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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
THEY WANTED FARCE AND
so THEY ENGAGED HERSHOLT

The screen is sadly in need of
competent actors of farce and even
the stage is not too well stocked.
It is nearly necessary to develope
an actor along these lines. Several
legitimate actors have made good in
this work on the screen, but Uni.
versal has decided, it seems to raise
at least one example of farce. And
Jean Hersholt is the choice and his
first important vehicle along that
line is THE Wrong Mr.. Wright" 1t
is one Of those mistaken identity
affairs in which the elderly hero
starts out to be a plain boob and
then turns out to be a very fancy
person. The story gives Hersholt
chance to impersonate about every
thing with the exception of the
Prince of Wales falling off of a horse
but Hersholt gets many a fall but 1t
is not from a horse. 1t is from a
detective, who has an awful punch
in his arm and a lot Of wrong
imagination.
The Wrong Mr.. Wright" is just
theater and at times it is more than
entertaining theater. as it sparkles
in places, especially when Hersholt
impersonates an old man. This "old
man" is assaulted by a detective and
prize fighter takes the "old mans"
part, but the "old man" permits his
age to vanish and he gets a sock on
the jaw. And it is nearly more than
sock, because it is an entire cam
paign.
THE Wrong Mr.. Wright" is an in
dividual vehicle for Hersholt as an
actor in farce. 1t was a good choice.
The subtitles are at times a little
too wise, but the work of Hersholt
proves that even a smart subtitle
writer may even be misunderstood
by the actor and the guy who wrote
the story.
This movie is funny theater. 1t
accomplishes it's purpose to entertain
we'll, and Hersholt does that in THE
Wrong Mr.. Wright" The title
writer should be shot at sunrise for
not getting into the real spirit Of
the fun.
Hersholt has the services of Enid
Bennett. Walter HERS the man
somebody wanted to make a star
some years ago., Dorothy De Wore,
Edgar Kennedy and others.
The stage offering this week is
THE Song Box Revue" The melody
and the dancing is miles above the
common comedy presented. The
comedy follows burlesque and revue
lines. ! do not mean offensive bur-
lesque, but ancient alleged comedy
stuff. A young chap, the juvenile,
has a way about him which hits
with the audience. He knows how to
use his feet and he knows how to
dress and how to wear the things
after they are on.
This revue has the services of a
number of women who know how to
put over a song, although handi-
capped by poor lights and effects.
The women principals and the girls
in the. chorus are the ones who will
put this revue over with the help
of that juvenile chap.
At the Colonial all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
Profitable Ferries

san Francisco, though on the
mainland, is comparatively isolated
by "the bay" and the Golden Gate.
The bay is sixty-fve miles long
and parallels the Pacific. 1t is con.
necttd with the ocean by a channel
some mile and half wide.
San Francisco occupies the end of
the peninsula which forms the south
'ern side of this channel.
To get out of the city people must
either cross the bay, go around it on
the south or cross Golden Gate.
Ferry companies, mostly owned
and controlled by railroads, are max
ing a great deal of money through
this convenience.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
White Mans Issue

For four centuries the Atlantic
has been churned by the hottest
passions of mankind. Beneath its
restless bosom lie the bleached bones
of millions who died for they know
not what.
is the story to be repeated on the
Pacific, or have we learned better?
San Francisco looms as a ques-
ton mark in the white mans west
ern sky.
Whether for good or evil, she rep
resents his most advanced strong.
hold.
If it is to be peace. she will be-
come a metropolis. II war, center
of the maelstrom of death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
.S3O,OOO,OOO Bridge

The project for building a bridge
across Golden Gate has virtually
been worked out.
The bridge will have to be very
more than 800 feet
not only to permit the passage of
ships, but to take advantage of the
cliffs which are on both sides. 1t
represents a stupendous engineering
feat which will cost $30,OO0,000 or
more.
A bridge district is being formed,
including San Francisco and neigh
boring counties, and the proposition
for issuing the needed bonds will
soon be submitted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
Over Deep Water

