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TIIE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1041 i mi mum )iiiiiijh yim. i j.i a i mm i i i 1 ii mM Hi, ii ml I I mkQki Uarron AuatUolah JoaiMvaossvu, Pot FANayfti tfOMtfi nJ2A I I I 1 1 1 I I I I I -V 1 1 fourth cello, you there, you are playing loud, forte. Incase! It must be piano." Tha fourth cellist stood up. "But -J eacuse me, Maestro Verdi, my part la forte." Whereupon the composer asked him to bring tip hla part and ha would ahow hji. Tha cellist atepped forward.

But ha waa tha on to do tba ahowlng. Tha muaie waa written forte and BY AIJtA LDBIX. new Tonic NOW living In New York City la a former manager of Toacanlnl. Ha waa manager for the Italian conductor abroad before the daya of hia flnt meteoric visit, to tha United Statee. From him one can learn aomethlng of that early period, tha time when Toacanlnl first rame back to Italy from hla aenaatlonal debut In Mouth America.

dot piano. Verdi emlled when ha aaw tha young man waa right. Graciously ha apologised for his mistake, aaylng "Bravo and what Proclaimed aa auch an extraor dinary talent. It waa eaay enough ia your name?" "Arturo Toacanlnl" tha cellist told him. a a One la Inclined to take tha In- only up to that moment when the real Toacanlnl began to show lUelf.

At each opera house where ha waa engaged ha would aonn atart a clean-up campaign. And hot-hearted aa tha young man waa, no amount of talent could make up for the to procure conducting engagementa for him in tha smaller citiea. Thia Waa true In the beginning. But yl 2 a. Lj poa gAfflry 47 CATmlFDOiE Loo u-r uoute.

8 rtu.v hills atrumcnta of today'a symphony orchestra as a matter of course. We know that manychangea took place Calling All Dancer Thriller Philadephians i to the also been confirmed In the examples science haa encountered Pt amnesia and aimilar. afflictions' With Artist Scries In their development, along with a ateady atream of adjusting which went on to bring tha body of the orcheatia Itaelf to Ha present aet-ii p. But wa alwaya assume that thia period of flux waa a thing of the psit. Iran at rMn ararr Continued From Preceding Page.

who hava administered metrazole to patienta suffering from dementia praecox in tha attempt to restore When the Philadelphia Symphony SUNDAY, SKIT. 7TII lame pipmlmr artr ana snllrlra tmtt mumm. Mark Uw dl. high-handed methoda ha meted out to any and every one. I No toea were too Important to be 'stepped on.

Out with a prima donna who waa the special favorite of the Impreaarlo, Toacanlnl made objection, to tha clumay stage d-! port men aa taught for the lant 20 years by tha atage director. And 'heaven help tha lazy orchestra i which waa making foolish miatakea from aheer Indifference or from boredom. I Countless were thene waya by miuiiuienwa oy toaa memory. Dr. Small cited a recent instance of a professor who came back to reality months after1 an attack of amnesia to discover that In the meantime he had been working as a confectioner in a small community without any consciousness of hia own past.

Until wa bump Into aomethlng to Orchestra comes to Music Hall on October 30 to open tha season's remind ua otherwise. One of the trombone playera of the New York them from a mental region of dis Artist Series it will ba the first visit of that orchestra ever paid to this ordered unreality, hava observed SENSATIONAL 2- Philharmonic la an Italian. Thirty-five yeara ago he waa playing In an the agony with which the transition is accomplished. After he had FLOOI SHOW city. Tha Philadelphia Orchestra ranka with tba beat in tha world damika tim.

a. orr momv seen tha Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pro opera orchestra under Toacanlnl In Italy. At that time, ha aaya, the trombone uaed throughout hia coun duction of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. IB HOLIDAY CIUIRATION today.

Cincinnati's Indirect interest in the orchestra Ilea in tha fact that it waa to Philadelphia that Leopold Hyde," Dr. Small of the paychiatric try waa a quite different Instru department of New York Hospital, SHARON WOODS, Fishing, golfing, and t-oat rides will continue at tha Sharon Worn! a forest playgrounds for several weeks more. ment. ii i i IHalr ad liuft Stokowskl betook himself in 1912 said that Spencer Tracy'a agoniz to bail In her make-up by the middle of the eecond act. There are undeniably serious blemishes on the art of playgoing, and yet cling to the notion that they are outweighed for moat playgoers by tha pleasures of the drama in summer relaxation.

