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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-12
ITCNCOGK TO
OPEN SEASON
AT ENGH.I SM'S
Comedian to Bring Brand
New Comedy Here for
Three Days.

Raymond Hitchcock. comedian,
will come to English's Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday, Sept q, p
and %. in a brand new play called
Service for Husbands" by Bates
Hunter
Service for Husbands" is based
on the very novel idea that a good
deal of money could he made in es-
tablshine a service under which
wives might be innocently amused
while husbands are off on business.
Jimmy Deering, played by Hitch
cock, is q young author living In
Greenwich Village, who so far has
never been able TO sell anything.
He is extremely popular with a
group of married women with busy
husbands, who continually call him
up. and. with their husbands con-
sent and approval make arrange
ments to dine or dance with Jimmy
frequently. while their husbands are
out Of town or attending business
meetings.
Finally. one Of the husbands
whose wife takes up a great deal
Of Jimmy's time, since her husband
travels a great deal, suggests to
Jimmy that instead Of giving his
service free. to charge for It.
This Jimmy does, taking several
Of his Greenwich Village friends into
business with him. including Laura,
an actress who can't act, and, Eye
dor Fitch, a poet who can't write.
Una complications set in every
thing goes swimmingly. but natu-
rally. where women are concerned
there is bound to be complications,
and the difficulties in which poor
Jimmy finally finds himself makes
one of the most ENJOYABLE evenings
to spend in the theater.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-12
MYERS AND HANFORD
TOP NEW LYRIC BILL

THE Arkansas Valentines" - Pewee
Myers and Ford Hanford, a pair of
vaudeville's funniest comics, who
l formerly did much 20 enliven the
! Greenwich Village Follies will appear
at the Lyric next week in their
latest melange of fun, song and
music.
They extract remarkable harmony
from common ordinary handsaws,
and their original comedy antics,
together with their quaint makeup,
has made them prime favorites with
vaudeville fans throughout the
country.
The bill will include:
SCOVELL DANCERS-A bevy of
pretty and talented girl terpsichore-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-12

woman in the neighborhood. Then
the woman is turned loose upon an
impressionable young married thing.
Young Eve. who Miss Gordon por-
travs. las been listening to talk
and becomes Jealous of her lawyer,
husbands women clients. Quite
promptly fate and her own folly
bring her tc spend a safe night alone
in the home Of a bachelor artist
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-12

friend old enough to be her father.
Her imagination with this material
nearly succeeds IN wrecking her
home
The play Of itself is tedious and
unnatural. The players for the most
part are good enough. But only the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-12
KEIT'HS READY TO OPEN
SEASON SUNDAY SEPT. IS
PeWee Myers and Ford Hanf ord to Top New Lyric Bill
Dance Revue Opens at Palace

When the curtain goes up the first at B F. Keith
Sunday afternoon the of 1926 at that theatre will
have begun.
The theatre has been thoroughly renovated from top
bottom carpets have been laid ard other improvements
made that places the playhouse in snip shape condition
start the Initial season.
Topinng the first bill of the viii be Signoy Friscoe
xyophone player and his Guaemaan ensemble consisting of
nine marmba PLAYERS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-12

exquisite dumbness Of Miss Gordon,
,her perfection Of tone and gesture
an dthought, give the play a chance
to survive. AS it IS. there is high
class entertainment in watching her
and the final curtain is reached
without resentment. Miss Gordon
won her position as principal
through hor good work in "Mrs.
Partridge Presents" last year ana
apparently she is destined for this
type of character from now on. No
one can equal her as a brainless
cutie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-12

season will offer much to her in con-
sequence. Judith Anderson from an
unknown became n Belasco star. And
the Cinderella story might be repeat
ed in numerous variations.
Which makes it a bit thrilling to
look over the list Of hurd reds Of new
plays intended for production in
1925-26 and wonder which will be
which.
m He FALL OF EVE" IS
saved from being a flop"
~ by Ruth Gordon
1t begins with an almost intermin-
able conversation about the evil
mind and gossiping tongue of a
Evening star., 1925-09-08
A Sinister Weather Sign.

