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DON'T ASK a percussion man (drummer) in a symphony orchestra to play bop. He might look up from & scherzo and disappear in a kettle drum-— My first tussle with Fablen Sevitzky . y's thunder and lightning section began on a congenial note, L. T. Cook was tapping, rapping, whacking his set of five kettles which, with some modification I Roti, could ‘be. turned into useful articles. “Those things would make fi worl ne soup cauldrons,
How About a Home Brew Crock?
MR. COOK, a sober sort of a fellow, disagreed. He thought the kettles would make better home brew crocks, While we' shook hands and ran through the “Whiffenpoot Song,” Ralph Lillard and Hugh Robertson, other members of the percussion section, began preliminary conversion of the oldest kettle in Mr. Cook’s collection. But, there were too many cooks before the pot was ready, One man wanted old style lager, one man wanted bock, another ale. Finally, we had to give up the project. sentlemen, let us discuss the original question. How much different is symphonic drumming from bop and swing drumming?” “A drummer in a dance band is chiefly concerned with rhythm,” said Mr. Cook. ’ ‘In a symphony orchestra a percussion man is interested in rhythm plus tone,” added Mr. Lillard. Mr. Robertson was demonstrating on a snare drum. Mr. Cook squared off on the kettles and an--
Kerplunk . . . Percussion men (left to right)
Hugh Robertson, Ralph Lillard and L. T. Cook
listen to the non-bop qualities of a kettle drum.
Thrives on Whip
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16—When I am in Holly-
wood. I generally call upon Mr. Nunnally Johnson, a talented soul whose Georgia drawl ever thickens, lke simmering soup, and who has come to dread the fire of individual enterprise: - Mr. Johnson is lean and saturnine and on wagon and, furthermore, he has decided that lone effort to. beat the tax people is strictly financiers. Mr. Johnson, js a writer. - “Hella, cracker-hay.'. shid Meadsboss
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“Come to call. Ah'm back with the nice folks now. Ah'm workin’ fo’ a salary agin.” Mr. Johnson labors happily in his office, with the. tame secretary outside and the yaller furniture inside and the special-built light burning over his typewriter. He is a wage-slave come home to the Legrees of his business, movies, and he thrives on the whip. of . Once upon a time Mr. Johnson was an independent producer, like everybody else in Hollywood, and he produced independently until his money run plumb out. In this respect he is a symbol, too.
Burns Up Money
“IT GOT to raining over there ‘at Universal,” Mr. Johnsgn said. “Them banks run through the accounts and when they said Ah was broke Ah took their word for it, on account of not being able to add. It was fancy and fun, but, man, you sure can burn up money.” Whilst Mr. Johnson was dwelling in a lime-and-yellow cabana, with hairy yellow rugs on the floor, over to the -Universal-International lot, he put out a whole flock of pictures with special techniques and stuff, and they laid oblique financial eggs and the rain done fall right on Mr. Johnson's punkin haid. This interesting experience was shared by approximately 4311; actors, writers, producers and directors who figured that they could go independand get rich on a capital gains gimmick. There are very few of them left, on account of
nounced he .would p a portion of the melody from Beethoven's 9th Symphony. “Play some more, sounds like cool—yaaah— bop to me.” Silence. ml Fortunately a member of the violin section wandered on stage and jestingly asked what the gentlemen with the tin ears were doing. Strange he should ask that because not one of the percussion men has tin ears. In a bad ligh$ they might look tinny but they're not. 7 Mr, Cook thought a man could beat on a wash bucket and furnish rhythm for a dance band. That is not to say, he cautioned me, that drummers in popular orchestras are not skilled musicians. “Gene Krupa, and Ralph and Hugh will agree, is a fine musician. He studied with Gus Moeller, the same man I studied with. Gene is a fine school drummer.” Mr. Robertson and Mr. Lillard agreed with Mr. Cook. { “Playing a drum for a good dance orchestra Is an art,” was Mr. Lillard’s contribution. Mr. Robertson, who played in dance orchestras years ago, said, “Styles change. What I played| years ago ‘would sound corny today.” “He wouldn't be in the groove,” Lillard. } All three were surprised when they were informed the term groove was not new. A man is not in the groove any more; he's cool. | “You see, that's the way styles change,” snapped Mr. Robertson. “In a symphony orchestra the music remains the same and every note on a percussion instrument is a solo.” o~ The men told how a popular drummer can get by as long as his rhytfh is right. He has a great deal of leeway in how he interprets the music he
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ments. Mr. Cook was ready to speak again. He glanced) about the stage. The hour for rehearsal was only| minutes away and orchestra members were tooting/ and scratching. I'm sure he was looking for Dr. Sevitzky.