I do not prefer it myself, for in its fullest flower the theater aeem to be an urban Institution, dedicated to winter evenings. But here It is, and here, I Imagine, it has come to stay. That is why it may ba time for tha atraw hat managers to do more to win the confidence, not of the aummer audiences, for they have that, but of the theater folks. I have heard even tha stara complain that they do not get auitable treatment; that the pay lan't enough, and that tha working conditions and living conditiona are poor. But I am not thinking of them, for I hava not often heard a atar expressing satisfaction with anything.

I am thinking of the youngatera who annually fling themselves Into the aummer theatera, really for love of the theater, and in an effort to get the practical experience Broadway denies to tha beginners. I have heard their tales of woe, and I hope that tha aummer theater will get around to doing aomethlng about them, They are young men and women who take jobs in tha straw hat after having aerved three yeara aa conductor of tha Cincinnati orches tra. And, as a matter of coinci dence, tha coming aeaaon is the ing change from Jekyll to Hyde and vice, versa waa not unlike the physical and mental symptoms exhibited by patienta who hava been injected with metrazole. Such patienta, Dr. Small aaid, corqe to dread tha needle by which the drug ia administered aa much as Dr.

SEPTEMBER MORN firat one since that time that Stokowakt'a name does not appear which the young Toacanlnl quickly made a place for himxelf aa a nonconductor, Before anyone quite knew what had happened the gifted conductor waa without a position. Only with difficulty could he procure even a post aa cellist, hla former capacity In an orchestra. Ha waa engaged at LaSrala, the Milan Opera House (playing not tha firat but tha fourth atand cello!) when V-rdl, leading Italian composer of the day, came to conduct. Tha world premiere of hla new opera "Flaataff waa to be given, and aa tt nested tha opening day, Verdi came to take over tha re-hearaal himself. aa conductor of that organization.

ALL-STAR REVUE Starttat Monday, Oatarlac Gail Parker Jekyll cams to dread hla Irresistible Eugene Ormandy ia now tha aole musical director of tha orcheatra and It ia he who will conduct the concert to ba given bera In the Artiat Series. vial. raturdat, arrr. inn day nonon AND ORCHESTRA n-ooa show MINIMUM rRAROR IIH Sopi, I IMIItRV RVRNR 11 'A I IK aHAW In tha ease of modern science, of The Devil Another novelty In the aerlea. course, Stevenaon'a process ia reversed.

Science's aim haa been to change the ill into well-being by tha use of analysis and drugs. Stevenaon'a aim waa to demonstrate man's weakness in the fight the Virgin and one which will be considerably off tha beaten path, will be tha appearance of Salvatore Baccaloni, Everything went smoothly. Then Italian basao, and hia supporting auddenly Verdi stopped the orchestra. "No, no, no. Yon are all playing right," he shouted, "all but offe.

LOOK WHO'S COMING! Hia customary diet ia ice cream and hot biacuita for breakfast, lea cream for lunch, and lea cream and ateak for 'dinner. Ha tried to enlist for the Spanish-American War, but waa turned down. So ha went along anyway aa an unofficial aoldier. three yeara ago in New York he celebrated hla alxtieth birthday by dancing backwarda 80 blocks down Broadway. Everybody calls him Bojangles, but no one knows what th word meana or where it came from.

Ha waa christened Luther, but when ha waa 8 ha gave hia brother Bill a beating and took Bill'a name away from him. In return he gave hia brother tha name of Percy. Hia full name Is Bill Robinson. Ha was last seen lie re a year and a half ago in cloth of gold and the title role of tha Hot Mikado. He's tha world's greatest tap dancer, and he'll headline the new revue opening Tuesday at Lookout Houae, see RENDEZVOUS REVUE: Helen Kane will bring four little words valued at 1250,000 to the Glenn Rendezvous Friday.

They're "Boop-boop-a-doop." At leaat that'a tha price Helen aet back In I34 when aha aued Movie Cartoonist Max Fleischer, charging that Max'a Betty Boop stole the Kane singing atyle Aa soon as Ijk Boop and the new revile take over, Bobby Pine, the riotous raacal who emoeea tha ahow now running, will hit for New York to take a part In a forthcoming George easel production. AROUND AND ABOUT. Tomorrow the Jensens, a comedy dance team, will join Singer Lillian Barnea and Emcee Burt Nolan In the revua at tha Primrose Country Club, where the Polmar Girls, In white satin and a purple spot, atage a production you shouldn't miss. Ina Ray Hutton, who'a just aa nice to look at aa her band is to listen to, will bring it to Castle Farm Saturday Thai September Morn Revue, starring Gail Parker and a plethora of pulae- against the evil within him. Dr.

company a program of the high spots of several operaa In which he baa appeared with auch unaual auc- Chlquita's MarloMHtt TIN DlslrUht Thia passage la aoft, and that Tkm Mirseii Shmit in Ins Middle (Tail playhouses, at "salaries" of ten or Jekyl could no more resist becoming Mr. Hyde for tha night' than tha drunkard or the dope fiend can resist tha glaaa or the tablet Science endeavora to restore the ceas. Tha Idea ia to preaent those fifteen dollars a week and, hava to ba glad to get them, for fear that soma dilletante, tha aon, daughter, Watching a trumpet player today we laymen are Interested to watch tha way hia fingera press down on button-like keye (the trumpeter calls them to produce tha different tonea. Quite differently tha trombonlat will make hia tonea by eliding a long curved tuba In. and out.

