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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
BY BEN STERN

DUGNACIOUS George Dale,
l. mayor of Muncie, and aspirant
for either the Democratic nominal
ton for senator or Governor in 1882
(some say it is the former, will
play the part of host Sept. 7 at a
free barbecue in McCulloch park
at Muncie.
George, whose modesty rarely OBJ
trudes on ones consciousness, has
issued handbill the size of table
top, in which he announces the
affair as IAN Indiana Democratic
Rally"
And as the principal speaker he
will introduce bone-dry Governor
George White Of Ohio, presidential
aspirant.
The two Georges will occupy the
center of the stage while the barbe-
cued OK, Southern style" will in
all probability be the center of at
traction.
Gubernatorial aspirations are
nothing new to Mayor Dale.
He was a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor in
1923 and received 1925 votes out
of approximately 100000 cast.
Split in the Muncie Republican
organization and the general re-
pudiation of that party enabled
Dale to be elected mayor in 1929.
His administration has been char
acterized by battles with other city
officials and the council, but he
doggedly refused to withdraw from
the battlefield and his fighting
abilities are respected greatly and
deeply.
His friends declared that Dale
feels the people as whole are no
longer in sympathy with the usual
political claptrap handed out by
candidates and that they would
flock to the standard of a fighter
who has some concrete and con-
structlve remedies for the nations
present ills.
1t generally is understood that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
TWO SLAIN AS
GUNFIRE RAKES
LITTLE ITALY
Gang Warfare Flares Anew
on Street Crowded With
Playing Children.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-TWO men
are dead and another is wounded
after gang warfare was resumed
during the night in Little Italy
streets filled with playing children.
The two men killed were shot
down in a spectacular running pis-
toll barrage laid down at Broome
and Mott streets, the Little Italy of
lower Manhattan island.
The third shooting victim was
wounded as result of gossip arising
from the earlier baby killings in
Harlem's Little italy when gunfre
sprayed a group of playing chill
dren, killing one and Wounding four.
The two men killed were Joseph
Cignia (Pimples), 81, and Anthony
(Tony the Wop) Justiano, Is, both
arrested six months ago in Buffalo
on liquor charges.
The wounded man is Charles
Focarile, 10, and the man charged
with the shooting is John Mucciola,
"a, brother of Joseph, reported to
have told police the names of the
gunner who killed 5-year-old
Michael Veneghallo and shot his
playmates.
Cignia and Justiano were strolling
through the crowded, narrow down.
town streets near where Little
Italy" and Chinatown merge. They
recognized three gangsters and fled.
The gunner, all shooting as they
ran, pursued them through the
streets. Screaming grownups and
children sprawled and sprinted into
doorways.
Cignia fell with many bullets in
his back. He toppled into a gutter
in front of pool room.
Justiano fell as he dived into a
doorway of a meat market just
across the street and down a door
from Cignia.
The gunner turned, ran through
a Mott street building and emerged
from the back entrance, then dis
appeared.
Police said the killings resulted
from bootlegging feud. Cignia,
they said, was sentenced to New
York reformatory in June, 1927, and
his companion served there soon
after.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
ARGUE RAIL RATE HIKE
Oil, Cement Interests See Swing to
Other Agencies.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-Rep-
resentativeS of oil and cement COM
panies told the interstate commerce
commission today that the pro-
posed Is per cent freight rate in
crease would divert traffic from the
railroads to other transportation
agencies.
A. M Stephens, Louisville, KY,
representing the Standard Oil
Company of Kentucky, testified that
the major oil companies were indif-
ferent to the proposed increase. :
said they were prepared to take adj
vantage of other transportation
means. The oil companies, he said,
already use trucks for short hauls
and pipe lines and water tranSpor-
tation for long hauls. The profits
of the industry last year, he said,
we're just about equal to the saw
ingS effected by using nonran trans
portaUion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19

