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AeOAllu Aeo-ldIW der" school. Leon
ardi has a lot Of fire and Snowman
ship in his method of directing and
he is getting good response from the
men in the orchestra. Resener
plays violin solo and he does it
splendidly. Let US have more of this
combination. It is excellent. 1t
really is worth while to go to the
Indiana this week to hear this over
ture. Also Dessa Byrd helps to get
the musical effect by playing the
pipe organ with the orchestra.
Resener and Leonardo have an ex-
cellent chance to make these over
lures the talk Of the town. Keep on.
Please.
The outstanding number Of the
stage show is the acrobatic and
strong man work of the Les Gheggis,
two remarkable men in a most re-
markable demonstration. They de-
serve to stop the show and they do.
James Hall aids in putting some
comedy in the rather serious efforts
Of the Hill Billy Kid, who plays and
sings old-fashioned Hill Billy mus C.
On the screen is "Finn and Hat
tie" a comedy that is clean. Mitzi
Green, wise-cracking child; Leon
Enroll as the muchly married hus-
band. and zasu Pitts as the wife of
Enroll.
This trio goes to Europe and two
gyp artists nearly make a bum out
Of Enroll Enroll is about the whole
show. Miss Pitts seems to have
trouble in being funny. She shines
only once and that is in a souse
scene.
Story is not new, nor Is it star
ting. There are some laughs pres
ent with Enroll handing out most
Of them.
Now at the Indiana.
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sugar daddy and support herself for
six months.
Laura attempted it, but she went
back to her rich man again. I lost
all sympathy for Laura when she
lied both to Menjou and TO Robert.
Laura is one gold digger who Just
couldn't play square. And I think
that the movie director gave this
play a much too happy ending.
"The Easiest Way" is just plain
melodrama at times. It has been
beautifully produced, but it didn't
get into one like the stage version
did years ago.
7 do think that this movie is box
Office.
Now at the Palace.
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MARCH 9. 1881

sane tempered with: Krozer grocery. s0oi
Central avenue. safe combination knocked
OF nothing reported missing: restaurant
operated BIZ Earl Msylor. ct 1919 west
Washington street. ransacksd and change
from cash register and SO merchandise
stolen. Robert Shira. us North Alabama
street. robbed By two Negroes o. s. On
Pratt street between Pennsylvsnis and
Delaware streets: Miss Dizzy shelton. 10,
Of 1918 Nordyke avenue. and Miss Toy
Swindle. ls. Of 1924 Eordyke avenue. robbed
OF purses on Howard street near kentucky
avenue. and Mrs. Arthur Donaldson. si5
North Riley avenue. robbed Of pocket
hrArtr Containing. 81 80
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1t more interesting
than even the stage
version. The fact
is that this movie
viii ke p y o u
awake at nights.
It took me several
h hours to g e t
Gained down after
= saw this movie.
The director Ger
tainly has caught
the thrill spirit of
the author and
probably has added
a thrill or two.
The director has
hAn,@ V,.s@~.4 $780,.
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Concerning a
Great Recital
81 NALTER d. HICKMAN

DY presenting Harald Kreutzberg
ID and Yvonne Georgi in a dance
recital at English's, Mrs. Nancy
Martens brought her first season Of
fine concerts to close Sunday aft
ernoon.
In fact, the house could be called
capacity, because there were only q
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few vacant seats, and
most of those we're
sold on the season ba-
sis. The patronage
given these Sunday
afternoon concerts of
Mrs. Martens guaran-
tees the future for this
woman, who is doing
great work in bring
ing the most renowned
artists to this city. I
was glad to see Eng
lish's about filled yes
terday, in spite Of the
terrible weather. It
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-09