To bridge San Francisco Bay, con-
Meeting the city with Oakland. is a
much bigger and more difficult
project.
Five or six miles of water Will
have to be spanned at the minimum
and in some places it is more than
200 feet deep, not counting mud.
All kinds of plans have been pre-
scented, and several private enter
prises profess willingness TO under
take the project providing they can
have their way about tolls.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
Music Master as a Movie Gets Into
the Heart Just as It Did on the Stage

First, they are chiefly entertainers,
and being so they can entertain any
place. You recall that Mary Pick
ford grew up with the movies. There
is now a new industry, that of air
entertainment, and several artists
are growing up with that new pub
lie. That is true with Ford and
Glenn.
At the Circle all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
Public Aroused

This bridge has became an allah.
sorbing topic of public discussion. No
less than nineteen propositions have
been made for its financing and con.
struction by private interests.
The people of San Francisco, how.
ever, are not sold on the idea of
paying tolls for the next generation.
The fact that private interests ap-
pear ready to undertake the job con-
vines them it is practical.
If practical. why shouldn't it be
done through public credit?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
AND MIR. DIX HATES
WOMEN THIS TIME UNTIL

Richard Dix is as popular a star
upon the screen as there is today
among the men.
The men respect him and the
women love him. In his new COM
edy, Paradise for Two" Richard
tries to be woman hater, but the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

Dear Mr. FiXit: / wrote you in |
gard to the mud on Climber St, y
months ago and so far no result
We can't get coal or anything (
livered. have paid $3.50 asset
ment on two lots and all / can $
for the money is sidewalks and abo
ten feet of Shiny mud on the sire
Please get us some cinders or ar
thing to make the street passable.
j. ri
Woodward told Mr.. FiXit that \
would send a man to'look at til
street at once. He said that
would be attended to as soon as
was possible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
BY Walter ID. Hickman

When a play has kissed the
imagination, the heart and even the
soul of those who go TO the theater
as did THE Music Master" upon
the stage. then it must be marvel
GUS director who makes as good a
movie out of ii.
1t seems to me that Allan Dawn
when he started to put THE Music
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
Movie Verdict

COLONIZATION Davies and
Owen Moore have lot of
trouble in making The Red
Mill' good comedy and rely
mostly on the sub-titles.
CIRCLE-"The Music Master"
is as sweet and beautiful on the
screen as one could expect a
good piece of theater to be.
APOLLO - The cast an
nounces Richard Dix in
Paradise for Two" That ex-
plains everything.
COLONIAL-When you see
1.-THE Wrong Mr.. Wright" con-
slider it as farce and nothing
but that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
TT1
San Francisco, Where
Future Calls Louder
Than Past,
By NJ. T.. Tracy

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Feb. T.
Here is a town through which the
future calls more strongly than the
past, not the narrow, selfish fu-
ture of municipal growth, but the
future of a nation.
Put geography out of your mind,
and then ask what lies beyond the
Golden Gate.
Navigators have circled the globe
and charted the seven seas, but
who has fathomed what the clash
of races and civilization will yet
bring forth?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07


Times signing full name and address,
Name will not be published If desired
Mr.. FiXit receives complaints
every kind from every part Of Z
city. In the last month the col
plants OF poor streets out-number
all other complaints two to one. NJ
F'iXit had a talk with Chester
OberIeas, city engineer, and Geor
Woodward. street conmissionl
about the condition of the streets.
Woodward told Mr.. E'iXit that mo
Of the alleys and streets would
at least cindered if money and equi
ment for the work were availabl
Lack OF these two things Is what
holding UP the work he said, Obj
1eas stated that he had begun
an extensive paved street repair ~
gram last week. The downtown 50
ton will be repaired first, he So
Other streets will come UP for
pair as soon as possible. Lack
equipment is holding UP this wo
also he told Mr.. Fixit.
One of the letters Mr.. Fixit
ceived today asking for street repa
work is:
Dear Mr.. FiXit: Can't there
something done for residents on
Talbot St? Holes and puddles
the vicinity of 1887 S. Talbot S
are almost impossible. A pipe lir
layed last year, was never proper
filed in and close to the curb aut
mobiles nearly upset. A petit n
was circulated some time ago b
nothing was ever heard of it. Than
for anything you can do for us
A CITIZEN.
This matter was turned over
the city engineer who promised
look into the matter at once. II
also stated that he would find OF
what had become of the petition
it had been presented to the boar
of works.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
A CITY MANAGER

