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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-30

MODERN man is a clown in q
1V1 confusing comedy! He has
been disillusioned by his intelli-
gence and deceived by his ro-
mantle illusions. This is the YER
dict of Aldous Huxley, skeptical
author of Point Counterpart"
Like most ironic commentators
on society, he is regarded by the
rank and file of readers as enter
tanning and provoking but hardly
profound. However, there are few
figures in all literature so trag-
ically desolate as the debauched
Spandrell in Point Counter
point"
Huxley represents the intelli-
gent man of today satiated by
his thought and incapable of
escaping into illusion. He has
wandered far from Shakespeare,
who even in his dorest fatalism
managed to give a power and
surge to life.
The theory presented by Hulk
ley is this: That man in the be-
ginning of civilization is naive,
vigorous and surrounded by pleas
ant illusions which make his life
magnificent conflict Gradually
these illusions are shattered-all
the fanatic devotions surrounding
love, religion, war and government
are lost forever in the noise of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-30
7he BdTe of WimpoLe Street, One of Most Finely Cast
and Erceleny Produced Plays Ever to Be Seen on the Road

Il AIHARINE CORNELL has
IN established herself as the
first lady of the theater" in Ru-
dolf Besier's The Barretts of
Wimpole Street"
She won that title the instant
she produced The Barretts' in
New York over two years ago.
Miss Cornell has retained that
title because she has brought to
countless cities thousands of miles
from Broadway this marvellous
success with magnificent sup
porting cast.
The Barretts" is not a mono
logue for Miss Cornell because it
is one of the most finely cast and
finely produced plays that ever
took to the road.
Small houses would not greet
many a faded star today if they
had practiced what Miss Cornell
is doing. She is bringing Broad
way to Main street in the finest
form 1 have seen in the last five
years.
Moments that thrilled me as
much as when I saw Bernhardt
and Duse years ago occurred again
last night at EngliShs as Miss
Cornell opened her engagement.
The first great Bernhardt mo-
ment came right at the end of the
first act when the invalid Eliza
beth Barrett Miss CornelD &C
cepted love for the first time from
Robert Browning Basil Rath-
bone.
With the same great feeling of
suffering and victory that Bern
hardt had in her day. Miss Cor
nell lifted herself with faltering
and painful steps to the window to
see Browning leave her house on
his first visit.
Watch the hands Of this woman
as they express determination to
support the weakened limbs.
Watch her questioning and i'm
ploring but determined eyes as
she starts her first partially un-
supported walk to the window.
Then hear that gasp of All"
when she conquers fear and af-
Fiction and reaches the window
while the curtain slowly goes down
on Act I.
This scene ranks with the finest
I ever have seen given by the late
Bernhardt in Camille"
The great Duse compared mo-
ment came in the first scene of
the third act when the under
standing Elizabeth heard her own
selfish. sex starved. petty
minded and jealousy cruel father
tells her that ten of his children
were born in fear and hate.
Watch Miss Cornell as she
fights silently with locked hands
on her old sofa the conviction
that her father is a horrible man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-30

