Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1945 — Page 6

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1944, and was with her through nine major battles in the South Pacific. On its record of “narrow escapes” the Santa Fe | chalked up one when it was called { to escort two torpedoed ships. A | Jap plane came over and launched | {a torpedo, missing the Santa Fe and hitting the fantail of the Houston, one of the escorted ships. For! | five days and five nights. the escort | trip lasted, and Tokyo Rose .came through with a report the Santa Fe and two other ships had been supk. { From that time on the crew mem- | #1 ‘bers of the Santa Fe called each! g | other “Spook.” | i { Two_ torpedoes were launched ail ~ Rear Adm. Joseph F. Farley, {the Santa Fe another time, one| shove, has been named by Presbarely missing the ship and the| ident Truman fo be commandant |other hitting midship—with no| of the U. 8. coast guard, with the damage. It evidently was a dud, Mr.| rank of admiral. The 56-year. | Thuer said as he recalled the ex-| | periences on “The Fighting Saint.”| O- has been serving as chief perMr, Thuer parlicipated Joe in-| _sonnel officer. vasion of Saipan, Guam, BR | Philippines and Iwo ig ala ship |e to its credit nine enemy planes, FIF UB NS one Jap carrier, three cargo

lone destroyer and several mai NEW YEAR'S DANCE | craft.

|. Before entering the service in| The Pifty club will hold its an-

January, 1944, Mr. Thuer was employed at Allison's for about six| [nual New Years eve dance and years. He is married and has a 3%. frolic at the Knights of Celumbus year-old boy. He received his dis-!hall, 13th and Delaware sts., Frank { charge on Dec. 13. Spooner, president, announced tosms ee (day. Thomas Cholis is general COFFEE LACK AN BRAZIL chairman for the party. ! WASHINGTON, D. C.—Rlo de | Entertainment on the schedule Janeiro, in great coffee-producing includes dance music by the Belles, Brazil, was coffeeless for a short| sharps and Plats, Butler univer- | interval recently; delays. in delivery | {sity’s all-girl band, and -a floor | were caused by the fixing of new {show featuring the Six DeLeslies {ceiling prices {girls and Ralph Penley, master of ceremonies. Favors and noisemak-

Mr. Spooner was assisted in the preparations for the dance by Vicepresident Dr, C. E. Morgan and Secretary-treasurer W. V. “Tony” DeWitt, and the entertainment committee consisted of Courtland CO. Cohee, chairman; Jack Elmerick, Donald B. Wilson, Thomas Farrell, Edward G. Meyer, A. D. McCarrell and Russell Tolley,

old officer, a native of Oxford, |

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Training. “By HENRY BUTLER The Athenaeum Turners gavel another example of amateur enthusiasm for music Saturday night. Their annual Christmas ccncert, presented in the Athenaeum ballroom, showed that amateurs, with diligence and good leadership, can

produce programs worth hearing. That's something to consider, now

union have reduced firstrate professional music-makers to a comparatively small group. Never a great force in American life, amateur music has been kept alive by just such organizations as the Turners. Directed by Borshefl Saturday night's program included offerings by the Athenaeum | Turners concert orchestra. directed by Constantine Borshoff, and the 80-voice Maennerchor, directed by Clarence Elbert, In spite of obvious defects in some sections of his orchestra, Mr. Borshoff managed to achieve good musical results. An amateur orchestra is bound to be weak .in the “scarce” instruments, but Mr, Bor-

that radio and movie standards and |

shoff made the best of his ma-~ terial, Mr. Elbert's Mannerchor showed, | as usual, thorough and precise! training. The only quarrel I'd have | with Mr. Elbert would be over his interpretation of “Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee,” from Bachs “Sleepers, Awake!” cantata. Vigor ous and rather rapid singing of that chorale ‘Seems to miss a lot of its profundity. The Maennerchor sounded best in the Bressan Noel, “Christians, Hark!" Miss Crandall, Selefst

The evening's soloist was Helen Crandall, soprano, who sang the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria with violin obligato by Louis Mader and plano accompaniment by Dorothy Munger, the Maennerchor's accoms= panist, and Adam’s “Oh, Holy Night.” Miss Crandall has a clear

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Glorious in its love... Pojgnant in its drama « + . The story of a.wife _ who overcame shame and hate . . . who stifled her fury and fled from her past... to love again and live

"again with the man she had married.

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Other members who helped with | voice and phrases well, but is afflict the arrangements are Bill Drew, ed with too much vibrato,

| Dan Drew, Giles Rice, Robert Min-| on yocq) teachers seem to en- | ta, W. Lawrence Sexton, Anthony |. ..ce vibrato, in spite of the fact | Lawrence, Ray Breining, Paul Kor-| 4 no great singer uses it ex(by, ‘Harold Musselman, Curtis ,.gively There's no musical rea- | Schotzer, Walter Maloney, Francis)... go: vocal wobbles that resemble Schmitt, Thomas A. Lenahan, Earl]... +.onolo device on an electric C. Wolf, Harold Carrico, Robert E. | organ. And the quality difference a Kirby, Francis. Blackwell, Harry | | tremolo voice and, say, Mme. Flag- | Moore, Elmer Singer, Dr. J. W.ig.q jo the difference between Sluss, Billy Grimes and Claude |p nino and Heifetz.

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|ater announces a special New The Fountain Square theater alYear's Eve show starting at 5 p. m. ters its regular schedule this week | next Monday. in order to present a special * | On the screen will be “Nothing Christmas show, But the Truth,” starring Bob Hope,! Last showings of “Springtime in and a film vaudeville program in- the Rockies” and “My Priend | lcluding Horah Minnevitch's Har. { Flicka” will be tonight. A ChristI monica Rascals, Lowe Hite & Stan-'mas continuous matinee will open ley, Milt Herth trio, Sabins’ Per- tomorrow with the East Side Kids sonettes, Viola Lane, Betty & the, in “Come Out Fighting” and the Bevokts, and several other head- | Hoosier Hot Shots in “Rockin’s in [the Rockies,” which will be shown A will be no reserved seats, | tomoirow through Friday. but tickets wil be limited to the! Both the Granada and Sanders seating capacity of the theater and |theaters will have matinees tomorare now on sale at At the box-office, row, continuous from 1:30 p. m.

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Quilligan,” with Ham Bendix and Joan Blondel], at 11:18, 3:30, 5:40 and 9. LOEW'S “She Went to Races.”

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