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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
Beau Geste' Is One of Ten Best Movies:
Esther RalstOn Is Now Famous Star

this particular brand of polite com
edy women.
And so the success of Miss Raj
ston in Fashions for Women"
takes on a bigger meaning because
it definitely gives the screen an art
list in this line of work.
Miss Ralston really plays two
holes in this movie, as she is seen
both as Lo1 Rauvry, a cigaret girl
in a Paris cafe, and as Celeste de
Civray, the best dressed woman in
Paris. who sells ner beauty to two
male dressmakers in Paris.
Celeste has a high priced press
agent, and it is this smart guy who
gives the picture a novel start. It's
clever and a bit, should l say,
spicy. Two men are seen in q beau
tiful room. They are ringing their
hands. One gets the idea that one
might be madam's husband, present
at a certain important event in any
womans life.
A third man appears, then a
nurse. The men are told that Mad
anne is Going as well as expected.
So far We have not had a movie
look into the bedroom
And when we do-Well, Nine. Dc
Givray is having her face lifted
Quite a WOW, Ed
The press agent then gets mad
anne in on a scheme TO pull a fake
mystery disappearance stunt Then
the press agent goes forth to get a
girl to impersonate Madame. This,
of course, is the pretty ciSaret girl
who looks just like Madame when
she is all dolled up.
From now on you sec some OF the
best polite and clever comedy that
the screen has revealed for come
time. It is here that Miss Ralston
mokes herself a real star on her
own merits. She is a complete ste
cess in her first starring movie. She
has the fine assistance of Raymond
Hatton and Einar Hanson.
And this movie has a beauty pa
rade which is some parade. The best
that the movies has yet had. Here
is a winning light comedy picture
with a real plot TO it.
Bill includes Mabel Normand in
"One Hour Married" news reel,
Emil Seidel and his orchestra. Frank
Holland, tenor, and Ray Winnings
at the organ.
At the Apollo all week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
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Tracy
" Says:
A Murder Trial Remains
the Greatest Drama
of Them AL.
By NJ. Il. Tracy

Dy W. IL. Tracy
Though they intended nothing OF
the sort when they cooed at each
other. held hands and plotted MUIR
der over a bottle of hootch. Mrs.
Snyder and Henry Judd Gray are
about to provide a Roman holiday"
for millions.
What is quite as interesting, the
millions are ready for it. With all
their elaborate plans and prepare
tons for covering the trial, it is
doubtful if the newspapers have
overestimated the public demand.
A murder trial, specially if based
on a particularly brutal crime or if
it involves the sex element, remains
the greatest drama of them all.
Nothing that Shakespeare ever
wrote or that Hollywood has pro-
duced creates equal interest in the
popular mind.
AS the messy details of this case
unfold, they will furnish subject
matter for table talk, smoking room
arguments and street corner CONVEX
sations from Maine to California.
We have discontinued cruel and
public executions. and we treat de-
PENDANTS with a courtesy and con-
sideration never before known. but
when it comes to a desire to know
what happened and all that hap
pened, we are as morbid as were
our ancestors 100 or even 1000
years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
Pretended Wisdom

The American public is fairly
sold on the idea that science can
find the cause of many crimes and
provide a remedy. but it is not sold
on the idea that science has done
much more than become intelligently
interested.
The impression prevails that a
great many scientists pretend to
know much more about the matter
than they really do, and this hurts.
Ready enough with elaborate ex-
plantations after the crime has been
committed. science seems still un-
able to pick the potential criminal
unless he is obviously crazy, or to
warn society against him.
Great Universities have not only
harbored, but honored, potential
criminals without so much as sus-
pecting it.
Worse still. whenever the ques-
ton of sanity is raised it seems as
though just as many experts can
be found to testify for one side as
for the other.
All this damages the case for
science, and no ono is so palpably to
blame for it as those scientists
whose enthusiasm, or thirst for
notoriety, induces them to go farther
than present day knowledge war
rants.
1t is legitimate to probe. expert
ment and theoriZe. but il is not legit
innate to presume on the result.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
Governor Smiths Reply

