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New Britain herald., 1927-06-14
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Send all communication to Fun
Shop Editor, care Of the New
Britain Herald, and your letter
will be forwarded to New York.

"Merrpy Wen Now the
Lawn"
Again through the land sounds the
lawnmower's click,
Let's operate fun-mowers, too.
Cut worry's weeds down so the
jokes will grow thick,
Green yistas OF cheer greet our
view!
New Britain herald., 1927-06-14

Good Gosh. Yes:
During a recent fire in a depart
ment store a fireman mistook
saleslady for wax figure and
started to carry her, out.
Mercy" gasped the lady, I'm
ALIVE. I can walk. Carry out the
OTHER DUMMY"
New Britain herald., 1927-06-14

Entered a. ths Post once at New Brit
ain a. Second Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-14

The final proof of will power is to
pass right on by a busy steam shovel.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-14
The Millionaire's little son who
wanted a pile of sand and a shovel
in his back yard.
What the Girls Are Wearing.

CAS- found in The Fun Shop Joke
Factory
Lucille: But why do you like my
dress so Well?"
Martin: "Oh, cause"
Lucille: cause Why"
Martin: ooh, Just gauze"
Pauline L. Dermody.
CAS- as spun by other Fun Shop
contributors)-
She Misunderstood
Mandy: 'Ah met Jemima at de
ball las night an she had a dress
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
A New Note

new and unfamiliar note has been struck
by Virgil Vandagrift in his resignation from
the board of public works
He uses words which have been almost for
gotten in connection with public office.
He says that the public service is the first
consideration and that no man under mental
stress over his personal affairs can give the
service which should be rendered.
In striking contrast with the general at
titude that public official should hang on to
his job as long as he can keep out of jail, his
attitude is at least refreshing.
The Vandagrifft resignation is on high
plane. Itplaces the welfare of the community
above his own wishes or sensibiities.
1t must be, of course, huniliating for any
man to resign under the circumstances which
caused it. But he has accomplished it with a
dignity and has succeeded in so separating his
personal from his Official acts that he does it
with dignity that commands admiration.
When the public welfare is kept uppermost
in the minds Of all officials, there will be no
necessity for special sessions or Investigations
or universal demands for designations.
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Byron and SuIIiuan DO Great Work in HeIIS Bells;
Tyul1an Introduces His Mnchly Chained Harxn0nica

comedy moments I have .encoun-
tered in several seasons.
1 admit that I had a problem
after seeing the Keith show this
week because there are three really
great acts present. They are Count
Berni Wei and his Symphonic Girls,
Trahan and Wallace, and Jack Red
mond, the gold expert.
From a scenic standpoint Berni
Vici has one of the heaviest acts
1 have seen. He uses as much
scenery of as much splendor as one
would expect to see in the "Follies."
Here is the best equipped band act
/ have ever seen in vaudeville.
And the act is mighty heavy on
talent. The girls of the orchestra
are personally gifted. The dancing
of Louise Mele is Of such gigantic
beauty and artistry. Her acrobatic
and her tap dancing is of the finest
quality.
The act has beeen splendidly
equipped with real material. The
orchestra knows its business. Spleen
did symphonic jazz work is revealed
by Berni Vici in his act.
Jack Redmond is favorably re-
membered from his work in 1.-THE
Vanities." He is an expert and
then some. Trahan finds time to
help Redmond get the laughs.
Miss Mary Marlowe is heard in
songs and impressions. Murand and
Girton have fast bicycle act The
movie is 1.-THE Angel of Broadway"
At Keiths all week.
Other theaters today offer: "Old
san Francisco" at the Circle;
Smile, Brother. Smile" at the In
diana; Swim, Girl. SWIM" at the
Apollo; Tell 1t To Sweeney" at the
Ohio; Tunney-Dempsey fight pic
lures, at the Isis and Rivoli.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
COME GET ACQUAINTED

