Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1949 — Page 34

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A COMPLETE recording of ambitious recordings ever made. Sir Thomas

English and French singers, the latter from the Paris Opera. The recording which takes nearly two hours to hear was commissioned by RCA-Victor, as part of its program to wax full

length operas. With all the technical skill of " Sir Henry, his orchestra and his Parisian tenors, baritones and bassos, this is an exceptionally dull opera to listen to on records. One has to be an admirer of Gounod, a student of Faust legends or have an affinity for Mephistophelian music drama to put up with it all the way through. - »

s A LIBRETTO is furnished by RCA in English and this is well. The opera is in French, inasmuch as Gounod wrote it that way. It is notable for its interminable * pecitative, melodious bargaining all of it, but bargaining nevertheless One might admire the the overall orchestral effects. They are brilliant. A faithful record player will reveal the resonance of orchestral and vocal work. . The tone range of the records is unusual, and only good equipment will reproduce it satisfactorily. There are, of course, all of the well known . selections “from Fause, relieving the more lugubrious recitative like water holes on a dry prairie, 8 & = , THERE 18 the “Soldiers Chorus” and the “Jewel Song,” the “Church Scenes” and the aria, “Salut Demeure,” which is beautifully sung: by a French tegor named George Nore. “Kermesse” is another listenable scene. Since the libretto doesn’t explain it, and you don't see it, a Kermesse is a kind of country fair and fireman's picnic. Wherever it appears in European drama, something sinister is always going on behind the lighthearted gayety. In this case, Mephistopheles 18 is lurking behind the beer kegs. the prow! for Marguerite, o Recorded opera lends a peculiar one-dimensional effect to opera, which §s primarily a visual as well as an auditory experience. It seems difficult to reduce wholly pogrammatic and narrative mu-

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Two Volumes Take Nearly 2 Hours to Hear; Part of RCA’s Program fo Wax Full Operas

Gounod’s Faust in two volumes. is

ready for release this month, It is undoubtedly one of the most

From the point of reproduction, the recording is eminently successful. Beecham, Britain's 70-year-old maestro, con-| ducts the Royal Philharmonic O Orchestra. The cast is composed of

sic to a single sensory perception, 5 but RCA-Victor has done it, and|"

the job is impressive, if boring. In addition to “Faust,” RCA has released

tra,” none of which has ever

will be possible to collect a'formidable library of opera for those who are able to visualize

the recorded scenes upop the stage, (By BR. L.)

Woolling Named To Health Board

Feeney Reappoints

Laird President

K. K. Woolling, Indianapolis civic leader, was named a member of the City Board of Health yesterday by Mayor Feeney. He succeeds Howard T. Griffith, whose term expired today. At the same time, Mayor Feeney announced the reappointment of Frank G. Laird, Health Board president, for another year. Mr. Woolling, a director of the Indianapolis Foundation for more than nine years, is a member of the First Baptist Church and the American Legion, %e is also. a director of Butler University and the English Foundation. Other members of ithe board are Dr, Sumner Furniss, Mrs. Roberta Nicholson and Frank Gastineau,

Banker to Speak Willis B. Conor Jr., assistant vice president of the Merchants National Bank, will speak in the luncheon meeting of Indianapolis Rotary Club No. 58 at 12:15 p. m. Tuesday in the Claypool Hotel. “The Broad Field of Public Rélations” will be his subject.

SET MEETING TUESDAY Hamilton-Berry Chapter of the Service Star Legion will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday with Mrs, Ralph Kennington in the Marott Hotel.

“Cavalleria Rusti-| cana,” “Aida,” “Rape of Lucretia”! ’ and the Richard Strauss “Elek-|’

reached this desk. It eventually):

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Robert Lawrence this week-end.

2246 Coyner Ave. the wedding of Patricia and Robert culminated a romancé that began one September night in 1946 on a dance floor in Manchester. She was a switchboard operator in a factory. He was a soldier in the U, 8. Signal Corps, taking a course in an electrical school in the vicinity. :

Yanks weren't when it comes to proper dancing,” Patricia said. Most of them chewed gum and Wasted to Jitterbug, she rememrs.