Two indictments in connection
with investment of city trust funds
were handed down against Mayor
T. Scenes Walmsley (above) of
New Orleans, by the grand jury
of Orleans parish.
The indictments charged Mayor
Walmsley with investing funds
contrary to law and failure to
have the books of these funds
properly kept.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
BLAMES TARIFF
FOR SLUMP IN
WORLDS TRADE
institute Told u. S. WALL
Has Drawn Hatred of
Europe.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass, Aug. 10.
charge that the high tariffs of
the United States have stalled world
trade and are responsible to a large
degree for the present unemploy-
ment and distress, was made by H.
Z. Miles, chairman of the Fair
Tariff League, who spoke on The
Tariff Policy Of the United States"
ct the institute of politics.
While we have solemnly declared,
Miles said, that an honest, protec-
tive rate measures only the differ
enceS in costs of production here
and abroad, we have made the rates
from two to five and fifty times
greater than the differences in costs
OF production, and have brought
about European hatred toward us.
Pointing out that a Swiss watch
movement is taxed 225 per cent, he
said, no wonder that in a Swiss
watch town $4,000 people swore that
they would never buy another thing
from the United States"
Every citizen in Europe has its
own wretched story of our mistreat-
ment of its particular products"
Miles declared.
Pleads for Reduction
He pleaded for the leadership of
the United States in the reduction
of tariff barriers everywhere to the
lowest limit consistent with honest
protection.
Under our present tariff policy
the east robs the west and the
south and will cause our farmers
soon to become a peasant class like
those in Europe unless we save
them from tariff exploitation, Miles
asserted. He said that congress,
assembled to help farmers by the
tariff, increased farm rates above
the previous tariff in cash value
only two fourthS of l per cent.
He declared that America should
not be afraid of a low tariff, for
because Of her large wage, costs are
often as low per unit of product as
anywhere in the world, but, he said,
our manufacturers tell of high daily
wages and conceal the only point
which concerns the tariff. our low
est possible wage cost per unit of
product.
Brands Work LudicrOus
1t is not because of our high
costs, but because of our low costs
that we have come from nowhere
recently to be the worlds greatest
exporter of highly finished products,
he said.
While the present tariff COM
mission is worthy, its work is ludi-
crous from the standpoint of the
national need. 1t has spent much
time on reptile skin leather, maple
syrup, smoking pipes and the like,
without considering steel with tariff
graft of some 200 millions and sugar
with its tariff cost of some $50
millions" he said.
He concluded that lit is for us if
we would save either ourselves or
others no longer to turn our backs
on the rest of the world, but to
cultivate trade and amity with all.
And first of all to clear ourselves
of guilt by making our tariff rates
square with our professions"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
THEY TED NE

George is pointing toward the SEN
atorship, because of the lack of
really qualified material which so
far has appeared.
The free barbecue will bring
thousands to the Labor day rally,
and if he has ringing message to
deliver, the affair may really start
him on his way toward his goal
but if he hasn't got a thing, then
it is a very good bet that his posi-
ton in the senatorial race will be
that which he occupied three years
ago in the gubernatorial contest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
S2,OoO,OOO Voted for JobIess

By United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-New York
City has appropriated another 81
100000 for unemployment relief,
making the city'S total contribution
$15,O75,OO0. The 100000 will be
spent for employment of unskilled
labor in parks and other city de-
partments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19

Electricity is the only domestic
item costing less now than in 1913,
according to survey of thirty-t two
cities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-19
Ate a Hot Dog?

BIZ UHftfu PFtsS
PRATT, Kan, Aug. 49,
Jack Redcloud. professional
glass eater" has recovered
from an illness which kept him
confined for several days in a
local hospital, and was on his
way today to rejoin the car
nival he works for. Redcloud
was i'll Of indigestion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03

with new flower beds, new walks, new
or improved buildings and millions OF
electric lights, in many clever designs
One Of the new riding devices Is the
thrilling "Dodgem," 20 cars OF front
wheel drive, the last word in the auto
mobile type and a delight for the kid
dies. The new shooting gallery, the
penny amusementS, the "Skee Bali
Bowling Alleys" and the Midway also
have been improved, and made more
attractive TO both young and old.
The popular Coaster Dips have been
made more thrilling, insuring bigger
Whip also has felt the hand OF i'm
provement. with zippy airplane swings,
the Ferris wheel and dozens OF smaller
but popular riding devices.
Patrons this year will miss the Cat
erpillar," Derby Racer and "Old Mill,
old veterans which have been taken
over by bigger and better features,
such as the new 100000 Crystal Pool,
which will open May 80, as one Of the
flneSt pools in America. with showers,
rest rooms and other conveniences. One
million five hundred thousand gallons
OF filtered water will pour into 1t every
"a hours. There will be also 10000
square feet Of beach, a rest island. IL
by 40 feet, a shallow pool for the kid
dies. showers, observation stand, re-
freshments and electric fountain, with
competent guards on hand at all times
and flood lights to make night bathing
enjoyable.
This year the orchestra In the ball
room, under McWilliams, has been in
creased to IL pieces, and there will be
dancing from $3.50 until 1880 on week
nights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03
Critics and the Drama
By Percy Hammond.