Governor Al smith has answered the challenge
to his Americanism.
There was made public today his reply to the
now famous open letter of c. C. Marshall, New York
LAWYER who questioned Smiths eligibility to the
presidency on the ground that he is Catholic
What effect this reply may have on those citi-
zens WHO have felt that faith in the Catholic creed
Necessarily conflicts with the oath to support the
Constitution of the United States, can not be told
It probably will be long before any estimate can be
made but the effect average citizens, those who
have not rooted into the canons of Smiths partcu
lar church. seeking for ecclesiastical techncaties
with which to damn him is likely to be favorable.
They are apt to believe the New York Governor
when he says:
81 have taken the oath of Office in this State
nineteen times and 1 have never known any con-
fict between my official duties and my religious
beliefs
They are apt to believe him when he says:
IT recognize no power in the institution Of my
church to Interfere with the operations of the Con-
stitution of the United States or the enforcement
of the law of the land"
And wien he says:
81 believe in the absolute separation of church
and State and in the strict enforcement of the pro-
visions of the Constitution that Congress shall make
no law restricting establishment OF religion or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof
And again: 81 believe tribunal of any church
has the power to make the decree OF force IN the
law of the land"
They are apt to believe him on these points
the sole points of Importance in considering Smith as
a possible President-for two reasons. One is that
Smiths record as Governor Of New York for three
terms supports his statements. The other is that
the average citizen is bound to say to himself that
we're he a Catholic and President of the United
States he would not and could not permit his church
IN interfere with the administration of his office
That is the essence of this whole politico-ec-
clesiastical issue. And to this Al Smith has given
a common sense answer. AS to what he would do,
if President, he has replied in manner that is
COOL clear and convincing
AS to whether he has given an equally complete
answer to the technical debate, proposed by Mr.
Marshall, on the canonical law of the Catholic
church, the average citizen probably can not say
This newspaper. at least can not
And-injectng the element of humor badly
needed in controversies of this unfortunate nature
Smith practically admits that he not
He frankly turns that job over to 100 per cent
American-measured by service-who is Cath
olic priest. The Reverend Father undertakes to dis
pose Of the fine spun arguments of Attorney Mar
shall Which gets the best Of the argument probably
never will be decided; it is an argument that can be
carried Neutrality-suspicious. any conclusions.
But the practical question has been answered by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
An Abiding Faith

The wonder working powers of a
science have almost made it a re-
ligion with this age. People trust
it not only for what it has done, but
more still for what they think it
can do.
Things have come to the point
that when told that some irreplac-
able resource, such as oil or timber,
is about to disappear, people merely
shrug their shoulders and say, why
should we worry? Science will find
a substitute"
Such an abiding faith offers little
less than an open road to quackery.
Without realizing it, we are in about
as gullible a frame of mind as was
Europe during the sixteenth century
when the alchemists and astrologers
enjoyed their greatest glory.
The situation is peculiarly danger.
Gus. Not only are the people in a
mood to be I11isled, but science it.
self is likely to suffer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
When to Il ak

Scholars who discover things and
talk afterward are rendering real
service, but those who talk first,
who make wild, eXtravagant claims
are doing irreparable harm.
When you are told that green
fruit has been quickly ripened by
ethylene gas after months of ex-
pertinent, you are justified in as
Stunning that a process has been
brought to light which may prove a
great benefit to the farmers, but
when you are told that it is possible
to determine the degree of intoxica-
ton by analyzing a persons breath,
you want to laugh or swear. You
can understand how chemical
analysis of the breath might de-
termine the amount OF liquor man
had taken, but how, in the name of
common sense could it possibly de-
termine the mount required to make
him drunk? The flaw in DR.. Bogen's
theory is that some men can get
picked on a Jill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
Science Thinkers

