Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1947 — Page 19
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“WAAAAAAAA — I want the Easter bunny.” “Here, darling — here's your beeeeuteeful egg the bunny decorated for you — no — you can't have the hunny.” “WAAAAAAAA™ Ah yes—whé has more fun than kids? I bet I do. There's no doubt about it, the Easter bunny has
taken over the children or the children have taken over the bunny. Either way you look at it, watching the three “live” Easter bunnies at work in downtown stores is more fun” than throwing lemon cream pies at a birthday party. True, you often get an awkward situation such as the “darling” who suddenly lost all interest in the chocolate egg the “bifiny” in Hook's drug store, Illinois and Market sts., decorated for him, and wants to take home the bunny. But, I guess, that's all in a day's work for mamma, Taking the bunny home would -be just a bit come plicated because Miss Lee Lovejoy, regular Hook's candy department employee, is the bunny, Mamma thought fast and promptly dragged Junior around the corner and toward the circle. What else could she do? You know you can't take a kid downtown, show him Bunny Rabbit and then, when he kicks up a ruckus, tell him to hush because the bunny is really a girl who works at the candy counter. It must be tough to be a mother. Luckily, I knew that the bunny wasn't real rieht from the beginning, so I talked to Miss Lovejoy. { ": likes everything about her Easter job except t.:. cotton rabbit head — too hot,
"WHAT'S UP, DOC?" — Not much, .says James Michael Cisco, except that he wants a chocolate bunny for Easter from (Bunny) Harold Fryer.
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technique is to sit very still, ‘When a youngster looks up at her, she suddenly waves her “forelegs” which is quite a surprise. The youngsters’ reactions range from waving back, blowing kisses at her, pounding mamma over the head, to screaming. “Even better than the kids’ reactions are the grownups’ reactions when they see me move suddenly,” Miss Lovejoy told me. That's not surprising. Aren't we all kids at heart? Miss Barbara Greenfleld Griffith plays Bunny Rabbit in the toy department of Charles Mayer & Co. You can hear the screams of delight ‘all the way down to the second floor as children shake hands with bunny and tell him what they want for Easter, Even though the Mayer Co. bunny is a gentle creature, many a timid child practically. blows it's top when bunny comes near. But then try to take this same child downstairs, Nothing doing — “I wanna se? Bunny Wabbit." Miss Griffith, who *has starred in the bunny role for the last six years, has a humdinger of an outfit for an Easter bunny. Yellow jacket, green polka-dot trousers, pink bowtie, purple sash and “lovely” pink cellophane eyes probably make her the best-dressed | rabbit in town. One bright-eyed little tyke of about four was intrigued by bunny's furry bobtail, He walked slowly around Miss Griffith, trying hard to look innocent, and then gave the tail a tiny jerk. This brought out the loudest squeal I had heard since my first visit to a zoo when I saw an elephant squirt water out of his “big ol’ nose.” Incidentally, that elephant has never squirted water since. "No doubt the liveliest Easter bunny can’ be found in the children's department at L. S. Ayres & Co.
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He should be, too, because he's “Bugs Bunny” of éartoon fame, , Well, he's not the original “Bugs”, but he sure
fools the children with his “Ehhh—what's up, Doc?", crunch-crunch on his favorite fruit—carrots, and sitting on the floor, on ehairs, counters, and any place you'd expect “Bugsy” to be. Former navy seaman Harold Fryer plays “Bugs” at Ayres’, but you'd never guess it, because with his! grey flannel rabbitsuit, long ears, and basket of eggs, he's completely in character’
| Gets Too Darned Hot
“THIS IS the screwiest thing I have done in my life, but it's also the most fun,” said the 19-year-old Indiana university student who also does some | master-of -ceremonies work on the side. “The only drawback to this job is that it gets so darned hot, Jumping around in a suit like this gets rough after a couple of hours, but I guess I'll get used- to it by Saturday,” Harold said as he hopped! down the aisle. | It was only a ‘matter of seconds before he was sur: | rounded by children. Three-year-old James Michael Cisco, who came to town from Franklin for the day |
SOLOIST—Jane Butler
formerly from Indianapolis.
with his mother, thought “Bugs Bunny” was | “O0O0O0OHH” which means excellent in a 3-year- -old’s | vocabular Here 25 Years Old
Just when everyone was/ having a-good time, a Hitsle JOR ended Joursias Suk Joos 5 heathy shriek | By JEAN TABBERT at seeing the “wa | Something ‘I won't ever understand about ie MRS. JAMES M. OGDEN will How can they change from screaming bloody murder have a double reason to be proud | one second and then coo the next. I wanted to ask when the sunrise carol service is the little redhead, but he was having too much fun. So was I.