A sudden and severe drop in tenn
perature in Paris, which has caused,
it is reported, the death of four per-
Sons in the streets of that city, has
revived concern over the recently an
nounced prediction Of Able Gabriel,
the priest astronomer, who prophesies
that 1925 will be a year without a
Summer" the coldest twelve month
in seven and a half centuries. Official
weather experts, however, have sought
to reassure the public by the state
ment that this phenomenon is only a
freak attributable to an unusual "iso-
barrie" condition not likely to last many
hours. But anxiety in. France is
nevertheless keen because reports
have come of unseasonably cold
weather throughout England and Scot
land. with temperatures as low as 36
degrees, icy gales sweeping over the
Irish Channel and high seas causing
havoc at coast resorts.
If Able GabriePs computation of
the nodes CT coincidence of solar and
lunar stresses is correct the year 1926
is likely to be a season of extreme
cold similar to others that are record
ed in history at corresponding periods
Of such combinations. There is, in.
deed grave cause tos anxiety on this
Evening star., 1925-09-08
The .Firemen's Parade.

Yesterdays parade of the fire de-
partments of Washington and the
nearby suburban towns of Maryland
and Virginia was an impressive spec
tacle of preparedness against loss and
disaster. 1t is the first time that the
nearby sections which comprise the
outlying portions of the capitalmetro-
politan district have assembled their
fire-fighting apparatus here TO show
the people of Washington what they
are doing III organization for the pro-
lection of property and life. The Dis
trict. naturally, made the most brill
liant display of apparatus, but it's
showing was not more significant than
that OF the adjacent communities
which. with small means. have pre-
pared themselves most commercially
for ire-fighting.
II is well to bring thus vividly be-
fore the people the organization for
protection from the most destructive
of elements which takes so heavy toll
from modern civilization. In the case
of the adjacent communities this work
is practically all undertaken by volun-
teers. In these towns and villages the
firefighters themselves are all civil
ians' who hold themselves in readi-
ness for service at any time. They
have taxed themselves for apparatus.
They take pride in their equipment
and their efficiency. They are always
ready for duty, and. learning from
larger organizations the best methods
of fire-fighting, they maintain a high
standard of efficiency.
The Districts fire department is pro-
fessional. Its personnel is enlisted to
the exclusion of all other work. The
local firemen are picked men, splen-
didly trained, faithful 10 duty, Jealous
in the upkeep of their stations and
apparatus and proud OF their perform
ances. They face the gravest risks
without hesitation. They have held
the Districts fire losses to a low point
and deserve the warmest support and
encoura cement from the community
and a most generous provision for
themselves and their families in case
of their disablement or death in line
of duty.
Evening star., 1925-09-08

score II there is anything substantial
in tae estimat,. The margin between
growing weather" and crop failures
due to frosts and sleet storms is really
narrow. A lowering OF the average
Summer temperature in this country
by ten degrees would mean a tremen-
dous loss in crops. especially in wheat.
Able Gabriefs forecast has not been
derided by advanced meteorologists,
who. on the contrary, are inclined to
concur in his conclusion that the time
for a cold Summer" IS approaching.
Conservation OF the food supplies
might we'll be considered in advance
as a safeguard against a crop failure
in this country which would grievous-
ly affect not only the people of the
United States but others dependent in
large Sneasure upon American re-
sources for sustenance.
Evening star., 1925-09-08

