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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-08
TOLL BRIDGE OPPOSED
AT EVANSVILLE HEARING

Several Directors Appear Before
U. S. Army Engineers.
BIZ Tunes Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind, July 8.-Op-
position from more than one source
to placing a toll bridge across the
Ohio River four miles north of Ev-
ansville, developed at hearing be-
fore United States War Department
engineers held here. The Evansville
Kentucky Bridge Company seeks
to build the span.
J. Frank Tilley, representing the
Pittsburgh Coal Exchange, said a
bridge of any sort near Evansville
would be IAN unreasonable menace
and an obstruction to navigation"
Objections were expressed on be-
half of Governor Ed Jackson, the
Indiana highway commission and
various business interests.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-08

parties in shack at Morris st. and
Eagle Greek.
McClain was arrested after his
auto had collided with machine
driven by Elmer Brisbane, As, Of
Oil Bates ST., late Thursday, at
Tibbs Ave. and w. Morris st. Both
autos plunged into a ditch. Brisbane
was taken to city hospital where
physicians say he is suffering from
serious internal injuries and lacera-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-08
ARRESTED ON LIQUOR
CHARGE AFTER CRASH
Driver of Second Car Suffers Seri-
GUS Injuries.

With the arrest of John McClain,
80, of 1854 w. Ray ST., on a blind
tiger charge, police believe they
have stopped alleged drinking
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-08
Railroad Officials Meet

2 ] FR %f II LICK, Ind, July g.
The presidents conference commit
tee on Federal valuation of railroads
closed two-day executive meeting
here today. Presidents and other
officials of practically every railroad
in the United States attended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-08
FRANCE TO RAISE DEER
Alaskan Industry May Be Tried as
Food Source.

BIZ Times Special
NEW YORK, July 8.-The raising
of reindeer has been a successful in
dustry in Alaska for some time, bu'
in the various States it has not
f1ourished. Now comes the report
that France will attempt to raise
them perhaps as an added source of
food supply.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-08
BILLIONS TO INSURANCE
Indiana Companies Get $76,5S0, 622,
and Others $5,154,212,145.

Income of Indiana insurance COM
panies total $76,580,622.11 during
1926, according to figures compiled
at the State insurance commits
sioners Office. Foreign insurance
companies operating in the State
had a total income of $5,154,212,-
1852.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-08
RAISE BIG ENDOWMENT
University of Pennsylvania Drive
Brings 100000.

BIZ United Press
PHILADELPHIA, July 8.-The
University of Pennsylvania has
passed the 100000 mark in its
campaign to raise an endowment
fund of $45,65O,0OO by 1910, it was
announced here by Thomas S. Gates,
chairman of the funds managing
committee.
The campaign, launched. in May,
1925, assumed a worldwide aspect
shortly afterward, and provisions
have been made for annual contribu-
lions by alumni through the rest
of the f1fteen-year period.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-08
TAX FERRET PLEA LOST
Van Derveer Appellate Court Appeal
Next.

BIZ Times Special
KOKOMO, Ind, July 8.-Ferdi-
nand P. Van Derveer has lost his
appeal to escape refund of $23, 093.87
to Howard County. OF the sum
$1,000 covers court costs and the re-
mainder fees for tax ferret work by
Van Derveer. He plans to carry
the case to the State Appellate
Court.
Denial of appeal was made by
Judge Cleon Mount, Upton, sitting
as special Judge.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-02

home, F. Petit is dramatlzinS her novel, Move Over" for production on Broadway. Downstairs, Roche is writing another of his numerous stories. In HenderSonvllle, x. C., Heyward, while working on his third novel. is doing q little con- verting himself He is changing Dorothy Hayward from a play wright 10 a fiction writer.
 T knew DuBose could write novels as we'll as poetry" Mrs. Hey ward relates. 50 when l married him four years ago, I persuaded him to sell out his insurance business in Charleston, S C.. and try 1ic- tion."
 "Porgy" soon came from his type writer and was hailed by the critics. Angel" another success, followed. Then Mrs. Hayward, who as a student in George Baker s Harvard workshop had written q prize winning play. later produced in New York. and her husband dramatized "Porgy'. now one of the successes of Broadway.
 That a play has been possible
New Britain herald., 1927-12-02

