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| wyEs, THERE 18 hope for you.” The words of Evelyn Hilton, interviewer at the
Arthur Murray dance studios, sounded as if I had
received a pardon from a ‘life sentence. pe. What more could I ask for to improve my dancing at this stage? A left and right foot maybe instead of two left feet, But all that mattered now Was that there was hope. Miss Hilton said so. - glance at the dance analysis card showed that my rhythm was good; balance, fair, variety—none— (That was a blow to me), and my style was marked “gauche.” All this and hope, too Gauche was a nice sounding French word and I didn't bother to ask what it meant. Later, to my horror, I found out it meant awkward, clumsy, lacking in social graces. -At this point I bow my head in a moment of silence for all the girls I had ever danced with. What really hurts is that even my best friends never told me that I was “gauche.” On with 'the dance—with gauché. Since I had ¢hecked fox trot as the dance I was interested in, Miss Hilton began from there. Well, not right off with the foxtrot, since I was placed in the beginner
The Magic Step
MISS HILTON stuck a plug in a wall outlet and’ immediately the room was filled with a lively tune. This system enables an instructor to get the music she wants anytime she wants it. Six different outlets handle rhumba, jitterburg, waltz, samba, tafigo snd fox trot music.
She started me_ off with the “Magic Step.” It's
LOOK, I'M DANCING—Ooops, pardon me.
Soap Opry
WASHINGTON, March 5—I was flat on my back f2 my bed of pain, waiting for my sciatica to get better. I switched on the radio. “You must use Whispo to make that good, oldfashiorted, tender gingerbread,” said Aunt-Jenny. She went into detail about gingerbread production; kind of made me hungry. “Now get out your pads and pencils, ladies,” Aunt Jenny continued, “for my cream and chopped date gingerbread topping.” : She said take a cup of ‘molasses. A cup of cream. A few chopped dates. And same together. “By the way, Aunt Jenny,” interrupted the announcer. “How are Gramps and Joan today?”
Finders Keepers
AUNT JENNY said let's find out and—bang—we did. We went down to the cellar where Gramps, an evil old man, was a-grunting and a-banging with a pick-ax. Looking for a treasure chest. Joan was holding the lantern. But she didn't have her heart in her work. She said she was nervous. “Steady, gal,” Gramps snarled. He got the box open. It was full of new $100 bills. Gramps counted them. He added $80,000 worth. Joan said he ought to find the rightful owners. { “Finders, keepers, heh-heh-heh,” replied Gramps. Aunt Jenny came in with word that tomorrow we will learn who owns the cash: She said she'd also have a grand new Whispo recipe. I want to assure her now that I'll be listening. My doc won't let me do anything else. I spent the afternoon with the soap oprys. I faced fe with Portia, learned about true love from Ma
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. graceful step when it's done right.
By Ed Sovola
pretty simple even though it is basic to the 20 variations of the fox trot. Watching’ Miss Hilton I went left—right—pause—side—together—then repeat. A few turns around the room produced “Co-ordi-nate your feet—keep your feet pointed straight—keep your weight on the left foot—keep your right. free.” I didn’t want to seem cantankerous but I told Miss Hilton that I wanted to quit immediately, 1 would ‘never dance again as long as I lived and besides I liked ice hockey better than I did dancing. “You don’t mean that, do you?” she asked, look-
& way about her. No, I didn't mean what I said. A few more of the magic steps around the room and I was ready to dance all day. She took me by the hands and guided me through the step. Not one mistake. “Now get into dancing position. Pretend you are on a dance floor. You're the leader. Do exactly like you have been doing and everything will be fine, Miss. Hilton instructed. . : Left — right — pause — side—together—left, I was sailing right along. Then’ it happened. . Just when I felt like a feather. CRUNCH-—my size 11 clodhopper came down with the force of a pile driver on her left foot. My apologies were profuse. Miss Hilton insisted it was nothing. She’s brave.
