TEIf MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, December 13, 1954
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Around
Hollywood
By ALINE MOSBY
United Preu Correspondent
Hollywood U.R The new
"progressive jazz" that has made
Southern California its head
quarters now has lured a classi
cal music di
rector from
MGM into the
act.
By day, pi
anist Andre
Previn draws
down a four
figure pay
check at MGM
as the town's
vntinffest stu-
AlineMosbr Q music dj
rector, conducting and compos
ing film scores.
By night, not known to his
movie bosses, their 25-year-old
boy genius often can be found
bending over a hot piano at a
little Wilshire Blvd. bistro to
beat out the new jazz "just for
fun."
"I sit in now and then when
the regular entertainers take a
niffht off." exDlained Previn. "I
get $12, I think.
"In this kind of club I can
play anything I want until two
in the morning, I get my fun
out of it. I sit at MGM with a
Dencil in my hand so much I
don't get to play.
Gets Union Scale
"I couldn't play modern jazz
at big places like Ciro's or Mo
cambo. And this place couldn't
afford to pay me my regular
fee. So I just come in at the
union scale. Nobody's going to
tell me what to play."
"Progressive" or "modern"
jazz, for any un-cool readers, has
been collecting devoted addicts
since World War II. Trumpeter
Shorty Rogers and drummer
Shelley Manne play on Holly
wood Boulevard. The regular act
at Previn's place is the Gerry
Mulligan quartet, another top
progressive group.
Progressive jazz sounded like
modernized but monotonous
Bach fugues at first to me, but
after a while the improvisations
and "freedom" of the music is
fascinating. -
"The old-style jazz meant tak
ing a chord or a popular song
and playing around it," said
Previn during intermission while
the smoke and noise took over
the tiny, cluttered bar. "In mod
ern jazz you go completely off
the chord, with greater liberty
and freedom.
i "Modern jazz players have
much better knowledge of ad
vanced harmony, counterpoint
and classical music.
Glasses and Ties
: "You notice the fans?" he
said, and gestured at the teen
agers in horn-rimmed glasses
and knit ties. "They're the same
type who used to go to the opera
with the score in their hands."
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; dawn when Marilyn Sheppard was murdered, according
to Dr. Sam Sheppard's own testimony at his Cleveland
trial. Sketches starting at top center and going clockwise,
L illustrate highlights oi his testimony.
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Press Feature Writer
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Press Staff
Correspondent
Washington (U.R) And
there was Miss Supadirmin Mar
tadirdja a pretty brunette talk
ing to the folks
back home in
Djakarta.
Miss Marta
dirdja was in
a sound-proof
room making
a type - record
ing, one of
thousands that
are beamed
around the
Harman Nichols worlds, . many
behind the Iron Curtain to tell
those under the heel that on the
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Like many modern jazzists,
thej Berlin-born Previn has. a
solid classical background. But
at 18 the young prodigy was
soloing on Frank Sinatra's tele
vision show and playing with
symphony orchestras in the
Hollywood Bowl. He annually
goes on concert tours and makes
record albums.
"The kids come backstage to
talk about Bartok," said Previn,
his hands strumming the curious
chords of modern jazz. "All I
know is progressive jazz has to
swing. If it doesn't swing, it's
lost."
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outside there is a better way of
life. The new Voice has extra
volume and a greater audience
since the Voice of American op
erations have been moved here
from New York.
Nine Brothers and Sisters
Miss M., who has been in the
United States for three years,
spoke to her family informally.
She has nine brothers and sis
ters, and she gave each one a
warm howdy. But mostly her
message was to the baby of the
family, Suhastjarjo, who is
studying music. She told her
brother she would look into the
possibilities of getting him into
some American school where he
could continue his studies in
music.
That's the way the Voice op
erates as it is beamed around
the world. People come in and
give a message, same as they
did in New York, only now there
are more messages.
Biggest" Radio Show
The spokesman I talked with
during a tour told me that even
with the tremendous task of
moving 600 people and un
counted millions of feet of cable
and tons of equipment, not a sin
gle broadcast was skipped.
In the new set-up at 330 In
dependence Ave., there are 14
studios and 10 recording rooms.
All of this is properly called
the "biggest radio show in the
world."
The sponsors are the taxpay
ers and the airing costs us 16
million dollars a year.
Folks like Miss M., when they
get before the mike, call a spade
a spade. They give folksy little
talks about the trainloads of
good things to eat that are culti
vated in the rich loam that is
America. Of the fun people have
after work.- How the working
people get a fair shake in the
scheme of things and that even
the very poor are cared for and
wear no chains.
As We Live
By ELIZABETH HURIOCK, PH.D.
Parents Face Adjustment
After Child's Marriage
Making a decision when one
is emotionally disturbed rarely
ever is satisfactory. That is" why
I am advising one woman to
mark time for the present She.
writes:
(Q) "Our only daughter was '
married last month. Since the
has gone away, the house
seems like a morgue. Every
where I go in the house, I am
reminded of the happy years
when she lived at home with
' us. Even when she went off
to college, it did not seem so
bad because she would be com
ing home for vacations. Now
she is married to a man in
another state and will make
only occasional visits. I have
suggested to my husband that
we sell the house and move
into an apartment. He is op
posed to it as he worked hard
to buy it, loves his garden,
and wants to stay here. What
would you advise?'
