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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
The Words of q Sage

IF some particularly inqusitive pupil should have
Il demanded to be told what political jobs had to
do with the principles of public service Mr. Big jim
Farley could have dismissed the question on the
ground of immaturity and naivete. AS a laugh
getter he could have added You'll learn when you
get little older, sonny"
AS an aged student of the political sciences with
fully twenty-four hours of Albany service behind me-
1 think can understand why the boys in Washing
ton decided to override the Presidents veto on the
soldiers benefits and the federal employees pay cuts
1t makes life sweeter all around. The federal
workers get most of their dough back. The" soldiers
get back on the pension rolls The old wheelhorses
of both parties nearing another election strengthen
their position at the polls.
Senator Fshcake now may return to his home
town and point with pride to what he did in the
of patriotism, humanity and common justice
for the brave young men who went over there to
strafe the Hun and make the world safe for fan
dancers.
And you can be sure that when the Steam Filters
Union holds its annual Fourth of July picnic in
Mullins grove. the senator, wearing his 1reman'S
muSache and black windsor tie will be there to talk
about the flag the heroic dead and the fields of
Flanders.
Just as a gentle reminder at the close, after the
senator has kissed all the babies and smacked his
lips Justify the lemon ice cream prepared by
the mayors wife, he will remind the good people
that it is their duty to send him, their dutiful and
humble servant back to Washington.
And the chances are the good people will. What
if the senator has been party to Saddng begging
country with additional $2280O000O appropria-
ton? These are just SO many figures to the good
people And besides hasn't the government got all
the money in the world, anyhow?
There is a theory that the good people risk the
travail and pain that accompanies the milder forms
of thinking only when they are compelled to pay
higher taxes, but this would not seem to be wholly
true. There have been Senator FishcakeS in Wash
ington since the mind of runneth not to the
contrary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Today's Science
BY DAVID DIEFZ

A age-old dream, the recovery of gold silver and
L N other valuable metals and chemicals from the
ocean, is nearing realization This is the opinion of
some of Americas leading chemists who attended
the annual meeting of the American Chemical So
ciety at ST. Petersburg Fla.
These chemists believe that the way to the con-
quest Of the ocean to be found the success of the
Ethyl Gasoline Corporation in recovering brornine
from sea va ter at plant of the Etfyl-Dow Chemi-
cal company at Kure beach, twenty miles south Of
Wilmington N. C..
Almost three-fourths of the earts surface is COW
cred by the oceans Rivers, flowing across the con-
tinentS carry all sorts of mineral material into the
ocean The process has been going on for something
like billion years That is why the ocean is salt
The rivers dissolved the salt out of the rocks and car
ried it down to the oceans
But the rivers have carried more than ordinary
table salt into the ocean. great variety of salts
and many precious metals are known to be in sea
water But while the amount of these materials in
the ocean whole is immense the amount in a
gallon of sea water is very little indeed.
Hence scientists while realizing the value of the
materials in the sea, despaired of the invention Of
processes which would make their removal sufficient
ly easy and cheap to justify it.
There is no point to removing gold from sea water
if the process is more costly than the value of the
gold recovered.
The amount of bromne present in sea water is
Il very little about seventy parts in a million
The plant built jointly by the Dow Chemical Com
pany and the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation, has sue
ceeded however, in making the removal Of this
bromine paying venture. About 5000 pounds Of
bromine is removed daily from sea water
The amount Of gold in sea water is far less than
that of bromine. 1t is estimated at only few parts
in a billion
But now that the recovery of bromine has been
successfully executed it does not seem beyond rea-
son TO expect the chemist of the next decade to ex
tract gold from sea water commercially" William H.
Dow, president of the Dow Chemical Company said
The amount Of gold in the sea water passing
through the bromine plant daily estimated at about
$1,000 worth. In other words if only the process to
be used were known, the plant would yield 81 900
worth Of gold daily in addition to the 5000 pounds
Of bromine which it produces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

