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vas Tr ORAND-OPERA: isa hard nut to crack: Bven don't ‘count college singing . at. beer. nd : Aaa rR RIA ERR y r— with 8 fine voice like mine, it’s tough. And on serenades. SH... “SECOND SECTION - ms WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1948 ent ~7 PAGE 18 top of ult te obstacles, you have to be ‘able to The lady at the registration desk waved me NE ERC ame : : R—— read m . That reguiresnpnt came as a distinct shock. with 0 Se ip of paper ‘in my Wand had the In When repo or the chorus tryouts at the “ ; ” n 13 Jordan Conservatory. all T had in mind was a dd Phase prople ated of me? bit part in “Carmen.” The production is sched-: The road fo stardom became tough ‘in that

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Lady Iris Mountbatten, I had reached the conciu- he is a ringeér for Claude Rains:

. to the oratory) Rep. Clarence Cannon, the Mis-. which is a big club, handy for nudging ‘Congress:

Graduate. students “of 1047 to be Ini. head, will speak. “tiated are the Misses Phyllis R. Petts They t co Classification ‘legislation and pay — = New officers, all. faculty mem- leone 1 Hanking, Helen Louise Hodde Bm Ite Tonia er Moon Adjustmerit legislation. ne the be ll. and Harold MH. Negley, all of Indian. d yal a hoon - . ith ® flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to Whaf determines.the number of electoral votes bers, will-be installed during the apolis. Miss Mary Ray Olson. Jhmaieh ‘luncheon in the home of Mrs. CARTOONIST TO SPEAK Yrite our National Anthem still in existence? to which each state is. entitled © evening. “They are: Mrs. Juna § 01 3.) Riehaziana, Fogene, Ore “2d Alta Rosemeyer, $10 N. Chester - Dave Gerard. cartoonist and o | Star-Spangled Banner that flew Under the Constitution, the number of elec- | Li Beal, president; Dr. Seth Elliot, = Butler facully in the initia-'8t.) and the social committee at John" Herron rt a, i’ al aver’ Fi. MeHenry “rigger § Se bombardment in . foral votes controlled by a state is equal to vice pagsident; Miss Faye Cant- Dean” 0." 1." ah) atin, Lund "5 8 p.m. Tuesday in-the home of a Ce 1 elton, H e of will speak before the Teenart ; September 1814, is «the Suihsonian the ‘total number of Senators and Képrewuts rall, “secretary, and Mrs. May Ri a Miu A adel soil Mrs. Jean Cusick, 1101 N, De: Club ‘at 7:30"p. m. today In the. « Smstitution, Footer ‘ fives. that the state: ‘sends to Congress. i aie, in) Sorrespondinty - [any ‘and Dr, Gordes MN. Clark. 3 Quincy. St, : i: ~ \aphn Herron -Art Museum.

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" wed Aug. 4 and 8 in the Butler Bowl as part hallway until I thought of the Blue Room at of the “Stars Under the Stars” setup. = the Graylynn Hotel. My throat was parched some- . . As 1 trudged up the stairs to the second floor thing awful. In Vi with excerpts of the classics on my lips, I had a Two bottles of malt nectar got me in fine ;

confident facing. Ci how of Jractice aD the voice. When I returned the same people were showers was noticeable, at if Fabien tzk still in the hallway. One big man was shakin . " liked my voice and started me on the road to his head as over a of “The Hills (Picture Story by Victor Peterson) stardom, I thought. You know, like in'the movies, of Home.” Practically everyoné carried some The, second floor was full of humming, music- kind of music. The singers with briefcases under | reading and intent singers. 1 guess they were their arms scared me. Made me look amateurish, singer There wasn't a person I knew in the hallway Where do I’ go to sing” T asked a young of the Conservatory... That's what happens when!

fellow. you don't follow the arts too closely. “You have to get a number,” he said, point- The lady who enrolled me came up at long ing to the end of a line. . last and told me to get close to the govt belting . Ee - which I knew Mr. Sevitzky was. That dentist's | ‘Musical Experience—None’ office feeling gripped the pit of my stomach,