for me is due 10 kind fate that married me to q playwright and routed me to Broadway via the matrimonial shortcut" says Hey ward while Dorothy, who has just sold her first short story, looks up from her present fiction writing long enough to assert, "We get along as famously as Jack Sprat and wife"
 Roche reveals he and Kathleen Norris long had been trying to per- suadc Mrs. Roche she could write, as q result of the wit and satire of her letters. but it was not until last winter that she really started. Furthermore, he gave her the name of F. Petit, "because l wanted her to have her own name, so that she might stand on her own feet and rot be hampcred or helped by my namc.'
 Each of us criticizes the others york; Roche relates. Mrs. Roche can divorce her judgment from all personal attitude. l have been writing so long I can be honest in my appraisal.' There are two
New Britain herald., 1927-12-02

and began by equipptng 2i battle ships and 6 destroyers of the Unit d States navy with the telephone and new audion detector. Broke Again and No Help For two years we did very well and l made several valuable inven- tions but by 1918 the company was bankrupt. T. was inc old story of bad management and insufficient funds.
 "The capitalists couldn't sec the value of radio even then. l walked my shoes off in Wall Street trying 10 get money.
 "I'mally thr American Telephone and Telegraph Company offered us $1ooU0 tor a license 10 use the pat cnt We had so little money that We had to accept the oti"r. l learn od later that thr A T. x T. was pre- pared to spend S5oo.noo if noc' ssary for that llcon&c.
 "Wlh this money we began 70 develop radio t"lrphon" along many lines. The French. English and Japano~r governments were interest ed and wr were kept busy. We put I'D transmitting station on our fac tory at High Bridge and began 10 broadcast TWO nights a week. That was in 1916 and was really the be- ginning of general hroadcdsting.'
 War, InfringcmcntS, Lawsuits
 War put stop 10 broaacaStnE for three years. but during tn" war the De Forest Company got lis share of government business. In 1919 the company began to broad- cast again and the idea became pop tlar
 "Competitors began 10 infringe my patents and number of law suits resulted which made possible trans continental telephone and wireless service, and 22 more on the phono- film"
 De Forest is far from discouraged. T wouldn't be anything else but an inventor" he concludes.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-02
PRIZE HARD LUCK
 STORY OF THE AGE
Foremost Radio Inventor Suffers
 ReYerSeS

New York, Dec. 2--If Dr. Lee Dc Forest knew as much about business as he does about radio, he would probably be one of the richest men in the world.
 But business has never been De Forests strong point, so he has ro- ceived only a fraction of the mil lions his inventions have earned,
 Companies which should have been highly successful failed be- cause of poor management Nalu- able patents were sold at ridiculous ly low figures Law suits cont"sllng the validity of De Forests patents have been frequent.
 Tn these suits De Forest has UsU- ally emerged the winner but they have cost money. His latest victory was in the recent decision of the United States circuit court Of ap- peals in Philadelphia which de clared him and not Armstrong tho inventor of the teed-bac or rogcn- erative circuit, one of the most In- portant adyancements in radio.
 Might Have Rivalcd Ford
 'I would rather be an inventor than anything else" says De Forest despite his sctbacks. My inventions have been very lucrative. But if l d have known more about business methods in the early days of my career l would have made a lot more money.
 T think I'd have made more money than any other inventor eN- cept Henry Ford. As it happened, patents that were worth hundreds of millions of dollars were sold for a mere pittance. And other people got the profits.'
 De Forest started early at invent
New Britain herald., 1927-12-02
Movie Actor for Money
 In It, Saws Schildkraut

Los Angeles, Dec. 2. P-The best motion pictures are parable to the cheapest novels in the opin- ion of Rudolph Schildkraut. who ac- knowledges that he left the legit- innate stagee(or the screen entirely for the money there was in it.
 A reporter for The California Jewish Voice asked the actor for has answer to severe criticism in the Jewish press of Schldkraut s role of Caiaphas in the crucifiNion picture ''Thc King of Kings"
 T personally do not believe"
New Britain herald., 1927-12-02

Schildkraut said, that motion pie lures generally leave any impress sion on the audiences. l do not be- lieve that my roles on the screen have any artistic value. do it only because l am well paid for it."
 Schildkraut said that he went into the movies to pay the debts incurred in the operation of his Yiddish Theater, which failed be- cause "in the city of New York there were not 300 persons to spend an evening in an artistic Yiddish thcater,'
New Britain herald., 1927-12-02

young Roches. Jeffrey and Clyde. Proud in discovering their mother is a successful author. they carry pockets full of clippings. The other day Clyde found one which brought from him a vigorous pro- test.
 It referred to Move Over' as the latest success of Arthur Somers Roche.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-02
JOAQUIN MILLER TROPHY

