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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-10
MORE INVESTIGATIONS

Two moro suggestions for legislative investiga
ons are added to the list OF real things IL snouu
vestigate over the weekend.
Some one wants the merger Of the electric
ants investigated and especially the part played Dy
public service commission Inasmuch as the
zen charge was made during the merger nearing
at the commission dominated by huge cam
ign gift from corporations which ran things In
% and which did not include the present merger
bad this would seem necessary and essential
The lawmakers have a duty to the people II
ould find out whether the commission is lnnu'
ced by campaign gifts. 1t should discover whether
ey gave former decisions for that reason. Iney
ould find out whether the members remained true
n their first bosses, if they had any, or double
ossed them for the new stranger in the utility
& mily.
q The payment by the State Of long distance tele-
one calls between the highway commission and
Romas Adams the Vincennes editor who started the
nose last fall Is Immediately siezed upon as an
cuse for another inquiry.
THAT of course is an effort to forestall the in
s stgations which the Adams charges make impera-
L. II is an old trick But if there is any wrong
Il use of money by the highway commission or any
her body for telephone calls or for anything else
people should know about it.
But neither OF these new charges should OBJ
ire the duty which the Legislature has concerning
me other matters which have interested this state
the past few weeks.
n The Marion County grand jury and its peculiar
port on It's inquiry make essential and necessary
open and public probe into the matters 1t con-
bered.
Il There were the charges hurled by Stephenson
nm his cell which have had confederation Of sort
itch distresses the public mind, but which settles
thing.
Either those charges were true or they were
Sc '''A'' '"'''
Il MANY statements were made publicly which
#med to corroborate them and to prove them aside
m the fact that Stephenson never produced any
ng
n The peculiar treatment of Stephenson, the att1-
le Of the prison board the disappearance of wit
sses from the State are matters Of shame, of sus-
ion and of eternal challenge to the decency Of
j State.
The people want to know, and want the Legisla-
e to find out, what influences were at work which
1t husbands into hiding, girls to fashionable hotels
N other States, men into hiding rather than face
N grand jury.
The people want to know whether there is
iyer in this State greater than law, greater than
Rlrts greater than established institutions.
The Legislature, If 1t starts, will find ample
Ids for inquiries in many parts of the State govern
mt for which it must make laws.
Nor can it have a higher or greater duty than
pursue a real investigation and lift the burden
disgrace from this State if the charges be false
place responsibility for betrayals Of public inter-
|, if they be true.
The sooner it starts, the better.
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Rich in Oil

HAS the slump in cotton hurt
business?" you want to know.
Not so much. Houston handles
from a fifth to a sixth of the Amer
lean crop, but largely on commits
sion, while her other industries, par.
ticularly oil, lumber, cattle, cement
and railroading, serve to stabilize
conditions.
There are thirty known oil fields
in the immediate vicinity, twenty of
which have been opened. Besides,
there are mountains of salt albeit
underground, and vast deposits of
sulphur.
Houston is we'll supplied with nat
ural gas from fields that are two or
three hundred miles to the south
west, and, as in so many other re-
gions, the development of electric
power is being consolidated and
linked up through a network of
plants that operate under a common
ownership.
1 am told that in east, south and
central Texas no less than 500 small
electric companies have been bought
by larger concerns during the last
few years, and that not less than
$1OO,O0O,O 900 is being spent on their
coordination and improvement.
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Port. on Plain