Easter Program | |
held on Monument circle Easter { morning. She is the founder and director |
Grackle Crisis
of the serv ice, conceived in 1922 as;
By Frederick Cc. Othman a memorial to her young son, Jams] Jr. ’ i
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WASHINGTON, April 3.—A subcommittee of five $15,000-a-year congressmen sat down to consider soncientiously some new laws, These would force local soda fountains to serve with each malted milk a straw wrapped in tissue; make district undertakers take out licenses befcre undertaking their profession; put Washington barbers on an 8-hour day, and allow the killing by shotgun or otherwise thé starlings on Pennsylvania ave. Before the morning was done and the man from the Audubon society had had his say about the danger to the purple grackle (a grackle closely resembles a starling), the Greek crisis seemed far away. The congressmen had crises of their own. I am not criticizing them; they were doing their duty under the law as the best-paid municipal aldermen in the world, Their task yas a thankless one,
Overcrowding and Safety
TAKE THOSE pesky starlings. In 1906 congress made it a crime for anybody within the city limits to kill wild beasts and birds, except hawks, English sparrows, and great horned owls. These vanished over the years, to be replaced by millions of starlings, which chose the marble porticoes of Pennsylvania ave. as their favorite roosting place. Sometimes life for mere people on the avenue hardly seemed worth living. Municipal authorities couldn't kill the birds; vainly they sought to frighten them away by shooting skyrockets, banging tin pans, tooting automobile horns, and tying toy balloons to their perches. The starlings were amused; they cailed in their friends to enjoy the entertainment. The desperate city commissioners appealed to congress for a law allowing them to kill starlings. Rep. A. L. Miller (R. Neb.)| chairman of the subcommittee,
wrote such a bill. Then he called a hearing on it years since then, three generations | and that's where we come In. 'of the Ogden family will participate Chester H. Gray, the assistant corparation counsel, | in: the program. I testified that the humane society and the "Audubon { society both approved the bill. | Mrs. Ogden again is in general | “Not so.” cried Edward F. Henderson, elderly sec- charge. Her daughter, Mrs. H. L.| retary of the humane society. Control starlings if Parrish, is a member of the flower | vou can, he pleaded, but don’t let hunters bang away children committee. Alison Parrish, at them with shotguns on Pennsylvania ave. Why ,:orandaughter, will sing with the | not, he asked, use poison gas? Tabernacle Presbyterian church | “We tried gas and it doesn't work,” grieved William choir, And James Ogden Parrish, | A. Xanten of the district engineer department. Fred her grandson, will be one of the] Packard of the National Parks association said why flower children. didn't he scare the birds away with roman candles? | 2 = 0» | “We tried those, too,” Mr. Xanten reported. A QUARTER of -a century ago it | {was a comparatively small group Urges Nets [that took its place on the Monu-|
CAME THEN Dr. Paul Bartsch of the Smithsonian ment’s north steps to sing as the) institution and the Audubon society, who found some Easter sun arose. This year, 5| good in all birds, including starlings. They eat cut choirs and about 1000 persons wil worms, in the local lawns. He has watched ‘em. | participate. Get rid of them if you must, he said, but don't go From her shooting them. This would be hard on windows and with the service, Mrs. people and what about the purple grackle? They recall many amusing jodi roost with the starlings. So do chicadees, woodpeckegs Rant . . . incidents, and cardinals. But what can we do?” pleaded Rep. Miller. “Use nets,” the doctor said. “Then you can pick out the songbirds. And it won't matter anyway, be- | cause there are too many starlings. Kill a million and | a million new ones will appear.”
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ment. There's no room left to describe the crises| involving barbers, undertakers and soda straws, but| (Wty me.” you get the idea: A congressman's life isn't all ban- mR ta quets and international statesmanship. THE SERVICE, as Mrs. puts it, is “a serious adoration of |
HOLLYWOOD, April 3.—Katina Paxinou won an Oscar in 1942. The picture was “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” and Katina was Pilar. It was an unforgettable performance. But Hollywood forgot Katina, “They thought of me only as Pilar, the strong woman,” she “I got one role in’ ‘Hostages.’ version of Pilar. They. wanted me {o rip gunnysacks with my teeth. I told them I was an actress, not a freak.” For five years Katina couldn't. get a. job in Hollywood, Her Oscar hung his head in shame.
"Then she went to England and played a French
woman in tbe pitture, “Uncle Silas.” She came back to Hollywood. Dudley Nichols was casting Eugene O'Neill's. “Mourning Becomes Electra.” Katina donned curls and a fancy dress and. made a test for the role of Rosalind Russell's French-Dutch mother. They gave her the role. A five-year battle has ended, But Katina says she is not bitter. “I was a Greek refugee. I lost everything in the war. I arrived in They gave me an Oscar, I am grateful.”
