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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08

Indianapolis Triangles are without a
game for Sunday due to a posJponenlent by
the Bedford Black Cats. Triangles desire
to hear from a fast state club at once.
Wire H Z. Beplay, 821 North Ritter ave-
ME or nhnne IrVington 7297.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08

The Indianapolis Meldons have an open
date for may II and want to schedule with
q state club at once Call or wire r. J,
stehlin. 91S Olive street or phone Drexei
3678-G,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08

Indianapolis Reserves are without
game for Sunday and would like to hear
tween 5 and I .. m. All PLAYERS and try
outs be at Garfield No. at 2 p. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08

Billy Grimes Red Wings win meet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08

The Wallace and Riley teams of the Lit
BE oninev taknT fSs SSire sers T sfS
ease. as Emerson and Shannon lost the
odd game to Carlisle ana Bancroft A
227 game BY SARGENT featured
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08

The northside branch Of the Citizens
Gas League. rolled on the Uptown ALLEYS.
Serubbers and Gauges taking three earnes
from Leaks and Colers as Heat Units,
Drips and Pumps won two from Gener-
ators. Accounts and PTessurss
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-08

Ross Smiths AI-Stars defeated Crown
Box Company last Saturday. g to 5: Sat
urday. All-Stars will play. Sims Coal at
Ellenberger. Manager Kahl requests ali
nlavers to attend practice this evening at
Garfield park.
Billy Csrir,nas Ead Nirne nil mat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-30
FREE CONSTITUTION
SOUGHT BY SPAIN
Universal Suffrage, Religious
Freedom, Title Abolition
are Proposed.

By the Associated Press.
MADRID, June 30.-A proposed con-
stitution providing for universal SUI
frage, religious freedom and abolition
Of titles Of nobility will be submitted
to the newly elected National Assem-
bly, when it convenes July Il.
The preliminary draft, as formulated
by a government commission, will first
be passed on by the cabinet. possibly
this week.
1t stipulates that women shall be
allowed to participate for the first time
In the election of deputies, that all
creeds will be allowed religious freedom
and that the ancient distinctions Of
aristocracy shall be no more. The
Catholic Church would become q "cor-
poration" and the state would have no
official religion.
Government at Madrid.
Supreme authority would be vested
In the republican government in Ma
drid, although the provinces might
organize for local administrative pur-
poses. The President would be elected
for a term of six years py q majority
OF the Senate and Lower House in
joint session.
The Senate would be made up of
240 members chosen equally among
the cultural, industrial and labor
entities" and the lower House would
consist Of 470 deputies elected by
popular suffrage.
Freedom of speech of the press and
Of assembly would be guaranteed No
member Of the military, church or
nobility could be elected to the presi-
dency. War could not be declared
without the sanction of the assembly
MOnarchists Trail.
Mounting returns from Sundays
election confirmed the belief that the
Conservative Republican-Socialist bloc
had won dominant majority Of the
seats in the assembly The Monarchists
obtained only five and the Communists
none at all. The exile of former King
Alfonso was deemed to be permanent.
Dispatches from Salamanca said
martial law had been proclaimed as the
result of an outbreak in which q mob
attacked the Agrarian headquarters
because the Agrarians had beaten the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in the balloting.
No one was injured and troops had the
situation under control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-30
DOOMED KILLER MAY
GET PRISON. TERM
Death Sentence Of FL Paso Man
Who Slew Through Mistake
May Be COMMITTED.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex, June 30.-Angele
Trias, Chihuahua State district attor-
ney in Juarez, said yesterday the death
sentence of w. ]. Meers, 20, OF Fl Paso,
assessed Saturday by a judge at Chi
huahua City might be committed to
20 years imprisonment.
THE death sentence is very rare in
Chihuahua and is generally committed
to 20 years." he said. Either the
Supreme Court or the Governor might
grant Communication"
Meers killed Antonio Visconti. cafe
waiter. In Juarez a year ago under the
impression Visconti was a man be-
lieved to have been implicated in the
Staying Of Meers' father. It later was
learned Visconti was an entirely diff.
ferent person
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-30
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

