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The Indianapolis times., 1931-11-04
1MANAItRSANDWORALS) S
B\ BY JANE JORDAN %

Dear Jane Jordan-I am 10 years old
and have been going with a boy of the
same age for about two years. love
him devotedly and he loves me. His
mother is very queer. He does every
thing she wants him to and treats her
better than most sons do She is op-
posed to our marriage We easily could
get married, but are afraid she would
cause trouble.
She jumped all over my mother and
wanted to slap her. and she talks about
all OF us She won't let her husband
or other children speak to any Of us
This boy sees me as little as possible.
to avoid having trouble with her.
love him too much to forget him. and
ne cant forget me and won't. Please
ten me what is best.
BROKEN HEARTED.
DEAR BROKEN HEARTED-If
~ this young man loves you
enough to make it worth your while
to wait until he is old enough to
marry you, he will break away from
his mothers apron strings. If he
it not able to make the break, then
you would better forget him at any
cost, for the mother plays a more
powerful role in the married happi-
ness of her son than you know.
1t is a serious thing to marry a
man who is under his mothers s
domination, and it will bring you
nothing but misery.
Evidently this boy never has been
permitted to make a major decision
for himself. Although he is self
supporting, he may be incapable of
opposing his mother in any import
ant step. If this is the case, your
marriage will be headed for the
rocks from the first.
The main thing in the boys favor
is his youth. Remember that until
he was ii or IS years old his mother
was the most important woman in
his life, and his affections were
centered on her. 1t now is fitting
and proper that he transfer those
affections to another woman and
none but the most selfish mother
would oppose him. Perhaps when
he is older he will see the light.
In the meantime, you have an ex-
cellent opportunity to learn that
generosity is the surest way to dis
arm your enemy. For every cruel
word that your prospective mother
in-law says about you and your
family, reply with a generous esti-
mate of her. Don't worry about
the necessity of waiting for develop
ments. Nineteen is too young to
be married anyhow, especially with
economic conditions as they are.
Dear Jane Jordan--What is your ad-
vice to a young boy and girl OF 10 who
have been going together steadily for
two and one-haif years. and who quar-
rel violently of and on? We think the
world OF each other and get along won
fuss over trifies for several days. But
when we're apart. we're not satisfied to
go with any one else. I'm awfuliy stub
born and won't give in very often How
can / firht this? BROWN EYES.
DEAR BROWN EYES-It is a
IL mistake for a girl of 10 to "gc
steady" with a boy with whom she
has regular fights, which indicate
basic uncongeniality which does not
make for permanence. The only
The Indianapolis times., 1931-11-04
Style Lecture
VIII Be GUen
Church Women

Women of the Episcopal Church
OF the Advent will present Miss Jo-
sephine McAlexander in an illus
trated lecture on style at 2:3O this
afternoon in the church parlors
Tea will be served following the
program.
Flowers will be arranged about
the rooms in the autumn colors,
shades of yellow, brown and orange,
and the tea table will be centered
with chrysanthemums, and lighted
with tapers.
Mrs. Cone Barlow and Mrs. Jack
Jack Shideler will pour. The COM
mitt in charge is; Mesdames E. C.
Kriel, chairman; Harry Goode, E.
s. Pierce, Dudley Williston and
Frank c. Olive.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-11-04

EpSiIOnS to Meet
Epsilon chapter, Epsilon Sigma
Alpha sorority, will meet at 7
Thursday at the Sphinx
The Indianapolis times., 1931-11-04
LATREIAN GROUPS
TO MEET AT CLUE

