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no responsibility for the transfer
 of the gold from the mint to the
 banks and the banks will not be re- sponsible for disposing of the coin.
 "The position with regard to the
 handling of silver by the mint will remain unchanged. The mint will sell
 refined silver, when recovered, and account directly to the mining con- pany. The Government action has attracted attention to other mining enterprises. An announcement is made that important discoveries of ore have been made on the Nor manda properties, with the result that the company has decided to build it's own smelter at Rouyn.
 American capital is said to be securing the Dominion for copper properties in which high-grade ore can be developed at low cost. These activities are revealed, in tn opin- ion of Canadian observers, in the optioning of the Flin Flon mine in Whitney, and in the interest of Percy Rockefeller in the Noranda company and the report that New England copper companies are seeking a share in Noranda. The demand for copper in Europe is on the increase, nota- ble in Russia and Spain, while the high cost of mining the large Amer ican deposits has induced the search for new deposits. Although the min ing cost is probably as high in Can- ada as in the United States, the Rouyn properties, for instance, yield copper with good percentage of gold, and this may mean the differ- ence between profit and loss. In the Flin Flon proposition, the cost is reduced by the rich yield of zinc." .,
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INCOME TAX WIPED OUT STAGE SUCCESS OF GIRL PRODUCER

LONDON, Jan. 13. P)-Eighteen- year-old Marian Wilson made s85,- 900 on her production of 'aThe Beg gar's Opera" and lost it all, and more too, on "The British Ballett."
 The income tax got the girl pro- ducer. While money was rolling in from ''The Beggar's Opera,' she for got all about the income tax and did not lay any of her money aside. h. stead she put it into new produc- tion which was not a success and when the tax collector came around she faced disaster.
Evening star., 1926-10-10

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TRUDIE AND THE TWINS


Very shrewd gentlemen have offered that un-
usual young lady who the English channel a
million dollars for her activities during the next
year.
A million dollars is a lot of money.
The men who offered that million expect to
make several million by showing her in the movies
upon the vaudeville stage, by using her name to
advertise everything from chewing gum to automo-
biles.
They will use her magnificent feat of swimming
that rebellious strip of water known as the English
Channel to infame the imagination of chose who will
visit movies the vaudeville or buy chewing gum
automobiles
Last week, In little county fair In the north
part of the State, two babes, victims of a bio
logical freak, were exposed to public view
They the Medick twins of South Bend
Joined together at birth through a mischance of
nature.
BY no training education can they ever con-
tribute to the entertainment the progress of the
world.
But their misfortune brought forty thousand
curious men and women to the little cot to pay in
all ten thousands of dollars for the privilege Of view
ing their misfortune
Why did the people pay these thousands for
merely looking upon great human tragedy?
These babes linked physically, must be either
exhibits paupers
The men and women who paid these thousands
the same people who will read this.
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BOOK
Hooser Publishers Win Fame for Indianapolis

took his place. Douglas spoke first.
His friends thought he was unanswer-
able and so did the Lincoln con-
tingent. When he sat down. Lin
coin arose. took off his buster and
handed it to the man sitting next to
him, saying: Young man, hold my
coat while I stone Stephen" And,
anachronistically, that's just what
Father Abraham did. Stephenson's
new book. THE Autobiography of
Abraham Lincoln" is scheduled for
late September publication.
The publishers of THE Recollec-
tions Of Thomas r. MARSHALL" re-
ceived letter. not long ago from a
western clipping bureau, that had
them all stumped and up a tree.
The letter was addressed to 'Mr. A.
Hoosier Salad" but there wasn't a
soul in the whole organization who
answered to that name. OF course,
after the first surprise and the last
laugh, everybody understood. The
subtitle to TholARs r. Marshall's
book reads: "a Hoosier Salad!
This same eminent clipping bureau
has offered its services to William
Shakespeare. Ralph Waldo Elmer
son and James Whitcomb Riley,
who. if they will call or write, may
receive their mail at the Bcbbs-Mer-
rill office. The question that arises
Is: How famous do you have to be
to be well.known?
1.-THE Dawes Plan in the Making"
the authoritative account of the de,
alterations and actions of the Com
mittee of Experts on Preparations,
by Rufus G. Dawes. has been pub
lished in Germany by the Verlag-
Anstatt at Stuttgart. Germany is,
of course. tremendously interested
in reparations and wide sale is
predicted for Mr.. Dawes book In
that country.
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BY walter d. Hickman

