Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1947 — Page 13
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twas going to “watch” an interview,
High school journalism students, eight strong, were filing into Frankie Carle's dressing room in, the Circle theater. Sitting on a piece of luggage in the corner of the room, I felt comfortable ‘about the whole thing. Ah—let someone else ask the questions for a change, Each student. gave his or her name and the school he ‘represented. After all the introductions - were made, everyone looked at the chairs, but no one sat down. The orchestra leader came to the rescue with, “Come on, come: on, sit down and, make yourselves
“at home.'>
The atmosphere was still a little stiff. Notebooks and pencils were ready,
“Let's all have a coke and a doughnut,” Mr, Carle .
suggested. Fine. “Is someone going to ask me any questions?” Future journalists looked at one another and laughed along with Sy The ice was broken. Someone popprd-the question: “How old are you Mr. Carle?” The ice, what little remained, was all gone. “Hey—that's not fair,” Mr. Carle sald slapping his knee. “Not fair at all.” A good laugh, a drink of coke and the geniality of the. band leader did wonders to the interview. Florann Greeson of Manual wanted to know what type of music, sweet or hot, was the most popular throughout the country. ‘hey were told that from California to the east coast the musical appetite is for sweet music.
Dancers Walked Off
“WHY IN one . large hotel in Pennsylvania I started the show with a tune that had a bit of a
MASS INTERVIEW —Frankie -Carle answers the questions of (left to High Shirley Williams: Raymond. Aedsker, Marilyn fughes Mr. Carle Shirley. Cohee, Mary Jo Ca sidy, Florann Gree-
son and Mike Wagoner.
Housing ‘Experts’
WASHINGTON, May 5—There used to be a big-time vaudeville act in which a dozen frisky
terriers in overalls tried to build a house. Twice a day for years on the old Orpheum circuit these pups spilled bricks, splashed mortar, smashed planks and smeared their trainer with paint. 1 hate to say it to the homeless, but I'm beginning to wonder whether our. federal housing experts haven't been taking lessons from the {four-legged brick-layers Everybody, seems like, is a housing expert who disagrees with every other expert. They keep bumping into each other and dropping things. This makes more messes than houses and. if you think I'm trying to write an editorial, read on: Housing Expediter Frank Creedon has the figures to prove that” the slump in house building is not as bad as the opposition says it is. Chairman Jesse P. Wolcott of the house banking comimttee has other figures to: prove that fantastically high prices have brought construction to a standstill.
Toying With Bill
THE HOUSE of representatives has passed a bill which would clgse the office of Expediter Creedon on midnight, June 30. The senate is toying with another bill which on the same date would hand to Expediter Creedon the job of controlling rents until next Feb. 29 The expediter (the one before Mr. Creedon) spent millions whooping up the production of building materials. He'd give a bonus to the brick maker. for instance, who increased his production above normal Tight little liouses went up all over the country. Some were good, some indifferent, and some so bad they're
“likely to collapse in the next high wind.
The boys who built hundreds of the latter are
i Se * lilt to it and all the dancers left the floor. I" came back with a sweet ballad and the dancers feturned, I was surprised. I -tried another on the fast side. Same thing—the dancers went to their tables.” “Well, what do you like to play, Mr. Carle?” asked Shirley Cohee of Shortridge. “I like to play the slow numbers,” Mr. Cale answered. + The interview was proceeding on an easy, | shtormdl basis. Notes were being taken and postures were beginning to relax; Raymond Medsker of Beech Grove wanted to! know about that “first break.” I “My first break came in vaydeville,”. Mr, Carle. sald. “As a matter of fact it was right here in Indi-| anapolis at the old Keith's theater.” “Were you scared when you-first started to play?” | Jenny. Konold of Howe wanted to know:
Piano Lessons at 5 “SCARED? Why before, my first “audition at ‘the | Towers theater in Catngen, N. J., I was so scared that |
wnen my name came up I beat it. I was 13 then.! +
Three years later, when T had my own outfit IT went ©
back there, but that time I made out all right. They | didn't know I was the kid that got cold feet once, ! but I sure knew.”
“Po you ad lib a lot Mr. Carle—on the air and | on the stage?” Howe student Mike Wagoner asked. |
“On the air—not very much, On a show like were playing here or in a hotel—quite often.” “Did you take piano lessons long?” With that | question: Marilyn Hughes of Beech Grove stopped the | pianist-composer for a moment. “What is your name again?” Mr. Carle asked. “Marilyn Hughes.” { “Marilyn, I started to practice the piano wien] I was 5 years old.” Interviewer Mary Jo Casssidy of Manual took tal floor and wanted to know if the maestro of the key- | board liked to play the piano when he was that’ young. ' “No—I wanted to play baseball. My mother encouraged me to practice every day with a strap and a clock. I'm glad I took her advice,” Mr. Carle answered as the group took time out for a hearty laugh. “What is your favorite instrument besides the piano?” Shirley Williams of Beech- Grove queried. “Trombone.” y “How about the drums?” Mike Wagoner asked. “I don't care much: for the drums,” Mr. Carle answered. “Do you play the piano, Mike?” “No, I play the drums.” Just when the group was getting its heartiest laugh, it was time for Mr. Carle to start the show. “Sorry kids—but the show must go on you know.” After all the goodbys were said and everyone was gone—what do you know—I was still sitting on the luggage. Nice work.