Latreian Clubs will hold a joint
meeting and bridge party next
Tuesday at the indianapolis Ath-
letic Club, with members of Alpha
Delta Latreian Club acting as
hostesses. Mrs. James Costin is in
charge of arrangements.
Committee will include: Mes
danes Frederick Ahrbecker, Rich
mond Bastian, Harry Cause. Her.
man Gray, Walter Hiser and Russell
Moore.
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Of Mrs. Thompson Abbott for Misses
Billie Powell and Virginia Nef.
The chapter will entertain
tonight with a "gangster" party at
the home of Miss Miriam Shanley.
Six ruShees will be guests.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-11-04
Zet0 Chnnter to Meet

zeta chapter, Pi Omicron sorority,
will meet tonight at the Wash
ington hotel. The program will con-
sist of literary talks by Misses
katherine zapp, Eva Wilson, Nellie
Young and Hazel Peacock. A gen.
eral discussion of current events in
Poland will follow.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-11-04
Circle VIII
Meet With
Mrs. Dalton

Irvington Friendship Circle will
meet next Tuesday with Mrs. Den
mis- Dalton, 1851 Lowell avenue.
Mrs. j. c. Todd will be assistant
hostess.
The Circle, affiliated with Riley
Hospital Cheer Guild and Irvington
Union of Clubs, meets the second
Tuesday of each month. officers
are: Mesdames J. w. Carr, presi-
dent; E. j. Thompson, vice -presi-
dent; J. E. Louden. secretary; M. o.
Jones, treasurer and r. F. Stilz,
historian.
Mrs. Carr is sponsor of the Riley
Cheer Guild. Mrs. A. B. Shultz is
delegate to the Irvington Union and
Mrs. Dalton is alternate. Years
committees are as follows:
Constitution bylaws and membership.
Mesdames A. B. Shultz, chairman, P. T.
Macdonald and Dennis Dalton; budget,
MeSdames NJ. o. Jones' chairman, r. F.
Stilz. H. J. Wangelin and J. E. Louden;
finance, Mesdames J. J. Wangelin, chair
man P. T. Macdonald, P. E. Crosier. c. R.
Wright sewing, Mesdames J. E. Louden,
chairman. c. A. Woerner, Jr, j. c. Wood
g. G. Bender, Jr.: flowers. Mrs. c. A.
Woerner Jr. program, Mrs. J. c. Wood,
g.. G. Bender Jr., chairman. Mrs. r. F.
Stilz; telephone Mesdames Hattie B.
Wangelln chairman, Mrs. Alfred Ridley;
Riley Hospital May Day Cheer. Mesdames
donald, P, E Crosier. r. F. Stilz and J. E.
Louden.
The Washington times., 1931-03-14
Coward Lauds
Guilds Stars

Noel Coward, distinguished Eng
lish playwright, who wrote "Pri-
vate Lives" while on a recent tour
of the world, had just attended a
New York performance Of Eliza
beth the Queen" which the Thea
ter Guild will present at the Ma
tional Theater for the week OF
March %.
His recreation, besides backgam-
mon and reading of the alluring
travel advertisements, consists of
seeing the Broadway plays. AS re
CARDS these plays and as regards
the players in them the opinion of
Britain'S most versatile dramatiSt
should be Of interest. The finest
acting that New York affords, to
his way of thinking, is that of
Lynn Fontanne in Elizabeth the
Queen" And right here quotes are
in order:
eyes," he said to some
friends the other night, per
formance of Miss FOntarne is
the greatest individual perfOr-
nance / have ever seen in the
theater. Alfred Lunt is also
grand"
The Washington times., 1931-03-14
Actors Praise Her

This department is in receipt
Of two copies Of Maxwell Ander-
sons play, elizabeth the. Queen. :"
and, after finishing one, cherishes
something like a keen anticipa-
tion for Monday night, March %,
when the Theater Guild will raise
the curtain with Lynn Fontanne
as the dour Queen and Alfred
Lunt as the willy Essex. 1t is a
fine play to read.
Actors call the royal disguise
effected by Dame Fontanne the
last word in effective makeup,
something to marvel at, wholly
apart from the acting. Since the
Guild tours do not penetrate to
the Far West, Los Angeles will
have it's own production of Eliza
beth, the Queen" with Pauline
Frederick seen as the unhappy
ruler who sends Essex to the
guillotine.
The Washington times., 1931-03-14
CALHERN ROLE
GOT OCEAN
THRILLS