TODAY.
Card party, Hope Council, Sons and
Daughters of Liberty, Naval Lodge Hall.
9 pm.
Card party, Ladies Auxiliary to Local
Eighth and F streets northeast, 8 pm.
Monthly meeting, Logan Thomas
Circle Citizens Association, Logan Ho-
tel, 8 pm.
Meeting, B. Y. P. u, Willard Hotel,
pm.
FUTURE.
Luncheon, Monarch Club, Hotel HAM
ilton, noon tomorrow.
Luncheon, Optimist Club, Hotel HAM
Iton, noon tomorrow.
Luncheon, Rotary Club, willard Ho-
tel. 1880 tomorrow.
Luncheon, d. @. BANKERS Associa-
ton, Willard Hotel, 12:45 tomorrow.
Luncheon. Lions Club, Maynower Ho-
tel, noon tomorrow.
Meeting and banquet, Delta Sigma
Fraternity, Mayflower Hotel. Meeting
ESQ pm, banquet pm. tomorrow.
Luncheon. Exchange Club, Carlton
Hotel, 1880 pm. tomorrow.
Meeting, Threescore and Ten Club.
Y. w. c. A., 1880 pm. tomorrow.
Outing. Mispah Chapter. No. 9, o. E.
s., at Marshall Hall. Afternoon and
evening boats. Tomorrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-30
BODY IN PLYMOUTH
Remains of Bridge Expert Will Be
Sent to TT. s. for Burial

otHC co q. .. TOT bUFlaI.
PLYMOUTH, England, June 80 R.-
The body of Wilbur C. Whitehead.
whist and bridge expert, who died Sat.
urday at sea, arrived today aboard the
lie de France and will be sent back to
America for burial. Death was due
TO heart disease and diabetes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05
Coldwvn's First Five.

THE shooting OF the last sequence OF
l. Ronald Colman'S next picture.
THE Unholy Garden" at the Samuel
Goldwyn studios recently oficially COM
pleted the Charles MacArthur.ben
Hecht adventure melodrama:
The interest Of Samuel Goldwyn and
his production staff was then tmme-
diateiy changed to the adjoining stages
and the King Vidor perturbation OF the
Elmer Rice Pulitzer priZe-winning
drama, street Scene" Its cast in
cludes Sylvia Sidney, William Collier,
ir.: Estelie Taylor, Beulah Bondi, Mat
thew McHugh, T. H. Manning, Eleanor
Wesselhoedt, George Humbert and John
M. Qualen from the Broadway stage
cast. also David Landau, Russell Hop.
ton, Louis Natheaux and Greta Gran
stedt.
Coiman will remain In Hollywood in
conference with Goldwyn and his stan
on the Sinclair Lewis story, Arrow
smith"
George Fitzmaurice, who directed
"The Unholy Garden" Is now prepar-
ing production plans for the new Gloria
Swanson picture, Tonight or Never"
which is to begin early In August.
Eddie Cantor's new comedy, "Palmy
Days." is in the fourth of its five-week
schedule.
These five pictures comprise the first
part of Samuel Goldwyn's production
program for United Artists for the
1882 season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05
U. S. Army Band With
Gardiner Dancers

A JOINT program by the United
"A States Army Band, conducted by
Capt. william Stannard, and the Lisa
Gardiner Dancers Of this city will be
presented Wednesday evening at 3
O'Clock, at the Sylvan Theater in the
Monument Grounds, under the COM
bincd auspices of the Community Cen
ter Department, the once Of Public
Buildings and Public Parks. and the
National Capital Civic Fund Commit
tee. !,
The public is invited. A limited
number Of chairs will be provided, at
so cents each, to pay for the transpor-
tation and placing Of the chairs: -,
Besides the concert numbers played
by the Army Band, the dancers Will
be seen In an unusual program OF
classic and modern numbers never
seen here before, as well as several re
quest" numbers, among them The
Beautiful Blue Danube" Schuberts
Moment Musical" and the "Jota Ara
gonese," by Tavan, a regional dance OF
Spain.
A special arrangement Of the ballet
from prince Igor" by Borodin. Will be
presented as the climax OF the pro-
gram,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05
How Stars of MOvieland
Enjoy a Studio Holiday
Flock to the Hills and Seashore Over the Fourth.
Well Known Players Entertaining
in Their New Homes.

