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into the kitchen. She likes a we'll
kept house, but confeSses that she
hasn't seen a dustrag, except at a
distance, for years.
Her biggest fun" in life comes
from talking with her friends. She
loves good conversation and likes
lectures. Occasionally she likes
to join in a crazy party, where
nobody talks sense, but spends the
whole evening in senseless wise
cracking, and she is devoted to
any number of "nit-wits."
TINE oracle of Manners and
Il Morals" war born in Texas,
but moved to Indianapolis with
her parents when she was IA and
she has been here ever since. She
was graduated from Shortridge
high school and married soon after
that.
Robert, her 13-year-old son, is
dark haired, while David, 10, is
red-haired, like his mother.
I believe" she says, that the
best thing that ever happened to
my children was the necessity
that put me back to work as a
Times reporter about six years ago.
1T put the children out of reach
Of my mischievous maternal man
agement and forced them to look
out for themselves. The result is
that they are considerably more
independent than most children of
their age"
"The boys" she continues, "have
suffered certain disadvantages by
having their mother away from
home. The dangers consist chief
ly of the risks to life and limb
which might not have happened
if they had been more closely SUI
pervised.
"Once when they were very lit
tie they set the garage on fire.
They didn't mean to be naughty.
The garage is their playhouse,
and they were cold. They decided
that if a fire warmed the house
it would warm the garage. No
one was more surprised than they
when the garage burst into flames.
That's about the way they've
learned everything trial and
error"
Il got home" she says, ito find
the street cluttered up with the
fire department. I was terror
stricken. I found the boys shud-
dering in an upstairs room. Bob
bic, always the ringleader in
crime, gave me one agonized look
and said:
Mother, will eat turnips.'
II saw that he wanted to be
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The Theatrical World
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

Hips, Hips, Hooray" is being
shown, is offering a double feature
bill as its new policy. The other
feature is Eight Girls in a Boat"
which gives Dorothy Wilson an
emotional role which she handles
very we'll
The Indiana management re-
ports that the new double feature
policy seems to have met with
approval as these two features
showed to ''twenty-thousand
people over the week end" &C
cording to Tom Long.
Eight Girls" best may be de-
,scribed as being an American
studio conception of ''Maedchen
in Uniform" but it does not pos
sess the great human sweep and
understanding that the German
made picture possesses.
The story concerns a girl in a
private school for girls where ath-
leticS are stressed more than book
learning. Our ill-advised heroine
is member of the boat crew from
which the movie gets its title.
The girl is going to have a baby
and circumstances prevent her
from marrying the lad responsible
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BY NORMAN E. ISAACS
Times News Editor

40 on that Jane Jordan in The
" Times than Why even know the
guy who that stuff"
Irvingon to her nex-door neighoor
that that she doesn't know what
she talking half the time
IT'S absolutely impossible" said the debutane at north side
Jordan prints
real. that they're made up
drug north
certain red-headed woman didn't near
all three Of them in terms much
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tones were fully developed and
could close my eyes and think I
was listening to great and beau
tiful organ playing.
The violinist found things in
Mendelssohn's Concerto in z
Minor" that I didn't believe ex-
listed. After the masterful play
ing Of the first movement of the
Mendelssohn concerto, the au-
dience broke out with an ovation,
which is unusual.
It was during the playing of the
second movement, the Andante,
that the 'wizardry and technique
Of Mr.. Milstein was revealed.
He opened his second part with
Dohnany's "Andante rlbato ala
zirgaresca."
1t seems that Mr.. Milstein is
the fayorite violinist Of the Maen-
nerenor series. He deserves that
honor. (By Walter D. Hickman.)
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Nathan Mastein Wins Grafton