Those citizens who believe in the divorce of
city government from partisan politics and the es
Enlistment of business system city government
must be alert if they desire to secure the benefits
of such change.
The measure before the Legislature to prevent
any change during the term of Office of an elected
mayor has been useful because 1t has brought con-
fession of viewpoint of the politicians toward a
public office.
Why, they ask, should man go to the expense
of making campaign and not be entitled to serve
out the time?
Analyze that question and you have the whole
view of the political machine toward public office.
1t is not the opportunity to serve the people who
elect him, but private possession, something of
value, which it would be wrong to take ayay from
him.
IL is, from their view, much his property as
his nome, his automobile his clothes bought and
paid for with campaign funds, property right that
is his
When he vas his money to induce voters to
elect him, he buys something, is their belief
That takes away all the bunk of the usual claim
mat the candidate yields to the call of public duty
that he is called to the task by public sentiment that
he only serves in response to a public CALL
The job is his, they claim-the Job with it's
power to give out jobs and contracts, to draw the
salary, to enjoy the perqusites
1t is just that viewpoint of public office which
Is bringing many to belief that the city manager
form OF government is BETTER a city manager who
can be removed when he fails to serve who can he
discarded IL he uses his power for selfish ends or
private purposes.
10 take away a job for which he has paid out
good money in a campaign shocks these politicians.
1t is robbery, they assert
But what about the right of the pecpIe IN b.ua
the government they wish?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

master" on the
screen felt the
love that thou
sands and other
thousands hold for
the stage play
when David War
field made it a
classic of the
heart. IT takes a
big and an honest
director to feel the
inheritance of q
big thing of the
rheater. A n d
Dawn recognized
that he could not
tamper with Il big
heart play. Too
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

JuuglflS from SOllle
of the pictures we
have seen lately.
"The Red MilP' is
no exception to
this. With Marion
Davies and Owen
Moore in a picture
one would think it
would be a knock
out as a comedy
feature. but, in
our opinion, 1.-The
Red Mill" is just a
lot of yyise-cracks
hurriedly punched
together and used
as subtitles for a
ra t h e r mediocre
picture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

What is the relative PURCHASE
value of a dollar between 1918 al
1925?
Taking the average OF the ye
1918 as a base, computed in Decei
Der of each year. for all conn
dities, as compiled from figures '
the United States Bureau of Lab
Statistics. the value of a dollar 4
each year has been as follows: Il
cember, 1913, S1,01; 1914, s1O3; 191
SO cents; 1916, 81 cents; 1917,
cents; 1918, so cents; 1919, As cent
1920, Sc cents; 1921, 81 cents; 1872
81 cents; 1928, &C cents; 1924.
cents, and 1925. ga cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

uIdD WOIIlell III MS
audience knows
that he is just
acting and the
men know that he
is acting mighty
good.
The men are
wise that Dix hat.
ing women is only
applesauce and
the women in the
audience wait un-
Ill the time he
Tashes to swe cite
,;iat has been 'ov-
ing him for a long
time. AS you sus-
pect, it takes a
rich man to hate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

that droll-looking little fellow of in
determinate age, is present and pro-
vides most of the legitimate comedy.
Turn to Page 81
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
How did New Jersey get its name?

