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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
NEW OAKIE
MOVIE AT INDIANA

sea Legs" Paramount alI-talking
comedy of navy life with Jack
Oakie in the leading role, opened
Friday at the Indiana as the chief
film offering on that theater's big
Christmas week program. Besides
Jack Oakie, the cast includes Lii
han Roth, Eugene Palette, Harry
Green, Albert Cont and Charles
Sellon.
The double stage program on the
Christmas bill is headed by Charlie
Davis and his band with six acts
of glorified vaudeville in Jewels"
A separate stage presentation which
shares headline honors is Santa
Claus Frolic" presented by Louise
Powell's ninety kiddies.
In "Sea Legs" Jack Oakie cuts
his comedy capers as a sailor in the
navy of small republic, which
only has one battleship in its fleet.
He has been shanghaied to serve
as substitute for a millionaire.
The wealthy mans lawyer, played
by Harry Gren, had engineered the
plan in order to keep his client from
serving the compulsory term him
self.
Oakie is angry at first, but he
soon takes a. liking to the situation
when he discovers that his assumed
name allows him unlimited credit on
the rich mans bank account. He
goes on a spending spree &C
companied by his chum, portrayed
by Eugene Palette.
His carefree spending and his
clowning create quite a disturbance
aboard the ship on which he is
serving. To complicate matters
further, he makes love to one of the
captains beautiful daughters, played
by Lillian Roth. The climax takes
place when he mistakes an admiral
for civilian intruder and throws
him overheard.
Assisting Charlie Davis in
Jewels" on the stage are Ross and
Edwards, comedians; the Roma
Brothers. hand-to-hand acrobats;
Lillian Shade, personality singer;
Olga Morselli, violinist; Jerry Coe,
dancing accordion player, and the
twelve Foster Girls.
Bobby Upton again acts as master
of ceremonies for Louise PowellS
kiddies in Santa Claus Frolic" as he
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20


Since Film Daily started this poll,
it has been my pleasure and duty to
cast my vote and I am giving you
my annual choice today.
My nominations for the ten best
of 1880 and my reasons are as fol-
lows:
abraham Lincoln" with Walter
Huston. I will give you my rea-
sons in The Times Monday when
I review it at the Palace.
"All Quiet OH the Western Front,
because it is the greatest of the
World war spectacles, I mean from
the army standpoint.
1.-THE Divorcee," because Norma
Shearer became the first lady OF
the movies this year.
"Hell's Angels" because it is the
finest example of aerial photog-
raphy I have ever seen.
Holiday" because of the work OF
Ann Harding, the fine direction and
the human story.
Laughter" because it definitely
gave Nancy Carroll the fame which
she deserves.
"Old English" with George Arliss
even better than he was in dis
rael."
Outward Bound" 1 will wait I'M
til Monday to give you my reasons
because the pictured opened today
at the Apollo.
Journeys End" because it is the
greatest war drama written of the
World war.
Romance" because of the work
Of Greta Carlo, the fine direction,
photography and costumes. Not
because Of the work of the leading
man.
In arriving at my best ten con-
sidered for some time 1.-THE Big
House." anna Christie" Check
and Double Check, "Apinal Crack
ers'' and Africa Speaks"
I would have placed "Lightnin'
with Will Rogers in the list, but
that picture did not come within
the limits of the release dates which
governs the Film Daily poll.
Why not write me and tell me
your ten best as well as what you
think of mine. Please do so.
indianapolis is having a lot to do
with the Stuart Walker season in
Cincinnati, O., as Eleanor Shaler
was born in Indianapolis and is
one of the prominent members.
Also George Somnes, director of
the indianapolis Civic theater, is
doing much with the Cincinnati
company.
The Playgoer. a magazine pub
lished by the Stuart Walker COM
pany, has this to say of Miss Shaler:
She was born in indianapolis, but she
doesn't point with pride to that city
She doesn't consider pointing suf-
ficiently demonstrative; she shouts about
it and insists that you've just got to be
born in Indianapolis to amount to any
thing these days" s. She is the daueh-
ter of Brigadier-G General Charles Shaler,
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SUCCESSFUL PLAY
WIFI, RETURN HERE