among themselves and that little
spark of spontaneity is the life of
their act. The girl really sings
nicely. but there is so much other
noise going on in the loud an1
funny act" that it becomes rather
difficult to distinguish between the
various types Of sound which are
forthcoming. But the whole thing
is genuine, wholesome and Spon-
taneously good hokum.
Johnny Woods puts on a solo
act of imperSonating radio stars
that will rank with the best. In
short time he gets in bits Of
mimicry concerning such folks as
Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Ted
Lewis, Norman Brokenshire, Jack
Benny, Morton Downey. Ben Ber-
ME and Tony Wons. This great
variety Of voices which Woods
minics, makes it all the more
difficult to do, and all the more
praisworthy fof the way in which
he does it.
Florence Hedges sings the solos
for the dance routines and also
several songs on her own. She
has one of those peculiarly high
voices, more of a whistle than a
voice, which attracts more per-
haps for its unusualness than for
its artistry.
lie Paul does some interesting
tricks with cards which seem to
fall rather fiat, more because of
his lack of dramatic setting for
them than for their lack Of merit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

ciality of society and particularly
his wife. He escapes from his wife
and lounges in New Orleans
where he hears the soft laughter
of darkies and the calm, un-
labored life of the southern river
front. Then he drifts into a town,
supposed to be New Albany, Ind,
where he becomes a laborer.
Working in the shops beside an
old man, he absorbS some of his
simple philosophy. The old work
man, who periodically goes on
fishing trip with his wife to drink
whisky and lie in simple natural
rapture, is typical of Anderson's
character portrayal
The main character is drown
toward the wife of a Stuffy small
town merchant and elopes with
her. The most striking scene of
the book is the Woman's memories
of the Beaux-Arts ball in Paris.
This scene shows the degraded
view of society as opposed to the
simple one.
Any age is known by it's art and
ideas. Less than 100 years from
now the world will realize that
contemporary writer's have written
with feeling and depth that
rivals that of the classics. In
present day authors there is
elimination and contamination of
all the tendencies from Greek
drama and through the ages.
THE END.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

a two-thirdS house. And that is
remarkable. Miss Cornell'S Can
dida differs greatly from that of
Miss Peggy Wood. Miss Wood
made her Candida a woman full
Of life and even longing for ad-
venture. Her Candida was full
Of energy.
Miss Cornells Candida was al
ways the woman and the mother
Of fine mental and spiritual at
tainmentS who met life calmly but
firmly. A splendid performance
and one that was not overplayed.
The fact is that Orson Welles
as Eugene Marchbanks, the neu-
rotic poet and dreamer, nearly
stole the show. His was an odd
but tremendously effective per-
Torrance of miSfit.
Basil Rathbone as the James
Mavor Morell was excellent.
The production was a MASTER
Apiece.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
He Was Caught

THRIVING a truck and trailer past difficult in
~ terSecton he had been caught with the fore end
of his truck across the line when the traffic light
turned against him, But instead of reversing which
would have been difficult and dangerous with his
unWleldy craft, he went ahead and was caught and
charged with passing the light.
Being a man Of independent spirit and also
broke he tried to talk his way out and found on
his arrival at the police station that the policeman
had, in the language of the cops, thrown the whole
book at him.
He was down for passing the light reckless driv-
ing, and believe for some petty and strictly ma
hclouS charge having to do with a dead bulb in his
tail light, although this happened in the light of
day. He then was tainted by a hooking captor
until his independence of spirit led him into the
important sin of inSolence to an officer and he was
thrown into cell for three days. He reported that
for twelve hours he was given food and that he
now was in urgent need of delouSing.
The court lenent to him when he explained
that he was combat veteran of the war that he
mad wife and three children in New Jersey whom
ne had been working hard to support all through the
years OF the panic by driving his own truck and
mat he had lost the earnings of half week already
The court just assessed him the costs which were
excessive, naturally in pursuance of the local policy
OF shifting the tax burden to people passing through
The court charged him more than Just enough
10 orlng his loss up to whole weeks earnings and
let him go back to his family in debt for borrowing
money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
BY TRISTRAM COFFIN
Times staff Writer