How did New Jersey get its name?
Land in New Jersey was originally
a grant TO Sir George Carteret, who
named it for his home on the Isle
of Jersey. off the coast of England.
What is the average length of life
in the United States?
For white males. 1923 years; for
white females. 57.41 years; for Negro
males, 1892 years, and for Negro
females. 40.2S.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

The Music Master" is a thing of
the heart. 1t is beautiful. A senti-
mental treat.
Ford and Glenn, those two very
successful gentlemen of the air VINO
have taken the place of the Mother
Goose book for children. are the
chief contributing melody factors
this week. They open with their
kiddie bedtime fairyland stuff and
they are an appropriate attraction
with the feature film. These men
deliver clean and individual enter
tainment. Their Lazy Mary" is a
comedy gem and they get into the
heart with MY Kid" And they
know how, when and why to deliver
their comedy.
We have arrived at that day when
radio, entertainers are not to be dis
missed with a sneer. The individual
radio entertainer has come to stay.
That applies to Ford and Glenn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

What is Lloyd Hughes address
First National Studios, Burba1i
Cal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

What is the population Of
British Empire?
1t is estimated at 10000, 900.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

The marines have been busy lately with tire
wars-China Nicaragua and the postofice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
THE OBSERVER HAS
HIS OWN IDEAS

Stories for movie stars must be ex-
ceedingly hard to find these days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07
MR.. FIXIT'
Complaints of Pot
Streets Numerous,

Mr. FiXit is The Times represents
tive at the city hall He will be glad
present your case to the proper cit
officials, Write him in care of TIL
Times signing full name and address,
Name viii not be published II desired
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

VINO remembers way back when men used 70
wear wire colarshapers under their coats?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

How about indoor sports? What color pant,
guards should parcheesi player wear?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

II couple more countries get hard toward
America, maybe we'll have to raise another regiment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

Nervous Nellie Kellogg wants to find out all
about the Shanghai gesture
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-07

AteC ID. FfdAlClS many know now
to react to the
simple tragedy of Anton Won Bar.
wig who devoted more than sixteen
years in America. searching for an
unfaithful wife and a beautiful
daughter.
He knew that 1.-THE Music Master"
was a treasured thing of the stage
and to harm it in one wonderful
situation would spell ruin not only
for the cast but the director. And
Dwan with this treasure of the
stage. And the casting director was
more than right when he gave Alec
b. Francis the part of the music
master.
AS nobody has cheated on the heri-
tage of this fine and effective piece
of the theater, THE Music Master"
as a movie is still the marvellous and
sympathetic cameo of the heart as it
was upon the stage.
First, for Francis as the master.
He invites love himself. He is never
hard and cold. He couldn't be and
the music master when he had re-
venge in his hand could only give
love. Francis does not stretch the
poverty idea of the master as much
as Warfield, but one gets the idea
when the collector comes around
and takes away the piano. we know
that he is broke, but he speaks the
dream that he has wanted them to
take away the 'old tin pam for
three weeks.
And in the scenes of suffering. the
keeping of the shrine of his unfaith-
full wife, Francis is able to register
that suffering not as a disease Of an
old man and as a has-been but as
a great and beautiful personality
who once had the privilege to love
completely. And that is the keynote
of the character of the music master.
The love element is beautifully
done by Lois Moran. She is beau
tifully effective. Even in her long
dress in the days when it was indie
cent for a woman even to expose her
dainty toe, let alone the heel, Miss
Moran sweeps the long train to sue
cess. She is charming and always in
character.
The entire cast is so good that l
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-04-13

able measure by increasing the use Of
horses and mules in cities, towns, and
villages, where every horse put to
work creates an annual market for
three tons of hay, one Of straw, and
$50 bushels of oats, or other grain
equivalent thereto; and it will be as
sisted in coming by use Of more
horses and mules on farms, especial
ly in big teams (eight or more) which
simultaneously reduces surplus food
thrown on cash markets and reduces
farm production costs.
These things can be done if farm
leaders and business men who are in
terested in lettering farm conditions
will act together as vigorously as
they have in trying to secure relief
by Legislation.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-04-13

