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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-02
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

TT was a new Robert Henley CalK-
Il man III who waited opposite the
shop gate Wednesday evening. Mary
Della detected the change immedi-
ately. He was standing by the yell
low roadster, talking to George
MacKray, who just was getting put
of the car.
The thin line had gone from the
middle of his forehead and there
was no less laughter in his eyes
than on his lips. The conference,
apparently, held no terrors for Rob-
ert. He was plainly in high spirits.
Robert met Mary Della as she
crossed the street and took her arm.
"Golly!' exclaimed Mary Della.
you look all popped up, Bob. Had
a shot of something's"
"I've had shot of the most pow.
erful stimulant known to science"
Bob replied happily. ut commonly
is known as love-"
George MacKray had jumped out
of the car as they approached and
he now bowed profoundly before
them. Behold the leading lady OF
The Clock Shop Clock and the
handsome hero of thousand grid
iron battles" he leased. Miss
Chubb. am annihilated."
MARY Della's the name" she re-
r,ied quickly. How are you Mr.
George is the apuurtenance.
Considering the possibility that we
NAV all die on the same gallows, it's
high time we were getting &C
cuainted." >
He isn't intoxicated. Mary Della,
was born that way. You're elect
ed to drive, George"
81 might have known it" George
declared with affected disappoint-
ment. THE first time I get an OPP
portunity to expound my virtues to
Mary Della. you put me to work SO
I can't talk" He waited until Mary
Della and Robert we're seated. then
went around and took the wheel.
CT neglected to tell you, Mary
Della Robert said a few minutes
later, that George is to be best
man."
Mary Della caught her breath
sharply. "Oh,' she exclaimed. rs
somebody going to be married?'
Hadn't he heard? Had the Marabee
girl Tilted him without even telling
him that she was clipping with an
other man?"
why, I am, of course" Robert
replied easily. Didn't you known
Yes, but
n
THEY drove across Bank street
4 and picked their way through
the heavy evening traffic past thu
postoffice.
YES" Robert went on. George
is to be best man. and my father
and mother are coming out from
Detroit. All that remains to bt
done now is to decide on date"
That's important" said Mar,
Della weakly. She asked herself i
she ought to tell him about the &C
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cover she had worried to no pur-
pose.
THE other story I spoke of can
Il be told in a few words. Nor
does it's brevity detract from its
significance. 1t concerns discov-
cry made by Mrs. Chubb Tuesday
evening while Mary Della read the
captions under the pictures in a
movie magazine and Mr.. Chubb de-
voured his sports section.
Mrs. Chubb had gone through the
society news thoroughly and was
perusing the first page carelessly
when her attention was attracted
to one of those relatively small
tins that are set in very black type
to indicate that they have some
special importance.
Mary Della!" Mrs. Chubb cried
suddenly. Here's a shock for you.
Well, l never"
What is it, Mom." Mary Della
asked without raising her eyes from
her magazine.
Listen to this, child" Mrs. Chubb
read with effort:
Miss Marjorie Marabee and Mr..
Thornton Webstone, both socially
prominent in this city, were married
at Boston this morning by the Rev.
DR.. Milton Tanner of the Washing
ton Street Episcopal church. The
ceremony, which took place at the
home of the officiating minister, was
witnessed by Mrs. Tanner. No rela-
tives or friends of the bride or
bridegroom were present. The first
news of the marriage came to this
city in special dispatch to the
American from Boston, shortly be-
fore press hour this afternoon"
That's not the fellow the Mara
bee girl was engaged to-" Mrs.
Chubb declared. "She's eloped with
another man, honey"
Still Mary Della did not look up.
But the magazine before her eyes
was one whirling blur. 81
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DELLA
JGETE Ann MOORE fSpSS osSE veg s22nacxE
BY Williams