Way" which was
a best seller on the
stage many years
ago. Laura is a
youngster COM
pared to the long
suffering wife in
east Lynne" but
Laura is brought
up to date in ''The
Easiest Way" and
I fear that she
should have kept
her years and not
become quite so
modern. The bones
in this old play
creak at times I'M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-09
OLD-FASHIONED HIT
TRIES TO COME BACK
Modern Cast and Strong One, Struggles With
MIGHTY Tough Dramatic Situation in East lynne.
By WALTER D. HICKMAN

XEE the producer and director mehbans
~ Lynne and busted of 1881 modrarnatic DISH
mighty tough job to the
The fact that probably nobody job in
bringing this od-fashoned
Ann Harding Give Brook understanding
rad Nagel regular Of a
Many times thought that heard the bones of this
creak and modern color in
-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-09
Youth Killed by Auto

Ry Times Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind, March g.
Leonard Lackey, Is, suffered fatal
injuries when struck by an auto
mobile whose driver was blinded by
snow. The driver, Harold Peters,
brought the boy to hospital, where
death occurred from a broken neck.
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> Y q : e IAsD " 2 ! II
actors 81 e m to
have no fear on the
talking screen. I
would expect to see
East Lynne" in a
one night stand in
the legitimate the
alter in the sticks
or under a tent in
the summer time
but not in the big
time. east Lynne"
even as a talker
still slnacks of be-
ing ten, twenty and
tlirty-cent enter
tainment, and a
capable cast can't
make th.S leonard
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BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police
Claude Taylor. 1904 Ashland avenue. Ford
coupe found in front OF 1913 South Hard
Claude Melton. COZ South Pennsylvania
street. Chevrolet sedan. found at 433 Madi-
son avenue.
Graham, Paige sedan. new. with stolen
license plates 1884. found in front Of
1881 Kenwood avenue.
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since Ed Resener
and Leonid Leon
ardi, guest con-
ductor and pian-
list, are getting
their heads to-
gether. This week
Leonardo is con-
Quoting the or
chestra through
an overture called
Iii g h opera
Gems" selections
belonging to 1.-THE
Fire fly" a n d
Chocolate S OIL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-09
LAURA MURDOCH
SUFFERS SOME MORE

Poor old Laura Murdoch is being
made to suffer again for her indis-
cretion in love and for her lies.
Laura, you recall, was the suf-
fering sob sister in "The Easiest
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The fact is this cast Of good
actors in the talking screen YER
sion would not dare to attempt to
revive this old play in the flesh on
Broadway. Where angels would
fear to tread on the legitimate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-09
INDIANA ORCHESTRA
PROVES ITS WORTH

I predicted last week in this de-
partment that some interesting
things were going to happen in the
Indiana concert orchestra in the pit
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rector Of east Lynne" or ''The
Easiest Way"
Tod Browning, the director, did
splendidly with "Dracula," making
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-09
'DRACULA" BECOMES
a TALKING MOVIE

In bringing Dracula" from the
legitimate stage to the talking
screen, the director has been much
more successful than either the di-
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splendidly

full in catching the
atmosphere Of the playwright from
the very start. Castle DracuIa is
work Of art, that of a ruined art.
This castle as created for the movie
certainly gives one the creeps and
IS just the right setting for Count
Dracula, who was "undead' for 500
years before the play gets started.
The director has been fortunate
IN having Bella LugoSi, the man who
created the role of Count Dracula
on the stage, to play his original
role.
Here is the creepiest acting I
have seen on the screen and his
makeup is really marvellous. I
wouldn't want to meet this Count
Dracula on a country road at night.
Nobody can play this terribly
creepy role as this man. He is the
last word in horror.
Helen Chandler is the sweet heroine
who is about to be carried to her cas-
ket by Dracula. She does fine work.
David Manners does a good lob as
tne sweetheart Of Miss Chandler.
He aids the scientist in killing"
Dracula and forcing him to STAY
put in his grave.
l have forgotten the name Of the
man who plays the bug and spider
eating Renf1eld. Here is good work
IN a most terrible role.
"Dracula" is entertainment for
those who do not suffer with heart
trouble. It has been marvelously
directed, photographed and acted.
Now at the Circle.
Other theaters today offer: s'The
Criminal Cnden at tia Olaio ssrrAI
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OIL PRODUCTION
CURB FOUGHT IN
OKLAHOMA Bill
Battle May Determine Flu.
ture of Proration in
All States.
svUrstsd pyess

