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LOOKING OVER NEW
EVENTS AT THE LYRIC

American audiences have the
greatest respect for what is known
as hard shoe dancing, tap dancing
and the like.
From the day of the Primrose min
strels we have had great hard shoe
dancing as well as the soft shoe
stuff.
The hard shoe dancing, as well as
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out his banjo. Then with the mod
ern use of lights and curtains, Miss
Hall gets into some sensational hard
shoe dancing. She then gives
most accurate impression of some of
the best known dancers the stage
has ever had. Miss Hall is such an
artist and gets over her value with
such definite strokes of artistry that
the audience demands the right TO
show their appreciation. She was
forced to make a curtain talk, not
one of those worked up things, but
the real article. l am willing to use
the high sounding expression-she
is one of the best in her line Of work.
Barber Sims Co.. have dished up
the old movie idea Of Main st.
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When was the principle of the
three-mile limit, of which we have
seen SO much in regard to the
rum row" off the Atlantic coast,
first established?
The territorial sovereignty of
State extends for a distance of three
miles from it's coast, the distance
from the headlands being measured
In cases of landlocked bays. The
principle was first proclaimed by
Bynkershoek, a Dutch pdblioist, in
a book published in 1902. 1t rested
upon the limit Of the range of can
non of that day, and has not been
extended with the Development of
modern guns. Many countries have
claimed the right to exercise linn
tied authority beyond the three mile
limit for the purpose of executing
their revenue and sanitary laws, but
it has been held that such authority
cannot be used to justify the seiz-
ure of foreign vessels outside of the
territorial water of a nation. Some
notifications, however, of this prin-
ciple have been made in regard to
the enforcement of the prohibition
statutes of the United States in re-
spect to rum running vessels.
How did the finnan haddie gel
it's name?
From "Findon,''' a Scotch village,
and ''haddock. :"
What is the lifting power of
helium gas?
One cubic foot of helium will lift
one and one-tenth ounces.
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CHAPTER If
A Case For Horse Thief Detectives

A Case For Horse Ihlet detectives
II HE Mesozoic Age-where we
XII stopped in our last chapter
wac a time when serpents
ran wild. There were snakes that
swan and snakes that roamedy the
land and snakes that flew through
the air-some OF them cunning little
things a hundred feet long. II was
almost as dangerous to cross the
streets then as IL is today.
And then. when the serpents had
the bases full. nobody out and their
heaviest hitters coming up. some
thing happened. cannot tell you
what it vast is one Of Natures
greatest mysteries. Maybe some
primordial Walter Johnson went into
the box and burned 'em across so
fast that the serpents couldn't see
them. Maybe something else hap
pened. There's n missing chapter
IN the record books-and nobody
has been able to clear up the short
age, not even the horse thief detec-
tives.
When again we take up our
journey, the giant reptiles have
utterly disappeared, leaving some
lovely fossils and nothing plore, and
we do not know the reason. Maybe
the climate changed maybe there
was a flu epidemic; maybe they
drank wood alcohol. All we know is
that they disappeared, leaving be-
hind only a few lizards, crocodiles.
turtles and tortoises TO carry on the
family traditions.
Science has hopes of clearing up
the mystey some day. Like the
police scientists are securing" the
neighborhood and hopeful Of de-
veloping clews"
Life, like politics, is a case OF the
survival Of the fittest. and the huge
dinosaurs and their relatives We're
mostly stomach, with poor legs and
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THIS is the open season for budgets.

THIS is the open season for budgets.
THE race is not to the swift, but to the
one who can obtain the first injunction.
DON'T worry if you don't understand
what ell these moves in the Stephenson case
mean. Neither do the lawyers
THE only objection some people seem to
have to Sol Meyers suggestion for million
dollar booster fund for Indianapolis is that
they didn't think of it first.
HERE'S bunch for motorists. Governor
jackson was stopped in Lafayette for
driving through traffic "stop' signal. He
was released after "complimenting the police
man for his alertness,I according to dis
patch Next time copper yells, "Hey, can t
yu see nothin just compliment him.
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BY Walter d. Hickman
rl HE Wright world probably
will say that Harold Bell
= IM,-irrl,A a.. Il. = -

