12 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, October 10, 1949
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East Greets West Dianne Shinn (left) Dionne Wheel
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Orient, meet at San Francisco before the initial takeoff.
GOLD NUGGETS, BY GUM!
Prospectin' in Studio Stream
Ain t Easy or Dry, Pardner
By VIRGINIA MACPHERSON
Hollywood, Oct. 10 U.R Who says there's hard times in Holly
wood? We went prospectin' for gold on a movie set today and
found three honest-to-gosh gold nuggets.
Sure, they're little. And so what if they look more like second-
The man at the assayer's of-'
fice said they were gold, all
right, and he could maybe cash
'em in for a couple of bucks.
That's when we went off the
gold standard fast.
It wasn't all clear profit. A
dollar and a quarter of our
"strike" went to the cleaner for
pressing the outfit that got
dunked in the movie river. This
prospectin' ain't easy, pard.
It all started when producer
Nat Holt offered to grub-stake
us to pan for gold on his set. We
didn't know we'd have to pull a
semi-strip tease to get at the
stuff.
But Gabby Hayes, that be
whiskered vet of many a hoss
opera, was on hand to make
sure we did things right.
He said he'd be hanged If he
ever saw a prospector wearing
high heels and, anyway, the
best pay dirt was out in the
middle ot the stream. Why
didn't we take off our shoes and
stockings and wade out to a
dead log In the center of Mr.
Holt's fake river?
Well, Gabby had a way with
him. But those rented rocks in
the bottom wore sharp and the
prop log wasn't very steady.
Our troubles started when the
cameramen showed up, started
popping flash bulbs all around,
and kept yelling: "Hoist your
skirts a little more, babe. Let's
have some cheesecake here."
Now the MacPherson pins
aren't worth all that. Let's face
It . . . We're no Grable what
ever way you want to look at
It.
But we went along with a
gag. You might even say we
went ALL the way. Juggling a
miner's pan, a handful of nug
gets, and a new-look skirt In the
middle of a babbling brook's no
cinch.
In short, we fell In.
Mr. Holt was real nice about
It. Didn't even bawl us out for
messing up his expensive river.
He went to considerable trou
ble to build himself an exact re
plica of the creek he used on
location in the Colorado moun
tains near Gunnison.
He had to rent a lot of rocks
to make It look real, he said,
and sprinkle bluing In the
stream every morning to make
It photograph more like water
And when he wanted it to
plash he had to pour canned
milk in by the case.
"That," he said, "gives It a
bubbling look."
Okay. We had a milk bath
The prop man lent us a towel to
dry off. And the wardrobe de
partment said it would press our
dress.
Then Mr. Holt offered to let
, us keep the nuggets. And If you
think we objected politely,
you're craiy. We earned 'em!
Transient Held for
Robbing Dead Man
Eugene, Ore., Oct. 10 (UK
Police today held James W
Autrey, 27, transient on grand
larceny charges after the heart
attack death of salesman In
a Eugene hotel.
Dolton Fortune Sweeney, S4,
San Francisco salesman for a
Chicago map-making firm, was
found dead In his room Sunday
mornlni.
Monmouth PTA
Drive Opened
Monmouth A large crowd of
parents and friends attended the
regular meeting of the Mon
mouth Parent-Teachers meeting
held in Campbell Hall auditor
ium. Mrs. Robert Barry pre
sided, with Mrs. Raymond Yung
as secretary. A reception was
held for all teachers of the high
and elementary schools.
The membership drive was
started with Mrs. Forrest Woods
and Mrs. Floyd Fisher In charge.
A contest Is being held, giving
three prizes to rooms getting
the largest percentage of mem
bers for the organization. It
started at this meeting and will
run for two weeks.
A prize will be given each
time to the room having the
greatest percentage of parents
present at each meeting. The
primary room taught by Mrs.
Golden won at this meeting.
The room mothers from the
fifth and seventh grades acted
as hostesses, with Mrs. Claude
Wincgar as chairman. Follow
ing the meeting refreshments
were served.
