchestra.

‘Entertaining Evening’

Glazounov’'s arrangement of “The Volga Boatman” is certainly worth hearing. I have never heard it played so sensitively. There followed Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Dubinushka” which is one of the most popular works the orchestra plays and “Russian Sailor’s Dance” by Gliere. Pleased with his responsive audience, Mr. Sevitzky played two encores, the prelude to “Lohengrin” and Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers.” It was an entertalring evening. —RICHARD LEWIS

CIVIC'S NEXT PLAY

'“Jason,” Samson Raphaelson’s latest comedy, will be the Civic theater's next production, Jack Hatfield, director, announced today. Dates for the show which follows the presentation of the playwright’s “Skylark” have not been announced. The cast is being chosen.

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Music Assists in ‘Saving Liberty’

BOSTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.).—The historic defense of Russia against Nazi invaders was credited today in a message from Moscow to great music that “helps strengthen tke ranks of the defenders of liberty and democracy.” The. message was addressed to Roy Harris, American composer, whose fifth symphony will be given its world premiere here this afternoon by Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston symphony orchestra in a Russo-American program commemorating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Red army and navy. Transmitted to Mr. Harris by the Russian embassy at Washington, the message read: “U. 8. S. R. society for cultural relations with foreign countries (“Voks”) warmly greets a great artist and a great friendly nation. “Music is the mighty means for communion of people. It helps strengthen the ranks of the defenders of liberty and democracy. We would like to hear your symphony here.” Mr. Harris, Yorn on Lincoln's birthday in Lincoln county, Okla., is a member of the Cornell university music department.

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an invisible wire tripped a galloping horse,*has been verboten in Hollywood these many years as being too tough on horses. “But I got to thinking,” reported Harvey Parry, dean of the picture stunt men today, “that the Fly-ing-W ought to work fine on men. I can announce that it does.” So you see a soldier running across the battle field in the movies.

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He bounces backward and lands on his face. Behind this scene is the fine Italian hand of Harvey Parry, in-

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rect ratio to the number of war pictures leaving Hollywood. Most of these involve magnificent explosions, throwing human bodies through the air. Genuine bodies, too. No dummies. Say a bomb: lands in the center of a battleship’s deck, spewing sailors into the heavens. Parry’s on the job again with a refinement of his Flying-W. “Each man wears a kind of harness,” Parry said. “A sort of corset, .with straps around the shoulders and the legs to distribute the shock. So there’s a swivel bolt attached to this harness. Attached to the bolt is a length of piano wire. “This runs over a pulley above. On the other end of the wire is a weight. If a man weighs around 160 pounds,.I put about 400 pounds on the other side of the pulley. “Comes the explosion. I press a button and my man flies through the air, with his arms flailing. “I always put the: bolt off center somewhere on him, so hell go awkwardly, and not look like he’s a dummy stuffed with straw that somebody’s thrown.

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