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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14

never before reached by any
comedy team, with the possible eX-
ception of Harrigan and Hart,
and never since reached by any
body at all.
LAS we'll known as corned beef
and cabbage, or ham and eggs"
a contemporary described them,
though there was no ham in the
combination.
The demands earned in Califor-
MIA had functioned in inducing
other actors to follow their ban
ner as independent road show
producers. and had gone in. and
out of hook several times to keep
their first show going.
Success had grown like a snow
ball until they had three COM
panieS on the road, including such
famous comics as Bernard and
the Russell Brothers.
Then in 1896 they had acquired
the Music Hall, in the heart of
the Tenderloin, and from then
on they had made theatrical his
tory.
The formula for their entertain
mentS was dual. Each show COM
prised lavishly costumed and
extraordinarily cast musical COM
edy and a travesty of some cur
rent legitimate hit.
THIRST to sense the full import
Il of the star system, they
had secured for their 665-seat
theater name casts" Instead of
one or two stars in show, they
gave the public a dozen, and the
public came to see what the stars
would do, even before the crit
les had assured it the Music Hall
harbored another success.
They had the most beautiful
women of the day in their en-
sembles-Bonnie Maginn, frankie
Bailey, Mabel Barrison.
They were the most beautiful
because Archie Gum and Charles
Dana Gibson, the popular illus
traitor, said so.
In after years, one critic said
that the chief contribution of
Weber and Fields to the Ameri-
can drama was the Weber and
Fields chorus.
They were not beefy and stat
uesque, like the Black Crook beau
ties or the Lydia Thompson Brit
ish Blondes, who had preceded
them in fame, nor unappareled
like the ziegfeld and Carroll dam
sells who were to follow them.
They were lively and individual,
and played to their audience in
manner only possible in an init
mate theater.
Joe and Lew. who had as kids
stolen music from one act and
added words garnered from an
other now had their own personal
writer, Edgar B. Smith, on reg
ular salary, and their house COM
poser, John Stromberg.
WEAR after year they had built
1.-the prestige of the house of
the tenderloin, and this was about
the apogee.
On this opening night of "Hoity
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
The Pound of Flesh

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Sept. 14.-It
L. now is apparent that the Re
publican campaign this year will be
one in which poStmasters will form
the shock troops.
Those cogniZant of the manner in
which the wires were pulled at the
G. O. P. national convention realized
that it was a show in which the
poStmasterS played the principal
role. They led in the cheering for
Hoover, under the lash of PostmaS-
ter General Brown, and it was they,
also, who voted. to adopt the ma
jority Straddle plank on prohibit
ton, instead of the minority decla-
ration for repeal, known as the In
diana plank.
1t also has been the postmasters
who contributed to Chairman Ivan
Morgans campaign to lift the
$4,000 deficit of the state commit
tee, 1t has been the postmasterS,
the highway department and indus
trial board employees who have been
taxed for incidental expenses Of the
campaign.
But rarely has there been such a
brazen attempt to make the job
holders come through as that which
occurred here at a Republican rally,
where Joseph Kyle, G. o. P. nominee
for Lieutenant-Gov did the
Simon Legree act.
y
Every man on the pay roll be-
cause of the present Hoover-Les-
lie administrations should be
checked as to campaign activity.
II refer particularly to postmas-
ters.
I'VE expect and will demand a
strict accounting of employees &C
tivitieS. We expect each such en-
ploye to lend every aid to the ticket
and to carry his precinct election
day.
There are $4,000 to $4,000 per-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14