There are several ways to glorify
your home town. Many people in
crease the fame of their home town.
But it is not often when one con-
Germ year after year adds to the fame
of the city of its birth.
We have here in Indianapolis one
of the leading book publishers today.
Am speaking of The Bobbs-Merrill
Company of Indianapolis.
In looking over the six best
sellers as reported by THE Book
man" as being most in. demand at
the public libraries in cities Of this
country. I find that Bobbs-Merrill is
represented with 1.-The Private Life
of Helen Of Troy" heading the
fiction list. and THE Man Nobody
Knows" in the noniction division.
Both books have occupied places in
the best selling list for months,
especially Bartons book about
Christ.
Also in the best seller list. I find
that Claude G. Bowers. a Hoosier
now in New York City, is one of the
best selling authors with his "Jeffer-
son and Hamilton" published by
Houghton -Mifflin.
Bobbs- Merrill has the honor of
bringing to the public attention
more new Indiana writers probably
than any other concern Their
publications include some of the most
famous writers that Indiana has
given to the world.
1.-The Bookman," as recorded in
the Sunday New York Herald
Tribune. lists the following as the
best sellers: 1.-THE Private Life Of
Helen of Troy" Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes" "The Hounds of Spring"
1.-THE Blue Window" IAN American
Tragedy and wild Geese" The
non-fction list is as follows:- why
We Behave Like Human Beings"
Abraham Lincoln. The Prairie
Years." 1.-THE Man Nobody Knows"
1.-THE Intimate Papers of Colonel
House." Jefferson and Hamilton"
and Twenty Five Years.
some news
Bobbs. Merrill has supplied me with
the following interesting news items
about books and the authors:
John Erskine, professor of Eng
lish at Columbia University, aston
ished his erudite world when he pub;
lished a best-selling novel. 1.-THE
Private Life of Helen of Troy" And
now again this excellent writer has
proved his versatility in most I'M
expected way. When Professor
Erskine was very young he studied
music at Columbia University with
view toward making 1t his life
work. But he became interested in
the study of English and for twenty
six years he devoted his life to that.
|. Recently the old urge for music
came back to him and he began
practice again. A few days ago he
acted as soloist at a symphony or
chestra concert at Columbia, playing
brilliantly and skillfully the difficult
Mozart Concerto in D Major.
Professor Erskine is dramatizing
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TTI
CIemenceau Sees Debt
Situation Through
Blue Glasses,
By Nj. f. Tracy

Clemenceau sees the debt situation
through, glasses that are blue, if
not Opaque.
+ The United States has not pressed
France for money, or asked a
mortgage on any Of her possessions.
Seven years, without receiving a
cent, do not bespeak a mean, hard
boiled, or even hopelessly commercial
spirit.
The American people have never
assumed, or expected that France
could pay all she owes.
The proposed debt agreement is
not based on that idea.
If France has any definite PROPOSE
ton, she can rest assured that it
will be given full and sympathetic
consideration.
Thus far she has offered little but
disagreeable generalities.
Clemenceau himself, though en-.
larging on what France can not do,
makes no mention of what she can.
If France wants all her debt writ
ten off. let us come out in the open
and say so, or if she wants an so,
per cent discount. instead of a 40,
let her say that.
But this nagging, this bawling at
tourists. this writing letters to tell
us Of our faults, defects and in.
feriorities, will do no good.
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This Leopard'S Spotty