Sy United Pyess
OKLAHOMA CITY, March g.
A proration battle that may deter
mine the future Of the oil curb in
all principal oil producing states i.
being waged in Oklahoma.
Investigations into the motives
and methods of proration supple
ment the fight on the Jones bill
introduced in the legislature, which
would virtually strip the corpora
tion commission Of it's authority tc
regulate crude production.
Opponents Of the Jones bill claim
that its passage would ultimately
result in the breakdown of prora-
ton in all other states.
Such condition, they nave told
legislative committee, would ruin
the oil industry.
Called Price Fixing
Proponents contend that the bills
passage is imperative to save the
small independent producer from
bankruptcy, claiming the oil prora-
ton regulations amount to a price
fixing scheme, instead Of a con-
servation program.
Those who claim proration should
be lifted have made unsuccessful
nights before the corporation COM
mission, the state supreme court
and the federal district court.
They then turned their attention
TO boosting for the Jones bill. The
Oklahoma Oil Association was
formed to fight the curb. 1t is
headed by E. B. Howard, former
congressman, who believes an oil
tariff and not proration is the solu-
ton to oil problems.
Sinclair Against Bill
Harry Sinclair, chairman Of the
board Of directors of the Sinclair
Oil Corporation, has announced his
opposition to the Oklahoma prora-
ZION law.
An investigation was ordered into
allegations certain companies are
allowed to flow their wells open in
the large Oklahoma City field.
The legislative committee reported
proration regulations were being
violated and that some royalty own
ers were not receiving the proper
amount Of money.
A request has been made that if
proration is to be continued Gov
ernor w, H. Murray be allowed to
name proration umpires. Present
umpires are named by the corpora
ton commission on the recommen-
dalton Of oil companies that petit
ton for the oil curb regulations.
Governor Murray has remained
silent in the controversy except to
say he believes if there is to be an
oil curb principal oil producing
states should adopt uniform pro-
ration n1ar1
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Other theaters today offer: .'Tht
Criminal Code" at the Ohio, "HoI-
lyWood Scandals" at the Mutual
Snllin' Ed Mcconnell at the Lyric
Hot Babies" at the Rialto ant
Bubbles" at the Colonial
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
Changing Our Status

Youthful students and graduates
who formerly were able to secure
lucrative summer employment now
find that the Jobs and positions that
enabled pioneer students to complete
their education have been closed to
them. Hotels, resorts, steamboats,
and amusement places no longer Of
fer alluring opportunities for stu
dents, and the result is that stu
dents are in a dilemma as to what
to do. This condition has b e n
reached thru a gradual process and
yet our students continue to finish
their courses and are coming out in
to the world full of confidence and
determination. Instead of working
as walters, bellboys and porters, they
have zone into the factories and in
to the serious field of business. They
have received no tips but they have
hardened their minds and muscles
thru manual labor and business ex-
perience. Many groups of southern
students have received work as sec
ton hands in railroad building and
they have earned money by honest
labor instead of soliciting aid by
bowling, scraping. cajoling and flat
tering. It appears that the time Is
not so far distant when the colored
people will not be thought of stimuli
taneous with servants and menials.
Time is making changes in our status
manifestly for our ultimate good.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
Fight Your Own Battles