Toity" they played to $10,500, an
average of SIS a seat.
The seats for the opening night
had been sold at auction a week
earlier, according to the annual
customs of the house.
Jesse Lewisohn, the acknowl-
edged head man among Airy
Fairy Lillian's" admirers, had bid
for boxes against such competi-
tors as Stanford White, Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. Herman
Oelrichs, Louis Sherry, j. B. Mar
tin of blessed gastronomic mem
DRY; Richard Croker, William
Randolph Hearst, Abe Hummel,
the lawyer; James R. Keene and
Clyde Fitch, the exquisite.
The boys could meet their enor-
nous salary list only by selling
their choice tickets for subsequent
performances through an official
house Spectator, Louis Cohen.
Even with all these subterfuges
they gained little money at the
Music Hall. Prestige was their
chief profit.
Then each spring, when they
led their company forth to the
road, where they played all large
houses and packed them in at
every stand, the former east siders
made their money.
In this twenty-fifth year of
their career as a team the part
ners were still young men in their
early thirtieS.
4 Il
ID ESIDES Miss Russell, Hopper,
- Bernard and Williams, their
company included Lee Harrison,
a great straight man, who had
been Dave Warfield's vaudeville
partner; John T. Kelly, an Irish
comedy idol, and Fay Templeton,
acknowledged to be the leading
farce Coincidence of her time.
Miss Templeton played only in the
travesty which made up the Sec
ond half of the bill.
There is only one dull moment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
CHILD HEALTH
DISCUSSED AT
FARLEY WINDUP
Education of Public About
tuberculosis Stressed by
Dr.. FiShbein.

Sessions Of the Mississippi VALLEY
Conference on tuberculosis and its
sister organization, the MissisSippi
Valley Sanatorium Association, were
concluded today in the Claypool
with a discussion of child health
education.
Development of health education
in the public school system featured
the talk of DR.. c. c. Wilson, direc-
tor of physical education in EVANS
vile schools.
Other speakers were: Mrs. Arlene
Van Cleave, Logan, Ia; D. Ober-
teuHer, professor at Ohio university:
DR.. w. w. Patty of Indiana uni
yersity; DR.. J. A. Myers of Mime
apoliS, and Martha Van Meter of
the Indiana State tuberculosis As
ISOLATION.
Officers Are Elected
Officers of the Mississippi Valley
conference elected Tuesday are DR..
E..B. Marietta of Minneapolis, pres
ldept; Miss Helen Katen, Bismark.
n D., vice-president, and A. w.
Jones of st. Louis, Mo-, secretary
treasurer.
DR.. Henry c. Sweany of Chicat o
was named head of the Sanatorium
Association. DR.. Merlin Draper of
Fit. Wayne was elected vice -presi-
dent and DR.. A. A. Pleyte of Mil
waukee, secretary.
AT the annual banquet the organ
lzations were told that complete
prevention of tuberculosis is an ulti-
mate possibility by DR.. Morris Fish
bein, editor of the Journal of the
American Medical Association and
indianapolis Times columnist, at the
Claypool Tuesday night.
Stresses Education of Public
Somebody has given out some
misleading propaganda saying that
the depression has been favorable
10 tuberculosis and this should be
counteracted,'' DR.. F'ishbein said.
Tuberculosis records are not
written in day and the results of
this era will not be evident for sew
eral years. But we know that where
poverty is, there tuberculosis flour
iShes."
Control of the disease among chill
dren in the present apartment
house age is slow, DR.. Fishbein said.
He told how scientists were busy
studying the. germ.
These men of science must be
aided by the education of an unin-
formed public as to the part it must
play in securing the prevention of
the disease" he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
DENIES INN IS PART
OF CITY'S BOOZE ROW

1000 Madison Avenue Operators De-
clare No Law Violation Is Allowed.
Description of liquor selling re-
sorts on Madison avenue contained
in The Times Saturday, should not
include the Bungalow Inn, 1900
Madison avenue, according to Mr..
and Mrs. j. E. Lancaster, who have
operated the place for two years of
the nine since 1t was opened.
No law violations are permitted in
the place, Mrs. Lancaster declared
Tuesday.
The place was not included in The
Times survey of the district.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
B'NAI BIRTH TO !
HOLD CONCLAVE
State Officers to Be Installed
at Farley Sunday.

State officers will be installed
Sunday at the annual state conven-
ton of B'nai Birth with Isadors
Feibleman, indianapolis. past pres
ident Of district grand lodge No. Z,
presiding.
The convention will open at 10
Sunday at the Kirshbaum center,
business sessions continuing through
the day with election of officers at
4. Delegates and members of six
teen lodges then will attend the an
nual state banquet at the Lincoln.
Preceding installation. the dele
gates will hear an address by Joseph
Cohen, Kansas City, first vice.
president of the grand lodge.
Richard GudStadt, Cincinnati,
will speak at the banquet and Harry
Levin, Terre Haute, state president,
will preside.
Amethyst, cairngorm, chalcedony.
opal, agate and some other precious
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14

