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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14

CITY MADE HIT WITH MILLIONS IN AIR
STAR ON BIRTHDAY TWO YEARS AGO

Times Special
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 14-In-
Il Il dianapolis made a big hit
with diminutive Eleanor Whitney,
who is among the stars in Mil
lions In The Air" now at the
Circle. when she celebrated her
sixteenth birthday there two years
ago.
At the time she was appearing
with Rae Samuels' Blue Streak
of Vaudeville" stage show at the
Lyric. She distinctly remembers
the week. She said yesterday that
she had "the time of my life
there"
Every one was kind and con-
siderate and nice to me-" Miss
Whitney said, People I had never
heard of sent me flowers and pres
ents on my birthday. The man
ager of the theater was especial
ly considerate,"
81 had lot of fun in Indianap-
oils and l hope I get to play there
again soon," Miss Whitney said.
WHILE Eleanor was in In
w dianapoliS with the stage
show she went over to the Circle
with a couple of the girls to see
a short subject in which she had
played With Eleanor in the rear
the two youngsters appeared at
the door of the theater. asked the
doorman if they couldn't come in
and see their friend in pictures.
He thought it was a gag. They
insisted and the doorman called
the manager. He recognized Miss
Whitney, escorted her in with
pomp and ceremony.
Eleanor, who plays the role of
an amateur hour aspirant in Mil
lions In The Air." is the discovery
of Bill Robinson, Negro tap dancer
now appearing at the Apollo in
In Old Kentucky" Bill sat up
and took notice when Eleanor
tapped for him in Cleveland, her
home town. Within an hour Bill
had taught her 20 routines he
had despaired of ever teaching a
girl.
Eleanor recently out-tapped a
firing of a machine gun. Her
record was 60 times in four Sec
onds and the best the machine
gun could do was 81 in the same
length of time. Paramount execu-
tives, however, have decided not
to type her as a tap dancer. Her
second picture is to be "Timothys
Quest" in which she plays a
straight lead.
II Il y
TT is, Eleanore says, sort of
Il Janet Gaynor role, in which
she wears pig tails and a kind of
Way Down East expression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14

of grand excitement beforehand
and the mob scenes are exceptional
ly good.
Cagney has the one big part il
the picture, but the supporting play
ers, even those with bits" do ar
admirable job. Miss Lindsay is
lovely to look at, and a sincere, com
petent actress as we'll.
Reynolds and White have the
outstanding act in the stage show
of routine vaudeville, which we
found quite dull. BY means of trick
flddles, electric wiring and gun
powder, they put over an amusing
sketch in which lights flash on the
ends of the performers noses while
violins and hats explode all over
the place, Between volleys, the
lady in the act does some good,
straight violin playing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14

hero wins his love, the heroine be-
comes wealthy and alls we'll with
the world
Mr.. ArliSs is the whole picture.
The supporting cast is fine, a good
background for his cavortings, but
they don't seem to count much one
way or the other. It's a solo, Moth
ing less.
This grand old man of the
theater has plenty of reserve. You
may think you have seen all of
George Arliss there is to see, but
unless you see him as the lovable,
satisfied, philosophical wanderer he
is in Mister Hobo" your movie al
bum of his characterizations will
not be complete.
Has Way About Him
Like the late Will Rogers, Mr.. Ar
IiSs has wound his spell around the
shoulders OF humanity, and it
doesn't make much difference what
he pretendS he is on the stage or
screen, he's still George ArlisS. To
some that isn't great acting Well,
it may not be, but it happens to be
true of most of those we call great
actors, Charles Laughton for ill
stance. There are certain charac-
teristics that makeup, costume, and
lighting won't change. And we're
not sure we'd want them changed
even if it were possible.
Of those who are cast with Mr..
Arliss, Gene Gerard as Fit is out
standing. Viola Keats, the heroine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
Lovab|e Old
Vagabond Is
Starring Role
Supporting Cast Is Fine,
but Veteran Grabs
All HonorS.
BY JOHN w. THOMPSON