"The Perils of Pauline" were
nothing as compared to the perilS
of moving picture actors, as evi-
denced by the narrow escape from
drowning experienced by Louis
Calhern during the filming of
Stolen Heaven" the new Nancy
Carroll dramatic picture which is
the current feature at the Rialto
Theater.
Director George Abbott took his
"Stolen Heaven" cast from the
Paramount New York studio to
Rockaway Beach for ocean scenes
for the picture. Miss Carroll and
Phillips Holmes, her leading man,
were standing on the oceans edge
awaiting the arrival of Calhern
who had put off in a small Skiff
from a yacht anchored off
shore.
Boat Tossed About
The skiff was launched from
the side of the yacht. Four
weatherbeaten tarS rowed it par
allel to shore over rolling break
erS. Off the beach hundred
yards or so, all was comparatively
quiet. Cameras registered the
scenes easily. But, as the dory
approached the shore it became
like a bit Of floating wood, q
speck in a leaping and vicious
surf. The helpless craft was
thrown from crest to crest and
almost swamped in the deep green
surf.
Unable to aid the people in the
boat, Abbott and the other mem
bers of the cast stood anxiouSly
on the beach. When the boat
finally crunched into the wet
sand Calhern, safe on dry land,
said something similar to what
Columbus must have said.
There were no "retakes" Of the
scene.
The Washington times., 1931-03-14
PINERO, AT IS, STILL
WRITING PLAYS

Wells" several of which may pos
sibly be revived under the Shu-
bert banner in the near future.
Is Lonely Man
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, at IS,
is a lonely man. Many, the ma
jority of his theater friends are
dead. However, he sees occa-
sionally such contemporaries as
George Bernard Shaw, Sir James
Barrie and Sir Johnstone Forbes
Robertson and regularly ex-
changes letters with Barrie. On
the wall of his study is a por-
trait of his step-daughter-the
work of his firm friend, Sir John
stone Forbes Robertson. "as fine
painter as he is an actor"
Sir Arthur works nights when
writing he insists that he's
always writing. Dictation to his
secretary and the making of So
cial calls occupy his morning and
he often lunches at his club. Mo
toring is one of his chief pleasures,
but when he does motor. he hires
cars by the "job," claiming that
the bother of owning one would
be too much for him. He does
but little travelling although he
was on the continent last year
and may go again. America is
the country that he really wants
to visit, although he's convinced
now that he'll never get here.
Il hate to say" he said, that
it's As years since I was in Amer
ca. I went there to put on a
comedy of mine called The Mag
iStrate.' I stayed in hotel called,
I think, the Clarendon. Down
about Union Square somewhere.
No, I couldn't stand that city
now. I'd be scared to DEATH"
When told that he would un-
doubtedly be invited to attend
the premiere of DIR. Harmer" on
Broadway, Pinero laughed. We'll" ="
he said, I'll go to America on
one condition and that is that
they get George Bernard Shaw
to go too"
The Washington times., 1931-03-14

