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The Washington times., 1929-04-23

This Ann Preston Bridgers and
George Abbott play is a shrewdly
welded story of a little Southern
belle whose romantic deceptions
and harmless pretenses in playing
at love end very tragically when
she is finally touched by the true
emotion. Without the deft appeal
that has been woven into the char
acter of Norma Besant and the tire
mendously effective Interpretation
projected by Miss Hayes, Co
quette" would be rated an ordinary
drama. But blessed with the. his
trionic genius of a great actress,
1t becomes an absorbing dra amatic
narrative that will well tears from
the most flinthearted.
AS the play opens Norma s
practicing her flirtatious wiles on
Stanley Wentworth, manly
young lawyer who is deeply smit
ten. But t'orma likes Michael
Jeffrey, chap much lower in
the social graces and culture of
the Southern town. DR.. Besant
encourages the latest infatuation
of his da ;hter and forbids
Michael pursuing his courtship.
To fofestall a scene Norma agrees
to Danish her suitor for six
month in the hope she can break
down her fathers opposition to
their marriage. The loVe-torn
Michael returns after three months
and their relation tecomes even
more intimate. DR.. Besant upon
discovering the deception shoots
The Washington times., 1929-04-23

Andrew Lawlor. jr.. makes Jimmy
Besant a decidedly lovable high
school youth, just beginning to
feel important and inheritor of
all the joys and the aches of
the adoleScent, even to the d
minus report cards.
Throughout the action of the
,hree acts, Helen Hayes is DOM
mating. She endows Norma Be
SAINT with those indescribable
charms that win both sympathy
and understanding You enjoy her
saucy coquettries and sense the
agony, of her grief in heart-tearing
moments when she is emOtionally
superb. l commend the magnifi.
cent support accorded by Charles
Waldron. true picture of South
ern gentleman. and very capable
actor in the exacting role of DR..
Besant. Frederick Burton does
handsomely as Stanley Wentworth.
Bryant Sills shines as Michael. In
fact, the entire cast merits atten-
ton for consistently worthy per-
formances.
Polls was crowded for the pre-
miere with a distinguished audi
ence-an opening night benefit for
the American Association of Uni
versity Women.
The Washington times., 1929-04-23
SMASHING Hit REVUE
PARKS AT BELASCO

Superatives have been so often msued in the world Of
the theater that hardened orchestra seatbuyr has
learned take his with grain OF salt when the ad1ecves
biggest or greatest employed with redundacy but
last has come produceor several of them the
gram attesswho have learned precisely the opposite
direction in the employment of the dmnutve Whoever
dubbed '"The Little Show at the Shubert-Be this
week just that had his tongue in his cheek for
far from being the tender, delicate shrinking thing it's
nomenclature might imply, reveals itself just big
and entertaining could ask for in the shape
of iptiYn star avieUyt I .4 -
The Washington times., 1929-04-23

1t has been many an evening
since the Shubert. Belasco has
housed as large and as satisfied an
audience as that which weuded its
way toward Lafayette Park at
11:15 last night. Perhaps it all
came as most agreeable surprise.
No one knew anything about the
Little Show" except that it was all
new and hopefully on it's way TO
the Music Box Theater lin NV
York next week. Yet five minutes
after the rise of the first curtain,
the pew-holders seemed to settle
back in their seats confident that
all was well and that If all lirtle
shows were like these we ought to .
have more of them. !
There are some % scenes in
this production which the pro-
gram volunteers is presented by
William A. Brady, jr., and Dwight
Deere Wiman in association with
Tom .Weatherly, with lyrics mostly
by Howard Dietz, music mostly by
Arthur Schwartz and dances-all
presumably--conc and staged
by Danny Dare. They move WIKI
clockwork precision. For a mo-
The Washington times., 1929-04-23

