Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1947 — Page 13

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IT'S ALL TCHAIKOWSKY'S fault. You might

throw in Beethoven, Bach, Mendelssohn and Jo Stat-

ford. " Where s Jo Stafford come in? What's the connection Se her and the longhairs? Well, you might say, Miss Stafford came in with the last straw that broke the camel's back with her rendition of “Temptation” (Tim-Tayshun). . What was to Dave been a terrific session with the classics and the old masters of music turned out td

. be a nightmare for me and quite a few customers at

Pearson’s. “You can play any music we have while you're helping out,” said Ernst Heberlein, manager of the record department. > “I'm sticking in the classical department,” I said. “The music that endures, if it's all right with you.” It was. goo i Mr. Heberlein waved his arm at the shelves of classical albums, and turned me over to Geraldine Mastinik. ’ My main concern was to start playing my favorit2 albums in & booth of on the counter phonograph player. Miss Mastinik said as long as I was to help her, I'd have_to take my share of customers. A verbal contract was made. 2

Casts a Criticical Eye A SERIOUS-LOOKING “young. man was scanning the albums with a mighty critical eye. Right off I made up my mind not to get near him. He looked as if he could ask for stuff that wisn’t in my repertoire. My first customer said she was only looking. For my purposes that was fine. I extended her every courtesy of the establishment. Tchaikowsky’s symphony No. 6 in B minor (Pathe-

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IT'S PLATTER WITH CHATTER—You have to know what a customer is talking about in classical music ard deliver it with a smile as Geraldine Mastinik is coing.

first record out of the album, the man who I wanted ww stay away from, came up and asked for Prokofieff’s concerto No. 2 in G Minor. :

my Miss Mastinik must have read my mind because she

explained to the man that I was ah Austrian music

student with a limited vocabtilary. So far sp good. With an “Ach,” Tchhikowsky and I slipped around te the popular “record section. “Guitar Boogie” by Les Paul was on the turntable,

in alien territory.

When the coast was clear, Miss Mastinik gave mel’

the high sign to come back. The first movement of the “Pathetique”’ began. “Do you have ‘L’Africana-O Paradiso’ by Jussi Bjoerling?” snapped me out of my reverie. “Never heard of it,” obviously would have been the wrong thing to say. I tried to sell the young lady on the idea that Beethoven's 5th symphony would ‘be an excellent substitute. She informed me that “L’Africana-0O Paradiso” was a 12-inch record and she had thé fifth symphony. In fact, she had it for some six years. Tchaikowsky was scratching for the record to be changed. A heck of a way to listen to a symphony. Miss Mastinik pulled the record in question out of the racks behind us and the customer retired to a booth with a side glance at me. A. groovey, plano number came floating over.to our side from the popular section. While my feet moved to the music, Miss Mastinik waited on several mare customers. My only’ contribution was to hand her a couple of paper record carriers. The piane number had me beat. Tchaikowsky didn’t have a chance. Mrs. Maud Cummins informed me that it was “Cumana” by Barclay Allen. We played it again. A phone began to ring under the counter.’ Mrs. Nell Watkins answered it and said it was for the classical department. I ran to get Miss Mastinik. She was busy and told me to take it.

Checks Up, No Soap : THE VOICE ASKED for a “Hindimeth Woodwind Quintette.” Miss Mastinik didn’t recognize the name. Mr. Herberlein was called in, - The customer wasn't exactly sure of the selection. I was darn sure it was something I had never heard of, Mr. Heberlein checked through catalogs. No soap. Customers who pick out an album and hand it to you with the correct change are my meat. I could do that sort of business all day. Tchaikowsky got another chance on they turntable. Jo Stafford busted that up when someone put on “Temptation” by Red Ingle and the natural seven. « “You were tim-tayshun and I was your'n,” was too much. Laugh, man, I thought I'd die and in the middle of “Pathetique.” Miss Mastinik was rolling French titles off to a customer. The one that came into the realm of familiarity was Richard Straus’ “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.” It takes plenty of teeth to get some French titles off. Tchaikowsky was getting an awful run around. Without a doubt I would be better as-a customer. Mr. Heberlein and Miss Mastinik politely agreed, They extended all the courtesies of the establishment to me. % , Now, Peter Ilyitch, play for me in yon booth.

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Fascinating Stree

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PANAMA CITY, Panama, Aug. 19.—Avenida Central in this conglomerate city, taking it year after year, wet or dry, hot or hotter, any fime of day, is one of the most fascinating streets in the world. I' have been here many times and this main drag

: of the isthmus never changes, yet seems never the

e, In its historic past everybody came-Portuguese,

§ Spanish, British, Dutch, French—stopped here seek- | © ing .the gold Columbus missed. Adventurers, slaves, i crooks, wanderers, from China, India, Japan, the’

Near East. Some were honest, some were not. They all sat

t © in the hot sun, chattéred in all tongues, saw the would

come and go and inter-bred. Avenida Central is a perpetual tableau. In the morning hours ‘way yonder from Panama bay end of the long street the very poor go about their daily tasks. Washing hangs in every alley and from every century-old balcony railing. Thousands of children run through alleys and side streets, half or completely nude, dirty and sassy and noisy. Old women come hobbling from the musty ins teriors, settle themselves on stools and are ready for the day's work—selling ‘lottery tickets. Wine shops are open early, too. Fruit vendors hawk -noisily.