will say that Harold Bell
L--J Wright is right again
Meaning that "a Son of his
Father is both Wright and right"
When ! come into critical contact
with Wright 1 find that 1 must con-
slider a basis faca
A novel is a form of entertainment.
I have always maintained that the
joy of reading fiction is to have a
good time.
Harold Bell Wright has BECOME
one Of the most widely read STORY
writers Of the day. After l had ob-
tanned my copy of "a Son of His
Father at the book shop of L. S.
A Ayres & Co., for seview, I decided
that I was going to read the book
for entertainment, and not as a sci
enlist trying to find out what is
wrong.
So L settled myself in the most
comfortable chair 1 own in my fiat
at $3.50 p. m. At 1925 o'clock the
next morning L read: SO jus
like she ees all the time teach to
me how to love it ees everything"
Those lines complete the new Har-
old Bell Wright novel. 1t must
4 have some real entertaining merits
to hold a fellow in a chair for a
session that long.
Wright knows his West. He has
the trick perfectly developed of caus-
ing the West with its sand, its COW
boys of all types, it's echo of the days
when men killed to live, its color of
romance which is not dead and it's
invitation to weave story out of
the dream sand.
1 had the feeling that Wright has
written a movie while he was writ
ing this novel. l erected in my
brain house movie screen and as
| read I saw Nora O'Shea, a real
Irish girl, come to life. I saw Pablo,
a cowboy who plays a guitar and the
villains, the gun carriers and all the
rest of the tribe strut their stuff on
my imaginary movie screen.
1t Is A Story
we go to the movies to be enter
taiaed. We read Harold Bell Wright
to have a good time. And while
having a good time, Wright shoves
in a couple dozen good moral lessons.
Some may dismiss Wright with
the Indictment that he is melodra-
matte and is writer of the stuff
that the public buys. He is melo-
dramatic, he knows how to put a,
theatrical kick in all Of his stories,
And yet the west lives in a
theatrical sense while Wright spins
his yarns.
Your interest will not center upon
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-11
WANT HARD WORK?
THEN TRY THIS STUNT

Acrobatics and cannon ball Jugg-
ling are hard work.
SO 1 wouldn't blame any arcobat
or cannon ball juggler for spending
part of his time on the stage in
comedy and lighter
forms of theatrical labor.
But l would not expect the aver
age acrobat to he very funny. Espe
and Dutton, two men at the Palace
the first half OF the week, are real
comedians as well as acrobats. In
fact, their comedy work makes their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-11

Echoes of Scotland" has about
the usual routine Of the Scotch acts.
The sword dancers, comedian and
bagpipers are all on the program.
This one is fortunate in having a
better comic and better dancing girls
than most Of them.
The Stratford Comedy Four Is n
pretty fair singing, quartet. Their
comedy attempts arc wasted time
and energy.
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Tom Sims Says

Always carry a pump or a big liar
along on an auto trip in case you
have 20 blow up a fiat tire.
After a man sows HIS wild oats
he expects some woman 10 help him
gather and tame them.
Every now and then a fountain
pen gets ambitious and acts as II Il
really were a fountain.
There are too many mornings in
a week TO get up early on every one
Of them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-11
SECOND WEEK FOR
MUSICAL COMEDY PLAYERS

Mary Browne and her musical
comedy company are in their second
week at the Broadway. The com.
pany Is the same as last week with
the addition Of q new comedian who
gives promise Of being a big help
in the fun making department.
The bill for the first half OF the
week is made up OF familiar comedy
bits and musical numbers. The
chorus is still working with a lot
Of pep. Mary Browne and Doc Paul,
are featured IN the cast which In.
cludes Billy Morgan 0he new
comedian. ! think, Marie Maine,
Vera Reano, Bob Fisher, Bob
Capers. Jack Wald Chick Klmboll
and Marie Moretti. Tho movie
feature is a crook picture THE
Satin Girl"
At the Broadway today and
Wednesday. @y Observer)
i. 1. !.
other theaters today offer: "a
Slave Of Fashion" az tho Ohio
"Siege" at the Colonial; Fine
Clothes" at the Circle; THE Lucky
Devil" at the Apollo; THE Birth Of
America" at the Crystal and
Beauty and the Bad Man" az the
Isis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-11
A Thought