Houston is situated on the coastal
plain of Texas, fifty miles from nat
ural deep water and twenty-five
miles from the head Of Galveston
bay.
Galveston bay is big, but shallow,
The ship channel cuts straight
across it and then follows the curse
of Buffalo bayou to with few miles
of the heart Of the city, where it ter
inmates in a basin which is big
enough to permit the largest ocean
going ships to turn around.
The channel is thirty feet deep. It
was opened for navigation twelve
years ago. A thousand ships now
enter and clear from 1t annually. The
trade is mostly with foreign ports
cotton for Liverpool, Havre or Toxic
crude oil from Mexico; gasoline for
the Atlantic seaboard; bones from Ar
gentina; grain for Europe.
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who will not have anything to do
with the idea Of making a republic
of the wilderness. The father is
murdered as the result Of his an
tagonism to the project and the
mother with him. Jeanne-Marie is
left with her crippled brother. and
together they try to carry on in the
face of the odds against them.
AS the settlers are being driven
from their homes the mounted po-
lice come and bring their giftSof law
and order. Moreno has the role Of
David Carrigan. a sergeant of police.
Carrigan, after he sees the beautiful
Jeanne Marie, falls in love with her,
and it is hard task when the
brother Is arrested for the murder
of two of the former members Of
the rebellious faction Of the country,
for it is to Carrigan that the arrest
ig job is given.
A great battle between the police
and the Indians is a feature Of the
picture. Another inspiring sight are
the pictures in color Of the Mounted
Police in their bright red coats and
uniforms as they parade. 1t is a
picture worth seeing.
Included on the bill are selections
by Emil Seidel and his orchestra and
songs by Cliff Williams and Tade
Dolan, also news reel and Our Gang
Comedy"
At the Apollo all week. By the
ObSerVer)
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A GRIM BUSINESS JOKE

There was grim humor, unseen by themselves,
Ehe appearance today of several Texas Congress-
II before the House Appropriations Committee
story is told elsewhere in this paper Of their
Jest for an additional $4,000 with which to pro-
se better trade relations between the United
es end ti2.America.
While these Congressman are seeking $4,000
Dlse in one year, the State Department continues
ng off the friendship Of LatinAmerica at the rate
bout $4,000 minute!
To serve the purposes of certain American oil
.cerns-not all such concerns but some of them
4 Mexico, the State Department is daily damaging
\ lily the interests of nearly every other kind of
erican business in all the countries of Central and
x tn America.
n Competition between Europe and the United
Res for business in Central and South America
rvs keener year by year. Last year the trade ex-
hged, between the United States and those coun-
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AL Smith Talk

Here, as in most other places, 1
have visited, political interest cen
tiers around Al Smith and his pros
poets Of receiving the Democratic
nomination.
McAdoo forces are said to be hard
at work already for the Texas dele
CATION but appear to be making lit
tie progress.
The prevailing sentiment cannot
be described as pro-Smith by any
means, but there is as much for
him. apparently, as there is for Nc
Adoo.
This condition is due to two things.
In the first place, the Ku-Klux Khan
has suffered a surprising collapse,
and, in the second place, sentiment
with regard to prohibition prescribed
by the Volstead act has undergone
great change, especially in the
cities
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tries amounted to two billion dollars and 1t is just
beginning. Eventually, many believe, our greatest
foreign trade will be with the Latin-American coun-
tries.
Our geographical location gives inamense
advantage Europe in this trade. Shall con-
tinue indefinitely to throw this advantage away by a
policy of stupid afront to the Latn-American peo-
pie?
If this is to be policy, let's not be ridiculous
WELL Let's not think that $4,000 year spent on
travelling goodwill promoters can undo the damage
of the State Departments gunboat diplomacy.
platoon of United States Marines in Nicaragua
under present conditions, will do harm to our
Latin-American trade in a week than a whole regi-
ment of trade commissioners repair in ten
of hard travelling.
American business men can surely see this.
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Generous MA"

MA" Ferguson has issued more
than 5000 pardons and paroles dur
ing her two years in office and is
now hitting faster stride than ever.
The betting is about even as to
whether she will reach 1000 during
the eight days she still has to serve.
The people of Texas are not in
sympathy with this eleventh hour
display of executive compassion.
They see little logic in 1t either from
a political or social standpoint. They
have suffered too much from the
crime wave not to be alarmed at the
way convicts, some of them guilty
Of the most outrageous crimes, are
being freed.
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himself into a bad situation by
shouldering the blame for theft
the girl has committed. Leaving
England he goes to Palestine and
joins the British forces stationed
there. BY hard work he raises him
self from the ranks to a corporal
chevrons.
A revolt OF, the native tribes is
effected by one Of the most trusted
Of the native attaches Of the army
post and Kincairn through mis-
fortune is laid up in a fight and is
carried away by couple Of friends.
Classed as a deserter he stays away
until he finds out the complete plans
Of the revolt and then returns to his
post. rat this point the story is
given an original twist that helps a
bit in the interest.
Miss Miller takes the part of Zelie,
a Grecian girl, who Is in love with
Kincairn, and who finally wins his
admiration by her pluck in sticking
to him in trouble. She saves the
picture from being total loss.
A supplemental picture is offered
which tells the romantic story Of
Gainsborough's inspiration for his
famous portrait, THE Blue Boy"
The orchestra this week, under the
direction Of Stolarvesky, Is featuring
the overture, THE Birth of the
Blues" by George Gershwin. On the
stage is a novelty Offering in a pho
nograph with some lifelike melody
by a quartet.
AT the Circle all week. By the
Observer)
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Desires Peace

