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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17

May Be a
Rich Hit
Billie Burke and Jane CoWI
Are Popular Favorites
in East,

BH United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-Murder
runs rampant on Broadway's legiti-
mate stage, and Chicago, recently
much advertised by Mayor big
Bill" Thompson, supplies the theme
in the latest murder play.
If all the shots fired on the
Broadway stage on single night
were to turn out one night to be
real bullets what sensation the
headlines would hold the next
morning! "The Racket" by Bartlett
Cormack, ex-Chicago newspaper
man, is being advertised by means
of the following open letter to
Mayor Thompson:
YOUR HONOR:
1.-THE Racket a new play that
the New York World says is sick
ening in its reality and exposure,
declares Chicago's crime wave is
largely due to a politics-crime tie
up.
"We invite you to attend a per-
Torrance so that you may find out
about conditions IN Chicago which
may have escaped your attention"
Here is a new job for the Broad
way critic to count the shots, while
others count the broken hearts, on
Broadway. "The Racket" provides
the most sensational murder on the
Broadway stake. For several min
utes, while the audience grips its
collective seats, you wait for the
Observation-Disclosures by the politi-
cal boss-to bump off the gangster
leader while he stands poised in a
window ready to jump. The gang
ster is supposed to represent mar
who really has held much power
in the western cityz-so strongly is
he made to represent the prominent
Chicagoan that the program merelT
carries his name as IAN Unidenti-
fed man." while the actors refer
to him by name, thus letting the
audience in on the secret. Incl
dentally this writer has never seen
such real life newspaper men on
the stage as those shown in 1.-THE
Racket" They alone are worth the
price of admission.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17
German Adviser

Baron Robert Won Dobeneck, for
nler captain in the German army,
has been assigned as technical adj
wiser for German scenes in TITLES
Punctured Romance the comedy of
the circus and the war now being
made. w. G. Fields, Chester Conklin,
Louise Fazenda and Mack Swain
head the cast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17

A letter from Rosetta Duncan,
now in New York, says that she has
gone back to blackface again. When
The Duncan sisters finished filming
'Topsy and Eva" Rosetta aban-
doned her "Topsy'' Characterization
while making personal appearances
with the picture. But the fans
wouldn't stand for it. Apparently
they like the burnt cork effect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17

needed it, and her pretty rage>over
her villianous husband in the last
act we're easily above reproach.
A colorful character, Othello,
whose lovemaking to the fair Des-
demona and his fits of rage when
he suspected her of unfa;thfuIness
were well done.
Other parts in the opera were
Cassie, lieutenant of Iago, Roberta
Farina; Ludovico, ambassador, An
tonia Astolf1; Montana, Augenio
ProSperoni, and Rogrigo, Pezzetti.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17
60 Year Old Bum"

Tom Mcguire, who plays oncS OF
two buns in Richard Dix's new pic
ture, 1.-THE Travelling Salesman" is
60 years old, just twice the age of
Liga Conley, former two-reel com
edy star, who is his teammate.
They're comedians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17
Some Balance

Billy Plat, 40 years old, four feet
high and weighing fifty-three-
pounds-the smallest man of his
age in the pictures-wili serve as
a counter-balance to big Babe
London in Titles Punctured
Romance" Miss London is % years
old and weighs more than 235.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17
The Road
to Rome,
Booked
Grace George and Mckay
Morris Due at
EngIiSh'S,