Ii is about time Negroes ceased
sending delegations to the white
House" protesting against discrimi-
nation, segregation and other evils
that confront the race. A Negro is
cheated out of his earnings in Mis-
sissippi, and the President is asked
to stop that sort of thing; Negro
strike-breakers are shot down in IL
linois, and the President is told not
to let such thing happen again;
Negro suspect is lynched in Texas,
and the President must exterminate
the evil Immediately. Instead of
stopping these things themselves, Me-
groes, in cowardly fashion, sneak
away from the fight and seek their
deliverance from without.
In going to the White House the
Negroes exhibit again their lack of
common sense in always telling their
troubles to the "big policeman. In
the first place, the effort is useless
because there is nothing that the
President can do about most of these
matters except to use his moral in
fluence in holding public opinion,
and for people for whom he has so
much contempt he will not often do
this. When the Negro carries his
troubles to the White House. more
over, he thereby makes an open con-
fession that he has socially, econom-
ically, or politically failed Such a
confession does more harm than
good. If this is really true, it is not
wise to advertise it in this fashion.
The Negro, because of his mis-
education by others, has failed to
learn much from other oppressed
people. When the jew is discrim-
mated against, he does not appeal
to the one who discriminates; he APP
peals TO Jews. When Italians are
lynched, their compatriots do not APP
peal to the nation that lynched them
they appeal to Italians. When the
Spaniards shot down suspected Fill
pinos in cold blood. these oppressed
people did not appeal to Spain; they
appealed to the Filipinos. The Ne
gro must profit by their example. A
man who is afraid to die for free
dom is not fit to live.
The ''highly educated Negro"
learning his lesson from the traduc-
er, will say that the Negroes can do
nothing because they are a minority
group. This thought of fearful con
sequences of self -assertion has been
religiously instilled into the minds of
slayish Negroes. The teaching of his
tory has been so perverted as to
produce this result. If you can make
a man feel that although he is de-
clared innocent, his legs are not able
to take him out of prison, he may
stay there forever. The Negroes of
this country have been thus innocu-
lated, and the large majority of them
are doing practically nothing to bet.
ter their condition, except to bee
others to do for them what the,
must learn to do for themselves
Some of our so-called Negro leader,
flatter themselves with the thought
that they are doing wonderful thingi
to advance the cause of the race
but if they will reflect a minut,
they cannot escape the conclusion
that they are also in the procession
of those who are carrying their trou
bles to others. Stay away from tn,
big policeman"
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EDITORIALS
Push Open Closed Doors

While Colored Americans are tab
ulating their plight it is not a bad
idea to occasionally get away from
ourselves and see the situation from
the eyes of others. Recently, a
white business man in New York
made the following remarks to 4
group of Colored men:
~ don't know whether | should
say this you folks with all your
discouragements and rebuffs. are
stronger than you know you are.
You charge much of your hardship to
racial conditions. Please be assured
that the white race has as much to
worry about as you. Too often the
Colored man believes every obstacle
is a race one. | don't believe that
these obstacles are always racial.
You have got to look upon these OBJ
stacles as normal distractions that
all are up against. More doors are
open to the Negro than he is aware
of; sooner or later he will find this
out. You shut many doors to your
enough"
Here was said few "mouthfuls."
Right here in Seattle there are doors
of opportunity shut to Negroes sim
ply because the Negroes themselves
have not pushed hard enough to open
them. N man by the name of Will
liam Shakespeare who died some
foul' hundred years ago, said it hand
somely: "The fault is not in our
stars but in ourselves that we are
underlings." For all men life is a
continued struggle. Some folks are
mistaken in imagining that they are
Gods chosen people; and the Ne
gro group has been misled into be-
leving that it is people cursed by
God, line in the Bible to the con
trary Notwithstanding.
The thing to do is to get busy
pushing open some of the doors
we ARE stronger than we know we
are.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-08-06
1880 Negro Students Enrolled In Colleges

