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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
Children
to Play
at Park
lac Broderick's Riddle
Revue Booked at
Broad Ripple,

"A N eight-act free stage show, to
4 n be given from the main stage
in the picnic grounds, again will
feature the Broad Ripple park en-
tertainment program Sunday.
A success ever since it's Inaugural
ton this year, the stage show each
Sunday has found far greater ia
vor among the public than the old
policy Of staging free acts of the
sensational type.
Heading Sundays bill will be
JAG Broderick's Kiddie Revue and
the Tomlinson nine-piece girl band,
Each act has arranged special
numbers for the day, as has young
Clarence Harding, the 13-year-old
boy who has been a success ever
since his debut a month or so ago.
He sings old Southern songs and
plays his own accompaniment.
The park continues to do a sue
ceSsful business in all rides, games,
fun buildings and other amuse-
ment places. and all have been
placed in excellent condition for
the usual large weekend crowds.
One free attraction which has
been magnet ever since his
birth is Little Joe, the only baby
monkey ever born at the park. Joe
is now seven weeks old and is lust
beginning to be taught the diff
cult maneuvers of jumping from
one side of the cage to the other
climbing the walls, etc., and the
mothers efforts at teaching him
make an interesting sight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01

Milestone's achievement is par
ticularly notable in that the two
productions he directed were vastly
different in origin and resign, in
addition to being produced on diff
ferent lots. Gall Quiet" Univer-
sal picture, was adapted from the
war novel by Erich Maria Re-
marque, while 1.-THE Front Page"
came from the stage hit of the same
name, and was made under the
Howard Hughes banner for United
Artists release.
It is also interesting to note that,
whereas the usual screen version of
a stage hit is more or less disap-
pointing, the majority of comments
on the screen adaptation of 1.-THE
Front Page" rated it as equal or
superior to the stage production.
Fer the first time in six years
that the Film Daily has been con-
Quoting the annual vote on direc-
tors, Ernst Lubitsch failed to be in
Guided among the ten best. This is
ascribed to the fact that, in the year
covered by the present vote, Luz
bitsch directed only one production,
Monte Carlo" On this picture he
received enough mentions to make
fourth place in the honor roll.
Lubitsch, however, still leads as a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
Riverside

Arrangements for a demonstration
of balloon jumping in the early days
has been made by the management
of Riverside amusements park as
part Of the free entertainment at
the park Sunday evening. o. E.
Ruth who will furnish the equip
ment has been entertaining an old
acquaintance.
Earl (Ride High Burlington, for
merly lived in Australia and claims
to have introduced the art of ball
loon jumping in that country. He
claims to be past 80 years old and
has not been up for several year.
but when his eye fell on an old
style parachute while making a sur
vey of Ruth's equipment, he in
sisted that he be allowed to use it
one more time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01

First National-Vitaphone under the
direction OF Mervyn Leroy, whom it
gave ample opportunity for dis
playing his versatility at directing
since Leroy also made Little
Caesar" one of the years outstand-
ing gang pictures.
Joe E. Brown is cast as Ossie
Simpson, girl-mad son of a wealthy
easterner who is tired Of having his
family name dragged through
series Of scandals by a son who is
dizzy over the DANES" In order to
attain his end, the father sends
Ossie out west where he believes
beautiful girls are scarce.
Hardly was the boy well under
way, however. before he met a new
and different" girl that proved to
be his complete undoing. No time
was lost in asking her to become his
wife and she lost no time in accept
ing.
Their budding romance threat
ened to crash on the rocks, however,
when tales of Ossie's wild and wool
ly past began to follow him and
reach the ears of his -founo
girl. Some of the productions fun
niest situations come when he is
trying to shield his past from the
girl.
The cast supporting Joe E. Brown
includes such film lurlinaries as
Ona Munson, william Collier Jr.,
Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert,
Margaret Livingston, Thelma Todd
and Bella Lugosi.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01

ten best winner, since he is the only
director with five citations. Herbert
Brenon and King Vidor made the
grade four times each, while Charles
Chaplin and Clarence Brown have
been among the topliners three
times in the six years. Those who
have won out twice include James
Cruze, Cecil B. De Mile, D. w.
Griffith, Rex Ingram, Frank Lloyd,
the late F.. w. Muriaau, Malcolm
st. Clair. Josef Won Sternberg and
Raoul Walsh.
Complete list of pictures directed
by the ten best OF 193o-31 follows:
Lewis Milestone-"All Quiet on
the Western Front" Front Page"
Wesley Ruggles-"The Sea Bat"
"Cimarron."
George Hill-"The Big House"
Min and Bill"
Josef Won Sternberg-"The Blue
Angel" Morocco"
D. w. Grif1th-"Abraham Lin
coln."
Robert z. Leonard-"The Di-
vorcee," TN Gay Madrid" LET Us
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
NEW COMEDY
NOW AT INDIANA