Out the wild confusion hasy destruction
" Of the World book that destined
the ageA Farewell Arms by Ernest Hemingway The book
the restless of civilization hurled turmoil
off values casually sheds its leaves high
other productions
beauty
acters discover vaeo Authors have wp ooded sneered and
modern
love of ethics The in "A Farewell Arms of
Rarely author written
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

CApA CooAOIl VI pun ely lOllld14GlO AONC
There is a masculine flavor to
the book like the smell of burning
pine and good whisky. Heming-
way reduces life to its simplest
principles, eating, drinking, fight
ing and loving. Each sentence is
so clear and simple that it might
be compared to a statue chiseled
briskly out of hard stone. Sher-
wood Anderson has said in re-
cent article that Hemingway is
the only man today who can write
a sentence.
Ford MADDOX Ford, noted critic,
says of this book, "A Farewell to
Arms" is book that united the
critic to the simple. You could,
read it and be thrilled if you had
never read a book-or if you had
read and measured all the good
books in the world"
The story is that of the Amer
lean, a." enlisted in the Italian
ambulance corps leading a SOL
dier's hearty, careless life until
he meets Catherine, a nurse. They
have a beautiful affair, clenched
with poetic, but very real pain,
which ends in the death of Cath
crime and her stillborn baby. The
plot is quite simple and would be
a bromide in the hands of almost
any other author But by plain
understatement it becomes a pro-
found and stirring romance. A
fatalistic fear of lifes mad pranks
fingers in the minds of the two
characters.
Il" says, THAT was what you
did. You died. You did not know
what it was about. You never had
time to learn. They threw you in
and told you the rules and the
first time they caught you off base
they killed you. Or they killed
you gratuitously like Aymo. But
they killed you in the end. You
could count on that. Stay around
and they would kill YOU"
The war was soaring, blasting
experience for all of the charac-
ters-throwing lives together in a
haphazard mess. They witnessed
and they felt the pain of wounds.
The reckless, tumultuous emo
tional freedom was a reaction
against the tenSeneSs that comes
with facing death. This is war
debunked-the gaudy play of
pompouS brass hats instigated and
played for the selfish delight of
nonparticipantS.
HEMINGWAY is a queer per-
l. Il son to write about. You
either think he is a splendid
writer, or you don't think about
him at all. And when you like
him, you admire him with a sort
of fanatical devotion. If you like
"A Farewell to Arms" you think
it is a greater truer tragedy than
almost any other book written in
the last fifty years.
Hemingway looks with con-
temptuous amusement at the
sorry spectacle of mankind. He
writes with vigor about strong
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

however, tnat the practice Of
robbing the wayfarer in the local
court on the perjured word of a
town loafer done up in a mail
order uniform is especially popu-
lar and profitable in commun-
tiles close to the major cities
where the desire to sock the city
cousin comedies with a glorious
opportunity.
One such town that I have
knowledge of is Westport, Conn,
where a trap was set last year
with the acknowledged purpose
Of blackjacking money out of
strangers passing through to ease
the burden of taxes on the local
citizens. I sat in the court at
Westport one day last fall and
heard policemen lie about nm
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

To be completely effective it always is advisable
to perform such service during presidential cam
paign year. There may be some skeptics who will
attempt to read into the matter motives more selfish
than sanity but that is to be expected of the evil
minded and mean at heart.
Mr.. Big Jim Farley should have told the eager
eyed youngsters that the greatness of most statesmen
depends on the number of jobs they control 1t
wouldn't have been necessary to point the moral
Even 12-year odd knows it is necessary 10 keep on
controlling the jobs if the statesman is to retain his
greatness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
At Other TheaterS Today
r oEw's PALACE today is pre-

