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Inside Indianapolis
By Ed Sovola
JOANIE SOEURT began hfliet lessons. four years ago “for the heck of it\’ Today she has her sights on Ballet Russe and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. % : The - 20-year-old dancer pirouettes; glissades and changements where, until recently, I used to eat, the dining room of my hotel, the. Colonnade. Now, instead of the clatter of dishes, you hear Marguerite de Anguera, teacher and choreographer, shouting instructions and pounding the uncarpeted floor with a stick. = dh MISS DE ANGUERA, an old friend from the Butler Bow! “Stars Under the Stars” and current ‘Starlight Musicals” at the Fair Grounds, keeps the doors closed: and the drapes drawn to her workshop. That didn’t stop me from peeking. I knew there were girls inside. Furthermore, I had a few questions to ask. Joanie answered the first question by saying she started ballet for the heck of it. Fine thing, I said. Why did ‘she keep working? Because she .
&, realized ballet was much harder than she thought
it was, and perfection in ballet is never achieved. Another reason: Joanie likes ballet. It's “so interesting.” . ?
Before talking to Joanie,
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advanced class of eight work. The leaping,
stretching, toe-twirling and body-whirling made. me dizzy, as usual. If the ordinary, healthy man tried a fraction of what those poor, weak, frail members of the opposite sex did, he'd drop dead. . I could have given Joanie about 5000 words on ballet when our chat began. An exponent of the slow waltz kept his thoughts to himself. An aroused ballet dancer who readily admits she “eats like a horse and works like a dog” six days A week, commands a civil tongue. ‘ You can’t overlook that breathless enthusias for the dance that girls like Joanie have, no matter what your personal feelings are. Joanie probably wouldn't see much point in getting up an hour before daylight to go fishing. We're even. : Joanije- talks with as much spirit as she uses to dance. She began with one lesson a week. She Increased it to two a week, then three until now its six. “ds
LAST YEAR she was in- the hallet of the “Starlight Musicals.” ‘This vear she is one of the ballet leads at the Fairgrounds in the “Song of Norway.” . Her large eyes sparkle with excitement when she talks. Her legs are restless and supple, and they're never in one position for long. A new pair of ballet slippers get her attention. She hasn't had time to try them on. Do you mind? Certainly not. The muscles of your legs hurt when you watch the way Joanie puts them on. How loose can you get? She’ tells how, as a result of last year’s work in the “Starlight Musicals,” she is now a member of the Ballet Players. It's an organization of dancers who have pooled their footsies to stage ballets for children.
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, May 3—Rita Hayworth went out on the town this week celebrating her separation from Prince Aly Khan. She wasn't wearing the enormous diamond engagement ring that the prince gave hér two years ago when she dined and danced the night away at the 21 Club .and La . g Vie En Rose, while telling quite J A a lot of people, “I-feel wonderful.” “Are you happy.” her. N11 AM happy! she said.
we asked Are .you?”
NH WE ALL insisted we were. ‘Let's dance!” Rita exclaimed, pronouncing it almost “dahnce.” in her continental accent, and up she got, with either Jinny Gardner, the Broadway producer. or Bob Sidney, ‘the dance director who idl were her escorts, and swung Miss Hayworth energetically and blissfully about the floor, returning for a little champagne. At La Vie En Rose, I suggested she pose for a picture with her escorts. “No, but I'll pose with you!” the. Princess Marguerita announced, and they jumped away and I found myself in a picture with her exhighness (not that I minded). * Sb THIS MUST have been her way of saying she didn’t want to start any new romance rumors with these two: old friends. “Are you glad it’s all over?” I asked her, just so it wouldn’t be a total loss. “I wonder if that girl photographer has enough bulbs,” Rita. answered categorically. “Your decision about Aly—is it irrevocable and final?” 1 asked her. “That's two shots she has taken,” Rita Answered, just as evasively as the first time. R- ae d RITA DID, however, clear up some things. fhe is going to Washington before Hollywood to see some relatives. . and she is not from Brooklyn although they call her the “Brooklyn Red Head.” “I guess it's because I once played some kind of a Brooklyn character,” Rita explained. Where did she like to live most? ; “1 love living in Europe. I love living here. I love living, period. Every place is wonderful.” “bb COMEDIAN Phil Baker. upon hearing this last sentence, moved to challenge it by saying: “Were you ever in Yonkers?”