Strictly Dishonorable," comedy
that is now in its second year on
Broadway, will come to English's
on Tuesday, Dec. 80.
It is being brought back here by
Brock Pemberton, producer, and
Antoinette Perry, co-director with
an all New York cast, which was
organized to play return engage
mentS.
The play deals with the expert
ence of a love-curious Mississippi
small town maid IN congenial,
coy speakeasy in New York, with
romantic bachelor opera singer,
an exceedingly bossy sutton from
West Orange, N. j.. a kindly judge,
who enjoys alcoholic forgetfulness
while off duty, a wisecracking
policeman and dryly humorous
proprietor of the drink emporium.
The opinionated sutton abandonS
the maid and she is preparing to
make of herself a martyr to love,
music and experience in the apart
ment of the bachelor when the
author, with great glee, extricates
her-and plausibly.
Elizabeth Love and Cesar Romero
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At Colonial

Dolls From Toyland," is the title
of the offering to be presented at
the Colonial for. the week starting
today.
Parade of the Dolls" Mother
Goose Characters land Southland
to Northland" are three of the fea-
ture numbers. In Southland to
Northland," an idea new to the
stages of indianapolis viii be intro
duced.
Numbers by Loretta Martin,
Dicksey McKowan and Betty Mccoy
will be given.
AS an extra added attraction the
management has secured TesSie
Teserina, billed as THE Radium
Queen"
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again in 'The Manhatters'' :. She
sang and danced and banished gravity
from innumerable countenances in the
better Manhattan night clubs One
thing led to another, as invariably it will.
and she was given an opportunity to play
her first important dramatic role in Edgar
Middleton's Tin Gods,' a comedy melo-
drama produced in London From
there she went to Paris and struck new
comedy bonanzas, in Bobby Connelly's and
Cole Porter's sensational Ambassadors
Show She returned to the States
in time to be drafted for Murray Ander-
sons Almanac" wherein she gave notable
account of herself, as usual Last
season she contributed to the general
hilarity in 'How's Your Health?" the
farce by Booth Harrington and Harry
Leon Wilson People who take them
selves seriously. frighten her =. One OF
her most poignant-and, until now. secret
regrets has been that she didn't become
an acrobat as well as a comedienne. I.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
GREAT DRAMA
NOW AT THE APOLLO

1t is understood to be an easy
matter to make acquaintance on
shipboard, and the mysterious name
less ship in outward Bound" stage
drama by Sutton Vane, which as a
Warner Brothers and Vitaphone
production, is now playing at the
Apollo theater, proves no exception
to the rule. BY the time the voy-
age to No Mans Land was fairly
begun, all members of the cast were
old friends.
Five of the group, in fact, were
really old friends, enjoying their first
since the first production of the play
in America. Lester Howard, Beryl
Mercer, Lyonel Watts, Dudley Digges
and Robert Milton, the director, all
took part in both stage and screen
versions.
The story deals with the shroud
of mystery revolving around the
hereafter. The author has placed
seven persons on an outward bound
vessel where Judgment is to be passed
on their deeds or miSdeeds. Two of
the central figures prove to be a
pair of youthful lovers, who, in an
effort to alleviate any form of
separation, seek another world,
where their love may go on forever.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Helen
Chandler are cast as the youthful
lovers.
Others In the cast are Montagu
Love, Alison Skipworth and Alec B.
Francis
Vitaphone Varieties, screen oddi-
ties and movietone news round out
the program.
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Will
Present
Chicago
Playhouse viii Be Scene of
Light Comedy in
January.

TINE burlesque melodrama "Chi-
Il cago," is announced as the
third offering of the Civic Theater
season. This fast moving play will
open at the Playhouse on New
Years eve with a cast of more than
thirty persons which is headed by
Dorothy Robinson the English
comedy actress.
Produced by Sam Harris, played
by Francine Larrimore for an entire
season, chosen by Burns Mantle as
one of the best plays of that year
and later made into moving
picture for Phyllis Haver, Chicago
comes to town with much prestige.
Added interest is found in the
fact that its author Maurine Wat
kins is a Hoosier girl, who penned
her way to sudden fame while a
newspaper woman in the city of
Chicago.
The situations created in the play
give Miss Watkins an opportunity
to use the slapstick variously upon
the tabloid sob sisters, murder trial
attorneys and the American passion
for writing fan mali without dis
tinction as to whether the recipient
be celebrity or merely notorious.
Chicago" is in three acts and six
scenes, beginning with Roxy Harris
boudoir and following her through
highly amusing scenes in the Cook
county jail, until she is at last
brought to trial and wins acquittal
by charming the members of the
male jury into believing she was
more sinned against than SHINING.
Chicago" is the least serious Of
the Civic theater's season and is
offered for the holidays as light en-
tertainment such as should amuse
the younger generation as well as
the older.
There will be seven performances,
beginning New Years eve and con-
tinuing each night, except Sunday,
through Jan. Z.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
MuShruSh to
Invite Santa
to a Dance
Finals in FIat-Foot Contest
to Be Held WedneS-
day.