4 T the age of 81, Nathan Mil
N stein is a thoroughly mature
violinist with a magnificent fu-
ture.
That point was clearly estab-
lished yesterday afternoon at the
Academy of Music, where the vio-
linist appeared on the Indianapo-
lis Maennerchor series.
I know that I never heard Bach
or Mendelssohn played better or
more expertly than by Mr.. Mil
stein.
Many of the teachers of music,
both violin and piano, in this city,
were wild with enthusiasm. Ova-
ton after ovation followed both
the Bach aid Mendelssohn num-
bers.
The Bach number for violin
alone was "Chaconne" from Par
tita In D Major" The pipe organ
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Adjusting OUn Chains
IF there actually is any such
Il

the fools to fetter i'll The chances Of doing things on
impulse are being continually diminished There are
few points In the city where it is even possible
to cross the street without permission of the police
man.
stop" Go" Keep Of the Grass" mo Tres
passing" Beware of the Dog" Watch Your Hat
and Overcoat," Positively No Checks Cashed" do
Not Feed or Annoy the Animals7-how can a free
soul survive in such a world?
1 think 1t was Don Marquis who once celebrated
the exploit Of an adventurer named Fothergl Finch
who strobe into the monkey house crying Down
with the tyranny Of the capitalist system!" and
threw peanut into the baboon's cage I know an
even Drawer soul who makes a point of defying the
management and refusing to watch his hat and
overcOat He says he has lost only three the last
two months. and to him it seems worth it.
Even the usual avenues Of escape have been beset
with barbed wire In books, when the hero became
sick Of it all he boarded tramp steamer and sailed
away to South Africa, where there used to be "a
mans work to be done" But now, before getting on
board the lugger he would be compelled to visit all
the necessary consulates in order have his pass
ports visaed. What romance is there is any here's
saying: Fly with to the ends Of the earth" If he
must add. III take you around to the French, the
Dutch and the Swedish embassies tomorrow morning
in order to have our papers in perfect order?
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81 don't want to shackle the
children with mother love, or
handicap them with a lot of
sticky sentiment about their
duty" to mother. They owe me
nothing whatsoever except the
everyday decent treatment which
civilized human beings accord one
another.
ct love them,s but I don't want
to live their lives, want to live
my own. My sons are an impor-
tant part of my life, but when
they're gone there'll be lots left.
We get along famously. We al
ways will
"NEANNERS AND MORALS" is
1V1 Jane Jordan's. hobby. She
loves it. She is happy person,
leading an extremely busy and
fairly satisfactory life.
And she has decided opinions
about matrimony, as you who
read her column have gathered.
II can't stand the wife who
uses her husband for a mere trel-
lis" she says fatty. Il don't be-
lieve that marriage should be a
setup Of dictator and domestic. I
think that every woman should
have something to do to take care
of her aggressive instincts, so that
they won't fasten on her husband
and children, or turn inward to
destroy herself.
Il believe" she says, that one
trouble with marriage is that the
partners have never outgrown the
emotional need for parents. Mar
rage is an adults job and few
people are emotional adults in
spite of their chronological years"
That's Jane Jordan Take
her or leave her She's SINGER
ity itself >, What more can you
ask?
Next: John Hawkins.
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money to the bank, alone.
Both felt the pinch during the
bank moratorium and both are
still groaning over a restricted
balance. Therefore, they're some
what prepared for the things
which may happen to them when
they grow up. To me that is part
of the business of childhood"
"T HAVE never pretended to be
L perfect to my children. says
Jane Jordan. II couldn't get away
with it. So I admit that I'm just
another human being as likely to
be wrong as they are.
"They understand that I have
the right to boss them in matters
of physical health. They must
eat a balanced diet, take baths,
and go to bed early, all of which
they hate. But in all other mat
tiers I refuse to make their deci-
sionS for them.
81 will not tell either of them
what not to do. I will not pro-
tect, shield or guide them any
more than I can possibly help for
fear that when they are thrust
out into the world they will not
be able to manage themselves. I
mean to teach them self-direc-
ton just as early as it can be
achieved.
II am not one of those mothers
who is totally absorbed in her
children" she explains. 81 have
intense interests entirely apart
from them which aid me in my
hands-off policy. I intend to re-
main independent as long as
live.
within a few years now it will
be the task of my sons to trans
fer the love they feel for me to
another woman. May some one
drop cyanide of potassium in my
coffee if object!
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Comics Haze Radically Chained

