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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-20
BY NEA Service
FLASHING wings and droning

FLASHING wings and droning
Il motors have conquered the
Pacific. Now for the Atlantic!
Within two years, possibly be-
fore that, regular commercial
service planes will be winging
across the North Atlantic. Next
spring and summer a series of test
flights is planned.
Now the purpose Of the daring
stunt flights of the last Is years,
their justification, is revealed
The desperate dash of Alcock and
Brown in 1919, and Commander
Read in the NC-4 the same year;
Lindbergh's superb fight in 1927,
with those Of Chamberlin, Byrd
and all the others who followed
him-the method in their madness
is now clear.
Safe, regular commercial fight
is to settle into the grooves they
marked.
The Atlantic sea lanes must be
international affairs. SO the ac-
tual opening of service has had to
wait while international relation
ships were adjusted and while
other countries concerned are
building ships like the American
Clippers which conquered the
Pacific.
Conferences to iron out details
of port rights and airmail subsi-
dies have pust been completed.
THERE are two principal air
Il routes across the North At
lantic. One is a direct Jump from
Montreal up over Newfoundland
and straight across, nonstop, to
an Irish port, probably Cobb or
Londonderry.
That is an oversee hop of just
under 1000 miles. The clippers do
400 more than that on their regu-
lar schedule to Hawaii.
A variation of this route goes
north across Greenland, Iceland,
and the Farce Islands, as surveyed
by Lindbergh in 1888. 1t is longer,
but the overWater jumps are
shorter.
The other route lies to the
south, and assures better weather
in winter. 1t follows the present
route to Bermuda, British island,
where extensive Improvements in
the airport are already under way.
Thence it jumps to the Azores, a
Portuguese group off the Spanish
peninsula.
This is o 2000-mile overWater
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new venture, has two new types
of ship on order.
One is huge sleeper" seaplane
much like the Pacific Clippers.
But the other is n departure.
1t is the Mayo "ct apostle air.
craft"
The Mayo invention consists of
a large our-engined monoplane
flying boat equipped to carry on
its back a much smaller and
very heavily loaded four-engined
float seaplane Power of all eight
engines is used in the takeoff.
The combination climbs to about
5000 feet, and then the two planes
are separated, the mother ship
returning to base, and the sea-
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gress this winter for an appropria-
ton of more than a million dollars
for such subsidy.
Other nations interested. such
as the Germans with their Lufth-
anSa, or the French and Dutch.
both of whom operate long world
air services, may participate in
the Atlantic service. Present
agreements with the British will
not prevent later similar arrange
ments with other countries if de-
sired.
Seventeen years after Alcock
and Brown blazed the trail. and
less than 10 after Lingbergh il
Illuminated it, the promise of their
pioneering comes truel
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to London as compared with about
5000 by the Great Circle direct
course, takes longer and saves less
time in comparison with four-day
trips now being made by the fast
est liners.
The time will be close to 10
hours at first, while Glenn L. Mar
tin, American designer, emissions
an eventual 20-hour schedule, US
ing 50-ton, Diesel-driven craft
carrying IL tons of pay-load.
That is as much pay-load as the
weight, unloaded, of the present
Pacific Clippers.
Experimental flights next year,
beginning about March Is and
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Conquest Of Atlantic Next Modern Sky Liners

hop, but it is still shorter than the
Pacific Clippers are already max
ing. From the Azores to the Eu-
ropean mainland is only a 1000
mile Jaunt. American ports for
this route would probably include
Charleston, S. c., and Norfolk, Va,
and a spur" line between Puerto
Rico and Bermuda is authorized.
THE two routes might be COM
Il bined, using the northern one
in the summer, the southern in
winter.
But the southern route, making
some $500 miles from New York
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plane continuing the ocean cross
ing.
The idea here is to enable the
seaplane to take off with a much
heavier load Of fuel, freight, and
passengers than she could safely
lift off the water alone. Probably
the Mayo stunt will be tried first
with mail and freight only.
g. =
TN fact, first-year operation of
l. such line might ignore pas
sengers entirely, figuring on high
premium mail and a government
subsidy for support.
Postmaster General James A..
Farley has said he would ask Con-
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continuing until October over the
northern route, will probably use
the present American Clipper
ships. After October, similar tests
will be made over the southern
route.
But by the time actual operation
of the lines begins with four week
ly flights, there will be, further in
novations.
THE British, while they have
- no planes suitable for the
Atlantic run ready at the moment,
have not been idle. Imperial Air
ways, which is expected to coop
crate with Pan-American in the
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ATTENDANCE OFFICERS
ELECT NEW LEADERS
Mrs. Elizabeth Tyre Is President;
Meet in State House.