Whatsoever We would that men
should do unto. you, do We even so
unto them.-Matthew 7:12.
-
There is no beautifier of complex
ion or form or behavior like the
wish to acattter joy. not pain. around
us.-Emerson.
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Again Polly Struts Her wicked Past;
Looking Over the New Vaudeville Bills

Peggy" OF Foster and Peggy
is a mighty cute and well trained
dog, Peggy" apparently counts,
answer questions and plays n must
cal number on a specially built In.
strument.
Broadway Butterfly" is tho foa.
ture movie.
At the Palace today and Tuesday.
CBy Observer
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Hall, with Goelet
and Hall at the
Lyric this week, is
such a fine and
definite character
that I feel safe in
praising her. Miss
Hall and Goelet
have worked out
a routine which
builds from the
V e r beginning.
Miss Hall first
does an eccentric
number, closing it
with some hard
shoe dancing. This
gives Goelet a
chance to leave the
nianO and bring
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Stage Verdict

Englishs-"Polly with A
Past always n safe bet here
in stock, gives Edythe Elliott
a fine opportunity az comedy
work She is a success.
Lyric-The dancing ability OF
Miss Hall with Goelot and Hall
gives this theator another fine
artist for tho week.
Palace-Espo and Dutton are
tho chief hits on the new bill
here.
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act, while the bal
ancing and heavy
weight Juggling
give the act a tone
Of novelty. They
are the hit Of The
bill.
The Brown Girls,
seven I'm number,
form an excellent
little orchestra. A
comedy nupber
and n harp solo
are the best ap.
plause winners.
The act Is nicely
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is DOING IL again.
But Berkell had a
definite reason for
doing Polly" this
week. 1t was to
give Edythe Elliott
a starring chance.
Meaning that this
show gives any
leading woman
numerous fat OPP
portunities. AS a
stock bin Polly
With A Past" is
valuable because it
gives the leading
woman a charming
chance: it has
comedy relief which
can be hoked up to
large laus his and be-
1900 - - - 1.1.-T~
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bles, with its in
adequate ventila-
ton, worse light
ing and many
i n c onveniences,
has practically
vanished from
Indiana. .
1t is just as
well. The con-
solidated schools,
with their gym
nasiums, basket
ball teams, free
transportation of
pupils and bond
ed Indebtedness,
that have super
seeded them have
broadened rural
education. They
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-11
THE LITTLE RED
SCHOOLH0USE

NIX one-room schoolhouses in
Nj Green Township, Grant
County, will be sold at auc-
ton today. This fall their place
in education will be taken by a
modern, two-story consolidated
school, containing "a gymnasium,
auditorium, library and other spe-
cial rooms.
The little red schoolhouse, famed
in song, story and mortality ia
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the hero but upon Nora, the clean
hearted Irish girl who came from
Ireland to live with her brother.
The brother is a weakling in the
hands of the West. But it is Noras
faith and Irish spunk that causes
this weak foolish lad to get square
with the world before the final
summons.
AS guns crack, this Irish lad
passes on. Here Is a whale OF a
climax. 1t sure will look good in
the movies. A man by the name of
Morgan is the hero of the story. He
is not much of a hero, because he
has pot only squandered the in
heritance of his father, but is well on
the way to moral ruin when Nora
enters upon the scene.
Wright has drawn Pablo, the guitar
playing cowboy, with such fine
strokes of romantic imagination that
for a time you think more of Pablo
than you do of Morgan, the So
called leading man Of Wrlght's
latest.
Wright's Theory
Wright's theme, as expressed in
his own words, is as follows: ~ '
every man has inherited a. kingdom
something, I mean, which. belongs
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By Walter ID. Hickman