The Waltz Turn
GRIMLY I STARTED in again, determined not fo crunch her. 1 was three feet away. “You can't dance that way,” “now get into dancing position,” Man, oh man, how I danced after I relaxed. Without treading on her nylons either, “Let's try the left waltz turn which will ddd some variety. In this way we'll build up the steps gradually.” The left waltz turn came easy to me. I can trace the waltz turn to “The Jolson Story.” I enjoyed the scene where Al Jolson’s folks waltzed to “The Anniversary Song.” Combining the two steps was easy, too. It wasn’t long before Miss Hilton worked in the so-called conversation step. I had seen this done before. It's a
Miss Hilton said,
My first attempt failed. I had trouble keeping my toes pointed straight ahead. Arthur Murray advertises “If you can walk you can dance.” True enough, provided you can walk right. By the time we got my feet to track and combined the three steps, the hour was up. If I hadn’t been
There are two Toscaninis. Oneris the musical perfectionist who will reach his 80th birthday March 25 with his musical brightly as ever.
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SECOND. SECTION
His sharp ear catches a flaw “oe and oscanini halts rehearsal to study score . . . and prove what he knew by heart. 7", : before he pleads prfoction.”
% WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 19
right As He
Brilliant Italian Is Two Persons
By SAMUEL CHOTZINOFF
As Told to MARC J. PARSONS " NEA Staff Writer
NEW YORK, March 5.—
Arturo Toscanini was only 19 when he conducted his first performance of the opera. It was in Rio de Janeiro and he had been playing cello in the orchestra. The regular. conductor had been hissed from the podium. In the emergency, Toscanini took over, and conducted without score, relying entirely on his memory. He was an instant success. Born at Parma, Italy, March 25, 1867, he entered music school at nine, graduated at 18 “con lode distinta” in cello, pianoforte and composition.
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the dining room, “where are you going?” he demanded.
eat after that miserable perform-
for a long time, I was afraid to broach the matter to him for fear of an immediate and irrevqgable turn-down. But one night after dinner he seemed -in a particularly
“To dinner, Papa,” she said. “Do you mean you can actually
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“WHY NOT!” he surprisingly answered. : I had never really believed that he would leave Italy at that time. He was ‘an- Italian patriot who hated |
lagainst—the dictator,
‘cretly with a group each afternoon! lin the back of a little bookshop.
sonal popularity that he was never bothered. Once, while dining with him in a crowded Milan restaurant I un-
me to the rhumba. learn something once I've got it for keeps.
a “trifle slow” Miss Hilton would have introduced I don’t learn fast but when I
On Pennsylvania st. I tried the “magic. step.” I know what was wrong with the guy who stared at me, He's just jealous I'm going to be popular.
vy
By Frederick C. Othman
quiet, extremely modest and consideraté Italian with typically Italfan likes and dislikes. Occasionally the two Toscaninis merge. into one. Toscanini’s unflagging interest in music once prompted him to.accompany me to a concert in Milan which I was covering for a New York paper. But when the audience jumped up as he entered, and shouted #Viva
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Perkins, and spent a tragic 15 minutes with some ing rain so that his presence might folks who weren't having much luck exercising their, + detract from the strictly musi-
right to happiness.
Toscanini!” he ran home in a pour-
ance! I am ashamed to think that any of you could possibly want food tonight.” » 2 ” AND THE whole family went to bed without supper. Often where music is concerned, Toscanini can become violent in his language, but he seems to retain no memory of what he had said. He will call a musician a “stupid” and a few minutes later walk off the platform with his arm around the man. Once I reminded him of ‘this. He looked incredulous: “Did I say that?
It’s not possible!” ¥
good humor and I saw my chance.