Garson Writing Own Story GREER GARSON, worried about her career, has gone to her Carmel (Cal) home for a month to work on a couple of story ideas herself. James Mason's latest terms for doing a picture in Hollywood include these demands: (1) a house to live in," (2) a secretary, (3) a staff of servants, and (4) two automobiles. He may get them, too, if his lezal dife ficulties are ever straightened out. Only thing hold-
Oscar Hangs Head
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Toys for Officers Cost Public $1776
‘Models of Planes Decorate Desks By NED BROOKS
By Erskine Johnson
ing up his debut in a Hollywood movie now js that | suit by David Rose, former Paramount chief in Eng land who claims Mason gave him an exclusive con: | tract for his U.S. film-making. The Lonely Irishman: Call sheet for players for “Atlantis: £enas, &Morris Carnovsky, Alexis Minotis, | Vladimir Sokolov, Milada Mladova, Manuél Compin-{ sky, Bettina Greco, and Dennis O'Keefe.” The .Genius. Counts Himself }
AN. ORSON WELLES story I had never heard will | : be told by Herb Drake in a profile he's writing on a ror fins The Genius. Orson once had a lecture date in a small | menting the desks of 12 high oftown. . There was a rainstorm, and only 12 people ficers of the army air corps are were in the audience. Orson counted the house and | Cared models of B-24 bombers. introduced himself thusly: “I write, produce, direct They cost the taxpayers $1776, an and act in the movies, . I write, produce, direct and expenditure which the general acact on the radio. I write, produce, direct and act on |... ting office has described as| the stage. Isn't it too bad there are sosmany of me “shamelessly wasteful.” and so few of you?” There may be a big property | ‘Records of the wartime purchase, settlement fight, by the way, between Orson and Rita | mitted by the accounting office Hayworth, The last property agreement they mage to congressional appropriation comwas torn up after their reconciliation. .
ittees, show that the models were Larry Parks’ new movie, “The Swordsman,” is a ie $5 2 of air corps funds by scribed by the Columbia publicity boys as “a western Col. L. L. Gocker of Los Angeles. in kilts.” It has a Scottish background. The studio mhe = ornaments, costing $148 asked for new title suggestions, Two of them were: | ,joce were supplied by Vultee Air“Thou Shalt Not Kilt” and “Hoot Mon, Silver.” Inci- craft, Inc, and the purchase was dentally, “The Jolson Story” has grossed $8,000,000. | explained officially as one “to aid Columbia expects the final world gross to be around the war effort.” $15,000,000. The accounting office took an op- | posite view, reporting that the
We, the Women
TWO NEW YORK newspapers on the same day devoted ‘considerable space to telling women how to take a bath, : And almost any month you can pick up one of the women's magazines and find the simple busi ess of bath-taking made to sound like a ritual straight out of a harem.
I can’t figure out why any woman: old enough to,
read needs to be told how to take a bath. My 'ittle daughter has already mastered the art of bathir ;,
She Won't Need Help AND WHEN she reaches the cosmetic-loving age of 15, I see no reason why she can’t buy some ‘per fumed bath salts, some. nice-smelling bath powder,
dump the salts in the tub, and dust herself with the . Jowder without having to read newspaper articles. i
{models “have no utility value what. ever, although they may be ornaBy Ruth Millett mental” | A taxpayer earning $2500 a year, i — having three dependents, pays the 4 The taxes of 39 So far as I know there has never been a ad bg ing are needed to pay! or article written telling men how to take a bath.! this bill. {
Everybody just assumes men have sense enough to| my. purchase order specified that | know how to step into a tub or shower, scrub them=- | ‘the models were to be similar in Seives, and gel oul. {all respects to the one supplied | Gen. K.. B. Wolfe,” except they
Advice With Straight Face were to .be finished in: silver inBU T THE women who earn their livings writing stead of olive drab, Correspondence beauty articles, regularly sit down with ‘a straight also disclosed that an order of 38 “ace to let women in on the highly. complicated other models nished in bronze, business. of bathing, was to follow. If it's as highly specialized a job as the beguty | The order directed that the pines “editors make out, the s08p manufacturers. are missing” ments" be delivered to Col, . D.4F.
a bet |Pritch of the AAF material ‘oom. They should put, detailed structions on every mand, Washington, 508p wrapper, i The. accounting 1eport to,
CONRress . Some ‘women. may not ‘read beauty pola commented Ms “it would. rise
Founder’s Fami Thr Generations In Sunrise Servic
-er sunrise service on Monument circle.
Ogden can to investigate religion further.” Another time as Mrs. Ogden leftiindoors only once, That was in! Lent.
“One very warm Easter morning the Far West. {I noticed the children tittering at pressed they asked for a program, lwide attention. A newsreel outfit | something behind me. I was direct- so they could present the idea to has photographed it. ing at the time and ‘couldn’t turn [their Chamber of Commerce,
|that the service had ptroved to him
Ogden | in which he wanted to live.”