The November meeting will
be held Jointly with the Inde
pendence Parent-Teachers asso
elation November 7 at Independence.
Playful Duel
Ends in Death
Portland, Oct 10 () A play
ful duel between two young bro
thers Saturday caused the death
of an 8-year-old by gunshot.
County Fireman Donald
Young was among the first aid
crewmen who rushed to the
home, where Young discovered
the victim was his own son, Mi
chael Lee.
Eleven-year-old Donald
Young, Jr., sobbed out the fa
miliar story of playing cops and
robbers. He had picked up a .38
caliber pistol and aimed it at his
younger brother while they
romped in mock duel in a cea
room. The mother had gone
shopping.
CIO May Kick Out
Longshore Union
Bend, Ore., Oct. 10 U.B)A
CIO longshore official has pre
dicted the International Long
shoremen's and Warehousemen's
union will be "kicked out" at the
nation CIO convention in Cleve
land.
Matt Meehan called upon del
egates of the Oregon state con
vention to support longshore
chief Harry Bridges. Convention
delegates previously voted to
condemn Bridges.
"It's a secret known only to
about 100 CIO officers on the
coast that we're going to be
kicked out at the national con
vention in Cleveland," Meehan
said.
Unions Held Guilty
Of Illegal Boycott
Washington, Oct. 10 U.R A
national labor relations board
trial examiner ruled yesterday
that a group of Spokane, Wash,
labor unions engaged in an ille
gal secondary boycott that
forced a tavern owner to rip
out fixtures installed by a CIO
union.
The Kimsey Manufacturing
Co. of Spokane, whose CIO em
ployes had manufactured and
installed the fixtures in the
Breeze Inn, brought the charge
against the Spokane Building
Trades council, the Spokane
Central Labor council and three
AFL locals.
Trial Examiner Horace A.
Ruckel recommended that the
unions be required to cease en
couraging employes to boycott
the company by maintaining it
on an "unfair" list or by call
ing employes off their jobs. He
also recommended that six work
ers induced by the AFL to quit
their Jobs be notified that they
are free to work under Kimsey
contracts.
Missionary to Speak '
A missionary speaker will be
at the Lyons Methodist church
Tuesday evening, Bob Pierce
who has recently returned from
China.
and Sweeney had been drinking
in Sweeney's room before his
death. Police said Autrey admit
ted impersonating Sweeney to
obtain Sweeney's wrist watch
from the hotel safe afterward.
STARTS NATIONAL CONTROVERSY
Salem Woman Pushes Idea
That Songs Speak Words
By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER
If it be true that music is a "universal language," then It II
reasonable to believe that it can be Interpreted in words.
Such is the theme of an interesting study pursued for many
years by Mrs. Rose Wollesen, 1120 Center street, her study em
phasizing song Interpretation as a new art.
Music so interpreted brings
forth a language, she contends.
Music is graphic, each note an
emotion saying its own mes
sage, Mrs. Wollesen says, adding,
to pantomime or to portray a
song in fine fashion or display
of form is not true interpreta
tion.
And she takes Issue with those
who hold that "bringing to life
a piece of music is so compli
cated that only after years of
intelligent study and Intense
concentration can one even ap
proximate what (can be termed)
as Interpreting music."
The would-be controversy has
taken on national scope in that
the subject of interpreting has
been treated in Etude and in
other national magazines devoted
to music. Some hold with Mrs.
Wollesen's ideas on interpreta
tion, others place it in other
categories.
Albany Automobile
Accidents Numerous
Albany Forty automobile ac
cidents within the city limits
here during September injured
19 persons, a monthly report re
leased by J. D. Baughman, city
manager and acting police chief
Two persons were killed, ami
36 accidents were reported
outside, but near, Albany.
Damages listed to automobiles
both In and outside the city
totalled $13,104.50, the report
showed.
Local officers arrested 68 per
sons during September on
charges ranging from drunken
ess to attempted larceny Traf
fic violation citations were is
sued to 96 persons during September.