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, the
celebrated British dramatist and
author of "Dr. Harmer," which,
with Philip Merivale in the star
ring role, is to be presented at
the Shubert Belasco Theater, be-
ginning Monday night, under the
auspices of the Professional Play
.ers, is now in his seventy-Sixth
year and has been writing plays
for SO years. He is greatly
pleased, and not a little tremu-
lous, over the prospect of a Broad
way premiere again. 1T would
be worth coming to New York
for" he is quoted as saying in an
interview, "but such a trip would
be too much for me. Why, I
haven't been there since 1885.
I'd be lost and beWildered."
Sir Arthur went on: II am
greatly indebted to the New York
theater; far more so than 1 am
to the eheater of my own country.
America has really done more for
me. The American playgoer has
a quicked mind than the English
playgoer. He is quicker to grasp
things, quicker to appreciate a
good play. The New York stage
has been wonderful to me. l
have great affection for it,"
Written I Years Ago
"Dr. Harmer" was written seven
years ago and is the last play
completed by Pinero. He is,
however, working on others. Il
shall always write plays" he said.
Il work very slowly now and 1 do
my work at night, but I have no
intention of actually retiring.
Playwriting is all I know It's
been my trade ever since quit
acting, and that was before nearly
everybody was born. I don't
know how many plays I've actu-
ally written. I do know that
there were defects in all of them.
1 can't say that I have favor
ite play. I can say that saw but
few of them after they reached
the stage. When rehealssls were
over, my work was done"
The old Pinero successes are
many in number, the outstar ding
ones being His House III Order"
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray,
The Thunderbolt, "Mid-Chan,
mel" "The Gay Lord QueX," THE
Amazons," THE Princess and the
Butterfly and "Trelawney of the
The Washington times., 1931-03-14
Maxine Drops In

Chaperoned by Frank La Falce,
chief of the Warner Brothers
publicity batteries, Maxine Doyle,
dropped into the editors office
yesterday to inspect the small,
but select, art exhibits.
The Thank You" girl learned
for the first time how she hap
pened to be doing the Introductory
honors for acts on the Earle
Theater stage.
"Why not, since the emsee is
taboo at the Earle Theater, have
q couple of clever girlS-not too
SOPHISTICATED or professional look
ing-make the announcements
Something like the Mccarthy
sisters did for one of the better
George Whites Scandals" It was
a dramatic editors suggestion to
Zone Manager John j.. Payette
az the Warner forces. The ma
sninery started grinding and out
came Maxine Doyle, not a sister
act, but a fill-the-bill girl who now
has her own fan following.
Miss Doyle likes Washington.
She has brought her mother here
from California. Everybody's
pleasant and it's the SWEETEST job
she ever had. Wants to be photo
graphed with the Japanese
cherry blossoms, which she has
never seen, and hopes to become
a morning regular" on the East
Potomac golf course, when the
srass gets a little greener and the
Sephyrs from the river a little
warmer. Hardest word she found
to pronounce is not the name of
the acrobats but gentleman" If
YOU don't watch out it sounds
like "gemmen."
The Washington times., 1931-03-14
MIR. Keating's Tricks

"Since you we're good enough
to tell us how Magician Keating
did the needle trick, how about
letting us in on just how that
canary disappears" writes H. M.
J., who confides that he has
seen the sorcery three times and
is still mystified.
( Well, I could do that. too, but
would it be fair to the Amer,
ican Society of Magicians? They
are organized to prevent just
such things and if you are really
curious enough to take trouble,
two books are available in the
public library which explain these
and many other battling feats in
magic. -,
Besides, Howard Thurston will
be here at the Belasco. during
Holy Week. To showfolks the
most amazing trick that Ma
rician Thurston does is play at
$3.50 top, season in and season
out, depressions and prosperity
The Washington times., 1931-03-14
Whites Show Fails

George Whites musical comedy,
Flying High" which enjoyed q
full season on Broadway, will
folc tonight in Chicago with the
record of not having winning
on the road. Bearing out the
contention of many observers
that the foul material which
Broadway applauds is often too
strong" for the less sophisticated
sticks. William H Harryman a n
Rapley of the National Theater
now greets friends who drop into
his E Street office with newly
grown mouStache. Ruth Etting
who concluded her engagement
at the Earle last night is signed
for the new Ziegfeld Follies due
to open in late May. John Gil
bert'S latest picture, "Gentleman'S
Fate" and Ted Lewis in person,
($4,500 week act) is the show
with which Loew's Palace will try
to beat the Holy Week depression
:. .Lita Grey Chaplin will head
line at the Earle beginning next
Saturday.
The Washington times., 1931-03-14