Eugene Ore. Dec. 9. Pl-An old volumn of Joaquin Miller's poems. published in 1869 under the title Joaquin, ct al" was found by George Melvin Miller. brother of the western poet, while ransacking old shelves. It is one of two known to be in existence and is the work from which the poet took his pen name. his true name being Cincinnatus HCinc Miller.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-02
HUSBAND AND WIFE
 REALLY ARE RIVALS
Vie With Each Other in Pro-
 ieSSiOnal Work

Atlanta. Dec. 9. Pt-To be known as the husband of" or the wife Of holds no matrimonial problem for the DuBose Rewards and the Arthur Somers Roches.
 Mrs. Hayward. dramatist. has made d successful novelist of her husband, a former insurance agent, while Mr. Roche. the author, now looks upon d wife who has acquired the writing name Of F. Petit, and royalties from first novel; run ming into it's fifth edition.
 Upstairs in their Palm Beach
New Britain herald., 1927-12-02
ERECTS OWN TOMBSTONE

West Plains. Mo, Dec. ?. tFl-- k. G. smith, just to be prepared, has put up his own tombstone on the family burial lot in a cemetery here. He is S5 and says he never felt better in his life,
New Britain herald., 1927-12-02
Breaks Down Under strain

Back and forth went De Forest in those ,arly years. first for a Mil waukee wireless company that soon blew up and then on a staff of an electrical magazine, also at $lo week. He also helped out in the laboratory ~ the Armour Institute in Chicago and taught at night for $2.50 a lecture.
 Finally in 1901 he brought ont q dotector only to be discouraged when the transmittor wouldn't work. Overwork and anxiety about money sent him to the hospital for a time.
 Tt was very difficult 10 get funds in those days" says the inventor Pew capitalists would put even Sl,o00 into q radio company. They just couldn't s"e any Use for it. w. had desperate struggle to g., funds for about two years"
 With the foundation of the De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company things began 10 pick up and the company's exhibit at the St Louis world fair in t90f attracted consld- orahle notice. The Navy Department had De Forest build five big radio stations But bad management brought the firm into financial diff ficullies and be Forest became dis gusted and quit.
 Tn 1906 I perfected the three olectroda tube" De Forest continues. That was really the bcginrE!g of modern radio. The patent for this device was one of the most impor- tant ever issued 10 q radio inventor. On this patent l founded the De Forest Radio Telephone Company
New Britain herald., 1927-12-02

ing things. He toyod with mcchani- cal instruments from the age of lS on. At Yale he invented devices 10 pay him through school. but he couldn't sell many of them. After graduation in 1899. De For est went Co work in the telephone laboratories of the Western Electric Company in Chicago, for $1o q week. But the boss despaired or him when he found him working on q sort of wireless dctector and fired kim.
 My inventions have since made countless millions for the Western Electric" De Forest comments ironically.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-02

Delightful after the bath. Absorbs moisture-soothes and softens the skin. Perfumed with alluring Geor> gia Rose. Complete with large puff.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
MOTION PICTURES

Raymond Hatton is back at wofk
again-playing a small role in Fash
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26

she is under contract and must be
kept busy all the time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26

acted by Joanna Roos. Miss Roos
does all she can with it, but the
whole scheme is preposterouss and
quite wild. A professor has a young
wife, a self-confessed graduate of an
insane asylum, who is in love with
q, young scholar The student, on
the other hand. has been showing de-
cided Partially for a mulatto serv-
ant. This ought to be enough.
UP Broadway
A revival of Twelfth Night" with
Whitford Kane acting the role of
Sir Toby Belch, is to be staged in
Chicago next week and be brought
to New York later The Ameri-
can Theater Association, with a
membership of 1000, will present
Adventure" a clever English COM
edy. on Easter Monday >. Mona
Bruins, who started out to act a
minor role in 1.-THE Love Thief" en-
tered the leading role last week,
sharing feature honors with Frank
NJ. Thomas =. Edwin Frankie
Goldman and the Goldman Band will
broadcast an hour every Friday
night over the most extensive radio
hook up of the season. The summer
season of concerts with this band
will begin in June. Edna May,
formerly known as Edna May
Spooner. returns to the stage this
week in "Babbling Brooks" at the
Edyth Totten Theater. And
Edyth Totten herself, the manager
of the only playhouse named after
a woman and owned by one, will
also return to the stage after long
absence in ''Babbling Brooke's". E.
Charlotte WINTERS, the blonde ac-
tress, has just recovered from a hos
pital seige. t.. Lucille LaVerne has
gone to California to act in pictures.
Thea Morovska, an international
singer of unusual songs, is to give
a series of recitals in New York dur
ing March and Aprilw She was a
prime favorite in Paris and other.
European centers for the past few
seasons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
MANY NEW PLAYS
OPEN IN NEW YORK
Miss LeOra Weimer
Continued From Page g.