Everyone Buys a Ticket

-- AN ANCIENT woman, her heir snow white and standing almost straight out from her head, starts an argument with a feeble ‘old lottery agent. Another

‘ old woman joins. Two more shout from behind a

meat counter, A hag pauses long enough to say

. something that causes them all to turn on her. She ; hobbles on,-a’ croaking laugh trailing back.

A woman who must have been‘one of the first settlers buys a spool of thread, then takes a lottery ticket with the change. A well dressed—relatively— girl contemplates seriously before buying her ticket.

By. Jack Bell

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A bent old man, using a crooked stick for a cane, begs for some change. I give him a dime—and the poor old fellow turns to the old woman and buys s lottery ticket. I hope he hits. An old man sells lottery tickets and large gaudyframed pictures of Jesus on the cross.

Street Is Alive at Night

WITH NOON and intense heat come swarms of ;

children from classrooms, singing, shouting, fighting, darting among- passing cars. Taximen ‘and truck drivers curse and wipe sweat as they sit in traffic jams along narrow {ntersections the oldtimers never laid out to accommodate the auto. Business stops during the terrific heat of midday, as is fitting in the tropics. But come night Avenida Central is virtually alive again. Merchants from East India have large gift and curio shops, which reap the evening harvest when the regular stores are closed. A few Chinese have shops too, a few thisa and a few thata’, Bars are full of girls from just about any nation you can name, and a most conglomerate lot of men, including hundreds of the typical restless type of American soldier or sailor overseas. Avenida Central is the heart of a poor city. So most of its shops, large and small, handle rather cheap merchandize. Often I have wondered, watching them brushing shoulders on Avenida Central-—the.black, the white, the yellow, the. mixed—if they know, or care about those early ancestors who lived and fought and died with mighty lust and courage and enthusiasm? Avenida Central could whip up a terrific family tree, for its founding fathers had all the attributes of those who went early to United States, the South American nations, Africa, India and the Dutch East Indies—and their descendants today are quite something!

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Faint? Baloney

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 19.—Janet Blair just doesn't believe in Hollywood tardition, I guess, She’s working in a costume picture over at Columbia studio in a wig and heavy gowns and in all this August heat, and she hasn't fainted yet. “But movie queens. always faint on a costume picture, It's tradition.” “Baloney,” said Janet. “I'm not one of those dames who is so dieted down that’she faints every fifth step she takes.” The role, a blond princess opposite Louis Hay~ ward in “The Black Arrpw,” is a switch for Janet, the former band singer who always has played flip modern gals. But the long blond wig and all those clothes in all this heat are getting her down. She lifted up a heavy woolen skirt. “Look,” she said, “underneath=-14 petticoats.”

Divorce Suit Looms SHORT TAKES: Tamara Toumanova, the ballet star, will soon be suing writer Casey Robinson for a divorce. ” Edna Skelton, ex-wife of Red, and director Frank Borzage are straining at the leash. Bob Mitchum will sing opposite Loretta Young In “Rachel” He says: “It's a perfect role for Nelson Eddy” And maybe that's why RKO has such a tough job talking him into taking the part. _ ° Irene Dunne is headed for Hawaii before she takes that South American jaunt. =~ © Robert Young is investing some of his dough (and

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We, the Women

THE IDEAL. set-up for a city child is to have grandparents who- live In the country. Then, indeed, his education is well-rounded. During nine or 10 months of the year he learns

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By Erskine Johnson

he has plenty) in an outfit manufacturing farm machinery. To grow more corn? Greer Garson gets Joel McCrea as her next-lead-ing man. Rudy Vallee is storming at the front office at RKO. He wants nothing but heavy roles from now on. Wants to emulate Dick Powell's switch from crooner to tough guy. Bing Crosby and his pal, Bill Morrow, arrive at Jasper Park Aug. 27 for a holiday and then they will play in the Sept. 15 golf tournament there, -Meanwhile, Paramount is testing Marilyn Maxwell for Bing's feminine co-star in “A Connecticut Yankee.”