The one promise of improvement
consists in the fact that we are will.
ing to let scientists tinker with an
accused person to see whether they
can find mechanical cause of his
offense.
Experts have not only been al
lowed to quiz Gray, but to draw
blood and spinal fluid from his body.
The blood and spinal fluid have
been subjected to laboratory tests to
see whether they show signs in.
dicating a nervous disorder.
If they do Gray may be sent to
an asylum for life, which would
mean very little to him or to so
ciety.
Unless science can go farther
than that to find out what ails
criminal after he has engaged in
crime, 1t will have accomplished
nothing of real value.
What society wants is preven-
ton, and what inspires it to tolerate
all the prying, probing and psyche
analyzing is the hope of getting
prevention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18


ture becomes melodramatic, with
Cantor rushing to an ocean pier to
arrest the bond swindler on a fire
truck. But 1t is the personal com
edy business of Cantor which gives
the picture what merit it has. Can
tor is an individual comedian and he
has his own way in putting over his
scenes. His special delivery postman
suffers with bad dogs" modern for
feet, and so Eddie has unique ways
in getting the mail to the seventh
story of an apartment house. He
uses toy balloons and they do the
work. AT another time Cantor sings
for two blind musicians on the
streets, and when the crowd gath
ers Cantor gives the mail in person
to those assembled. And so Cantor
cuts down on the actual "hoofng."
Cantor is using his eyes more
than ever in this film. His funny,
shy eyes have been gold mine to
this man on the stage. 1t should
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
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This is test of music Some of
the questions concern indianapolis.
The answers are on page 10:
I. Who wrote Sky Lines, a -
ern symphony?
>. Whore is Bayrcuth and tor
what is it noted?
3. What effect did Napoleon's
proclaiming himself emperor have
upon Beethoven?
!. What two operas are the re.
suit of a prize contest?
.. OF what country was Victor
Herbert a native?
6. In Aida" what is the relation
of Amonasro to Aida?
Z. What composed the music for
An Alone?
s. What prima donna Of the Met.
ropoitan Opera was formerly
"Follies' girl?
.. Who is Samuel insult?
10. What world famous conductor
conducts entirely from memory?
II. Who has sponsored most Of
the concerts in Indianapolis in the
last several years?
10. Who composed the "Nutcrack.
er Suite?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
IN auction
Bride
6M.MiIt<1tz -
CMrlI ~
Bidding Generally =
More important Than =
Playing,
The pointer for today Is:
THE BIDDING GENERALLY is
MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE
PLAY; EVERY BRIDGE PLAY.
ER SHOULD BE FAMILIAR
WITH BIDDING CONVENTIONS

AS was announced last Saturday,
this is to be bidding week" and the
program will be that each day from
now until Friday, l will give four
hands and ask my readers what bid
should be made with each. The con.
ditions will be varied. One day the
hands will be those of a Dealer; an.
other, of a player in some other DO.
sltion, etc. When the hands are
those Of any player except Dealer,
the declarations for the preceding
players will be given. Each day there
will be an answer slip so that the
reader can note what he thinks ia
the correct bid with each one. Make
your entries in pencil and keep your
answer slip until the next day; then
compare your bids with mine and. If
they do not agree. read carefully the
reasons that I give in support OF
my bids.
Again | suggest that YOU get az
many as you can Of your Bridge
friends and eliminates to fill UP an
answer slip each day. and that you
all keep your respective records for
the week. There will be a total or
twelve bidding hands this week and
the contest which you can thus 49,
duct for yourselves shoul dbe my
interesting one. Todays hands are
all supposed to be held by a Dealer.
the score being love-all. first game
and the question in each of the four
cases is; what should the Dealer de-
clarno -rhn fnlIl. II q nd
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18

{ a IL G d Three
Hours, and has
the fine services
OF Corinne Crit
fifth, John Bowers,
and Hobart Bos-
worth. Mr.. Bos.
worth as Jonathan
Durkin, an eccen-
lric ship builder
nd a most jealous
husband, is the
one who causes
Miss Griffith as
Madeline Durkin
to pull some of the
heaviest and best
sob stuff that the
screen has had
for many moons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18