Ia HAT a flivver is to the world
MI so is Polly With A Past" to
a stock company.
And Charles Berkell, being a wise
Snowman, knows that this is true.
When he is in doubt, he puts on
Polly With a Past" and when the
week is over, Mr.. Berkell again
knows that he is a wise Snowman.
Berkell has presented this comedy
before at English's and this week he
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ing good surprise motive in the last
act. Miss Elliott has no trouble in
playing the role Of Polly, a good girl
from a small Ohio town and the
daughter of a minister, who imper-
sonates a terrible vampire to aid a
poor boob who had to have past.
This woman knows how to wear ana
select gowns. In her light moments
as the tantalizing Polly. Miss Elliott
is delightful. She is going TO increase
her following by her satisfactory
work in this show.
And again Tommy Evans and
Robert st. Clair sail in with satisfy
ing comedy work. And again Larry
Sullivan walks away as the re.
formed" gardener.
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The cast IS rs tOUOWS.
Clay Collum ........ Robert st. Clair
Harry Richardson 49,! Tommy Evans
Polly Shannon ....... Edythe El1ott
Rex Van Zile ..a..i...... ,Milton Byron
Myrtle Davis ...... Idabeue Arnold
Stiles .............. Larry sulliyan,
Mrs. Van Ztie ........... Mary iy hlli
Commodore 'Bob" Parker William V. Hull
A Stranger ..si.... Alexander Campbell
Sets are satisfactory, but / do
wish they would get n larger table
cloth for the first act. Just a trifle,
but so very important to get GER
tain effect.
At English's all week.
Evening star., 1925-10-17
L. S. APATHY TOWARD WAR
DEPLORED BY LORD GREY
Wrote Page That Inaction in Face of
Ships Loss Would Be Black
Page in History.

in high government circles to regard
the reasons for delay which are pub
lished here as technicalities, which a
national crisis should sweep aside.
British opinion couples the delay of
our ships with the sinking of the
Laconia and the Zimmerman tele-
gram and seems to be reaching the
conclusion that our Government will
not he forgotten, and until the Brit
ish navy shall overcome the German
submarines There is danger that
this feeling will harden into con-
viction and interfere with any infiu-
ence that we might otherwise have
when peace comes.
So friendly man as Nlscount
Grey of Fallodon writes me private
" from his retirement: Il do not
see how the United States can sit
still while neutral shipping is swept
off the sea. If no action is taken
it will be like a great blot in history
or "a failure that must grievously de-
press the future history of America y
PAGE.
Cconyright 1928 10y Doubleday. Page & Coz
Evening star., 1925-10-17

like when It's finished. They all seem
to be filled with statesmen. Every city
IN the country must be represented
here by two or three real estate sales
men. One school of thought contends
that if all the real estate statesmen in
Miami We're placed end to end they
would form a bridge across which an
able-bodied truck driver could walk
from here to Havana, get a drink and
come back again. Another school ad-
vocates placing them on top of each
other and doing away with the Wash
ington Monument altogether They
all seem to have something TO do
They look at you with hungry eyes as
YOU pass in front of their lairS one
step in-and you are gone, But if
you stay on the sidewalk you are safe
There is a city ordinance which pro
hibitS stopping a man on the street
and one convicted of doing it is fined
s25-not that S25 means anything in
this land of subdivisions.
You may want to stop inside one of
these Offices just to see what happens.
Walk in. wearing your felt hat and
come-on-In1-it expression assume an
attitude of deep contemplation in front
or Chart-in a trice a salesman is
at your elbow.
"Er. there's a nice proposition
there" he begins. We've made some
mighty nice resales there Next week
Well open up No. %. You see. No. %
is right here. Lots in 22-that's hers-
are selling for as low as 81 .OO0-3O
per cent down. But those in % will
be $4,000. Here's the canal right here.
Lots facing the canal will be $500
In fact, I'm wearing two of them my
self. l bought two six weeks ago and
gave them to the baby. I had To sell
them, though, because Mr.. Howdy. our
manager, said it wasn't fair to keeu
them from the public. l know a man
who came down here from Los An
geles two weeks ago. He came right
in here where YOU are standing now,
and he said. Give me those two.
Don't wrap them up. I'll take them
home with me now And, you know.
that fellow went right out and sold
those lots for twice what he paid for
them
Evening star., 1925-10-17