Clad in suit Of borrowed clothes,
ragged and torn, with several days
growth of beard covering his angu-
lar face, and with a wisp of a pipe
stuck between his teeth. George Ar
liss walks of with another grand
little picture, Mister Hobo" at the
Indiana.
Into Spike the lovable old vaga-
bond who doesn't give two boots
about money or riches or work, Mr.
Arliss has injected some of the
staggering greatness Of Dlsraeli, the
dash of the Duke of wellington and
a pinch of genuine old English. The
manneriSms, the gait, the twinkle
in his eyes, are still Arliss, but they
happen to be Spike, too, for some
reason.
The picture opens in the congress
of hCbos, beneath the streets Of
Paris. The members are undecided.
They don't know whether to go
south for the winter or stay in
Paris.
Spike and his pal, Fit, decide to
J,
they come upon a pleasant stream,
in which Fit tries his luck as a
fisherman, while Spike investigates
home nearby. At the home, Spike
encounters Madelaine Granville,
daughter Of a very famous old ia
mily, owners of vast coal mines.
Spike mends a china dish for
some food, overhears enough to
make him sympathetic with the
Granvilles.
Name Works Wonders
When he gets back to Fit he
finds him in trouble with the
estates caretaker and both of them
land in Jail. When the police find
out that Spikes real name is Fran
co.'s RothsChild they release both
men, and apparently without rea-
son Spike is handed a check from
other Rothschilds in the city The
money is appropriated by Fit to ar
ray the two in garments BETTING
gentlemen. The news that a mem
Der of the house OF Rothschild is in
the city spreads like Wildfire and it
ends when Barsac, a shady banker,
puts Spike in as president of the
bank, which happens to be doomed
to bankruptcy.
Spike accepts the position because
he suspects the crafty Barsac of
robbing Madelaine and her mother
of valuable mine stock. But with
all his planning, things go badly.
He is turned out as an imposter by
Madelaine. The mine stock goes
TO Barsac.
SO Spike pulls his last card out
of his ragged sleeve, fakes a sui
eide, and, when every one thought
he had killed himself in despond-
ency. and the stocks had fallen TO
nothing, he buys them back, gives
them to Madelaine and goes south.
The villains get their due, the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14

.Cagney Seen
in New Film
Vaudeville at Lyric Is Quite
Dull, but Picture Is
Thrilling.
BY JAMES THRASHER

A lOng-halred Jimmy Cagney in
frock coat and stove pipe hat greetS
Lyric audiences this week. But in
spite of the costume for his role
in Frisco Kid" it's the same Mr..
Cagney-a tough, but likeable guy
who fights his way to supremacy
along San Franciscos old Barbary
Coast.
Frisco Kid" is better than the
usual run of Cagney stories; bet
ter, too, than most of the "epics"
that pop up from time to time. 1t
seems an authentic picture of the
vicious lawlessness that prevailed in
the San Francisco of the fifties.
The picture benefits by a Well-chos-
en- cast.
Mr.. Cagney, as Bat Morgan, is a
sailor who is drugged, robbed and
shanghaied on his first night in
port. But as. he is being rowed
across the bay to the boat he jumps
overheard and sWims ashore. He
is picked up by Solomon Green
George E. Stone), who tells him
of the dog philosophy of
the Barbary Coast, and advises him
to go back to his ship.
Ferocious Fighter
Bat, however, determines to beat
his aSsailants at their own game.
He begins by smuggling and shang-
hai-ing the man who performed the
same ceremony on him, and con-
tinues by killing the mans pal, who
wears a hook in place of an am
putated hand, in the most ferociouS
fight the screen has seen in some
| time.
From the post of bouncer in a
waterfront dive, Bat rapidly climbs
to a position of King of the Bar
barry Coast, with the help of Jim
DAILY (Joseph King, crooked polit-
ical boss of San Francisco.
Later Bat meets Jean Barrat
Margaret Lindsay, owner of the
San Francisco Tribune, whose new
editor, Charles Ford donald Woods,
who played here in stock two years
ago., is waging war against the
coast. Ford is challenged to a duel
by Spider Burke (Barton MacLane),
acting under Days orders, but
Morgan prevents the duel by slug
ging Burke and locking him in a
closet.
Romance on Coast
Jean finds that she is falling in
love with the bad man from the
waterfront, but after her guardian,
Judge Crawford (Robert McWade),
is killed by a gambler (Ricardo Cor
tez) and DAILY shoots the editor,
she turns against him.
From then on, murders and hang
ings come thick and fast. The
vigilantes take a hand, and deal
out primitive justice.
Bat is shot by his own men, cap
tured by the vigilantes and is about
to be hanged when Jean rushes in,
tells the court. that he has saved
her newspaper from being burned
and prevented further slaughter.
She promises to marry and reform
him, and he is released.
Example of HolIywooditis
"Frisco Kid" gets pretty bad
case of Hollywooditis at the last
minute, when the hero miraculously
arises, after being shot and walked
on by several hundred outraged
citizens, and limps to the inevitable
happy ending. But there's a lot
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
WHERE, WHAT, WHEN