One Strike and You're Out |
“IN BASEBALL a man gets three strikes before he is out. In a dance band, depending on the! leader, a drummer may get many chances. But, in a symphony orchestra, you get once chahce. Come in on the bass drum or cymbals once at the wrong time and you're out,” whispered Mr. Cook. They wouldn't play bop for me. Instead they showed me a sheet of music and pointed out how in about two minutes playing time the percsgsion section had 14 changes in measure. There could have been 50 for all I knew, Lot of black marks and stuff.
Mr. Cook named 16 different noise makers
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under the heading of percussion instruments. They Indianapolis Symphony rehearsal in the Murat show Hoosier composer Hoagy
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banks. Banks just quit lending money on love. Mr. Johnson, who wrote the screen play fori such things as “Grapes of Wrath” is firmly in favor of censorship at the source of movie-mak-| ing, along preseribed lines, as opposed to Mr.| Georgie Jessel, a producer; who feels that censor-| “ship is strangling the industry.
Mr. Jessel's -idea-is--that-our-national appetite for strong meat has outgrown the tenets of pro-.. BSH, WRIA Fr
EWR DANG aU Fe Bei herd on the morality of the Hollywood output. “Ah keep thinkin’ about that old story Don Marquis wrote about the wild man in the’ carni-
val,” Nunnally says. “There he was in. the canvas pit, a-strainin’ and a-lungin’ at his shackles.
“One day the shackles come loose, and all we| had in the pit was a po’ ol’ cullud man, who didn’t] know where to go once he was loose. That's what, happens if you knock off the restraints on how you make movies.
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“ONCE YOU loosen up on the restrictions on] movies you got one man who will show you a] lady's chest and then you got a guy who will show| you two ladies’ chests, and finally you are in the| burlesque business, navels and all. | “We got all the room we need to move in. The| only shackles we got out here is lack of talent.| Strike off those shackles and we ain't got to fret about censorship. “If that settles your problem, cracker-boy,” Mr, Johnson said, settling down to his prepaid typewriter, “feel free to come back in another three or four years. There may be some more trends running around.” i I would like to mention in conclusion that Mr. Johnson, the wage-slave, has recently prepared a fine script about an unwilling gunfighter, and that at no time in this piece did I tell you the story of what Nunnally said about the Tobacco Road characters being called the country-club set in his locality.
Robot Typist WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—If you should get a long and chatty personal letter from your Senator about the state of the nation, don't be too sure of it = Tt probably was written at the rate of 105 words a minute in a battery of $1400 electropneumatic mechanical brains whirring away in the privacy (almost said secrecy) of his inner office. Here his stenographer can and frequently does write three letters at once to different people while simultaneously she varnishes her fingernails. One girl and $4200 worth of post-war machinery (if she's in charge of three electric monsters) thus can turn out 2400 personal—haw!—letters in eight hours to the flattered constituents of the Senator. Without even bringing a shine to her nose, /
Senator Was Flabbergasted WHEN 1 got word of this scientific invasion of the legislative halls, I braced the first Senator I saw. He was flabbergasted. He had a robot letter writer, all right. He was, in fact, buying it on long-term credit. 8o, said he. were many of his confreres, But what would the voters think if the voters learned he was fooling 'em with impersonally typed letters?” Please, he begged, would I refrain from mentioning his name? I took pity on the harassed gentleman and he showed me his private machine shop for the production of personal letters, wholesale. His widget, for which he is making payments of $300 per month, consists of two machines. One is a keyboard which punches out his original words on a roll of paper, almost exactly as in an old-fashioned player piano, The other is an electric typewriter into which the roll fits,So his stenographer sits down and types out by hand, “Dear Mr. Doakes.” Then she touches a button, compressed air whooshes through the holes
as they pass over a bar, and the letter types itself
Police Auxiliary Sets Joanne Stewart Named Queen
, . Stewart, liary 86 will have a Christmas| gaging Ave., will be installed as party for members’ children at/ queen of Bethel 23, International
Christmas Program
“ .J » - Fraternal Order of Police Auxi Miss Joanne
7 p. m. tomorrow in the YWCA. Odrer of Santa Claus will distribute gifts A ng and Walt Disney films will be oH shown, Mrs. Chalmer Byrnes is gemeral chatrman of the party, Mrs. William Denke is auxiliary president,
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OES UNIT TO MEET North Park Chapter 404, OES, will meet at 7:45 p. m. Tuesday in the North Park Masonic Tem-| ple, 1058 W. 30th St. The annual Christmas am. will follow|, the stated a and conferring! Miss Stewart
By Frederick C. Othman
without further attention from anybody. My man was apologetic, though I can't quite see why. The blame lies on his constituents. They resent letters sent out by duplicating machine; he said what they want is a genuine personal letter from the Senator, himself. Say he gets 14,000 letters from home, as he did a while back, asking him what he thinks about excise taxes. Answering these would have been a month's job for a battery of stenographers in the old-fashioned way; now, it's a breeze, He's even trained his girl to misplace a couple of commas in the original master roll so the recipient will be absolutely certain his letter was typed up special. My Senator said the machines first became available about a month ago. There are four competing brands, all of which operate on similar principles, He chose the one manufactured by the International Business Machines Corp. As soon as he gets the first one paid- for, he intends to order a couple more, so as to get his correspondence on a production line basis—and also to keep his girl from getting bored. As it is now, all she has to do is sit there between salutations.