T OEW'S PALACE today is pre-
- Senting Norma Shearer in
"Riptide." The Circle is offering
Al Jolson in Wonder Bar" Both
movies have been reviewed in this
department.
Other theaters today offer:
Miss Fayne's Baby Is Stolen"
and Carolina" at the Fountain
Square; Hips, Hips. Hooray" and
Lets Fall in Love- at the Ora
NADIA, and burlesque at the Mutual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

per OF people
who stood. 1t
is estimated
t ha t a bout
1900 people
W ere refused
tickets because
the theater was
n OF larg e
enough to &C
C o m m o d a tie
them for Bar
rettS." In face
of that on Sat-
urday night the
star presented
ShaW'S Can
dida" " hich
nlaYed to about
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Fair Enough
By
Westbrook PeqIer

WTLL, so here it is spring again and the citizens
w will be piling into their automobiles and going
Tor drives in the country and lot of little bandit
towns, Straddng the highways will set their traps
to rob them toss them into dirty jails on petty
traffic charges. most of them false
This sort of municipal brigandage seems to be
distributed pretty widely, for the holdup which I
mention is familiar in almost every section where
through traffic rolls along the big roads believe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

If Big Jim Farley really wished
to make new converts to the
cause of public service he should
have explained just how simple
the rules Of the game are and
just how little is required in the
way Of infinite wisdom to be-
come a successful statesman.
Really, my children, it is a
very soft racket" he might have
said. "All you have to do is kid
the dear old public"
This kidding has been known
to take on many and varied
forms. Perhaps the most reli-
able formula prescribed in the
Statesmen Manual consists of
performing a conspicuous public
service for an organized minority
at tho ayra,Aca If o1yoy.1,bOrlry alec
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Lots of Speed at lyric

CPEED is the word this week at
~ the Lyric. Both the stage and
the screen presentations are We
hicles of speed. The picture,
Dark Hazard" and the stage
show, roadway Merry-Go-
Round" make up in rapidity and
uniquenesS that they lack in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

WHICH mas the
services of Irene
Dunno, Ralph
Bellamy, Sidney
Blackmer, Con-
stance Gu m
mingS and Kay
Johnson. Mr..
Lederer is cast
as a fine Eski-
mo hunter and
trapper who is
lured to lead a
white mans life
in a white mans
world-London.
There he loses
a l l o f h i S
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Miss COrneII'S Record

u ATHARINE CORNELL left
N English's Saturday night
after a three-day engagements
which established a new box office
record. The three performances
of THE BarrettS of Wimpole"
street played to entire capacity.
The only difference was the num-
l,nr. nf Hnnnrn1n
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

IdlenC ana pro-
duction.
Medley a n d
Du Pree form
t h e c o m e d y
team W h &c h
headlines t h e
st a &c attrac-
ton. They have
plenty of slap
S tic k a n d
h o ku m a n d
their manner
of presenting it
is new enough
to be effective.
They seem to
be having a
pnnd I / m q
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

Loves My Dog,
and the use of
little children
for the pur-
pose of utter
ing the line,
You n a S t y
man"
AS far as 1
am concerned.
Mr.. White went
haywire in an
a t t e mpt to
bring his Scan
dalS" to the
talking screen.
When a direc-
tor and pro-
ducar has To
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
The Theatre World
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

his wife, played nicely by Irene
Dunno, is able to make her weak
ling husband see himself as he
really is.
Constance Cummings is the
vamp who learns what a black
eye created by male fist actually
means.
The dialogue is often stilted
and there often is too much talk
and not enough action. The act
ing with the exception of Mr..
Bellamy's is all right.
Now at the Indiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Scandals Prone George White Has Great Deal TO Learn from
His Hollywood Associates About Staging TaZkino Picture

FORGE WHITE as a movie
- director has a lot to learn
from his Hollywood associates
when it comes to transferring a
stage revue to the talking screen
His Scandals" IN movie form
to me was disappointment be-
cause of the cheap comedy, poor
lyrics such as those found in a
song by the name of'"Your Dog
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Ii Seems TO Ne
By
Joe Williams