tion already is upon the highways, the
first hardy thousands setting out at
the first signing Of spring. Every
touring erea in the country is report
ing substantial increases and these
reports have been borne out by the
demands for touring information made
at automobile clubs. The cult of the
open road is in session.
Camping facilities have been great
ly improved and extended and their
development seems certain to make
this phase Of touring much more
popular setting a new record in 1927
for the migratory travellers. There
will be more people, young and old,
on the road than ever before. There
will be more cars, more money, more
pleasure.
A few years ago vacation travel
was considered an expensive luxury.
Today it can be made almost as in
expensive as living at home for the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-04-13
III. GRANT PREDICTS
INCREASED MOTOR TRAVEL,

The nations greatest migration is
to be made this summer.
According to figures furnished R.
H. Grant, general sales manager of
the Chevrolet Motor Company, by Of
ficials of the American Automobile
Association, before the close of 1927
100000 people third Of the
country's population-will travel by
motor car. Their wheeled flight over
highways and byways, mountain and
plain, constitute the most colossal
peace-time movement in the history
of mankind.
These vast caravanseries will use
between 100000 and 10000, 900 auto
mobiles in their wanderings- almost
half the passenger cars in use in the
nation. These figures are based on
the situation which prevailed in 1926.
All indications point to an increase
of about 10 per cent in the number of
tourists and the number of automo-
biles. The summer of 1926 found &c.
100000 people taking to the highways
in approximately 100000 automo-
biles.
A vast amount of money will be
spent by the travelling hosts to enrich
the innumerable cities and towns and
the millions of stay-at-home servitors
that cater to roadside wants. The
traveller will spend at least three and
a third billion dollars-a tremendous
factor in the increased prosperity of
thousands of communities throughout
the nation.
Of the total of ten million cars
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-04-13
Practical Relief
For Agriculture

or for clothing manufactured from
American farm-raised raw materials
Relief from the present farm de-
preston can come also through action
by farmers themselves in reducing
cost of production. They can accom-
plish this by using more land for
grazing; hogging off part of the corn;
establishing rotations of crops in
which alfalfa, clover, and corn are
prominent; employing well-diversi-
fled system of live stock production,
so that farm labor is kept the year
round; producing something to sell
in live stock, dairy, or poultry pro-
ducts every month; using horses and
wagons to haul farm produce to mar
ket, thereby conserving cash which
would otherwise be expended on haul
ing, using more horses and fewer trac-
tors and trucks; and by doing more
work per man through use of larger
teams eight, ten, or more horses or
mules in a unit), thereby doubling
or trebling work done per day in
blowing, discing, narrowing, and seed
ing.
The thorough practicability of this
is demonstrated by the fact that such
large teams have long been used in
Oregon, Washington, and Montana.
The secret of success is in the styling
in and bucking-back" system which the
Horse Association of America has
brought from the West and taught to
agricultural college and extension
stats in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Mime
sofa and Kansas during the past nine
months.
The system cannot be understood
except by being seen in actual de-
monstration in the field. Any. farm
er, anywhere, can have such a de-
monstration in his county, however,
by applying through his county agri-
cultural agent to the director of ex-
tension work at his agricultural col
lege.
The United States had on January
1, 1927, 15,279,000 horses and 5,734,-
900 mules on farms, and it is believ-
ed that there are approximately L.
100000 head of horses and mules still
engaged in non-agricultural work. A
general movement on the part of bust
ness men and farmers to use horses
and mules in place of horse substi-
tutes, wherever the former will do
the work as cheapIy, will soon bring
about decided increase in demand
for horses, mules, hay, and grain, all
farm products, and will also stimulate
the breeding and rearing of more
good horses and mules. All this will
reduce the acreage devoted to human
food and will mean that the farmer
will diversity his farm output by pro-
ducing power units as well as raw
materials for food or clothing.
To sum up: relief from farm de-
preston can come soon in consider