APOLLO
In Old Kentucky" last OF the VIII
Rogers pictures. at 1854, 1874. 3:34,
5:34. 1885 and 9;34.
CIRCLE
little America" the picture of
Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Antarctic
Expedition. at 1870. 1:55, 4:25. $50
and $40. Feature attraction. Mil
lions in the Air" with Willie Howard
and Eleanor Whitney, at 1925. 2:50.
Sis. 7:45 and 1910.
CIVIC
Louder, Please" a comedy by Nor
man Krasna. with Frederick Burleigh
in the leading role, at the Playhouse.
Curtain at $50.
ENGLISHS
1.-The Old Maid" Pulitzer Prize
play, with Helen Menken and Judith
INDIANA
Mister Hobo" with George Arliss.
at 1870. 1875. $40. 5:45. 1850. TO-
LOEW'S
The Perfect Gentleman" with
OILS. "Whipsaw" with Myrna Loy
and Spencer Tracy. at IL, 1853. 4:46
7:39 and 1882.
LYRIC
Frisco Kid" with James Cagney,
sos, 7:55 and 1919. On stage, vaude-
vile. at l. BAT. 6:45. 9:32.
wednesdays Child" starring Ed:
and 1888. Also WELCOME Home"
with James Dunn, at 1920, 1913.
1856, 639 and 9:22.
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96 pounds, wears a two and a
half shoe, has a 20 and one-half
inch waist. the smallest waist and
foot in Hollywood.
She lives with her mother and
15-year-old sister. Ruth, who is
also a tap dancer. But Ruth is
going to graduate from Holly
wood High School before going
into show business, according to
Eleanore.
Between pictures she is appear
ing with Jack Benny. Her next
picture, her third, is to be Three
Cheers For Love-" in which she
has the feminine lead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
Example of HolIywooditis

Frisco Kid" gets a pretty bad
case of Hollywooditis at the last
minute, when the hero miraculously
arises, after being shot and walked
on by several hundred outraged
citizens, and limps to the inevitable
happy ending. But there's a lot
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
Ann Harding to Go
to Europe in Spring

Times Special
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. ii. Ann
Harding is preparing Tor her first
trip to Europe, where her English
contract calls for filming two pic
lures.
At present, she is working in "The
Indestructible Mrs. Talbot" with
Herbert Marshall, and is scheduled
to make another picture early in
1886 before leaving for England.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-14
Loses Diamond Pin

IUSDS 11IuHfOIfW
In her first glimpse Of Hollywood
night life, Francine Larrimore lost
diamond dress clip she had priced
for many years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
NEW DIVING BOARD. DONATED FOR POOL
WOrkmen Engaged in Pro- yiding Sandy Bottom
 For Legion Pool
CHESHIRE NEWS
Correspondent Thomas M- Hurley-Dial SIS or 5S0

Trucks and helpers reported at Legion pool last evening to conn plete the work of cleaning the pool for swimmers. The pool was drained earlier in the week so that sand could be placed on the bot tom. When the pool fills again it will be ready for use. Mark Bishop donated . new diving board for the pool.
 This evening at SIS o'clock at Hamilton park in Waterbury the all-star game will be played com posed of. the all-star teams from the waterbury City Amateur league and the Naugatuck Valley league. Only one local p1ayerSmade the team of the Valley league, Bar ney Grimm. who will see action in the outfield.
 Phyllis Cranston and Barbara Clark are registere dat the Girl Scout camp in Waterviile.
 Mrs. John Lindsay who has been patient in the Waterbury hospi- tai, has returned home.
 MT. and Mrs. John Hurley of Jarvis street are spending few days in Huntington, Long Island.
 MT. and Mrs. George c. Erskine left yesterday for Germany .and England to attend the meeting of the international prison confer ence.
 The children's day in observance of the tercentenary celebration will be held on August IF and will take place at the Roxbury field. The activities will consist of various folk dances in costume.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
NIGHT BATHING AT
 LAKE QUASSAPAUC
Various Attractions Con-
 tinue to Attract Visitors From All Over State

Another great display of fire- works will be held at Lake Quas- sapaug this evening weather per- hitting. Ground works and sky rockets of all kinds will be on dis- play.
 Don't forget the Sandy Beach at the lake which Manager John Me- Nellis is daily improving. Night bathing at the beach Is now quite a novelty. There are plenty of lock- CTS and baskets for all patrons.
 During this warm spell the speed boat has been doing Q rushing business. The children are also enjoying the merry-go-round and the little autot. The hot dogs and the pop corn still are going strong and are leading all other conces- sions in sales.
 Timmie Grove and his Lake Quassapaug band are still playing to huge crowds on the arge and spacious dancing pavilion. Tomor- row night 8 prize Debbie dance will be held. This is run in con- junction with the Palace theater. Prizes will be awarded to the win- ming couples.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25

