The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-28
Art in indianapolis
by ANTON SCHERRER.

lust when we think we are making progress in
u the study of taste and trends, we rip over
problem that stops us dead. We've jU' .eard about
the % kids of the Nathan Morris kindergarten who
went to the Heron last week in search of Indiana
art.
First thing to report is that the kids turned
down all the prize pictures because they didn't have
any salt water in them In their place. they sub
Stituted all the marines their eyes could pick up;
with the result that Harold McWhinneys Cape
Cod Light House" came out on top A checkup
reveals that not of the kids has ever seen the
ocean-let alone, a light house.
On the surface, it looks like the end of casualty.
Indeed, we might have subscribed to this view had
not Mrs Lucretia Saunders, who runs Nathan
Norris" to rescue with the contributing
cause 1t turns out to be Capt. Fred Drinkut, the
policeman at the Heron. The kids hadn't been in
the museum five minutes, says Kindergarten
Saunders, before they discovered that Cap likes pic
lures with lots of salt water and light houses See?
IL Tahinger in his place. Mr.. Tafinger once upon
time, lit cigaret in the West Gallery. He knows
better now. So do lot of other prominent citi-
zens-ike Judge Smiley Chambers for instance who
caught playing baseball on the front lawn of
the Art Institute. Policing the Heron wouldn't
be bad says Mr.. Drinkut, if it were not for the
prominent people.
Mr.. Drinkut got his present job because of past
performances, and carries police badge No. ass and
four stripes to prove it. At time another
he's been plain cop, emergency man. 200
pound better bicycle cop, wagon man. a euten-
ant and captain, which is far as a cop can go
without getting involved Everybody calls him
Gap" now
Seven or eight years ago. when he still
the force Cap brought IN two dead bandits and
three live ones all by himself All in load mind
you Cap talks about it in whispers even now. He
went to Cumberland to get them just as the gang
getting ready to invade Indianapolis. The kill
ing affected Cap Observation-Disclosures his health,
matter of fact-and he spent the next two years
doing nothing. When he got well, he discovered he
was en- pension. After that, he turned to art.
TAP says he has very little trouble with children
~ at the Museum Other towns do Other towns,
for instance. have to keep their nudes under glass
to prevent naughty scrbbling, but Cap says he has
never run up against anything like that here
Cap has system however He herds the chill
dren into group in the Of the room and tells
them that is the proper way to look at Art. Cap
says he has yet to the picture that be viewed
at close range.
Cap is terribly in earnest about Art. So much So
that he thinks everybody ought to join the Heron
Asked whether he had any ideas about furthering
the cause, he thought something like the Elks pulled
of once might do the trick. The Elks were then on
E. Maryland-st and in the throes of a membership
drive. One day, they Communicated the city patrol
wagon and put Cap and Cliff Richter in charge
Every likely looking citizen was arrested put in
the Black Maria and hauled off to Headquarters.
Nobody, was released until he signed up with the
Elks. Gap said 1t worked.