Texas is not worried over the
Mexican situation. 1t neither WANT,
nor believes there will be serious
trouble. Oil interests, of course, are
quite concerned as to what will be
the outcome of the controversy as
to the new law which seeks to sub
stitute a f1fty-year concession. for
permanent title, but they ts.ke 1t
more calmly than do some other
people and appear content to let
diplomats and lawyers work 1t out.
1t is paradoxical, perhaps, but as
one approaches the bordg' between
Mexico and United States talk Of
trouble seems to grow less and less
excited.
1 can think of no better explana-
ton for this than that the wish for
peace is father to the thought that
it will continue.
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story which finally results in a young
girl learning just who her mother
Is. She learns it at a time when her
husband is about to be judged guilty
of murder through the so called
famous method of using the third
degree upon prisoners.
was chiefly interested in the
work of Louise Dresser as the
mother who murdered a man. I re.
call THE Goose Woman" and I had
right to expect a certain dramatic
tension at the hands of Miss Dresser
in THE Third Degree"
One may be sure that Miss Ores
ser is always in character. She can
be both high and low with the
greatest ease. In THE Third De
gree" she is the fine lady who muir,
ders a man. She uses all the tricks
OF high-powered emotional drama
Here is a woman who has definitely
established herself as a really worth
while person upon the screen.
You also will be interested in what
l call for wanting a better expires.
sion, trick photography. l first saw
this method used in some foreign.
made movies, that is eye of the
camera at times becomes the eve of
the spectator, Oh the eye Of an &C.
tor or character rather in the play
The director has used this strange
method with telling effect in THE
Third Degree" Consider this
movie, melodrama and place the
rules Of melodrama against 1t when
considering 1t.
The first musical comedy under the
new policy is being offered by Hauk's
Sunshine Revue Company. When
you consider the price of admission
this revue is giving really big
values.
It's chief features include the work
of ten girls in the chorus the blues
song Of one Of the men with strine
quartet arrangement; the same man
singing Baby Face" as a request
number and the costumes Of the girls
in the final moments Of the revue
There are really two sets Of male
comedians in this company. 1t is
difficult to get ne w jokes and new
business on the stage. That is true
in many Of the big legitimate re
vues.
But I feel sure. that Hanks Sun.
shine Revue is giving more than
enough. Dancing, melody and cos
tunes are the outstanding qualities
Of this revue.
At the Colonial all week.
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How many Of these questions are
you able to answer? You'll find the
correct answers on page II:
1-Who is the actress shown in
the accompanying picture?
What word is abbreviated
"cwt"?
3-Who played the title role in
the picture, Don Juan?
4-What State is directly north Of
Alabama?
5-Who is king of the House of
David, Benton Harbor, Mich?
6-Who wrote the opera. "Lohen-
grim?
Into what body of water does
the Merrimac River empty?
8-Who wrote:
"'Tis better to have loved and lost?
Than never to have loved at ALL?
9-Have explorers ever reached the
south pole?
10-Did the jury find Patrick Nc
Dermott innocent or guilty Of the
murder of Don r. Mellett. Canton
publisher?
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Urn
Tracy
Houston Is the City That
Made the Sea Come
to It,
By NJ. T.. Tracy