Beau Geste" has arrived IN town.
And it will be the talk of the town
this week and as long as it desires
to stay in its present local home.
The arrival of this Broadway
mole hit marks the reopening Of
the Colonial Theater botn in brand
new dress as we'll as policy. The
new Colonial management has spent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
BY Walter ID. Hickman

the perfect mystery melodrama Of
the screen. This is one picture that
has about all the 'theater" that any
movie could boast of.
Again, l tell you with pleasure
that Beau Geste' is the best mys-
terry movie melodrama ] have ever
seen and that it is one of the ten
best movies of the year.
Beau Geste" is being presented
twice daily, matinee and night, at
the Colonial all week
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT
ESTHER is NOW A HIT

Am sure that we have another
fine new polite comedy star on the
screen.
Name-Esther Ralston. Reason
her charming work in the polite
comedy of fashion, Fashions for
Women"
The screen needs more clever
women who can play parts like Miss
Ralston takes in her new comedy.
The stage has several good repre-.
sentatives of polite comedy work.
The screen seems to be limited in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18

Smith The answer is this: Any true American who
happens to be Catholic can not properly be barred
from aspiring to the highest Office within the gift
of the American people
AS for Smith himself there may be reasons why
he would not make good President; the church
to which he belongs is not such a reason
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
Movie Verdict

COLONIAL-"Beau Geste" is
one Of the ten best movies of
the year. Romance as it
should be done on the screen.
CIRCLE-Real sob drama,
that's Three Hours" Cor
inne Griffith proves herself to
be a real emotional artist.
Mighty good.
Sd APOLLO - Esther Ralston
has made herself famous as a
polite comedy actress in Fash
ions for Women" One of the
treats of the week.
OHIO-As a mail man, Eddie
Cantor in Special Delivery"
shows some new ways to de-
liver mail. Eddie Cantor again
is Eddie Cantor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18

How much did the largest brook
and lake trout that have been
caught, weigh?
Brook trout Q910 weight pounds
son in Magalloway River, Maine;
lake trout Q922) weight Sc pounds,
8 ounces. caught by e. D. Calvert in
Loke Of the Woods, Ontario, Canada.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
EDDIE CANTOR IS NOW
AN ORIGINAL POSTWAR

Everything that Eddie Cantor does
on the screen is just Eddie Cantor,
and that seems to be sufficient, Just
as it is in the case of w. c. Fields.
Cantor, Fields and few others,
including Will Rogers, all of whom
hcvo an enormous stage following,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18

much real money
in compltely over
hauling this the
alter so tnat
Beau Geste' and
all future presen-
tations may be
given in both
b e a Il t i full and
mighty comfort
able surroundings
Beau Geste' is
now being pre-
scented here as a
road show attrac-
ton, carrying its
o W n orchestra.
This movie is still
going strong on
p-An Iuar Va
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18

have re C c n tly
gone into the mo-
vies. Cantor and
Fields seem to
have struck mo
vie oil" and it
looks like they
will stay put up
on the screen for
some time. In
Special Deliv.
cry" Cantor is a
clever postnlan
who causes the
arrest OF q mail
swindier, one of
those guys who
sells bad stocks
to good people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
REAL HEART DRAMA
is THREE HOURS"

Most of us can recall that Ma
dame Y" when presented upon the
stage years ago, was a sob drama.
Now the movies has its own expert
sob drama of a modern type. 1t is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18

Ona b. Talbot tonight at the MI.
rat presents Fritz Reiner and the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and
Sophie Braslau, soloist.
Other theaters today offer: "Whis,
pering Wires" at English's, Gordon
and Healy at the Palace, Gene Aus.
tin at the Lyric Will Mahoney at
Keith's, Flesh and the Devil" q;
at the South Side, THE Rambling
Sanders. "Tho Black White Sheep
Ranger" at the Isis, Riddle Revue
at the Uptown and burlesque at the
Mutual
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18

work the same on the screen. Here
is an eye comedian and he knows
how to work EN-.
In all modern comedies there must
be a love element, and Special De
livery" has it. The element in this
case is Jobyna Ralston. The villain
is Donald Keith.
Special Delivery" is blessed with
snappy and funny subtitle which
sounds like Cantor.
Charlie Davis, by his continual
work of pleasing his followers, has
built up not only a local reputation
but a Statewide one. this weel a
presenting his gang in jazz S2W
tarium. Davis is known out Of
town as the Paul Ash of Indianapo-
lis" Bill include s"The Last Word
q comedy.
At the Ohio
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18