breast, from his mouth, sprang the
endless space. Everywhere was the
vastneSs and terror of the immense
night. Who could say his mother
had 1ived and did not live? She
had been in one place and was in
another. that was all. And his
soul could not leave her, wherever
she was :. Where was he? :.
one tiny upright speck of flesh,
less than an ear of wheat lost in
the field. He could not bear it.
On every side the immense dark
silence seemed pressing him, so
Tiny spark, into extinction, and
yet, almost nothing, he could not
be extinct. Night, in which al
most everything was lost, went
reaching out, beyond stars and
sun. SO much, and himself in
finltesimal, at the core a nothing
ness, and yet not nothing.
Mother" he whimpered -
mother!
ID EADERS have refused to take
IN D. H. Lawrence seriously, ex-
cept to vehemently attack him for
discussing sex. He is whimsically
regarded as the bad boy" of
women's literary clubs and the
idol of lonesome widows.
Yet there are few writer's who
are so painfully sincere and earn
est. There is too much strong
feeling in his work for Lawrence
to be humbug. His main fault
is that he has no sense of humor
and is too intent on projecting
his message.
MoraliSts have sputtered furi-
ously against Lawrence, but his
discussion of sex is so free from
obScenity as to become almost
spiritual. The reason for such
purity is probably because Law
renee remained detached and in
quiring in the midst of expert
ence. He is a fastidious poet who
would remove grossness from sex
and make it mystic experience
rising beyond the body. This at
titude is artificial or idealistic as
one may view it.
The same persons who would
enjoy the hearty. obscenity of Dos
Passos are alarmed at any at
tempt to poeticize sex. Lawrences
fault here is that he oversimpli-
f1es the universal formula for
happy life. He believes it is in
proper sex relationships, because
the problem was so important to
him that it grew out of normal
proportions.
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at the Apollo with Rudy Vallee.
Jimmy Durante, Alice Fay. Cliff
Edwards and many others in the
cast.
Loew's Palace today has an i'm
portant opening in "Riptide. 3"
with Norma Shearer and Robert
Montgomery in the cast.
Other theaters today offer:
Wonder Bar at the Circle; This
Man Is Mine" and Man OF Two
Worlds" at the Indiana; Broad
way Merry-Go-Round" on the
stage and Edward G. Robinson in
Dark Hazard" on the screen at
the Lyric: Wine. Woman and
Song" and Eight Girls in Boat"
at the Ambassador, and burlesque
at the Mutual.
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There began a battle between
husband and Wife-a fearful,
bloody battle that ended only with
the death Of one. She fought to
make him undertake his own re-
spOnSibilities, to make him fulfill
his obligations. But he was too
different from her. His nature was
purely sensuous, and she strove to
make him moral, religious. She
tried to make him face things. He
could not endure tit drove him
out of his mind"
The delicate, growing PERSONAL
ity of the boy struggles to form
itself, but is swallowed up by the
mothers love. He feels with her
the pain and humiliation Of her
position and is poisoned against
his father.
DAUL MOREL is an extraordi-
Il nary character. He is one of
those lonely characters who are
forever seeking to recreate the
world into a poetic image. He
longs for beauty as a starving
person Graves bread, while at the
same time he is forced to batter
his way through life.
AS the son grows older and feels
the pulse of manhood there begins
a desperate and tragic struggle to
free himself from his mothers
bondage She fights back with all
the cruel frenzy of an unhappy
mothers love.
The object of Paul's lad and
girl love is Miriam, an intense
quivering personality, capable of
great emotional expression. Ger
trude Morel steps ruthlessly be-
tween them and: He had for
gotten Miriam; he only saw how
his mothers hair was lifted back
from her warm, broad brow. And
somehow, she was hurt"
The reader may shout out in
protest. so painful and selfish is
the mothers domination - she
holds all the threads of Paul's
life. Apart and yet parallel to
his mother Paul feels a passionate
ecstasy engulf him in intimate
experiences with Miriam and an
older mature woman, Clara. But
each time there follows de-
pressed restlessness as his mother
reaches out to claim his affections.
At his mothers death Paul is
desolate. Lawrence makes the
most of his poetic style as he
describes Paul wandering out into
the night
Whatever spot he stood on.
there he stood alone. From his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-30
Your Health
by DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN.