“Fven when you were ‘waltzing,

tomorrow,” Patricia says with a

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grin. : “And ‘Honey’ this and ‘Honey’ that,” she says. “Why the Yanks were calling us ‘Honey’ before we'd even been introduced.”

» » . BUT Bob was different, of course. “Bob was so straightforward. Not the least bit cheeky. He talked always about ‘home,’ his home in the States. He made it sound so wonderful that I wanted so very much to come over here,” Patricia says. -

But coming to the States wasn't quite so easy, Patricia and Robert found. First of all, there was a lot of red tape—affidavita in triplicate, passports, visas, his Army credentials, a financial statement showing that he ¢ould support her in the United States . .. _® x» HE SENT her tickets last Janvary, but it was April before she could obtain passage. Then; two weeks ‘ago, the Queen Mary steamed past the Statue of Liberty one rainy night-and Patricia ran down the gangplank to Bob and his mother and dad. They went right out and had a big steak dinner, the biggest steak they could find in the first nice restaurant available. “She's crazy about steak,” Bob says. “I guess you can’t blame her when you realize-how skimpy food atill is in England.“Right in the middle of her steak, she happened to look up and ‘see a bunch of bananas hanging on the other side of the

bananas we could get her ever since.” | ” s » BOTH of them think everything’s going to be okay, as long as the steak and bananas hold out, And that should be a good, long time. For Bob's printing shop is doing a growing business. He and his brother, Jack, bought a printing business in March of 1946, and in November of 1947 they bought a one-story building out on 20th and Olney Sts. to house it. Their two presses are kept busy

Photo by John Patricia and Robert Lawrence, . . The

British "Post-War Bride’ Finds Indianapolis Beautiful

‘Mrs. Robert Lawrence Fond of Steaks,

Bananas, Critical of Hubby's Dancing ORANGE BLOSSOMS and bananas.

they didn't pay any heed to the|’ dancing. They were always want-|.

Fond | Admirer, of Our Fair City

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bride ate steak and bananas.

And all ‘the steak she

They decorated the odyssey of Patricia Flowers, a post-war bride who came to Indianapolis from Manchester, England, to marry

In the parlor of the home.of his father, Dewey Lawrence, at

Seminary Head To Speak Here

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oop ki y “od Schedules 2 Talks n't really a g . dancer, but then most of the| Pr: John A. Mackey, pres

dent of Princeton Theological Seminary and of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. 8. A., will speak twice in Indianapolis Tues-

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A simplified .method for accurately determining timing problems in engines has been devel-| oped by a Purdue University en-

gineer. . To determine accurately the length of time for a particular operation in a machine heretofore was a problem only a highly skilled engineer with a back. ground of higher mathematics could master. It has remained tor Dr. B. E Quinn, associate professor in Purdue’s machine design department, to streamline and simplify the problem. His method, applying theories of kinetic energy, requires only an average engineering knowledge for solution of the mathematical problems of timing. It will simplify problems more frequently found in. modern high-speed machinery, it is said. Dr. Quinn asserts that the time for motion in any machine driven by a spring, air cylinder, magnet or other device can be computed to any degree of accuracy. On the other hand, it is also possible to ‘determine the forces which must be used to make a mechanism operate in.-a--given

For the engineering minded Dr. Quinn's method is based cn this theory: “The per cent of total kinetic energy which the link of a mechanism contains will remain the same in any given position regardless of speed.” To. laymen the application of the theory may mean easier and less expensive repairs to turning mechanisms.

8 2 s NO CASES of overexposure to radiations from radioactive materials have been reported in nearly two years of operation of the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory at Schenectady, N. Y. The safety record was announced by Dr. C. G. Suits, General Electric Company vice president and director of research. The company operates the plant for the Atomic Energy Commission: Under the plant's safety program every worker who might at times be exposed to radiation must carry a film badge and two lonization chambers, instruments

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