Il ME comic strip has undergone some strange
changes in the last ten years decade ago
the most popular comic was the kind which is known
to the profession the wham-sock strip in the
final panel of which the little guy Socked the big
guy or vice versa with a pool cue or ale crock The
coup apparently borrowed from the vaudeville
comedy teams in which the straight man was used
to abuse the comedian with blows of folded n.ws-
paper In the wham-sock strip the comic Artist
or his deputy, would draw, his climax the word
Wham or the word sock" in big black letters pos
sibly followed by one or more bold exclamation,
points. The words BAN" and pow" were used for
the same effect. But for convenience the members
OF the trade, such syndcated editors and sales
men, took to calling this kind of strip the wham-
sock.
There are not many prosperous wham-socks left
nowadays, the popular taste having veered to sort
of continuous tragedy usually involving the crueest
m1streatment of little girl boy by fate or some
graSpng villain, male female, who has secret
knowledge that the victim is not founding at all
but the missing heir. to a great fortune This idea
was Horatio Ayers rubber stamp, but it was USED
so often in the Alger books and in the 10000
melodramas of thirty years ago that the public in
Guiding even the kids, became sophisticated and
laughed where tears indicated, but it is dead
game idea and after long time in the discard it
has brushed itself off and come back bigger and
richer than ever in the funnieS. Now they laugh
through their tears.
comic strip editor informs me that the strip
has been traced back to some ancient picture writ
ingS and to some of the oldest tapestries in the
world These picture stories largely whanl-
socks in character and scenes are found in them
says he, depicting one person Clouting another over
the head with club, which almost interchange
able with the final panels Of some of the most up
roarious modern funny pictures. The newer tragic
type OF scenario he compares to the Victorian novel
and finds strong similarity.
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more lOlceIul IMAM IIltSe JA4dO.
|. Jane Jordan is a woman.
2. James Jordan is not a mere
school girl. She is the mother OF
two boys, one 13, the other 10.
3. Jane Jordan really gets all
those letters and her replies are
to real letters from real persons.
Manners and Morals" has
stirred comment from one end Of
Indianapolis to the other. Per-
haps more women discuss Jane
Jordan and her column than any
other feature on The Times pop
ular wOman's pages.
Manners and Morals" is differ
ent because Jane Jordan is diff
ferent. Her column probably is
the most unusual of its type in
America. And all because it is
not a mere lovelorn column, but
series of daily articles on human
behavior.
ZANE JORDAN runs a column
j of advice, BUT she doesn't like
to tell people what to do. She
likes to help people understand
themselves. but she feels strongly
that every one should make his
or her own decisions.
She has no desire to change
people. She is intensely interest
ed in people and their behavior.
She likes to know what they are
like underneath and how they got
that way.
Long before she started MAN
ners and Morals" Jane Jordan
was at work on her psychic jig
saw puzzle. She read extensively
on psychology and still does.
She is one Of the few human
beings who really likes TO hear
about other peoples troubles and
she will listen patiently by the
hour as long as they don't wal
low in their own griefs with too
much obvious pleasure.
Jane Jordan is moved to make
suggestions on human behavior
only when people are miserable
and want advice.
II =
CHE is fond of people who are
- out of the ordinary, and adj
mits that she gets along famously
with nuts" of all varieties.
She is not athletic and she
doesn't like games. She can't
play bridge and she sees few mo-
vies. She likes good plays and
concerts, loves the country and
aspires to have a country home
of her own.
She is decidedly domestic, de-
spite the fact that she doesn't
like housework. She goes "hay-
wire" over new curtains and over
new sets of dishes, and she is
proud of the fact that she can
cook, although she never steps
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-05
Art Is Typically American