THE number Of notions that persons have about
health are probably greater and more peculiar
than unestablished ideas in any other field
How many times have you heard the statement
made that washing inside and out is the best thing
for the human body? Actually the human bodv is a
seH-regulatlng mechanism and if one takes six to
eight glasses Of water daily his intestines get about
all the washing they need under ordinary circun-
stances.
Of course, if you are sick with some type Of in
lection Of the lower bowel you may require special
types Of washings, but those will have to be picked
out by your doctor and perhaps given to YOU bv q
competent attendant
Another notion that has frequently prevailed is
the idea that deep breathing exercises early in the
morning preferably taken without any clothes on in
front OF an open window, certain method of good
health.
While it may entertain the neighbors there is no
evidence that it really does bring about any remark
able improvement in health.
TT has been pointed out, instead, that long-con-
tinued forced deep breathing washes out the
carbon doxide from the blood and in that way NAV
be harmful.
Breathing is also an automatic mechanism and
any time interfere with it are likely to be dis
turbng the actions of a well-reguated machine.
Then there is the notion that a pain in the back
means a disease of the kidney. lot of old-tims.
lent in youth is responsible for maintenance of
this idea.
Actually, pain in the back is only rarely asso-
ciated with disease of the kidney. Disturbances of
these vital organs are likely to manifest them
selves by sweings in various portions of the body
and by changes in the excretions which can be found
with laboratory examination.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-30

SlDly gam. ne udu Au4CO 4l4o
sphere with an Alexandrian don1i-
nance. When he stepped down
it was over the arched backs Of
all who ardently proclaimed him
master. No man was ever more
a king in his own sphere.
The emperor's return added
nothing to his luster. When the
last divot had been replaced he
was far down the list rubbing
unkempt elbows with the rowdy
bourgeois. In a brief instant a
glorious illusion had dissolved
in the cold mists that swept in
from the barren red lands. Why.
the fellow was just another hui
man after ALL
! don't know whether this is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-30

time I first encountered this play,
I thought Romeo and Juliet" had
the perfect love scene.
The. magnif1cently human way
in which Browning quiets the fear
and rebellion in the heart of
Elizabeth caused me to change my
mind and give The Barretts" the
honor of presenting the most hui
man love scene I yet have seen on
the stage.
Charles Waldron as the father
and head of the house of Bar
retts, deserves the right to the
honors of giving the best per-
Torrance of a hateful and jealous
father that Broadway ever sent
on tour.
He captures every cruel. cum
ming and half insane mood of
man who had gone nearly insane
in preventing love and any sex ex-
preston among his children.
Another outstanding character
ization was that of Helen Walpoie
as Henrietta Moulton- Barrett, the
first of the Barretts to tell her
father where to get off. but one
who became a lying weakling be-
cause she didn't have the strength
to fight the cruelty of her father.
The entire cast is so splendid
that I am giving it to you in full
as follows:
Doctor Chambers 80 David Classford
Elizabeth Barrett Moulton- Barrett
............. Katharine Cornell
Henrietta Moulton- Barrett s-iUa O''s0
-. Helen walpole
octavius MoultonBarref a1 olson 9i Wele5
septimus Moulton-B Barrett --
Alfred Moulton-Barrett ,.''7.."....
Charles Mouiton-Barrstt ,r'' 800.
Henry Northumberland fa'nroD Mi'cnen
....,......+o. George Macready
Bella Hedlev .Margot Stevenson
Henry Bevan ......... John Hoystradt
B Bo9s5 BT9ER5ag Ba Fst1 R9ns
Captain Surtees Cook. =. Francis Moran
Flush Observation-Disclosures. Flush
No review would be complete
without mentioning Flush, the pet
dog of Elizabeth. The animal
stops the show. He is perfect.
Miss Cornell shared her final
curtain call last night with Mr..
Rathbone, Mr.. Charles Waldron
and Flush. And can he take cur
tain calls? He can and how.
The Barretts" will be presented
tonight and tomorrow afternoon.
On tomorrow night, Miss Cor
nell will be seen in her only per-
Torrance here of Candida"
Now at English's.
In City TheaterS Today
FORGE WHITES SCANDALS
NJ in movis form opens today
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Silently she decides not to incite
rebellion among her sisters and
brothers who were made just au-
donations. subservient weaklings
to the dominating and brutal
control of their father.
Watch her as she recoils from
his fetish embrace as he plans
solitary exile for her as we'll as
his other children.
Watch her hands, her eyes and
even her walk as she makes the
great decision to elope with
Browning without her fathers
consent.
These are the supermoments to
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q h
Suspect Them AIUdus