Toscanini’ s Friend - Brought Him Back.
| Mussolini passionately. He actually Samuel Chotzinof! is manager |Was active in a conspiracy in Milan u
meeting se- 1B
the music division of the National | roadcasting company. A longtime, close friend of Arturo Toscan-
The police were probably aware | ini, it was Chotzinoff who induced of this, but so great was his per-|the maestro to return to the United
States in 1937 and direct the new radio symphony orchestra formed especially for ‘him.
asked. “No,” he Yupijed gtiphaijcally.
“THAT'S FUNNY, » I said. Then I told him the story I had read in a magazine of canaries who flew around the Cincinnati doctor's room during a broadcast by Toscanini of
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, way back in 1928. As - the symphony reached its finale, all the birds perched on the radio and sang along with the music.
peated the story to his wife, gestur-
“Are you interested in radio?” I}
* Toscanini was fascinated. He re-|
The romance of Helen Trent I did not get to hear lal proceedings.
because I didn’t have enough ears. Or radios, either. Almost every setting on the dial was ‘spouting soap oprys. “Instead of Helen's troubles, I heard Ella’s. This'
her: clutches on Ella's money. less,” Ella said. The announcer said furthermore that if anybody cared to send in a label from the soap box, he would forward by return mail nine beautiful, double-foiled, six-color greeting cards, including two hope-you-get< well cards. These are nice to have in your desk for emergencies, he said.
“She’s utterly ruth-
Why the Complaints
I FOLLOWED frightened Jessica into the broom closet, where her shrill-voiced mother threw her, so her father wouldn't get to see her. One dang thing after another happened on the radio. But what I'm getting at is what's wrong with soap oprys? Why all the complaints from do-gooders? If I were a lady on my knees scrubbing the kitchen
It would make me forget my troubles. Those poor devils on: the radio are in such a mess all the time that anybody else’s problems by comparison are minor. Even my sciatica is nothing as to what happened to Just Plain Bill. I certainly hope Bill comes out of it. Tomorrow I'll find out.
By Erskine Johnson
Sweater Boy
HOLLYWOOD, March 5.=Al Jolson is still a sweater boy. (Confidentially, Jane Russell looks much better in 'em). The nation’s ngw singing sensation (in. Larry Parks’ body) was wearing his favorite attire; a white turtle-neck sweater and gray slacks, at a rehearsal for his second appearance, tonight, on the Bing Crosby show. Al has the best tan in California, but he whis-
“I got it in Florida, In. California, all I get is a beautiful coat of smog. But don't tell the chamber of eommerce.” ~ Despite.eight offers for fall radio shows, Al refused to accept any of them. He'll do occasional guest shots instead. “So I get my own show,” he said, “and what hap-
pens? Right away they'll have me making with the -
Jokes. I'hate jokes. I just like to sing. I can sing on other people's programs without trying to be funny.” Al had just driven to the coast from Miami in two days. “That's pretty good for an old man,” he told Bing. But later, he told me: “You had my age wrong in that piece you wrote. I'll be 59 on my next birthday.” ; Bing got off his best~crack when Jolson kidded that he had seen “The Jolson Story” 200 times, qualifying him as “Mr, Callous of 1947.” “I,” yawned Bing, once saw one of my pictures 80 many times I finally got to know my lines.”
Romeo Too Suggestive
. MOVIE MOGULS are in secret huddles putting more teeth into the censorship ‘code. ‘The Outlaw” and “Duel in the Sun,” the boys figure (after being
We, the Women
‘of being taken in by what may perhaps be only skillful play-acting. She will probably say something like this:
members of her family.”
her's family. Le Girls, Good Play. Actors - fi i
ASK ANY woman how a.young man can have his eyes opened up to. what a girl is really like, instead
“Why, by seeing her often in her own home surrounded by
A sensible answer, too. But few young men bother” to figure this out for themselves, especially in these days when young couples are often already headed. : the altar before they even bother to meet each
hit over the head by the Legion of Decency), have given screen morals a bad name. But the final script of “Forever Amber” just got a clean bill of health from the Hollywood film censorship office. There was only one cut, certain lines of a play which Amber sees at a theater. The lines, the censors. said, were too suggestive. They were written by William Shakespeare for his play, “Romeo and Juliet.” Bob Hope and his long time comedy stooge, Jerry
Colonna, are parting company at the end of the radio|- . Jean Arthur is a daily visitor to a Holly-| Mechanisms Retained
wood. gym, Shels-dgsing 30.paunds. for bes, return.to..