Mrs. Elizabeth Tyre today is
president of the James Whitcomb
Riley Group of Attendance officers,
elected Wednesday at meeting in
the State House. Robert O. Brown
was chosen vice president and Miss
Virginia Hampton, secretary-treas-
urer.
The group is comprised of at
tendance officers from Boone, Ham
ilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson,
Marion, Morgan and Shelby coun-
ties.
The principle speaker was DR.. E.
r. Bartlett of De Paw University.
Mrs. Eleanore White, Shelbyville,
Is retiring president.
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Evening star., 1935-01-12
ZONE HOUR LATE" FILM
is SAD entertainment
Picture Fails in Entertainment
Value, Though Stars
Fill Cast.

Joe Morrison can sing. of course. and
his lyrical voice is sweet to the ears,
but "One Hour Late" which opened
yesterday at the Columbia, is thin ex-
cuse for the exhibition of that voice.
There is lot of soporific story to sit
through just to hear the gentleman
deliver the three or four song num-
bers which turn out to be large part
of the entertainment.
Paramount has placed any number
of competent players in tie cast, but
even their efforts fail to lift this
opiate on celluloid to mediocrity
"One Hour Late" remains story about
a chap who wants to marry girl in
the first reel and who is on the way
to do so in the last reel In addition
to his vocal efforts. Joe Morrison
proves a passable actor in his second
screen appearance Helen Twelvetrees,
the lady in the case, has been done
a terrible wrong by Paramount. She's
one of the most competent actresses
that studio has, and they inf1ict this
job on her! But she does the best she
can. Delicious Toby Wing is another
who has little or no opportunity for
the display of her ample talents. Con-
rad Nagel smoothly plays the role he
has been given. probably getting much
more out of it than ever was written
into it. and Jack Mulhall appears in a
bit role. speaking only half dozen
lines. Airline Judge, Gail Patrick, Ray
Milland, George E. Stone and Jed
Prcuty are others who vainly devote
their art to some ones idea of what
makes q motion picture. H. M.
Evening star., 1935-01-12

HAS ANOTHER
AIR THRILLER
"Murder in the ClOuds''
Has Plenty Of Action
AbOUe Sierras.

Imagine an old Western thriller of
the deepest lye; substitute Lyle Talbot
in the hero's shoes for Bill Hart or
any of the other old heroes; substitute
airplanes for horses, airmanship for
horsemanship, and plane-mounted
machine guns for hip-slung six
shooters, and there you have Murder
in the Clouds" which opened last
night at the Metropolitan.
Although Lyle Talbot is cast as
the hero, the real hero never stepped
in front Of the lens. He was the
flyer who could all but make an air
plane stand up on its tail and beg
for gasoline and oil.
Subtlely the picture is sadly lacking
like the old Western thrillers which
it replaces after the modern manne--
but what it lacks in finesse it certainly
does make up in thrills. Talbot, cocky
head-pilot for an air line on the West
Coast, is chosen for the ticklish job
of taking a cylinder of a new high
powered explosive, with its inventors,
to Washington for the Government.
He gets in fight and takes the count
before scheduled to take off. and the
wick-id, wick-id villain of the piece,
Gordon Wescott, takes the plane. He
picks a secluded spot in the high
Sierras to blow up the plane and its
occupants, after bailing out with the
precious explosive, the formula for
which he and his cohorts want to
steal
From this point the picture goes
into its thrills. with planes streaking
across the sky in all sorts of didoes-
some of them really fine exhibitions
of plotting. 1t all ends when George
Cooper heaves a rock out of a speed
ing plane, and. in all those thousands
of square miles of mountains. it drops
on the villain, who is running away
with the tube of soup"
Talbot. whose screen name is Three
Star" marries one of the airline
hostesses, who participates in the chase
(Ann Dvorak), and is congratulated
by his boss and the Government for
his days work. There isn't a lot of
acting to be done in the picture. but
it does move along and provides few
spinal tremors
Short subjects include an animal
comedy, Is minutes of news and other
attractions. Tx.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
Abbey Players Excellent in
Two Comedies of Ireland
THE Coiner, in One Act, and Synse's "Playboy
of the Western World" Presented at
National Theater Last Night.

