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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

TAKE NOTE of this name, Ttops. - It's: the name of a new,organization you're going to -be hearing about. To grow an outfit needs ‘connections and this one hoasts plenty. With hat in hand, I wandered. into the second official meeting of the ladies who operate private telephone switchboard exchanges. They met in the second floor dining room of The Famous Door: Elbow room was at a premium’. Mrs. Mary Swaim, president of Itops (Indianapolis Telephone Operators Personality Service), was concerned over the turnout, She was expecting 50 operators, at the most, and Secretary Mrs. Ann Endicott had checked in 92. . “How dld all this get started?” T asked, while brushing aside a feather and removing a purse from the small of my back. You get the same effect on a bus at 5 in the evening. Mrs. Swaim got the idea for bringing PBX operators together last September. She made a few connections and talked up the idea for getting recognition for women who indirectly keep:business and industry and the community humming. The response was electrifying. ‘ . “h Bb. ob SHE FEELS that not enough attention is given fo a girl when she is hired to operate a switchboard. PBX operators get the impression that the prime requisite for an operator is that she breathes and after she is hired keeps on breathing. Mrs. S8waim pointed out that their profession is worthy “of the notice and respect of all other professions?’ When a man picks up his phone

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: PBX OPERATORS—From small connections ;grow big things and switchboard girls want the ‘public to know they're around.

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and dials a business firm rumber and the service is smooth, he seldom gives a thought to the one responsible, the PBX operator. The girls don’t mind being the unnoticed welcome mats and there are 600 switchboard welcome mats in the city. “They do chafe some when their

his contact with the guy who crawled out of bed on the wrong side, persons who have only the vaguest idea of what they want, callers who think their desires are the most important in the world, ~bores and cranks. -= Through it all, the PBX operator has no defense, can't talk back, is always wrong, “If a vetefan operator had a nickel for every ‘time she suffered verbal abuse, she could Tetire with. a solid gold switchboard,” laughed Mrs, Swaim. Anyone who is even slightly familar with a switchboard knows and caw appreciate what they're up against. The operator can give a firm a black eye quicker than anyone even when the circumstances are beyond her control. Callers forget, however, when roses are in order, ‘ W db cd THE GIRLS are finally attempting to raise themselves by their telephone cords. Mrs. Swaim weltomed 17 operators to the first meeting. In October 65 showed up. ‘Today 101 operators are listed in Treasurer Mrs. Nellie Carey's book. Meetings include dinner and a terrific amount of chatter. At regular intervals girls have a mild case of hysterics when they come face to face with a friend they have known for years only by voice and location. New members get 10 rules of Itops. They are: 1--I will not. plug out my calls. 2—T will be well aroomed and neat. . 3—I will keep my switehboard neat. 4—I will use a memo pad and not trust my memory. 5—-I will always remember that courtesy and cheerfulness are essential at all times. 6—I will never talk of confidential ‘matters entrusted to me. 7—I will not listen in, 81 will. not lose my temper. 9—If I make a mistake I will readily admit-it and try to correct it. 10—By observing the rules noted above, I will make-of my job a prefessicn worthy of the notice and respect of all other professions. I heard one operator add to Rule 8. not lose my temper with the key up.” Mrs. Carey collects dues at the rate of 25 cents a month. The ladies already voted a modest sum for the Polio Fund. At each meeting they pass around a jar for loose pennies which will be

! ~ Spinnin recognition comes after someone stubs his toe. - After all, they're only human. : > : 3 Durifig the course of ‘a day, the PBX operator, U e i Y * ) .

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Christmas. "In their efforts to improve themselves, they

are thinking of others and having fun besides. Pretty healthy combination. . Have you checked your telephone. personality lately? Your PBX operator is checking hers, P. 8. to Itops: XXXX. ,

It Happened Last Night Lice Audrey Wanis

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Feb. 2—“I want to get married,” announced this Audrey Hepburn you've been reading about. I managed an ‘Oh, really”? . And then an equally brilliant “Why”? I had been‘privileged to take the electrifying, exciting and beautiful 22-year-old Belgian-born actress to dinner. “Well,” she exclaimed in answer to my latter question, “I think it's a great waste of time NOT to be married to James.” “James is James Hanson. He's 29, the son of Robert Hanson, London trucking magnate who also has branches in Canada. “He’s that nice?” I said. “We met at a party last summer—and was I lucky.” a Audrey, whom many call Little Audrey, -although she's wonderfully educated and certainly not stupid like the Little Audrey of Americana, s{opped eating to hug herself. She looked around the dining room at Sardis, at Gertrude Lawrence and June Havoe, enviable women who are already

married. <>» oo Bh «] KNEW I wanted to marry him the first day I met him,” she confessed. “It was love at first sight—for me. We became formally engaged here.” : “And now?” I asked. For Love's Young Dream can still give all of us a tingle. “80,” she continued, “I want to get married. I don't want to wait. The time to wait is when you're not sure. But once you find him—and are sure—grab him!” x ¢ Ladies and gentlemen, the candor expressed above by the young lady in love, is perhaps a clue to her success on the stage in the French