season.
the screen at Paramount. - Sign on .a Hollywood hamburger stand: Hamburgers.” Sign on a locksmith’s ‘shop window : won’t open your door, I will.” Incidentally, it' was bound to happen. A sequel to “Richard.” The Charioteers just recorded “Close the Door, Robert.”
“Forever
“If Richard
Benny to Do Vaudeville
LEO McCAREY has a new movie plot in the works. It's titled “Good Sam” and is about a nice old guy who goes through life doing nice things for people and getting only tough breaks himself. . . . It’s still a good bet that Jennifer Jones will do “Cass Timberlane” opposite Spencer Tracy. for producer ‘Arthur Hornblow. . . . Boris Morros is paging Richard Tauber for “Babes in Arms.” . .. Teresa Wright just sunk a big hunk of dough into, a company which will see pre-fabricated theaters and restaurants. . . . As we hinted weeks ago, Jack Benny will play his first vaudeville date in years in May, Chicago on May 9th, New York two weeks later.
concert, The family usually waits
Ella is a nice, motherly woman, who is plagued by jie his pérformance is over becrooked relatives. Her niece momentarily is trying to fore sitting down to the evening get her committed to the insane asylum and thus get meal.
® # ¥ TOSCANINI never eats before a
One nightin Milan after a concert that displeased him, he intercepted his daughter as she was entering
ing toa Cincinnati doctor were responsiblé in part for Toscanini’s ‘decision in 1937 to return ‘to the United States. NBC asked me to go
ing wildly with his arms to show her the hovering birds. Then I launched
» ” SOME SINGING canaries belong-
the millions of would hear his broadcasts.
to Milan and persuade him, if possible, to come back as permanent conducter of a new NBC Symphony. Toscanini suspected my purpose, and, though we had been friends
else to say I asked him: “Will you come?”
into the most impassioned plea of my life, trying to explain to him that if his “music could so affect birds, how much it would mean to Americans who
When I could think of nothing
thinkingly mentioned that Mussolini apparently had managed to clean up Naples. Toscanini became livid. He jumped to. his feet and shouted: “That assassin! That-pig!” » 8.8 _ THEN HE launched into a violent tirade against the dictator. Hundreds of people heard him. His wife turned deathly white with fear. Yet not one in that restaurant reported him to the police and nothing. ever (came of the incident. Where his art is concerned, Toscanini is a fanatic. Yet on occasion he can relax and enjoy the lighter: forms of music. Once I asked him if he would conduct at a small, privately sub-
Music School, and he agreed. The orchestra, composed of some
scribed vaudeville show for the benefit of the Chatham Square
of the greatest musicians in the world—among them Heifetz, Milstein, Busch, Wallenstein, Feuermann, were dressed in short pants
ried to Pauline-Heifetz, sister violinist.
and flowing Eton ties in a takeoff of a then popular chestra. » ” ” TOSCANINI spent an en selecting his own costume. nally appeared dressed in an old fashioned | Prince Albert coat with an enormous red handkerchief ‘sticking out from the tail pocket. As he conducted, he made the entire orchestra rise in &*body with each crescendo. He had enormous fun that night.
Yet the performance had the Des: fection of a serious, full-dress Tos-
U.S. Rocket Experiments Lag Behind Nazis’ Success
Ordnance Officials Believe 5 Failures - Caused by Missiles’ Detericration
By Science Service WASHINGTON, March 5—U. 8. army ordnance is not having as floor, I'd take soap opry any time to Shostakovich. much success firing German V-2 rockets as the Nazis who developed the
weapon.