BEGAN AS A
WRITER

George Fitzmaurice, who made
His Captive Woman" First
Nationals new picture being
shown for this week only at the
Earle Theater, in which Dorothy
MackailI and Milton Sills IRE
co.featured, has many highly ar
tistic films to his credit, among
them being Lilac Time," star.
ring Colleen Moore; THE Love
Mart starring Billie Dove; THE
Barker" with Milton Sills and
Dorothy Mackaill; Rose of the
Golden West" and many others,
all from First National.
Fitzmaurice was an artist in
France, before he entered the film
world as a writer. He decided
that he could direct as well or
better than many others, so he
took up the megaphone and
therein discovered his true meter.
His Captive Woman" offers
some of the most dramatic and
colorful moments of any picture
that has been seen this season.
1t is vivid. romantic and realistic
at the same time.
The Washington times., 1929-04-23

ment one vaguely imagines there's
going to be plot or some sem.
blance of continuity about 1t all,
but there isn't-not a bit of II.
Things just happen the way they
do in first class revue. There
are sor gs. there are dances. there
are sketches ard comedy bits with
quite lot seen of an, exception.
ally well-trained and particularly
attractive choral background.
Then there's, Fred .Allen-a ma
turer, more mellow Fred Allen
than we have known in the past
AND infinitely, better-who weayes
himself 10 and out and contrives
to be so funny without even half
trying that the other principals
are frequently laughing whole,
heartedly themselves. And there's
Clifton Webb-quite a lot of this.
attenuated one, in fact. who has
a most unctuous brand of humor
and who sings and dances and ap.
pears to enjoy it all as much as
anyone Yes. and there's that
Libby Holman person who abso-
The Washington times., 1929-04-23
S. S. Van Dine Writes
All His Stories
Backwards
2 stories are written

Detect'pe stories are written
backwards, AK
4, they're written back.
wards by S. S. Van Dine, the
mysterious and unknown author
OF a series Of detective stories
The man who wrote THE Ben.
M Murder Case" The canary
Murder Case" E"The Greene Muir
4, Il tas,. and '''Tke Bishop Muir.
der Case" says he. spends three
months evolving the problem that
every detective story must have.
Then ne makes his outline, work
ing from the solution of the
problem back to the beginning OF
the story. The, next six months
are devoted to writing the novel.
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lutely held up all proceedings with
her haunting voice in that tantal-
izing number, Cant We Be
Friends" just as she did again
down rear the fina'e in Webb's
smashing number, "Moanin Low.
Romney Brent, Bettina Hall,
Ernest Sharpe, John McCauley,
Helen Lynd. Harold Moffet. Doro.
thy Humphreys. Joan Carter.
Waddell, Portland Hoffa, and Paul
Bissinger are others who contribute
to the general gaiety of things
through the medi6m of song
dance. or comedy. One who can.
not laugh at the sheer absurdity
of 1.-The Still Alarm" sketch by
George S. Kaufman, once a
columnist On this family journal,
or Newman Levy's The Man
Who Reads the Ads" is a hopeless
hypochondriac.
The musical numbers, while not
particularly noteworthy. are well
up to the usual revue standard
and include Caught in the Rain"
eve Made Habit of You" and
"A Hut in Hoboken. AFRO. %
The Washington times., 1929-04-23

hold. as he sees it, the honor of
his family. When it develops at
the trial that in order to save
her fathers life Norma must take
the witness stand and testify that
she was not despoiled she flinches
at the suggested perjury. She
goes to a desk, removes a pistol
and h Irries into an adjoining
room. A muffled shot. DR..
Besant's unwritten law defense is
justified and Norma is a suicide.
SOmber enough in the telling
and yet the play has been light
ened by cleverly contrived COM
edy touches, inserted through the
agency of very human juveniles.
There is, for instance, Una
Merkle, a charmingly gawky lit
tie yokeI, whose naive unsophisti-
cation. and innocence as Betty
Lee. generates many a laugh.
The Washington times., 1929-04-23
His Captive Woman"
Is Full of Thrills

The popularity of stories deal
ing with trials is manifested by
the success Of books, plays and
pictures of this nature.
"The Trial of Mary Dugan," I"
"The Bellamy Trial" and others
of their like have been highly
successful: and now comes "His
Captive Woman" First National
Vitaphone picture, with Dorothy
Mackaill and Milton Sills CO
featured, which is to be seen at
the Earle Theater.
It combines the suspensetuI at
mosphere of the courtroom during
a great murder trial, with ad-
ventures on a desert island where
the principals-the girl accused
and her captor-are cast away.
From this dramatic situation is
built a powerful story which mas
been produced as a film by George
Fitzmaurice. D.
The Washington times., 1929-04-23
TEARS

