Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1949 — Page 29

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Fears Play Will Fall Flat Ww Outsiders See Rehearsal ‘By Earl Wilson

, Feb, 11—There sat Alfred ‘Lunt in a gloomy rehearsal hall in the 42d St. Flea

wut anc (is Amsterdam Root was th in town. Now xi='«,a%, old woman, do.

privacy? 1 “Walt'lL1 get my I carry around

n. “You said the tall, graceful, ner vous genius of

Mr. Lunt the stage, “the theatre scares the

hell out of me.” “You?” 1 said.

“I've heen allergle to the theatre.” He nodded vigor- _. "it Jou have sutsiders | edger sglheng t_eritical eye, that critical

er nobody's there from the outside we can say ‘Oh, this is lousy,” without stopping to apologize and say why it's lousy.”

the oven door closed until cake's nicely set , , , otherwise it falls flat.”

The play at Lunt’s beloved University of Wisconsin, at Madison, Feb. 19. But New York won't see it until next fall. “What do you think of the

play?” I asked, putting Mr, Lupt}

~ on the spot. “It's beautiful writing . . . velvety.” he said. “And the periods are going to shock - the - pants off -the people. “You've no idea how .funny women’s clothes looked in 1920. We also go back to 1902, then to 1888-—that was bustles. : » - * “MISS FONTANNE,” he said— she wasn't at rehearsal, I regret to report—“had her clothes made by Molyneux in Paris.

“When I asked for clothes like wore in

My. uncle died} about that time, i and 1 remember of

pats are really

» cat from his uncle’s pants that he

wore in his coffin!” “Hag the play a message? 1

to help him think, I don't know,

deeply. reflective, : ferent kinds of love in one and| = . |the same person.

hands and saying goodby. started

{a couple of minutes and peeked.

hats It ‘about, then?"

he was ured, or

“You' know,” he continued,

“there are dif-

“Youd be surprised what odd Shilcghey guen on even in the normal, cultured person. You take any man; if you go back through 50. years of his life, you'll find weaknesses. He has

" = » - “THE PEOPLE In the cast” said Mr. Lunt, who is also directing the play, “are so good. Oh, my God, they’'ré so good.” He smiled, shrugged and said, “But it may be an old floperoo « 4.+ You never know.” “I hear they'll be sending out pictures of ‘you looking like an 80-year-old man,” I said. “Yes,” he said, “and I'm getting so old now that people will say, ‘Oh, those were t taken When “he was a juvenile.” “That ‘seemed a good exit line, and he picked up his milk pail ash tray and started back to resume rehearsals after shaking He one of the

Maybe the producers can't to watch his rehearsals, but I'll always insist that I saw one. I won't mention how much of one.

¥ Today's Smile GROUCHO MARX asked one of the contestants on ‘his show to guess his age. “You'll never see 50 again,” the fellow guessed. “Don’t be too sire” snapped. “I've seen it twice already.”

e ® » WISH I'D SAID THAT: Gardner claims Hollywood types its actors. “Look at Margaret O’Brien,” he points out. “In every picture so far, they've had her playing a little al " That's Earl, brother.

bo Stravinsky Files 250,000 Jukebox Suit

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11 (UP) (Composer Igor Stravinsky doesn’t want his music descending to the jukebox level without his permission, he said today jn a $250,000 damage suit. He charged Leeds Music Corp {adapted part of his “Firebira| {Suite” into the popular song “Summer Moon,” a tune Stravinsky called “devoid of true musical merit.”

his head on the | back of the seat in front of him, whether because:

eyes, nose, and the normal dee ’ . na a...

b-1(80-1- guess we'll have to wait i 1to" find out what it's about.) Y

Shocked at the life sentence given go {Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, the

Groucho get.

Cathedral.

's figure-hugging because it's bith of more than a mile of elastic yarn. Jean Leona wears it in Hollywood; Cal.

ery. sity of Florida, Gainesville, citrus

a mild little professor spending

something he called “frozen citrus concentrate.”

Dr. Stahl's experiments, is one of the fastest growing enterprises nif = Florida

3 principal citrus growing section, lis attracting a large number of| {investors who want to get in on] the ~ concentrate

. {the excitement with a gold rush.

Ser

Ten years ago at the Univer] =

money to develop

“It will ruin the citrus market,” they cried. The college professor, Dr. A. L. Stahl, was promptly put to work on something else. Today the frozen orange juice industry, which stemmed from

Central Florida, the. state's!

ground floor.| John M. Fox, president of Vacuum Foods Corp., compares

Demand Too Great

- Despite the many new processing plants which have risen in the citrus belt .during the past three years, the demand for frozen juice cannot be satisfied. The Economic Co-operation Administration has ordered 200 million, six-ounce .cans for shipment abroad. .