continued From rage 81
the nameless one, the derelict, usurps
the position himself as master of the
house, and the girl finds that, like
Faust, she must pay. The players
are not all professional, but they act
skilfully and effectively, and the play
has strongly entrenched itself among
the successes of the season.
"Off Key" On View
"Off Key" by Arthur Caesar, was
presented with Florence Eldridge,
Lucille Watson, Kenneth Hunter, AL
bert Hackett, Katherine Revner,
Mckay Morris and others. 1t is about
whether a wife should tell her hus-
band of her past life or not.
This couple lived happily together
until former lover of the wife ap-
pears and she discloses to her hus-
band that the friend had at one time
been closely identified with her life.
the husband professed liberal views,
and believed implicitly in a single
standard of morality. When he
learns his wife's secret he changes,
becomes suspicious of each and al
together is an Objectionable parlor
companion.
This in general is the theme, and IL
is acted much better than it is writ
ten. 1t proves entertaining and at
times gripping, and appears to be
one of the contenders for the palm Of
popularity.
A strange thing is stigma" by
Dorothy Manley and Donald Duff,
acted at the Cherry Lane Theater.
The acting may be passed by as Of
no consequence, all except the role
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
ADDING MACHINE
TO Be BILL At THE
LITTLE THEATRE
George Somnes Directing
Big Cast in important
Play.

''The Adding Machine" play by
Elmer l.. Rice, will be presented for
the first time in Indianapolis by the
Little Theatre Society at their play.
house, Nineteenth and Alabama Sts.,
on Tuesday, March /.
This will also be the first time that
a play of the expressionistic type
has been presented in this city.
The expressionistic type of play
enables the audience to see the dra-
matte action that is taking place in
the minds of the characters rather
than dramatic physical action, as is
the rule in the theater. In other
words, what one sees is the mental
processes of the characters.
Mr.. Rice has called his leading
character Mr.. Zero. He typifies
thousands of people in this country,
men caught in a net of petty office
routine doing all they are fitted for
mechanically, spending their days on
office stools, their recreation the
neighboring movie house, their learn
ing what they CLEAN from the news
papers. They plod through limited
present to future which offers only
darkness. these Zeroes of the world.
We see Mr.. Zero first at home. He
is about to retire and his movements
are accompanied by the nagging of
Mrs Zero. 1t is a glimpse of the en-
tire home life of the Zeros.
Later the scene shows Mr.. Zero in
his office, perched on high stool be-
fore his ledgers. His mind is wander
ing from his task. He has been for
twenty-five years in the service of
this firm and as a reward he is to
have a raised salary.
But his thoughts are thrown into
a turmoil by the entrance of the
boss and his announcement that be-
cause the store management has de-
cided to install adding machines the
services Of Mr.. Zero will be no longer
needed Here Zero's thoughts leap
into active intelligence and he kills
his boss.
The following scenes show him on
trial. Then passing on into an I'M
known world. But he finds that he
cannot stay in this world as the
requisites are imagination and under
standing and these have not been
given to him in his former life. So
he goes to work at an adding ma
chine from which after years of labor
he will be released to return to the
material world and begin all over
again.
Mr.. Rice has presented the char
acter of Mr.. Zero and his problems
with an uncanny perception that is
at once bitter and sympathetic.
Mr.. George Somnes, without adher-
ing slavishly to the production of
the New York Theatre Guild, has fol-
lowed it to a great extent, endeavor-
ing in setting and arrangement to
make The context and development
of the play clear to the audience and
enabling them to see Mr.. Zero's
problems through his own eyes.
VI - l.. ell
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26

The Fox corporation reports tha
after fifty girls had been give;
screen tests, Janet Gaynor was final
ly chosen tosportray Diane in "7t.
Heaven" with no test at all. That ,
not so remarkable when you learn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
BERRY FIXES THE
!, VTAPHONE DATE
.OPEN|NG IN CITY
Sunday, March s, Will Be
an Important Day at
Circle.

