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OZAN MARSH, new chair- { sman.of the Jordan College of | Music plano department, says he never practiced a scale In
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his life, du | By. itself, . that statement ! from a pianist who has studied
| and coached with such masters as Egon Petri, Viadimir Horowitz, Robert Casadesus and the late Emil Bauer might seem odd. : ‘Even Mr. Marsh admits it needs © some qualification. It might have remained entirely hy | true to this day if he hadn't had Assisting Dr. Wells in co-ordi-! an audition: when he was 17 nation of activities are Arthur C.| with the late Josef Lhevinne at Downing, director of the Riley Juilliard, Young Marsh ripped home in Greenfield, and Perry through the first book of the W.. Lesh 8f Indianapolis, president, Brahms-Paganini Variations of the Riley Memorial Associa- one of the prime “stop-me-if-I-tion. cant-play-this” ordeals in plano Gov. Bchricker will serve as |jterature. Lhevinne was dechairman of the: observance by lighted, and summoned his wife, service dnd luncheon clubs. Deane Rosina, and her piano class E. Walker, State Buprintendent' from another room to hear the
of Public Instruction, will head amazing youngster from the the committee for observances in West Coast.
schools and colleges, { Mr. Walker will be assisted byl a 4 tepeat, 1hevision Bh Harry Elder, Terre Haute; Robert! Roaina’s pupils, But Rosina. JH. Heller, Decatur; Miss Agnes with a certain dry. shrewd Mahoney, Indianapolis; Dr. Albert realism for which she is re- ' Parker Jr, Hanover; Howard , neq at Juilliard, simply ckham, Indianapolis, and; ood, “Play me the F sharp Mra. Joseph W. Walker, Green-| , ..°. scale.” :
That stumped young Marsh. ! After the audition, he decided he'd get busy - and acutally learn the scales.
~ Celebration Oct. 7 ‘ie ttees for the state wide James Whitcomb Riley centennial observance Oct. 7 were announced yesterday by Dr. Herman B Wells, president of Indiana University and general chair-|
Plan Use of Movies Chairman of the committee to promote the use of movie trailers “Ie Mrs. Jeannette C. Nolan, as-
sisted by Walter Leckrone, edi-| g aN
tor of The Indianapolis. Times, “A PIANIST should know And Miss. Lesley Payne, all of In-! them, 1 suppose, although’ I've dianapolis, . spent little time on technique Haroid Brigham, Indianapolis, apart from the technical prob-
lems that have to be met In plano music,” he says. The Marsh pianistic career began not too many years after he was born in June, 1920, in Pasadena, Cal. His father, a French-descended violinist who had studied in Europe with the great Leopold Auer, had. become A successful ptano-mer-chant. “He wanted me to be a pianist mainly because he was A violinist. I think he felt the violin. had certain limitations which he believed I could overcome on the piano,” Mr. Marsh says. Marsh Sr. put Marsh Jr. through rigorous training, beginning somewhere around age
will head the committee for other, local community observances. » Members include Mrs. Russell! Cushman, Indianapolis; Marcus Dickey, Nashville; Neal W. Edwards, Anderson; Wililam A.! Hough, Greenfield; Carl H. Mullen, Hammond; G. W, aute, | “Evansville and Judge. tis G.} Shake, Vincennes. os Foornod The Rev. John J. Cavanaugh. president of the University of Notre Dame will head the com-/ mittee In charge of ceremonies! at high school and college foot. ball games. Assistants are R. E.| Hood, Oxford; Judge Paul G.| Jasper, Ft. Wayne, and A. C.|, Sénour, East Chicago. : Dr. George Davis of Purdue University will head: the broad-| 5. About age 7, Marsh Jr. had casting committee. Members In-| worked up to threé or four clude James W. Carr, J. K. Lilly, SN