The army at the White Sands, N. M., proving ground has fired! 19 of the missiles, armed with scientists’ instruments to gather data in| the upper atmosphere. Of the. 19 launched, five have
high over the desert in: usefu flights. This gives the army rocket-firin¢ unit a “batting average” of slightly less than 75 per cent for its V-2 shoots, compared with a better than 80 per cent success claimed by German experimenters at the Peenumunde experiment - station on the Baltic, where the weapon was tested before its use against England in world war II. When the rockets were fired at England, an estimated 30 per cent of them failed, but the army program, which fires one rocket about every two weeks, is more comparable to the test flights at the Baltic station.
Army ordnance officials believe the bad shoots -are caused by de-
ZOOMING AROUND earth at
By Ruth Millett
IA,
But around her own family and in her own home a girl has to be herself. "In" that i she’s
no glamor girl, but a human being.
Is She Helpful, Kind i a
‘ful, helpful and kind, or instead is inconsiderate, bad-mannered, and completely self-centered.
a good .3he
AND IT is fairly easy to see whether §he is a nice one who gets along well with her family, is thought-
|may arise from these is unknown, of these rays are observed closely.
serious.
solar energy. J
Carnival —By Dick Turner
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dled to climb | Se— Tew Mexico experiments were taken 1 May, 1945, and virtually all of .he intricate mechanisms are retained intact for the peacetime scientific firing. The rocket shot over the desert last week, from which scientific instruments were. successfully parachuted to ‘the earth from a high altitude, was No, 19. In addition to the standard scientific instruments brought down by the parachute from a record altitude, fruit flies, a package of seeds and cameras loaded with color film | were carried by the ‘chute. Scientists hope to learn more about the effécts of cosmic rays at high altitudes from the fruit flies and seeds, while unique pictures and possible new knowledge of the upper
“ BOPR. 1947 BETA NTC %
terioration. The rockets used in thecamera record of the descent.
A Trip To The Moon And Back—No. 3: Peril In Space
ship with destination moon is now exposed to mysterious high energy cosmic-ray particles and short-wave phontons. What insidious effect
The ship is also exposed to intense Solar radiation, and direct. exposure‘of human beings would be Fortunately, the effect of this radiation is minimized by the absorbing materia) of the enclosure, “|'This laboratory would be quite ideal for the study of variation in the
NOW, PEERING down 100 miles through the telescope, the -navi- "| gator gets glimpses of the earth's More and more we read divorce stories in the | which after several years of marriage a claims his wife won't make a home for him, a theip-chiluren, is interested in BOG but
atmosphere are expected from the
Core to, make a slight deduction from your income Ta
N.:Y. . Cotton Mart Open As ‘Strike Is bd
The New - York Cotton largest in the world, opened its doors’ again today after settlement of a one-day strike by 108 em~
last night by Arthur Meyer, chairman of the state mediation board.
Crippled Plane Safe
SYDREY, March '5 (U. P.).—The on three engines today
San Francisco. It with 33 passengers and ues crew members. :
{Call for VA Funds WASHINGTON, March § (U. P.). —Dr. Paul R. Hawley, chief of the Veterans administration's medical service, said today that unless congress appropriates more money for VA “we cannot maintain our pres-’ ent standard of medical yerVioey | tw veterans.”
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the constatioy of their altitude. Any" chaiige must be corrected by means of the ship's own power." In about 30 minutes indications of dawn begin to appear ahead. The dark night prevails below and behind, moderated by a faint haze. Above, the stars stand out as brilliant gems against a , black background. be a = J Now THE ae : about them, |S and on the horizon ahead they get a glimpse of the sun's ‘edge: It is sunrise. Now the sun i§ above the re again the
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describing ‘in semi-technical language the peobletus. of mechanics and navigation and the surprising reactions of the
rocket ship's
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