Blow to Filmdom HOLLYWOOD'S ban on $200 million worth of Hollywood movies for showing in England—because of the 75 per cent t&x on imported films—was a staggering blow to movietown. Most companies shave operated with English profits paying the cost of their films, and the American box-office rolling up the profits, I think England made a terrific blunder. The film industry wag voluntarily trying to do something for England. The film-makers had offered to impound a big share of their funds. Hollywood was doing everything it dould to get a better break for British pictures in this country. It's a kick in the teeth to probably the friendliest industry to England anywhere in the world. And I think ®nglish morale will suffer. The British prefer to laugh with Crosby and Hope than to mourn with Cripps.

long drought comes along: ; He learns that there are some chores that cannot be neglected. Er . With the help of a home-made net he can start collection,

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product for kitchen use, a load of wheat arrives at the Acme Evans Co. mills here. Sam Monroe (left) and Lawrence Monroe scoop the grain out of a railroad car with cable drawn scrapers... =

grain but not all is intended for processing into flour. In this category is handful of metal sifted out by magnetic separator. By the time the grain gets to final grinding step, it has been washed and cleaned thoroughly.

| through the first of five “breaker” or-grinding machines. It's been cleaned and washed “and later will be bleached and sifted.

Roark’s Travels—

‘Good Old Winnemucca’ Offers Rest—And You'll Need If

40, you'll love this place.

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Wheat Goes Through 6 Process

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STAFF OF LIFE — Starting that long road from Hoosier fields to the refined BELT OF GRAIN — Evans Harel inspects wheat as it is drawn on a conveyor belt from unloading site - to storage bins where it is held until needed to be.

‘ ground into flour after passing through grinding process.

LABORATORY TEST—One important step in manufacture of flour is laboratory test where samples of each load of grain brought to mill is checked for moisture and protein content. This determines what the farmer is paid. Based on these tests, grain

is stored in separate bins and mixed with added vitamins when made into the various

kinds of flour.

INEDIBLES — Many things come into the mill with

FINISHED PRODUCT — Clarence Short packages the finished flour and it is ready for distribution over the country for kitchen use.

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WHEAT BREAKER’ — DeWitt Jaynes, head miller, examines grain as it passes

Photos by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer.

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By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer cafes. Its tourist accommodations| BUT GETTING BACK to swim-|solve. Then you can sit as ina WINNEMUCCA, Nev., Aug. 19.~If you ever travel west on Highway are as modern 3s those of a large ming, before leaving Salt Lake City rocking chair or stretch out on your oy, and Ja. court grants divorces we took a plunge in the lake, my back and lét the gentls waves and as fast as next one. favorite swimming hole next to|the breeze give you a ride. From Salt Lake City to here, it's 383 miles of salt flats and desert If you don't want a divorce and|Sendy Bottom in Pretty Creek at| Usually when I go swimming With

hills and mountains. When you start out early in the morning, youl... don't want to shoot craps, then] Clinton, La. “Plunge,” though, is/my family, I get enough in five mine are fresh and the wind is cool and feels good in your face. It's great 10|you can swim — right here in the|P8rdly the w be on the open road, and there is a rugged beauty.

Nobody plunges| utes and go out. Then T stand desert. The Sonoma Inn, opened into Salt Lake. You go in gently,jaround and grouse because they

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of himself in a city, and learns the a butterfly a city can teach him. a Cap Lh. odie . two or three months he can spend in The Young Millionaire discovering how to enjoy life without help HE CAN crawl under a building to count a dog's mile of the same thing. Your eye- slpgtos comic books, movies, blood-curdling radio serials ‘ a|lids get. droopy, and you hig, She HERE IN THIS oasis with a popu- large municipal pool. -

playmates, or so-called “educational” toys. : wheel over to someone else “Su ’ i , whic at it 1s the| - Another reason Leams Earth's Secrets hilo ’ you awake with a start, Why, you may want. In addition to being|largest motor court in Nevada. It BY 3 Uke 1 1s IN RB Soliuuey he jearns the of going to the ainted e|are right where you were when you |oyer.night stop for weary travelers, has 60 units, accommodations for garden in. the to select the cantaloupe he'll = that naire dozed offt There are those same it also is a sort of small-time Reno.|200. The court is ringed by big have for breakfast. © child whose pare and- [bald hills! : .|1ts dowritown section is lined with|poplars, and the wind in the leaves He finds out just live in © Rh, : “ ‘After about nine hours of that, bars and gambling casinos and lulls - Eke v ‘ pe a ; yh . . YA Fen

But as the day wears on, the sun rabout two months ago, has a io carefully. And after You are in, you vor's cume In. At Sal lake ft3 Hil oo and cd tire of mile after|¥ou spot an emerald in the.bronze pool ag well as Ee go Las Palas don't flounder and dive and splash other way. They have a hard time 5 tance. Good old Winnemucca! line rooms. And “there also is a, Vier all over yourself and your getting Papa back to shore. Love z friends. The water is 27 per cent that Lake! 3 yd salt. When it gets into your eyes, ro lation of 2600, you can find shade| We ate staying at Scotfs Shady|nose and mouth, it isn't pleasant, [BLAST TRAPS GOLD

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