Unusual, Profitable Opportun- ities offered daily on the Democrat Classified Page.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25

membered individually by doctors and policemen, you have to do something as grotesque as the lady who burst the windshield with her head, splashing splinters all over the other occupants of the car, and then, as the car rolled over rolled with 1t down the edge of the wind shield frame and cut her throat from ear to ear. Or park on the pavement too near a curve at night and stand. in front of the tail light as you take off the spare tire - which will immortalize you in somebody's memory, as. the fellow who was mashed three feet broad and two inches thick by the impact of 8 heavy duty truck against the rear of his own car. Of be as orig inal as the pair of youths who were thrown out of an open roadster this spring-thrown clear - but each broke windshield post with his head in passing and the whole top of each skull, down to the eye brows, was missing. Or snap off a nine-inch tree and get yourself im- paled by a ragged branch.
 None of all that is scare-fiction; it is just the horrible raw material of the years statistics as seen in the ordinary course of duty by po- licemen and doctors, picked at ran- dom. The surprising thing is that there is so little dissimilarity in the stories they tell.
 It's hard to find surviving ac- AfdAnk x,gnf Vx,I AA koI II- After you come to, the gnawing, soaring pain throughout your body is accounted for by learning that you have both collarbones smashed, both shoulder blades splintered, your right arm broken in three places and three ribs cracked, with every chance of bad internal rup- lures. But the pain can't distract you, as the shock begins to wear off, from realizing that you are probably on your way out. You | can't forget that, not even when they shift you from the ground to the stretcher and your broken ribs bite into your lungs and the sharr ends of your collarbones slide owe, to stab deep into each side of youl | oCtSdHliHS tuEOdt. WncH yOu W stopped screaming, it all come. back--you're dying and you hate yourself for it. That isn't fictior either. It's what 1t actually feels like to be one of that 36,000.
 And every time you pass on 6 blind curve, every time you hit ii up on 8 slippery road, every time you step on it harder than your reflexes will samfely take, every time you drive with your reactions slowed down by a drink or two, every time you follow the man ahead too closely, you're gambling few seconds against this kind of blood and agony and sudden death.
 Take a look at yourself as the man in the white jacket shakes his head over you, tells the boys with the stretcher not to bother and turns away to somebody else who isn't quite dead yet. And then take it easy.
 tEd's Note: The above article is reprint from "The Readers Di. gest". It's formal title is "--ANI SUDDEN DEATH.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
AMERICAN FASTENER COMPANY'S OUTING

Employees of the American Fastener company held their an- nual outing recently at Lake Com bounce, enjoying a program of sports, a display of fireworks and the various facilities of the resort. Ernest Conte was chairman of the committee of arrangement. Those present were:
 Mrs. M. Kiessling, Mrs. c. Gobbs, Mary Minervino, Lena Fellaccio, Agnes Place, Irma Follocchio, Ann keval, Theresa Guzzardi, Brigida Biondi, Frances Rubeko, Ruth Asel, Mary DeSocio, Lillian De- Cicio, Clara Capodanno, Alba None. E. None, Doris Housedorf, Helen Treatalange, Catherine Gau- gier. Claire Sandore, Angela Es- posito, Lena Balena, Helen Jamele, Sylvia Foglia, Mrs. Anna Skehan, Theresa Minervino Harriet Pastor, Co1nie Forte, Mary Japs, Blanche Gagne, Claire Greene, Helen Hack ermann, Mary Joseph, Frank kiessling, A. Krieger, M. Kiessling, ST., Carl Schaaf, Ernest Conte, For rest Gibbs, Michael Genovese, Charles Gibbs, B. Carpenter, Ar thur Ganter, George Amicone, Paal Collette, Frank Linden, Wal ter Semrow, Edward Skehan, Dam iel LaSalata. Michael Brienza, Pas quale Augurio and Elmer Kiess- ling.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
AGE SAVES YOUTH
 FROM JAIL TERM
Used Small Boy to Pass Counterfeit BilI=.ScOred
 By Judge

