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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" !"

Pauline Lord, whose work since
"Anna Christie has stamped her as
one of the American theater's distin.
guished exponents of the emotional
drama, will be seen in her new play,
"Surmise," this week, beginning to.
morrow evening, at the National
Theater, preliminary to her New
York engagement.
In support of Miss Lord will be seen
Elizabeth Patterson, Charlotte Gran
vile, Cecile Dixon. Grace Mills,
Gwladys Hopetown, Gene Magnus, o.
P. Heggie, Charles Francis, Dom
Cook, Charles Courtneidge and Ed.
ward Broadley.
per, an English playwright, was sug-
gested by the famous case Of Fred
erick Bywaters and Edith Thompson,
who were convicted and executed in
England for the murder of the
woman's husband. An unusual feature
of that case was the series of remark.
able love letters written by the woman
to the young man. Published in the
case books, these letters lifted law
book to the circulation Of best
seller" These letters of the heroine
are said to figure vitality in the play.
The author according to the descrip-
ton of the play, takes as his prin.
cipal character young woman, imag.
inative, impressionable, much given to
herself. The exciting ad.
ventures which she relates to her
family turn out to be fanciful rather
than historic. Ethel Underwood is,
even unconsciously, perpetually play.
ing at theatricals-a shadow Amazon,
showing how she might have fought.
Fearing her husband and romantically
In love with another man, she plays
with the idea of her husbands 8 taking.
herself putting poison in
his drink, fancies a dramatic stabbing
by her lover. And yet in her mental
state the idea is arrested short of Grim
inal intent; it is rather reverie of
ideas from novels and melodrama than
a formed purpose to kill. Ethel is just
acting, and she knows it. But her
lover is no such player, and he puts
her thought into action.
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EMMACALVE-
KeithS
Barryinore's $ New Film

John BARRYMoRE'S next picture,
- Tempest" has started in pro-
duction at the United Artists Studio.
The story deals with the rebellious
Cossacks after the Russian Revolu.
ton. Slav Tourjansky will direct.
All the vivid color and wild adven-
ture Of the famous Russian soldier.
riders is to be faithfully woven into
strong dramatic background.
Included in the cast are Vera
Voronina, Barrymore's new leading
lady; Louis Wolheim, George Fawcett
and Feodor Chaliapin, son Of the
noted singer.
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EARLE-Baby Peggy.

Baby Peggy, one Of the worlds IA
nous juvenile picture stars. will be
the headline star at the Earle The.
ater this week, until Saturday, in a
comedy playlet '.Pincked." which is
said to demonstrate her artistry not
only in pantomime real elocutionary
and histrionic talents. Baby Peggy
made her first appearance before the
motion picture camera at the age Of
20 months, and since that time has
been continuously engaged in screen
work In stellar capacity until this
season when she made q brief vaude-
VILE tour i'm the East.
Baby Peggy's birthday anniversary
will be Saturday. October 20,
when she will be hostess at
? birthSay. Halloween party on the
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also be heard in the inaugural opera.
Heading the male contingent will
be William Mitchell, tenor, who will
hold the pivotal assignment in the
first opera. Robert Malone, a young
ster. fine lyric tenor, also is given
favorable role.
Others secured to boost the cast of
principals include William Barclay.
an excellent baritone; Hayden
Thomas. bass, and Lee DAILY, who
will enact the comedian roles.
The "Black Hussar" will be follow
ed by "Fatinitza," 1.-THE Grand
Duchess" princess Of Trebizonde,"
1.-THE Gypsy Baron" "The Daughter
Of the Regiment" and other light
operas,
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Good Old Southern Days.

OUISIANA," George Fitzmaurice's
production for First National
Pictures. bringing back the American
days OF long ago. presents also a slave
market scene, in which several hun.
dred extras represented the pictur.
esque elements Of Louisiana's popula-
ton in the year 1908, when the city
dweller, from clerk to Governor, wore
a high hat. silk trousers and stock
ings, lace collar and cuffs. and the
country person, be he rich planter or
servant. wore his buckskins, coarse
cloth and woolens. N
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STRAND-"Moonlight Maids.n

This weeks Mutual Burlesque at.
traction at the Stran. Theater is
moonlight Maids" with a cast head
ed by Billy Hagan, comedian. and
Anna Toebe. singer and dancer.
Others are Joseph Ryan, Irish tenor:
Josephine More, soprano, and Grace
wallace, soubrette, who leads the
sixteen girls Of the chorus through
the dozen or more musical and dance
numbers. Johnny Cook will offer a
vaudeville speciality of unusual dance
steps.
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CLUB LIDO.