"To Fight Back

By ERNIE HILL Times Foreign Writer VATICAN CITY, Feb. 11

Roman Catholic world prays and awaits a message of spiritual guidance from Pope Pius XII. High Vatican sources say it may, be days or weeks before the Pope. delivers his message regarding communisim and the Budapest {treason trial of the Hungarian prelate. Pius XII, unlike Plus XI, is calm, unsxeitable and “slow to

A pall of sorrow hangs over

Only the Vatican newsroom near the cathedral produces a | noisy chatter. turning out press releases and the daily newspaper Osservatore Romano.

to life imprisonment,” the newspaper headlines say.

Ready to Fight

can officials are taking the Com-| munist court verdict solemnly. But| ‘Catholic political leaders and! people are ready to fight back. They believe that thé maximum | punishment, even 'if “Cardinal Mindszenty was involved in a plot

should have been exile. Protests from the British parlia-| ment and from American Con-!|

Moreover, said the

out a press interview saying Stra-| vinsky “has made a bid for jukebox recognition” by adapting the suite “and a torch song to boost! his ASCAP rating.”

/One-Pound Baby Dies 48 Hours After Birth

REDLANDS, Cal., Feb. 11 (UP) | a. 3 d ‘baby, ‘one of ‘the! smallest in medical history, died! last night 48 hours after it was born.

Mrs. Tony Daguimol, wife of a packing house worker. Normal in “every ‘way except size,’ child, named Rafela, was born!

inquired. “Oh, 1 hope not,” he said.

after a 5%-month pregnancy.

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composer, | Leeds’ President Lou Levy gave,

The 11-inch girl was born Tues-| day at Community Hospital t0|Mass.; who was sentenced to 20

[gressmen are prominently displayed in Roman newspapers.

With had been carrying the trial as its lead story suddenly decided! to play down the life sentence of | |Mindszenty. It printed it well down | on the front page. A Communist news reporter, {said the editors suddenly realized |they were alienating Catholics. | {The newspaper published a brief) |account of his Sentence. .

'Ybarbo Appeal Set

NUERNBERG, Feb. 11 (UP)— (Mrs. Wilma Ybarbo of Malden,

2 years in prison for the fatal {shooting of her husband Sgt. [John Ybarbo of Goliad, Tex., will have her appeal Btare March 1, it was SfibGuted tdi

{million six-ounce cans.

box cpap. If plants now on draw~ing-

Vatican City and St. Peter's th

Typewriters are| .. ercial scale.

[concentrate plants in Florida in“Mindszenty unjustly sentenced|

The Pope and the highest Vati-/is more than $10 million.

|8ix-ounce cans. to restore the Hapsburg dynasty, in quart and galion siz, to

juice in nine average-sized The Communist organ L'Unitaloranges. This size can retails for

{tion under vacuum, ceptrifuging|

Aor Tora tre [ners Co-operative at Lake Wales, “'said his plant had to turn down {in one day cash orders -for 100

Statistics show the tremendous] r growth of the industry. During the 1947-48 season freezers used 140.per cent of. Florida's 58 million|hox orange crop.” This season, freezers will take about 15 per cent of an estimated 64 million-

~&re butlt, 20 per cént of next season's crop may be frozen.

9 Million Gallons

About 9 million gallons of frozen juice will be turned out by Florida plants this season, says Dr. L. G. MacDowell of the Florida Citrus Commission at Lakeland. This compared with less an 2 million gallons last season and 225,000 gallons during the| {1945-46 season, the first year orange juice was frozen on a

Leading firms which have built

clude Vacuum Foods, General Foods Corp., Birds Eye, Citrus {Canners Co-operative and the Snow Crop Marketers, Inc. Total mvestment of these firms alone

Growers praise the new indusitry for “bringing new hope” in (helping to solve the surplus. fruit | problem. Hotels, Cafes Buy

Most of the juice is put up in The rest is sold

{hotels and- restaurants. A six-ounce can of concentrate makes a pint and a half of fullstrength juice, equivalent to the

{25 or 30 cents. Freezers claim their product |rivals the quality of fresh juice. You couldn’t tell the difference between the two, the doctors of science who have figured out the {process will teil -you. Methods of removing water {from the juice include evapora-

at high speed, and pressure. The evaporation method is the most economical, . and, the most popular. The canned concentrate must be kept in the. refrigerator until used. To serve, you empty the contests of the can. add three parts of water Sg mix.

Hosiers Blame Bigger Feet in Survey .

By NEA Service CHICAGO, Feéb. 11--The only

stockings are the feet Américan

them, That's what the nation’s ho|silery manufacturers insist, any way. They base their thought on a professional scrutiny of the na[tion's feminine legs—a scrutiny |prompted by complaint from the owners of those legs that postwar. nylons were giving women

money.

running any faster at all, the ex-

|perts claim. What is happening is that women who before. the war bought 30 denier nylon are ¢ now demanding 15 denier, which iis twice as sheer and is known

I | in the ‘trade as “cobweb” hose.

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thing wrong with today's nylon

women ‘are trying, to put into. §

too much of a run for their

The postwar stockings aren't

Getting Large Gustav Frankel, president of one company which ‘conducted | the ankle analysis, went so far as. | to Intimate that women's feet are

ting bigger.. Their feet have been expanding

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