New Jersey is having as hard a
time with an escaped leopard as with
the Hall Mills murder case.
Also, she is getting just as many
conflicting stories out of it.
The leopard got out Of a ship
ping cage while those in charge went
to lunch.
Where it went. and where 1t is.
something less than half a million
people would like to know, and for
lack of facts, are appealing to their
imagination.
II heard it roar like a subway
train says one, and Shrek like a
siren" says another.
One report had 1t prowling in a
barnyard at a certain hour, and
another had it swimming a river
ten miles away twenty minutes later
A check-up of all the gossip shows
that seven persons have been killed.
not to mention.an incalculable num-
Der of cows, colts. sheep and chick
ems, though not the slightest injury
to man Or beast cankbe officially con.
f1rmed.
The show has been going on five
days now. with no result, except a
lot Of perfectly good headlines.
What would the people of India do
If they got so Intellectually worked
up over every leopard?
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COillCS mis- NY AAS~A
embarrassing. Not the fault Of the
actress, but the playwright. OF
course the "undies" exposed are
pleasant to behold. I have the bunch
that this leading woman Of many
worth while and big productions dis
likes this role as much as 1 do. Mil
ton Byron never has a chance to do
a single thing, but dash in and out
of one room to another.
Robert st. Clair is cast as the
"simp" hotel clerk, who has man
ners that romps all over the hotel
lobby. William V. Hull as the
hotel porter in blackface and Dick
Elliott as a souse mayor do more
than any one else to strengthen
weak, a mighty weak, play. Mil
dred Hastings goes into complete
characterization this week again.
Her makeup is splendid.
Others in the cast are Jyes La
Rue, Bernice Marsolais. Herbert Dob
bins and Bob Fay.
Have your idea about this one, but
to my way of thinking. "The Bridal
Suite" is the poorest form Of enter
tainment that we have had for a
long time. All the fault of the au-
thor who wrote it.
At English'a all week.
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iSPOONLNG' /
BAN STILL
,ON IN CITY
Park Police Watch Diligently
for Rule attractions,
Says Official.

Removal Of the ban on "spooning"
in the parks of Chicago. Berlin and
other cities of the world will not dis
lodge the restrictions in Indianapo-
lis. according to George Morgan, as
sistants parks superintendent.
Morgan said the force of park po-
liceman is busy every night, investi-
eating the CLEAN Of the stationary
tail light through the shrubbery and
other indications that there is much
ado in a parked car.
The park policemen travel In pairs,
to avoid being framed" according
to Morgan, inasnuch as those they
pursue do likewise, thereby having
the preponderance of evidence in
court against one policeman.
To obtain the correct names and
addresses of the spooners Is rather
a diplomatic task. involving ques-
tioning of the two persons separate
ly, according to Morgan.
Garfield Park. once a rendezvous
for lovers of the entire city, Is now
said to be as Victorian as the Vir-
ginia reel. Highland Park is losing
a lure that was universal until a
few weeks ago when the park police
men started a drive.
The plight of PETERS seems un
With deputies Of County
Sheriff Omer Hawkins securing the
roads and the park officers looking in
the shadows of the public parks.
home sweet home is regaining pop
ularity as a center Of smuggling.
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]George Gaul Has Chance to Sing and
/ Cuss a Wee Bit in The Mountain Man

like an old thick" fiddler. He has
a lot of comedy business which he
rather over uses, but when he gets
into real melody on his fiddle, he
has not trouble Gn stopping the
show.
You will find the voice that stops
the show to be owned by Mary Reil-
ly. She is a blues" singer who
knows how to project her words,
getting the meaning and the melody
over at the same time. She is an
easy winner in her chosen line of
work.
Mccormick and Wallace are ven,
triloquist who use about eight dunn
mics in a school act. Has comedy
interest and much singing. The
Bader-Lavell Troupe are bicycle
riders.
1.-THE Revue Comique" is both a
classical and eccentric dance offer
ing. Some of the work is most
pleasing, but the so-called Apache
opening, done so often. rather
deadens the act because this num-
Der is used as an opening. Man
ming and Glass dance on the wire.
Howard and Jenkins have an act
in which the alleged comic police
man and the alleged comic f1apper
are introduced to no big success.
Movies complete the bill.
At the Lyric all week.
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Philanthropy

An unknown philanthropist has
offered to build apartment houses
for Government employees in Wash
ington which can be rented at $3.50
a room a month.
The offer was made to Herbert
Hoover, and it has caused quite a
stir In the capital, especially among
real estate men, who say it is not
practical, but who still seem afraid.
Apartment houses for men earn
ing small salaries appear to have
challenged the fancy of. quite few
philanthropists, and with good rea-
son.
Some of the rents charged in our
cities for apartments Of inferior size
and construction are simply out
rageous.
Thee rents may boost real estate
values temporarily, but there is moth
ing solid, or worth preserving about
them.
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LOOKING OVER NEW
EVENTS AT PALACE