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SKEPTICS, however — people who may not care for love second-handed—possibly will grunt, “Well. she wants to get married, so why don’t the dame get married?” It’s ~hecause “Gigi” seems set for a lengthy rin, and because little Audrey wants to have a “proper marriage”—honeymoon and all that — so whataya gonna do? “If the play doesn’t-last too long, I may be able to wait,” she said. “But I don’t think I'll be able to hold out too long.”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Feb. 2—We may as well give

“ip, Tt certainly: seéms;-on-erime-and. punishment...

as applicable to Miss Judith Coplon, the homegrown spy, who has successfully :ducked a long prison term for coming up to three years. Now, the siddle-shoed Mata Hari from Brooklyn has just heard the glorious tidings that the Supreme Court won't touch he with a 10-foot tort

for sometime, if not forever. There is no doubt that the little clerk worked with Valentine Gubitchev, a Russian en- § gineer, who was employed ‘by AJ the United Nations. Both got nabbed by the FBI, and Judy stood trial twice, to be con- p= : = vieted twice. Both she an d = 3 Gubitchev got 15 years. Instead } A EER of shooting the Russian, or socking him away in the freezer, we let him trickle back to the Soviet

with a basket of bon voyage fruit. JUDY'S freedom rests on a technicality. One court said her guilt was as obvious as a poke in the eye, but that her arrest was made under illegal conditions. The other court said her arrest was okay, but she rated a new day in court, if she could prove that the FBI built at least a portion of the case via tapped wires. In neither conviction “was there indication of actual innocence of intent, or action by the fair Judith. So here you have the unusual situation involving a clearly defined domestic spy, which is to say traitor, who 4s caught dirty-handed by the law, while in cahoots with a foreign agent, her guilt is never in doubt, only the technicalities: of her apprehension keep her free to serve as an object lesson of democracy at work. She has married, while out on bail, and, last I heard, was about to become a mother. If these be the wages of sin—and I cannot think of a more dreadful sin than treason—then we must be asking for abuse, when the opposition catches some of our people with the wrong papers i

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IT IS impossible to grow very indignant about Judy's partnet in espionage, because Gubitchev was merely performing as a loyal member of his From the standpoint of high patriotism, a spy is a valiant servant of his fatherland, since he bets his life for his country. "I presume we have our. own people asking questions and sneaking blueprints in strange places—I hope so, anyhow. en A But we should have jailed Gubitchev, and from

--To Get Married

“you want the play to be a flop so you can get married?” I inquired. ; “Oh, NO. In Europe, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a girl. To go to Broadway. But . ..I want to get married.” By a quaint coincidence, Miss Hepburn, who is positively NOT a relative of Katherine Hepburn’s, unless very distant, wants to get married in “Gigi.” - And her mother, grandmother and other lady kinfolk never heard of such nonsense, inasmuch as they live in France. < de a THE FIRST time I saw her, she was barefoot, in her dressing room, on opening night. “I'm always barefoot. It’s a habit, you know,” she said now. “People who come back generally say, ‘We enjoyed your show. Put some shoes on.' “I walk barefoot around the house, too. Everywhere.” I confessed to her that my Beautiful Wife and Gorgeous Mother-in-Law also go barefoot, but that I'd never heard of it being fashionable before, “You know,” she said, “I've been told many, many things about New York but never that it i= beautiful. Don’t you agree that that's talked about rather little? “There’s a beautiful light all. over the city about 5 in the afternoon. It’s a wonderful celor,”

Andrey went on. > & $

“AREN'T you thinking of the light above the marquee of your theater where you name is up?” I said. “No, no. In London when you, get to a third floor you're rather high up, and you just look out on another dreary building. Here you seem to have a wonderful view everywhere.” Audrey, who's already been to New Haven and Philadelphia, is. thus more traveled than many native New Yorkers. She is also signed for Hollywood—but she wants most to see San Fran-

cisco. We walked to the theater, right to her dress-

ing room. “This is the most exciting appointment I've had today,” she said with great enthusiasm. '. I felt good about that as I walked away . . . till I remembered she'd said, “I've spent the whole day at the dentist,” —That’s Earl, brother.

