Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1946 — Page 8

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JACK GAVER Stal? Correspondent

Friedman {s still around Broadway with his name in lights. The name

simply different, “It happened like this,” the star

said. “I was doing a double act in vaudeville a few years later. Had

partner named Lewis. “Well, we landed in a small town

down south and we went around to gee how we'd been billed on the theater marquee.

1 asked

“1 saw ‘Lewis & Lewis’

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[}/that doesn’t mean he isn't wanted

|elsewhere that he regards as being

the manager how come no Friedman and he said the marquee just

name so I became Ted Lewis.” Believes Road Important Yes, the man with the clarinet, the battered top hat and the perpetual question, “Is Everybody Happy?” is still going strong. Right now he’s in the midst of a sixthmonth engagement as star of ithe show at the Latin Quarter night

club, “First time I've had a chance to settle down in New York so long since I can’t remember when,” Ted said. “It feels good.’ Mr. Lewis is one of those veterans |who realizes the importance of the

lroad in helping a performer {lengthen his career. Sometimes several seasons will

{pass without Ted and his band and [performers hitting Broadway, but here. He's just got engagements {of equal importance. Remembers Home Town

But he does like to get back to Broadway. He's sentimental; and there are a lot of memories for him in the street and its people. Ted never forgets to mention Circleville, O. That's where he was born and raised. Some members of his family still live there, The family store there

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to a merchandising chain, “I just got a thousand dollars from Sophie Tucker recently toward building the swimming pool I intend to install at Ted Lewis park there,” Mr. Lewis said. year or so yet before we can put it {in because of construetion difficul-

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In “civvies” , Vivien Leigh, who plays Cleopatra in “Caesar and Cleopatra,” opening tomorrow at Loew's.

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Featured at Loew! s and Circle

Thomas Gomez, in the role of legendary gold - hungry King Croesus, in “Night in Paradise,” now at the Circle.

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CIRCLE “Night in Paradise,” Oberon and Turhan Bey, 3:56, 7.01 and 10.06. “She Wrote the Book,” with Joan Davis and Jack Oakle, at 11:35, 2:40, 5:45 and 8:50

INDIANA

“Night and Day,’ Sarin) Grant and Alexis mite 5, 7:20 and 9:45,

with Merle at 12:51,

LOEW'S “Renegades,” with Evelyn Keyes and Willard Parker, at 12:39, 3:46, 6.53 and 10:03. “Talk About a Lady,” with Jinx Palkenburg and Phi tf Tucker, at 11:10, 2:17, 5:24 and 8:34. LYRIO “Smoky,” with Fred MacMurray and Anne Baxter, at 11:38, 1:43, 3:48, 5:53, 7:58 and 10:03.

‘Music Programs Planned at Parks

be held in two municipal parks at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Shrine chanters, directed by Charles E. Hamilton, will sing at Brookside park. Their program se-

lection includes “Stout - Hearted Men,” “One Alone,” ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic,” “Roadway,”

“Wagon Wheels,” “Pale Moon” and “Ranger Song.” - JAt Riley park, the Indiana Bays school band of Plainfield will play

“Footlights Overture,” “Down by

ica,” “Have a Little Fun,” “Homage to Youth,” “Paradise Isle” and

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larly sold for much more by others. Will, protect the eyes from glare, sun, wind, dust and exposure. Wonderful for auto drivers, policemen, golfers, gardeners, farmers and all outdoor workers and sportsmen. Sold on 10-day no risk trial, | money-back guarantee, For sale this week | at our local factory branch National Op- | tea Stores Co.

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Victory Concert Program Planned

John L. Cain, director of Sahara Grotto band, and James R. Lawson, carilloneur at Scottish Rite cathedra}, have announced their Victory concert program for tomorrow at 8.15 p.m. Marking official V-E day, as proclaimed by President Truman, the program with Percival Price's Rhapsody - for Carillon,” first played by carilloneurs throughout the country last year on V-J day. The Grotto band, massed on the cathedral will then play three marches, Mr. Lawson's latest “Cathedral at Night,”

will open

“Victory

steps,

composition,

| composed in Indianapolis this sumThe city recreation department mer and dedicated to Arthur R. has announced musical programs to |

Baxter, donor of the carillon, will follow.