Confessions of a Co-Ed," New
Fall Hit" number one, is the fea-
ture attraction at the Indiana
theater this week. Other offerings
on the bill are Tom and Jerry
comedy; "Mickey's Diplomacy" a
new release Of Strange AS It Nav
Seem;" and the latest Paramount
talking news reel.
Sylvia Sidney, who made her bow
to Indianapolis motion picture audi
ences in city Streets" several
weeks ago, has the feminine lead
In Confessions Of a Co-Ed," while
Phillips Holmes and Norman Foster
are cast opposite her. The picture
was co-orected by David Burton
and Dudley Murphy, and was
adapted from the story that is pur-
ported to have been written by an
anonymous college girl of this
country.
Practically all of the action takes
place on the college campus, in class
rooms, dormitories, sorority houses,
or during collegiate outings in va
cation time. Only during the last
part of the picture is the audience
taken from college life into the
homes Of some Of the graduates.
Miss Sidney is cast as Patricia
Deane, unsophisticated but at
tractive freshman who is becoming
the center of attraction among the
boys.
Because Of this apparent popular
ity she is pledged to the leading
sorority and then gets her first taste
OF dancing, parties and collegiate
fun in general. The earlier part of
her life had been spent in con-
scientious study with little regard
for association with fellow students.
In her excitement of new ex-
periences she listened eagerly to love
words whispered into her ear by an
upper claSSman and believed his
promises. He soon was expelled
from school following an affair with
another girl, leaving Patricia to
bring fatherless child into the
world.
Rather than do this, she accepted
the proposal of another adnnirer.
and then permitted him to believe
the child was his. The return of
the first lover several years later
brought about the expose of the
secret and it is here that the story
reaches its climax.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
MAY ROBSON
TOPS APOLLO CAST

The Vaccinations of designing
financiers, husband hunters, social
aspirantS and racketeers against the
little daughters, sisters and sons Of
the rich are depicted in a special
talking picture, entitled Mothers
Millions which opened at the ApoI-
10 today for limited engagement.
There have been wolves Of Wall
Street, in real life and on the screen,
but she wolf in the financial world
is something new, it is believed. The
play from which Mothers Millions"
was taken is by Howard McKent
Barnes, and a notable cast has been
assembled for its portrayal, it is
reported.
actress, whose name is a household
word, makes her screen debut in
this production. A group of younger
players are in the cast, and they
include James Hall, who is quite a
favorite locally: Frances Dade, who
was sen in "Dracula" and "Seed,"
and Lawrence Gray, we'll known
leading NSan. Other principal roles
are in the cNcable hands of Ed
ward Breese, Elinor Flynn and Lii
liam Harmer.
The story of Mothers Millions"
shows in a sensational fashion the
dangers to which rich young folk of
today are exposed, and turns the
spotlight on the high-scale rack
cheering in the financial district of
New York and Washington. One of
the highlightS of the story is the
method used to win the sons and
daughters away from their own
families and ruin them financially;
and in this instance the biggest of
the financial racketeerS does not
hesitate to carry his Vaccinations
to the highest court Of the land.
The romance OF the story is car
ried by James Hall as the young
sutton of Frances Dade, daughter of
the mother with millions.
Short subjects including Vita
phone acts and Movietone News
round out the program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
'1NDTSCREET" OPENS
AT THE OHIO TO-DAY

Gloria Swanson's latest picture,
"Indiscreet," is the feature attrac-
ton in the Ohio's new show which
gets under way today. A new episode
of Adventures in Africa" A Tom
and Jerry cartoon, and the latest
Universal talking news reel also are
on the bill.
"Indiscreet" is described by many
Of Miss SWanson's admirers as being
her finest talking picture, not ex-
big reception by Indianapolis mo-
ton picture enthusiasts when first
cepting 'TrespasSer." 1t was given
presented at another downtown
theater several weeks ago. The cast
includes, in addition to Miss Swan
son, Ben Lyon, Barbara Kent, and
Arthur Lake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01