They chain elephants to a little
stick to keep 'em from making social
visits not planned by the trainer,
but never in my life before have I
seen chained harmonica.
1t remained for Al Trahan of
Trahan and Vesta Wallace to in
troduce the world to the chained
harmonica. Al introduces this knock
out novelty after he has introduced
world of new material.
A long chain and a heavy one is
attached to a baby harmonica. And
for why, I ask the world. Al ex-
plains that he has swallowed three
of the things and will take no
chances.
Al admits that every genius has q
weakness and his might be called the
cigaret butt habit A butt of the
cigaret family will cause him to ex-
pose his hand and fingers to i'm
aginary traffic at any time This
stunt in his act is WOW.
I have placed Roy Cummings on
very high plane, because OF his
eccentric efforts along acrobatic
lines. You recall that I have adj
mitted Cummings to my own very
personal Hall of Fame. And now I
swing the door wide open and admit
Al Trahan and Miss Wallace.
Trahan is essentially an eccentric
pianist, but he goesway beyond that
Characterization
His attempt to play the piano
while Miss Wallace becomes operate
is one Of the widest and funniest
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Evanson, billed as THE Little Boob.
and boob is right. Evanson is the
main comedian of the piece and his
humor is dry. His dress is the only
thing that charactizes him, for he
works with none Of the usual
articles that are employed He gives
the impression that he ought to be
twins-one person couldn't possibly
be so dumb.
Ann Corio is the feature dancer OF
the company. Her dancing is much
above the average burlesque dancing
while she also has a fair voice,
Laurette Dore also leads the chorus
onto the runway several times.
The hard worked chorus has fair
singing ability and their dancing is
good. Perhaps the most peculiar
thing about the chorus is that they
wear clothes. I'm not insinuating
that the choruses of ether shows
don't, but these girls have rather an
abundance Of clothes. The show is
not made less interesting for that
fact, however.
The songs are rather catchy.
especially those of Miss Madisons.
There is nothing unusual about the
revue. but it is good burlesque. In-
cluded in the cast are June Hamil-
ton, Frank Gardner, and Frank Me-
Kay.
At the Mutual the rest of the week.
(By the Observer
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merges his own personality into his
character. I am sure that when
Byron first walks on the stage,
would not have recognized him un-
less I knew that he was playing the
part. He has even erased Milton
Byron both from his face and from
his voice. This is indeed great
triumph and as this other person,
Byron gets more laughs from his
audience than when he plays just
straight parts. His makeup is mas
terful and the change in his voice is
even more commanding. Byron fits
very we'll into these old men charac-
terizations. I recall his intelligent
and earnest work in 1.-THE Music
Master" of another season.
From the standpoint of length
this one Of the longest roles that
Byron has had for some time. I
know that it required hours and
hours of the most painstaking study
to master the role of Jap Stillson.
But his efforts are bearing fruit and
his Jay Stillson stacks up favorably
with his Music Master.
Larry Sullivan has dressed D. o.
with painstaking care as regard to
complete abandonment because the
vest looks like the covered wagon as
it is necessary for him to conceal at
least two big revolvers under his
vest at times.
Sullivan facial Transformation is
about as wonderful as his vest.
Here is slow moving part and Sui
Ivan certainly gives it the necessary
slow motion touch.
This week Byron and Sullivan are
giving performances which equals
the worth Of the play. And "Hell's
Bells" is a good play, mighty human
theater. Melodramatic at times, yes.
You really have two Old Bill Light
min characters in this comedy of
supposed wealth.
I find the support this week I'M
usually good. Those helping are
Adelaide Melnotte, Alney Alba,
Robert st. Clair. Herbert Dobbins,
Bernice Marsolais, Inez Wolf, Ida
belle Arnold, j. F. NARROW, William
v. Hull and Harry Wright.
Miss Alba and Robert st. Clair
stage one of the cleverest proposal
scenes I have witnessed for a long
time. In that scene Miss Alba does
high comedy work.
You will find "Hell's Bells" more
than satisfactory entertainment.
At the Colonial all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
Man Not So Great

1t is not to be denied that men
are doing wonderful things COM
pared to what they have done.
The things remaining to be
done, however, are so much more
wonderful that their progress
seems small.
No man has yet been able to
rise nine miles above the surface
of the earth, or descend 400 feet
below the surface of the sea.
The moon is by all odds our
nearest heavenly body, yet no in
strument has been devised by
which we can see the moon clear
er than we can see ordinary OBJ
jects five miles away with the
naked eye.
The fastest machine we have
been able to create travels 300
miles an hour, but if man were to
devise a machine that travelled a
million miles. a minute he would
not live long enough to reach the
nearest fixed star.
When you come to size 1t all up,
man has accomplished very little
to warrant the assumption that he
knows a great deal about the uni
verse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
NJ. E.
TRACY
SAYS.
Science Has Made Us
Rather Drunk With Con-
ceit, Yet Man With All
HI s Accomplish
Does Not KnoaO Much
About the Earth.

Religion is instructive, if not es-
sential, as George Bernard Shaw
points out.
Men appear doomed to worship
something, no matter how many
faiths they discard or how skep-
tical they may claim to have be-
come.
Old shrines crumble and OBJ
vious superstitions disappear as
the horizon expands, but the vast
ness of the unknown remains
quite as great by comparison and
men seem quite as inclined to
believe that it promises the mi
raculous.
Trust in discoveries yet to be
made, in knowledge yet to be re-
vealed, in forces yet to be con-
trolled, plays quite as much Of a
part in human activities and re-
actions as it ever did.
Instead Of destroying religion,
science is merely changing its di-
rection.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
Lac and Justice
Ry Dexter M Keezer