FIFTEEN MINUTES I had to walt before my A woman walked in ahead of me and in about’ turn came fo enroll. The entire second floor 10 seconds, sounds exactly the kind you hear in. sounded as if The Beserk Syncopators were re- # dentist's office, came through .the door. Did hearsing. . At my worst, the very worst, I could I or did I not want to sing in Carmen? | make better music than what was coming out “All right, young man, you're next.” of the rooms, The big moment was at hand and my knees! “Name?” “Address?” “Occupation?” Then Were ready to give way. Mr. Bevitzky looked we hit a snag. Musical experience—none if you me over silently. There were two women in the : room, one seated-at a piano and another at al desk. “What do you sing?” the maestro asked. I didn’t know exactly. Mr. Sevitzky looked | aghast as I had to tell him that I couldn't read, music and had never taken any. singing lessons. | “And. you.want to sing in Carmen?” “Yes sir”

His Volume’s OK, Anyway WITH A GESTURE of futility, Mr. Sevitzky asked the pianist to play the scale. “Try to follow me.” he told me. Something was wrong At home I can go up and down thé scales fine. Too bad the maestro didn't have a tub of a shower in the room. I know 1.could have done better, “Stop, step.” yelled Mr, Sevitzky as he made

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his way to the other piano. noticed ‘the tady’ at the desk, was looking at mesin horror. " % oz «ME... Sevitzky plunked some notes. hey “oh weren't the notes of the scale and you can imagine’ Saha ngs i CARS itera “ what the result ‘was. He's playing something COMEDIAN —-The ‘gentleman is- no - Hollywood - RUN AND “COCA-COLA ==Thers"s plenty “of -swing and swaywhen-these-Lin not familiar with Ja I'm trying to sing character. If you are thinking of installing more than three lasses take the stage. The association sponsors several social events each year, squared away and I thought I was doing fine, one telephone line you ‘might meet him. He is John but this #§ one of their first efforts in dra matics. The show is entirely in pantomime, “That's enough” Mr. Sevitzky said. “You Clark, Indiana Bell Telephone Co. engineer. Here all vocal-and musical effects are produced. through a sound system playing records.

I must lear . | . ; . ; Re Tausic You Yn Te read and te ne however, he clowns his way through the comic Old Sow Featured in the close-up are (left to right) Miss Sue Franklin, Miss Carolyn Clevenger

in three weeks. That's all.” ’ | Song as one act of a vaudeville program presented by and Miss Marion Easterday. Miss Clevenger is in charge of the show presented by iis the. "Whiffenpoof Song’ swell and . .."| the Indiana Bell Commercial Employees Association. employees. “Would you like to hear . .." RA a SY TL RT TET - “Next.” ’ - S 0 Three weeks to learn to read music. Can't THE MAESTRO LISTEN ne of the 90 be done. Tf it took me three years to learn to singers trying out for a part in “Carmen” gives read plain words, how can I learn to read the Fabien Sevitzky a sample. complicated marks and scratches?

By Robert C. Son

Noble Touch

NEW YORK, May 12-It is getling so you for the signatures of titled floaters on advertis-| can't spit out the window here without hitting ing -indersements.—it-was- founded by the Baron | -gn--unhorsed--prince. Or.at least a baggy-kneed George Wrangell, a Russian who would not be) archduke. The town is getting so fogged up with received well in Russia today, and is loaded with foreclosed nobility that even the-cab drivers are princesses, marquises, countesses and such-like. practicing the curtsy. The idea is that any time a hurry call comes Up until this year, I hadn't had much truck from one of the ad agencies for a paid plug for with royalty, except at a distance. But you Shang. the gland-building powers of Foley's Fatuous Face ble over them now in the posh gin joints, Cream, they give the baron a tinkle. every elevator in the vicinity of Park Ave. — The baron asks them whether they want a fat, to include a passenger with a Hapsburg lp. It is Italian Contessa or a bandylegged Polish what-| a real nice homey toughy ever. They specify something without nosewarts Until the great invasion, 1. had two brief con- and soon you got the testimonial: “I always use tacts with blue blood. A ‘thick-necked cousin of Foley's Fatuous Face Cream, because it has vita-| mine—a Miami copper—once wed the divorced min Z . . . the vitamin that takes the resilience wife of the heir apparent to ae Spanish throne. out of checks.” This made me a sort of illegitimate cousin, 18 {imes removed, from the count of Covadonga, Great Stuff for an Old Buddy But he went and spoiled it all by sihashing him- FOR THIS they get dough, and the dough— self up id a car accident and succumbing to the ~geter expenses, and ah, them lovely expenses—is old bourbon — or was it Hapsburg — turse of gypposed to go to European relief, with a 10 per