FoIe ana runs for mayor of town,
with the energetic Miss Moran as
ner campaign manager.
Charles F. Reisner, who filmed
Caught Short" and Reducing"
directed the new picture. While
there are many hilariously funny
scenes, there is also a good deal of
tense drama, in which Miss Dressler
does character work that reminds
one OF her outstanding roles Of this
type in Anna Christie" and Min
and Bill"
The high points are the breakup
OF the women's meeting by the in
oignant husbands who threaten to
get deliriously drunk If their wives
40 not come home with them, the
dramatic accusation of the mayor
oy Miss Dressler at the political
rally, the arguments between Miss
Moran and Miss Dressler, and other
diverting details.
A notable cast appears. The jul
venile love interest is handled by
William Blackwell and Karen Nor
ley, and the cast also includes
Rosco Ates, John MILAN, Joan
Marsh, Tom Mcguire, Kane Rich
mond and Mary Alden.
The program will include the
newest issue of the Hearst Metro
tone News, Walt Disney's Krazy Kat
IN Lambs Will Gamble" a Grant
land Rice Sportnovelty entitled
Younger Years" and an interesting
subject by DR.. Raymond L. Ditmar
on THE Animal World Of Make
Believe"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
Norma TaImadge Quits

United Artists states that Norma
Talmadge has been released from
her contract, which called for two
more pictures. Reason given that
she was not permitted to select her
own stories. Miss Talmadge claims
to have offers from European STU
dos.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
CaSey'S New Production-Lyrc Starts New
Program Policy Today.

DAGAN LADY Lenoe Ucs starring vehicle the past
will have its first stock production anywhere when the Arthur
Casey presents at Engsh Sunday night at $3.50 O'Clock
The play which throughout the New York and
Chicago is the seventeenth offering Arthur twenyweek
includes
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Dale is starred Pagan Lady role which suggests
somewhat the Of shangha Gesture Miss Dale
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01

Be Gay" Bachelor Father" cts a
Wise Child"
John CromwelI-"The Big Pond"
For the Defense ''Tom Sawyer"
Scandal Sheet" "Unfaithful."
Charles Chaplin-"City Lights"
Howard Hawks--"The Criminal
Code" 1.-The Dawn Patrol"
Howard Hughes-"Hells Angels"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
JOE z. BROWN is
STAR AT THE CIRCLE

Laugh week" is under full swing
at the Circle theater this week
where Joe E. Brown is appearing in
Broad Minded" his newest comedy,
as the feature attraction. Other
numbers on the bill are THE Bitter
Half, That Old Gang of Mine"
Paramount Pictorial, and a Para
mount talking news reel.
Broad Minded" was produced by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
Comedy Drama Which Opens Today at the
Palace for a Weeks Engagement.

0AoToGRAPHING tochlght procession light
OF te interesting ats accomplished filming Politics.
co e DTesss first starring picture which
BY use Of the supersensv by
ral hundred women in the Miss
realism - F- ' - $3.50 O' -
me new picture comedy drama political life Miss
pays woman Who aroused by civic conditions organizes the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
ROUNDING ROUND
THEATERS y With H TAETzE

TOR his direction of "Al Quiet the
Front Page Lewis Milestone walked away place
Film Days poll for the ten directors
ceed votes from 252 out Of approximately 800 leading motion picture
critics who participated in the ballotng.
Next after Milestone
by George HILL 6o Joseph Sternbeg 1885,
ert T. Leonard 1877;
HugheS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
Moran and Mack ON Screen