In the trial of for murder his wife was al
lowed to testify that she him bury some object in
a hole in which the body of the murdered person was
subsequently found The was convicted but ap-
pealed the ground that the conviction was invalid
because the trial judge had permitted his wifes testi
mony. He claimed that he had legal right to the
protection of marital condolences which the law guards
in order to promote domestic felicity and that the
trial judge had allowed his wife to violate such con-
hdence The prosecuting attorney argued that while
the law protects marital condolences the mans &C
tvity in burying an object in hole did not impose
any marital duty the wife to regard as confden-
tial, and that there had been nothing illegal about
his wife's testimony concerning it.
HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE?
The actual decision: The Supreme Court of In
diana decided that the trial judge had acted properly
in admitting the wfe's testimony. The court said
that when he buried the object it mot intended
to be confidential communication to his wife," that
he had made attempt to invite his wfes confidence
about it and consequently she had legal right to
testify concerning his action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
Drunk With ConCeit

Science has taught us how to
build great cities, how to harness
rivers, how to fly ana how to en-
ploy many natural forces which
were formerly believed beyond
control.
What is more significant, per-
haps, science has made us rather
drunk with conceit.
We have glorif1ed mans
achievements until great many
of us honestly believe there is
nothing else so big, so beautiful or
so promising in life.
Atheism is. supposed to bespeak
open-minGeGness, not to say a
superiority of intelligence.
AS a matter Of commonsense, it
is just another way of declaring
that man represents all the wis
dom there is in existence.
AS another matter of commoh-i
sense, it is about as positive and
cocksure as any belief ever evolved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
Thnmb-NaiL
Sketches

A head of gorgeous rags, a bill
for the sale of a racing horse. and
photographs Of a group Of students
in cap and gown.
These things lie within small
trunk which was the last earthly
possession of a woman, mute evi-
dence that in her long ago she had
been a woman of wealth and educa-
ton.
Who had she been? Her identity
is even yet unknown.
Night after night she had carried
through the halls. Of large office
building an odorous bucket OF hot
suds, reddening her hands with suds
and scrub brush bravely. Night
after night she had bent on her
knees, removing each distressing
smear of dirt from the floors. keep
ing her pride and her silence
wrapped around her like an impene-
trable cloak. 9ut the woman was
i'll.
Eventually she lost the job and
was confined to her room. Neigh-
bors in her down-at- the heels board
ing house notified the Catholic
Community Center that she had no
food, and so 1t was that the worker
came TO find her, bringing her food
which she was too i'll to prepare.
She needed hospital care and at
once, so she was taken to st. Vim
cent hospital. Her illness was too
far advanced for her life to be
saved, but at least for the remain
ing weeks of her life she was shell
tered, fed and protected with care
that must have reminded her OF
those better days Of her past. All
efforts to help her find her family
were steadfastly refused. OF course
she gave a name. but 1t was most
evidently not hers. And so she
passed over the Great Divide hug
ging her identity to herself, leaving
these few remnants of a more bril-
liant life. The Catholic Community
Center might not have been able to
aid her even for this short time had
it not been for
YOUR COMMUNITY FUND.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
LOOKING OVER NEW
SHOW AT THE MUTUAL

While the "Jazz Time Revue" is
we'll on its way to have completed
another performance there is an
unexpected break. Dave Gardner,
the husband, hides behind the
screen waiting for the compromis-
ing moment between his wife, Kitty
Madison, and her lover, Harry
Evanson. just as he is to step out
and denounce them the author" of
the skit, George REIN, in the audi
ence, tells them how rotten it is and
refuses to let it go on. Then follow
rehearsals of it, much to the amuse7
ment Of the audience.
Kitty Madison has given her bur-
lesque presentation, "T'he jazz Time
Revue" a slightly different twist.
The words and action of feature
skits of the big time" revues are
handled in the old burlesque fash
ion.
Featured in the show is Harry
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between them make for many
laughs.
From a banquet table, beautifully
set. 1.-The Franconis," dressed as
waiter and maid, serve a delicious
repast of music from the various
dishes, silverware and so forth that
adorn the board. The idea is one
that is seldom seen on the stage,
for besides being a musician, the
performer has to be @ marathon
runner, acrobat and few other
things. 1t is indeed a treat.
One nut is bad enough but think
what happens when two get to-
gether. Fox and Maybelle break out
of the same asylum and give the
audience q lot of nutty stuff before
they go on their way. Several OF
the musical numbers are very good
and show quite a bit of sanity.
A good acrobat is poor singer
or dancer as a rule, but there has
to be exceptions to all rules or the
world would cease to rotate in the
good old way. Anyway Louise and
Mitchell are good in all of them,
especially. the female member OF
the company.
Acrobats that clown their way
through an act are not so runner
GUS but the Romas Troupe get more
than one laugh from the audience
after they get warmed up. They are
billed from the London music
halls" so I guess the English are
not so slow after all
Comedies and news reels complete
the bill. At the Lyric all this week
(By the observer)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
Can't Produce Fair Day