with them. between the smooth dunes
Of beige-colored sands.
Neil Hamilton, who has scored re-
cent hit in his appearance with Norma
Shearer, and who has just signed a
nice, long, fat contract, celebrated the
occasion by the purchase of 32-foot
boat, which he took on a maiden voy-
age over the Fourth-the first time
studio work has given him an oppor-
tunity.
Hamilton has from time to time con-
tributed priceless Characterization in
cinematics. But, as Is the fate Of some
actors, without at all achieving the type
recognition which the usual successful
Characterization brings. Each time
Neil Hamilton has been given due credit,
dignified acclaim, he has been pigeon
holed in the minds OF casting directors
as possible person for. a didicult mo-
ment when it arose. But not singled
out for personal development.
In the somewhat difficult role Of the
young lover of Strangers May Kiss"
he proved that a man may get all the
wrong lines and situations. apparently
do the disagreeable thing to beauty
who has one of the most rabid fan fol-
lowingS of any actress living Il refer
to Norma Shearer) and yet keep her
love and the sympathy of the audience
as well. cts a dificult role to play
play well and convincingly, without be-
coming a villain with the audience.)
And Neil Hamilton did 1t. Enter the
boat. The big bank account. The big
print. The big head often follows upon
these things, but think with Hamilton,
who has watched this colony from the
wry angle for a good many years, this
will not happen.
Carmel Myers and Ralph Blum dis
pensed Fourth of July hospitality from
Santa Monica, where their beach house
Is one Of the most ideal in the colony.
A sprawling shingled cottage, well
weathered and with q marigold yellow
gate, the way to 1t is known by all the
interesting ones hereabouts. The four
Marx brothers are to be found on the
beach Of the Ralph Blum house any
Sunday afternoon. Zeppo's wife, Marian
Benda Of the Follies. Is one Of the most
dramatically beautiful new girls to join
this center Of beauty. And Groucho's
wife Is as lovely in q blonde way. But
Harpo Is the darling Of the colony
Harpo and his trained cat.
Harpo Marx entrances are giving even
HOLLYWOOD something to talk about
and this is q place of weird entrances
and sudden and weird exits. He as
founded one lovely lady recently by
leaping into her lap in a popular res
taurant, whispering intensely. I'm
mad about you" she whispered and
made to put her arms about his neck.
Harpo was all bushes in q moment.
He loves to plague others, but at heart
is really exceedingly shy.
fCopyriRht. 1881. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, IncO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05
Strange Are the Ways
OF Hollywood's Colony
the Studios to Find Out What Is Really
Going on in Movieland's Capital.
By Robert E. Sherwood.

home life is above reproach, her ad-
mirers in the great audience are eager
to think otherwise. So that II the
chiseling boys can lay hands on some
bit of gossip about Miss Lovely, which
might conceivably be distorted into a
lurid revelation, then they have OBJ
tanned the combination to her safe.
If I were a movie star-and Dame
Nature has decreed, alas. that never
shall bel would spend my spare time
running the ganut OF the seven deadly
sins; for I should feel that ! might as
we'll have the fun of wild living, know
ing that I'll be accused of 1t, anyway.
X X X
| THOMAS GEDNEY PATTEN. who
l. formerly was with. the Will Hays
Office, was interviewed by the Los An
geles Times and offered several answers
to that recurrent question: Whats
wrong with the movies?"
Worst of ALL" he said, "they make
pictures for 14-year- oldS. Now, hold
that the intelligence Of the world, and
especially of America, Is far beyond IA
years.
This is an argument with which
have tried religiously to agree. I have
reiterated my great faith in the intelli-
gence of the public at large and have
been vociferous in my assurances that
If the movie producers would only make
their pictures to appeal to persons of
superior intellect. they would make far
more money. But the discouraging
facts always seem to prove otherwise.
In the pictures released this year the
most infantile hokum has been as
profitable as ever, and the few, daring
attempts to rise above dreary medioc-
rity have resulted in financial loss,
1t seems that PhineaS r. Barnum'S
low estimate Of his patrons still holds
good.
A NEW triumph in California boost
erism has been achieved by NAL
colin j. Rogers, San Diego geologist
and archeologist, who has announced
discoveries which tend to prove that
the Pacific Coast was inhabited some
10000 years ago.
In the course of his statement on
this subject he said: so primitive were
these first California settlers that their
like in primitiveness Is found nowhere
else in the world"
the Golden State was undoubtedly at
tributable to the climate.
X
DONALD OGDEN STEWARDS play,
Rebound" has been transplanted
to the screen with marked success by
Edward H. Griffith and Horace Jack
son, who were responsible for "Holi-
day"
A swift pace is set in the early stages
OF "Rebound'-too swift, in fact, for
the picture begins to pant and falter
along toward the end But the i'm
portant thing is not the plot, nor Mr..
Stewards gay dialogue, nor Mr. Crit
flth's adroit manipulation of situations;
it is Ina Claire.
have seen Miss Claire in the zieg-
field Follies and in Lonsdale comedies
and various other entertainments, and
have always been bowled over by her
beauty and her unfailingly def skill
but I think that Rebound" Is her fin
est performance to date She is due
to be an asset of ineStimable worth to
the needy film industry
(Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05
In the London Theaters