haemophilia; of easy. bleeds Be TE een. cut to Ameddican charity. But after expenses. oh FRANKIE AND JOHNNY — "He was her man, but he done APRIL SHOWERS — The May flowers flanking George Wilson ! ways after ex i NTA ‘ . ‘ Th 3 tenuous. A former Russian cavalry officer named A ay predict that we can knock off the European her wrong.” Johnny, played by Paul F. Eix, is about to reap his are {left} Miss-Franklin-and Miss Easterday. This is-part.of the finale J Kapa stitches me up a pair of pants from time aid plan, now, as no longer necessary. reward for throwing over his best girl. Miss Clevenger, his new-found to the hour-long show. -The group is considering producing a one-act ¥0 My. trustrated. urge for kingly company was aera due Th LO A a ie and 11 love, is bored with the whole operation even though Frankie, Miss = play. There are some 300 members. in the organization: Officers considerably assuaged the other day When Kapa™ Tt “touch reaches ani o1d-buddy -of-mine,--the.Jean.Orme, holds a. revolver to the "philanderer's” heag,, The show are William: Brannon, chairman: Robert Murphy, vice chairman; Miss announced calmly that he was making clothes Baron Felix Sommery-Gade, in his walkup eyrie in has been presented for patients at both th Vet ran “Clevenger, secretary tr r= Cl i pt for Haile Selassie. The lion draws pictures of tne Casbah of Tangier. This dodge would ft Flic ~ | '¢ P R q 4 p Ft 5 at b e erans Hospital on Cleveng 5 sc & ay eae “Claude Zike Jr, “social- chairman; and what he wants, sends the pictures to Kapa. And perfectly. o pring. Road and at arrison, __ { Miss Janice Battreall, publicity chairman. then Kapa ships the suits to Abyssinia. Sommery-Gade is an ex-English chorus boy Yes, sir, kids. Me and the emperor of Abyssinia named Ford, but he looks more like a baron wear the same kind of britches, except, niine are than any of the weedy specimens you see around esi ent Butler Tonior bigger. ' El Morocco. He is a monocle man, who carries a swagger cane and wears a cockatoo on his YMCA Head

Titled Signatures for Sale swagger AFTER THE DEBACLE last year involving His English is better than Noel Coward's, and

Glad to Be Home William M. Osborn, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Eugene F. Osborn,

Hoosier, Leroy Wilson, Bridgeport: has been-eiected-pres-ident of the ButReturns Here ler University

Leroy A.. Wilson, new Hoosier, YMCA. ® president ‘of the American Tele- MF. Osborn, a’ phone & Telegrah Co. was in junior, Is major. Indianapolis this morning and-- Ing in pre-law at {in ‘his: own words--happy to re Butler and is a turn home. + member of BigHUNTER A great pleasure to return ma. Nu-and Phi Home to Indiana, having—been'Eta. .8ilgma., with the Indiana Bell for the first men's scholastic seven years of my Bell System honor society. TEX pErtericE™ He Sia TE wo vent io Ot err officers Mee. ww. » joy to see many of my old asso- are Jack Boston My. Osborn . «lates and friends again.” and Charles K. “The tremendous expansion of | Mercer, vice presidents; George the indiana Co. from about 170.- Crossland Jr. . treasurer, and. 00 telephones when I started in Dean Finley, secretary, all of 11922 to almost a half million now! Indianapolis. bespeaks not only progress for H———