CHRISTMAS week finds many
~ interesting events taking place
in the Lyric Ballroom. The finals
of the Flat-Foot Waltz Contest are
to be held on Wednesday night.
E. w. Mushrush, the ballroom
manager has many special treats in
store for his dancers during the
coming week.
Monday night will see the last
qualifications for the City Cham
pionship Flat Foot Waltz Contest.
Tuesday is Santa Claus night, old
Santa will visit the ballroom and
present dancers with little gifts.
The finals for the city champion
ship f1at-foot waltz contest are to
be held on Wednesday night.
Beautiful silver loving cups are to
be awarded the winners of this COM.
petition.
Thursday a Christmas Night
Ball" is to be held Special stunts
and surprises are being planned for
this event.
Friday is Blond Girls night.
Prizes are to be given all blond
haired girls attending this party.
Curtis Thompson and his Lyric
Ballroom Orchestra continue as the
chief music makers in the dance
palace.
Free dance instructions are given
or Tuesday and Thursday nights be-
tween 7:30 and $3.50.
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as a further development of that
condition became temporarily de-
ranged.
1t is known that he wandered the
woods abstractedly for days.
Others contend that the memory
Of his boyhood love for Ann Rut-
ledge proved so strong that it con-
quered his reasoning mind and thus
caused him to jilt Mary Todd.
Whatever the cause. Lincoln was
a character that would delight all
modern psychologists. His wedding
day misadventure was but an echo
of a somewhat similar conduct when
Miss Rutledge died. Lincoln, griev-
ing over her untimely death from
fever, lived like an animal for five
days, in the woods, until his normal
mind functioned.
Several days after his return it
stormed and Lincoln ran to Ann
Rutledge's grave and covered it with
his body so that the rain would not
beat down upon her.
Lincoln eventually married the
proud Mary Todd, but not until a
year and a half after he had Tilted
her. Historians are puzzled as to
why this aristocratic young woman,
then one of the most sought after
bellies in the western empire, should
have wanted to marry country
lawyer with no seeming future when
She could have married Stephen A..
Douglas, a presidential candidate
and one of the greatest politicians
of the time.
The cast of Abraham Lincoln"
includes Walter Huston, playing the
title role; Kay Hammond, portray
ing Mary Todd" Una Merkel, as
g"Ann Rutledge:" Jason Robards,
as "Herndon,' Lincoln's junior law
partner and friend; Ina Keith, as
John Wilkes Booth" Hobart BoS-
worth. as Lee" Frank Campeau,
as Sheridan" and Lucille La
Verne, playing an important char
acter part.
Every historical character appear
ing in abraham Lincoln" the
mammoth screen romance of Lin
coins life, bears a striking resem-
blance of the original, according to
D. w. Griffith, who made this all
dialog epic for United Artists. Crit
nth insists that no detail was lost
in the recreation of faces and facts
for his first big historical romance
since 1.-The Birth of a Nation"
More than 112 of the best known
character actors on the stage and
screen appear in the picture.
An added feature of unusual en-
tertainment will also be presented
in conjunction with Abraham Lin
coin" in the person of Stan Laurel
and Oliver Hardy, the screens fun
niest pair of comedians. who will
appear in their latest all talking
comedy scream entitled Another
Fine Mess"
The Hearst Metrotone News Pic
torial, showing the latest happen
ings throughout the world will COM
plete the program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
ENGLISHS TO HAVE
CHRISTMAS DAY OPENING

Opening Christmas night. Dec.
Is, at English's will be Thomas Ross
in "Jonsey." Ross has been in many
long run productions, including
"Uncle Dudley"
"Jonsey" is an American comedy,
centering around a prosperous fam
lily that might be patterned after
scores of our own representative
citizens.
The plot evolves out of the deep
crush held in the heart of Wilbur
Jones, son of the house, for Diana
Devereaux, leading lady with a local
stock company.
The group of people telling the
comedy are familiar, as to type, to
every one of us.
It is founded on a group of short
stories appearing in Pictorial Re-
view, written by John Peter Toohey.
Mr.. Toohey and Anne Morrison
shaped the play.
The engagement is for three
days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
COLLEGE COMEDY
NOW AT THE OHIO

