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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03
VOTE FOR REMY

Whatever other selections the men and women
of the Republican party may make in tomorroWs
primary let it be hoped that they will not surrender
to the machine in the matter of William Remy.
The machine is planning to defeat this coura-
geous prosecuting attorney who refuses to be either
bufed or bought.
The machine does not like who show the
courage which it took to send D. c. Stephenson to
the penitentiary.
There is really no use in having machine If
you cannot control the men who enforce laws ana
thus secure favors for underworld characters.
The machine understands that if it can get rid
Of Remy in the primary its chance of making farce
of all law and justice of selling privilege to gamblers
and booteggers, will be greatly increased.
That is the the men who control that
machine have lined up their forces to defeat Remy
These bosses are much more concerned in the
defeat of Remy than in the selection of Watson and
Robinson although they have made definite bargains
for them.
They want to punish Remy, to make independ
ence unpopular and discourage any other men from
asserting the right to obey their oaths of office
To defeat Remy means more than revenge
for his refusal to take orders for his successful
prosecution of Stephenson
1t means the defeat of decent government, the
downfall of law
The attack Remy is challenge to every man
and woman of the Republican party who has
gard for either that party for the welfare of the
county and CITY,
The defeat of Remy only that the
party itself has passed to the control of those who
will rent it to the lawbreaker, the bootlegger, the
gambler, the disorderly.
Can that happen?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03
EGYPT AND THE OLD HACK
HORSE

1t was not without smile of sympathetic under
standing that read of Egypts shying at John d.
Rockefeller Jrs $1OOOOOOO, gift and his final with
drawal of the more than generous offer.
Did you reach out to rub the nose of some
poor old hack horse and have him violently jerk his
head away and show you the whites of his eyes?
Used only to blows and unacquanted with caresses,
the animal thought you were going to do him an
injury.
Egypt is like that horse. She is an ancient
try and in all her thousands of years of history few
have been the disinterested acts of kindness done
her. The only rubbing her nose has received has
been into the ground.
Thus when young Mr. Rockefeller, few months
ago. offered her $10o00,00O to build and endow
great museum of antiquities and bureau of archae-
illogical research, she couldn't quite comprehend it.
A hundred thousand dollars she could have under
stood, but ten million Mr. Rockefeller certainly
must have designs the Sphinx the pyramids or
something.
There we're, however, strings tied to the
Rockefeller gift. The museum was to be Egypts,
lock, stock and barrel. Americas richest young man
merely asked that American, British, French and
other archaeologiss should be allowed to cooperate
with Egypt in bringing to light, for purposes of
study, of Egypt's fascinating and distant past.
The museum would have brought the whole world
TO Egypt, to marvel
But Egypt like the hack horse, was suspicious.
Nobody in Egypt ever does anything for nothing
Baksheesh is expected for whatever is done and
the greater the service performed the bigger the
taksheesh demanded.
So Premier Ziwar Pasha, under the politest Of
exteriors, examined the ten-mon-dollar gift so
croscopicaly, top side, bottom side, sidewse and so
thoroughly, that ito relieve Egypt of further embar
rassment" Mr.. Rockefeller withdrew his offer. It's
too bad but under the circumstances it the only
thing to do.
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ing tndL all WOIH-
en- of Vienna and Austria as well
had a tough time of it. Women suf-
fer during war, regardless of their
caste. Nobility may suffer with a
little more grand feeling. but a poor
woman can get just as hungry and
poor. Conway Tearle and Anna O.;
Nilsson head a cast which looks like
the actors Blue Book.
The movie is really a film version
of Edith O'Shaughnessy's novel,
The Viennese Medley" Great
things was expected from this story
and movie. And yet when the story
is carefully studied it does not ring
true, as the central female charac-
ter. Fanny, turns out to be a very
bad sort during the war. She plays
in with fast men, runs a gambling
house and keeps faster company.
And yet she is able to help iinan-
cially some of the old royal flowers
of Vienna during the cold war days.
Fanny is not a character who invites
either sympathy or understanding.
If the theme had remained as lofty
as II started out TO be and the theme
was as gigantic as the directing,
then THE Greater Glory" might
have been one of the wonder pic.
lures of the year.
And yet, please do not misunder.
stand, "The Greater Glory" is n
wonderfully directed and acted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03
BACK TO THE
STARTING POINT