IN a few interesting cases, writes our desk men
Il with no knack for drawing funny pictures them
selves have originated and copyrighted comic strip
ideas which remain their property and pay them
royalties far beyond the earnings which they were
able to make at copy reading, ad writing mag
azine work. Some simple, incredibly goofy little
notion which in magazine Office would not get
past the first reader may be genius for the purposes
of the funny papers and keep man in caviar and
a pent house for the rest of his life
1t would be impossible Of course to generalize on
the origins of comic strip artists, but there lot
of mschievous characters among them who first
began to express themselves by drawing insulting
pictures of their school teachers on the blackboard
when they were very young. There have come along
also, however class of graduate art department
office kids who rose from the status Of errand bow
to that of forger linking and lettering strips for the
big money artists, and in time We're able to draw
long and receding chins and start comic strips
of their
1 have suggested to Mr.. James j. Farley the
postmaster-general, that in building new postoices
he ought to recognize frankly that the comic strp is
the American kind Of art and adorn the building
with sculpture and murals of this type do not
think he quarreed with the idea but there are rea-
sons why the suggestion not be adopted For
one the comic artists price would be too high and
Tor another, the poor art artist needs the work
Copyright 1884 by United Feature Syndicate rnc)
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as a bonus for signing a new
contract, a limousine of the
most expensive make. Another
comic artist bought a herd of
running horses and won some of
the greatest stakes on the Amer
lean turf. I am assured that
SIS 900 year is no uncommon
rate of pay and have been told
that one of the leaders of this
goofy profession, whose strip is
an endless succession Of trag-
edieS, one disaster fading off
into next one even worse. re-
ceived in his best year more
than 100000.
That must be the life, espe-
cially, IN view OF the fact that if
a man finds that his work in
terferes with his Measure ha ca,,
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II Seems TO Me
By
Haywood Broun

I HAVE a recurrent nightmare. It concerns an
episode N which a man is signaling venomously
at with both hands held in horizontal position
know it as a radio vigwag meaning: Get of the
air Immediately. The time is up"
But like all good Freudians, realize that under
the apparent symbol deeper meanings .lurk. Maybe
It has something to DO with sex I wouldn't know
about that. It Is my impression that am best by
the time element which has crept insidiously into
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GuIn ana ADner
are no exception.
These two young
men are present.
ing two Of their
rural or Main
street characters
in a rocery
store playle t.
They have sew
eral good comedy
moments. At the
end Of the sketch
t h e comedians
have a chance to
appear without
makeup so their
friends may see
what. they look
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modern life. This column, FOR
instance, should have been writ
ten ten hours ago. It is being
written now under the compul-
sion Of a deadline. We live IN a
world which is governed by
promises and contracts and
clocks.
Once upon a time a watch was
nothing more to ne than an
agreeable ornament worn upon
the wrist. But now I never see a
minute hand without thinking
that it is pointing directly at me
and saying: This means you'll"
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Fair Enough
By
Westbrook PeqIer

TINE people who have the easiest and best Jobs
Il that I know Of the men who draw funny
pictures for the papers. Some Of them ride in linn
cuisines and yachts and follow the summer around
the calendar catching sight of snow, and even
the ordinary journeyrnen have light, warm cells in
which to work for wages which an art artist would
regard as princely.
There was one a few wears ago who received. just
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THE problem of how to be a
Il good-bad mother is one that
many actresses Of the movies have
tried to solve.
Ann Harding is the latest to
have such a role and she solves
it in a practical manner in Gal
liant Lady" Where most actresses
would have allowed the long SUI
fering lady to suffer all through
her natural life, Miss Harding, as
Sally, allows her to have her baby
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lettering the VagabOnds

