Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1951 — Page 26

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And

> Pure Guesswork—

A Merger

a Plan

By Henry Butler

and very sensi

THE recent

of Music with Butler Uni torium closer. This is pure guess work and not to'be taken as prophecy.

But with administrative channels between the two institutions

now cleared, the should be open for planning a building that ean greatly benefit bath Jordan College and the university as a whole, besides serving important community needs. From this column, it looks as if the principal problem is financial. Since there have been off-the-record ~ intimations that financial arrangements may prove easier than had been thought, it's fair to assume the whole problem

way

now

ig closer to solution than ever before. o o o \ FORTUNATELY for all con-

. ¢érned, we have two admirable

patterns ‘here in Indiana to consult and partly follow: Indiana University and Purdue. The IU auditorium and Purdue's Hall of Music both serve their respective communities as well as their campus population. They extend to the community at large the cultural resources of our present world, and do so in palatable, nonacademic fashion. They give Bloomington and Lafayette citizens opportuinties to see and hear attractions that could not otherwise be brought

in. Thus they serve almost as a department of university extengion.

hs z 2 ; THESE TERMS may sound dry, but they're important. The minute we embark on any enter-|

prise that seems to be offering think of how this dream auditor-|

competition with existing private! enterprise, we need to justify in| words the new venture. Criticism has been levelled at IU and Pur-|

road shows and thereby competing with private impresarios. The problem is not easy to analyze. Commercial management, which lacks a large student-sub-scription season-ticket audience, cannot always afford the risk of

it should be possible to define the functions of a new auditorium in such a manner as to avoid injuring private enterprise. 5 n o THAT LAST phrase is close to the heart of the entire high-class entertainment problem. Private enterprise does not and cannot sustain a major symphony orchestra or opera company. Since our American credo officially rejects subsidies, we have to invent ways and means of paying for opera and symphony, just as we do for the other arts. As I wrote in these pages a couple of years ago, Virgil Thomson, the New York Herald Tribune music critic then visiting the IU School of Music, proposed a tieup between music and education 80 as to by-pass the “road closed” sign on Subsidy Ave. You can get money for education easier than for music, Mr. Thomsen pointed |

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ble merger of Jordan College versity may ‘bring that Audi-

out. Certainly music and the enjoyment thereof are an important part of education. u = ou

LET'S SUPPOSE we could

really plan that audiforium for the Fairview campus. I have a site in mind, where the lay of

the land should make an adjacent outdoor theater easy to construct. That, incidentally, would solve once and for all the rain-out problem of Starlight Musicals, since any show could be brought indoors, if only with lighting and very sketchy scenery, at the last moment.) * 2 Class, practice and rehearsal rooms for Jordan, plus a little theater for Butler dramatics and small-scale Jordan operas, could be incorporated-into-the building. And the building could offer a permanent home for the Indian-

ipolis Symphony, which I think bia University Graduate School of would be one of its most impor- pi siyess. : tant functions. -Certainly the . . . bos symphony, with all the public Setting a maximum limit on school concertizing Fabien Se- rents during a period of rising invitzkv has done, is a vital ele- comes, Fisher found, naturally rement in local education. Individ- duces the proportion of tenant inually, many symphony members come spent on shelter and, conare leaders in their teaching sequently there is a shifting of fields. families into larger and better

Maybe we can really hope for a Symphony set-up similar to the one in Minneapolis, where the orchestra has headquarters on the

University of Minnesota campus,

giving its programs in the uniyversity’'s Cyrus Northrup Memorial Auditorium. ‘ The practical advantages to the city often have been cited. But

ium would enhance the prestige of Butler University and Jordan Col-

lege of Music. Right now, it looks to me like

competitive academic world. Loses Family Gold Fish While Out ‘Fishing’

Renato Pacini,

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MAENNERCHOR SOLOISTS—The trio of soloists who will appear with Clarence Elbert and the

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Indianapolis Maennerchor in the coming season are, left to right: James Pease, Indianapolis - born bass-baritone, Mar. 8, 1952; Polyna Stoska, Metropolitan Opera soprano, May 10, 1952, and Alice Howland, New York City Opera Co. mezzo-soprano, next Nov. 10. Mr. Elbert will hold auditions for new members of the Maennerchor from 7 p. m. tomorrow at the Athenaeum, prior to the regular

8 p.m. rehearsal.

Rental Housing

Cut by Controls

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (UP)— Rent [control has contributed in many ways to the nation’s shortage of rental housing, the Nationgl Bureau of Economie—Research disclosed today in a study by Dr. Ernest M. Fisher, Colum-

quarters and a rapid absorption especially in the better housing accommo-

of existing vacancies, dations.

ments under Fisher said,

(holds spreading out |adequate space.

many seek an housing standards.

| “Hence when the increase {income is widespread, space short-

Those who acquire new. apartsuch conditions, are newly formed families, newly established households, families “undoubling,” families migrating from one area to another, and families and houseinto more

Some may be seeking to redue on occasion for importingitheir best bet in an. increasingly duce the proportion of income “ |spent on rent but, Fisher found, improvement

Refused to Leave Her Side—-

PARIS, Sept. 8 (UP)

fused to be taken from the

child” throughout latives disclosed today. , The raven-haired dctress’

Maria Montez's Husband Broken Up by Her Death

- Jean- said. Pierre. Aumont, French actor hus- side the whole night and sat by ‘band of -exotic Maria Montez, re-

side

of his dead wife and wept “like a the night,

re-

body

was found floating nude in her

tub yesterday.

said the Aumont

to coax Jean-Pierre away

the room where his wife's lay on her bed.