Believes Judy Coplon Pulled a Fast One

forethought 'of the penalty involved, and is altogether a cynical, callous crime for personal gain

or evil principle.” Coplon Knew witat she Was They “hacked $40,000 oft

doing, and why. “>

A WILFUL traitor actively contemplates. or’ inactively condones mass murder, in the thousands and even millions, of his own people. A traitor is a potential murderer and jailer of his .whole land, sinee every little piece of sedition con- - tributes to the net plan of eventual overthrow. That is the way you have to see Judith Coplon to make her worthy of a drastic sentence—not as a silly girl who got sucked into a foreign government’s web of intrigue, but as a vicious purposeful enemy of her own nation. And now we have patted her on the head for permanent, it seems, as the Supreme Court refuses the Department of Justice's request for a further trial. of a twice-convicted spy. I doubt if she will serve her sentence, or even stand be-fore-another jury. She goes free as an advertisement that our home-grown benevolence condones high treason. And Gubitchev went back to advertise the softness of our country in dealing with foreign espionage agents. ob SH IN THE MEANTIME, to show the growing contemp# of our softness, we have had Robert Vogeler, newsman Bill Oatis, and a crew of American fliers imprisoned for ransom by the satellites. We have a great record to date. We don’t jail our own traitors, we turn loose other people’s spies, and we meekly pay ransom for our own imprisoned nationals abroad. .It makes you just a little bit sick.

Dishing the Dirt

Bu Marguerite Smith

Q—Please suggest some.flowers for shade. I have a flower bed where only early jonquils and tulips have so far done well. A few phlox did survive last’ summer. We've filled in with violets but

a ‘I do want some color here and there in it. No “name, please. Broadway. 2

A—Tuberous rooted begonias are the ideal , flowers for color and really gorgeous bloom in shade. But they take a bit of doing. (You might send -for THE TIMES free leaflet on how to raise them. Be sure to inclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.) Easier flowers would include daylilies or hemerocallis. A collection of these, well-chosén, would bloom all summer. The. fragrant white August ° lily, also confusingly called daylily though it’s’ nota hemerocallis, does very well in shade. Also all its close relatives—some of t with lavender flower spikes instead of white. If

a standpoint of high moral indignation, we might |, violets grow in this spot you may ‘be sure that

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justifiably have shot little Judy ‘from Brooklyn. ‘pansies and the closely related but smaller flow-

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By HENRY BUTLER Times Staff Writer

FT. WAYNE, Feb. 2—

an already small budget,

and the orchestra still lives.

That's the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic story in the past few seasons. Even a small (63 musicians) semi-professional orchestra like this can develop financial trou.bles as vexing as those of a first - class professional symphony. « °° When Igor Buketoff came to Ft. Wayne a couple of seasons ago to liead the orchestra. the Philharmonic was operating on a more than $100,000 budget and winding up each season in the red. : YWe had to establish a realistic budget for the size of this

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gon,” Mr. Buketoff told me last Tuesday. “You have no idea how much better it is to face a board meeting when the treasurer calmly assures everyone the budget really is working.” After being thrown temporarily for a loss and threatened with’ extinction, the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic pulled itself together. It's going to have to

work slowly back towards the... .

plush days wheh donations were bigger.

aa 8 0 “PLUSH DAYS” for the Philharmonic meant annual expenditures of as high as $16,000 for musicians imported from Chicago: and Indianapolis - for . big events. ‘In fact, I recall one quite impressive - performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony conducted by Hans Schwieger - in April,- 1948 which used a delegation of 12 of Fabien Sevitzky’s musicians, plus an equal number from Chicago. This season’s outlay for importéd musicians will be around

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for ope viola, one double-bass - and. two. second. violins, the lat- § ter four absent on sick leave.

from the regular local force. The budget for soloists used to run about $10,000 for a total of six subscription concerts (not pairs. of concerts), A couple of seasons ago, Mr. Buketoff found himself able to pay $1000 for all soloists. wheedled and coaxed former associates in the Juilliard School. to come out for “peanuts” and help the season through. They got mostly rave notices, and consequent boosfs in their own careers: The experiment convinced him that “name” artists, except'the ones atop the publicity pyramid, do little to help an ‘orchestra like the Ft. Wayne, And top ones cost too much. . ” ~ ” MR. BUKETOFF is realistic. He's: had-to grapple with tradition even: in the nationally publicized New York Philharmonic’s children’s concerts, where his experiments with illuminated charts showing the progress of sonata form in the course of a symphony drew attacks in the letter columns of the New York Times. “It fascinated the kids, like the pinball idea,” he said, describing the on-off lights in different colors showing just where the orchestra was in Haydn's “Surprise” Symphony. By the end of the season, the youngsters in Carnegie Hall took a whole Mozart Symphony-—no talk, no- interruptions -and no restlessness. Stuffy-minded critics wrote to the papeis condemning “this device.” One woman particularly raised such a fuss that the