the telephoné industry, but the healthy growth of my native Grand Matron to Inspect

sion that nobility eats abroad by floating bum Baron Flic has been out of a lucrative racket checks and performing the taxi-dance on a lofty ever since his pancake stand folded. and living scale. When, of course, the lowercase. dukes and on a devalued pound a day is tough, in these counts are not cadging free champagne from times; even in Tangier. : the rich commoners—who still get a bang out of Yes, I think maybe you mo see Flic's face on a paying court ‘to disenfranchised crest-wearers. cigaret ad soon. I'm going to drop him a line ‘We seem, finally, to have found the perfect. that the pickings are ripe. And as 1 remember. occupation for our visitors from afar. It is the Flic, there wads nothing he wouldn't do for ‘ani Regent ‘Box Club, a Provitement organization American cigaret,

ener BY. Frederick .C, Othman

WASHINGTON, May 12—By official vote of Rep. Cannon insisted on the roll call. The bells the ‘House (and partly because he wasn’t listening. . clanged. . The sergeant-at-arms eyed his mace,’

souri Democrat, is recorded as an expert at saying ‘men toward their chamber. : things sometimes that just aren't so. He didn’t have to use it. The gentlemen Ha-r-r-umpf! The vote of the lawgivers was streamed from their ' offices: their commiitee 171"te 120 against the gentleman's continuous meetings and their hash to vote on whether Rep veracity—and if you don't think 120 Democrats « CANDOn was always truthful.

are sore at 171 Republicans, and vice versa, join state. Indiana. ‘ tbl: Te a aiere, An Elegant Argument Jaa Corinthian Chapter, OES The time was high noon, and most of the THE DEMOCRATS, all 120 who got there in “The new headquarters build- An official inspection of Corinstatesmen were absent, partaking of the 65-cent time, voted that he was the honestest of the ing and the location of the new thian Chapter: No. 458, OES. will special (hash de luxe). when Rep. Cannon an. honest. The 171 Republicans chose to let per. Western Electric plant in Ingj- P¢ made at 8 p. m. tomerrow in nounced he'd judt discovered that on May 6 Rep. Keefe's description of Rep. Cannon remain in th anapolis to take care of increased Evergreen Masonic Temple by Frank B. Keefe, the Wisconsin Republican, had record until the end of time. demands for service are further MIS. Sonoma Woodruff, worthy insulted him. It IS ere that Re Kegle iad to do, 118 v illustration of the growth of the grand cation of the Indiana . . . generous . q y rand Chapter. A dinner 3 Congressman Cannon quoted CONgressman po, cannon hadn't been listening carefully, but LIFE UPON THE WICKED STAGE-—Talent for the association's productions Naturally, I am proud of P- m. Will precede the inspection,

Keef “ lem from de thus: Te distinguished gentleman Ri if it would make him feel any better, he— Rep. e a these developments and am glad Other guests will be Ray EK. iri . . . has the y fo £ Keefe—would move to have his own words re- to be back home to gee them,” he Walters of Nappanee, worthy

is not hard to find. Perfect evidence is Miss Patricia Johnson who "muggs’” like me he A . : | ne | «0 ‘. . nts that sometimes do not accord with the p,5ueq from the record. He so moved. professional. The group's activities are not all social. Business sessions are held four concluded. grand patron, and other present

