MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1935.
PAGE SEVEN
KGOVERY NOTE,
OPtRAJEVIVES
Concert Business Fifty Per
Cent Better Interest In
Ballet Is Year's Most
Noticeable Change.
By JOHN SELBT
NEW YORK. (4 Mustc, Which
had shown signs or becoming
chronic invalid under depression con
ditions, pulled Itself out of bed and
started moving briskly about this
year.
At least tnree major orchestras and
the Metropolitan Opera were In a bad
way at thu beginning of last season.
All seem more secure than for years
at the beginning of this one.
The New York Philhamionlc-Sym-phony
society was considering e mer
ger with the Met: this was stamped
out of existence by Arturo Toscaninl.
and the orchestra has proceeded with
renewed vigor since that day. The Los
Angeles Philharmonic was also very
shaky, and It seems to have recov
ered Us breath. And Philadelphia,
considerably shaken by ths resigna
tion of Arthur Judson. manager, and
the threatened resignation of Leopold
Stokowski, conductor, is calm again
Concert Business.
Tot Stokowski did not leave; In
deed, he is conducting more this win
ter than last. And Alfred Reginald
Allen, the new manager, has dropped
Mr. Judson's artistically unsuccess
ful operatic venture.
The concert business has produced
no very startling new features, but
. has found business better by 50 per
cent In some cases. Probably the
Increasing interest in ballet Is the
year's most noticeable change. The
addition of Kirs ten Flngstad to the
recital field has created a considerable
stir. If Enid Szantho is as good a
reel ta list as she was assisting con
tralto for Otto Klemperer's perform
ance of the second Mahler symphony,
she may prove of equal or greater
value.
Johnson at Met.
The only new operas of great mo
ment were Dmitri Shostakovich's
"Lady Macbeth of Mzensk" and
George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess."
neither of which was produced by the
Metropolitan. The Cleveland orches
tra was responsible for the first; the
Theater Guild for the second.
But the Met provided the most
dramatic news event In the year's
music calendar. Late the afternoon
of May 10, Herbert Witherspoon,
Gattl-Casazza's successor as general
director, was speaking with his as
slstant. Edward Zlegler, In the lat-
ter'a office at the Met. Witherspoon
smiled, stepped through the door
and dropped dead.
Edward Johnson has begun his first
season as director auspiciously. Many
new American singers are on his ros
ter, the house Is much improved
physically, and there even is some
new scenery, but no American opeta
Lively Film for New Year's Eve Show at Holly
L. sf ? f J Air a W-f v ir i . -s f '4 i
Birt)ftwy Stay
"Thanks a Million," which stars
Dick Powell and a host of noted
entertainers from the stage, screen
and radio world, has been chosen
as the feature to be shown for the
midnight matinee New Year's Eve
at the Holly theater. With a fast
paced story and lively entertain
ment, gags, music and surprises,
It makes an ideal show for midnight
show crowds, and was especially
chosen for this reason.
Included In the large cast are.
besides Dick Powell. Ann Dvorak,
Patsy Kelly, Fred Allen, the famous
radio star of "Town Hall Tonight."
Rublnoff and hi violin, Paul White
man and his band with Ram on ft.
the Yacht Club Boys and many
others.
In addition to being shown for
the midnight show Tuesday night
at the Holly theater for which
tickets are now being sold at the
Craterian and Rlalto theater box
offices "Thanks a Million" will open
a regular three-dny engagement at
the Craterlan theater Thursday.
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Starts Today 3 Days
1:45-3:00-6:45-9.00
SHE TAUGHT THE G-MEN
HOW TO GET THEIR MAN
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Is to be given this winter. Gattl
always gave at least one.
Gattl's last was perhaps his least
successful John Laprence Seymour's
"In the Pasha's Garden." Produced
last spring, this at least served to In
troduce Helen Jepson to the Met's
roster.
New Talent
New movements: the WPA music
project under Nikolai Sokoloff .
with 29 symphony orchestras and
much else: New York's projected
art center, to house the Met, sev
eral museums, perhaps the phil
harmonic; opera's gains, with im
portant seasons being given at hair
a dozen places over the land, not
ably. Chicago, San Francisco and
St. Louis.
Important new talents: Robert
McBrlde, 24-year old Arizona born
composer, whose "Prelude to a
Tragedy" was played in November;
Pelix Abcede, 8-year old Philip
pine violinist,- heard In Los Ang
eles; Eugene List, 17-year old pian
ist, heard with the Philharmonic.
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For Hose that Wear duj
NOLDE & HURST
Ethel wyn B Hoffmann.