New York Philharmonic board

“of directors invited her to a meeting. At the meeting, she admitted ‘she had never Aattended one of «the young people's concerts. ‘ : That anecdote drew from Mr. Buketoff and his Ft. Wayne orchestra manager, 26-

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music. Tuesday they took Gyorgy Sandor, their piano soloist for the evening, and me to late lunch in a hash-house near the Philharmonic’s wonderful, frowsy old walk-up offices. In amiable Hungarian accent, Mr. Sandor said, “I must eat some meat. I have to play tonight’ “Bring him a thin piece,” Mr. Buketoff said; “then he won't play so fast.” Mr. Hall's contribution to the confab was the idea of getting Mr. Sandor to play Ravel's Concerto for Left Hand Alone; so as to cut the fee in half. . “What'll I do with the right ‘hand?’ Mr. Sandor asked. “We'll give you a big yo-yo, with ‘Saye the Orchestra’ painted on it,” Mr. Hall said. That kind of comedy, plus friendly salutations to every third person on the street, seems to delight Ft. Wayners. Popular support steadily grows. The Philharmonic i= only 200 seats short of a soldout series (Quimby Auditorium seats 2080). And contributions come: in, like the ‘unsolicited $100 from a woman who asked them to use the money to buy children’s concerts tickets for ‘Negro children. . * ‘With no subsidy from city or school system, the orchestra has to charge 50-cent admissions to its children’s series in Concordia College auditorium. ~ EJ ” «ta THE “FT. WAYNE PLAN" of finding "industrial employment for capable musicians is not new. It works pretty well ina city like Ft. Wayne (labelled the nation's “happiest city” in some recently publicized . surveys). Industry can find jobs for orchestra personnel, even take care of the approximately 25 per cent dnnual’ turnover. +.» Only the Afirst-chair string

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quartet of the Philharmonic are paid full time. Their duties include rehearsing of their sections, teaching of scholarshipaward winners in the Ft. Wayne Musical Society's long - range program for discovering and training local talent, and doing considerable music-appreciation work in the public schools, in which Mr. Buketoff joins. The rest of the orchestra are paid for’ “services.” Those who need jobs, like imported play-* ers of difficult instruments, are placed.

Besides the subscription series, the Philharmonicégives two pop concerts, two. childfén's concerts and a series of tour concerts ‘by the Sinfonietta, a 27-piece nucleus of the main orchestra, which plays concert dates throughout the Ft. Wayne region. “Coffée Concerts,” modified string-quartet “pops” with coffee and refreshments, have proved a big success in the Ft.

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seum. Mr. Buketoff hopes gradually to extend the PRilharmonic's services to the com+ munity as demand grows. “We haven't anywhere near reached the satuuration point for music here,” ‘he observed.

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TUESDAY NIGHT'S concert was a revelation to me. Mr. Buketoff seems to have built greater precision and technical morale in the orchestra than it displayed under the previous regime. ; For a near-capacity house in Quimby Auditorium, Mr. Buketoff and the orchestra started the program ‘with a very impressive performance . of the Leg Weiner transcription of the Fugue in C—a tough job even ; for the best professionals.

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for the Matinee Musicale) as soloist, ‘Mr. Buketofff led the: orchestra through the fastest performance, in spots, of the: Rachmaninoff Paganini Rhaps- = ody Pve ever heard. It would have been enough to make the New York Philharmonie neigh: and rear up. The Ft. Wayners: did nobly. “Give them some-: thing like that, and the rest of the repertoire seems like pie,” Mr. B.. explained to me: afterwards. r : v Orchestra soloists whe: struck me as especially good. included George Blossdm, first oboe, who works days as a _ milkman (the second oboe, Gilbert Kellberg, is a Jordan’ College of Music product, as” is also Patricia Dunten, ex-: cellent as first flute); Gideon: Grau, the new concertmaster; Phyllis Henning, first clarinet; Otto Eichel, first bassoon, and’ Robert Schlatter, first horn. Mr, Schlatter hails from Ine: diana University music school, > “.

y = = g ALL THIS ACTIVITY, ser-: fous in rehearsals and concerts, : hilarious in moments off," grows from Mr. Buketoff’s con-: viction about big and smallZ’ cities. .“The only future for= musicians -is in smaller com-" munities,” he said. The 37-year-old native New. Yorker grows earnest on this: point. “It's pathetic what's go-= ing on in New York—so many: fine musicians out of work,”

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