facts.” “I object,” cried Rep. Cannon. “I want the Cee . , { | 4 [240 : and past Rep. Cannon said he'd just ‘read it in the Con- gentleman's statement to remain in the record times a year to tormulate policy. cueat Pileon Nal the hebclieoh pas grand officers. " gressional Record. It was well known that he ag evidence of the depths of partisanship to“which ° "o pra ; : : ® [» » spoke the truth and nothing but the truth all this body has descended.” Phi Ka a Phi to Initiate Students Complete ’ Poel > te Indiana. “Del PLAN MORTINY MELTING the time, he continued, and he'd appreciate it if The boys got into an elegant argument then Bible Study C At “Terre Haute tc h The monthly social meeting of the fellows would order that statement expunged.- gver whether Rep. Cannon could be presumed " ° y Y ourse will speak and receive an hon. le Degree of Honor Lodge 38 . . + Ne to have heard Rep. Keefe say unkind things 45 | f H C class of students tonight will be held at 8 p, m. tomorrow He Just Didn't Hear It even if- he didn’t hear 'em. Rep. Sam Rayburn n urier eremony will receive certificates for Bible OTAry doctorate in engineering atiyn the nome of Mrs. Martha Me-

study at the Youth for Christ Rose Polytechnical Institute of cagyn RR. 1, Box 823-A

THE FEW GENTLEMEN on tap voted not to of Texas, the Democratic chieftain, said in alll The Butler University chapter Seniors to be initiated are.” Bile School graduation exercises Which he is a graduate. He will ni

vi . ote on Rep. Cannon's resolution erasing Rep. his years he'd never seen the House take & more \ py yopn, Phi, national scho- Mises Helen Mary Barber, Helen Vir. address assembled Terre Higute Se ————

Keefe's remarks. He demanded a roll call.- Why unfortunate vote. at 7:45 o'clock in the clubhouse, I ——— C C 1 M hadn't he kicked about that insult when it was Oh yeah, retorted Rep. George H. Bender of lastic honor society, will initiate Coligan. Mary ©. pritscne Rutnanne 2011 N. Meridian St. high oy hoo} Students at 2:30 p. m.| fresh? Well Sir, sald Rep. Cannon, he had been Ohio, who seemed to remember an identical vote 45 seniors, graduate students and Gosom. Clara Ros Holmes Barbare The faculty including Mrs. I tend a civic dinner in the hear it, floor at the time but somehow he didn't two years ago. Rep. Rayburn said it was not. faculty members at 5:15 p. m. Fri- Geste Lucas, Jesntie A. Maiott, Mildred D Na Grim, the Rev. Charles ng 12 10 YOu Sep pk, te Jerry’ ‘ either, identical. And Rep. Cannon demanded |day in the recreation room of arshall, Betty Jo Motfison, Etiasboth | T ev. ger Mals- Fed r | E | Langell 0/0 T “Strange,” roared Rep. Keefe. “Very strange. unanimous. consent to speak for one minute. Jean Ott, Imogene Piper, Georgia Ann|DAry, president, will speak. Mrs. eral employees . 0 The Indianapolis Times When I make a speech, not only the people on the “You've already had your minute,” snapped \Jordan Hall. A banquet in honor [ocler, Droly Mo Felbooiur nd fe (Afine Burke and Miss Pauline To Meet Here Tonight Rook but the people in the gallery and the people Speaker Joseph Martin, lof the initiates will follow at 6 My. Laure Nel Hill, Mrs. Jean Red. Elliott will serve as hostesses at A meeting of Local 78 9 th | n this entire end of the capitol can hear me. With And I guess that takes care of “statements p. m. in the school cafeteria. I Akio. Witte Rit ‘Benry’ B the social hour to follow. i Peden ens 1 Feral Em Soma | or. without a microphone.” not in mccord with ‘the facts” im the House of Hill, Wilbur H.. McCarter, Richard G PTI - ploy Some other lawmakers ot into the act, but Representatives. Approximately 600 alumni Of Mehne snd Jack B. Secor, all of Indian- Grotto Auxilia . will be held at 8 p. m. today in| 3 xaBer As the chapter have been Invited tO poimsine Ais jomn oreia ks: New ry. : ‘the Hotel Washington. The group) ——— == 4ttend the ceremonies. Dr. Ver. am Greenfield: Mis Phyiile Joan Mash Books 2 Meetings : (will consider resolutions to sub-

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