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, May 3=Maestro Louis Biancolli probably does not exist. He is a figment of my imagination, or else he has eight heads and is actually a reincarnation of “Information Please.” It should be impossible for anybody to be Louis Biancolli, I am backing into this one, because there is no real way to introduce a man like Biancolll’ with a special flourish. Louis speaks fluent Spanish, Italian, Russian, French, German, Portuguese, Latin—I said Latin, ancient and modern Greek, and has toyed with Sanskirt and Norwegian. The farthest. he has ever traveled from New York City is Washington, D. C.- Except when he swim& When Biancolli, a frustrated Channel competitor, takes a dip he never paddles less than five miles.
$b © 2 THREE paragraphs have departed this teary vale and we have progressed nowhere. Did I mention that Biancolll takes shorthand at the rate of 150 words a minute? He has a pet theory that , shorthand is the single key to culture, and will
"cite you the fact—if he says it ig a fact it is a
fact—that Caesar was a shorthand shark and the Cicero pirated his attacks on Catiline from a shorthand transcript by a guy named Hyro, Biancolli has morning insomnia. He wakes up worrying about words, concerning which he knows more than Henry Mencken, Louis rises early because there are sO many words in the world and he cannot rest until he learns where they all came from. 1 have not mentioned yet that Biancolli is a good newspaperman who works for the same paper I do in New York, or that his idea of quiet relaxation was turning out a book called “Great Convetsations,” in which he kicked around the parlor declamations of such as Socrates, Michelangelo, Frederick the Great, Voltaire, Ben Franklin, Sam Johnson, Goethe, Napoleon and Abe Lincoln:
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- laughed Joahie,
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She Started in Ballet
They write their own stories and dialogs. The
‘Just for Heck of It’ | |
emphasis is on music, dancing, laughter, ability. Frankly, it's a pleasant and invigorating change to listen to someone who inhabits a world of fancy. Someone whose energies and dreams seek fulfilment by being appreciated. on a stage. Today Indianapolis, tomorrow who knows? It may be in the ballet of the Metropolitan Opera. » Joanie is one of those youngsters who believes that every day, if she works, and she does, she gets better. Her added ability may not be apparent at the end of each day but it's comulative. SB FOUR YEARS ago she didn’t know an entrechat quatre from. a briser. now. Algo, she assists Marquerite. de Anguera at the Indianapolis Academy of Theater Arts (where I used to eat ‘in peace and quiet) with beginning students. Progress. Someday Joanie wants to be a choreographer, She doesn’t kid herself in thinking she'll ever know it all no matter how hard she works. “Somebody is always inventing a new step, something that was _censidered “and then“you're off again. I'll buy ballet. I'll buy music and the rest of. the arts. 1f the whole world sang and danced, it still wouldn't be as bad as soap boxes .and cannons. If it would do any good I'd pirouette until 1 was cockeyed, or more so:
impossible,”
JOANIE SOEURT—Pirouettes ‘just for the heck of it.’
Rita's Not Talking But She's Happy
I told: Rita I heard Columbia Pictures was going to put her in a sequel to “Gilda.” “If they do they'll have a flop,” she predicted. “But it made money,” I argued. “You never repeat.” she said sagely. And I sort of gathered that she meant it to include husbands, too.
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THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Kathryn Grayson's generously telling everybody Ava Gardner steals “Showboat” from her... . . Count Palffy and his new and eighth wife. Countess Harberstein, were at the Colony. ... NBC's got a real big TV show for Jerry Lester. . . . Midnitems at 1a Vie En
“dnd Pamela Curran, Patrice Munsel and adman Bob Schuyler. :
| Rose: The Earl of Dalkeith, Princess Margaret ! Rose's suitor, and Barbara Baker; Pat Di Cicco | .
* o> 2 B'WAY BULLETINS: Joe Di Maggio's ex and future wife, Dorothy. Arnold, returns to California to join their son. . .. Franka Faldini, the Italian gal supposedly engaged to Orson Welles, arrives from Rome. . . . Ginger Rogers arrives for the ANTA show and to see Steve Cochrane. . « . George Burgess is the new headwaiter at Lindy's. . . . The Duke and Duchess of Manchester added glamor to El Morocco." . ,oh ob MAYOR Impellitteri's off for a four-day rest at the Saxony Hotel, Miami Beach, where it'll be “Mayor Impellitteri Day.” . . . Leo Durocher and Laraine Day celebrated the baseball victory at Toots Sher’'s with ice cream and chocolate eclairs—but nary a drink, even though. Toots bought for everybody. . . . Dizzy Dean told Leo: “Congratulations on vour winning streak” and Bill Gargan said, “Break up that Giants’ victory combination.” oo» > o ALL OVER: A move is on to charge more for front-row seats at theaters, ... A deal's cooking between ex-Wevlin Hotel owner l.ew Ritter and the Sherry-Netherland. . Lena Horne's turning down huge TV offers here, to remain on the Coast. * Bb TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “A woman with unmanageable hair put beer in it. It didn’t do her hair any good, but she had the happiest dandruff you've ever seen."”-—Phil Baker. > > Ld
I. LOVED that line by Melville Cooper in Make a. Wish” where he said his wife was very unreasonable. “Just last night she thréw one of my dearest friends out of the house—the girl got awfully mad, too.” , .. That's Earl, brother.