least as far as externals go, might
very well have been the house
which the rising curtain reveals
as the setting of Street Scene" "
Born on Manhattan Island,
September %, 1892, Elmer Rice at
the age of Is, commenced an ap-
premiership in a New York law
office where he was allowed two
hours free, each afternoon, so
that he might attend law school.
Most of his evenings were spent
in gallery seats at the theater.
Rice Is q Lawyer
In 1912, he graduated from
New York Law School; the fol-
lowing year was admitted to the
bar. Instead of entering active
practice, however, he proceeded
to write his first play, "On
Trial" It's immediate acceptance
and production was out of all
keeping with the annals of strug-
Cling young playWrights. And
so was its widespread success.
At the age of %, Elmer Rice had
made an international reputation
and fortune.
Does it sound paradoxical to
say that his success enabled him
to go to work-to work, of course,
at his Self-chosen profession. In
the ensuing Is years, 10 dramas
which bear his name have
reached the stage. Only a man
who loved his work, an artist
sincere and faithful, could have
written Street Scene," this epic
of the city which has life as its
theme-the life of our own day,
of our own streets.
Likes to Loaf
A modest, reticent man, Elmer
Rice would far rather talk about
the other fellow than himself.
He is still interested-not in
his success-but in his work. Of
medium height, blond, and look
ing even less than his 81 years,
he dressed in the comfortable
well-cut clothes Of the average
American citizen.
Once he has commenced a play,
he works intensively, sometimes
10 hours at a stretch, writing
in longhand and copying on the
typewriter. When asked his Fav-
orite hobby, Rice replied, Loaf
ing" But it is in these appar-
emily leisure hours that his real
work is done, for his plays are
almost completely thought out
and viSualized before he COM
mences the task of transmitting
them to paper.
The Washington times., 1931-03-14
STREET SCENE
AUTHOR IS
LAWYER

Elmer Rice achieved q double
success when he wrote street
Scene" the now famous drama
of city life which comes to the
Shubert-B -BelaSco Theater on Sun
day, March %. Street Scene"
is both a "hit" and a Pulitzer
Prize winner.
Mr.. Rice's play has that univer.
salty of appeal that makes for
great box office and also great
dramatic literature. It is both
financial and an artistic sue
cess.
What manner of man is Elmer
Rice? 81 am a product of New
York" he says, "of its sidewalks,
it's parks, its public schools and
it's brownstone fronts. In my
childhood and youth I lived in
more than one house that, ut
The Washington times., 1931-03-14
Victor McLGgLen
Vas in Three Wars

Victor McLaglen, who holds the
leading role in Three Rogues,"
at the Fox Theater this week,
has seen active service in three
wars and has received numerous
decorations. His liking for the
military comes to him naturally,
inasmuch as the male members
on both sides of his family for
many generations back have been
soldiers.
McLaglen was born in a little
suburb just outside of London.
although he spent the greater
part of his life in South Africa,
where his father was bishop of
Clermont. Although too young,
he enlisted and saw service in
the Boer War; also with the
British forces in Mesopotamia
and in the World War.
The Washington times., 1931-03-14

winding up every Saturday night
with a dividend. This is finan-
cial magic Broadway would love
to learn.
The Washington times., 1931-03-14
BANCROFT HAS
ROLE FROM
HEADLINES
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY

2 Paramount has had consider
able luck with the pictures built
around metropolitan characters
who have figured in the head
lines. First it was the Arnold
Rothstein parallel, then came the
Bill Fallon case, both of which
served as William Powell features.
The latest is "Scandel Sheet"
which stars George Bancroft and
"opens at the Palace today. Some
see q similarity between the hard
boiled tditor who prints all the
news in Scandal Sheet" and
Charles Chaplin, former New York
Evening World city editor, who
died recently at Sing Sing.
About Chaplin, who murdered
his wife, newspaper men tell
many stories, most of them I'm.
complimentary. He was a relent-
less trailer of big type stuff,
coldly cruel to those reporters
who lacked initiative, reSourceful-
ness and courage in quest of the
vital news facts. His fortune
wiped out in the stock market, a
greater disappointment came
when he learned that the multi
millionaire Russell Sage, a near
relative, had ignored him in his
will. Confronting comparative
poverty after a life Of luxury,
and unwilling to have his wife
share his misfortune, he mur-
1dered her after deliberate medi-
tation. The crime was thought
out and originally planned in a
Washington hotel and was carried
out a hours later. Chaplin could
have been pardoned, but it was his
insistence that he pay the full
penalty and die within the gray
walls Of Ossining prison. He be-
came an expert horticulturalist,
working wonders with the prison
garden and serving as contribut-
ing editor for the prisoners news
paper. ,
Needless to say, the Bancroft
roles ignores the less heroic tea'
lures Of the biography.
The Washington times., 1931-03-14
PINEROS LATEST PLAY TO HAVE WORLD PREMIERE MOND
ATTRACTIONS
ON WAY TO
THEATERS

Lawrence Tibbett's latest star
ring production for Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer, THE Southerner.
will be the next attraction shown
at Loew's Palace Theater. In
his latest role Tibbett depicts
young man who leaves home be-
cause of a tyranical brother and
who becomes a hobo. When the
boy returns to his home there is
reported to be plenty of action
with one of the most gripping
stories yet brought to the screen.
Esther RalSton plays the feminine
lead with Roland Young, Cliff
Edwards and Hedda Hopper in
the supporting roles. Ted Claire
will head the stage unit titled
Rolling Along"
Mary Pickford will be seen
next Saturday at Loew's Column
bit Theater in a modern version
of "Kiki." her latest vehicle for
United Artists. In this produc-
ton Miss Pickford plays the role
of an East Side, New York brat
who has all the ups and downs
of the KikiS in the past. Reginald
Denny has the leading role in
this production.
The Rialto Theater has today
announced that the next feature
to be shown on their screen Will
be "Rango," Paramount's offer
ing of jungle life in Sumatra,
and photographed and produced
by Ernest SchoedSack, the CO.
maker of Chang"
Range" is a simple story OF
tragedy and retribution in the
lives of jungle beasts. Ali and
Bin, father and son, natives OF
the Sumatra jungle, and Tua and
Range, also father and son but
orang-utans, are the cast. "Rango"
is proclaimed one OF the most
outstanding pictures of 1930-1931,
and will not soon be forgotten by
those who see it.
"Rango" will open at the R1alto
Theater on March 81.
Lita Grey Chaplin, who for the
past two years has been breaking
records at all theaterS where she
has been appearing and who
headlined last week at the Palace,
New York, heads the stage
presentations at Warmers Earle
for the week starting Saturday,
March 81. The well-known singer,
whose husky voice has brought
her popularity. will be assisted at
the piano by Pat Casey.
Another Hollywood luminary
will also be seen in person.
Frank Richardson. The Lee
Twins, assisted by eight dancers,
and Maxine Doyle conclude this
portion of the entertainment.
The screen attraction for the
week will be Herbert Brenon's
sequel to Beau Geste" entitled
Beau Ideal"
THE Cabaret Girls" with Frank
x. Silk starred, next attraction at
the popular Gayety Theater, on
| Ninth Street, has already 1p It's
brief career created quite stir in
the field of popular amusement,
and gives every promise OF con-
tinuing its mission of good cheer
for a very long time.
Warner Baxter in Charley
Chinn Carries On" will be the
next screen attraction at the Fox
Theater.
The Washington times., 1931-03-14
Lew Cody Comeback

Another old favorite Of the
films stages a comeback. 1t ts
Lew Cody, matinee idol for many
years and star of many SILENT
pictures, who scores a decided
success in Three Rogues," with
Victor McLaglen, at the Fox
Theater. Robert Warwick and
Franklyn Farnum, who were we'll
known in silent days, also make
their return to the talking screen
in the same picture.