The new Shortridge High
School is to be built on the site az
Thirty-Fourth and Meridian SIS,
and is to have a capacity Of $500
pupils. Such was the decision Of
the Indianapolis school board ar
its last meeting.
Around the world and back
again to the starting point. That's
the history Of the Shortridge
project in the past four conten.
tious months. Citizens general
~ hope now it will settle down,
take off its coat and go to work.
1t is a happy ending Of bitter
controversy. Perhaps the Thirty
Fourth st, location isl not ideal.
At any rate the sincerity Of those
board members who opposed erect
ing the new building there is not
questioned.
But public opinion unquestion-
ably favored that site. And as
Commissioner Nonnegut said, in
voting for it: The people want
the school at Thirty-Fourth st. I
think it is 4 mistake. But the
whole town Is tired of this con
lroVcrsy."
So the board bowed gracefully
to public opinion and should be
applauded for the act. However 1t
has only bowed half way.
More than settlement Of the
question Of site and architectural
details, public opinion is anxious
for the new Shortridge to become
a reality. 1t is the actual school
building not the promise Of a
school building that is urgently
needed
Consequently the average citizen
hopes the 1edgling spirit OF com.
promise that has appeared will
hover over the school board
sessions and the Shortridsc project
be pushed to completion as rapid.
ly as possible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03
THE VANISHING
TREES

One hundred and twelve walnut
trees and ninety.nine ash trees on
a farm in Hamilton County have
been sold to a sawmill operator.
These trees, said to be the lorgest
collection of virgin timber of the
kind to be found on one farm in
central Indiana, brought a fancy
price.
And less than a hundred years
ago great areas of the State were
covered with such trees.
The incident gives point to the
refOrestation programs urged by
conservation enthusiasts and ma
ture lovers. In three generations
the forest primeval has dis
appeared from Indiana. once a
timber producing State, full Of
sawmills and lumber barons, it
now imports practically all Of the
lumber it uses.
The Hoosier pioneers. with
sweat and blisters, chopped farms
out of the woods. And now the
nation consumes annually four
times as much timber as it grows,
while wild trees are almost as
scarce in Indiana as wild Indians.
The plain, untutored citizen
may know nothing Of forestry or
trees. lie may not know an oak
from a sycamore. But he does
know that a landscape entirely
denuded of trees Is dead, unlovely
and uninviting. Trees appeal to
him as something more than so
many board feet of merchandise
lumber and something more than
a convenient place to hang
horsethief. Call it an esthetic APP
peal, if you will.
And unless a reforestation policy
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The Foreign Viewpoint Is Reflected in
Three New Movies on View This Week

get into the atmosphere of this
story which is that Of the quest of
a rich young man of Paris to find
love and romance where it exists.
Mr.. Nagel has no trouble catching
the spirit of the theme. He is easy
to look at and knows the needed
trick in acting to put over his
scenes. are handled with the correct
sassy punch.
1t took me some little time to be-
come acquainted with several of the
odd types introduced in this story.
it will require several more years
before the screen is properly suited
for projecting smart romantic
modern comedy. The bill includes
an organ solo by Ruth Noller, play
ing Say 1t Again." music by the
Charlie Davis orchestra and Alice
Day. in "A Love Sundae
At the Ohio all week.
The Stuart Walker Company to-
night opens its season Of ten weeks
at Keith's by presenting white
Collars"
Other theaters today offer: 1.-The
oxford Four" at the Lyric; What
Price Glory" at English's; Brown
County VS.. Broadway" at the
Palace; burlesque at the Broadway
and THE Border Sheriff" at the
Isis.
Sally" annual show Of the
Harlequin Club Of Purdue Uni
versity, will be presented tonight at
the Murat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03
SIGNERS OF
PAROLE PETITIONS