Concluding the concert will "be three .more marches by the band and the ‘national anthem and patriotic selections on the carillon,

PACKARD COMPANY TO RESUME WORK

DETROIT, Aug. 13 (U. P.).—The Packard Motor Car Co. began calling its 8500 workers back to their after the United Auto

Workers (C. I. O.) announced the end of a week-old strike over senjority -and overtime differences. Packard officials said they hoped

{to be back in full operation by to{morrow

ling back

Simultaneously, the Briggs Manufacturing Co., maker of Packard bodies, announced it would reopen its Meldrum plant tomorrow, callto work 2900 employees idled by the strike.

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THE STORY OF INDIANA'S OWN ¢ COLE PORTER AND HIS SONG SENSATIONS!

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Probe Death of Producer's Wife Following Finger Cut

By PATRICIA CLARY

United Press St HOLLYWOOD, Aug. of Mrs, Bertha Todd, 39, estranged

Detectives said death ,was acc Mrs. Todd entered St. John's

tendon to the little finger-of her right hand. Her husband and physician, Dr. Stanley Imerman, told investigators she cut herself Saturday “while cutting an orange.” Appeared in Good Health Deputy Coroner Ira H. Nance, who ordered the autopsy, said that it Mrs. Todd were left-handed, the | story appeared reasonable. If she were right-handed, he said, it required more investigation,

had been informed that Mrs. Todd was right-handed. Dr. Imerman said Mrs. Todd appeared to have been in good health when she entered the hospital but that before the operation was underway, her heart began to fail.| He called for a pulmotor, but she could not be revived. A report to the coroner's office! said Mrs. Todd died on the operating table and under an anaesthe-

Divorce Suit Filed

Todd, who only last week filed suit for ‘divorce, rushed to the hospital

Simons mortuary, Mrs.

13.—An autopsy today will probe the She died while undergoing a minor operation for a cut finger, the cause, reported variously as a heart attack and blood poisoning.

yesterday for surgery to patch the |

A Santa Monica detective said he|

he said, |

tie, without regaining conggousness. |

on learning of his wife's death and had the body taken to Malinow and | Todd also!

‘PHILADELPHIA STRIKE BRINGS BREAD RATION

PHILADELPHIA Aug. 13 (U, P.). —Bread rationing—to ‘the point where one independent. baker sold

| frantic patrons only half a loaf— death | was established in Philadelphia yveswife of stage producer, Mike Todd. ‘terday as a strike at 13 bakeries cut

{off two-thirds of the city’s daily idental but refused to speculate on |peeds.

aff Correspondent

| Long lines formed at bakeries and|

hospital at Santa Monica at noon markets. | — rere — -| mirror —————— - { Dr. Imerman said Mrs. Todd had lcalled him at his office yesterday | morning and told him she had cut D A N C I her hand while peeling an orange . at her ranch near the Del Mar race y > y 3 track, where T6dd is director of op-| BY ERY WEDNESDAY = AND THURSDAY atop the coolest

erations. Todd confirmed the story, gators said, | “Their boy heard her scream andl [came running downstairs to help) her,” they said. “He did what he! could and then he called his father.” Mrs. Todd séught medical aid at| Del Mar Sunday, Dr. Imerman said, | but was advised by her husband to consult a doctor in Hollywood. Todd's divorce guit charged his] wife with mental cruelty, but did] not elaborate on the charge. Attor-| {ney Jerry Giesler said thére was no |animosity between them, Married 20 years, they had been] |considered a very happy couple by | friends on Broadway, where Todd | | produced an array of shows, the lat-| {est of them, “Up in Central Park." |

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