count of the Marabee girls mar
riage in the paper the night before
Il suppose it will be after you are
graduated, she suggested, for lack
of anything better to say.
George found a vacant space at
the west end of the city hall and
backed the roadster into it. For
no reason at all, George was wear
ing a broad smile that wouldn't
go off"
AFTER graduation, of course -
Robert agreed. Some time in June,
I hope. But the engagement will
have to be announced within the
next few days, I suppose.
But (they were entering the po-
lice station end Lieutenant McMul-
len was coming to meet them but
the engagements been announced
already Mary Della whispered
quickly. "You don't have to an
nounce it again"
Lieutenant Mullen shook hands
with each of them, and led the way
to the room where Mary Della and
the C. E. had been treated to an in
PRODUCTION to Snake Woman two
nights before.
They just had sat down about a
long table when the G. E. came in
bowed to the group and pulled up
another chair.
The conference, a little more for
NAL than was necessary. got under
way Immediately. The G. E. gave
brief summary of his activity in
finding Robert and, later, Mary
Della, and suggested that Robert
tell his story first.
Robert went over the significant
events of the night on which .Salila
Hicks YVES murdered, frequently
turning to Mary Della, who sat by
him, to corroborate some statement
concerning their participation in the
tragedy.
Occasionally Lieutenant McMullen
interrupted, to ask for more specific
information, and made notes now
and then on a pad before him.
II don't believe there's anything
more" Rooert said at last. I haven't
touched upon what occurred during
the several minutes that was I'M
conscious, because Miss Chubh
knows good deal more about that
period than do"
MARY DELLA anticipated The
~ detectives question. IF you
don't mind" she said, I'll tell you
something else first. 1 haven't saio
anything about it before, but il
ought TO mean something. It's just
this: saw the Red Mask again last
Saturday night"
Every one else in the room sat uI
suddenly and turned amazed eyes or
Mary Della.
You =. what?" Robert cried
unable to believe his ears.
II saw the Red Mask again. He
Sneaked into my house :"
Good Lord!" the C. E. exclaimed
I'm your house?"
Nowhere else. I'd been to the
dance at the park with Jimmy Fitz-
moan and got back homee before
II o'clock. We stood on the landing
and talked for a little while, and
when I went in it must of been a
little after midnight. couldn't
sleep for some reason, so sat dowr
in the living room. And then ]
heard something on the landing
outside the door, and >. :"
Ito Be Continued)
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NOIlN%
By Cowan

Me1iem could not answer her own question
as she wandered that day in the garden. She
was res0.nss For the first time since she had
come to them. 1eriem felt prisoner in the
home Of Bwana and My Dear. 1t was evening
when she heard step beyond the rose-hedge,
and saw hand reach toward her. 1t held mes
sage from Baynes. Il cannot 60 without seeing
you again, she read. Come alone to the clear
ing tomorrow and say good-by to me-"
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At sun-up Meriem, from her bedroom,
watched the little party set forth Meriem had
avoided Morrison Bagnes the evening before. nor
had ane bid him farewell She was uneasy at
his attitude. Why had he not spoken to Bwana
Of mis- 1--we for her? Why would he not permit
her to tell My Lear? It was all very pulling
to the little jungle girl But now that he had
gone, Merien missed his gay companionship.
Did shs love him?
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Ito Be Continued

The house party guests departed with Bwana
to guide them or their weeks trip to the nearest
railway station. Morrison Baynes stayed on,
however. and with My Dear and Meriem waved
farewell from the veranda. The young English
man nov lost no opportunity of pouring inn
passioned words of love into Meriems ear. But
always he urged her to 60 with him to London,
home.
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BIZ EDDIE CANTOR.

ONE Of the hardest things in the
world, next to buying a winning
stock, Is to write q good skit. A revue
must have them. or nothing else mat
tiers.
have written over sixty revue skits
in the last 10 years, 40 of which have
played a season or more in the best
revues in this country and London. OF
course, didn't receive any royalties on
those that played over the seas, but
they earned me the distinction of being
an international author.
had lot of new ideas for the
sketches, enough to make a revue, and
took them to Earl Carroll
That's the baby" I shouted, and,
DOMINIC robe, passed. under the
sign reading: Through these portals
pass the most beautiful girls In the
world" Carroll was interested in the
proposition, only he was bit suspi-
cious
Eddie" he said, "these Jokes are
yours? They don't belong to any one,
do they? I mean, after I buy them,
nobody's going to sue me, are they?"
Earl" / replied, latter you produce
them, nobody's going to sue you but
me-and then only for royalties" In
all fairness, 1t should be stated that the
royalty checks have been arriving every
week and make about the best margin
paper that I know of.
Anyway, the SlSitS were produced and
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Its a Sketch!"