Action of Judge Mount OF the
Upton Circuit Court, who last
winter sentenced four young
thieves to the State Reformatory.
in calling before him forty signers
of the petition for parole OF the
quartet, reveals one Of the chief
obstacles to justice and law en-
forcemcnt--the easily produced sig
natures TO clemency petitions.
Three of the signers, questioned
by the Upton judge, were bankers.
men of substance and standing IN
their communities. TWO of these
said they thought the four young
thieves had been punished enough,
so they signed the pearole petit
ton. one wonders if they would
have felt the same If the petition
had been for release Of quartet
Of bank robbers.
The third banker admitted frank
ly that he appended his name "be-
cause / saw that a good many
others had signed it and did not
wish TO refuse the request Of the
boys father"
In that statement is one Of the
principal reasons for Ineffective
ness of law enforcement.
Many good, upright citizens cuss
the courts, juries, prosecutors,
and police officers for failure to
check crime. Speedy and stern
dealing with criminals is de-
manded.
Then when a lawbreaker is con-
victed and scarcely before he
starts to serve his sentence n lot
Of these same upright citizens sign
petitions for clemency. They do
it just to be obliging, because 10Th
ers had signed" without consid-
eling whether there are valid rea-
sons for leniency.
Don't blame pardon boards and
judicial machinery for pamper-
ing criminals and turning them
loose with mild reproof. The care
less E3gners on parole petitions are
equally at fault. 1t is their duty
as citizens, as much as it is the
duty of the courts, to assist, not
hinder law enforcement.
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Is Iull OF the re-
allstic touches which one expects TO
see in a De Mile production. This
touch is we'll revealed in several
scenes which are going TO be dis.
cussed this week. In one scene a
princess disguised as a poor Rus
sian girl, falls into the hands of
the White Army Of nobility during
the revolution when the Red Army
or the people has just started its
war on the Car. The officers ask
the commanding officer to give"
the girl to them. The officer does
this. The girl is placed upon a
table, surrounded with men. Instead
of showing the object of this dis
gushing sight, De Mile turns the
eye OF the camera from the girl
onto the faces Of the officers as they
watch the clothing removed from
the body Of the girl. 1t will be in.
teresting to note just how this trick
of realism will be received over
the country.
DE Mile has been successful in
registering the protest of the lowly
Russian boatman Of the old days.
He really has photographed mental
revolution, the continual protest of
man against the established political
order of things.
The theme Of THE Volga Boat
man. is disquietng at times, but
1t does hold ones interest as the
people fight for political control. The
really disturbing element Of the
story Is the sex interest. I do not
know whether to call it realistic sex
or just plain melodrama.
If l take this picture seriously. I
Will consider this phase Of the film
as realism, but as yet am not pre-
pared to accept il as realism.
To mo The Volga Boatman" did
not come mp TO just what l expected.
although ] admit that it as a splen-
didly directed movie. and in several
Instances the realism reflected is
honest realism. I have never seen
picture that gave me as many
different viewpoints as this one.
This movie is peopled by a mar.
Vicious cast. as follows:
Feodor. No=a boatman william BOYD
Vera. a Princess Of Russia Eliuor Far
Prlnce Nlkita her father. Robert Edcson
Prince W. Dimitr,. an officer. in the
Mariusha. Tartar campfolower.
stephen a mute blacksmith. . Y''''a ~ :
v-.,;... ..........,,... Theodore Koslon
'aSll boatman. ......... Arthur Rankin
William Boyd does remarkable
piece Of work as the Nolga boatman
who dreamed Of freeing Russia and
who found time to marry a Princess
and save her life. Ilinor Fair
starts out with a rather halfway
Characterization. but about the mid.
die Of the picture she starts doing
some splendid work. and she contin-
ues doing wonderful work until the
end Of the picture.
One expects realistic work from
Robert Edeson. Julia Faye and Theo,
dOre Kosloff.
1t seems to me that the best way
to view The Volga Boatman" is
to consider it melodramatic theater
and not realism
The bill includes the American
Harmonists, Aesop Fable and a news
reel
At the Colonial all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03
LOUISE DRESSER STEALS
MOST OF THE HONORS HERE

If my judgment is not all wrong
there is going to be a lot of talk
about the work OF Louise Dresser
in The Blind Goddess" although
Jack Holt, Ernest Terrence and Els
Their Ralston are featured members
OF the cast.
Miss Dresser has one Of those
sob mother emotional roles who suf-
fers nearly everything but death so
that her daughter may have hap
piness.
The mother Of this story loved hen
daughter heap more when she was
grown up than when she was a baby
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03
Indianapolis Starts It's Music Week Programs