The impression has gone abroad
that because Club Lido, in the Hamil-
ton Hotel. Fourteenth and K streets
northwest, bears the title CLUB" a
membership card is necessary for
admittance. Such is not the case.
Lido frolics-nightly-ar open to
Specially nights every Wednesday
with visiting stage stars guests of
honor.
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Attractions In Washington
Playhouses This Week
MUSIC AND DRAMA.

NATIONAL-"Surmse," drama. Tomorrow evening.
BELASCOThe Plays the Thing comedy. evening
KEITHSMme Emma Cave vaudeville This afternoon and
ming
EARLE-Baby Peggy vaudeville This afternoon evening
GAYETY-Buresque Carte This afternoon and evening
STRANDMoonGght Maids buresque This and
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GAYETY-'BurIesoue 4 Ia Carte.n -

"Burlesque Ia Carte" this weeks
attraction at the Gayety Theater, is
the latest Offering of John G.. Jernon
Columbia Circuit producer.
Wayne McVey, eccentric comedian
heads the fun makers, while EsteIle
Arab Mack, an acrobatic dancer, heads
the feminine contingent. Jack Figaro
Is leading man.
Others in the cast are Helen Deland
prlma donna; Marie Breen, soubrette
and a chorus Of "a girls, who sing and
dance through the ID musical num-
bers. A number of vaudeville special.
ties will be introduced during the
action Of the piece. 'Ao
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stage Of the Earle Theater fol.
lowing the matinee performance at
approximately o'clock, with gifts
for her juvenile friends bearing her
likeness, and refreshments. The man.
agement urges that the children at.
tending this party wear Halloween
costume. as prizes in gold for the most
enective costumes will be awarded.
The added attraction will be c. B.
Maddock,s production Of "Side Kicks, %
a musical novelty in two scenes, star
ring Jack Cameron, with a company
OF eight. The first scene is side
door pullman; the second, the Marne
Valley In France in 1918. The action
Is punctuated by song and dance mum.
bers staged by Lewis Hooper.
The Juggling McBanns In Life on
the Farm" will reveal degree Of
dexterity which at times becomes am
bidexterous, and Hazel Crosby, the
American prima donna will be heard
In a novel song recital, including bal.
lads and syncopation as well as oper.
attic arias.
The photoplay will be Producers
picture 'The Fighting Eagle" star.
ring Rod La ROGUE with Phyllis
Haver opposite. It is described as a
thrilling romance Of flashing blades,
lovely women and heroic men, adapted
from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1.-THE
Adventures Of Gerard"
The house features will include
music by Daniel Breeskin's new
Earle Theater Orchestra, under Floyd
c. Wheeler. and pipe organ accompani.
ment by Alexander Arons.
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will have been largely elm
mated.
Don't let the daily press mis-
lead you by their frenzied
cries for capital punishment.
They KNOW that the severity
of punishment is no preventa-
tive of crime. At this partic-
ular time they are anxious to
have your mind occupied by
other matters THAN KIDDING
YOUR HOME CITfOF ITS
GANG RULE. Don't let them
do it, friends. This is your city,
your home. DEMAND THAT
IT BE PROTECTED, MADE
SAFE, BY KIDDING TT OF
COMMERCIALIZED G AM
BLING AND IT'S BLACK
MAILING GANG.
It's your field, and cas- We
sow, so shall We reap" The
harvest is just what you make
it-wheat or thistles-happi-
ness or woe.
What shall YOUR harvest
be?
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BIRDSEYE VIEW

CONTINUED from page 81
Speaker of the House possible.
Champ Clark, a Democrat, was
elected Speaker, through and
only by the vote of Tom Schall
"a Republican
Another crisis may arise
during the present senator's
term of office. AS the repre-
sentation now is, We can de-
pend on Shipstead vating with
the Republican party rather
than with the Democratic and
we have absolutely no assur-
ance (and his record proves
this) how Tom Schall will vote.
If it were possible to defeat
Shipstead next fall and Schall
two years hence, then it should
be done, but the first is impos-
sible and it's failure will make
the second more than an i'm
possibility-it will be a calam-
ity.
If the party leaders think
Gov. Christensen the strongest
man in the state today, by all
means let them hold him in re-
serve until the 1920 campaign
and then send him in to win
against that menace to the Re-
publican party in this state
Thos. D. Schall.
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AS YOU SOW, SO
SHALL YOU REAP