Continued from First Page)
appearance at the window of NJ
BRAND, the French foreign minister
was greeted with prolonged cheering.
When the British foreign secretary,
Austen Chamberlain. came and waved
his hand, the crowd clamored for a
speech. Chancellor Luther and the
German foreign minister, DR.. Strese-
mann, We're acclaimed with no less
fervor than their colleagues.
Austen Chamberlain. habitually cold
and always master OF himself. appear
ed to be at the verge of breaking down
under the weight OF JOY and emotion,
which checked his words and made
them almost unintelligibie. He dwelt
upon what Locarno meant TO world
harmony and TO the hopes of all peo-
pies and paid moving tribute TO the
spirit of accommodation of all the
delegates.
See Reichstag o. Is.
The German statesmen who par
ticipated in the conference said today
that they expected no difficulty in get
ting the Rhine pact and the collateral
agreements through the Reichstag
Both Chancellor Luther and For
eign Minister Stresemann, who are
leaving for Berlin this afternoon. will
tell the leaders of all the parties that
the German people must have faith in
Frances sincerity. not only to carry
out the Rhine treaty, but also in re-
spect to the assurances that the oc-
Cupation and regime in the Rhineland
will be notably ameliorated.
NJ. BRAND and Austen Chamberlain
are leaving for their respective CAPT
tails on the same train tomorrow aft
ernoon.
The Polish and Czechoslovakian n
foreign ministers, Count Skrzynski
and DR.. Benes. Joined today in state
ments of satisfaction over the out
come of the conference. which they be-
lieve provides protection for all their
legitimate interests and sets up ma
chinery insuring amicable settlement
of any possible difficulties With Ger
many.
The series of fetes which began
with the close of the conference will
be concluded tonight with a banquet
given by the municipality of Locarno
and d chry ysauthemum ball.
Evening star., 1925-10-17
TO THE PRESIDENT.
London, March 3, 1917.

Secretary Of State,
Washington, D. G.,
5s16, March 9. am. Cohloen, .ne
t;o1 for the President and the
Secretary only.
Tn reporting on the general 1eei-
,rg here I find that continued delay
in sending out American ships, es'
pecially American liners is plouuo'
ing an increasingly unfavoraoie I'M
nression. In spite of all explana-
tions. which are imperfectly under
stood here, delay, is taken to mean
the submission of our Government 70
the German blockade. This Is the
y,iew of the public and of most OF
she press. There is tendency even
Evening star., 1925-10-17
Az. Of |. ASKSTWO
BUSINESS PROBES
Urges Congress to Investi-
gate Baking Merger and
Bell Telephone Co.
BY the Associated Press.


ATLANTIC CITY, y. J., October II.
The forty-flfth annual convention Of
the American Federation of Labor
ended yesterday and was character
lied by President William Green in
Il farewell address to the delegates as
the most constructive convention OF
the federation ever held-one that will
make history" He compared the
work accomplished in the session.
lasting II business days, to that of a
course of university training.
TWenty-three resolutions were
adopted during the final session. Two
congressional Investigations We're
urged-one of the Ward Baking Co.
and the proposed s4O0 .O0O, 900 baking
combine and the other of the Bell
telephone system.
The Ward Co. was charged with
combating union labor and keeping
UP the prices of bread. even during
the war. It was charged Slat the
proposed merger sought to control the
breadmaking industry Of the country.
The Bell system was charged with
having a monopolistic grip on IA vital
public necessity. detrimental to the
welfare of the country.
\ resolution which would put the
federation on record as opposing the
athliation Of the United States with
the World Court was referred back to
the executive council.
There was a lengthy discussion ON
China in which the federation finally
decided TO urge the withdrawal of
eXtraterritorial privileges from all ma
tioDS.
The educational program of the Fed
GRAFTON was the subject of a number
Of resolutions. and Victor A. Clander
re iStn iti IN,
telligence tests, Junior high schools
and the platoon system.
In States which have no work
mems compensation act it was urged
that efforts be made to obtain passage
of a general act, even if II did not
fully meet all the wishes of the trade
uniDnistS.