Music in its highest form is be.
schools, theaters, industries and the
institutions of Indianapolis this
week through the efforts Of pro-
fessional musicians cooperating with
the Fine Arts committee of the
Indianapolis Chamber Of Commerce.
Every phase of the city's life will.
in some way, be touched by the in
fluence of better music during Ma
tional Music Week, which opened
Sunday with special sermons in
many of the churches and choir re-
citals in practically all Of them.
For the past three years the In
dianapolis Chamber of Commerce.
has sponsored National Music week,
extending the activities from year to
year with the State Music Contest.
in which more than 1000 Indiana
high school students are entered as
the featured activity around which
all other undertakings are con-
ceived.
Under the guidance OF Elmer A.
Steffen. the general program SUB.
committee Of the Fine Arts commit.
tee arranged approximately fifty
concerts, recitals or special music
events for the week, in addition to
the State Music Contest and State
music concert. which will be held at
Cadle Tabernacle on the concluding
day of the week.
These concerts and recitals will
be given by the leading schools OF
music and by professional musicians
who have cooperated with the Cham
Der Of Commerce in planning a
weeks program Of activity.
Band concerts on the south steps
of the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors
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fuses and tells her that their daugh-
ter loved her memory. as she
thought her mother was dead. In
the meantime the mother had threat
ened to shoot herself and left her
revolver on the library desk in the
mansion Of her husband She leaves
the house, prepared to make no trou-
BILE. The next morning her husband
is found dead in his library. Cir
cumstantial evidence points to her
guilt Then for about four reels you
have one of the most dramatic ex-
periences the screen has afforded for
some time. The woman refuses to
talk.
The court scenes are the real
article. The director has been care
full to photograph a court scene as
it nearly exists in actual life in
stead of giving the public another
extreme theatrical courtroom scene.
Louise Dresser is cast as the
mother and she probably gives the
most commanding screen charac.
terization of her career. She is
great artist in putting over this
mother love stuff and she is always
in character
Ernest Terrence is the father,
Big Biz Devens. and of course
he registers with ease. Jack Holt
is the sweetheart of Mora Devens.
played by Esther Ralston.
THE Blind Goddess" comes under
the head Of good theater. Bill in
cludes a Mack Sonnet CON edy, a
now reel, singing by Henderson and
Weber and music by Emil SeideI
and his orchestra.
At the Apollo all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03
Movie Verdict

CIFCLE-The sight Of royal
ty suffering when Vienna was
at war is shown in THE
Greater Glory" The story is
weak but a most magnificent
directed production and a costly
one has been given.
OHIO-"The Exquisite Sin.
ner" is an attempt to photo
graph the various moods of
romance.
COLONIAL - The very
theme and the method of
handling the THE Volga Boat
man" is going to cause a lot of
talk this week.
APOLLO-"The Blind God.
dess." has many virtues as
movie and some fine character
work on the part OF Louise
Dresser. After it gets started
1t is corking good theater.
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ed over the concert since It will
serve to bring out the very best
IN each competing organization. At
tho conclusion of the concert awards
VIII be made to the winners.
In discussing the program all
ready outlined, IIolcomb said it was
significant that music should be
taken to institutions, State and local.
into which very little music is in.
troduced in the course Of a year.
Sunnyside Sanitarium. the In.
dianapolis Orphans Home. the
Blind Institute, the County Poor
Farm, the Home for the Aged and
other such institutions will be
visited by bands of musicians, who
will give free.will concerts to
brighten the lives Of the inmates.
' Under the direction Of Mrs. Lillian
NJ. Lemon. the Indianapolis Music
Promoters, composed of the leading
negro musicians of tho city, will
give numerous concerts and recitals,
opening the week with a radio con.
cert which will be broadcast from
the Carr Studio, Michigan and Del
aware SITS" through the courtesy OF
station WFBM, Merchants Heat
and Light Company. OF this city.
The first band concert Of the week
TO be given at noon time on the
Circle will begin promptly at l2
o'clock Monday, when the Indian
apolis Newsboys' Band, directed by
j. b. Nandaworker, will give an
hours concert. Miss Helen Payne.
soprano soloist, will give a group Of
songs to the accompaniment Of tho
band. The Postoffice Band will ap-
pear on Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03
FABLES IN FACT