Nitaphone, the instrument which
ayncironizes sound with motion pic
lures, is coming to the Circle the
week of March 6, it has been deli
nitely announced by Ace Berry, gen
-eral manager. Vitaphone is regarded
as the most revolutionizing develop
ment in entertainment since the in
chine.
tVitaphone has brought to life the
ambition of countless inventors who
have always thought it impossible to
produce pictures which would also
convey sound. However, lest there
be- a mistaken conception of Vita
phone, the sound is not reproduced
from the motion picture film.
Vitaphone reproduces sound separ-
ately from the picture. Vitaphone
presents the motion picture synchro
1iized with the sound which is repro
duced ny separate mechanism, and
aAseries of complicated electrical con-
trivances unequalled in the world
for their flawless precision.
More improvements
While Vitaphone is the latest de-
at present of synchron-
Dized pictures, other revelations of
even greater consequence may be ex-
pected and what the next few years
will produce is almost staggering to
the imagination.
Theaters presenting Vitaphone to-
day, in two years will be equipped
to present what we today consider
miracles, Vitaphone engineers pre-
dict.
Vitaphone has been installed at
the Circle Theater at a cost in ex-
cess Of $4,000. Three weeks were
required to complete the installation
Of more than a box-car load of the
finest precision instruments fash
toned by man. Work was done en-
tirely at night under the direction
of two engineers of national reputa-
ton.
To render the motion picture
screen audible has been the ambition
of countless inventors, and when
Vitaphone was introduced by the
Vitaphone Corporation and Warner
Brothers, the thirty years silence of
the screen was broken.
$50 No Limitation
There are no limits to the posi-
bilities of Vitaphone. Through its
use Vitaphone brings the greatest
musicians, the greatest actors, the
greatest comedians of the day, to the
inhabitants of the smaller towns and
harnlets of the country. Small towns
never having the opportunity to see
gifted singers and instrumentalists
as well as the fine symphony orches-
tras, now can have these artists
brought to them by Vitaphone.
Among the famous artists assem-
bled by Nitaphone are the following:
\ Nine Ernestine Schuman-Heink, AL
Jolson, Marion Talley, Giovanni Mar
tinelli, Mischa Elman, George Jessel,
Willie and Eugene Howard, Elsie
Janis, Jack Smith. Rosa Raisa, Mar
garet Matzenauer, Charles Hackett,
Beniamino Gigli, Reinald Werren-
rath, Jeanne Gordon, Mary Lewis,
CSuiseppi de Luca, Giacomo Rimini,
Harold Bauer, Efren Zimbalist,
Henry Hadley, Vincent Lopez, Bruce
Bairnsfather, Roy Smeck, the Four
Aristocrats, DeWolf Hopper, Van
and Shenk, Margaret Mckee, Dixie
Jubilee Singers, the Russian singers,
and scores upon scores of other tai
ented folk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
NOW SHE is Ugly

For the first time in her life Flor.
encc Vidor has made herself appear
deliberately unattractiye for a mo-
ton picture. In several scenes for
her newest Paramount starring We.
hicle, Afraid to Love-" she wears
glasses. does her hair in an unat.
tractive knot on top Of her head and
is cross-eyed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
Really Talks

Toto, the famous clown, back
In Keith-Albee vaudeville after
two months abroad, one spent
in Paris, the other in Germany.
has now signed contracts to APP
pear in the Christmas panto-
mines in London next Deem.
Der.
Toto is presenting a new edi-
ton of his Revue Ia Minute"
an edition notable chiefly for the
fact that during it's course Toto
speaks for the first time in his
career.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-26
ROUNDING ROUND
/ THE THEATERS
Continued From Page 81

, 84ta&
andx the Broadway cast plays all
around us.
! A. f. Miller, at English's, has done
much to improve show conditions
here. I know that he has refused
to play road show casts when the
original cast was playing a nearby
city.
Mr.. Miller is more than keeping
faith with the Indianapolis theater-
goer. We all know that there are
not enough attractions on tour to
keep his theater open every week of
the season.
j l know that Mr. Miller has kept
his house dark for week this sea-
son because he refused to book a
turkey show. believe in giving
credit where It is due.