A number of institutions with large
Negro enrolment were unable to fur
nish exact figures as to this enroll
ment. These institutions include:
Columbia University, New York; the
University of Michigan, Cornell Uni
versity and the College of the City
of New York. They enrolled last
year 404 Negro students.
MANY well-known colleges, the
Crisis says, have no Negro students
and while they do not openly say so,
have hitherto refused to admit Ne
gro students. They include the fol-
lowing better known colleges: Prince
ton University, N. j.; Mills College,
California; The George Washington
University, D. c.; Vassar College,
New York; Swarthmore College, a
Quaker school, most Catholic univer-
stiles like the Catholic University of
America, Holy Cross College, Wor-
cester; Notre Dame, Indiana, etc.
A number of white institutions
which admit Negro students refuse
to let them reside in the dormitories
Among these are: Ohio University;
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania; ;
Bucknell University. Pennsylvania /;
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NEW YORK.-Nearly as many
students are enrolled in Howard Uni
versity as in all the white colleges
of the United States, according to
the Crisis magazine, which has just
published its annual survey of col
lege enrolment.
Howard has 2,473 on roll and 222
graduates. White colleges have D.
063 enrolled and $50 graduates this
year. White colleges unreported,
the survey says, would bring their
total up to $500 colored students
enrolled in white colleges.
Four students in white colleges
earned Ph.D.'s 78 A. MS and Phi
Beta Kappa and Sigma XII honors
this year.
The estimates show 10000 stu
dents in all colored colleges with L.
700 A. B. graduates.
Prairie View, Texas, with 997 col
lege men enrolled, is the second larg-
est college. Hampton is third, South
Carolina fourth, and w. Va, fifth.
Ohio State (white), has the larg-
est colored enrolment: 300. Temple
(Pa.) is second; Illinois University,
third, and Iowa, fourth.
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Negroes Still Survive

Some little alarm has been evident
of late because of the statistics of
the recent census which set out the
proposition that the death rate is in
creasing among colored people of
America and at the same time the
birth rate has fallen off to an APP
preciable extent. AS would be ex-
pected these unreliable statistics
have been gobbled up by the eau
casians and many have gleefully ex-
claimed that the colored people
would soon die out and thus the race
problem would come to an impromp-
tu adjournment.
Some claim that the ravages of
tuberculosis are making terrible in
roads upon the dark folk. This dread
disease is so highly contagious that
even the hardihood of the white man
cannot withstand it and the marked
increase in the death of the colored
people will show a relative increase
among whites. If it continues, health
and sanitation bureau of America
will be forced to relieve the terrible
conditions which exist in colored
belts" in order to protect the white
neighborhoods which adioin. The
white people of America, even if they
are less susceptible to the white
plague" than the black, will check
the contagion. in order to save them
selves. Where an epidemic of small
pox RACES, they do not vaccinate lit
tie colored boys and girls for pure
ly humanitarian purposes,-they
seek to insure protection to white
America; and so the story runs.
From an economic standpoint un-
der the present system, the wisdom
of Solomon is not needed to proph-
ecy that the colored man will not
be pitched into discard and death.
Americas greatest industry is cot
ton, and Irish and other foreign la
Dor has not proven satisfactory to
the great cotton kings. The colored
mans labor has produced the enor.
nous profits for his white master,
sometimes dignifiedly called employ
er. They don't let the goose die
which lays the golden eggs, not in
America. When the capitalistic sys-
tenn begins to wane and the cotton
industry is no longer profitable for
the white man alone then they might
consider and deliberate over the pas
sing of the colored man. That time
seems far distant.
The colored man is learning in
the meantime, how to take care of
himself. His experience in slavery
taught him chicanery and shrewdness
and with these qualities coupled with
education he will see to it that his
species does not become, extinct. The
growing interest in commercial de-
velopment, the departure from su-
perstition and ignorance proves that
health and sanitation is not entire
~ foreign to this much maligned and
abused people.
If those who draw their figures
from the census-takers would stor
to think how crude and careless then
methods were they would not waste
their time and energy in drawing
such happy conclusions, Those whc
counted the colored people, either in
.advertently or Intentionally fail Il
register at least one fifth. If q
careful investigator would ask eacf
colored man he met if the census
taker counted his family, he woulC
end a days work with the compel
ling worry left that America was
growing colored.