What is the tallest building in the
world? How will the proposed new
building in New York City compare
with the Eiffel Tower and the Wool.
worth Bldg.
The Woolworth Building in New
York is the tallest building in the
world, The Eiffel Tower in Paris ia
a taller structure but is not
building. The projected building at
w. Forty.Second ST., New York
City is to be 1908 feet high and will
have 10 stories. 1t will be 226 feet
taller than the Eiffel Tower and 41e
feet higher than the Woolworth
Bldg.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18

OF the following instruments
which is the easiest to learn, VIOLA.
banjo. ukulele and mandolin?
The banjo is much easier to leSfm
than the violin because it has frets.
or markings where the fingers are
to be placed to produce the notes,
while the violin has no such mark
ings. The ukulele and mandolin are
easier to learn than the banjo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13

process of building, the scaffolding is
| up and hundreds OF Workmen are
| shown cutting slabs Of stone, carrying
the building blocks ana hosting them
| up to the building. From edge to edge
| the painting, the dimensions OF which
are 40 by so inches, is filled with the
symbols Of Masonry. Scores of details
| have significance only to MasonS.
King Solomon Is IN personal charge
of the work and directing three de
grees of workmen. just behind him
| Is "A priestly figure, said to have more
| Masonic importance than the King
himself. The arrangement of the win
dows, the different cmplOyments or the
| various figures and nearly every point
about the painting is fraught with
| esoteric meaning.
| The painting was brought to this
country by Karl Loevenich. who OBJ
| tanned it in Germany. He said: Il
have caused Masonic fitera ture and
| the art catalogues to lie ranSacked in
order to obtain further light on. the
painting, but there Is nothing else like
| it in existence. 1t was painted by an
artist who was high in Masonry. Much
of the Masonry IS Perfectly plain to
me. Other things are puzzling, but
have their meaning for men further
advanced in Masonry than | am"
| The members Of the Advisory Board
of Masonic Clubs Of the District will
observe Washington's birthday an
niversary. The committee consists
| Of Gen. Amos \. Fries, chairman;
| William Mussol, vice chairman;
| President Melville ID. Hensey; +. II.
Troutman. past president, National
League of Masonic Clubs; Maj.
| Walter Il. Metz. j. Boyd Dexter
and Charles Stark. They will assem-
| BILE at 10 O'Clock am. at the New
| National Museum. where addresses
will be made by prominent Masons.
The different Masonic bodies will then
| proceed to the Washington Monu-
ment. where a memorial wreath will
| be placed at the base Of the column.
| Alexandria Washington Lodge Of
Alexandria. Va. has been invited to
attend in body and 4 900 Masons, in
Guiding Richmond organizations, vari-
Gus local clubs and the ladies of
the Eastern Star are expected to be
| in line. All units have been requested
| to wear a cherry blossom. The cherry
blossoms, typical of the cherry tree,
are made by crippled soldiers of the
! World War and are sold at 10 cents
a blossom. They may be procured
| prior to February 20 from John G..
| Bowen, 2121 New York avenue All
members Of Masonic clubs and Ma
sons generally will avail themselves
of the opportunity to procure one of
these mementoes thereby helping the
| World War veterans. John o. Bowen,
president of the Anchor club. is chair
man of the cherry blossom committee;
| Col, j. E. Lloyd, j. G. Burnham, j. NJ.
| Nandervert. T.. T. Burney and DR..
| r. ID. Chum are associate members.
The Washington Railroad Square
| Club had at it's annual installation
/ OF officers the members Of the Ad-