42 COAST SHIPS
Parkers Fined.
SALEM, Dec. 28. (AP) The local
police court drive on overtime park
ing offenders brought in 9165 In
fines yesterday. Most of the fines
were paid by past offenders on
whom warrants were served.
SAN PRANCISCO, Dec. 28. (AP)
Idle Pacific Coast cargo carriers
reached 42 today with the tie-up
of eight addlticnal steam schooners
and deep water freighters In labor
disputes. i
Four of those wharf-bound are
off-shore vessels; the others coast-
wise schooners. j
Labor relations boards, hefore ;
whom the disputes have been aired,
are attempting to effect settle;; .ent.
Both sides In the steam schooner
controversy. Involving demands for
a six-hour day and higher overtime
pay, have remained obdurate, how
ever.
SEMI-ANNUAL. SALE
Now in progress
ETHEL WYN B. HOFFMANN.
WINDOW GLASS We tell window
glass and will replace your broken
windows reasonably. Trowbridge cab
inet Works.
Carnival Dance
at the I
OASIS
New Years Eve
DKC. 31
Dance Every Sat. Nite
Shows at
1:45-3:15
6:45-9:00
Walter Abel, one of Broadways
best-liked favorites, makes his screen
bow in the role of Alexander Dumas'
dashing D'Artagnan. In "The Three
Musketeers, opening today at the
Craterlan theater.
At Rialto
r s
Opens at Roxy
Lovable Mav Robson, alwavs one
of Med fords favorites. Is at the
Rialto theater, starting today. In
'"Three Kids and a Queen." a story
of a dowager from New York's -upper
5th Avenue, who finds happiness
with three youngsters from the
slums.
Imbued with a human quality
with which Miss Robson invar
iably endows her film appearances,
"Three Kids and a Queen" nonethe
less has ample comedy bits. The
supporting cast includes Frank te
Mne West, who made the nation
'curve-conscious' ooens a three
dar run at the Roxv theater today
In ''Ooln' to Town." admittedly one
of her best pictures. The ' c mup
sometime gal" decides to make high
society, and does so. One of the
highlights of the picture la her
singing Grand Opera selections,
which she docs with her own West
style.
Yamhill Tax Gains,
McMINNVILLE, Ore., Dec. 28.
(AP) Tax collection In Yamhill
county for 1035, up to December 24,
totaled A436.460, about 67 per cent
of the year's 9646,360 assessment.
Sheriff Q. w. Manning reported. Ha
said receipts were above last year's
total.
4.
Save On Bonds.
ASTORIA, Ore.. Dec. 28. (AP)
Purchase of $47,009 In port bonds
will effect a substantial saving since
they were bought at but slightly
more than half of their face value,
commissioners of the Port of Astoria i
said In announcing the transaction.
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GUNSMITH Kepairs ror aU make
of guns Sims Bros. 23 N Fir.
Darro. Billy Burrud and William
Benedict as the three kids, Char
lotte Henry, Henry Armetta, John
MUJan and Herman fling, among
others. It will play three days.
DANCE
New Year's Eve
(Tuesday)
Come and Have a Good
time 9:00 to 2:00 o'clock
GOLD HILL
HOTEL
Walton Bros. Orchestra
Dance Every Wed. Nitel
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A FUSSY DOWAGER FROM FIFTH AVENUE
AND 3 ROUGHNECKS FROM HELL'S KITCHEN!
The world's richest woman, and hated it! . . . New
York's toughest kids, and proud of it! . . . Then
Fate threw them together for the grandest bundle
of entertainment you ever enjoyed I
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THRILLS . . . AND A NATION TREMBLES!
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for all" . . . in the . W5Lfl I
greatest adventure . f f M ' A ' A flr f 1
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Alexander Dumas' stirring epio of ro
mance and high adventure comes to bril
liant life on the screen ... as fiction's
fondest go-to-the-devil heroes ride . . .
and fight . , . and love again!
with
WALTER ABEL, Broadway stage idol,
as the audacious D'Artagnan; PAUL
LUKAS, polished screen lover, as the
heart-breaking Athos; MARCJOT
CRAHAME, English stage beauty, as
the lovely Milady de Winter; HEATHER
ANGEL, as Constance; IAN KEITH,
as de Rochefort . . . and a score of
other stage and screen favorites, In
cluding Moroni Olsen, Onslow
Stevens, Rosamond Plnehot, John
Qualen, Ralph Forbes.Nigal de Brulier.
Sprrlalt The rinrfft Khnrt mihjrrt CTrr produced!
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