The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-21
EARL CARROLL
ON Way HOME,
SMILES GONE
Par0Ied Producer Goes Back
to a Broadway Greatly
Changed for Him.
ENJOYS OLD LUxURIES
Sleeps Late and Then Has
Breakfast in Bed on First
Free Day.
ENJOYS OLD LUxURIES

ATLANTA, Ca, Oct. 21.-Tired of
being made to get up at o'clock" I"
Earl Carol slept late today for the
first time since he came here four
months ago.
About 9 o'clock, the producer,
paroled from the penitentiary last
night, had his breakfast in bed.
Later he was to pose for photogra-
pliers and leaves for New York on
the Crescent limited at 1880 p. m.
II am tired of being made to get
up at a. m.," the 'bathtub party
host said on reaching his hotel last
night. IT am tired of being told
when to eat, and having to eat what
they gave me to eat"
Not the Same Man
Before Carroll left for the North
with his brother, wife and sister,
he planned to meet several theatre
cal people now appearing in At
lanta.
1t is not the same Earl Carroll
returning who lent lustre to the
Great White Way. 1t is an un-
smiling, saddened young man with
an appeal in his eyes, sensitive
heap who admits he cringes at
thought of being called an ex-con-
vict.
This new Earl Carroll is return
ing to New York's merry maelstrom
heavily encumbered with parole
stipulations. Broadway will be un-
able to tinkle cracked ice and
champagne in greeting it's producer
of daring revues, for Earl must not
resume his role of carefree playboy
of the theatrical district.
There can be no repetitiors Of the
"bathtub party" which was indi-
rectly responsible for his being sent
to Atlanta Penitentiary for a year
and day as q perjurer.
Feels Like Rip Van Wrinkle
"I feel like Rip Van Winkle," Car
roll said. "I don't think I'll go back
to Broadway, actively, just yet. The
parole came so suddenly I've had
scarcely time to think"
Carroll said he probably would be-
ccome interested in producing again.
AS he talked, reporters noted his
voice seemed to be pleading for SYM
pathy.
"I am sensitive-extremely So
over the fact that am an ex-con-
vict-regardless of the right or
wrong of my conviction. Get this,
gentlemen, am not whining" he
repeated the last phrase several
times.
Some of my friends out there
gave me keepsakes-desk sets, foun-
tain penholders and the like. But
I don't want to keep them. don't
want to have a single rmeinder Of
prison life."
At the hotel he met his attractive
French wife.
20 darling!" Mrs. Carroll cried as
her husband hastened up the cor
ridor to the suite where she and
other relatives were awaiting him.
After the interview with reporters,
Carroll gave out statement, writ
ten in prison while awaiting the ar
rival of parole papers.
Feels Great Humiliation
For more than six months I have
been prisoner" the statement said.
During every moment within this
grim penitentiary, I have expert
enced a common heartache with
thousands of other men here. My
constant companion has been a
great shadow of humiliation, q
heavy sense Of moral degradation
and I find it most difficult to ex-
press my emotions without having
them misconstrued for self pity.
"Those who felt that I should be
severely punished may rest positive
in the assurance that 1 have suf-
fered, that I have undergone an ir-
reparable loss of self respect, a real
ization of unworthiness such as each
and every man feels when the door
Of prison clangs behind him."
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