When it comes to anything that
is more than ten miles down or
100 miles up, man is still dealing
with theories and speculations.
BY studying wind and ocean
currents, he has been able to &C
quire some understanding of the
weather.
He cannot produce a fair day.
however, or a thunder shower,
much less regulate climate.
Yet he often rises to remark
that he knows how the universe
was made and what operates it,
throwing down temples, dethron-
ing gods and blasting ancient
faiths to prove the point.
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by WALTER d. HICKMAN

art, who does several specialties. the
best one being an imitation of ice
skaters; her partner is one of the
stage door Johnnies." Haney's
novelty is a Characterization of an
old Civil War veteran who still isn't
too old to dance. The members of
the company are all eccentric dane
ers and each does a sole number,
which is different from the others.
Coogan and Casey offer comedy
skit, 1.-The Shrinking Violet" that
embodies laughs taken from various
shows and made into one big laugh.
Coogan is "the shrinking violet" and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
Even Earth Is Mystery

The earth is an inflnitesimal
particle Of the universe, yet man
with all his accomplishments does
not know much about the earth.
He has not been able to bore
a hole in the earth two miles
deep.
He has not, indeed, been able to
scale the highest hill on earth
though. he has tried to do so for
several thousand years.
AS a matter of fact, man does
not know whether the land lie
walks on is a crust inclosing hot
soup or the disintegrated surface
of a solid mass.
Neither does he know what
causes earthquakes and volcanoes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
Caveman Hangover

Shaw says that he can conceive
of salvation without God but
not without religion.
DR.. A. A. Brill says that crowd
psychology appeals to the cave
man hangover in us all.
Putting these two thoughts to-
gether it is possible to get a slant
on the drift of civilization.
In primitive times men wor-
shipped the forces of nature and
def1ed their leaders.
One beholds something similar
in the modern tendency toward
hero worship on the one hand and
materialism on the other. &.
Is science leading us back to
the primitive?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
Stage Verdict

LYRIC. Francis Haney
presents his revue "At the Stage
Door," starring Helen Stewart.
1.-THE Shrinking Violet" is good
for what ails you if you are
gloomy.
COLONIAL = Milton Byron
and Larry Sullivan do marvel
Gus character work in "Helrs
Bells" this week. A mighty good
comedy.
KEITH'S-Three great acts
here-Trahan and Wallace,
Jack Redmond, and Count
Berni Vici and his Symphonic
Girls.
MUTUALr-"The Jazz Time
Revue" has applied the bur-
lesque touch to revue material,
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casey Is Jne QOc-
tor. Coogan's all
ment seems to be
a fear of women
and of the doctor
especially, but she,
the doctor, cures
him of that. A
lot of embarrass-
ing questions, mis-
construed by the
patient, make the
act a riot.
H oW ard and
Lind are a couple
of women singers
who get the old
stuff across in a
novel way. Ban
Tor hack and forth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
Man Bug of Dreams

The curious part of it is that
man cannot free himself from
worshiping something, cannot
abandon the conception of Deity
without exalting his own kind.
No matter how rational ne may
become, he is still a bug of dreams
and alterations.
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j II q ! V l q u a l IL
blessed with ex-
ceptional power In
projecting charac-
ter.
We find this to
be true in two in
stances in "Hell's
Bells" a comedy
of much clever
ness, on the part
of Milton Byron
as Jap Stillson,
ana OF Larry sui
Ivan as D. O'Don-
nell. Both play
play very elderly
men, rough ones
who use strong
fists and strong
n III
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Questions and
AnSzCeTS

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ton OF fact or information by writing
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Fall Down Steps Fatal

Z WABASH lBiS ED'': Ind, Oct, Ann
bose Kisner, ,83, retired farmer, is
dead today as a result of skull
fgracture suffered in fall down
CELLAR steps at his home here.
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The Voice Of Labor

The president, the secretary and the eight vice
trresidents of the American Federation of Labor com
posing the executive council of that organizati3p
submitted their annualhepor to the annual convent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04
LYRIC HAS GOOD
HEADLINE EVENT

Headlining the bill at the Lyric
this week is j. Francis Haney's re-
vue, "At the Stage Door" 1t is a
dancing act featuring Helen Stew
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-04

prize has been offered for modern composers
to finish Schuberts Unfinished Symphony Give
the assignment to some jazz writer's They'll finish it.
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Are dogs imported from Europe
quarantined? What is the duty on
dogs? t.
Dogs imported from Europe are
turned over to the inspectors of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture at the port Of entry. After
examination they are not kept in
quarantine unless they are to be
used in handling sheep or other live
stock. In that case they are quar-
antined for from six to ten days
and are examined for tape worms,
The duty on dogs is is per cent adj
valorem.