Arthur Shields and Miss Eileen
Grove gracefully sustained the chief
responsibilities of "Playboy," handling
their roles with equal skill. Barry
fitzgerald was on hand again to
delight his sworn local following with
a brief but clever characterization of
a tipsy innkeeper, Michael ]. Dolan
presented a flawless impersonation of
a timid country dolt and the pro-
ceedings were aided in lesser degree
by the incidental appearances of F.
J. Mccormick, U. Wright, Maureen
Delany, May Craig, Frolie Mulhern,
Aideen O'Connor, Joan Sullivan and
P. j. Carolan.
"The Coiner" is built around a
narrative thread no larger than a
vaudeville gag, but furbished with
deft Characterization, some comedy
situations and the aidSof P. j. Carolan,
Maureen Delany. w. O'Gorman, F.
]. Mccormick and Denis O'Dea, it
proved a refreshing and totally &C
ceptable morsel
At their matinee today the Irish
players have scheduled Lennox Rob-
inson's THE White Headed Boy" and
the evening program is to be the
third presentation of Sean O'Casey's
The Plough and the Stars" The
engagement closes with the perform
ance tonight. r. B. P, Jr.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
WILL ROGERS
TOPS THE BILL
At LOEW'S FOX
His "County Chairman
Is Another Comedy
With Complications.

Will Rogers and Stepinfetchit, the
Topsy and Eva team which scored a
hoosh in Judge Priest" are now on
view here in another homespun
comedy. This one is called County
Chairman" and at present it may be
seen at Loew's Fox Theater.
Mr.. Rogers is dressed up this time
as the small town political boss with
a grudge against pompous rival who
once weaseled him out Of a three
cornered love affair. Judge Rigby
married the girl and Jim Hacker spent
the next 20 years avenging himself on
| the opposition. There is lot of
good -natured chicanery practiced in
the process. this especial incident con-
cerning Hackers efforts to have his
young law partner defeat the judge in
a race for county office. The partner
happens to be in love with the judges
daughter. and you can imagine what
a lot of trouble that gives everybody.
We were decidedly uninterested SO
far as the romantic complications. or
any plot entanglements whatsoever
for that matter, were concerned, but
the film has liberal doses of comedy
well worth the attention of your fun
nybone. The young people them
selves, played by Kent Taylor and
Evelyn Venable, are stiff and i'll at
ease in their fancy costumes, two dull
lovers if ever such lived. They are
pleasantly unimportant, however, the
crux of the matter being Mr.. Rogers
able ouaintness and salty wisecracks
Trading his bird dog for a candidacy
or campaigning in his two-horse shay,
he is superb. In the moments in
tended to build up sympathy for the
Hacker character. the gentleman from
the film people still seem to regard
him as Cowboy Hamlet"
Stepinfetchit is cast as the hired
boy again, and his vague toolishness
even funnier than in Judge Priest.
The others are Berton Churchill,
Frank Melton, Louise Dressler and
Mickey Rooney, a convincing child
actor.
The Fox stage show this week is
headlined by Vera Gordon, who pre-
sents 15-minute dramatic skit about
an immigrant mother and her blind
son. Gives you an idea.
The Gwen Stone and Bobby Vernon
Foursome open the bill with a good
adagio and acrobatic turn, topped of
by some odd tiger woman business,
Rex Weber has the two-spot for some
! songs and comedy which proved very
little, and the final number presents
Gold, Raye and Cross, the outstanding
item on the bill Phil Lampkin's over
ture and the newsreel complete the
program.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
ORCHESTRA PROGRAM.