Change-eating parking meters
netted the city $3,084.20 last
month, and Albany was richer
by $1,333 50 because of fines
and forfeitures turned into the
city Judge.
To interpret song as saying
words is simple, Mrs. Wollesen
declares.
Taking the dictionary as auth
ority, Mrs. Wollesen says: "The
meaning of interpretation from
ages back up to the present day
is to bring to light that which
is hidden,' or 'to make known a
message in intelligible language
heretofore unknown.' Such are
the graphic notes on a musical
page being interpreted into a
message that has meaning."
"A musician can not interpret
the work of a composer unless
he can tell him what it actually
says ... If a piece of music is
uninterpretable, it is meaning
less," Mrs. Wollesen comments.
"If we think of music as be
ing a language it must have a
meaning, and if it can not be
interpreted it is more or less
dead except for sound, she adds.
In substantiation of her theory
on song interpretation, Mrs
Wollesen has taken a long list of
masterpieces of music and in
terpreted them into word ver
sions, such as Truamerei by
Robert Si-human, "Second Noc
turne" by Igance Leybach.
One of the folk song type that
"talks" is "O Sole Mio."
Mrs. Wollesen has done many
original songs and taken the
lyrics of other writers in her
work to interpret the words in
music.
Referring to the well-known
O Sole Mio, Mrs. Wollesen
says:
"Whether it originally had
been a musical composition only,
or a song, I do not know but
it is simple musically and well
known. How near it Is to the
original text in music is only a
gamble, but the strain is com
plete . . . and the significant
thing is the interpretation of the
musical piece Into song words
according to the music.
The American language takes
the "spotlight" in this art of
song interpretation, she believes
'Foreign countries have pro
duced masters of many distinct
types of musical form and prac
tice. It Is now vitally impor
tant that America should em
brace, definitely, the language of
music," she comments, adding:
"It has been said of the Amer
ican language that it is the most
difficult of all languages to
sing; that it is the most unmusi
cal because of the many conson
ants it possesses and the hard
tones it assumes.
"This has very likely been
due to the fact that we did not
know how to adapt it. Take into
consideration for a moment the
language we have been talking
and singing, and we find that
the consonants predominate, the
vowels coming In only as sec
ondary tones. Reason should
tell us then, that the consonants
should be given primary atten
tion.
"Again we see, according to
the hearing, that the consonants
have the ringing sounds of the
musical instruments. The vowel
diction undoubtedly c o m es
from the Latin, and hence many
of the languages have derived
their root words and according
ly put the stress thereon.
"The American language has
in itself a beauty of distinction
all its own, and 'song interpre
tation' brings out this fact clear
ly, in that the masterpieces of
musical composition ring clear
with consonant tones, the vow
els taking their places harmoniously.
"The generally accepted idea
of an 'interpretation' of music or
song is that of performance,
bringing out the markings in an
intelligent manner. Yet there is
a distance still beyond this, in
so far as 'song interpretation' fol
lows inspirational heights ac
cording to the degree of emo
tional qualities set forth the
musical tones evolving into
song words, or vice versa.
"It Ilea within the emotional.
spiritual nature of man that
tones form words and speak a
'various language.' It may be
termed 'emotional interpreta
tion,' for no amount of intelli
gence or knowledge of form, or
musical education can produce
'song interpretation.'
It lies absolutely within the
individual't ability to react
emotionally to musical sound
and thought, such as is set forth
in musical compositions. It as
sumes the same characteristics
of all true arts that of main
taining a child-like nature and
advancing by mental develop
ment and refinement strongly
on tne spiritual side of life."
Mrs. Wollesen points out that
if one understands the simple
sentence, he will undoubtedly
have a fine recognition of the
musical sentence.
"Music alone, though It is ac
ceptable to our understanding
and appreciation in sound, still
is as a speechless language with
out its transformation into ac
tual speech. Music arouses our
emotions, and, when moved by
our feelings we are led to
speak," she says.
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