Only the fact that he is a high school boy saved Angelo Rasco, 19, of 275 River street, from a jail term this morning when he was found guilty in city court of at- tempting to pass counterfeit money. Judge John F. McGrath first gave the youth a 60-day jail term, but few moments later allowed him to go free, placing him on proba- tion for six months.
 Rasco was given bitter scoring by the court for his use of a small boy in attempting to get rid of a bogus $5 bill which had been talk en in at his mothers store yes- terday morning. Rasco told the small boy to go to a Brooklyn store to purchase Some cigarettes. In the first store the boy went into the clerk did not have change for a $5 bill and Rasco sent him to another store, one operated by Domenic Jannetty. In this store, the clerk saw that the bill was counterfeit and called police. Lieut.. Detective William Pollard ques- toned the small boy and then found Rasco standing nearby.
 This fellow knew what he was doing" declared Judge McGrath, land he deserves to be punished for making use of an innocent youngster like that. The circula- ton of counterfeit money in this city has to stop, and if it takes jai, sentences to stop it, then I'll give them"
 Police thus far have been unable to trace the $5 bill, which Rasco said had been turned in at the store by a customer yesterday morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25

England
  pavilion variety rlytlns challenge filling 
  hits this band in a by itself. in WATR o'clock tonight, then take trip to
  compelling of this stellar aggregation And the floor Lakewood fl o England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
MARTIN, M'MAHON
 CONTEST WINNERS
Legion Carnival Attracts Good CrOwd-HOmer St.
 Being Studied
WATERvILLE

Johnny Martin and Jimmy Me- Mahon took the first and second place prizes in the amateur night contest on last nights entertain ment program at the Street Carni- val of Casper s. Davis, Jr. Post, No. 136, American Legion, An other good crowd visited the carni- val grounds on Thomaston avenue opposite Welch street. The carnival will close this evening and Chair man P. Lester Platt of the carnival committee, has arranged several unusual free features for the en- tertainment of those attending. The frankfurter-eati contest, staged again last night, by popu- lar request, was captured by J. Di- Blasi. A great deal of interest is being shown in the blueberry pie eating contest which will take place this evening.
 Benson's orchestra played for dancing last night. The Junior Fife Drum and Bugle corps of the post paraded last night previous to the opening of the carnival and will be on the street again this evening. The WaterviiIe public has been most generous in its support of this enterprise, the proceeds from which will assist at post in trans porting the drum corps to Hart ford for the state convention of the American Legion next month.
 Engineers Study Homer Street Engineers from the City Engin- eer's office and from the Connec- ticut Company are studying condi- tions on Homer street from Wa terville street to Chase avenue pre- paratory to the paving job which is about to be started by the street department. The city engineers are planning methods for storm water drainage and proper culverts for the stream which passes beneath the street at Hanover street, and the trolley company men are con- | sidering further single trackage from Waterville street to Cooke street. The latter maintain that it cannot consider the continuance of the single track from Thomaston avenue to Cooke street without seriously interrupting the sched- ules now in effect. As it is the cars | often have difficulty in maintain ing schedules. This means that there must be a two-track area on at least part of Homer street. The problem is being studied so that some plan may be effected of elim- mating the narrow "bottle-neck" between the rails and curbing near the Burton Monumental Works. When the paving project is com- pleted a most hazardous local high way condition will have been eliminated.
 Court Welch
 All members of Court Welch, Foresters of America, are remind ed of the regular meeting at eight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
RUBBISH FIRE

Damage was slight in . fire which was discovered in the rear of a Sinclair oil Go. gas station at S35 East Main street late last night. Three companies of fire men answered an alarm at 11:43, finding a pile of rubbish in the rear of the station ablaze.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25

But all that is routine in every American community. To be re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25

All members of Court welch, Foresters of America, are remind ed of the regular meeting at eight
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25
WHAT PRICE MOTORING!
of Victims-S6,OOO Killed Within Year Reports the Readers Digest in Vivid Description of Ter
 ribe Toll Americans Pay for Recklessness

Like the gruesome spectacle Of bad automobile cidemt itse the realistic detGs of ts article Uu sedte redders. Those aDhO d theselVes thus Gf fected at the outset cGtoed against reading the drcIe s its etirety since there IS 10 etdo0n co the GRthOrs outspoken treatment of sickesimg tucts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-25

o'clock this evening at Foresters' hall at 16S Boyden street. Chief Ranger William H. Dunlavey will preside.
 F. o. S. of A Meets Tonight
 The regular meeting of Water vile Camp, Patriotic order, Sons of America, will take place this evening at the lodge rooms on low CT Boyden street. The meeting is scheduled for eight p. m.