Amethyst, cairngorm, chalcedony.
opal, agate and some other precious
stones are forms Of quartz.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
Best Is Right
United Press

By United Press
KULPMONT, Pa. Sept. IA
Theodore Worhtz, Ralpho town
ship farmer, has been best man
at thirty-seven weddings.
father of fourteen children and
godfather of 100 more.
When he served as grooms-
man for the thirty-seve
time, the bride was a girl for
whom he had stood as god
father seventeen years before.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
SEEK COURT BAN ON
CITY ASSESSMENT ROLL
1913 File Suit for Injunction, Charg-
ing Works Board Acted Illegally.

ing Works Board Acted Illegally.
Henry Harding and 122 other
plaintiffs today sought an injunc-
ton in circuit court to prevent the
city from collecting assessments for
improvement of West Michigan
street, from Tibbs avenue to Luett
avenue.
The suit, filed Tuesday. named j.
N. Morgan & Son, contractors, and
William D. Vogel, assignee, as other
defendants besides the city. The
contract price was $2o,705.S7.
Charging the works board acted
illegally by changing the original
Improvement resolution, the COM
plant states this was done be-
cause the first resolution called for
an improvement wider than other
sections of the street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
CHARGES STEALING,
VETERAN is KNITTED
Is Dollar Bills Found Back of Bill
board by Deputies.

board by Deputies.
? Slight wound on the neck, in
ficted with a knife, was incurred
early today by Stanley Cochran, "a,
of 702 Lord street, who said ne W
attacked when he charged that part
of his $50 soldier compensation
money had been stolen.
John Smith, 33, of 718 Fletcher
avenue, accused of attacking Coch-
ran, is held on a charge of assault
and battery with intent to kill.
The attack is alleged to have oc-
Cured at the home of Pearl Harper
and Elizabeth Horton, 818 Ingomar
avenue.
Eighteen 81 bills were found back
of a billboard by deputy Sheriffs,
who investigated the case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14

A banquet at the Hotel Aston on the
night of September Is will mark the
golden Jubilee of a theatrical institu-
tion--the famous comedy team of Weber
and Fields.
In series Of articles. Of which the
following is the third. A. J. Liebling
tells the romantic story of the rise of
two East Side bows whose Joint career
forms one Of the most entertaining chap
ters in the history Of the theater.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
PLEASED BY MAINE VOTE
State Democratic Chairman Views
Victory as Good Omen.

Victory as Good Umen.
utilization over Democratic cleo
ton successes in Maine was ex-
pressed today in a statement issued
by R. Earl Peters, state Democratic
chairman. Peters declared:
Victory for the Democratic cam
didate for Governor and two of the
three candidates for congress can be
interpreted only as an unmiStakable
evidence of the sweeping victory
that awaits Governor Roosevelt and
Speaker Garner"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
BY A. ]. LIEBLING
Times staff Writer

Telegram Corp
"Oh. dem king OBJ de railroad dOwned
AN dat Newport sOcrty's got to crawl
"Evry coon worth million,
"In de ragtime cOtilliOn
AT de Pullman POrter's Ball"
Orish reeI-exist to repeat of refrain
of coon song; eight girls Of brass band
followed by eighteen girls in high hats.
long-taiIed raglan coats. etc, as minstrel
parade. and Fritz Williams)
TINE late Fritz williams, before
l. and after Music hall days a
fine dramatic actor, brought down
the house with this early Pleisto-
Gene jazz ditty, and before the
applause had died down Lillian
Russell, as Lady CRATER, was on
the stage archly persiflaging with
De Wolf Hopper as General Steele.
Yes General. I come here
every season. 1 adore Monte
Carlo. So much life here-the
crowds-the dresses"
Yes, you have some gorgeous
gowns yourself. Are your stays
long?"
"Sir!"
Screams of laughter Double en-
tendre, of course, almost vulgar,
but at the Music hall, my dear
And then enter the genii Of the
house, Joe Weber, tiny, frail chap
stuffed out in front with pillows,
as Philip Sauerbraten; Lew Fields,
lean. whiskered, as Herman
Kaffeekuchen; Sam Bernard, the
apoplectic, as Friedrich Schnit-
eel, a worthy ally of the preda-
cious Fields.
You look like bureau drawer
with the bottom drawer pulled
out" Schnitzel bellows at Sauer-
braten.
You are right" agrees Fields,
"just see the way the clothes hang
on him."
Its a good fit" Sauerbraten
defends himself weakly.
Fit" sneers Fields. Its al
most a CONFUSION"
1T was the opening night, Sept.
4 6, 1901, of "Hoity- Toity" at the
Weber and Fields Music hall on
Broadway, near Twenty-ninth
street, next to the theater then
known as Days, which still exists
as the alternately darkened and
burlesque-infested Fifth avenue.
Joe and Lew, the kids who had
listened to the Germans in Sim
on's saloon, who had begged dime
museum managers for a chance
to work for SO a week, who had
deemed it glorious triumph to tour
with Gus Hills show and do three
acts at every performance, had ar
rived.
They had arrived at a point
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-14
FIGHT FURTHER
CUTS IN CITY'S
HEALTH FUNDS
Scheme to Slash 20 Per
Cent More PeriIS Com
munity, Says Morgan.