One Of the tense aud touching
moments in "COqHette":
Norma-Daddy. you don't think
unkindly of me, do you?
DR.. Bessnt-Eo. daughter, no
daughter-of course / don't.
Norma-rhen don't act so me-
thOdicaI abOut il.
DR.. BeSant-What do you want
me to do?
Norma Just for one minute
want you to be as you used to.
Let's just pretend we're like we
used to be before any of thIs hap
pcned--that's all. Good by, dar-
ling. (She pulls his head down
and kisses him). Now I'll let you
go.
The Washington times., 1929-04-23
HELEN HAYES MAKES
"COQUETTE" TRIUMPH
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

A performance tender, emotonally sweeping and
poignantly beautiful could witness in wealth Of
seasons is the Coquee which offers Helen Hayes in the
full bloom Of a well-earned stardom.
The Washington times., 1929-04-23

Used cars Of leading makeS, models
and prices can be economically par-
chased from the dealeFS adVeEtAsaAS
d today'e elnaaffAad aa@
The Washington times., 1929-04-23

"You don't see a canvas
river, but a real boat on a
real river, and all the beauty
impossible in stage reproduc-
tion. Different from the
| play-yet as charming-and
with the, original ziegfeld
stars and hits. The stage
has it's limits. The screen
has not.
The Washington times., 1929-04-23

And in the column next door
the Laemmle reply:
The Washington times., 1929-04-23

/ wonder why Mr.. ZieRfeld
was not at the Rialto TheateP
last night I ana still wondering.
The Washington times., 1929-04-23

New York is witnessing the
battle of the press departments
of the Messrs. Ziegfeld and
Laemmle.
This from the Ziegfeld type
writer anent "Show Boat:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-28
The shnmaker Warning

The immediate reaction to the f1na1 decision that
Rev. E. s. Shunaker of the Anti-Saloon League must
go to the penal farm for contempt of the supreme
court should be a movement in the legislature to
define contempt of court, to definitely fix the power
of courts and to provide for jury trial for all in
direct contemptS in which the judges are both &C
clsers and executioners.
unfortunately the Shumaker case was not defended
on the fundamental grounds that he denied free
dom of speech His attorneys preferred to assert other
pleas in his behalf.
This newspaper has never hesitated to express the
belief that the sentence of Shumaker the grounds
that his published annual report was a contempt
created most dangerous precedent and invaded the
constitutional concepts of free speech.
It likewise believed and still believes that the later
exposures of conversations and pannings with Sena-
tors Watson and Robinson thoroughly con-
temptuous and that not only Shumaker but the SEN
ators should have been penalzed for their efforts to
indirectly influence for political considerations, case
pending before the highest court. That activity
seemed to tend toward anarchy and the highest form
Of contempt
Surely the legislature will consider the and try,
if it can to protect the people and the constitution
from judicial invasion.
1t should define the powers of the judiciary now
held to be body of equal dignity with the legisa-
tive and executive branches.
There is something abhorrent in the idea that any
branch of government arogate to itself the power
to take away liberty without granting the tme-hon-
ored right of trial by jury.
A statute or a constitutional amendment to pro-
tect the right of free speech against tyrannical
Judges is an immediate necessity and the most i'm
perative duty of the legislature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-28

not feasible for maritime law discussions. Certainly
the issue is complicated and even than for
merry because of the League of Nations machinery
for joint blockade which would diminish destroy
Americas neutral rights But the greater the diff
Guilty. the greater the need for facing it around 9
conference table.
We agree with Borah and the increasing number
OF British statesmen calling for conference on
law in wartime.
That is an added reason, however, for posgponing
the proposed American cruiser building program
Such negotiations can succeed in an atmosphere
of beligerency. Why not give the Hoover admin
istration and the Forthcoming new British govern
ment year in which to seek agreement on freedom
of the and cruiser equality by friendly nego-
tiations?
If the United States can not get justice and
equality by friendly methods there will be sufficient
time for the threat embodied in the present prea-
ture cruiser bill. Hysteria and haste not solve
this delicate problem of Anglo-American relations
and world peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-28
A Malt Tax