He's Rurning for Re-election
DOWN the hall, he said, is another Senator who is running for re-election. He has three machines clattering already, turning out personal letters to most of the veters in the state. Gets their addresses from the phone book. The money for the machinery, of course, is being provided by the taxpayers. The Senators boosted their office allowances 5 per cent last session; the extra cash is going to the machinery makers. And I believe I'll get one of those machines, myself. As soon, that is, as they are equipped with an| attachment that also thinks up what to say in the first place.
Church, College To Present Cantata The Center Methodist Church | choir and Indiana Central Col-|
lege - students will present - a
Daughters, Dec. cantata, “The Child of Bethle-| 97 in Brookside hem,” at 7.30 p.-m. Sunday at Masonic Temple, the ehusch, Bluff Rd. and Epler
1323 N.
Other “officers “The Sunday School children's to be installed Christmas program and the regare Joanne Jones ular chufch ‘service Will "be com. senior princess; bined at 10:30 a. m. Dec. 25. The Joyce McVey, Rev. G, E, Northern is church! junior princess, pastor. Betty Brock, es
OES UNIT TO MEET N ne Beanblossom, Brookside OES Chapter will marshal. {have a Christmas party and gift| Miss Betty El- exchange at 8 p. m. Tuesday in|
guide, and Jean-
of degrees. Mrs. Elsa P. Feucht,| lott will be installing officer, The Brookside Masonic Temple, 10th|
‘worthy matron, will preside.
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for full orchestra, "Brown County in Autumn."
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"“Right?'' "Right!", conductor seems to be asking and composer answering in this action shot of the rehearsal.
‘Brown County in Autumn’ Pleases Composer at Symphony Rehearsal
By HENRY BUTLER “IT'S JUST right. You couldn't improve it.” That was Hoagy Carmichael’s comment yesterday at the Murat the Hoagy's Hoosier tone poem, “Brown County in Autumn.” “Maybe a little dift here and there on the brass would make it clearer,” Hoagy added, “but Dr. Sevitzky has the whole idea and the
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tempo just perfect.” Yesterday's rehearsal performance was the first Hoagy has heard of the completed work. His second piece for full symphony orchestra, "Brown County in Autumn” will be played on Dr, Sevitzky's fourth pair of concerts
8:30 p. m. tomorrow and 3 p. m. Sunday in the Murat. Mr. Carmichael says he's indebted to Dr. Sevitzky for the
whole idea of trying to write for symphony orchestra. “When Dr, Sevitzky asked me to add my bit to the musical tribute He was gathering for his Riley Memorial concert, he set off a spark that had been in my mind some time. It was just the encouragement I needed.”
” » ” HOAGY HAS no grandiose fllusions about his “Brown County in Autumn.” He explains the composition this way: “You see, I'm a melody writer, first of all. I don't pretend to know a lot about musical theory, What I've tried to do in this tone poem is bring out through a series of melodies things like the color of trees in autumn, “Even though the piece might not stand up under severe critical analysis, I still think the melodies express some of theebeauty I've seen in Indiana autumn,” he says.