Maybe It's Love-" Warner Bros.
Vitaphone comedy romance of col
lege days, with a cast headed by
Joan Bennett, Joe E. Brown and
James Hall, came to the Ohio Fri
day as the attraction for one week.
Laura Lee, Stuart Erwin, Anders
Randolf and the All-America foot
ball team of 1929 are also in the
pictures cast.
The story is of lovely young CO.
ed whose father, president of the
college, is threatened with forced
resignation because the school has
not won a football game from its
traditional rival for twelve years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20

Little Jack Little Radio Star, Tops YuIetde Vaudeville
Bill Opening Today at the LYic-Thomas Ross
Is Booked at EngIshs in 'IonSey'

JOYOUS host of Christmas entertainment awaiting patrons
Of the thaer starting Little popular radio
star heads the vaudeville including six RKO attractions
Charles Farrell the the picture Princess and
the Plumber"
Little Jack Little enjoys the most popu-
lar radio
contract to broadcast exclusively the Broadcasng
networks from New York this
Starting the first of heard
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from the New York studios of this
chain.
Jack has, it is said. selected an
entirely new program of piano num-
bers and song specialties which
promises to be his most enjoyable
stage presentation.
Five other RKO vaudeville acts
will accompany Little Jack Little
and complete the stage show.
Charles Farrell, one of the
screens most popular leading men,
and Maureen O'Sullivan, the
meteroic little Irish colleen, will be
seen together for the first time in
1.-THE Princess and The Plumber" a
new Fox Movietone comedy drama.
The story is an adaptation of Alice
Duer Miller's recent serial in ma
tional weekly, and deals with the
love affair between the lonely little
princess of Daritza and the young
American engineer who comes to in
stall all modern improvements in an
ancient castle.
Not knowing that the girl is a real
princess, the engineer gravely tells
her that he is the Duke of
Mamaroneck and when each dis
covers the others identity, the basis
is laid for series of hilarious mis-
understandings.
Farrell as the engineer and Miss
O'Sullivan as the princess, are said
to make g. thoroughly delightful
team. In the notable supporting cast
are such favorites as H. B. Warner,
Louise Closer Hale, Bert Roach and
Joseph Cawthorn.
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Griffth's Production of Abraham Lincoln With Walter
Huston and Una MerkeI in the Leads, Will
Open at the Palace Today.

ITO which
yet Mary Todd Tilted person
Abraham Lincoln
run from the prospect of marriage into the most artocratc
family in the west is revealed D. W. GrhS United
ducon Abraham Lincoln which The Palace today
Innumebe psychologists and friendly
Lncoln's behavior with conflicting theories
believed President was shy highly
sensitive victim of the wedding
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
Iannings NAV Return Here

Paramount is dickering for Emil
Jannings. They want him for their
German foreigns and also for Eng
fish pictures in Hollywood.
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Paul WIN Be a Star

Before making his debut as a star
at Paramount. Paul Lukes viii play
one more male lead opposite Ruth
Chatterton In New Morals"
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ROUNDING ROUND
DrDO With WALTER
ri IA r. D. HICKMAN

NE the biggest pieces of of interest to those who make dis
~ tribute the annual poll the critics all
the country the ten best Of the
This conducted by the Film Daily City and
l.,
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will head the cast which will also
include Willard Dashiell, Rudolph
Padaloni, Joseph Medallion, R. B.
Williams, Leo Leone and Edward
Hartford
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
Star Is Loaned for Movie

Dorothy Mackaill has been lent
to Radio Pictures to play in Kept
Husbands" Joel McCrea will play
opposite her.
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has done in their past annual pro-
auctions on the Indiana's stage.
The child revue includes songs,
dances Of all descriptions, and
various. chorus routines. Newell
Goodrich. the Indiana's own pro-
Queer, designed the settings and
staged the show.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-28