fled to read, just few days
ago, of the brutal murder Of a
young lady who was attending
school in this city. She had
been lured to a shed and there
brutally murdered by a fiend
in human form. The crime was
revolving in it's brutality. The
daily press are sayagely de-
manding that the death pen
alty-capital punishment-be
restored in this state as though
a murder committed by COM
monwealth were less revolving
than one committed by an in
dividuali
Without going into a har-
angne as to the justice OF in
justice of capital punishment,
/ beg to call the attention of
these irate journalists and all
intelligent citizens to one
thing:
Crimes are not lessened by
the severity of punishment
meted out, but by the GER
TAINTY of apprehension AND
punishment.
Our laws as they are en-
forced, not ADMINISTERED,
are a joke. We have law-en-
forcement bodies and no law
enforcement. We have Off
Gals sworn to uphold the law
and they are loyal to their oath
they uphold it just enough
to keep their own feet from be-
coming entangled in it. They
spend twenty-five hours per
day searching for perpetrators
of a petty offense and the
other two making out reports
of THEN. proves.
Let's be honest with each
other for a moment and an
swer these few simple ques-
ton (if they can be answered
at alp to our own satisfaction:
How many killings have
taken place in this city in the
last four years and how many
killers have been punished?
How many first degree as
saults have taken place in the
same period of time, and how
many assaulters have been ap-
pretended by our police?
How many burglaries have
taken place in this city during
those same four years and how
many burglars have been sent
to Saltwater?
In brief, how many so-called
major crimes" have been
committed in Minneapolis in
the last four years Qet's lift
the lid and be frank about
this) under Chief Brunskill's
administration and how many
major criminals" have been
caught by the police and sent
to Saltwater? HOW MANY
HAVE ESCAPED ANY PUN
ISHMENT OR EVEN AR
REST?
Our criminal class increases
at exactly the same ratio as our
law-enforcement decreases. In
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courage to commit crimes only
when they see the law scorned
and violated by others of their
ilk and their more intelligent
brothers.
When the mediocre criminal
day after day escapes the laws
tolls, he becomes boastful. AS
he escapes arrest and punish
ment for one crime he grows
holder and essays a higher
"role." His companions or ac-
quaintances view his success
with establishment, then with
envy. What he can do, they
can do-and they do.
They see men sent to the
works" for petty violations of
still more petty law and they
see men escape arrest for vio-
lations of laws that are not
petty. They have the answer
to their problem worked out
for them by our law-enforce-
ment bodies.
Take conditions as they ex-
list in this city: ~
We have a gambling syndi-
cate so powerful that our po-
lice department dare mot at
tack it; instead of arresting the
men it KNOWS compose the
gambling syndicate, it under
takes to suppress the only pub
LEGATION in the city that dares
expose the syndicate! And
what is the result?
Your embryonic criminal
turns gunman. He finds it less
dangerous than stealing auto
tires OF bronze bushings from
some factory. He has had HIS
problem solved by the very
men you have employed to en-
force your laws.
The instructive murderer,
the brute, sees gunner en-
ployed to commit murder, as
sault business men, destroy
their property and their bust
ness, roaming the streets at
will or if arrested, invariably
released On a nominal bail with
their trial so distant in the flu
ture that no man dare prophe-
sy when it will take place-if
ever.
And this young girl who was
so foully murdered would
doubtless he alive today HAD
THE LAWS OF MINNEAPO-
LIS BEEN EMF REED
A c. AINST GANGSTERS,
GAMBLERS AND GUNNER.
Had the gambling joints
been raided instead of being
PROTECTED - had known
haunts of the underworld been
cleaned out AS TIL Ely
SHOULD HAVE BEEN
CLEANED OUT, the inspira-
ton that fired the heart of Miss
Osten's brutal murderer would
have beef lacking.
These gambling dens are the
incubators in which your GRIM
inals are hatched! Just re-
member that. And as long as
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you citizens tolerate these
criminal incubators, just that
long you will have your pres
ent host of "unsolved crimes"
and unapprehended criminals.
It isn't the savagery with
which men are punished (when
caught) that acts as a proven
tative to crime-it is the sure
ness and swiftness with which
JUSTICE is METED OUT
that sends the thought-wave
roaring through the brain of
the would-be criminal, "Stop!"
"Dont!" And he won't, for
the primitive instinct of self
preservation is paramount to
all others in the minds of men,
criminal or cardinal, murderer
or monk.
Boil your criminals in Oil
and you'd still have criminals
because the percentage of ar
rests is pitifully small and the
percentage of convictions more
infinitesimal. Have an eff
ficient man at the head of your
police department - a man
courageous enough to say to
the criminal class, "This far
you go and no farther. Obey
the law or take the laws pun
ishment regardless of drag"
But this isn't being done in this
city. Instead of the gangsters
being told to reform or take
the consequences" we see them
every day walking boldly into
police headquarters, indicted
blackmailers, syndicate gam
blers, thugs.
And this is what you taxpay-
ers are supporting? And you
expect your lives and property
protected by men who greet
every gangster by his first
name and who impede by
every petty artifice and dirty
trick, the attempt of the one
publication in the city that
dares defy gangland? Is this
what you are keeping such
men on YOUR payroll for?
Would you tolerate half as
much from your private en-
.ploye? I'll tell the cockeyed
world you wouldn't! Then
why tolerate it now?
Put man at the head OF
your police department who
will enforce the law fearlessly,
a man who won't try to "pass
the buck" when the trail gets
hot; a man who, instead of try
ing to protect gangland BY
SURPRISING THE PUBL
CATION THAT SEEKS TO
(DOES AND WILLY EXPOSE
1T WILL PUT OUT HIS HAND
LIKE A MAN AND SAY:
Boys, Pm with you. GANG
RULE OF OUR CITY SHALL
END"
Make arrest swift and cer-
tain for every violator of our
law and you will see gangland
disappear like a mist before
the morning sun. And when
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wish / knew what to get
for father for Christmas. He
likes to go after small game,
but | can't afford to buy him
a shotgun"
Get him a fly swatter."
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wish | knew what to get
for father for Christmas. He
likes to go after small game,
but can't afford to buy him a
shotgun"
Get him a fly swatter."
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Talkative Spinster = This
piece of lace on my dress is
over SO years old.
Bored Visitor-Oh, it's per-
fectly lovely. Did you make it
yourself?
THAT must have been paint
remover | drank last night"
"Howsat? ?"
1T took all the enamel off
my teeth"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-15
DO You KnON,-