Before 1.-THE Road to Rome" in
which Miss Grace George, supported
by Mckay Morris, will appear be-
ginning Monday, Dec. 20, at Eng
lishs' arrived in New York last
January, it was preceded by the
ecStatic writings of the out-of-town
reviewers wherever it went on its
pre- metropolitan itinerary and was
greeted by banzais and hozannas.
Dispatches were sent to the New
York dramatic critics warning them
to get their pumps out for the inn
pending street dancing, and the
verbal buntings were ready for
draping over the civic battlements.-
Whereupon, in the midst of these
cheerful preparations, 1.-THE Road to
Rome" opened in the Playhouse,
New York. Take it from others. If
you like, but from all accounts it is
all that it is cracked up to be.
BY translating the talk of 216
B. G. into the idiom Of this year OF
our Lord, 1927, its author, Robert
Emmett Sherwood, finds, as the
other nose thumbing Psychologists
found before him, all the nirth and
satire of simple anachronism, the
bland of melancholy humor, for
instance, Of making Hasdrubal say,
"cut out the soft soap"
GAY PAREE" AT
ENGLISHS JAN. 2
Theater tickets for the larger
revues, in indianapolis at least, will
suffer radical cut if the plan of
j. j. Shubert to be inaugurated
with the engagement of Gay
Paree" at the English opera house
week of Jan. Q proves successful
In an announcement to the press
Mr.. Shubert sets forth the fact
that the English opera house has
one of the largest seating capacities
of any legitimate theater in the
country, making the innovation
possible. 1t is believed that not
only will the public benefit but that
a great revenue will find its way
into the box Office.
Continuing, the Shubert state
ment cites that the plan is inten-a
tionally commenced with Gay Pa
ree," the largest of the Shubert re-
vues and Boosting a cast headed by
Charles "Chic" Sale and the 800
artists and beauties who appeared
both during the long New York
Winter Garden run and at the -Four
Cohans, Chicago, all last summer.
In Manhattan $3.50 was charged
for choice seats at the box Office.
In Chicago $40 was the top price.
The Indianapolis scale will mark
a reduction of SO per cent and 25
per cent, respectively.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17

unknown and in one year he proved
to be a sensation. A few months
ago Director Howard Hawkes. dis
covered Nick Stuart holding down a
script boys job, liked his looks and
gave him a leading role in Cradle
Snatchers." His work was so good
that Fox officials are grooming him
for Stardom in 1923.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17
Directs Lions

1t takes more than mauling by
lion to keep Stephen Roberts from
directing the "big cats" in the pic
ture. The director has just COM
pleted another comedy in which the
big brutes play an active part, and
soon will start on another.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17
Saunders, EdhAatinn

John Monk Saunders, author of
Wings" and "The Legion of the
Condemned" was Rhodes scholar
from the University of Washington,
being graduated from oxford in
1923.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17
idea Thwarted

Gary Cooper, leading man in
THE Legion of the Condemned, Z"
came to Los Angeles just three
years ago, determined to be a
cartoonist. But he couldn't have
drawn or imagined the gilded
future ahead in the films.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17
ROUNDING ROUND
Wit45, WALTE r

greetings coming early this
paign o greet early to have
The first greeting of the to arrive through the mails
assistant scenic artist for Charles
Berkel a
technical director the
Rronau Paversa at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17
Sandy Is
Now a Hit
Out West
Looking Over the New
Events in Studios on
Coast,
BY DAN THOMAS
NFA Service Writer

MA CEt1ANN
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Dec. IT,
From newsboy to Office boy isn't a
very big step. But Harold Sandy"
Colvin thinks it is almost record
breaking jump.
SANDY" was a newsboy in Albu-
querque. N. M. Many of his papers
were sold to passengers of trans
continental trains which stopped
there. And he yelled unusually
loud when he knew film notables
we're aboard train.
The young newsie was a great
movie fan and knew most of Holly
woods leading citizens by sight.
When they called to him, he always
used their names in his replies. AS
a result. Sandy" probably is &C
quainted with more celluloid stars
than any other boy in the world,
Jackie Coogan excepted.
It was this mountaineering that
resulted in him giving up his paper
job to go to work in a movie studio
as Office boy for Edwin Carewe. Car
we had talked to the boy many times
in Albuquerque and on his last trip
from the East offered him the job.
Sandy" arrived here a few days ago
and already is talking about I'VE
movie folk"
The kid is loyal-which is saving
a lot in this village of make believe
and he really is interested in his
work.
zone Of these days I'll be direc-
tor" he conhded to me.
The Fox studios seem to be get
ting a corner on the market for
young leading men prospects. They
signed Charles Farrell when he was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17
To Write Titles

To Write Titles
George Marion Jr., is to write the
titles for 1.-THE Legion IF the Con-
demned," companion picture to
Wings" the air spectacle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17
A Favorite Dish

Owen Meore's favorite dish is
corned beef and cabbage, a dish
delight that Polly Moan also
shares.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17
TunefuI Compositions to Be Presented by indianapolis
Singers at the thenaeum Auditorium for Two
Holiday Performances

lie Indianapolis Civic Opera will give performances Of
the light The Prince Psen at the Athenaeum
auditorium on the evenings of Monday jan Tuesday,
Jan 3.
This most famous and beloved of the type of
show combining lovely music of the bright uneful kind and
enjoyable comedy situations. Written before jazz age
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17