oddly enough, under the title Of the
Sketch Book" Now, as the author OF
that show. would like to deliver my
lecture on sketches, mainly for the
benefit Of those boys out in Hollywood
who will have soon used up everything
they remembered having seen and will
have to start writing.
A skit is usually in a revue and is
usually placed between two big musical
numbers-giving the stage hands a
chance to set the stage-and it should
always be funny. The skit should not
be more than seven or eight minutes in
length. 1t must finish with q big
laugh, technically known as the "black-
out" don't care how funny or clever
a scene may be, If the finish dops, it
isn't any good! Very often a sketch
that critics turn up their noses at is
one that the public will laugh at for
months.
In writing a skit always get the
idea first and then work on the "black-
out" Very often the right finish
doesn't come, and often it is the contri-
button of q person in the sketch. Take
the case of the bath room skit in
Sketch Book" 1t was all very funny
up to the end and then it died. I tried
a new top" for it at almost every re-
hearsal, but not one seemed to click.
1t was only after Sketch Book" had
been playing in New York for two
months that the right finish was given
to that sketch by one of the players in
1t. In an ad lib minute.
In closing, Just allow me to say that
this EeYus -racketxdB q sketchI
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Roar China and Uproar
By Percy Hammond
EVELYN BRENT. IN
%heSI7necAOtue MRKO Kei4hS