The trumpet ia called a valve Instrument, the trombone, a elide. But thia trombonlat aaya that 85 yeara ago ha played hla trombone in just tha aama way as the trumpeter playa hia trumpet today. Tha trombone then had valvea to press down for tha different notes. Until Maestro Toacanlnl heard about tha new allda trombones which had appeared In Germany. Orchestras were beginning to uae tha inatrumenta exclusively, ao tha Italian conductor Investigated their possibilities.

Ha became convinced of tha superiority of tha new allde trombone. One day Toacanlnl made an announcement. Ha told hla trombone playera that tha coming aeaaon they muat procure tha new allde inatrumenta, that henceforth only that variety would ba played in his orchestra. Pandemonium set In. First of all there were difficulties In procuring tha new trombones.

They had to be ordered from Paris, which 35 years ago, waa not ao easy to communicate with aa It la today. Worse, thia trombonlat found that to learn tha new elide technique was aa big an undertaking aa to master an entirely new Inatrument. To achieve thia In the few months of the vacation period, ao that they scenes in which Baccaloni appears to tha best of advantage. While they hava not yet been officially 7L Sennallonal New STARLITE GARDEN Dancing Nightly at 9 LOU IREESI ORCHESTRA FOOD SHOW NOW Vrivll At I normal mental life to those whose minds hava a tendency dangerously determined upon, tha program will FRANK AND MAY STAWLff CUFF HALL MICKEY KINS Margie Vail, M.C. CAT FIDDLE Ccetral Ave.

at Ueeala rark tMie Tonight and All Week BRYANT'S SHOWBOAT presents "THE PRICE SHE PAID" lltlS p. 25-SSc. Call PA 91 It nephew or niece of a patron, will do tha aama thing for nothing. I hava had many sadly disillusioned lettera from them. Soma of them have wound up driving station wagons on casual errands and have never had a lick of stage experi Include acenea from tha "Daughter of tha Regiment," "Tha Marriage of Figaro," "Don Paaquale," and several othera.

Never before In the to rely upon tha dream world of their Tha dual personality theme which Stevenson uaed ao effectively In "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" has hlatory of Grand Opera in thia ence or training to make up for tha shortage in tha weekly pay. country has ao great a aucceaa been made by an opera buffo aa Bac it seems to me that the aummer swim Dine onncE caloni made last aeaaon at tha Metropolitan Opera. Not since the coming of Fiagatad was there auch a aenaatlon aa thia comedian created, the reaaon being that he waa theatera, now that they are settled aa a commercial inatitution, dedicated to business, if not art, ought to do better.

They are about the only training achoola in real experi CHILDREN'S THEATRE Rcha Gill Borland, In charge Dramatic Training, Reading, Pantomime, for children 1 to If yeara of age CINCINNATI CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC For complete information or appointment call Registrar Highland Ave. and Oak St, Telephone AY on 780 a comedian and also a fine ainger, which combination ia rare. ence the theater has left, and if primrose (t country club Only 2 FIREWORKS CARNIVAL AN AERIAL CIRCUS 1 thnmm a 4 ao a. m. tha theater doesn't look out for Still another newcomer in the ae Danra in Mimnlile Garden them Broadway can't do it, or at any rate it doesn't do it.

The old repertory companies have gone. Competition ia too keen, and other mediums are too interesting for the theater to ait back and ignore its rlea ia Jarmila Novotna, the beautiful lyrio aoprano of the Metropolitan, whose aucceaa on the concert ataga haa even aurpaaaed her aucceaa In opera. AIMVmitlllnord. rente ettl ant Ruos Morgan 1 could please an exacting task-; master Ilka Toacanlnl, waa almost Then, to round out tha series, MARIAN LaCOUR STUDIO OF DANCING Gncinnati Conservatory of Music REGISTRATIONS NOW BEING TAMEST Classes atart September Ballet, Toe, Tap, Acrobatic Modern, Character Dancing, Children's Classes AVon 7800 I Beginners, ir It doesn't create a new generation of stage artists- two auch favorites as Rachmani Lillian Barnit Bid Nolan See The Folmur Olrla actors, playwrights, designers, and yea, producers it will have a hard ana umNm AsmlMlnn. Ilki dart, tail DeHrlims Dtimrn, it I.W Island Queen Lean tn.

