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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-28

Mr.. Rhodes acts as master OF GER
emonies for the rest of the show,
which includes Harry Howard,
nut" you probably have seen be-
fore in the same skit, which still is
humorous. He's the one with horn
trimmed glasses and fur coat who
tries to sing "the song I made fam
Gus in Hollywood" and is constant
~ interrupted by stooges. His COM
edy is loud and furious, family
amusing.
Acrobats Bounce On Heads
The Stanley brothers dash ener-
getically through a new type of &C
robatic dance act in which they
roll and tumble about the stage,
topping it all by bouncing around
on their heads. One of them puts
on delightful drunk sketch in
the finale.
The old two-man horse gag evi-
IDENTIFY still is good for many laughs,
Judging from the way the audience
received the work of the Dunn
brothers and Dotty yesterday. These
boys are excellent in their line and
the old gray mare is all she ever
was, with tap dancing and sitting
on its own lap.
Virginia Gibson, former Indian
apolis girl, sings and plays straight
for Mr.. Rhodes, and Frances Wills
presents an intricate bit of ballet
work which adds to the show.
Chorus Makes Hit
The chorus, billed as the "12 Hol-
lywood Honeys," come close to be-
ing the hit of the attraction, with
two splendid routines, the best be-
ing one in which they operate dolls
duplicating the steps they take.
Showed Under" the Lyrics pic
ture, tells of a young playwright
who needs inspiration for the third
act of a new play. He finds him.
self cooped in a farmhouse with two
former wives and an infatuated
school girl. One of the eX-wives
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WHERE, WHAT, WHEN

APOLIO
Colleen" musical picture with
Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Jack
Oakie, Ruby Keeler and Hugh Her
bert. at 1881, 1881, 3:3l. 5;31, 1881.
9:3l.
GIVE Us This Night" screen
operetta with Jan Kiepura and
Gladys Swartout, at II. las. 4:30,
7:20 and 1910. 'Preview Murder
Mystery" with Reginald Denny,
Frances Drake and Gail Patrick, at
l2:45, $3.50. $40 and 9:05.
INDIANA
Love Before Breakfast" with
Carole Lombard and Preston Foster,
at 1:0l. 4:07. 7:13. 1919. Also First
Girl with Jessie Matthews at
ll:43, 2:49, 5:55. 0.
KEITHS
Mrs. Temples Telegram with
Jack Duval. Ned LeFevre, Hal
Hawks. Alice Arnold. Betty Anne
Brown, at 8:15.
LoEw'S
Robin Hood of Ell Dorado" with
Warner Baxter and Ann Loring. at
II, i.45. 4:30. .7l5, 10. Also You
May Be Next" with Ann Sothern
and Lloyd Nolan. at 1890. 315. g.
$50.
showed Under" on screen, with
George Brent, Glenda Farrell, Gene
We've Tobin, at 1928, 2:2l, STA, S:07.
1899
Going Hollywood on stage. with
Harry Howard. 100, 1888, SAC, $3.50.
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-OVE BEFORE BREAKFAST ONE OF SEASONS BEST COMEDIES
STAR Is VETERAN OF STAGE
YET QUITE YOUNG IN YEARS

Gladys George, attractive star of
Personal Appearance, or How Far
Is tie Barn2" which opens at Eng
lishs Monday night, is the young
est actress in the business with Is
years on the stage to her credit.
She made her debut as a baby
from behind the footlights of a
Waterbury Comm theater. Later
she joined her father and mother
as the third party in THE Three
Clares." Miss George likes to tell
of the time they were stranded in
Texas, but her financially embar-
raised father made light OF the
matter.
Her first important role was with
the Winthrop Ames Co. in Maeter-
lincks THE Betrothal." She went
West. with the company and ended
up in motion pictures under the di-
rection of Jesse Lasky.
After making two pictures, her
old yearning for the road returned.
She went back to Springfield, Mass,
where she landed with the resident
stock company.
Found by Scout
A play producers scout saw Miss
George in Springfield, and offered
her a part in Queer People" The
play failed but it led to part in
THE Milky Way" where she at
tracted the attention of Brock
Pemberton and was signed for
Personal Appearance"
Miss George and her fellow play
ers, including Otto Hulette, Philip
ODER, Florence Robinson and
Merna Pace, haven't missed a per-
Torrance since Personal Appear
ance" opened in 1884. They played
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-28
Walter Huston
Turns Singer