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and Dr. M. O. Ross, all . of Indianapolis; Lt. Gov. John Backing Out of Drive A. ating, Hloomtlea, and Jomn| James Whelan, 44, of 4718 Gull: Stephen C. Noland, editor. of 10rd Ave, was injured slightly the Indianapolis News, will head last night when another car struck the committee on church carfl- his car which he was backing out lon playing. He will be assisted of a driveway. He was taken to by George A. Ball, Muncie; Dr.| St. Vincent's Hospital. Merrill 8. Davis, Marion; Mrs. A car driven north on College -Harry Miesse, Indianapolis; Mrs.! Ave. by Rolland T. Wilcox, 25, of Minnie Belle Mitchell, Greenfield! 2124 Broadway, struck Mr. Wheland Miss June W. Snyder; Indlan- an's car and knocked it against apolis.’: . . 'a parked car, police said. : §
Bacteriologist Enjoys Life Despite 2 Major Handicaps
Board of Health Scientist Cheerfully Surmounts Deafness, Speech Difficulty
By OPAL CROCKETT more than 17 years as assistant The art of conversation takes bacteriologist and associate bac-
iteriologist in the Maryland State on new values when yop meet 8... iment of- Health in Balti. person who talks only when he;
more, His associates quickly has something to say, but cheer- learned to understand his speech fully reads the. lips of persons And constantly seek his inspiring when they say practically noth- company. He's made many other ing. ’ i friends, too, and is affiliated with Such a person is Anthony A. the Indianapolis alumni group of Hajna, senior bacteriologist at Gallaudet College, Washington, the Indiana State Board of 'D. C, the only college for the Health, Mr. Hajna is deaf and he (deaf in the world. - has speech difficulties, but he's| The bacteriologist, who Is 42 too busy filling his coveted post was born in Chicopee, Mass. He and enjoying living to worry, spent early. years in Bridgeport, | A man surrounded by bacteria, Conn, where his mother, Mrs. test tubes and microscopes looks Julia Hajna, still lives. He was lonesome to the average person. one of a family of five sons and He looks particularly solitary one daughter. He became deaf when handicaps isolate him Into'and his speech difficulties began a world of his own. after he had cerebro-spinal men Far From Lonesome
ingitis at the age of 5. Mr, Hajna began his education alt Ce. ailing Mis ind 1 ot the Mystic Oral School for the a pleasant world and an interest- Deaf in Mystic, Conn., and then ing world. It's a quiet world entered Gallaudet College. After where he can work, undisturbed turing his B. 8. degree in 1830 by people and noise and all the At Gallaudet he entered Johns
distraction. He turns out a tre- Hopkins University, Senonl of mendous amount ‘of important Bo re on his ar work—and he has plenty of Pallimore whi ih
degree in hygiene there in 1932
~ “Busy people haven't time to be Dr. Samuel R. Damon, then his lonesome,” Mr. Hajna explained. Professor’ at Johns Hopkins, per“I'm not lonesome at ail. 1 Suaded him to become a candi drive a ear, 1. see the television, date for a scholarship for the 1 read, I see the movies—so 1 am Master's degree, instead of connot lonesome at all tinuing as a special student. He “The hardest thing in my lite WON the schojarship— twice. was overcoming the prejudices of| Mr. Hajna and Dr. Damon have ‘uneducated’ people about the renewed their friendship at the chances for the handicapped to Indiana State Board of Health - have higher education,” he said. | where Dr. Damon now is director
friends.
Health by Indiana physicians, par-| #180 language or communicate on ticularly for the bacteria of the Paper with-him. typhoid group of organisms, ° He, Though research in bacterio! is training two students in the!ogy has been his hobby as well as «» field of enteric bacteriology In'his work, Mr. Hajna hasn't negwhich he is recognized as an au-/lected extra-curricular activities. thority. | He was a track man at Gallaudet He came to the State Board of and for 10 years was assistant to Health last Mar. 25 after serving ‘the physical instructor there.
Training Students {of the bureau of laboratories. It Mr. Hajna examines all speei- Was Dr. Damon who forced Mer mens submitted to the Board of Haina to speak, refusing to use |
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No scales. . . Ozan Marsh, chairman of the Jordan College of Music piano department.