HOUSTON, Tex, Jan. 10.-It gives
one a peculiar sensation to see the
masts and stack of some great ship
moving inland through the prairie,
but that is the secret of Houston's
strength.
Monammed went to the mountain,
but this mans town made the sea
come to it. 1t took twenty years and
as many million dollars to turn the
trick, to convert a small. crooked
bayou into a broad, straight river, to
form harbor where good merchant
able timber stood a generation back.
Men laughed at the project when
it was first conceived, and Uncle
Sam, though inclined to be liberal to-
ward ports and port improvements,
would have none of it unless Hous-
ton matched dollars with him.
Houston not only did that, paying
her share for the ship channel, but
when it was completed she built the
necessary docks and warehouses on
her own account, a mile and a half
Of them, concrete and fireproof.
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IRIS GRAY is LOANED

Iris Gray, loaned to Robert Kane
for a featured role in the picture
being directed by James Ashmore
Creelman, has finished her work at
the Cosmopolitan Studio and re-
turned to her Long Island dressing
rooms.
Ben Lyon, Sam Hardy and Mary
Brian have the leading roles in the
Kane picture which First National
will release under a title still to be
chosen.
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EMPIRE BUILDING
REVEALED AT APOLLO

Dreams of empire in which half
breed wished to make a vast republic
out of the Canadian Northwest is
the central theme of 1.-The Flaming
Forest" with Antonio Moreno at the
Apollo this week.
The great Northwest of Canada as
it was thirty or forty years ago is
shown. Thousands of square miles
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THE OBSERVER LOOKS
OVER BARTHELMESS MOVIE

1.-THE White Black Sheep" with
Richard Barthelmess and Patsy
Ruth Miller turns out to be a much
overworked story that is saved from
mediocrity only by the work OF Miss
Miller as splendid support to Barth-
elmess.
Everyone is familiar with the
story of the young Englishman of
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Movie Verdict

Ohio-The magic Of D. w.
Griffith makes Sorrows Of
Satan" dramatic movie opera.
A wonderfully directed picture.
COLONIAL-This thester is
Offering it's first show under a
new policy Of movies and
miniature musical comedy. The
first show gives the new policy
a good start toward success.
Apollo-A heroic romance of
the Canadian North West of
many years ago is a great
theme in THE Flaming Forest"
Circle-Richard Barthelness
is suffering from misfit
picture, but with the help of
Patsy Ruth Miller does offer
some fair entertainment in 1.-THE
White Black Sheep"
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or fertile country
without even the
vestige of law and
order. 1t is a pic
ture to stir any
imagination.
The situation in
this country final
ly became. so I'M
bearable that the
Dominion organ
lied what Is now
a famous unit of
it's police system,
the Northwest
Mounted Police.
Renee Adoree
plays the part of
the daughter of
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IItlilll vi Z III llSANol
comedy. First for
t h e photoplay,
THE Third De-
gree" with Dolores
Costello, Louise
Dresser, Rockcliffe
f e IL o w s a n d
others. AS l re-
call it, this movie
is made from the
Charles Klein play
of the same name,
first presented
when within The
Law" established
a certain fashion
In crook melo-
dramas. l doubt
if it is necessary
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IlODle DlTlH VINO
gets in bad with
society and runs
off to the colonies
and enlists in the
army. Such is the
plot Of this film
and although 1t Is
old 1t does have a
few new angles
added which keep
it from missing
fire as entertain
ment.
Engaged to an
English girl who
seems to be one
Of the other
kind, Robert Kin
cairn, played by
RorfhaIroaca Oafc
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really feels the
touch of genius
as scene after
scene is flashed
with an individual
touch of the direc-
tor upon the
screen. There are
at least four peo-
pie who reflect
this touch as
never before. They
are Adolphe Men
jou, a modern Sa-
tan, in a dress
suit and with a
tendency to lure
men in many
ways; r. c a r d o
Cortez; LYDIA De
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BY Walter ID. Hickman

Nobody in the world can direct
suffering melodrama and make dra-
matte movie opera out of it as well
as ID. w. Griffith.
That is exactly what Griffith has
done with Sorrows of Satan" by
the late Marie Corelli.
Dramatic movie opera, that is ex-
actly what this photoplay is under
the magnetic touch of Griffith. One
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Questions and
Answers