you are. To observe the incubation
of characters, their development by au-
thors. actors and directors, and to won-
der what will become of them when it
is time to wash up and quit is indeed
an exciting exercise in curiosity. Ham
let" probably would still be hit were
it not for the fact that dramatic critics
have betrayed the condolences of its
tragic conclusion Many amusement
seekers refrain from attending Romeo
and Juliet" because they have an inkling
OF how it ends. The wallop Of surprise
is an essential to enjoyment in the the
alter, and II a manager could keep his
wares under cover, it would be better
for one, If not for all.
Since returned from my recent out
ing in F1orida's frigid tropics, I have
had no recreation so complete as that
afforded me by Miss Katherine Cornell's
impersonation Of Elizabeth Barrett
Bouton- Browning in THE Barretts Of
Wimpole Street" At the Empire The
alter is blending of several quasi quiet
biographies by Rudolph Besier and act
ed historically by Miss Cornell, as
poetry's most ingenious Sappho, and by
Mr.. Brian Aherne as the large and
triumphant Robert. Miss Cornell speaks
the lines of the play as If they were a
combination of her own and Mr.. Brown
ing'S, and her impersonation, though
slightly stellar In its technique, also Is
to be recorded among the achievements
Of the first actresses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03

TIME drama reviewer is frequently
berated by producers and sub
scribers for revealing in his re-
ports the denouement of play.
1t Is considered a breach OF con-
duct, when, bursting with information,
he succumbs to news mans passion
for telling tales and heralds the secrets
OF the last act. The objection to his
so doing is that. it deprives the audience
Of the expectation and suspense that
make drana-loving fresh, not mo-
notonous adventure. A playgoer, hav-
ing read in his newspaper that the hero
and the heroine are unparalleled in one
another's arms as the curtain falls, loses
interest in their fable, 1t is said. If it
were generally known that in Mr.. Bern
STEMS "Melo" Miss Edna Best, as a
pretty lady, beaten by love and music,
browns herself and her troubles in the
Seine, the attendance at her perform
ances would be diminished Give the
public the details of Miss Alice Brady S
finish in Brass Ankles and languorS
and ennui would be induced in the
breasts of her audiences.
With those impressions this recorder
Is measurably in agreement. Certainly
there is fascination in going to plays
ignorant of their contents The less
you know about them the more blissful
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03

playwright. The translation was made by
Walter Ferris, an American man of
letters and dramatist in his own right,
For two seasons on the road and one
year on Broadway, Philip Merivale was
starred in this play. This past season
he had the honor OF being recalled to
Broadway for his second appearance in
the same play--an unusual event.
Death Takes a Holiday" is unique. 1t
deals with the idea of Death forsaking
his everyday work and permitting the
world to wag along. This means that
so long as the Man with the Scythe is
idle. not a leaf of nature will fall.
Spring Of the year is the time taken for
the vacation. Spring remains. Time
does not move; but many things happen
on earth during Deaths soiourn In dis
guise-and not the least Of these is his
falling in love. AS this is love story,
of pure idealisn1, the play Is at once
lifted to the rank of great romances. AT
times it approaches delightful comedy.
There is never moment when it be-
comes aweSome.
Clifford Brooke, the director. feels
that his charges here will give the best
account of themselves. Thus far. no
other repertoire company in America
has tackled this play-which calls for
the highest art of the theater.
The scene IS laid in the garden OF an
italian mansion Of the nobility. the
characters all ladies and gentlemen,
form background of wealth and
beauty. the drama is of the highest or
der. Nancy Sheridan, Stanley Ridges.
Roberta Beatty. Forrest Orr, Daphne
Wilson, John Warburton, Mrs. Hubbard,
Raymond Bramley. Edward Poland and
Burke Clarke all have important parts.
An unusual stage setting is promised,
There will be two matinees-Wednes-
day and Saturday -- as we'll as the
special performance tonight. The regu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03
Chicago Sights-Maybe,