ATHEN Mr. Big Jim Farley told those school
w children the other day all about the glories
and wonders Of politics as a career imagine he was
speaking with great sincerity.
Even So l think he should have been more forth
right in his estimate and more detailed in his pre-
sentaton of the picture He dealt largely in i'm
pressive geueralities that I fear of the little
boys and girls may have come away from the class
room overawed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

IoTJunaJeS from eISeWhere Who would saved them
selves time and trouble if they had Just laid down
their bail money when they were first held up and
proceeded on their way. There was one driver how
ever, whose dumb, stubborn courage though it made
MN victim OF some pretty cruel treatment, COM
manded the admiration of all the other defendants
in the ROOM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Looking Over Double Bill

INTEREST on the double bill at
u the Indiana centers upon the
debut of Francis Lederer,
splendidly trained and experienced
stage actor, as movie star. He
makes his debut in Man of Two
Worlds" The other movie on the
double bill is This Man Is Mine"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Many Pay OFF

ME best business which these towns pick I'D is
Il that of the persons with money on them who
realize that they being held up and pay off with
OUT struggle, never to return for trial The bail
In such cases equals the maximum fine for the
charges, which usually multiple plus the court
COSTS 1t is futile to come back and denounce the
cop as perurer for that is of his qualifications
Tor his job and the majority of the victims there
fore save their time
mentioned such traps to Homer Cummings the
attorney general during an interview in Washing
ton week ago. 1 do not know whether it is per-
mlSsloe to quote the encouragement on these in
tervlews. but he didn't say anything worth quoting
anyhow even though the Westport trap operates
within few miles of his home in Stamford Conn
All Mr. Cummings said was that yes he was
1amllar with this sort of brigandage on the high
ways and that such towns reminded him of the rob-
per oarons who used to take toll of all the traffic
along the Rhine.
But ne was very peeviSh not long ago at the
city OF st. Paul because of the kidnapings there
suppose he had right to be- at that but these
Kldnapngs were not done by the city officials in the
name OF the municipality of st. Paul I asked Mr.
Cummings then, if such robber barons were not
SUBJECT to some kind of action under the federal
laws and he said yes he supposed they might be
II they lnterered with interstate commerce I gath
cred Mr.. Cummings was nowhere near as much an
noyed at Westport as he was at st. Paul Mimi al
though the good man did seem very much put out
about the general disrespect for law in his beloved
country.
Copyright. 1884 by Unite d Feature Syndicate Inc)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

Admirers Look ON Hemingway With Fanaticul Dezotion

article
oil
tempo rary America autho
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and good things which have pre-
coded it.
Now at the Apollo.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-20

emergency landings could be made.
Consequently, planes with cruis-
ing range of less than 5000 miles
would be unable to make it and
would have to deviate 500 miles
from the direct route in order to
land at Athens, or Aleppo.
Pin Hopes On MollisOns
One of the machines on which
Britons are putting high hopes is
the De Havilland Comet" mono
plane to be piloted by James A.
Mollison and his wife, Amy john
son Mollinson, both of whom have
made record solo flights to Aus
tralia. This machine will possess a
cruising range of about 5000 miles
with speed of 200 miles an hour.
A similar machine has been en-
tered by H. o. Edwards. 1t will be
piloted by Capt. c. w. A. Scott and
Capt. Campbell Black. Still another
has been bought by Bernard Ru-
bin and Kenneth Waller, who re-
Gently flew to Australia and back
COScUlicl w SURVEY VIC WiiOiC iOuoC'
Kingsford Smith Defender
The man who will play the role
of defender in the race is Sir
Charles Kingsford Smith, who
smashed the record for a London
Australia flight by covering the
distance in 7h days in October,
1888. Experts here are convinced
that this record set up in Per-