theatrical veracity, the cruelties and
injustices heaped upon the helpless
Orientals by brutal Yankees and Eng
lishmen. The white invaders are pic
tured as arrogant, contemptuous, muir
derous and mean, treating the helpless
coolies as if they were vermin. A
vicious American trader kicks them
around and refuses to pay boatman
his fare simply because he belongs to a
superior race. TWO cents, says he, or
nothing. Thereupon the cheated sailor
browns his stingy passenger and pre-
cipitateS an interracial crisis. The
British navy becomes indignant and
demands the sacrifice of two innocent
Cinnamon upon the altar Of vindictive
Anglo-Saxon revenge. Unless two
peasants. however guiltless, are executed
in public, the captain of His MajeSty's
battleship Cockchafer will obliterate
the city, sparing no men. women or
children. The victims, therefore, are
hanged in full view of a grandstand--
gaSptng, choking and wailing as the
British nooses throttle them to death.
Mr.. Tretyavov, the Soviet drarnatist,
has not exaggerated the odious Ameri-
can tourists In the play as they desc
crate travel by their obnoxious habits
Neither has he over-emphasized the
Simon Legree mood of the white man
as he does business with his yellow
brethren-he neglects to give the Huns
an even break. Captains of British
warships are renowned for their blood
thirsty loyalty to the empire They FIRE
their cannons with little or no provoca-
ton on obscure Chinese settlements.
such as that in Roar China" but not
In the bombastic and spurious way de-
picted by Mr.. Tretyavov at the Martin
Beck Theater. AS vociferous scare
crow from the Soviets, Roar ChinaD Is
symbolic of an overheated state Of
mind, an exhibition Of the passion.
prejudice and instinct of a demaQo0ic
Russian playwright It is presented by
the Theater Guild with every aid
known to intelligent stagecraft.
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~ OvERNORS Of the Theater
Guild are moderately embar-
Y raised by the spirit in which
~ some of their subscribers have
received Roar China" A
number of these formal playgoers,
aroused by its war cries, have written
to commend the guild for its valor In
presenting a masterpiece so outspoken
in its protest against the bad habits of
civilization. At last, they chorus, we
are permitted not only to hear from
Soviet lips. but to see with Soviet eyes.
They urge the guild to interrupt more
frequently its program of trivial enter
tainment with the red-fire alarums of
the inflamed and explosive proletariat.
Others deplore the fact that 1t has given
sight and sound to radical complaining
Although have no official informa-
ton on the subject, I am assured that
the guild In producing Roar China" is
not animated by a desire either to aid
or to retard the revolutions. It is one
of the most proSpercuSly successful and
conscientious institutions of this happy
land, and it has no reason to stimulate
the prevailing attitude of discomfort
with doses Of hostile propaganda. AS
the worlds leading dramatic impresario
It is interested in whatever happens in
the theater wherever the stheater may
be-. Thus Roar China" and angry,
one-sided and earnest chrome from new
Russia, appealed to it as l,zsty and
picturesque curio, and 1t presents Il as
that and nothing else. Those who re-
gard it as a soap-box from which the
guild reiterates the weak and eternal
verities are overestimating the guilds
ambitions.
The original aim of Roar China" was
to fill the Nationalist Chinese with fury
against commercial invaders from Eu-
rope and America, melting them to
plunge into the communistic whirlpool.
It's ridiculous failure is an ironic en-
phasis on the dramas impotence to
change any line of human conduct, no
matter how theatrical its method of
persuasion. 1t may be that Roar
China's" crocodile character was pene-
trated by the aStute Orientals and found
to be a Caucasian snare. Or it is pos
sible that they did not come under its
influence IN numbers enough to make
its petition important At any rate, 1t
was q hop so far as its errand was con-
cerned. and the Chinese proceeded upon
their peculiar ways, much to the dis
comlture Of the Soviet Reputable and
the Soviet drama.
The theme of Roar China & Is the
oppression Of the pathetic ChirRse by
rapacious Anglo-Saxon barbarian, It
illustrates, with many compromise u
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/, deep and abiding virtue which
may Turk in a Sordid surrounding
In such case who merits the re-
Duke? Mr.. BelaSco, more than
once, has borne it undeServedly.
However, perhaps it's the fate Of
war, and all effort toward an end,
even noble one, is war in the
worlds stern judgment. It's a
tough task, this trying to serve
the public.
y
| GEORGE M. CONAN, who broke
into the theater as an awk-
ward, ungainly youth with a saucy
toss of his disposition and feet
that clattered like castanets in
steps that set the youngsters of
his day wild with the spirit of
emulation, now, with locks that
CLEAN like silver, Is sitting on the
top Of the world, haloed with the
glorieS that come to the actor, the
author, the playwright and the
producer. Nay, more, for there
are those who say that Mr.. Cohan
is the mystical leader who is to
pluck the fallen theater from the
depths and plant it with a re-
sounding comeback where the
public must sit up and take notice.
Be that as it may, Mr.. Cohan
needs no eulogiSt, for from a very
modest beginning he has, In a
career that fairly bristleS with
surprises, won the call to high
honor, If not reward, in his pro-
feSSion. To the onlooker it might
seem that his fame has been won
without effort, but onlookers do
not always see everything. Gifted
with versatility denied to many
Of his associates, he has succeeded
where many have failed; he has
been acclaimed when even the
mighty have been humbled with
chastisement. Apparently, he is
prepared to go on doing that very
thing until "all is over over there"
to quote his famous song, and APP
ply the quotation to the present
scramble of the stage to hold its
own commercially with the screen.
He has the happy faculty of max
ing bad plays good and of really
writing plays the goodness of
which sometimes escapes obServa-
ton until he himself leaps in and
helps to act them. He also has
the reputation of playing with
clean things, and of letting sex
problems severely alone. One
doesn't have to take risk either
with George M. or his productions.
Incidentally, 1t is said that '"The
Tavern" which he is now bring
ing to Washington, is his favorite
play.
WITH the language of the poet,
"MarSeilleS," the work of the
young French dramatist, Marcel
Pagnol, is being introduced to
Washington. Also it comes rec
commended as "one of the leading
successes OF Paris" which might
give us pause, not because a Paris
success may not be a great
dramatic treat, but because so
often things anything but savory
have been launched with a SIM
liar label as the best way to at
tract the curious eye or the NOR
bid appetite. Manager L. Stod-
dard Taylor of the Belasco, how
ever, is also giving the play his
personal Endorsement, and It
ought to be good. Gilbert Miller,
famous as an international pro-
ducer. y behind "Marseilles,"
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thing was revealed, did many of the re-
viewers suspect that Cohan was poking
fun at the old school of mystery the
alter. The original run lasted a year
at the Cohan Theater. and then the
play moved over to the Hudson. Later
several companies were sent on the
road. but Mr.. Cohan never attempted
long stays during his appearances as
the Vagabond because of the arduous
role, the longest he ever played.
The scene is laid in a tavern where
gather all sorts of strange characters
on stormy night. In wanders lone
ly vagabond hoping for drama among
the peculiar people around him, who
takes 1t into his own hands to set his
own stage. Things soon begin to hap
pen IN the most unusual fashion. The
Governor OF the State, his wife and his
handsome daughter arrive. There Is
hired man also who remarks, whats
all the shooting for?" And then
Surrounding Mr.. Conan are Robert
MiddlemaS, as the tavernkeeper; Theo-
dore Newton, as the tavernkeeper's
son; Kathleen Midday, as the hired girl;
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Score from RENEoADEs . Fox
In Capital Theaters