By Frederick C. Othman
likely to‘lose their shirts. They built without consulting the FHA, which has building regulations for houses on which it insures mortgages. It is.refusing to touch the $10,000 bungalows with the sagging roofs and the wading pools in their basements. The representatives’ new bill would tgss out the regulations holding floor space of new houses to 1500 square feet and bath rooms to one. The idea of the limitations was to spread out the building material by eliminating mansions, it says here in the official handouts.
Mixed-Up Dogs SO I GOT TO talking to a big-shot government housing man and that's when I remembered the
mixed-up dogs in vaudeville. I'd use his name, except | that I'm sure he'd deny the next few paragraphs. | He'd either deny them or get fired, because he said the restrictions didn't mean much, except psychol-| ogically. Ninety per cent of all housing” applications, he said, are for four or five roomers using 1400 “square feet, or less. None of the 90 per cent wanted more} than one bath. “So the use of extra materials in larger houses | on the whole would have meant very little;” my man | said. “We put in the regulations for the psychological effect.” | This left me goggle-eved and caused me to choke on my chewing gum. He said he -meant that the government believed the rules against big houses would look good to the builders of little ones. The representatives disagreed with that; what the senate will decide no senator now will predict. I'm afraid I'm still a little confused, like those canine carpenters at Keith's Orpheum,
Double, in Case—
HOLLYWOOD, May 5.—Exclusively yours: Very quietly Orson Welles has placed under personal contract the French actress, Barbara Laage. Orson had her standing by, we hear, during fining of “The Lady From Shanghai"—just in case Rita Hayworth had walked out on the picture as, well as on him. . Richard Ney just turned down a Broadway play offer pending his reconciliation with Greer Garson. . . Glenn Ford snd Eleanor Powell -are cooking up a deal to do a nrovie together. . . . Jack LaRue would like to do the film biography of Valentino. Bette Davis’ first movie, after having had her baby, will be "African Queen,” story ‘of the Congo after world war I. The queen is a riverboat, not Bette. . ‘Doug Fairbanks Jr.'s two leading ladies, Maria Montez and Paule Croset, are feuding, but deliciously, on the set of “The Exile.”
War Story NOW THAT Laraine Day is back in the headlines, here's story about her agent we had never heard before. His name is Marty Martyn. For almost six years Marty devoted practically 24 hours a day trying to further the career of Laraine. He started when she was just another actress at M-G-M. and fdught for her all the way to stardom, Marty never -met a producer or a .director without immediately talking about Laranie, selling her for this role or that role.
By Erskine Johnson
One day Marty rushed into the executive dining room at M-G-M with big news he had just heard. ‘Russia,” he announced to the roomful of executives, “has just declared war on Japan.” Mervyn LeRoy turned around in his chair, looked at Marty and said simply: “Tell me, Marty, is that good for Laraine Day?”
Censors Frown
Talking about a certain Hollywood character who got married, Ed Gardner said: “He didn't know what he was -doing. She caught him when he was oold | sober.” . . . Peggy Lee, blonde thrush at the Bocage, will make her film debut in “Midnight Serenade.” The censors are frowning on those love scenes be-
" tween Hayward and Bob Cummings in “Lost Mo-
ment.” , . , Lou Busch is writing-a- Broadway Mu sical to star his wife, Janet Blair. . . . Mae West
will go to London for a stage version of “Diamond |
Lil."
picture a year now. But she may accept one of four big offers to do a radio series. . . . Joan Crawford will go to New York for the premiere of “Possessed”
in June. | Promised but not hoped for: Wallace Beery danc- $300 for “the most meritorious work in any i with his oil paint. , “Connecticut Fantasy, Edwin Fulwider of Indianapolis,
prize of $200 for his oil, “The Long Rail.” [gained the Keeling & Co. $150 prize
ing a rhumba for “Alias a Gentleman.” Me-thinks it will be alias a rhumba!
We, the Women
By Ruth Millett
“IP YOU want a happy marriage take a husband who 8 just as intelligent as you arée—or smarter.” That tip comes from a Cleveland psychologist, Mrs. Clara C. Polley, and at the right time, with’ the marrying month of June just around the corner, That's sound advice, too. Take a critical look i some of Ye marriages around you.
: Overzloy Hand
WHAT HAPPENS when the wife is obviously smatter than her husband?®She may over-play her hand at tfying to make him look smarter than he is and ends up by making them both look silly. ; Or she becomes one of those domineering women who boss their husbands around and, ‘make the
{Joy gevisions, Goll oil i‘
But reverse the Picture, and the marriage can be highly successful,
Can Be Herself
THE WOMAN who realzies her husband is smarter than she is doesn’t have to spend her Tife building | him up to other people or take on the job of heading the family, She can be herself.” And if she’s smart she will keep right on educating herself through the] years iii an effort to.keep up with him and be a credit to him.