Louis Makes Da Vinei Look Like a Specialist
Louis just ripped off a fine, honest book on the life of singer Mary Garden, which the target has described as ‘foolish, arrogant, candid ~—and me, to the life.” The lusty Scotslady refers to Mr. Biancolli as a corkscrew, since he has an engaging way of pulling the plug out of personal reminiscence. Biancolli seems definitely affected by girls named Mary. His next effort is a biography of Mary Pickford. He has 450 pages of typewritten notes at the moment and is still probing. Miss Pickford is a shy lady and Biancolli tears her looge from 450 pages of notes yet. She is probably as surprised as the late cultured visitor, Mr. Shostakovich, when. Biancolli stalked _up and hit him over the head with his own, difficult language. “ Bb b
APART from the two novels he has on the fire and his job as music critic for the paper, and the Pickford book, of course, Mr, Biancolli is sore tried to stay busy. He has attempted, in past, to fill in the chinks in his day by teaching lessons in Spanish, Italian, French and Russian to his fellow staff members on the paper, but most of us are so stupid that way it Is largely a waste of his time. If he charged fees for infusing us with culture we would probably learn faster, but he teaches for gratis, 1
Mr. Biancollj is in his early 40s, and looks exactly like a man whose papa was an Italian born In Uruguay and whose mama came from Naples. He is'hahdsome and healthy, and he still has his own hair.
TI am bitterly jealous of anybody as smart as Biancolli, and do claim that he flies a false pennon when he .declares himself to be a reporter. What he ought to be is Gertrude Ederle, the Metropolitan Museum, the hoss man at the Opera House, an entire Cabinet in ~ Washington, light-heavyweight champign of the world and the complete publishing Yirm of Simon & Schuster. In his spare time, of course. His real business is shorthand and the hot ~ pursuit of words, including obscure dirty jokes In the’ original Persian. .
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It's second nature |
. New Equipment
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Babel-ish Beehive—
Future Linguists To Have Privacy
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Things are getting so sci‘entific around Purdue Univet--isity . that language students ssoor'woli’t be able to Kear one ‘another speak.
{sign language, either.
‘ual, soundproof booths: equipped with ‘visual aid equipment where everyone can recite at the same time, without disturbing his neighbors.
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'brainchild of Dr. Elton Hocking, {head of the Purdue modern lan‘guage department, and Dean W. L. Ayres of the School of Science.
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vice and individual headphones, microphones and tape recorders by next fall, when the new set-up will be used by first and second semester German students.
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|can instruet students simultanejously. jer”
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{ing speeds, practice will develop he has just heard. As he speaks, ed along with those of the in- instructor.
tended Russian classes.
best equipment America, faid Dr, some larger studios on this plan, but ours will be the best-equipped.
that classes, in different languages at ithe same time, or even three in ia pinch.”
Purdue to Install
> By CARL ‘HENN y LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 3
They won't be conversing in They'll be ensconced in individ-
the latest electronic and
This Babel-ish beehive is the
u n a . TOGETHER, they will superinstallation of the booths
The method later will be exto French, Spanish and
EJ o ” “WE'RE GOING to have the In ‘this field in at a cost of $15,000, Hocking. “There are
“It's planned to be so flexible we'll be able to hold two
The headphones will be attached to a master microphonerecord player, by which a teacher
If desired, a ‘speed readwill project a moving text on a screen while the student the same text coming
es = = ing exercises with SINCE the visual text can be
of silence, during which he ‘re-|
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student will hear drill pronoune-inique ' is broadcasters, musicians and other exhausted. professional people. | The student's words are record- handed in for evaluation by the
timed intervals
repeated many times at increas-'peats into his microphone what]
‘The Indianapolis
‘THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1951" . =
often used
'a fast reading capacity in the the sound of his voice comes to|structor on his own machine. At|
|students.