venturer seeks to provide drama within
three hours-on a bet. He uses the
other mans wife to do it, wins the bet
but falls in love with her. She sticks
to her clod of husband and the play
folded. David Horne, the clod, took the
slender garland Of honors.
Edith Evans and Robert Lorraine
squeeze everything possible out OF
Tiger Cats" tragi-comedy by Karen
Bramson, translated from the French
by Michael Orme. It works out the
problem of the philosopher who marries
a red-headed woman. He doesn't win
Marie Tempest Is appearing in
Marry at Leisure" by Frank Vosper
which Is funny when Miss Tempest ap-
pears, but otherwise needs pushing. Out
at Hammersmith the Ballet Club, Mar
Jorie Rambert and Sir Nigel Playfair
have combined to provide short Sum-
mer season of ballet.
TT is possible that Late Night Final, u
the English version of "Five Star
Final" will turn out to be the seasons
excitement. It opened June Is. The
cast Is mostly English, but includes
Carol Goodner, who was Ursula Jeans
in THE First Mrs. Fraser" in New
York
New Workers who saw it last Win
ter will be interested or annoyed, as the
case may be, to learn that King George
and Queen Mary have chosen THE Ad-
mirable Crichton" for the command
performance at Holyrood Palace in
July. Esme Percy will be Crichton.
Other news includes Shaws announce
ment that he is working en- a new play
TOO Good to Be True"-on the war
aftermath
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05
Wanna Buy a Duck?

THERE'S an easy way to get rich, if
I you should happen to be interested
In such q thing. Riches may be the
root Of all evil. but oh. they are so
handy to have around a home Of wants
and gimmes.
The way to get riches. now in mind,
is an honest way. One doesn't have TO
hold up bank, or break into jew
eler's window. or steal somebody's
pocketbook. It is so much easier, so
n.uch simpler than that.
Just sit down and think up some
thing unique that will make people
laugh, or will set them to thinking, or
arouse their curiosity, or that will
merely catch the eye and rivet the
attention Of everybody for ever so short
q time-and your fortunes made.
Joe. Penner, at the Earle this week,
thought Of the silly question, Wanna
Buy a Duck?" Is Joe rich now? May
be. At any rate Wanna Buy a Duck?"
started Joe on q theatrical career that
has never stopped careering. He
thought up Wanna Buy q Duck?"
years and years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05
De Mile Talks Shop.

$50 right there and then decided
that what they meant by hokum was
the use Of the more human and beauti-
full emotions in stories, pictures and
plays. To me it seems a matter of how
well you handle the hokum whether it
makes great art or not" Mr.. De Mile
stated
As the director had praised Harold
Lambs various studies of the Cruz
sades. the interviewer was moved to
ask: 7
win you ever make a picture about
the Crusades?"
II haven't any such picture In mind
now. but 1t IS possible that some day I
Will do q motion picture with q back
ground Of the medieval Crusades.n
But thought that costume pictures
jected
That's what they always tell you"
De Mile said. But I have never
known costume picture or q play to
Iall IN the last decade. If you go over
the list OF the costume plays. operettas
and pictures in the past few years, such
as The Vagabond King Elizabeth
the Queen The Road to Rome
Lysistrata,' The Barretts OF Wimpole
Street and countless historical pieces.
failure"
tures?"
1T Is very comfortable to make them,
for then you know they will never 20
out Of style. whereas a picture made
In 1910. with the characters dressed in
modern dress, is laughable today. 7
Just experienced q very vivid example
OF that in The Squawman,' which I
made IS years ago. Contrasted with
the 1881 sound picture version Of the
same play by Milton Royle, it looked
like comedy because Of the costumes
Of the players"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05
II DONALD HENDERSON CLARKE.