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biles. Part of his inspiration, he says, came from the Brown County paintings of the late Theodore C. Steele. Hoagy says he's especially glad to have this chance to get “Brown County in Autumn” performed. Even if the piece isn't too successful, it gives me valuable experience,” he says, referring to plans he has for future orchestral writing, ~ ” ~ ONE PIECE he’s working on is a tone poém about the California redwoods. It's the only one he cares to mention right now, “I'm hoping I'll have a chance to play part of it for Dr. Sevitzky before 1 leave town. His opinion will be a help to me,” Hoagy says. Serious composing currently is sandwiched in between conferences about radio, TV and movie plans. Hoagy's next picture, “Young Man With a Horn,” based partly on the story of the great Bix Beiderbecke, will be released next February. “In it, I have the role of the trumpeter's pal, which is like my real-life experience of being Bix's pal,” Hoagy says, with the reminder that the tragic story of Bix is told in Hoagy's autobiography, “Stardust Road.” “This picture gives me my best part to date,” Hoagy concludes.
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from a bass drum to the glockenspiel Carmichael and Hoosier conductor Fabien Sevitzky working on Hoagy's new piece
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concerts tomorrow night and Sunday afternoon, explains a point fo bearded Angelo de George of the Symphony's second violin section. Hoagy's fone poem describes the beauty of Indiana au'umn landscape.
From back of the string-instrument section, here is what observers see of the orchestra and the con. ductor during rehearsal. Dr. Sevittky is carrying out a suggestion Hoagy has just made.
7 Boys Injured Prowler Slugs ‘Woman In Auto Accidents But Leaves Home Infact
Treated in Hospital After Mishaps Two children were recovering conscious by a prowler who neither molested her nor anything in
today. from injuries received yesterday when struck by automo-
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Secretary of State Again Surprised: $862 Worth
of surprises Secretary of State Charles Flem-|Erwood,
He was surprised when he re- Ramsey, the Democratic nomina-|urer; Roy Allred, Again, when he was elected, secretary; He was astounded yesterday,|seph Cres, senior when the state's county license|deacon; Gordon branch managers handed him an|Showalter, “appreciation” gift ol $862. They|Yakel, chaplain; Fred Bohrman, PAGES OF REAL ESTATE ADS informed him another $300 was|senior steward; Austin Davidson, every Sunday . on its way, But Mr. Fleming appoints .he|{worth, tyler and William Schu- real estate and home building, ao branch managers.
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of 1724 according to a po-
e child broke Stalled as worshipful master o away from an older sister and Englewood Masonic Lodge. No. darted into the street in front of 715, Tuesday night at the Masonic d He \ as treated at St. Temple, an Francis Hospital for a cut hand Rawls St. from a broken headlight.
N. Olney St. Housewife Knocked Unconscious In Kitchen While Using Telephone A mysterious attack on an Indianapolis housewife, knocked unher home, presented a problem today to sheriff's deputies,
late yesterday afternoon as she used a telephone in the kitchen of her home. | The victim told sheriff's dep-|
Y her. She said she regained. con- Open but thought it was a neigh-
5 sciousness about 5 p. m. and re- bor and did not interrupt her
members only that she was taik- telephone conversation. ing on the telephone at about 4:30, Felt Stinging Blow sy femmes ee le nest thing’ I Femenbety she told officers, “was a # Coomler to Head blow on the back of the Héad and . leverything went black. 1 woke Masonic Lodge up lying on the floor in front Robert 8. Coomler will be in- of the straight chair on which I ¢/ was sitting, The telephone was off the hook.”
H. J. Lippincott, an em-
5592 {ployee at the Basca Manufactur-
Other officers x to be installed {and-an ambulance. include: | A six-inch laceration in the : Raymond A. (back of Mrs. Lippincott's head Noell senior required several stitches at St for warden; Robert Vincent's H-spital. or "junior | Mr, Lippincott told officers he
{could find nothing missing from their home. ‘A ‘check of the {neighborhood failed to reveal any sign of prowlers or suspicious characters, county officers said. The new REAL ESTATE SECJohn TION of The Sunday Times has
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Mrs. Helen Lippincott, 34, of 4326 N. Olney St., was knocked out *
F ; She said she had a vague rec, into the side of a car driven by!UtIes she did not know who struck ollection of hearing the back docs Frank Y. Wright, 81, of 4021 State St, yesterday in front his home, police.sald, A b5-year-old boy, Jerry Matthewson, 4645 8, Méridian 8t., escaped wit* a lacerated hand /after he ran in front of a car driven Norris Glidden, Cottage Ave., lice report. Witnesses said th
Mrs. Lippincott called her huse'
{ing Co., and he called the sheriff