(A) I would advise you to
make no move at the present
time. I would also advise you
to go away for
a trip or a visit
to help you to
adjust yourself
to the radical
change that
has taken place
in your life.
You are doubt
less tired from
the excitement
and extra work
Dr. Hurlock that every wed
ding makes. This makes life
seem gloomier to you and the
future dimmer than it would
otherwise be. Why not pay your
daughter a visit? She may be
feeling much as you do, and it
would be good for both of you
to be together. ,
Then, when you are rested
and see how things are going,
you can ponder over your prob
lem and make a better decision
than you can now while you
are feeling blue and depressed.
If the house is not too much
work for you or too expensive
to run, you will do well to keep
it for the present.
As you and your husband
grow older, you may have to
move to an apartment or a small
er house where there will be
less work and less upkeep. If
your husband loves his home
and garden, it would seem un
kind to force him to give them
up now, when he has just given
up the companionship of his
daughter.
Then look at the problem from
your daughter's angle. Until she
is adjusted to marriage and to
living in a strange community,
it is better for her to know that
her home is here for her if she
wants to come to visit. The
memories of her childhood days
there will help her to make the
adjustments she is facing now.
(Copyright 1954,
General Features Corp.)
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Live Oak Grange
A covered dish dinner preced
ed the regular meeting of Live
Oak Grange on December 9.
The annual Christmas party,
with gift exchange, will- follow
a short business meeting at 7:30
p. m., on December 16. The reg
ular meeting on- December 23
is postponed.
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Robinson
became members. . They were
formerly with Fruitdale Grange.
Chaplain Myrtle Whipple re
ported Howard Miller ill, Mrs.
Bagley a severe cold and Mrs.
Anderson, Santa Monica, Calif.,
a former member of Live Oak,
very ill.
Secretary Lyndall Cameron
read a letter from Howard Bak
er, Portland, in which he said
he would enjoy hearing from any
of his friends m the Grange
High light of the program pre
sented by Lecturer Mabel Brooks
was the tableau with Roy Cam
eron, Master Lyndall Cameron
and Letsie Miller burning the
notes that had been paid this
year. The building was started
in 1947 and is now free from all
indebtedness.
Following the song, "Home in
the Grange," the past masters
present, Frank Hall, Fred Deng-
ler ana uassie uoiding, gave
brief talks. The past H. E. C
chairmen present, Myrtle Whip-
pie, a cnarter member and chair
man in 1925; Pearl Lenderman
in 1934; Letsie Miller from 1935
to 1940, with the exception of
two years; and Beth Potter, all
spoke of the activities and pro
gress during the years. Not
present were Kate Ruelling,
Nora Waite, Laura Douglas, Belle
Nelson and Marge Dunham
Present chairman, Faye "Gan
thier, gave her yearly report.
Esther Fabric, Betty Franz,
Edna Sheehan and Myrtle Streitz
furnished vocal numbers.
There will be a New Year's
eve party in the hall a watch
Sanfa Disappointed;
Santas Miss Party
Miami U.R) Someone dis
appointed Santa Claus Sunday
night.
Harry Nichols, professionally
Known as St. Nick, staged a lav-
isn party ror nis brothers in
good cheer, the professional
Santa Clauses.
Donning his false whiskers
and bright red suit, Nichols pre
pared a worthy repast of buns,
hot dogs, chilled drinks and
other t goodies.' ' A motorized
sleigh, which he spent a month
building, glistened with polish.
Christmas carols filled the air.
But, Santa said today, of the
30 St. Nick's who accepted his
invitations, not one showed up
for the party.
"Somebody really let me
down," he said.
Ski Patrols Locate
Lost Portland Woman
Portland ftl.R) Ski patrols
located a Portland Woman who
was reported lost on the, slopes
of Mt. Hood Sunday afternoon
and reported she was in good
condition.
Patricia Paget, 27, was re
ported missing by her -father,
Lowell Paget at 5:30 p. m.
Three ski patrols were dis
patched to the area where she
was last seen. They located her
skis on the Timberline trail and
by 8:30 had found the girl mid
way .between Timberline lodge
and Government camp.
Nationalists Sink
Communist Gunboats
Taipei, Formosa flJ.R) Na
tionalist" Chinese warships sank
two Communist , Chinese gun
boats and damaged four others
near Wuchiu Island Sunday, the
Nationalist Defense Ministry
said today.
A communique said the Red
ships were spotted off the cen
tral Fukien coast early Sunday.
A brief engagement followed and
the damaged warships fled to
ward the China coast.
Communist Chinese artillery
shelled both Quemoy and Tachen
islands, at opposite ends of Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 300-
party and games. All Grangers mile-long -chain of island out-
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