MO "olo mean, OF course that the mut1el in
SpectorS VINO would be sent to the horse marks tn
I0plesehC Cne people would be the same sort of nhc
servants VINO ROBBED the aged paupers in the poor
muse on welfare island and stole and sold the eggs
ana cream allotted to the sick in some of the n1bic
hospitals u VIC puohc
Just can't bring myself to believe that nsnectorq
ol Vhls type would have sufficient strength of char
dcCer 10 stand of the temptation In nv gloomy
moments OF which this is one I have feeling
Cat the only way to keep public servants honest who
nave any IeeWay IN the handling of money is tn Sis
Pect them at all times and check up on them in
every possible way and then check I'D on the check
erS ~ go ~ 'NNf>
They have had the ordinary mutueIs in Illinois
HehIucKy and Maryland for some years now and
ope ana trust that the representatives of the state
INSPIRED by u high sense of public duty and remen1-
Oerlhg that IS wrong to steal chisel Or cheat never
nave dropped in any ongshot tickets for themselves
on the part of the tellers
But these jobs Go not paw much SALARY and all
vices start little. might figure that it wouldn't
hurt much to drop in one such bet lust once thus
Summing only few cents off the winnings of each
winning bettor who had placed his wagers before
hano linen he might figure that it was 50 e2 ~
ana old so little harm, per head to the individual
Wctlms that he could afford to do it once a Ueet
AND tnen once a day and finally on everv rare
Ihese horse park inspectorship are political an
polntmentS and some evil thing keeps promptinp
me TO suspect that the kind of political organiza
uon whose appointees would rob the paupers and
SIeal the food from the bed-ridden might send man
into the mutuel rooms who would forget their
solemn duty to the public
Copyright, 1884. by Unite Feature Syndicate Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-30
TAKEN FOR HOOVER,
DOUBLE is BEATEN
IN ST. LOUIS MOVIE

By United Prsss
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill, March
30.-Because he looked like
former President Herbert Hoover.
Harry Radel, a railroad employee,
today nursed a lacerated scalp.
Mr.. Radel. sitting in a motion
picture theater, told police that
the man next TO him began shout
ing Hoover, Hoover" and pointed
toward him.
His assailant, who said he was
Philip Nicolay, a laborer, then at
tackled him with club wrapped
in a newspaper.
At police headquarters Nicolay's
only explanation was, He looked
like Hoover"
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BY TRISTRAM COFFIN
Times staff Writer

MOTHER cruel 1t overwhelm the
wi of it he This
Sons and Lovers tragedy of such
beauty painful ecstasy at times.
book the anguished the
life which destroyed his
little whmpering
in the mother
More the mother
brushes her husbands
another
qualor English mining
disguised with her dismal life. And
all
pressed her
child the father
the novelty of his
herself What he felt the
He could by anything There nothing
hackO MS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-30
MOONEY NAMED TO
HOME LOAN BOARD
City Man to Serve Three
Years in Bank Post.

William J. Mooney Sr. has been
appointed director of the Federal
Home Loan bank Of Indianapolis for
a three-year term, it was announced
today in Washington.
Mr.. Mooney succeeds J. Walter
Drake, whose term expired Dec.
81, 1888.
AS president of the Mooney Muel-
ler-Ward Company Of indianapolis.
he long has been active in civic and
public affairs in Indiana. Mr..
Mooney is an officer in the Indian
apolis Board of Trade.
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progress Love becomes a biologi-
cal necessity; war, machine-made
destruction; democracy, "the
mania for counting noses" and
death, a lonesome passage into
a lifeless void. Men are them
selves to blame, claims Huxley.
Men have struggled nightly to
reach a reasonable viewpoint and
now they are trapped with no illu-
sionS.
EACH character in Point
Il Counterpart" fails miserably
to work out the salvation he is
seeking. They are Spandrell,
who tries to find religious expe-
rience out of a life of debauchery;
Lucy Tantamount, the perverted
type of woman in search of sem
sationS; Philip Quarles, novel
iSt too lost in the grooves of his
mind, to give his wife the love she
needs; Philips mother. whose life
centers around religion; Philips
father, an intellectual humbug
who becomes involvel with a cheap
stenOgrapher; Illdidge, the
wretched Socialist with a grudge
against capitalism; Walter Bid
lake, an unhappy nonenity with
nagging mistress; Mark and Mary
hampton, brave and intelligent
people who finally prophesy So
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-30
Fair Enough
By
Westbrook PeqIer