ONCE THERE WAS A FELLA
WHO TRIED TO GIVE HIMSELF
A HAIR SINCE PERIOD TWAS
so BLAMED SUCCESSFUL THAT
HE BURNED ALL THE HAIR
OFF HIS HEAD PERIOD LOOKED
KINDA FUNNY THAT WAY COM
MA so HE STARTED USING
EVERY BRAND or HAIR TONIC
COMMA AND GROWER NE
COULD FIND PERIOD FROM
LATEST REPORTS HE IS RE
COVERING PERIOD
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Monument at noon each day begin
ming today. will be a feature Of the
program designed entirely for the
purpose of taking music to thou
sands Of persons who have scant
opportunity to hear the better kinds
Of music
Big Day Saturday
On next Saturday when the In
diana high school organizations are
here for the State music contests,
more than three hundred students
Will appear in a massed band CON
cert at the Monument on the Circle,
at which time announcement will
be made by the judges as to the two
best organizations which will com
pete that night at the State music
concert for first and second prize
awards.
All day Saturday contests between
bands, orchestras, mixed choruses.,
girls glee clubs and boys glee
clubs from twenty-five Indiana
cities will be in progress in va.
rious points Of the city. The band
contest will be held at Cadle Taber-
nacle, starting at s o'clock in the
morning, the orchestra contest will
be held in Caleb Mills Hall, and the
glee clubs will hold their contest
in the new auditorium Of the Manual
Training High School.
The concluding feature Of the
week will be the State music con
cert given under the auspices of
the fine arts committee at Cadle
Tabernacle next Saturday night
when the two best organizations
from each classification will contest
for first and second awards of $500
each and $50 each, respectively.
Great enthusiasm Is being manifest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03
ROMANTIC ATMOSPHERE ON
VIEW AT THE OHIO

Again we have the European view.
point in THE Exquisite Sinner"
This time the atmosphere is 70.
mantle.
This time the atmosphere is
brought to the screen by Renee
Adoree. the French girl in "rhe Big
Parade" and Conrad Nagel.
1.-THE Exquisite Sinner" can best
be explained by saying that there is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03
THE CIRCLE PRESENTS
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT

In considering The Greater
Glory" as movie entertainment I
again have conflicting opinions.
THE Greater Glory" attempts to
show the suffering of the old no
bility of Austria in Vienna during
the war and afterward
At times it is as majestic in theme
as THE Four Horsemen" as these
symbols Of war figure in the theme
of THE Greater Glory" The story
gets started before the war, when
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03
R KHRE IN INDIANA Sn G1f50nR

is speedily undertaken by State
and individuals, with tree planting
on Il large scale, Indiana faces q
treeless future. The State APP
breaches badness. The cure
should not be DELAYED.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
BY Walter ID. Hickman

The foreign viewpoint in matters
political as well as of love is re-
flected III THE Volga Boatmani"
as we'll as two other movies on view
in the city this week.
This new Cecil B. De Mile directed
movie will be the cause of much dis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03
Times Readers
Voice Vices
Editor Times:

Editor Times:
1 want to express to you my APP
probation Of your support of Will
liam II. Remy. 1t seems to me that
he is entitled to the support of law
citizens. l think most peo-
pie would be willing to say that he
had done we'll and should be re-
electd, but few people would have
the nerve to come out with the
statements which recently appeared
in your paper.
Very truly yours.
J. c. MOORE.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-03

Vienna was the
aristocratic cen :
ter OF Europe.
Here you meet
members of the
royal old group
Of Austria. The
grand women are
grand in man.
ners and appear.
ance. The direc-
tor, June Mathis,
has done a fine
Job Of type cast
ing for these old
former flowers of
the nobility of
Vienna. When l
study the story
l have the feel
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cussion because
the theme itself is
concerned W j t h
the overthrow of
the old Russia and
the Introduction of
the new free
DOM" De Mile
has taken the title
Of a well known
song, THE Volga
Boatman" and has
given that title to
the story by Lee
more J. Coffee,
adapted ( + o m
konrad Bercovici s
novel. This movie