An interesting program of Or
chestral music is promised at the
third public rehearsal of the Com
munity Center Civic Symphony Or
chestra Tuesday night at 8:15 o'clock
in Central High School Auditorium.
The four numbers in the first part
of the program will be Adams If
Were King" Mcdowell suite,
Woodland Sketches; Zierher's con-
cert valse, Vienna Beauties" and
Puccini's La Tosca." One number
will be conducted by Sam Ford, as
sistant conductor of the orchestra.
The second half of the program will
be made up of original compositions
by Washingtonians. The opening
number will be a march, "Rauff, I"
composed by Lawrence NJ. Bailey, who
as associate conductor Of the Or
chestra will conduct his own COM
position. Two songs. Little Velvet
Lady" number from new operetta
composed recently by Bailey F. Alart,
and Twilight Memories, composed
by Elizabeth LIE Grand, daughter Of
w. A. lie Grand. violist of the Civic
oyulpllOIly OiCIlcSG1d- Will UC SuIlS Os
Vincent P. Walter. guest artist loaned
by the Chesapeake g. Potomac Glee
Club.
Two compositions by Robert H.
Greenwen, another young Washing
ton composer, will be offered. The
final number on the program will be
selections from "Frantzi," an operetta
composed and produced by Mr. Alart.
The public is invited to attend this
free public rehearsal The musical
director is Bailey F. Alart; Sam Ford
and Lawrence NJ. Bailey are con-
ductors; William Moss, concert
master.
Evening star., 1935-01-12
RELIGIOUS SIGNIFANCE
OF CAPITAL Is THEME
DR.. Rufus w. Weaver Announces
Topic for Anacostia Baptist
Church Tomorrow.

"The Religious Significance of the
City of Washington" one in the series
of sermons on "Our National Life and
Our Christian Faith" will be the SUBJ
ject of DR.. Rufus w. Weaver at the
First Baptist Church tomorrow morn
ing. The evening service will be con-
Quoted by the B. Y. p. u, with Rev.
w. Dewey Moore of the Anacostia
Baptist Church as the speaker Swed-
ish services will be held at $3.50 in the
afternoon. DR.. K. E. Carlson preach
ing.
The Ann Jackson class will hold q
business meeting and social at the
church Monday evening; Wednesday
morning the White Cross workers will
meet at the church, and Thursday eve
ming from 5 to z the Woman's Society
will serve an oyster supper at the
church. Dr.. Weaver will lecture that
evening at the devotional service on
1.-THE Anabaptists and the Reforma.
ton"
Evening star., 1935-01-12

Caprice Espagnol," supposed to be
her last film under the direction of
Won Sternberg Nothing definite has
been decided upon for her next pic
ture, but it is generally understood
that Ernst Lubitsch will direct.
If you're a rabid Dietrich fan and
have followed her career from the
first, you'll recall that Marlene has
never had the same leading man in
two films. She doesn't think it is
good policy for a star to allow the
same gentleman to make screen love
to her twice and prefers an unknown
player opposite her rather than allow
this to happen.
So far in her career she has been
supported by Gary Cooper. Emil jan
nings, Give Brook, Herbert Marshall,
Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen and
John Lodge.
Caesar Romero. comparatively un-
known, plays the lead in Caprice
Espagnol."
Brisson's "Shep."
"Shep," a huge collie. is the latest
addition to the Carl Brisson menage,
and is so attached to his master that
he follows him all around the lot and
even onto the sound stages when he
is working.
Brisson found Shep wandering near
his Beverly Hills home, muddy, hun
CRY and covered with tar. A good
bath and good dinner did wonders
for the cOllie and he's all set now so
far as the future is concerned.
Carl Brisson likes to think that the
dog is a good luck omen for him, and
we like to think that Brisson is just
that kind of a swell guy who couldn't
see a stray dog without doing some
thing about it.
(Copyrieht 1895. by North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc)
Evening star., 1935-01-12
PETW0RTH M. E. TO HOLD
SERVICES FOR WOMEN
Chorus, Radio Trio and Choir
Will Assist in Annual Church
Observance.

The annual women's service will
be held tomorrow evening at Petworth
M. E. Church. A chorus of 100
women will assist.
The radio trio, Ards Atkinson,
Phillipa Callback and Leona Weber,
will sing and the Petworth choir will
give special number. The minister,
Rev. r. L. Wood, will preach on THE
Women Who Knew Jesus
At II am. Rev. J. M. Gillum,
pastor of the Brookland M. E. Church,
will be the preacher. He comes in
the general exchange of the pastors
of Methodist churches.
The official board of the church
will meet Tuesday evening, with the
minister presiding. The quarterly
conference will be held, with the
District superintendent, DR.. B. w.
Meeks. in the chair.
At the midweek service Thursday
evening the minister will conduct the
second of the series of character
studies in Slightly known Men of
the Bible"
Evening star., 1935-01-12
Troupers
Glimpses of Stage Folk
in Washington.