Broadway si It a lise, 10:111 p. m. noff, who haa not hla peer among musicians today, and Ezio Plnza, tha foremoat of bassos, will appear. Tha datea of tha concerts are aa time finding playgoers of tha neg beyond human powers. Nor could a teacher be found.

The men of hla aection wrote the Parla house which had aold them their Inatrumenta. They asked that they be aent a book of inatructlons on how to play the allda trombones. By fall progress waa made. But aoma dtfficultlea still re qulckeners Introduced by a lected ace. Root Mrhtn, Plkn, Newport, Ry.

HanM Martu, Mfr. Margie vail, will open tomorrow at follows; Philadelphia Symphony Any living Inatitution oueht to be ame to afford ita own future. Orchestra Thursday evening, October 30; Ezio Plnza, November IT; STUDIOS PEP the Cat and Fiddle Club Like Tha Enquirer's newa sources, Walt Paper King Martin Rosen-herger la quicker than the United States mail. Ha returned from Rachmn-ilnoff, January 12; No votna, February 9, and Baccaloni, March Tha Philadelphia Orches mained to be overcome only with time. Meanwhile, thia one player hit on a scheme.

For the major playing he would use hla new elide. NEW SHOW opens rmiDAV. ar.rT. i Glenn Schmidt present Alaska a week ago last night. Some FALL OPENING SATURDAY, SEPT.

6, for all classes in dancing, drama, voice, piano, and ballroom. Training for adults, children, and babies Special Diteaunt Days, September 2, 3, 4, and 5. Downtown Avondale Branch 1 X. W. Comer aik ant Mala Streets M8 Dana Are.

Musicians of high school age and tra concert takea place in Music Tha othera take place in Taft Auditorium. of the alower fellows still were getting post cards from him, Wednes younger will be presented in a pi PAT day Beg Pardon Department: ano recital on this afternoon by CHerrr Sloe. rnoa university But for certain tricky technical passages he would fall back on his finger valves. He engaged an Instrumental mechanic to alter the new trombone. It had both a slide Mary Jo Andris, Oakley, Cincinnati, Wednesday this column relayed word from Count Baale'a New York press agent that the Basie band Welsh Drama and Helen Phllllpe, Bellevue, in a joint program at McAuley Hall, would be at Greystone ballroom Our Lady of Cincinnati College, Vic and a few valvea inserted in the top.

tory Parkway. The following Cin Continued From Preceding Paga. that night. Something went haywire with Ita road achedule, and It ROONEY Prinre of Danring CARROL KINO 101 mi TINT I0BIT PINE and RUTH FOSTER WALLY WANOER DANCER CHRIS CHRISTENSEN cinnati children will participate: greatest succeas, will, with all its dp Annette Wubboldlng, Anna Ruede, Avon's Bard wasn't as a number of disappointed readers know. We're just as sorry as they are Gretchen principal playera, be seen Francis Staubitx, Dorothy Mae Paul Lukas's performance of Kurt Schulte, Nancy Reilly, Billy Ewan, Palen, who was in the last skate and Mary Ellen Bartlett, Vera Holz, spectacle at the Netherland Plaza, Muller, the play'a hero, waa last jrar cited aa the beat of the yee.r in New York, and the charactecza- Mutt 4 IttwtM NURlltM Mi MIMIalawi Park Oiin Thraueh Saptinbir 7 anal.

His Society (hchflra Janet Lloyd, Donald Hoebbel, Jo Ann Hendrickson, and Jeannine has joined the current Star-Span gled Ice Revue there. ti of Luclle Wat aon, Mady Phillipe. OUSI GLENN REFIDEZV LABOR DAY OUTTNC Christiana, George Coulourla, Helen Trenholme, and John Lodge kll won critical hoaannaa from tha re hy Joint Committer Mlddietowa aad Hamlltoa TradM ame Coaarll. flam CootwH Prlwa Daotlns Flrewortm. RattrvitlM, CO Ml U.

S. 11, Mamwatli RtwaaH, Ky. viewer. Mr. Shumlln haa excellent rea- naaM4et TONIGHT, CARL TAYLOR ni His Taylsr Mas Metis JIQUCQ TOMORROW, EMERSON SILL an Hit Rtflli OrdMftri 30e, Plu Tax aona for believing that both playa will run a full year in New York, BEVERLY BREVITY: It's smart to the silly like Jay and Lou Seller, thoae akl-atrack comlca on the Jane Froman bill at Beverly Hills.