Jack Leslie. as the Governor: Eda Won
Buelow, as the Governors wife; Isabel
Barring, as the Governors daughter, and
Willis Claire, Edward T. Nannary and
Joseph Mackin-Nerney.
BELASCO-"MarseiIIe
WITH "Marseilles" as its American
w title, Marcel Pagnol's French sue
cess, 'Marius," Gilbert Miller's second
production of the season, comes to the
Shubert- Belasco Theater this week, be-
ginning tomorrow evening, with matt
nees Thursday and Saturday.
Pagnol, the author of "TopaZe," sug-
gested "Marseilles," the name of the
South of France seaport, which is his
native city and where the action of the
play takes place. AS "Marius," Pag-
nols drama, Is Still having a successful
run at the Theatre De Paris.
Mr.. Miller promises an excellent Mil
Ter cast including Alexander kirkland,
Dudley DiggeS, Hubert bruce, Alison
Skipworth, Frances Torchiana, A, p.
Kaye, Douglas Wood, Colin Hunter.
Arthur Lysons, Natica de Acosta and
Henry De Koven.
GAYETY-"OrientaI Girls"
STARTING tomorrow evening, the
- Gayety will introduce supplemental
features that always take well with the
crowds AS an added attraction to
Oriental Girls" the current show
stars Jack La Mont Hebrew character
comedian. Featured also is the famous
Jerri McCauley, one of the popular
include Frank O'Rourke, George Wag-
ner, Dutch character; Jack Baker, &C.
centric funster and impersonator Of AL
Jolson: Joe Lang, Sally Van, Gladys
Leland, toe dancing specialist; Made
line lie Verne, acrobatic dancer, and
Leila Leta, prima donna.
The chorus girls are given oppor-
tunity to enact slave and dancing roles
in 1.-THE PaShais Dream" a fantasy
with an Oriental dancing climax, one
Of the shows higl. spots.
The supplemental features will be in
troduced Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays.
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Keeps a-Movin'.

HELEN TWELVETREES, who has the
leading feminine role In HThe Cat
CreepS," at the Rialto Tteater, is said
to be interested In many things outside
her work, including boxing matches.
cooking, swimming, wire-haired fox
terriers, golf1ng, sewing, horseback rid
ing and every kind of music, "anything
from jazz to Wagner
With 1t all, Miss TweIvetrees finds
much time to devote to screen work,
and she was born on christrnas day.
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time melodramas,
which was revived
at the Fulton The
alter, New York, last
Spring. Virtually
the same players at
that time are as
ISOLATED with Mr..
Cohan now.
It will be re-
called that 1.-THE
Tavern" was first
hurled upon an I'M
,uspecting audience
in New York in
September, 1872 0.
Even III e critics
were bahled. Not
until the final act,
in which the mad
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