. You. can get an answer to any CUES.
ton of fact or information by writing
Bureau. 1922 New York Ave. Washing
ton. D., c.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps
for reply. Medical. legal and marital
research be undertaken. All other
questions will receive personal reply
Unsigned requests cannot be answered.
All letters are confidential Editor.
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These Busy
Movie Folk
BY Dan Thomas

| NEA Service Writer
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan 10
Luncheon at the Montmartre: Music
Of the jazziest nature swaying,
clinging humanity . the clink oil
ice against glass. =. Joan Crawford
showing an out-of-town girl frien6
the sights. Mrs. Clarence Brown
entertaining as usual. Jack
Dempsey and his actress wife, Estel
lie Taylor. D.. Jacks all dressed ur
and really is quite striking a
waiter pointig out various celeb
rifles to q party of tourists.
Marshall Neilan and Blanche Sweet
his wife, swelling the throng on the
already crowded dance floor.
Richard Barthelmess playing host tc
Mrs. Irwin Wlllett. better known to
screen fans as Billie Dove and
she declining a dance with Lou
Vaneter the music stops and ev
eryone concentrates on food once
more .. while Ruby, titan-haired
cigaret girl, moves quietly from
table to table there comes Viola
Dana and Shirley Mason more
music Jack Mulhall and his
pretty wife this Is one place
where husbands and wives may be
seen together e. Jimmy DeTarr
and Margaret Ettinger the life.
sized painting of Dolores Del Rio
pretty Ann Rork walks by and
smiles Percy Marmont and
Lewis Stone way back in a corner
more tourists letting their food
get cold while they gaze at the
cinema folk without their makeup
Lon CLANCY all by himself
Mrs. Robert Leonard &. Gertrude
Olmstead . and Norma Shearer
Colleen Moore and May McAvov
talking as If they hadn't seen each
other for years E. and it has prob
ably been only a day or so Rod
LaRocque dancing with Pola Negri
Gene Ahern and his wife Just
coming in wonder if he's getting
some new ideas for Major Hoople"
Louise Fazenda and Corinne
Griffith with their mothers
Doug and Mary leaving the
Growers thinning out now
they're going back to work.
Clara Bow, screendom's greatest
Harper, has grown up. The red
headed gal'' is playing the role of a
mother in her new picture, "Chil.
dren of Divorce -
Eventually the day will come when
all visitors will be barred from finn
lands studios. Demands upon the
studios are becoming too great The
motion picture industry is becoming
bigger and buster every year. So
many visitors are slowing up pro-
duction and it's hard to tell where
to draw the line. Their only redress
is to bar every one.
John Mccormick, producer-husband
Of Colleen Moore, raised strong OBJ.
jections TO an item printed In this
column about Colleen a short time
ago, The particular sentences re-
ferred to were Colleen is no differ
ent than many other girls. Her sue
cess is due largely to the fact that
she is just herself" In my opinion.
no higher tribute could be paid a
movie actress than to say "she is
just herself. Very few could quail.
fly for such praise.
The other night previewed Har.
old Lloyd's new film, THE KID
Brother" Lloyd has again crashed
through" with great human inter
est comedy. One Of the most unusual
things about the picture is that IL
hasn't a single wisecracking title.
After the show, while hundreds
jammed the sidewalk and street in
front of the theater to see him,
Lloyd slipped out back door and,
went home. He hates to be looked
at.
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presentation and in others it is called
musical comedy in tabloid form.
The Colonial this week comes I'M
der the head of a movie theater offer
ing both features photoplays and a
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SOMEWHERE" is NEXT

The forthcoming Ken Maynard
super-western for First National will
be shown as Somewhere in Sonora"
instead Of Somewhere South of So
cora"
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What is the chemical composition
of glass?
There are many formulas. but es
sentially, 1t is composed of silicat
of soda or Of potash combined with /
cilicate of some alkaline earth c,
other basic body, such as the oxid
of lead.
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Other theaters today offer: Cantor
Josef Rosenblatt at the Lyric
Daphne Pollard at Keith's; George
Niblo and Helen Spencer at the
Palace; "The Silent Rider" at the
Isis; "Sparrows," at the Uptown;
We're in the Navy Now" at the
Sanders; 'Laddie" at the South
Side and burlesque at the Mutual.