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be contended that the involved ex-| pense was in any w [ened yn or beneficial to, the |
“THURSDAY, APRIL 1 1947
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THE FLOWER CHILDREN—Participating i in the "Glory of the Children $ Voices” section” of he sunrise forvice'v wl be the flower children.
intimate association larly told her he felt “not too old! Mrs. Ogden says. “Even the weather INTENSIVE ¥ training for the]the service shoe its beginning. Mrs, thas co-operated, We've had to go service began on the first day of [Otto is chairman of ‘the publicity
{the service she met a couple from 1944.” The service has attracted nation- full-scale rehearsals began.
They weré so im- |
The Easter service led one busi-| jtions have “covered” it,
| “Indianapolis was the kind of town
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THREE GENERATIONS — Mrs. James M. Ogden (right center), founder and director of the Monument circle Easter sunrise carol service, will be assisted this year by her daughter, Mrs. H. L. Parrish (left center), and her grandchildren, Alison and -
Out-of-city sessions the children are taught | newspapers and national publica- | the significance of Holy Week, esand the pecially the meaning of Good Fri«When tHe service ended, though, ness executive to locate his factory | {program has been broadcast over a day. 1 discovered that a resident of the here. Seeking a city in the Middle coast-to-coast hookup. The congressmen took that crisis under ‘advise- {Hotel English, perched high on a | West for a branch office of his firm, | Once an Indianapolis family re-|this cupola, had been ‘directing’ along the businessman wrote Mrs. Ogden! | ceived a call from their son sta- | two- year-old daughter of Mr. and] {tioned during the war in the Pa- | Mrs. cific area. He had “picked up”. the flower children, ‘Betsy is the sister will direct the children’s choir, Mrs, | broadcast and immediately ‘phoned of three other young Ottos who ‘will his family to ask if they had heard sing,
“THIS KIND of encouragement it too. The family was so touched
|effective that one businessman who through the years has inspired all|they called: Mrs. Ogden to let her jad never attended church Yegu- of us connected with the service,” ‘share their ‘happiness.
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The choral groups met. in- committee, and her husband is in |dividually until last Friday when charge of the formation of lines inside the Monument before’ the practice service. §
| Recently, wien. Mrs. Quien abe [tended a district meeting of the {Indiana Federation of Music Clubs, service |e was given an antique silver 'spoon as an award for her service year will be Betsy Otto, the |, 4, master sunrise program.
This year Mrs. Mary Frey Barton
During the individual
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William Otto. One of the
Ogden, backed by her years of exe : perience, will be there as usual % # ® ironing out last-minute problems oy THE OTTO family, like the to make the service another of Ogdens, have been connected with Indianapolis’ finest.
Clay Off for Berlin
LONDON, April 3 2 |‘ Moscow. radio said Lt. Gen. lp te * contrary,’ the report D. Clay, military governor of G added; “it migat well be considered many, left today. for Berlin. {that the time of skilled craftsmen, | |Clay -had been summoned to M [valuable WILAYS) CRE WE Has Cal CER RY merc rary of State
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Paul of Greece Spore Love to Wed Princess
Tiexsd Down $1. Million Bans "0 i gp ~ Offered by Sweetheart's, Father
; By EDWIN A. LAHEY Times Foreign Serviee : WASHINGTON; April 3.—King Paul of Gretde—who has succeeded to the throne of his dead and childless brother, George II—is what 18 known in‘ municipal politics as a strict organization man. ; Like most people in his business, he was tempted by love to marry outside the lodge. But in the summer of 1837, as a true Glucksburg, Paul renounced this love and kissed off a $1 million ‘bonus thas | would have gone with the deal. Paul was stricken with a beautiful Greek girl named Catherine Com- | mandaros, who in... 1937 was 24 years” old, wealthy, and :
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name of Miss Commandaros, ape modern Greek In October, 1937,
I Paul's engagement to a royal rine. of. the House of Brunswick for
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renowned - as a tennis’ and’ golf mally announced. He was married player. Prince in January, 1038, to 20-year-old
Paul had met her while playing in’ a tennis tourna= ment,’ : According to the stories at thé time, Catherine's: ¢ of To \ yy Ns { father, a wealthy | Mr. Lahey On another occasion, Prince | manufacturer, had agreed to settle
for the daughter, cost him the right to- succeed to the Greek throne. ‘Miss Commandaros left Greece in the early months of 1937, shout the same time: that Paul"went to Lon{don to attend’ _ coronation of Kifig George VI. 1PNE. | Paul refurned to Athens in July. (and then flew to Corfu to demand lot his brother, King Seorae 11, They right to marry his“rich’ comme
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