Most naive is the suggestion OF one MEMBER VI
the legislature that needed funds be raised oV
tax on such malt as is used for the manufacture OF
home brew exempting such is put to more legal
usage.
At the same time the chief of police OF Indian
apolis announces that he is to wage a paddock waI
on speakeasies which sell poisoned whisky. saying
that it is impossible entirely wipe out the bootleg
traffic and that the best any police force can hope
to do is to protect against the whisky which Is unit
to drink"
OF course, the laws of the land and the constitu-
ton suggest that no whisky is fit to drink and that
the concocdons known pure poison merely have
more speedy results in the way of death, blindness
or madness.
The malt tax suggestion has strong possibilities
in a legislature which was elected presumably under
state platform that pledged even more arid state
than was obtained by the Wright law.
There are those who remember that one Of the
chief arguments of the pre-Vostead days against the
regulated sale of liquors that the collection OF
any tax made the people partner in very vicious
traffic.
That tax III those days went to swell the school
funds or build country roads.
Now the mere possession Of alcoholic beverage In
any home is crime Indiana went beyond to the
national statutes and to that Immediately.
Yet the legislature is seriously thinking of raising
millions of dollars year in tax on malt used to
manufacture beverage whose possession is crime
Some investigation by the father of this idea gives
him ground for belief that very small tax on each
can OF malt would greatly relieve the state treasury
Of its impending deficits reduce The necessary tax
on farms and homes.
This may be the way out. Perhaps the tax can
be increased as needs of the state grow that vast
funds can be gathered at will.
OF course the levying of a tax on ingredients OF
contraband article may seem like going snookS with
crime, but consistency never part of the pro-
hibition program.
And there may be those who viii resent the i'm
Piled confession that the prohibition laws are failures
and that the people drink to such an exent that a
malt tax is important
These are queer days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-28


Dr. w. H. Hobbs, head of the University of N1ichi-
gans Greenland expedition pointed out that the
world has not emerged completely from the last glacial
epoch and that there is geological proof that this
counts for the present division of the earth into CHI
matte zones He said that during the greater part of
geological history, the earth had uniform, rather
warm and moist climate
Dr. w. j. Humphreys, general secretary OF the asso-
citation, predicted that the next twenty-five years
would discoveries in the field of biology and psy
choogy rivaling the discoveries of the last hrtyve
years in the physical sciences such X-rays radiun
the airplane, radio and so
DR. w. K Gregory of the American Museum of
Natural History traced the development of man and
showed how each part of his anatomy was inherited
from fish amphbians, reptiles and mammals ranging
from 100.0O0O00 to 1000a00000 years back
Most interest stirred up by the paper of DR..
Harry Elmer Barnes. interpreted as an attack upon
religion.
AS a result, great many scientists regarded it as
an unfortunate incident since they feel that there
shrould be quarrel between science and religion.
More than 1000 papers were read at the meeting
These papers represented minute advances in special
lied fields That is the way science advances-step
by STEP
No one can predict what revolutionary discovery
may lie at the end Of the trail opened by any one Of
the 1000 papers, .. -.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-28
Anrlo.American Conflict

IF there is war between the United States and
Great Britain, the immediate cause probably VIII
be the traditional dispute over freedom of the SEAS
That is the issue behind naval rivalry and the pend
ing cruiser BILL
Senator Borah is to be thanked for forcing this
issue to the front in the cruiser debate
aThere has been too much fuzzy thinking and
evasion by both navy department and disarmament
advocates in discussing naval rivalry Cruiser COM
petition is not cause, but result. There can be
no nernanent and effective naval limitation until
the cause of rivalry is removed.
A major cause of the threatened armament race
is the conflict between the British policy OF blockade
and the American policy of neutral rights, both
policies born of economic necessity.
Borall has, introduced an amendment to the
cruiser bin fayoring restatement and recodihcation
before the washington arms conference OF 1881
possible of maritime law and neutral rights in war;
Unless there is some settlement of this old dis
pute Borah predicts collapse OF the next disarma-
nnent conference and naval race in which I'VE will
have to build not only against the strongest but
against combinations of the strongest"
That is terrifying prediction, but it is inescap-
able Whether under such provocatioa viii "have"
to build such an a-conquering navy is open to argu-
n1ent but that we shall do is certain.
Borah's desire for maritime law discussion is not
new. He has proposed it before. But since failure
of the Coolidge Geneva cruiser conference and the
recent attempt at an AngIo-French military and
naval alliance there is urgency for such discus
sion. This is recognized by influential group in
England including the former British naval confer
erce delegates, Lord Lee and Lord Robert Cecil.
Unfortunately, President Coolidge Is so pessi-
nisc regarding results that he thinks the time is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-28
Reason
WYE hope Hoover has good time