This is the third Of series Of FIVE
stories showing effect Of a reduced 1888
city budget on the individual citizen.
Evening star., 1932-11-06
CUTTINGS SUPPORT
HELPS ROOSEVELT.
New Mexico Outlook Gives
Democratic Ticket Victory
by $1,000 to 25,OOO.
BY A. N. MORGAN. =
necial Dispatch to The Star.

Upecial Dispatch TO Ine star.
SANTA FE, N. Mex, November s.
Indications are that New Mexico will
give Roosevelt a plurality ranging from
$4,000 to $4,000, although if the New
York Governor attains the latter figure
1t will set up a new record. Four years
age the State gave Hoover a margin
over Smith of better than $1,000. On
that occasion all but one of the Demo-
cratic counties went Republican. but all
information sheared of the usual po-
Ntical ballyhoo, today leads to the con-
clusion that they have returned. to nor
malcy, or even more so. In IL OF the
bigger Republican counties the Pro-
gressives, led by Senator Bronson Cut
ting, have fused with the Democrats,
and the Democratic ticket will either
carry them or make heavy inroadS into
normal G. o. P. pluralitieS.
During the last week Democratic
speakers have been charging that the
ole guard Republicans, who opposed
Cutting because he wouldn't come out
for Hoover earlier in the campaign, had
abandoned hope of electing anybody but
former Gov. r. c. Dillon, their guberna-
torial candidate Some color is given
this charge by editorials appearing in
ola guard newspapers saying the forma-
tion OF Dillon-RooSeVelt clubs would be
fine thing.
1t is political history in New Mexico
that every time the State has gone TO-
600 at least for the head of the ticket,
1t has been a clean sweep Although the
brunt of the Republican fight has been
directed against Gov. Arthur Seligman,
II Roosevelt goes over by that figure,
possibly less, he will be returned to
office.
Evening star., 1932-11-06
THREE PLEAD GUILTY:
ARE SENT TO PRISON
Sentences Melted Out by Chief JUS
tiee Wheat in Criminal Cases
Varied From 3 to 10 Years.

Jesse Jackson, co,ored, was sentenced
by Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat, Fri
day to serve from 3 to 10 years
In the penitentiary, following his plea
OF guilty on a charge of manslaughter
In connection with the death Of Mary
johnson, also colored Jackson had
been indicted for first-degree murder
but was permitted to plead guilty to
the lesser offense The tragedy oc-
Cured July IT at 429 L street. Attor-
ney Goldie Paragol appeared for the
prisoner
Thomas E. Cheney, colored, told Jus
tice Wheat that when he attempted to
hold-up Arthur j. Middleton at a filling
station, October 13, he had only an
old gun which had not been fired in
10 years. He said he was out of work
and thought he might get some money.
The court fixed his punishment at three
to five years
James Barnes, colored, pleaded his
inability to get work in defense of a
charge of HOUSEKEEPING and larceny.
He entered the building of the Ma
tional Tribune, October 8, and stole
two loving cups valued at s25 each, and
q pair of shoes. He will serve from
three to six years.
Evening star., 1932-11-06