freedom and permit them to visit
friends. In cases where the parents
assume responsibility for the "eloped"
they are not brought back unless dan
gerous. II they are returned and there
is no one who will be responsible for
them the police are notified. In this
case the youth was virtually paroled
in custody of his father. who was
consequently held responsible for him.
That responsibility, however, is no
safeguard. In this instance it did not
prevent d return of mania-if, in fact,
this crime was committed under an in
sane impulse-and the destruction of
Two lives.
This is an extraordinarily loose sys-
tenn Of treating the mentally afflicted,
or more plainly, the insane. These
people are menace. Whatever the
form of mania, there is no assurance
of placidity and harmlessness. The
brain is diseased, the moral nature is
parental parole is adequate to restrain
such a person. With a slyness and a
cunning that cannot be equaled in the
sane, the person who is mentally af-
fected may dinrm suspicion, thwart
supervision and suddenly commit
some atrocious deed for which there
is no possible atonement
How many institutions in this coun-
ivy are conducted uuon the same Drip-
ciple of probation and permitted elope-
ment? How many patients are at
large who may at any time do some
awful thing? These questions should
be answered regardless of what is
done with this unfortunate youth.
Evening star., 1925-09-08
Lax Custody of the Insane.

A strange system of paroles and
permitted "eloplnents" from the Essex
County Hospital for the Mentally AT
aicted, in which the latest New Jersey
murderer was at one time confined, is
disclosed in statements to the police
by the head OF that institution. He
admitted that the youth now held for
killing a chauffeur and little girl
had been threatening and destruc-
tive" while in the hospital, with
record of three dangerous assaults,
two of them prior to his incarceration.
He said further that there are now
fourteen "eloped'' patients at large
from the hospital. Furthermore, two
hundrea OF the patients have passes
which kgive them a certain degree of
Evening star., 1925-09-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

of the United States and sent to that
big warehouse, where they repose to
this day, as far as any one knows TO
the contrary,
What a big bet Uncle Sam is miss
ing in not delving into those records
of bare humanity. Having started
with the income tax returns (Which
are nobody's business except that of
the person who paid and his Uncle
Sam, who has the money and ought to
be able to catch evildoers without
the help of the entire population), he
should now give us the draft records.
Real Stories From Real Life"
might he the name. Of a. magazine
which Uncle Sam could get out, based
upon the draft missionaries, for il
ever men pat their whole souls on
paper, II was in those formal, busi-
misunderstanding documents.
How interesting it would be. to be
sure, to have Uncle Sam inform us
that certain well known figure.
known to us all, claimed exemption
and got 1t. too, because he only had
one eye,
1t was true. too: He did only have
one eye. Uncle' Sam could give you
the very last detail proved by com
petent physicians and witnesses,
Hey, hey. hey! Old Sam Jones only
has one eye, Well now. who would
ever suspect 1T? But we always
thought there was something funny
! about that left eye, now that we come
to think of it.
What? 1t was the right eye?
Municipal records, too. would give
| US some more racy reading Around
the table lamp in the evening what
quaint entertainment the family could
derive from a perusal of street taxes
paid by the citizens under the law
which calls for half of the paving and
curnlng TO be paid by property owners
). lexington Spoofer, TO street $40;
10 curb, $40; deferred payments, paws
s per cent interest on what he has not
PAID. the family could read.
wondered If Mr.. Spoofer was go.
| ing TO pay all his tax at once" pines
up the good housewife
| Why? He seems to have plenty OF
money chimes in the so-called head
of the family.
We'll. Mrs Spoofer bought sos
worth of silk underwear iast week
She told me so herself. And / don't
see where they would gel the money
TO pay for the street, too, and espe.
cially for the curb
Yes, that is a funny thing. sending
along the stree paving bill one day
and then when you think il is all over
along comes the bill for the curbing
on separate form"
Il wonder why they don't send them
both at once
II don't know"
| Since Uncle Sam also has something
10 say about the national banks. addi-
tional amusement might be afforded
the pleasureloving public IL he would
make public the monthly bank state
ments sent TO patrons of various
| banks.
Then we might have photographs OF
autogra phed checks. for instance. the
one made out by old J. BelIingtor
Spoofer himself in payment for-that
bill for S95 worth of silk under
things
Yes. the more we think OF it, the
more we feel that dear old Uncle San
Is holding OUT on US. In the past
all these matters have been sacred
something between ourselves and our
Government.
Now. however. that the "jazZ age
has come, let us jazz everything IN
Guiding private documents, until we
will be glad to go back 10 sd nifty al
hast. THE whole hog or none, is our
motto.
Evening star., 1925-09-08
Base Ball and It's ifs