1t contains musical numbers
that still linger in the minds of
theater-goers of a quarter
century ago, such as "The
Message of the Violet" the "Tale
of the Sea She'll" "The Land I
Love-" with its wen-known "Old
Heidelberg male chorus, thrilling
ensemble number.
The cast has been in rehearsal for
several weeks and is as follows:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-17

The Fox studios seem to be get
ting a corner on the market for
young leading men prospects. They
signed Charles Farrell when he was
The Washington times., 1927-02-28

horizon as viewed from our lati-
tudes. But the meteor seen in
Iowa 10 said to have ''anRled
toward the West However. a
Quadrantid, II moving nearly
parallel with the horizon would
have appeared to approach the
western point. So 1t may have
been one of these lneteors that
my correspondent watched. They
move with relative slowness.
rather following than meeting the
earth.
Sporadic MeteOrs
But by no means all of the
meteors that are seen belong TO
recognized showers. There are
many which may be called "spor.
adic," although it is probable that
IN reality they. too. travel in com.
panies which are so scattered
along their track that the associa.
ton has not been noted.
Meteors are the only things OF
a solid. substantial nature. origin
ating In outer space, far away
from. and independent Of. the
earth, that ever come to our
hands. To touch one. to inspect
1t. analyZe It. note It's chemical
and physical kInship with our
world-what more thrilling stirnu.
lus could the intellect and the
imagination of man receive!
The Washington times., 1927-02-28
Prospective CustomerI it. the reasonably
proo-what all right for the wife to tOoe about n?"
The above picture from London Opinion is all right as

The above picture from London Opinion all right as
Joke, all wrong as q statement Of FACT.
Recent have shown that In coeducatona institutions
the young women are better automobile drivers than the men
Millions Of drive all the United States safely
and carefully And what Is more tens Of millions Of Amer
can have done at least much the develop
and encourage the automobile industry.
When the family walks It is the mother that worries about
the young children being agued about their getting
their way to school, about the fact that without
automobile they enjoy the happiness equal that
the family next door that HAS an automobile.
Many lacking initiative energy get an automo-
bile Of his accord persuaded it by his wife, who
After he GETS IT. Of course he delighted with himself and
occasionally forges that would not have had at all BUT
FOR HIS WIFE.
IF YOUR WIFE HASN'T AN AUTOMOBILE GET
HER ONE The human being that really needs something
foolproof the that might have automobile to give
happiness to his whole family friends and himself and Is
foolish enough to postpone II.
don't postpone breathing eating sleeping enjoy
ing the sunshine Why postpone the thing OWNERSHIP
OF AN AUTOMOBILE, that makes sleep soUNDER, breath
ing DEEPER appetite BETTER sunshine country thou
sand times MORE ENJOYABLE
The automobile industry il fortunate in having among the
women Of America 100000 first class sasswomen that bring
in sales and ask no commission or salary.
Women for ages have been slaves drudgey in the
household appreciate few do what the automobile
means with ita freedom It's conquest Of distance.
Women whose minds and hearts are intent on keeping the
family united know GAN do the value Of an auto
mobile with the wide seats that lets the whole family pile
In and roll away together.
The happy il she that Eperntends the packing Of
che whole family including the old folks into the automobile
with lunch and the luggage strapped behind for trip
that includes THE ENTIRE FAMILY
TIE SALOON HAS GONE. It no longer separates the
father from his family and from his money.
THE AUTOMOBILE HAS COME It keeps the American
family united.
to It's happiness and moral strength
The Washington times., 1927-02-28

BANDS NEED TO BE HELD.
I think all this fancy technique
IL wasted on nine out of ten of
EN-. As for the few who do
seem to need holding-if they're
rarin to go. why Cietain them?
Who wants q husband with a
hobbled heart.
/ have, perhaps. known as
many husbands and as many
kinds of husbands as 1t Is pos.
sible for anyone outside q license
clerk. Much OF my work is con.
cerned with husbands. Young
ones, old ones, sentimental ones
and cynical ones, husbands that
pout and husbands that pet, gay
and grouchy husbands, skittish
and sedate, naughty and nice.
I've camped with them on min.
ing prospects. I've listened for
years and years to their dreams
and confessions, yelps Of delight
and wheezes Of despair. And out
Of these hundreds OF husbands
haven't known dozen who
needed holding" or who knew
what this holding" theory Is all
about.
It is almost impossible for the
average woman to realize the
sentimental idealism of q mans
attitude toward marriage. 1t diff.
fers radically from a woman's
attitude toward marriage. A
woman Il necessarily swayed by
many considerations other than
that Of love when she contem-
plates gnatrimony. Be shs ever
The Washington times., 1927-02-28
DR.. FRANK CRANES.
DAILY EDITORIAL
Copyright, 1927, New York
Evening Journal, Inc. u
REGISTERED q. 8: Patent otfica 1
FLappers and Mothers
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