next will be forwarded by telephone or
telegraph to zone headquarters, from
there to central State bureau
The results from each State, care
fully checked and verified, next are
simultaneously telegraphed over leased
wires to member newspapers and to the
Associated Press bureau at Washington,
the national tabulating center At fire.
quent intervals. the electoral and popu-
lar vote totals will be provided. to show
the trend of the steadily mounting tab
ulations and the final results.
The election organization in each
State also will tabulate the votes for
Senators, Representatives and State
officers The results of congressional
elections. because of their importance
In the makeup Of the new legislative
Evening star., 1932-11-06
five COACHES BACK
HOOvER'S CAMPAIGN
Stagg Stevens, Kerr, McLaughry
and Warner Listed by Fact
Finding Committee.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, November 5.-The Non.
Partisan Fact-Finding Committee for
Hoover, in a statement released today,
listed the names of five college foot ball
coaches who have indorsed President
Hoover's campaign for reelection.
They are Amos Alonzo Stagg Of the
University of Chicago, DR.. Marvin A.
Stevens of Yale, Andy Kerr Of Colgate,
"Tuss" McLaughry of Brown and
Glenn S. (Pop) Warner Of Stanford.
The committee also listed the follow
ing women's club leaders who have
Endorsed President Hoover:
Mrs. L. A. Leadbetter, former presi-
dent OF the Wisconsin Federation Of
Women's Clubs; Mrs Julian G. Hearne.
president Of the West Virginia Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Ellis p.
Thurber. former chairman Of Amer
icanization of the General Federation
Of Women's Clubs; Mrs. William Waller
Slayden, jr., past State president Of the
California Women's Clubs, and Mrs.
Warren Haskell, jr., past president of
the Rhode Island State Federation OF
Women's Clubs.
Evening star., 1932-11-06
- GORGE WASHINGTON learned

- FORGE WASHINGTON learned
he had been elected president
r OF the United States two
~ months after the ballots were
cast The 1882 candidates will
know the news in a matter of hours
after the polls close-becauSe the As
sociated Press, of which The Evening
Star is a member, will compile the re-
suits with an army Of workers.
Not less than $4,000 persons will par
ticipate in informing the voters prompt
" on what was decided Tuesday Most
Of these will start their work after
nightfall and continue until the job is
finished.
Precinct reporters throughout the
country will speed the results TO county
or district centers. Progressive totals
Evening star., 1932-11-06

department, are tabulated nationally
with the same speed as the presidential
results
Unusual precautions are exercised
throughout the election organization to
safeguard against errors creeping into
the Associated Press reports Figures
and totals are subjected to careful checks
and tests by staff men experienced in
handling election results.
Any possible discrepancy, such as an
unusual reversal of party adherence in
a precinct or section, is Immediately In
vestigated by trained experts. Only
when there is no question Of its ac-
curacy is the news released.
American newspaper readers will not
wait for the formal counting of elec-
toral college ballots in February TO
learn who will occupy the White House
for the next four years.
Member papers of the Associated
Press will bring them the news 40
promptly as humanity possible TO OBJ
tain it-accurately.
Evening star., 1932-11-06
New Car Brings
Air-Cooling to
Waiting Market
Sensational Perform
ance From Weight
of Only "a Lbs. per
Horsepower.

Presentation of the new Olym-
pic in the medium price field by
Franklin Automobile Company,
Syracuse, marks the realization
of the objective to build q car
particularly suited to the times
and having the qualities on
which the Franklin reputation
has been based for years. The ex-
tent to which the Franklin Com
pany has dipped into this new
market is shown by the fact that
the new Olympic price of $1385,
f. o. b. factory, is from 5000 to
$1,000 less than the price at
which any Franklin built models
have previously been sold. This
revolutionary price is the result
of the unusual times which make
possible many manufacturing
economies.
Supercharged Engine
The new Olympic is powered
by an air-cooled engine which
has all the design features of an
engine required for a $25OO car,
it is pointed out. Notable in this
respect is the supercharger, a
principle which is employed on
power plants Of racing cars,
speed boats and airplanes. While
not common equipment on auto
mobile engines, because of the
cost factor, the supercharger
made its first appearance as
standard equipment on Frank
lin. and now on the new Olympic.