Edwin Carewe, the producer of
Resurrection" and Ramona" is a
proud father?
Mary Akin Carewe, and Edwin
Gilbert, the newborn son are doing
nicely?
JEAN" the famous Scotch collie
who is appearing in filming of Helen
Hunt JackSon'S story Ramona"
has been insured against accident
and being lost? That the insurance
doubles if he should die during pro-
duction?
Dolores del Rio took hula-hula
dance lessons from native OF
Hawaii during her recent visit to the
islands?
Finis Fox, the scenarist, has writ
ten over 300 stories for the screen?
He wrote the scenario for Tolls
toys Resurrection" and has now
completed the script for Ramona"
Robert Kurrle, cameraman for the
Inspiration Pictures-Edwin Carewe
Productions, is to attempt a nom
stop flight from Hollywood to a
movie location in Utah?
This is the first time in movie his
tory a studio cameraman has tried
this daring feat, and that he will
make a landing in altitude of 5000
feet?
Warner Baxter has engaged a
makeup expert to aid him in COW
ering his body with red makeup
when he appears every day as ALE
sandre," the Indian lover of "Ra-
mona" in tire film story from the
book of that title?
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The two acts of 1.-The Cradle
Song are placed in a room open
ing upon the cloister of a convent
of enclosed Dominican nuns and a
jarlor of the convent.
All 81 the characters of the play
are nuns but three, and only two
men appear in the play proper. The
interlude in verse is read by man,
Albert Moore, who does not appear
in the play proper.
1t is this odd construction of a
play that forced me to go to Gin
cinnati. was interested to see how
a poem recited could bridge the
space of eighteen years that passes
between the first and second acts.
Although Eva LIE Gallienne was
not in the cast, yet the cast was OF
sterling worth. One could feel the
genius OF LIE Gallienne in the way
the play was directed.
The comedy touch was definite
and bold and yet on a seconds no.
tice the entire action of the play
becomes dramatic, powerfully so.
1.-THE Cradle Song" tells the story
of, life behind the iron barred win
dows and doors of the convent
First you see nuns with the novices
in a room of the convent. ere one
gets a beautiful picture of the dis
cipline of this order of nuns, strict
but humanity touched with the milk
of kindness.
Here you see the novices hav-
ing a little difficulty in bending to
the strict order of life and thought
in the convent. And at the same
time you see in the older sisters the
result of many years of such life
Of prayer and devotion.
And then suddenly the outside
world enters the convent in the
form of baby girl who was deserted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-15
NEW MYSTERY
PLAY AT COLONIAL