Gibson, otttetricians. and Dr. S. L.
Hadden of oak Park Hospital, all agreed
she could But Miss J. F. Christie,
superintendent of Chicago Lying-in
Hospital, said she would not care to
say a mother would know her child on
second or third encounter.
Family Points Are Noticed.
DR.. Paddock said the mother at once
sees features resembling her family's or
her husbands. Thus the child to her
has its fathers eyes, it's maternal
grandmother's nose or its ears may set
on the head at the angle of Uncle
Bob's To its father, other relatives
and outsiders it may look like lust
another baby"
You can't fool mother after she
has seen her baby a few times" DR..
Hadden said. I'm fun I have made
tests to see. I have asked mothers to
select their children from among sew
eral brought in from the hospital nur-
Sery and they did so correctly"
Miss Amelia Maggoirana. head nurse
at the Presbyterian Hospital. sided with
the doctors, and C. c. Hurin, superin-
tendent of st. Luke'S Hospital, declared
that if a mother did not know her own
offspring after the first introduction
he would think there was something
wrong with her eyesight.
New Problem Unanswered.
And then this proposition was put
to DR.. Gibson:
Granted that a mother cam recog-
nize child on second encounter as the
one given her at first. But suppose she
were given the wrong baby in the be-
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IL DERBY PILOTS
LED BY GEHLBACH
WeddelI Second at Los An
geIes, Where Race Will Be
Renewed Wednesday.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, July pa dozen
pilots. survivors of the all-American
Air Derby, rested here today. after
completing approximately 1000 miles
of their aerial jaunt about the United
States, begun week ago at Detroit.
The derby will swing eastward
Wednesday, reaching in one-day jumps
Ogden, Omaha, Chicago and Detroit,
where approximately $4,000 in prize
money awaits the winners.
Lieut.. Lee Gehlbach, first to arrive
ut the Metropolitan Airport yesterday,
two hours over j. r. Weddell, New Or
leans, who moved into second place, BY
virtue of the withdrawal of Stub
Quinby of Moline. Ill.
Quinby disabled his ship landing at
Douglas. Ariz., Sunday morning, and
was forced from the race.
GehIbach Leads WeddeII.
Gehlbach, who led the flyers here on
the jump from Douglas, in 4:l6:47,
was IL minutes ahead of Weddell on
this lap, driving his low-wing mono
plane through desert heat and across
treacherous mountain areas at an
average speed of $50 miles an hour.
Stringing in behind these leaders was
was reinstated last night after being
scratched through error, but for whom
a total flying time has not yet been
figured, and Lowell Bayless of Cleve-
land. whose time was 29:O2:59.
Throughout the afternoon the re-
manning eight pilots brought their
ships down. Their blistered, oil-grimed
faces testified to the blazing heat OF
the desert.
Stanley Stanton, Blackwell, Okla,
was forced down twice on the lap, once
with leaking gasoline tank and again
with bad oil pump, while Hamer had
his wing damned when an automobile
struck it at landing field. but he was
able to continue after emergency re-
pairs. Neither knew the names OF the
towns where they landed. I'VE were
too busy getting back into the race to
care about that" they said.
Elapsed Time Records.
Lee Gehlbach, Little Rock Ark,
26:17:2S.
j. r. Weddell, New Orleans. 28:514l.
Lowell Bayless, Cleveland, 29:02:5e.
Charles Meyers, Cleveland. 29:l4:l9.
Henry Ogden, Inglewood, Colo,
3S01:e
Stanley Santon, Blackwell, Okla,
S0.01 :09.
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TO TAKE BABY FIGHT
COURT FOR IDENTITY RULING
Parents Believe Infant Baptized as George
Bamberger is Theirs as Bamberger
Insists Child is His.

before the court, which would make
final decision as to whom the infant
belongs.
The attorney also was instructed to
bring suit for 100000 damages against
the Englewood Hospital, where the
Bamberger and watkins babies were
born June 80. Bamberger, on the other
hand, has announced that everything is
settled; that he is satisfied he now has
his own infant and that no legal action
of any kind is contemplated.
Rebaptizing Is Planned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Watkins expressed no
concern over the fact that the baby
they believe to be their own was
ch-istened a Bamberger.
when we get the baby trade ar
ranged we'll have him rebaptized into
our faith" they said.
Representatives of leading hospitals
and several prominent baby specialists
were asked yesterday If, in their opinion,
a mother would recognize her newborn
babe The replies. with one exception,
were in the affirmative-that mother
could recognize her baby Enthusiastically
after having seen it once or twice.
DR.. C.. d. Paddock and DR.. H. H.