OVEN though he go beyond Suez. where the best
~ is like the worst. the vagabond travels only by
the expressed and engraved permission of the United
States government. Oceans and mountain ranges
can not alter the fact that he is leash. Do you
suppose Columbus would have had much fun If,
Immediately after the lOokouts shout of "Landl"
there had come the admonition THE immigration
inspectors are heading this way in a launch?
To free souls the whole system is monstrous. The
fact that a man suddenly feels a desire to go to
Russia on Tuesday is no indication at all that he
will be of the same mind three weeks come Wednes-
day 1t appalls to read the theatrical advertise
ments in which one that seats at the box office
are on sale eight weeks in advance In eight weeks
the prospective playgoer may belong to the ages.
How can anybody tell that at $50 in the evening
two months hence he is going to feel just in the
mood to see a musical comedy?
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out OF Wedl0cK,
semi = emotional
~ permits the
child to be adopt
ed by a wealthy
married couple of
hig h standing.
Sally becomes a
fashionable in
terror decorator.
She gets rather
mixed up, when
she learns that
h e a d opt e d
mother of Deedy
(Sally's SOM has
died and that a
,.;ol, cO0iotxy uir1
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Concerning Lum and Abner

The radio has developed or
created several comedy names
which have attracted interest in
many homes.
The stage, of course, is more
than anxious to get these names
on the stage of movie theaters.
This week the Circle has Lum and
Abner in person. I have found
that you must like these air
names to like them on the stage.
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Hlre scenarst Tor $50 week to think up new suf-
lerlngS Tor his characters and plot the scenes and
WIlte Che ta!k which goes into the little balloons of
speech. And then if the merat drawing of tbe mir
lures becomes too great strain he can hire for
another $50 or 500 week ghost or forger to do
thS Tor him, leaving him nothing to do but sign his
name IN the last panel And finally if that little
detail begins to wear down mis- health he can have
lot OF little facsimile signatures printed and leave
instructions for his forger to paste one in the lower
rlght-hand corner of the strip every day.
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like in real life. They then create
by voice several Of the characters
that the public has recognized
over the air.
The movie at the Circle this
week in connection with Lun and
Abner is Convention City" which
has been reviewed in this depart
ment.
Next Friday the Circle will
have the world premier of Good
Dame" with Sylvia Sidney as the
star. The management hopes to
be able to have Miss Sidney in
person at the world premier.
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is going to marry Deedy'S adopted
father. No one but Sally and her
friend, a society outcast but
grand person, Dan, played in the
best unshaved manner by Give
Brook. knows the secret behind
Deedy's parentage.
Being a business woman, Sally
does not sit at home sobbing but
makes up her mind she will marry
Philip Lawrence lotto Kruger,
Deedy's adopted father. And she
does. That's the story in skeleton
form that Miss Harding has as
her latest starring vehicle.
Here is a well dressed splendidly
acted little story that has been
told many times. This time it is
not too soft-soapy, and it rather
gets under ones skin.
Miss Harding has no exceptional
emotional moments except at the
beginning Of the picture when she
sees the father of her unborn child
killed in a plane crash as he at
tenlpts to take of on an Atlantic
hop.
Tullio Carminati as Count Mario
gives a splendid account Of him
self. He sings nicely.
This is a tailor-made role for
Miss Harding and she does not go
wrong in making the role too
sentimental.
Now at the Palace.
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third
OF
Manners and Moral
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until she suffers and suffers. Of
course, the picture has a happy
ending.
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A Splendid Japanese Act

The twirling, twisting gyrations
Of the KanaSawa japanese are the
high points Of the Passing Pa
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Comedians at Their Best

TN Hips, Hips, Hooray,' Wheeler
Il and Robert Woolsey have their
funniest, best and cleanest movie
vehicle since they have been
starred.
In the past. this pair has been
guilty Of indulging in some bur-
lesque jokes which were decidedly
of color. This time they are not.
guilty of such an offense. the re-
suit being that Hips" is all family
entertainment.
This movie has a musical back
ground which is not elaborate.
They develop to the nth" degree
a song called Look What You
Are Doing to Me-" Here is hokum
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Next: John Hawkins.