{primarily in oral-auditory ' drill, | without visual texts. From the master recorder each chastening experience.
him through his =
Individual records will be used »
headphones. »
others hear him -— generally a attempts to imitate it, The tech- or compliment himself and repeat are possible.
France Gets a Royal Wedding—
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By ROSETTE HARGROVE
Times Special Writer
{the end of the exercise he can) play back the tape recording, questions and answers, dictation, versation, THUS, he hears himself as compare the model voice with his or various combinations of hear-/will be developed past that point criticize ing, seeing, speaking and writing in advanced stages of convene
WANTED — For Prince, Princess, In Paris
ica, China, North Africa and every country this side of the Iron
{ NANCY. France, May 3—Everybody here is excited about a Curtain. 3 ‘royal wedding scheduled for May 10. But all the happy couple—| | Prince Othon of Hapsburg and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meinengen ences in the Middle West than any |—are thinking about is where they can find an apartment.
“The only thing that worries me a little,” says
the tall blonde
“I would rather talk to audi-
others. Not only are they most receptive but I found them extremely well-informed on Eu-
Princess, “is that up to now we haven't managed to find an apart-|; nean affairs and certainly not
of one, do you?”
'He knew all about her social
It has to be in Paris, and fit for packground, of course, but hadn't
a prince and princess. Otherwise, seen her since their childliod They fell in love and since The wedding will be as royal there were no state reasons bar-| as can be, in these unroyal times. | ring a marriage, -
they’ll listen to all offers. |days.
|At least 150 royal personages will happy ending. pe present. There is to be a The Prince
other royal goings-on.
speaks {grand reception, a state ball and prench, Hungarian, Spanish and Portuguese fluently. Regina's na:
there will be aj
{
English,
For two days after the wedding. tive tongue is German, and Othon the Prince and Princess will live has enough German to converse
like fairy tale princes and prin- with his fiancee. cesses do. Then they'll come down
Besides languages. he is a stu-
to earth, which won't he-hard be- dent of world affairs, politics and
cause, despite their titles, both history.
Next fall, he will make
are level-neaded voung,.zpeople. his fifth lecture tour of the United
They cherish the past, but’ don’t States.
believe in living in it. y x : «1 BELIEVE 1 have visited and attend
in every state in the ones of getting a trousseau and
" ” os OTHON MET REGINA during lectured a tour of displaced persons camps, union,” he says.
“No
“I have also
the diehard isolationists they are made out to be.” “The.Princess is more interested in thedlogy and philosophy than world affairs. She's also experienced in domestic duties. During the war, she helped with the housework and raised vegetables for her family on their estate in Germany—which has since been confiscated. - ~ o = MARRYING the ex-heir to the ex-throne of Austria has not. excited her as much as it has excited the people of Nancy. “But,” she says, with a shy smile, “there was, of course, an incredible ,amount of details to to besides the ordinary for
being fitted my wedding
where she was a social worker. been to Central and South Amer- gown.”
With Lucas at the Front—
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Reporter Takes Back What He Said About Gls Riding to and From War
By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
back a lot of what I once wrote about this man’s
ON CENTRAL KOREAN FRONT, May. 3—I've got
to take Army.
1 said it was too road-bound and that it had too. many wheels.
Forget it.
I said it dug in at dusk and waited for dawn before it fought. I said it was soft, thaf it’ expected too many frills.
Things are different now.
‘Waste of Money'—
r Gls Now face oy v) Gls ror very oe V1CHM Of Budget Slash =
ithat rides out I'll show you four {that walk. Not just a couple of {miles either. Don't teil the Frst Battalion it's helpless without wheels. It came down the road last night, slogging along, tired and dirty, but with a lot of fight left in the men. Know They're Tough
Soft? The Chinese Communists don't think so. These men know
There's nothing soft about these past mistakes and wonder how they're tough. They've got to be boys. They're a hard, savvy bunch they could have been so naive.
of fighting men.
a GI ..recalled,
They fall back me when they're + forced, just as about 1600 feet high. they're falling “Remember.” back now. But
they've never § been beaten. % They never talk{™ about quitting. ’ Three - fourths gj of the officers¥; and half of the enlisted men in this outfit should
That was just
Mr. Lucas
they were
‘too high to climb.”