Raymond's Bohemians at the Pal
ace today and tomorrow can boast of
two very engaging entertainers In
the persons of the Gordon Sisters
who offer several specialties of the
sister" type.
The four men who compose the or
chestra of the act are splendid per
formers when it comes to popular
music but 1 think they have shown
deplorable taste IN the selection of
their numbers. If they want an &C.
centric number why not get one
with at least bit of humor to it.
The sisters. however. are charm
ing enough to make up for the de-
ficiencies Of the rest Of the act and
with several of their numbers are
completely in the good graces of
their audience. In IL cir specialties
the one done in an atmosphere of
civil war days is probably the best
for one looking for an effect of beau
ty. The last numbers done by the
SIl IL III WHICH lilCy NlO SOlllG Clidl >
acter studies and songs are very
we'll done bits, especially the imper-
sonation of the much troubled little
italian mother.
Janet Adair offers some rather in.
innate little songs about brides and
bridegrooms and puts a very pleas
ant personality into them. She cas-
lily makes friends with everyone.
Kennedy and Francis have COM
edy centered on the impersonation
by the man of drunk and some
dancing by the woman. Both are
good in their individual offerings.
Counting Days" starts out with
burlesque courtroom scene in which
a divorce is granted a warning pair
and then shows the reunion of the
couple. All this is done with com
edy air and has some good laughs.
The Five Junetros feature some
very clever work in tossing each
other around and in balancing. A
novel feature is when one of them
makes a leap head first and lights
on the head of another. Imagine
that takes a little nerve.
Included on the bill is a photoplay,
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Romantic Science

Has bald head any significance?
British scientists are now argu-
ing the subject.
One says that less hair permits
the thyroid gland to do more for
growth.
Another says that less hair proves
less monkey in us.
One interesting theory developed is
to the effect that man lost his hair
when he began to fool with fire.
Long-haired men, according I'd
this theory, were gradually burned,
or had their furry coats scorched
out of existence, while their less
hairy brethren survived.
You can't beat science for ro-
nance when it gets running into
details.
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WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW

his amazing best-seller, THE Private
Life of Helen of Troy for produc-
ton by Winthrop Ames. with Ethel
Barrymore in the title role.
Kurt Wolff Verlag of Munich are
publishing THE Private Life of
Helen of Troy" in Germany. Helen s
private life is no longer that. A
best seller for almost year. her
private life has become as public as
a fountain in a city park, from
which everyone drinks Of her pert,
witty epigrams. astonishingly quiet
and quietly astonishing.
Within the gray. grim walls of
San Quentin prison are seventeen
men who want to become writer's.
Their latent ambition being awak-
ened, the prison officials have asked
Sidney merschel Small. author and
newspaper man, to conduct classes
in novel and short-story writing.
Don Quixote" and Pilgrim s
Progress" were both penned in
prison.
And o. Henry began his extra
ordinary literary career as the I'M
willing guest of the State. Mr..
Small is well-qualified to teach writ
ing since he is himself a writer of
note, having published three novels:
1.-THE Lord of Thundergate," -Four
score" and Both One"
A Minister Writes
It remains for a minister at mis-.
sion up in Alaska to tell a really
new story about Abraham Lincolni
The reverend had Just read
Nathaniel Wright Stephenson's Lin
coln," and, remembering the story,
he wrote to the author about it.
1t seems that at one Of the Lin
colnDouglas debates. the latter ap-
peared with u brass band. Lincoln
came in a buggy and had on a linen
buster which he kept on when he
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THE OLD BANJO STOPS
A VAUDEVILLE SHOW AGAIN