MFR BRUCE FINDLAY, assistant superintendent Of Los
IV Angeles schools in address the other day asked:
49, why should that the flapper Of 1927
will make poorer mother than the fapper of yesterday
who has been her motheri'
There just much to the modern girl there ever
her ancestor The fact that she short skirts
and hobs her hair against her She cloth
ing than her ancestors and is consequently healthier
She addicted outdoor sports with beneficial re-
suits.
Altogether the modern fapper Of today is just as well
prepared for motherhood her mother and better
than she.
There is danger girl from taking an auto
mobile ride than there was from taking buggy ride
OF dissipation and late hours bad for anyone
and in proportion INDUCES in this she is en-
dangering her health and endangerng posterity.
But take all in all the girl Of today is quite as sensible
her mother yesterday and may look forward with
confidence to the future Of the
in better hands Those of today are lust Al
serious minded their mothers the day before
Virtue to be founded upon ignorance but npon
knowledge and the girl Of today knows more than her
mother did it helps her and does not hinder her
She is prepared to be partner equal and not
his slave and playhng and in this respect has the adj
vantage former years
As far am concerned the girls of today healthier
betterookng and desirable companions than were
the girls of yesterday.
This old world is humping merry along and some things
about it people don't like, but the whole it il i'm
proving.
Copyright 1877 BY Mcclure Newspaper syndcsts,
The Washington times., 1927-02-28
A Dark Tragedy
II drove the knife into his throat

ct drove the knife into his throat and why not?
He killed my boy and killed him.
Thus aEak Caruso, Confessng the Staying Of young Dr.
PendOla beside the body Of his infant son. dead from
diphtheria.
sudden dreadful tragedy Fathers and mothers perhaps
catch gmmer Of how that mOnsrous deed born Of
love- anxiety and grief In this mans tortured heart
Nightmare impulses to everyone The balanced mind
conquers them.
Emotions strong enough, shake the human soul to It's
foundations Now and then they loose and we have
crime and horror, like this sad drama
The thoughtful will ponder the cruelty of circumstance
that bereft Of her child made father murderer
destroyed useful life at its bright beginning and widowed
q young mother.
All of US must vince at the pity Of it
The Washington times., 1927-02-28
QUESTIONSOF
ETIQUETTE
MRS. Cornelius Beeckman-
Prongs Of the Fork

Pr0ngs Of the Fork
hEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ At home l have been told
to hold the prongs OF the fork
pointing downward when lifting
meat from my plate to my
mouth.
II it IL not too much trouble
/ would like to have you tell me
full details as to whether I
should hold the prongs of the
fork up or down.
A READER.
Your home instruction 10 quite
correct.
After you have cut . mouth.
full OF meat with the knife in
the right hand and the fork in
the left, IL you use the European
method of eating, you put your
fork in the piece of meat, still
keeping the fork in the left hand,
and holding the fork with the
prongs pointing downward, and
convey the piece of meat in this
way to your mouth.
If you are fork shifter-and
hope that you are not-you
rest your knife on the plate, take
the fork in your right hand,
and, with the prongs down, i'm.
pale the meat.
II you are eating vegetables
or soft foods like eggs or GRO
quotes, with your fork in the
right hand, you life with the
prongs Of the fork up. shovel
position.P
The Washington times., 1927-02-28
By ELSIE ROBINSON
Does a Husband Need
Holding?