CARDONIC Mr.. Barry Fitzgerald,
- best of modern Irish comedians
lounged comfortably on hotel divan
puffed at his pipe and resolutely an
nounced his disinterest in the theater
his mild distaste for acting and a
secret, unattained ambition.
A member of the Abbey Theater
Players for more than 20 years, with
the exception of a brief interlude
when he undertook a musical comedy
Fitzgerald explained that he got his
start in the thespian world by seeking
small parts at the Abbey Playhouse in
Dublin, whilst he was employed "as a
respectable citizen in a good, steady
job" Gradually his parts in the the
ater repertory became more impor-
tant. He chucked the job, liking the
minor fame that evolves upon all ac-
tors, cherishing the amusing acquaint-
ances encountered at his new shop.
you see, every one interesting who
came to Dublin showed up sooner or
later at the theater. We met them
all. was fascinated. Except for
that, I've not cared much about the
theater. I know very little Of it,
never go to plays when not acting in
one," he said.
Despite this extraordinary declara-
tion-considering that M. Fitzgerald
is at present the most capable per-
former in a distinguished troupe-he
displayed in casual conversation
knowledge of half a dozen different
schools Of playwriting, flashed a few
sound ideas on scholarship, Shake
speare and the American gagline
school of theatrical poesy, and set
forth definite theory of acting, the
policy he obviously follows in his own
interpretations. (Bet Mr.. Fitzgerald
will shudder at that word)
We were able to discover very little
about Mr.. Fitzgerald as a person,
except that he is bachelor, dotes on
golf, exhibits an avid interest in all
the foreign countries he has not
visited, thinks the United States one
of the most provocative of all nations.
Says he would like to ramble over it
some day in an old hivver, carrying a
bag of golf clubs for his chief
equipment.
During the war he continued in the
Abbey troupe, and likewise calmly per-
formed through Ireland's numerous
civil uprisings. Even when the City
Of Dublin was under strict pm. cur
few, because of the riots, Lady Gregory
Zone of the patron saints of the Abbey,
and person so brilliant she once
dashed off a group of classic comedies
simply because her pet troupe needed
light material to balance its repertory
diet ordered the house kept open and
in full swing.
I'VE played from about on during
the afternoons, just had time to get
off the grease paint. slip into our
clothes and dash for home before the
curfew OF course, every one was
terribly upset and worried in town.
Only a few ever came to see the
plays. most of them just to get out
Of the rain. But Lady Gregory
wanted to show people mere civil
war was nothing to art, and so she
did"
One last question we had to ask Mr..
Fitzgerald: If the theater did not in
terest him overmuch, what did?
Music" he said. Always wanted
to be a musician and I can't play
anything. I pick out pieces with one
finger" r. B. P. Jr.
Evening star., 1935-01-12


To hear Bellamy tell about his
farm house you would get the i'm
preston of the latest mystery thriller
combined with a scene from "Chu
Chin Chow" But he insists it's all
true. and he should know.
The house ITSELF" says Bellamy,
'is ITS years old. and is considered
one of the finest remaining types Of
Revolutionary architecture.
Reminders of Indians.
while it has been modernized in
some respects, it still bears memories
of the days when the early settlers
lived there. For instance, over and
under all the windows are iron tracks
on which slide heavy metal doors on
shutters, once used to halt the ar
rows of an Indian attack.
And not far from the main house
is a knoll topped by a large lock,
which slides back and forth on a Pc
culiar arrangement and leads to a
cavern 18 feet long. originally used as
a hiding place from Indians"
Bellamy plans to turn a smaller
house on his farm into a guest lodge
for visiting cinema celebrities.
And may 1 suggest the iron shut
ters and the cavern might be put
to good use in the case of acquaint-
ances motoring by, who drop in with
out announcing themselves. Or per-
haps this doesn't annoy Ralph as
much as it does me.
incidentally, Bellamy is now play
ing the part of a Polish American
tobacco farmer in Anna Stems pic
ture, The Wedding Night" so his
farming experience should be all to
the good
Marlene Dietrich has only two or
three more days work to complete
Evening star., 1935-01-12
WASHINGTONIANS SEEK
FULL PAY RESTORATION

The Washingtonians, civic organi-
cation, has gone on record favoring
restoration Of full Government pay as
Of January l.
The bill proposing control by the
Commissioners of the School Board
was disapproved, while disfavor also
was expressed by the organization
against the enactment of proposed
income tax laws for the District.
The group urged that a District
resident be appointed to fill the posi-
ton of health officer, or if a local
man is not available, that candidate
be selected by the Commissioners from
the United States Public Health
Service.
Miss Eta Taggart presided at the
meeting, which was held in the
Brighton Hotel.