IT is terrible shock to read in the papers where
i it states that some trusted employees of Tropical
Park, the Tom Thumb horse plant in Miami, have
been caught fumbling the cards in the mutuel room
in such way to deal themselves a few tickets
the winners after the races have been run. I am
pretty Shrewd in my dumb country way and nobody
has to explain to me that if you place your
wager after the race you enjoy marked advantage
over those underprivileged persons who have to do
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-30
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

my way of thinking in perform
ance on the American stage which
is perfect.
A S far as I am concerned no
L A better selection for tn
Browning role could have been
made than Basil Rathbone. His
makeup is perfect and he has
fire, passion and complete mastery
of all the big and little arts in
expert showmanship.
Love scene between Miss Cor
nell and Mr.. Rathbone in the Sec
ond act is excellent. Up to the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-30

TACT that it is possible to do such things at all
mutuel horse parks except those which use the Aus
trallan board of which there is total of lust one
park, inclusive in the United States, the same be-
ing Joe Wldeners Hialeah track. also in Miami
perhaps l assume too much in believing that il
Is impossible to tumble with the cards where the
Australian board is used but there is so much doubt
ana suspicion in the world that l like to think this
is TRUE ana, with your permission will do so until
something happens to destroy my last remaining
illusion.
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Ii Seems TO Ne
By
Joe Williams
pinch Hitting for Hey1cood BrouD

pinch Hitting for Hey1cood Broun)
7 WAS down in Georgia the other day to see BOBBY
a Jones come back to golf after four years among
the gods.
What I saw was the bright fabric Of the cloak OF
invnciblty turn to drab morOse hueS.
And wondered why a mortal who had been up
among the Olvn1pians should ever want to come
back to tread again the green carpets Of an ordi-
nary world
In Jones' case there was nothing he could pos
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1911 guessing hNAOA NAAeAAANA-
To come out very fearleSSly
about it, I think there is some
thing downright dishonest about
such a practice and condemn
the conduct of these parties in
no uncertain terms. I fay it.
But with the individuals
themselves I am not much con-
cerned. They may be but the
victims of poor home training or
evil associations. and anyway,
the angel who does the writing
in the book of gold will swizzle
his quill around in the red ink
and mark down something on
the debit side of their reckoning.
Their consciences will torment
them, too.
My botherment concerns the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-30
An old Standby

IF YOU have been digesting the Washington dis
i patches and the editorial comment thereon you
must have read a great deal of the late Mr.. Jefer-
son and how he would have taken full cut at the
ball if he had been in there swinging at present-day
pitching
1t lone has been the custom of bushy-haired
statesmen with high white chokerS to stride the
legislative floors and below about what the late Mr..
jefferson would do if of the pages could only go
down to the corner store and fetch him right up
there in front of the obstinate and patiently mis-
guided gentleman from Montana
Of course nobody knows just what the late Mr..
Jefferson would would not do in any given set of
current circumstances and perhaps it is a distinct
break for him that he is not always available when
the piteous call rings out Maybe he wouldn't be
able to get his puts down, either.
On the other hand. if it were possible to entice
the late Mr.. jefferson to play a repeat booking it
might conceivably put an end to all the vocal rub
bSh which is created in his name-and as a result
bring about stunning realization in the legislative
halls that this is actually 1884
There is for much fascinating speculation
in a revisit from the immortals I not sure just
what ones I would like to back in the flesh. A
whole lot would depend whether it possible
to order at retail at wholesale I don't suppose a
fellow should be too greedy.
They tell me Lillian Russell was pretty nice,
though.
Copyright. 1884. Tmesl