Base ball is decidedly an if game.
IF" q certain player had hit safely
at a particular moment a game would
have been won. If another had
made a clean catch or pickup and
throw of batted ball in a crisis
game would not have been lost. IFS"
scatter through the history Of the
sport like mosquitoes at q scashore
Summer resort. Were it not for them
the game would be dull and uninter-
esting. 1t is just the possibility of a
different result that those ifs repre-
sent that makes it so fascinating as
to hold the interest and command the
patronage of millions of people.
Just at present the Ifs" run to the
calculation of prospects for certain
teams in the two big leagues. If Wash
ington, which has just turned back
the erstwhile league leaders in a brace
Of Labor day games and attained
nine game lead. takes only eleven Of
its remaining twenty.three games
Philadelphia must win twenty-five of
its remaining twenty-seven to tie and
twenty-three to win the pennant.
That is a formidable contract. In the
other league if Pittsburgh likewise
wins eleven OF it's remaining twenty
three games New York must win
eighteen Of its remaining twenty
games to tie, or nineteen to win.
Likewise a, tremendous undertaking.
So it looks as though the world
championship games this year will
be played between Washington and
Pittsburgh, last years winner In the
great classic and last years third
place team in the National League.
For time 1t looked as though the
situation might be reversed. with
Philadelphia in the American League
facing New York in the National, an
tional last years pennant winner.
But it is evidently not to be, The ifs
that now affect the situation all make
for the lineup that is indicated.
A year ago Washington won the
American League pennant by a mar
u" tlldi l. AIC "dS III uOuDI
until the last few games, and the
final standing gave Washington 80
games won and 81 lost, a percentage
of .597, against New York's SO games
won and 63 lost, or .586. Today, after
the Labor day cleanup in Philadel-
phia, the Capitals team has won IS
and lost 46, with a percentage OF
$40. S1a games better than a year
ago. or a shade less than the present
margin over Philadelphia.
So the Ifs" favor an encore
by the Nationals, confounding those
critics who declare that 1924's vic
tory was a luke, not to be repeat
ed. No wonder the home management
is at present struggling against an
avalanche of mail orders for world
series tickets. The remote possibility
of a sudden reversal of form,
cataclysmic slump, an equaling squirt
of the nearest rival, has not checked
the applicants. The Ifs" are too much
in favor of a world series in this town
and Pittsburgh. Nobody who is wise
to base ball uncertainties will attempt
to predict the result of that encounter.
Evening star., 1925-09-08
The Test of Type.

His love in letters burning
He wrote her without stint.
His folly he's discerning
Since they appeared in print.
He made some campaign speeches
New coined from wisdom's mint,
With rage he almost screeches
Since they appeared in print.
His words mid relaxation
In perfumed bowers Of mint
Brought angry refutation
When they appeared in print.
So, when TO talk inclining
In hours of rosy CLINT,
Think, and avoid repining.
How 1t would look In print. 81
Evening star., 1925-09-08
Efforts to Free McCray
Arouse Sharp Criticism