father without being married, and
yet retain his good name and
standing in the community. Out.
side of its romantic fulfillment,
marriage has little to offer him
which he cannot gain without
binding himself by legal vows.
more sentimental than women In
their attitude toward marriage.
And It takes much more to dis
illusion them and destroy their
sentimentality Having taken the
step and renounced bachelorhood.
they usually want to stay put.
In nine cases out Of ten. It's
the woman who Is restless In
marriage, not the man. She
wants more out Of marriage than
he does-she wants excitement
adventure, power-things which
the narrowing circle of domestic
life often denies her. The man
can get these things outside the
home. He only asks pleasure and
peace and q sentimental setting.
No one needs to hold llim-he
holds himself. given half q
chance.
As for all these feminine
schemes and nlaneuvers-it amt
the husband the lady is trying to
retain. It's THE THRILL OF
CoURrSHIP. She wants to per-
petuate the emotional setting Of
her prs-nuptlal period. Hence the
shaded lights and negligees and
tiei<iiAh hoId-a-husband technique.
The Washington times., 1927-02-28
THE METEORS

y
AT 6 p. M, January :, saw
I . meteor flash across the sky
leaving a luminous streak which
lasted about Is seconds. The
streak angled toward the West,
showing that it entered the air
against the rotation of the
earth. Please tell me to what
shower the meteor belonged.
&c. L. Donnellson. Ia.
r QUOTE this letter to show
i what IL necessary to those
who would enjoy the high pleas
ure Of recognizing by their pecu.
liarities of path and appearance
the vagrant meteoric bodies that
are continually encountering the
earth in its course and meeting
a fiery death through the very
fierceness of their rush into its
atmosphere. The main thing nee
essary il something that the
writer of the letter either does
not possess or neglected to use;
namely a knowledge of the con-
stellations. They furnish the most
convenient way to locate an OBJ
ject among the stars. Everybody
knows them who has any knowI.
edge of astronomy, And they are
easy to learn.
Suppose someone should tell
you that q certain place was in
north latitude Il deg. 80 min.;
west longitude SS deg. You would
have some trouble to find 1t in
your geography; but IL he said
that It was in the State of Illinois
near the city Of Chicago. les loca-
ton would be instantly before
your minds eye. So. instead of
giving the right ascension and
declination of q place or object in
the heavens. its location IL more
quickly and easily indicated by say
The Washington times., 1927-02-28

ing. for instance, that 1t is in
the constellation Orion. near the
star Rigel. OF course. where the
precise location Is in question the
scientific inclinations are needed.
Located Roughly
Now, meteors are objects which
because OF their rapid motion can
only be located roughly and In q
general way. and for this purpose
q knowledge Of the consultations
and their principal stars is at
once necessary and sufficient. II
the observer in Iowa had added
to his other information q state.
ment concerning the consultations
crossd by the meteor and the con.
The Washington times., 1927-02-28
By Garrett P. serviss

spicuous stars lying near Its
course, or toward or away from
which 1t moved, 1t might have
been possible to trace the meteor
with certainty back to its 'radi.
ant" In case it belonged to any
well known shower"
There Is such a. shower occur.
ring on January 2. and known as
the "Quadrantids." from the name
Of an old constellation. now no
.onger recognized, which lay north
east form the star Beta in the
constellation Bootes. At o'clock
in the evening of January 2. the
radiant point OF these meteors
was close to the Northwestern
The Washington times., 1927-02-28

all tricked out with dangerous
sex.appeal."
An elderly Lothario fixes his
faded eye on q pudgy klapper,
grins at her with all his bridge
work-and fancies he lie exertinE
"sexAppeali''
IA bobby youth stages q mushy
petting party with a girl he has
known for half an hour-and calls
1t "sex.appeal?'
Shades Of Don Juan! Forgive US!
Whatever "sex-appeal' may be. it
Is not q burlesque or 4 Punch
and Judy show.
Love Is the Great Adventure
the most wonderful thing in lifel
Sex-attraction is the powerful
physical magnetism which often
draws two people together. Love
Is the abiding affection. the deep
thrilling tenderness the perfect
understanding and comradeship.
which HOLDS them together
long after sex-attraction has faded
or departed.
Love y neither al biological nor
The Washington times., 1927-02-28
Comeback

"a girl may be down. said mogene Wilson to herself
s'but she's out -
So the young woman who kicked around by Frank
Tnney in those hectic episodes Of three years back took
herself firmly by the hand and proceeded her determined
way.
the moving pictures.
Meanwhile Mr. Tinney srstwhe comedian Of parts makes
the public laugh more Hes down, all right; and from
all indications also out.
Which. we think, poetic Justice operating with 81
Vengeance