A banjo stopped variety show.
A violin or rather fiddle stopped
a vaudeville show.
A voice stopped a variety show.
Meaning that three separate acts at
the Lyric this week have the quail
ties which actually stop the show.
You will find the banjo in the act
of Bailey and Barnum. with Bailey
playing the banjo and Barnum using
a pair of wicked feet and more
wicked voice in some blue songs Of
the moment. This team have had
big league training. They know their
stage and just how much to give
and what.
They have a travesty number on
an elopement and their final num-
Der "Me Too" or something like
that did a whole lot to stop the show.
They have personality and ability
and above all they have clean show
manship. Bailey and Barnum
stopped the show longer when 1 was
present than the other two acts men
toned in connection with stopping
the show.
You will find the fiddle In the act
OF Charles Althoff, who makes up
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it is acting. Was rather interested
in Gauls attire in the first act be-
cause he reminded me Of the
pictures OF George Washington.
This is not a costume play, but Gaul
is sure i'm costume for awhile. Said
attire might be called quaint. If
you don't take your theater too
seriously and if you like theatrical
applesauce, we'll then, THE Noun
tain Man" will not be so bad.
There is some good work on the
part of George Gaul, Betty Jane
Southgate (about the sweetest little
thing we have had this season. Eliza
beth Taylor and Aldrich Bowker.
Others in the Cast include Lael
Corya twas not so impressed with
her work at any time). Judith Lowry,
Alan Floud, Larry Fletcher. Teresa
Dale, John Storey and Harry Eller-
bee.
This is the last week of the Stuart
Walker Company this season at
Keiths. 1.-The Mountain Man" will
taste like honey and sugar and as
that as the final taste most Of us
will not regret because Walker has
doue some mighty big things this
season.
THE Mountain Man" is just
pleasant entertainment and nothing
else.
At Keith's all week, closing Sun
day night.
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Notification

Having accused Al Smith and
Senator Wadsworth of "nulliflca-
ton Bishop Adna w. Leonard.
speaking before the citizens confer
ence at Round Lake, N. Y, on Sun
day said:
mo Governor can kiss the. papal
ring and get within gunshot of the
White House?"
If that is not notification" what
is Il?
Where does the Constitution put
up any bars because of religious be-
lief, and if not. what right has any
citizen to put them up?
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Did they go from feeling of sympathy? That
would be f1attering explanation.
And when people pay their tribute of dollars to
the of Trde will they do it because they have
caught the image of the courage the infinite sacri-
fee, the training which preceded her feat, will
they go like sheep because her name has been
blazoned by greedy men who capitalize the swollen
muscles and tongue Of this brave girl?
There have been a dozen great souls who came
into their own in Indiana in the past year.
One of them won prize for appeal of oratory
with topic of patriotism You, too, have forgotten
his name
There was the boy who raised the best pig. And
girl who had the best half of And another
a silent dreamer in college who wrote poem which
thrilled and lifted the thoughts above the level of
sordidness.
Very fortunately we still have men and women
who go among the youth of the land and inspire them
write poetry and plays, to win in the gift OF
torical appeal, to raise pigs and corn.
For after the feat Of the unusual girl has been
forgotten and after the unfortunate twins have be-
come commonplace and no longer capable of CAPT.
talization the world will still be eating pork and
corn still be thrilled by poetry still respond to dra
matte gesture and still yield to the fervor of the
orator.
What would you rather be?
Trudie who swan across channel or the
college boy who wrote, did Denne ONeill, great
poem?
Would you rather raise prize pig or be mon
strosity?
The world still pays more for the unusual.
Some day it may give its prizes to the useful and
the inspiring
John D. Rockefeller says he never worries. We
wouldn't, either.
Bamboo seeds eaten by the Hindoos, but we
would be afraid they would make our joints stiff.
Politician leads hard life. Never knows whether
to sit on the water wagon the fence.
If get rich we are going to hire some
dentist to let us bite his thumb.
Morgantown Q<y) minister was shot while preach
ing by some who should have been listening.
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Hay in London

Ian Hay, known more famil-
r larry as Major Tan Hay Beth,
Is spending most of the sum-
mer at his London home In
Berkeley Square. He has an
occasional chat with P. w.
Wodehouse and "gets about a
Bit" but the life Of so prolific
a writer is not a leisurely/one.
Major Beth, aside from being
a popular lecturer, is the author
of fifteen books. and his six
teenth, ''dalf a Sovereign" will
be published this fall by Hough-
ton Mifflin Company. More than
two and quarter million cop
les of his earlier books have
been sold.