results in the friendless paving 2
heavier penalty than the rich or in
f1uential Our pardon rate for this
type of criminal is even more scan
dalous than that of the more violent
types, including murder and robbery
The Grand Rapids Herald urges the
necessity for extra scruples" in deal
ing with cases like this, while the
Kalamazoo Gazette emphasizes the
fact that wayward youths cannot
help being impressed by exhibitions OF
lenieney toward distinguished law
breakers"
Referring TO the formation of ma
tional vigilance committee, the Knox
VILE Sentinel remarks: The time
seems scarcely oppcrtune for the dis
tinguished criminals move for lib
erty." The best, way In which this
unhappy man can serve the people
now is. to serve out his term in the
Judgment of the columbia Ohio State
Journal He should be made an ex-
ample for the transgressors of less
high standing suggests the Memphis
New Scirhitar.
In explanation of why such eminent
and representative citizens as those
signing the petition for pardon should
interest themselves in this particular
case, the -Des Moines Tribune News
SAYS lit is not because they feel any
special is due to a former
governor, but because McCray Is
known to them. They know McCray
as one of the great middle group OF
humanity capable of going right or
going wrong. The unknown convict,
whether of that same group or not, re
mains to each a sinister and wholly
evil being"
One of the few sympathetic com
ments comes from the Muncie Star,
published in the governors own State:
THE imposing variety and character
of the appeals for executive clemency
are such as to command respect, the
Munice paper declares. There Ia
merit in the contention that all of the
punitive and exemplary value of i'm
prisonment has been obtained in his
case and that further detention would
not be of advantage to society
On the other hand, the Fort Wayne
Journal Gazette of the same State
charges that Gov. McCray committed
a mass of crimes perhaps without
precedent. and he forced public opin-
ion to look upon him as a criminal, 10
expect that he be dealt with as a
criminal. He could have sacrificed all
his once great fortune. His choice was
him own" So, also. the Elkhart Truth
of Indiana says: "One who is elevated
to position of confidence such as the
governorship of great common
wealth like Indiana and then proves
unfaithful to that trust really is en-
titled to less sympathy than the ordi-
nary individual convicted OF an Of
fense against society.
Evening star., 1925-09-08

Empha tic condemnation has been
showered by the press upon those re-
sponsibIe for the effort to free Warren
It McCray former Governor of In
diana, who has served something more
than a year of a 10-year prison SEN
tence for using the mails TO defraud.
Consider McCray," the New Lon
don Day suggests to its readers in
typical editorial comment Then con-
slider that II other governors have
asked the President to pardon him.
Then consider the statements of some
of those governors. who today are
howling about the crime wave and de-
nouncing the 'maudlin sympathy
which is being showered on gunmen
and burglars. AT least, the average
gunman makes haul of considerably
less than $4,000, ,00O.''
The Nashville Banner asks: What
would be the public effect-of the par
don of so conspicuous an offender at
a time like this, when criminality is
running riot in the Iafrd2 Why, it has
been asked. should public>spirited citi-
Zens of this country organize crime
commission for a campaign of public
education as to the dangers of the sit
uation. if prisoners like McCray are
to escape serving time. in large part
because of their pull?" !.
To the Lincoln Star it seems that
the National Crime Commission need
lock no further than the McCray case
to discover one -of the principal rea-
sons why law does not command the
respect in this country which 1t
should" In the same vein the Topeka
Capital declares:
k.*
1.-The country will be in a bad way
If persons who have been highly hon.
ored and who are in a position to set
an example of good citizenship betray
public confidence and become exam
pies. on the contrary, of the worst
citizenship. When men with such re-
sponsibility upon them, and such ad-
vantages, are quickly pardoned out
after being convicted of wrongdoing.
enforcement of criminal laws is in
fair way to become a byword.
Denying that there is any doubt of
McCray's guilt, the Oklahoma City
Times also condemns the activities of
powerful friends and continues: mo
man is so crooked or contemplate that
he cannot arouse the sympathy OF the
sob squad in America, and his chances
for clemency usually are large and
promising. Yet there are those who
wonder at the prevalence of crime in
America" This effort for McCray is
condemned as "an old story" by the
New Orleans Item, which adds: 1T is
e familiar practice and vicious: for il
Evening star., 1925-09-08
The Getaway Fellows.

What is this 'wanderlust' you read
of so often as compelling people to
leave homer"
II don't know" replied Mr.. Cum
rox. but, judging from my observa-
tion of people who have it. wander
lust is German for creditors.
Evening star., 1925-09-08
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHnANDER JOHNSON.
TrepidatiOn Justified.

What do you think gave that actor
stage fright when he made his first ap-
pearance?" asked the manager.
"Premonition, replied the press
agent. He knew what his acting was
going to be like"
Evening star., 1925-09-08

A base ball umpire the other day
gave the gate" to a player who
thumbed his nose at the srandstand.
1t is terrifying to think Of what he,
If in a position Of similar authority
in the Government, would do if he
were to observe the present gestures
of Col Mitchell.