a few months
some
When they
tough to survive nine months in
| We're in an area where these Korea. They're not soft after livmen had been before, and this ing in the open, eating out of cans morning we. contemplated a hill'when they can eat at all, bathing
when they get a chance, marching ‘all day and all night, killing
“that's the hill we once thought other ‘men before they can kill
vou. Frills? Shelter, a half package
ago. Now, a wire team is laying of cigarets and maybe some clean a line to the top. Each man is socks. carrying 50 pounds of food. These men have scaled more twice as high. They fought see a Stars and Stripes? Many of for and held such hills. overwhelmed
They can't be burdened with more. How long since you saw a movie? When did you last
these men have never heard of the Kefauver Crime Investigating
|be home now if we went by the .ame down in. good order with Committee. They haven't seen a
rules. But no one's going to chase (pair gear. {them home. They wonder how it's |going to end — but they know {they'll be here until someone figures it out. Just a Little Sleep | Sure, they get tired. But give them one night's sleep, or even half a night and they're ready ‘again. { When forced back it's because there's not enough of them. Given a line ‘they could be expected to hold with the numbers they have and they'll ‘be here killing, Chinese . indefinitely. That's our trouble—there’'s not enough men like these. Sometimes we're lucky to have one stationed every hundred yards. These men
cent mood. “Back
book. . I've then.” -
They
learntéd the hard
along River,” he recalled, “I was full you would want. of pep and vjnegar. I was going short. I'll buy it hands down. to make a name for myself. I was/ going to do everyting by the learned a
A ‘road-bound’ men aren't /sticking to the high- 1p) _An ways. If there aren't any roads, capable of steering a ship by rethey take to trails. If there are no y,ate control from practically any trails, they make them. They're qp5t on board, has been develhalf mountain goats, these kids. sped by General Electric éngi- in every appropriation bill that fan out and coyer their neers. front as hest they can.-They climb Engineers pointed out that'the hills, wade streams. Wherever the instrument Chinese Reds can go they go too. practical in combat operations if hunters Often they. get there first. way. Now they look back at their, | Wheels? These men know how disabled by enemy fire.
The colonel was in a reminis-,
[USO show since they got out here. No one knows what's going to
' happen to this tough little army.
the Naktong
lot since
* Army? These
It's as tough and competent as Don’t sell it
New Device Steers Ship
By Remote Control
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., May 3 “electric - helmsman,”
could be »extremely
normal steering apparatus was
.
by radio the process until he is satisfied or} However, the keynote of the
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new devices will be oral-auditory, A final ‘version on-‘tape can be|practice in the form of imitation, repetition or controlled response during the first two semesters. of sn ® language study. it COMBINED DRILLS involving] Language writing and free cone more difficult skills,
tional study.
RO,
APARTMENT HUNTERS—Princess Regina -and Prince Othen. |
Raccoon Love Life Booklet
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| By United Press | WASHINGTON, May 3—Rep. Howard W. Smith, (D. Va.) protested that the Fish and Wildlife Service has wasted money investigating the ‘love affair” of two raccoons. The House immediately voted, 117 to 84, to reject the service's request for a $171,000 boost in funds for research on fish and animal wildlife. The action, subject to a later vote, knocked that amount out.of the Interior Department’'s $520 million appropriation for the 1952 fiscal year starting July 1. Administration leaders argued to no avail that the extra funds ; were needed for vital research : into declining fishery resources on the Pacific, New England, and the Gulf of Mexico. Accurate Account Rep. Smith said the service gave a complete and “accurate”; ,account of the love affair of two, raccoons in a booklet comparing
differences in thie size and shape of raccoon skulls found in Ala-| In today’s mail, he ; 1 the
bama and Florida. following letter Postmarist ated
“Presumably,” he said. “Some Washington, Ind.: Washington employee got into! «rnis js for my personal lone of the Interior Department's ;p.: was not paid because I %
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Honest Taxpayer; Never Assessed, . . Pa: Mails in Taxes =~ THERE'S AT LEAST one. scientious taxpayer in I but County Treasurer Rainier is-wondering who he
|4000 automobiles and drove sev- ,.¢ ggsessed.” rid ‘eral hundred miles to the swamp <Tphe envelope contained $3 to. watch the love affair. currency. 3 “He did describe it accurately.” sn 8, apse Rep. Smith said the raccoon, THERE was no name of re booklet and several others show address. s SIRE “an utterly silly, waste of money Treasurer Rainier i& al 0.
dering how the letter got to Jl comes before this Congress.” It was addressed to the Dw He said the “coon”. booklet County Treasurer, Washi would be of no benefit to raccoon!Ind. : oR “because every good coon Mr. Rainier said he w Munter 1 ever knew couldn't read ward the letter to his fel (or write.” : collector. «2 Ae