CECIL B. DE MILE, free from pro-
fessional obligations for the FIRST
time in 10 years, finds freedom more
arduous than the confinement Of q
job.
Interviewed in his hotel suite in New
York recently, Mr.. De Mile discussed
motion pictures, past, present and fu-
ture; the Crusades, religion, Russia
and dropped o few pertinent comments
on the "yes-man" legend, which has
grown up about his name.
De Mile Is q sofe-Spoken, well read
gentleman, whose every word and &C.
ton bellies popular opinion Of him as
an autocrat Of the cinema studios. He
was discovered writing at q desk in a
room overlooking Central Park, from
which the roaring of the liens in the
Zoo could be heard. He greeted the
interviewer with a humorous comment
about the lions, and remarked that
their presence seemed most appropriate.
as he is under contract to Metro Gold
wyn-Mayer, whose trade mark is a roar
ing lion.
De Mile explained he was stopping
in New York on his way to Europe, and
that he had hoped to spend most of
his time in the Metropolitan Museum
OF Art, but that various circumstances
had prevented him from visiting the
museum, even once, since his arrival,
q week before
Il understand, Mr.. De Mile, that YOU
were once quoted as having said that
All great art is hokum?'" was a uues-
tion. indirectly propounded at the in
terview.
1T all comes down." Mr.. De Mile
replied, Ito the use of the word hokum.
I have so often been accused of stress
ing hokum in my films that set out
one day to discover just what hokum Is.
canvaSsed my friends.
Are crime stories hokum,' I asked
them.
NO they told me.
Are gangster stories hokum?'
"'No.'
Is rape hokum?'
"'No.'
Then I began questioning them
about the more beautiful things in life.
asked If mother love was hokum.
"'Oh, yes. indeed they told me.
Il asked If religion was hokum.
Their Affirmative replies were yerv
definite on this point. I asked If the
beauties of truth and love were hokun.
"'Oh, yes, indeed they said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05

liest infant IN Hollywood. Miss Bank
head achieves these abrupt transfer
enceS magically and with lamentations
that defy analysis. It is my habit to
diSdain actors who are SNOWY and arti-
f1c1al. Nevertheless revel III Miss
Bankheads reticent veneers and var
nisheS and agree with her managers in
their pronouncement that she Is as
mysterious and as potent an influence
on moving picture civilization as viii
Hays or any Of the Warner Bros.
4
THE following telegram from Billie
Rose, producer of Cray Quilt"
and husband Of Miss Fannie Brice. IN
d1cateS that he should write his own
iiprettoes and not delegate that ONCE
to others:
Dear Sir: Meditating Ca your crit
icisms Of the Broadway revue "hits,"
thought that 1t showed a tendency to
bracket The Band Wagon" and 1.-The
Third Little Show" In this category,
and TO ignore so seething a rumpus as
weights or measures. metric, Roman or
McBr1de's. Crazy Quilt" rates q fun
sprig OF these ecstatic laurels. I'll
wager Phil Bakers accordion against
Fred Astaire's left ankle that Crazy
quit made as much money last week
as The Band Wagon" or THE Little
snow" despite the fact that Crazy
quilts" tariff is full dollar lower.
Regards? BILLY ROSE.
4 r
CNE OF my more intelligent recrea-
tons is to listen to Cosmo Hamil-
ton as he breaths his impressions of
the drama and its actors upon the
radio. Mr.. Hamilton is gentleman.
essayist, novelist. fianeur and play
wright. and whenever he speaks
hearken. He IS. perhaps. a little adj
dicted to hallelujahs, preferring to
praise rather than to condemn. How.
ever. he Is always friendly, musical.
interesting, and, in a manner Of speak
ing: sincere. II now and then his glib
and complaiSant enthusiasts seem q
trife bizarre. it is well to know that hs
is one Of Gods few gifts to the theater.
boosting and constructive yes-man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05
BY EDWARD STANLEY.
ONDON, June 90 (P).-While June
didn't seem to be bringing any
thing to the London stage de-


thing to the London stage de-
H. handing international rejoicings,
two American actresses have been
with their finely etched canoes.
p. They are Ruth Draper and Cornelia
Otis Skinner, who have been giving
matineeS.
Miss Draper is held in the same es-
TEEN In England as in America, which
makes her almost the Bureau of Stand
ards discuse. As the English critic,
1vor Brown, wrote, 1T is idle to praise
Miss Draper nowadays"
Miss Skinner, now returned to
America, perhaps is net so well known
in London, but her work achieved a
fine applause. Besides sketches such
as an English lady lecturer in the
American hinterland, and American
tourists in Venice, she presented
imaginary portraits of the wives of
Henry VIII.
WnEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY" has
replaced "Wonderbar" at the
Savoy and seems likely to repeat its
New York success, although perhaps a
little heavy for the time of year. Ernest
Milton is the grisly gent; Rcsalinde
Fuller. the girl who preferred life, is
really too beautiful to die, and Fred
Culley quite satisfying as the dreadful
old baron.
Other plays have been slight or dull
and some withered as dawn came.
"A knight Passed BY" was a twittery
bit by Jan Fabricus. in which an adj