THE dramatic story OF The Secret
Six" now at the Palace. traces the
rise and fall Of crooked city political
boss who rules the underworld to use 1t
as tool to gain political power.
The story is by Francis Marion, IA
nous for The Big House" and Min and
Bill" and was directed by George Hill.
Wallace Berry plays the role Of Scorpio.
stockyards worker who becomes po-
litical car Of the city.
Reported among the sensational
scenes are the blowing apart of a player
piano with machine guns, in sporting"
man. sensational night battle of
the vigilantes with heroes of the under
world, and a breath-takiug race in
speed boats.
An entire replica of city street was
constructed near the M.-G.-M. studios,
first as it might have appeared just
after the war; then RACED and rebuilt
as it might have looked four or five
years later, then once more rebuilt as
of 1881.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03
Something Has Happened
u. WILLIAM FARNuM,
IEN NIGHTS IN 4 BAR ROOM
NSTY110IIZUN
By w. H. Landvoigt.

which to try out any old thing,
thing may be to the greedy
heart of its producer. But 1t does
know its theater and when 1t
gets it it never fails to show its
appreciation generously, even
magnanimously.
x Il \
WHAT has been said In con-
nection with the fine local
appreciation of Manager Coch-
rams new repertoire company
may we'll be carried forward in
considering the theater in its full
dignity and glory. News has
come from New York that the
Theater Guild, which has given
! Washington some of its finest
| theatrical entertainment in years,
has at last succeeded in awaken
ing the interest of a group Of
New York managers of note, and
with them a sensible and intelli-
gently directed effort is to be
made to recapture what is profess
sionally known as 1.-The road"
For some time past, the Guild,
with a cultured and competent
galaxy of advance managers"
/ selected from theatrical press
writer's of note, has been making,
as it were. a houSe-to-house can
vass for subscriptions to its enter
! tainment. Year by year the list
i Of such guarantorS has grown
until now IL cities constitute a
field in which drama that is
worth while can be presented with
some feeling of confidence in adj
vance that it Is not to be a f1nan-
cial failure.
The late news tells of an ar
rangement of the Guild with
famous managers like John
Golden, Gilbert Miller, Arthur
Hopkins, Brock Pemberton and
Chester Erskin, an associate pro-
Queer of the Erlanger interests,
to cooperate in the spread OF the
Guild movement to wider terri
| tory. And this is to be done now
and in time for the new season
| that will begin in the Fall. Details
of the arrangement cannot be
given here, but they are sufficient
/ TO warrant the confident belief
that at last the theater has
awakened TO the civic Importance
of dividing the entertainment
business of the Nation with the
moving picture industry. There
is ample room and ample sup
port for them both. They are
not the same by any manner of
means. and it is we'll for the cul-
ture of the Nation that the fact
should be realized by both the
theater and the movie interests.
THE picture interests virtually
admit that the dramatistS and
| playwrightS who have won high
fame in the theater have not yet
acquired the peculiar technique
which it is claimed is necessary
to the creation Of great screen
drama. This admission Is ap-
parent in the continued use by
them of plays that long since
earned their fame upon the stage.
Their efforts to create such drama
by screen methods have not been
attended with much success.
Meanwhile the theater has been
injured by the temporary deSer-
ton of its workers in hunt for
the pot of gold at the end of the
rainbow. It isn't wise to spoil a
good matchmaker by setting him
to work as a blacksmith, nor vice
versa. What is true Of plays il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03
Stage Features at Fox.

4 UTHENTIC dances and rhythms
- from a dozen Spanish and Latin
American countries are promised at the
Fox Theater in Fanchon and Marcos
'Espanola Idea" Included among these
are the "Jarabe," the national dance
Of Mexico; the "Rumba," described as
the first national dance of Cuba: a
Spanish castanet number, novel dance
Interpretation or bull fight. and the
weird Aztec Indian Sacrificial number.
LIE Roy Prinz. who staged the
"Espanola Idea" is said to be the first
to introduce the "Rumba" to continental
America. 1t was incorporated into Earl
CAROLS "Vanities" last season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03
THE,
SECRET
SIX
Palace
Seth Parker Goes Movie.