There is no more joyous game in
the theater than that of trying to
outguess the author of mystery
play and find the guilty person be-
fore the author wants you to know
who he or she is. Now and then
some one writes mystery melo-
drama with so many surprises, so
many unexpected developments that
it is next to impossible to say who
the culprit is until. the play is prac-
8 tically over.
1.-THE Donovan Affair" next weeks
offering of the Berkell Players at
the Colonial, will open Sunday
night. 1t is a thriller from begin
ming to end.
Written by an unusually success
full playwright, Owen Davis, it con-
tainS all the tricks used by the
average author, and many concoc-
tons of his own brbain, so that the
entire piece is a masterful assem-
blage of excitement and mystery.
Davis opens his play with crime
committed, and leaves it to the au-
dience to guess who the murderer
is, even though three acts of ma
neuvers may be Required to whet
the wits into recognition of the cul-
prit. An adorable love story per-
fumes the play, which is designed
to please the finer senses.
Jack Donovan is a man of the
world with perhaps more enemies
than friends He is dining with an
acquaintance in Westchester, New
York, in company with several 9TH
ers. Donovan wears an odd ring
which he claims possesses unusual
luminous qualities if displayed in
the dark, His host therefore turns
off the lights and Donovan demon
strates his ring. During the mo-
ment some one stabs him, then the
mystery begins Who is the MUIR
derer?
Invitations have been extended
to several men of keen wit in the
city to see who can first determine
the murderer.
All of the members of the Berkell
Players will appear in the produc-
ton. Alney Alba and Milton Byron
will co-star, and Josephine Aumann,
concert organist, will preside at the
organ.
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Oct. "a, with matinees Wednesday
and Saturday, is one of the thrill
ing plays of the current theatrical
season.
Written by John (Mystery) Will
lard, who also wrote that world
wide success" Cat and the Canary"
"Fog" registered an immediate and
emphatic triumph when it was pre-
sented at the National Theater, New
York City, and where it played an
entire season.
1t is said to be a play of intense
interest, dealing with what hap
pened to nine, persons, eight men
and a girl, during their visit aboard
a mysterious ship, 1.-THE Nightbird,"
lost at sea in fog.
Captain (Tiger) Larribee, a rover
of the Seven Seas and owner of this
mysterious bird of passage, has re-
quested the presence of several per-
sons aboard his notorious vessel, on
certain date, all for a vital rea-
son. From the very first rise of
the curtain, mysterious figures are
seen lurking in the fog and hideous
sounds and signs are enacted. A
shot is heard in the darkness, then
low moan; every one rushes aboard,
the cables are cut and presently the
craft is winging rudderless and ap-
parently unnamed into the heavy
sea. 1t is at this point that the
real complications begin.
The second scene shows the in
terror of the cabin; one by one the
characters are killed or disappear;
mysterious arms are thrust through
portfolios, humping, weird steps,
eerie sounds. Suddenly a trap door
in the hull of the snip opens mys-
teriously and one of the charac-
tiers, without warning, is hurled into
the raging sea. Events crowd one
upon another in startling fashion
until the final denouement, when
the mystery that is keeping the two
young lovers apart is unveiled. The
author requests that we tell you no
more of the plot; however, we can
tell you it is an orgy of thrills, more
exciting than "The Bat" and a solid
evening of starts, Thrills and clammy
creeps; in fact, it is the sort of a
play that Edgar Allan Poe might
have written.
The entire production is staged
under the direction of Arthur Hur-
ley, former general stage director
for Arthur Hopkins Cast includes
Nellie Burt, Leslie King, Jay Adair
Young, Gage Clarke, Robert Toms,
James R. Carey and Prince Singh.
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After which it played engage
ments in Philadelphia, Boston,
Washington, Detroit and Chicago,
where its reception was even greater
tIfan1in New York.
This success of the famous play
is a pleasant one to record, for it
proves that our play-going public
inherently yearns for what is fine
and best in its native theater.
Patricia Collinge as the star in
"What Every Woman Knows" will
be remembered as the creator of
"Pollyanna," and many other
successful parts.
In the company coming here
with her in Larry Fletcher ranked
high amidst New York favorite
juvenile leads.
Fletcher is too young to have
been seen much outside of New
York City, where a brilliant future
is predicted for him.
His John Shand is said to- be
inimitable. Lums,len Hare, another
stage leader Of directors and
character actors, and Selene john
son, favorite always as an artist
of great variety together with the
balance of the original cast will
present the play here.