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‘Even’ if she never improves her nrind much her and "Edward E. Herrmiaun, : husband needn't feel apologetic about her lack of gong, the Art asseciation $50 whe! pb. m, Tuesday in Buckley's restau | LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 5Wil | — “The Spring rant Cumberland. ‘A business ses- | ma A. Burkart and Eleanor Jean |sion and card party will follow, Mrs. | Elichacker, both of Indianapolis,’ Honorable mentions include Caro- | Anna Swineford and Kenneth Can- juniors in the school of home econ8 G. grey, Jndianapofss, for * aay are taking worabgements.
* brains. Not if she makes up for it with a sweet dis: ror his water color,
position, companionship and home-making talent. That is why the girl who is really smart looks for ar higband. ¥ho is ep sumarier,
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SECOND SECTION _ MONDAY, MAY 5, 1947
Kokomo Artist Wins Top In 40th Annual Indiana S
NIGHT IN HARTFORD, CONN.—''Connecticut Fantasy," oil painting by Paul W. Zimmerman
top prize-winner in the 40th annual Indiana Artists’ exhibition now at Herron Art museum.
"IF WINTER COMES" —Roland Donovan Osborne of Richmond gets a snow-
blanketed Indiana lancccape in his oii painting, "Winter."
OUTDOOR LIFE—"T
honorable-mention winner.
CIRCUS MOTIF—" Blue'-RibBon Perchigrons, Indianapolis,..a water color with Gne of Ne." favor sred circus backgrounds.
Paul Ww. Zimmerman Given Art Association Prize
‘Connecticut Fantasy’ Rewarded as Meritorious Work’;
"WORKIN ON THE RAILROAD" — i Herron Art school faculty, which v won 1 the Board of Directors $200 prize.
Most State Coa Men
Local Artists Win
Olvia de Havilland is planning to make only one |
of Kokomo,
"The Long Rail,"
elected president and-vice: président respectively of Associated Women Students.
| Prize awards in the 40th annual Indiana Artists’ opened yesterday at Herron Art museum, were announced today.
Paul W. Zimmerman,
exhibition, which
association prize of I Problems confronting vhe coal in-
Meet Here June § woRrD-A-DAY
By BACH
(dustry will be discussed at the 17th annual convention Coal Merchants association June 9, 10 and 11 in the Claypool. hotel.
reproduced at the top of this page.
received the Board of Directors’ George Jo Mess, Indianapolis,
for an oil painting with his “Out- « , “The Town, Winter"; speakers committee are Terre Haute, chides Anderson; Harold D. JohnHarry Eisenhut, Charles F. Scheidler, | Oscar--1. Beasey, Lo-! { The current eXhibition' will re- gansport; Albert J. Krabbe, Lafa-| Other prize winners included Ro- | main at Herron through June 8, vette: Howard McKinn, Peru; M. Vv. with the museum open daily, except Workman, Kokomo;
[Mondays and holidays, from 9 a. m. fou Richmond, and. Alva J. Stout | Gene to 5 p: m., Sundays, 1 p. m, \Lacy, Inaanabcbs, the Mrs. Edgar 6 p. m, | HL. Evans $100 prize .for his water!
Bloomington Artist Wins
The Mestis Goodman $150 prize "Wheat"; for sculpture went to Robert Lau-
Palmer Z. Holmes, + Harriet Rex Smith, Val-| "and Nelson Williams, | New York, N., Y., “Unto Life and Connersville; “Lamenta- unio Death.”
" an alaba: er a
Osborne, Richmond, | [the J. I Holcomb $100 award for
Robert, Ww, Bidlack of Indianapolis, is chairman of .the general ar- | rangements committee, '
Derocrats to Meet
Warren township Democratic club | rls amed “wil hold .a dintrer meeting at 6:45 Local Gi 5 N
League $100 prize
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GRIEF — "Laméntation,” by Robert Laurent, Bloomington,
"CAN SPRING BE FAR BEHIND?"—In water colors, Edward E. Herrmann of South Bend depicts a bic Hoosier spring with the title, "Spring Comes Slowly."
"oil painting by Carolyn G. Bradley, Indianapolis,
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by Edwin Fulwider of the
Students Invited To Play Day Here
Indianapolis high school girls ene mo in physical education departs !ments have been invited to partici pate ir a non-competitive Play day
to be held Friday on the Butler unis
[versity campus. A program of sports to be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p. m. will be
S sponsored by Washington high
school. vy Butler women. majoring ih physi cal education will officiate and assist with the various events. ln The participshts will play volleyball, Saauiiiiun, Te tennis. There J} be ! the fieldhouse Each school will be turmenied bw " 10 girlge
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