DH1LLIPS LORD, known from one end
Of the land to another as the Seth
Parker of the radio feature, Sunday
Night at Seth Parker's," has put his
name on the dotted line of a Radio
Pictures contract, and is due to report
in Hollywood in August.
Mr.. Lord is young man with, many
hope, long life before him. His radio
characterization, the central figure of a
most interesting group Of characters.
has not only attained as wide a popu-
lartty as any of the famous character
izations that have sprung to life on the
air, but in many quarters IS reverenced
with a sentiment of real affection be-
cause of the sweet and simple spirit of
religion embodied in his unique offer
ing devoid of creed and the stickers of
theology.
His work for the screen will be fol-
lowed with close interest and the earn
est hope of many that it may never in
the remotest degree mar the Beauty of
his Sunday Night Githsrtn's."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03

ELLIS of all sorts have been
ringing down Washington
II way this week. Bells to
speed the parting guest.
Bells to welcome the new leading
lady-and what a leading lady!
And Joy bells are iangling with
hilarious changing, all because,
within the short space of five
weeks, with five different plays,
our local repertoire company
seems to have won great renown.
Managers elsewhere are talking
about it, and Manager Cochran,
with chest pulled out under stiff
boiled shirt, is announcing an eX-
tension of the stock season. Sure
" the tide has turned at last and
the grim specter of depression
has left our midst, forever be 1t
hoped. 1t just required a breezy
bit of daring comedy like Belas-
co.'s Its a Wise Child" to bring
out the hidden worth Of the Ma
tional Players as an organzatlon,
and especially to disclose that the
new leading lady with the famous
old name Of Sheridan could and
did fully redeem the eXtravagant
promise made for her by the man
agement. Packing the house for
eight performances" is the report
Of the achievement of the week,
supplemented with the assurance
that "the new leading woman has
won out handsomely in the f1rSt
round" All this being true-and
surely 1t must be true-why
shouldn't bygones be bygones and
everybody be happy?
STOCK companies are peculiar
- things. Each individual unit
has a following that will not be
denied. Hint but a word that
this or that one fails to achieve
absolute perfection in everything,
and like a thousand bricks the
reproaches of it's following fall
upon your unsuspecting head.
Stock audiences are, as a rule,
peculiar psychological mysteries
that won't be solved. You simply
have to humor them. unless you
want trouble in the family. This
ancient theory asserts itself with
irresistible force when the new
and perhaps young critic under
takes TO express himself. The
stock company is much like a pet
dog, q Growing rooster. which may
distract everybody but never the
owner; a first baby that never
had its like before, even like a
new motor car which defieS COM
parison. II may have it's ups and
downs, but always it has its de-
voted and loyal following that
dareS you to criticize. Manager
Cochran, at last, seems to have
attained the goal of his ambition.
He has succeeded in drawing out
of-toWn managers to see his
latest, and they have shaken their
heads and wondered. Even the
movies are looking askance with
enviouS eyes and setting their
machinery a-chugging to gather
in this or that favorite. What
everybody likes certainly must be
good, or elSe-who dares put an
alternative? Washington is ia
nous for its stock companies and
has been from the days of Bill
DWyer and Joe Luckett down to
Lucky Steve, who now boasts, and
not without excellent reason, that
he has the peer of them all. But
above and beyond it all is the
certainty, the indubitable GER
tainty, that Washington Is good
show town. when the shows are
good. 1t isn't good dog upon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03
Snow IN Africa.

IT is not Away shot in Africa. In high
er regions Of the Belgian Kongo snow
Is reported by the motion picture safari
that made Trader Horn" now at the
Columbia. Several times the camp OF
the picture expedition was washed out
by cloudbursts and floods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03
Safe Even In Death.

TO protect the Metro-G oldwyn- Mayer
motion picture safari which went
into the African jungles to film Trader
Horn" now at Loew's Columbia, Metro
Goldwyn-Maye took out policy Of
$2,500,000 on the lives of the players
and technicians who penetrated the
widest jungles with the first and only
sound-recording outfit ever to go into
Africa,