NX7E hope Hoover has good time
w in Florida, for his troubles be-
gin March 4, when he will be asked
to provide for more hungry people
than he ever fed in Belgium, and he
will be gassed by politicians until
nell wish he were back in China.
If you want to know what Presi-
dent endures, shaking hands at one
public reception, just go out and
pump two hundred buckets Of water
and with every stroke of the han
die, grin and say Happy t. meet
chai"
It's a good thing Roy West didn't
try to get into the Moth Ball Broth
ers or some other secret society, in
stead of the Presidents cabinet, as
those twenty-seven black balls would
have nipped him.
II u
Those were very tender-hearted
royalists who celebrated the former
kaiser's birthday and wept over his
message.
If he could only run for President
half as fast as he ran for Holland,
nobody could touch him.
Leon Gordon, Russian artist, is 60
ing to Africa to paint the pictures of
Ladies who never have bathed.
He ought to be able to put an UNI
limited amount of atmosphere into
his work.
Our goldfish industry asks high
tariff. 1t seems with the high wages
of our goldfish and their high
standard of living, they can't COM
pete with the pauper goldfish Of
Europe.
But the American fish that need
protection are the suckers who
bought over $500, 100000 worth of
blue sky last year.
The President is feeding large
clusters of congressman, his slogan
being" Every congressman out of
the breakfast room by February!"
n
Limited by the Versailles treaty
to parships, not greater than 10000
tons displacement, Germany is said
to have devised sea marvel of
grasshopper size, but carrying the
kick of a thousand mules.
But then we have been hearing
of mystery ships for the last ten
years, but they never materialized.
-
The driver Of this bus over in
Ohio who ran his human cargo into
the electric car with such gnastly
results. stopped fifteen feet from
the rails, went to the tracks and
looked, then walked back, scraped
the ice from his windshield and
approached. He must have thought
the rails were used by oxen. hauling
carts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-28
Holdover Cabinets

There are advantages and disadvantages in hold
over cabinets
1t is an advantage to President-elect to post
pone the choice of cabinet members to such time as
he may be rid of the pressure of thousand people
sitting at his Office door seeking to give advice and to
get favor When the clouds of politicians, statesmen,
and others have rolled away he quietly can announce
the resignation of one secretary and the appointment
of his successor. And that will be that.
The disadvantage of taking over any of the prede-
cessors cabinet is illustrated by Roosevets course
when, on hearing of the death of Mckinley he an
nounced that he would try to carry on the Mckinley
policies and would retain the Mckinley cabinet.
AS he afterward relates in his letters he found
hottest idea of what he, President would like to
do, and by certain people who actively dis
loyal to him politically that he had to keep from
them anything politically important which he in
tended to do It was only later when he chose his
own cabinet that he got any cooperation and owing
to his weakness in judging human nature, he fire.
quently failed even then.
Cabinet officials are to an administration what the
be effective, the whole hand must be controlled by
the same intelligent purpose.
ANY man who has had the experience of Herbert
Hoover organizer knows these fundamentals of
organization, and will no doubt, in due Time be
guided by them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-28
III. e.
TRACY
"The Underworld Is Well
Organized and the IN
deraoorld Has No Better
Friends Than Shyster
Ld.a0yers.
DENvER, Jan. 28.-Here, as in
IL all other state capitals, the law
SAYS:

DENVER. Jan. 28.-Here, as in
IL all other state capitals, the law
crop promises to be abundant. If
production and an already
flooded market have the normal
effect on price, we should be able
to buy laws cheap next year.
The Colorado legislature has 1903
bills before it. Most of them are
unimportant. One group, however,
is causing quite a bit of discussion.
That group was designed to pro-
vide some 100000 additional rev.
enue, without raising the direct
property tax. 1t includes PROPOSE
tons for a tax on theater tickets,
tobacco and cosmetics.
The tobacco tax falls hardest on
cigaretS. For that reason, some of
the sugar beet growers view it as
a means of poetic justice.
Colorado contains thousands Of
sugar beet growers. They have done
much not only to satisfy Americas
sweet tooth, but to make themselves
dependent on it.
That advertising genius who is
telling the world to reach for a Gig
aret when it feels the need of a
sweet has hit those sugar beet grow
erS right where they live. 1t would
not be at all surprising if he drew
a tax in consequence.