hours’ daily practice. “I can’t say 1 was willingly practicing those hours, but I was persauded very strongly —in fact; I was forced into it,” he says, A consciousness of having a career in music didn't fully grasp him until he was about 15 and starting off to Europe to study. But his father was determined on the career for him,
. and luckily also had the means
to provide the best teaching. “I could have studied with anybody,” Mr. Marsh says. -_._» HE HAD. GIVEN his first fuli:tength- recital ‘at.agé 7 in Long Beach, Cal. and at 10
had appeared as soloist with the
Long Beach Orchestra at the dedication of the city auditor}. um, for which feat the mayor gave him the key to the city. But those and other concert and recital achievements on the Coast seemed at the time only incidental. A trip to New York early in 1835, when he played for Egon’ Petri and the late
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Leopold Godowsky, both pupils of ‘the legendary Ferruccio Busoni, gave his ambition a lift. He decided on study with Petri, Off he went to Zakopane, resort and cutural center in the Tatra Mountains of Poland, where Petri had a summer home and where young Marsh lived in the house Mme. Curie had occupled much earlier. This was the start of intense activity, both studying and concertizing. In 193%, Mr. Marsh signed up
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and began European touring. He has plenty of souvenirs of those tours. One that caught my eye In his Jordan studio is a 1939 program from. Zurich, Switzerland, of a "Klavierabend des englischen Planisten Ozan Marsh.” : “Maybe they thought my
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Studied Scales By ‘Accident’
HE WAS really going places In European tours, including successes and repeat engagements with the Warsaw. and Vienna Philharmoni¢ Orchestras, when the war overtures
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he made his Town Hall debut | in late 1939, did some recital touring and resumed study with Petri, this time at Cornell Uni. versity, where he met and mar. | ried his wife, the former Patricia Benkman of San Francisco. Mrs, Marsh, also a pianist and daughter of the first flutist of the San Francisco Symphony, was the only other scholarship student of Petri's at Cornell. After two years on the faculty of Bt. Lawrence Univerrity, Canton, N. Y., he joined the Navy in 1943. Despite the rigorous program, and despite
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kept up his practicing. “1 averaged nearly three hours a day, mostly taken out of my sleeping time,” he says. In one base, hig “studio” was a washroom, of what the Navy delicately terms the “head,” where, incredibly enough, there was a spinet piano. Marsh got permission to practice after hours, and cven persuaded buddies to bring him food so he could practice during chow time. Practicing still is a serious business, with five or six hours daily allotted for program prep- | aration. Mr. Marsh will give a Jordan-sponsored recital in the Murat Nov, 6. He's delighted with. the co-operation Jordan has given him-—not too-heavy a teaching-s¢hedule, so that’ he can adequately prepare for public performance. From his playing of the Chopin F major Nocturne, Op. 15, No. 1,-in his studio for me, I'd judge his local audience can look forward to | something extra special.
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For Arthur Cook
now. Not everybody has tone "HILL He ‘was 60. man who has known the Bu-
soni-intellectual tradition and (Cook was a cabinetmaker more the Liszt-grand-manner - trafi-" than 35 years. : tion, the latter from 1938 Vi- i enna study with Emil Sauer,
one of Liszt's last surviving pu-pils,-the statement is important. In Biblical phraseology, Mr. Marsh probably would say the Mrs.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (UP)-=| Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard| | Planes and ships searched the At-| lantie today for two Ttalian fliers undoubtedly down at sea in their single-engined plane after attempting a nonstop flight from the Azores to New York. On the basis of previous mes-| sages from the fliers and bad *" weather and wind conditions, of-| 7 i ficials calculated that John Bron-| |dello and Camillo Barioglio had! | run out of fuel by 10 a. m., In-| an injury suffered when he was!dianapolis time, and had been, helping drag in a lighter-than- {forced to crash land their Beachair craft during a storm, he {craft Bonanza in the Atlantic, | Search Off Newfoundland Eighteen planes and two Coast| {Guard cutters fanned out in al {1000-mile area off Newfoundland] {in the area from which the fliers’| last message was sent at noon.| The daredevil pair-had not heen heard from for more than 18
Mr. Brondello, 36-year-old soldier .of fortune, and his co-pilot} Barioglio had hoped to be the! first to fly a plane of the Beach-| type nonstop from the)
The flight was the Italians’ sec-! ond attempt to fly the Atlantic] cn a barnstorming tour to raise $3 million for an Italian boys’ town near Turin hamed in honor |of Christopher Columbus.
Services for Arthur Cook, 1024 N. Jefferson Ave. who died Fri-| day, will be held at 2 p. m. to-| “Everybody has a technique !morrow..in the Jordan Funeral sHpme. Burial will be in Crown
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