Earle Hanlmons, president of
Educational, has closed with Mack
Sennett to direct the first Moran
and Mack feature, with option for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01

impersonates Dot Hunter, the tenn
pestuous inamorata of a rum run~
ner known as Dingo Mike.
She lives with him on the east
ern coast of Florida at small
hotel in a tourist town, where he
has his headquarters.
Shortly after Dingo Mike is called
away to stand trial in an adjacent
city, the hotel is visited by an ell
derby evangelist and his youthful
nephew, who is being trained for
the ministry. They have come to
attend a religious conference. The
nephew's attention wanders from
religious matters, however, as soon
as he meets Dot.
Using all the resourcefulness at
her command, Dot frivolously seeks
to fascinate the young man. She
succeeds only too well, even to the
point of falling sincerely in love
with him.
Learning Of the affair, the boys
uncle pleads with him to return to
the paths of virtue. Meanwhile, the
girl exactS promise from the
youth that he will run away with
her. The sudden temperance on
the scene of Dingo Mike compli-
Gates the situation and brings about
the surprise climax.
Donald Woods heads Miss Dale's
supporting cast as the young
evangelist. The role of Dingo Mike
is portrayed by Walter Davis. Jack
Storey impersonates the elderly
uncle.
The main comedy roles of an in
temperate old doctor and the I'M
tidy proprietress of the hotel are
played by Dick Elliott and Mildred
Hastings, respectively.
Freddie Sherman and Yvonne
Stebbins appear as the wrangling
and INSCRIPTIONS drug store boot
leggers of the piece.
Dan Willoughby Reed is respon-
sible for the staging and direction.
The settings are the work of Milo
Denny.
NEW POLICY
STARTS AT LYRIC
With the announcement by the
Lyric theater management of the
discontinuance of stage shows until
further notice, comes notice of a
new fall policy to be inaugurated
today.
The best products of the four
leading film companies, Fox, Uni
versal, Warner Brothers and Column
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-01
MOTION PICTURES

the second. Either Sono Art-World
Wide or Tiffany will release.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
The Portland Business Guide

to solicit your trade. know these firms and pro-
fessiona people have reputation for fair dealing
and general reliability Give them the preference OF
trade.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
RURAL CHURCHES
IN CHARGE OF
MOST IGNORANT

CARLOWNILIE Ala.-The rural
churches Of the South are in the
hands of the most ignorant of the
race. T. NJ Campbell. field agent Of
the L. S Department Of Agriculture.
told members of a white conference
studying rural life of the South. here,
last week.
1T is a great pity that the most
delicate problem of rural life. that
of spiritual leadership, is left almost
wholly in the hands of the most ig-
norant, he declared.
"The church and school are %
years ahead of the home life of the
AVERAGE rural Negro said Mr.
Campbell Constant sickness Is his
greatest handicap today. Overcrowd-
ed conditions. lack of proper santa
ton. lack Of recreation and whole
some amusement and his belief in
superstition. signs and isms are
among his BIGGEST drawbacks.
THE Negro tenant has little or no
incentive for home Improvement and
many Negro owners of large tracts
of land are land poor and yet live
in houses equal to the places where
they keep their livestock
"There has got to be a greater
promise of pleasure and profit on the
i farm or the Negro will not continue
to remain there. The squallor filth
and dilapidation of the tenants sur
roundings are reflection on the
Sonth-not the Negro South. There
IS an interdependenee Of the Negro
upon the white man and the white
man upon the Negro that cannot be
overlooked, if the continual growth
and development of rural life IS to
be maintained
"Sentiment-preiudic has PLAYED
its part. The lack of organization
among rural Negroes is yet a big
problem. Previously any attempt in
that direction has been a dangerous
thing. And in some places it is vel
looked on with disfayor and suspi
eion.
"White landowners have beer
skeptical and afraid Of permitting
government representatives to hole
meetings in any effort to organize
Negroes into adult clubs or coopera
tive associations. lest something may
be done in secrecy to destroy the
peace and contentment' Of the plan
tation life
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
Brooklyn Pastor
Okehs Birth Control

BROOKI.YN-Speaking to a large
congregation at the Nazarene Con
gregational Church last Sunday
morning, the Rev. Henry H. Proctor.
prominent minister of this eitv. said
that Jesus Christ justified birth con-
troll in his statement concerning
Judas, that at were better for this
man had he never been born
DIR. Proctor stated very frankly
that it was his belief that people with
diseases which might be communieat-
ed to their children, people with
mental Affections or people who
were too poor to support large fam
lilies should refrain from having chill
dren, further that the matter of
child bearing should be left almost
entirely to the discretion of the
mother who, in the last analysis, was
the one who suffered most.
Later in his sermon DR.. Proctor
took occasion to refer to modern day
dancing. which he termed Indecent
and declared that the beginning of
the downfall of many of the modern
women could be laid to the indecent
dances.
DR.. Proctor was seen at a carnival
in Brooklyn under the auspices of
the Urban League the Friday night
prior to his sermon, at which time
there was on exhibition a Hawaiian
dance executed by number of bare
legged hula-hula girls, some of whom
were just in their teens, whose ggra-
tions scarcely could be exeelled by
professional burlesquers.
Whether the remarks of DR.. Proc
tor were occasioned by this dance or
whether or not the pastor viewed the
dance was not learned.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-05-28
N. A. a. c. p. POPULARITY
CONTEST HUGE SUCCESS