In New Plane

were presumed dead. in

A close member of the family household passed a ‘‘terrible” night, trying

from body

“He is just beginning to realize the awful truth,” the relative

3 Believed Dead

Crash in Alaska

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. .8 (UP—An Air Force C-47 plane crashed and burned five miles southwest of here early today. One of the four crewmen aboard was found alive. The other three

The plane crashed and burned while on a routine training flight

from the base, Air Force officials

said. Rescue crews,

age seems likely to occur first ini40 niinutes after the crash.

| 3351 Guilford accommodations for middle bringing in big, important events. Ave., might not have turned up come groups. Concurrently, Here in Indianapolis, however, his nose at the little fish whilelcancies in the lowest rent gro

vacation fishing for the big ones, are likely to increase. However

in-

va- floodlight from the

had he known what was happen- as vacancies disappear in the mid- held.

ing back home.

|dle. rent ranges, occupancy

in-

including a helicopter team, reached the scene

The survivor ‘was spotted by a { helicopter. | ups His name and the names of the »lother crew members were with: 'indated almost entirely.

The crash brought to 13 the

He reported big ocean catchesicreases in both the higher and number of aircraft to meet dis-

around San Diego.

But he found lower rent ranges. The cheapest aster in Alaska since July 21. A

the family goldfish dead in the and least desirable &ccommoda- total of 95 persons are dead or

outdoor pond upon return. Pacini tions are ordinarily the last to missin

told police the fish apparently were poisoned. Mr. Pacini, his wife, and children, Sonia and Richard, had

been visiting Mr. Pacini’s brother-|

in-law, Dr. M. K. Braley, who

interned at the IU Medical Cen-| ter and is now with the Marines

at Camp Pendleton, Cal.

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“He refused to leave her and cried like a child.” " The Aumonts,» who had one child, frequently have been pic{ured as thé “happiest film family in. Europe.” News of her mother's death is being kept from tie. couple's daughter, 6-year-old Maria Christine. Relatives feared the shock might be too great for the- child who is in the ‘country on vacation. Police said that Miss Montez apparently suffered a heart attack from the scalding bath and then fell into the water and drowned. They said her death was accidental. | Her body was discovered by { her’ sister Anita who went to the | bathroom to call her to the telephone, The funeral will be Tuesday at the Church of St. Pierre de Chaillot in Paris. The body of the Dominican-born star will be temporarily placed in the Aumont family vault in Montparnasse cemetery and may later be transferred to the United States.

Fish Eating High KANAPOLIS, Kas, Sept. 8 (UP)—L. M. Herrington emerged from the Kansas floods with a

fish story. He reported that carps were eating mulberries {rom the tops of trees. The trees were in-

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10:05. . INDIANA “Jim Thrope, All-American,” with * Burt Lancaster and Phyllis Thaxter, at 12:30, 3:40, 6:50 and 10, wy Sir Mr. Bones,” at 2:29 5:39 8:49 . KEITH'S “Hers Comes the Groam,"” with i Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis | Sniith and Franchot Tone, at 1. 4 i

7 and 10 |

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with Mario 5:55, 8 and

“Varieties on Parade” at 3. 6 and | 9. | LOEW'S | “Pickup,” with Beverly Michaels i and Hugo Haas, at 1, 4, 7 and 10. | “Mask of the Avenger,” with John { Derek, at 2, 5 and 8 | “Cattle Drive,” with Joel McCrea and Dean Stockwell, at 11:30 | LYRIC i “D.0.A." with Edmond O'Brien | and Pamela Britton, at 12:05, 2°40, 5:15. 7:50 and 10:25 “Suicide Attack,” at 11, 1:35, 4:10, 8:45 and 9:20

Movies Have Cooled, Says Silent Star

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 (UP)—Francis X. Bushman, who calls himself “the oldest movie existence,” says ‘movies be tech- ge: perfect Ta there's the old

star in may nically now but none of fire left. «+The nation’s first matinee idol said actors nowadays ‘‘overdo the underplaying.” “The directors think everything else is corn,” he oa said. Mr. Bushman ~ “Now an actor says without changing expressions, ‘Hello, dear, Mother's dead'.” “In the oid days,” the fiery lover -of the silent flicker continued, “we gave it lots of feeling, hreast-beating and arm waving.” “We used to get so mad at each other in the silent movies we'd curse all thé time: Lip readers used to write in and ask, do you

(have to say that, Mr. Bushman?’ ”

The onetime owner of ‘the world’s handsomest face” is 68’ now but he’s still a rugged 170 pounds, Bushman has bowed to time in only one respect—his hair and eyebrows are tinted red. “White hair doesn’t show up on television,” he explained.

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Red Cross Care of Sick

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