Summer doesn't Interfere with their winter a ports. They've done their ski cutupa In Sonja Henle's ahow on real Ice. But they're one up on Sonja. While ahe'a looking for a rink to skate on. Jay and Lou Juat Jack Frost It on any dance floor.

Continued From Preceding Page. Hollywood Is overlooking in keeping Barrymore in clowning roles ao we revamped the acrlpt to give him even more Shakespearean llnea because I was determined then to aee that John appeara on the screen in a real dramatic role." Then, turning to Barrymore, But ler Inquired: "Why is it, John, tha you can recite page after page of Shakespeare without prompting but hava ao much trouble memorising a couple of simple lines of dialogue the Berry-more eyebrowa tilted perceptibly replied John, "la the warp and woof of my being dialogue is my bread and How- "Cincinnati1 Own Clamour CirV that both will flouriah for another season on' tour onee their New York run a are behind them. I'd- Roth these attractiona will play aW1 H-a. In Cincinnati under tha auspices of the American Theater Society sub scription season. STARS AND MORE STARS Straw Hat America's Most Beautiful Kinging Star of Stage, Screen, Radio, Cornea Home JANE FROMAN in prrson, first time any local night clitfc JIMMY BRINK PREftErfTS butter and, somehow, warping AULT PARK.

Tha Ault Park dancing season closes tomorrow night The aeason has been the beat on record. Beginning Tuesday, September 2 Ms tit FlttirM' Oraattst TapDaialig star Continued From Preceding Page, and wooflng coma easier to me than dieting." "Prrtty eatlvatlng drama are infrequent, but by aome peculiar arrangement 7 bill there ia invariably a cloudburat, a Jay and Lou SEILER trrcpresstftie tiding romedian GFEI TILL. LATE SEPTEMBER GALA LASOa DAT WEEK-END thunderstorm, and a typhoon on tha evening that I elect to woo the muse in her rural hideouts. If the urban playgoers think it ia tough IV Ii CLAIRE ARENA dancing thut't to come out of the Empire, the Music Box, or tha Booth to see the No Cover Hmall Minimum Kentucky Food Supreme UM'L A. CAREY Manager Sunday, Tueaday.

Thursday, P. M. Wednesday curbstones awash lit a taxlcabless world I beg them to try to unsnarl their own car from the morasses noniiv son (IN PERSON) Features in "The Little Colonel" with Shirley Temple ON a) WEEK ONLT Itsarv Nawl Far Chslt TaMa Call HE till Tonite and Cloting Monday TED LEWIS Hia Orchestra and Great Revua eatartss CHARLES (Snowball) WHITTIER LOOKOUT LASSIES Worlft-tairett Girl IS LADS AND LASS1ES-18 to make it a "prorfwrfion" that confront the self-driver at Mil- ford, Weatport, Rldgefield, or any other place open to tha oddly lncle IS TOM II ALU rroewwr CRORGE RAND, Dsan IMiveter mcnt heavena. Lightning may never atrike twice in the aame place, but ita foxzla shots have aeemed to your rust to correspondent i MMmd 1. BB SB BI JIMMY JAMK8' Orchestra, with i DV HAINM isr 1 1 rt (Ladlea Only) P.

M. Special Sflc Ijinch Wednesdaya Route 27, near Newport, Ky. 10 minutes south Cincinnati merely carelesa aiming. It usually manages to knock tha ataga lights out around tha middle of the firat MO Btna kurawu iu. a.

isi is mm a 1 aTiaV9aV DVVllUaVl VtlBina 7 Caatdaats Mtlt frs 1 Is I a. vjv af ia social tsriii i MTwt Shiwt Nlchtly 42 Pttplt act, suggesting that it may ba better critic than marksman. II I SMtk at Fsealala Beaaro Northern Kenluckj'i Mot Beautiful Suhurbm Rettaurant AIBVCOMDlTlONr.D roCKTAIi. LOUNGE raw ATE DIWHO aooMi rat ctxaa rABTtEs wEODDiaa porrjLAB nuoca par. vail Caver Charts Among other, If leaaer disadvan tages there are undeniably bugs- alluring looking Myrna Dean head the opening burlesque ahow of the seaton now in progreet at the 0 (' EMERSON GILL and Hit Orchestra will play at LeSourdsville Lake Labor Day, flies, mosquitoes, and moth millers.

Tha heat ia frequently Intense, and it i nothing ta watch a star trying 1.

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