Miss Julia Nav Blanchard won
first nlace in the popularitv contest
conducted bv the membership COM
mitfee of the Portland branch of the
N A. A. c. P. and was acclaimed
Miss Portland" Mrs. J. W. 1nger-
soil heads the membership commit
tee and Is also secretary of the
branch. The contest was one of
friendlv rivalry and the vounp wom-
-, - I'll ,,a,;+ad tho eradit oiv-
an Them and have brought much
credit to the organization and the
citv of Portland. Miss Blanchard's
eolworkers were Miss Bonita Aber-
nathv and Miss Lillian Ballard. each
of whom made excellent membership
reports. Three hundred and thirty
civ new memberships have been ad-
dod and fortv-one subscriptions TO
the "Crisis." The sponsors for the
vonn0 women contestants were Mr..
~ x Williams. Mr. Ashford and
Mrs w n Bowers. The prizes pre-
eented nv tho N A A G. p. were
a walnut Cedar chest a fitted over
nioht leather hand bag and leather
brief case. The program for the
meeting SUNDAY afternoon at the
.sYo was arranged bv the contest
ants Miss Abernathv gave a piano
nnnber Miss blanchard read n
tia,,o On Mnsic and Miss ballard
gave sole and n;ano number, Mr.
r Jvev nresident If the N. A.
A r p avnrassed bic annreciation
- eoob ono who assisted in making
~ ~ ~ %" suob w. snccass In connee,
t i,G with the drive was carnival
given FRIDAY NIGHT sponsored bv the
| Women,e Auv;liarv Of which Mrs
e " cravson ;s tho chairman. Wys.
D Stewarf and Mrs w Pnther.
fo,d bad charge of arranoenents
A - a,.o,,,l ,.,.s i, ot+ondorco o,d
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Mr.. l.. r. Blackburn. has accepted
employment on the Portland Rose. =
Mr.. and Mrs. Short of Iowa City.
Iowa, are guests of Attorney and
Mrs. E. j. Minor at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs J. w. Stanley in Sell
wood Boulevard.
Miss Edna K.ittrell was dinner
afternoon.
The executive board of the Oregon
Federation of Colored Women met
Wednesday night at the "Y' with
the chairman Mrs. Rosa Nichols, pre-
siding. Plans for the annual meet.
ing will be given out later. Mrs
Dollie Parties heads the Fedora
ton.
Prior to her departure for Los
Angeles Saturday, Mrs. Ida Robert
son, house guest of Mrs. Dollie Par.
les. was the honored guest at beau
tifully appointed Bridge Luncheon
at which Mrs. J. A. Nichols and Mrs
w. l.. Reese were hostesses at the
Nichols home on Brace street. Gov
ers were placed for twelve. Mrs. l.
r. Blackburn and Mrs. Jack Martin
were the prize winners and Mrs. Rob
ertson was presented with a lovely
guest prize.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis A. Reed ant
daughter Shirley Aline will visit il
Seaside over the week end.
Mrs. c. Henry has returned from
a visit to Seattle with her parents
Mrs. Ethel Thompson continues il
at her home. Mrs. Ollie Henderson
is suffering from rheumatism. Mrs
Russa MAY. Kirk continues i'll at tn
home of her grandmother, Mrs. o
f. Wright.
Mrs. Burt Turner is i'll at he
home on East First Street. Rev
J. w. Andersen is reported some
what improved. Mrs. Ford of Alb
Street is slowly improving. Mr.. ]
d. Emery was able to take shor
auto drive this week. Mrs. Fine
Flowers has been slightly indisposed
Miss Bertha Baker received an in
jury to her foot by stepping on
nail Mrs. LLOYD Flowers is reeup
Grating from an illness.
The City Club held bushes
meeting Monday night at the Elk
Temple. Mrs. Sarah Love will b
hostess for the social meeting Mon
day, June 8.