Times Special
HOLLYWOOD, March 28.--Walter
Huston, star of many performances
of "Doddsworth," has turned singer
His resonant bass voice is to be
heard in the film "San Francisco"
Calling upon Director w. S. Van
Dyke and jeanette Macdonald, he
arrived in time to hear Miss Mac
Donald sing Battle Hymn of the
Republic" But the director de-
manded a deeper bass voice than
the one in the chorus. He remeln-
bered the Sweet Adeline" quartet
in which he and Huston had sung
and conscripted the stage stars
bass voice for the recording.
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Ford, Found|ing,
Hunts Mother
Actor Has Hunch She Is
Still Alive.

Times Special
HOLLYWOOD, March 28.-If you
haven't been reading the London
newspapers, you may not know that
Wallace Ford has turned detective.
The actor is searching for his
mother.
She may not even be alive. At
the founding home where Ford was
received as an infant, it was under
stood that the mother died a few
days after his birth.
But he feels that she is alive. It's
one of those lunches that optimists
and sentimentalists have.
Letter Began Search
Her name may be Catherine
Jones, or Grundy, or anything else
if she happens to have married
again. She may live in the Lime
house district of London, where Ford
presumably was born on Feb IL
1889, or she may live in your block
An unsolicited letter from a, wom-
an in London started him on this
search. She claimed to be his aunt
and declared that Catherine Jones
is still living. So far, Ford has con-
fined his quest to advertisements in
London newspapers and inquiries to
the English police.
He has received a lot of letters,
most of them obviously from people
whose imaginations have been slim
ulated by the knowledge that WAL
lace Ford, orphan, is making a lot
of money in Hollywood.
Sent to Canada at 7
His real name isn't Ford at all
He was received at the Bernardo
founding home in London as Sam
uel Grundy Jones. At the age OF
7, along with some 300 other orphan
boys, he was sent to Canada and
there bound out to farmers.
Quite succession of farmers fig
ured in Sans early life; he ran
away from the seventeenth and took
to the road
While leading a semi-hoboish
existence, going from one job to an
other, he met a young American
itinerant named Wallace Ford. They
were close pals. While beating their
way across Iowa, Ford was crushed
when load shifted in freight car
He died in his friends arms.
fYio
pected that he was destined for an
acting career, took the name of
Wallace Ford.
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though some of his assistants have
been burned by powder. After plan
ming everything, he sits at an intri-
cate switchboard and presses but
tons which detonate the various
charges at the proper times.
He got his start as a fireworks
manufacturer, and 10 years ago was
called in on his first combat assign
ment. What with the current Afri-
can squabble and the world wide war
scare, he believes that from now on
his business will be literally BOOM
ing. He hopes so, anyway.
He considers realistic war pictures
the most powerful of all instruments
for peace.
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Mr.. Cronkite doesn't look at all
like Mars. He is middle-aged and
wears gold-rimmed glasses, is soft
spoken and mild-mannered. Artil-
lery engagements are his livelihood,
but his real passion is collecting
stamps.
He has three kinds of battles in
stock-open field, siege f-fort, and
naval The latter are the toughest
to stage, and often are done in
miniature.
All screen battles are fought with
special, non-commercial types of
explosives. For example, shells
which are detonated by hitting the
ground must give off bright flashes,
but the noise isn't important, be-
cause the explosions are dubbed in
later.
Uses Miniature Guns
Scenes showing big guns in &C
ton frequently are made in minia-
ture, with small cannon which boom
with all the fire. rich resonance of
a cap pistol. The heavy smoke
OVERLAPPING most battle scenes doesn't
come from guns, but from smudge-
pots, concealed here and there.
Aerial fireworks serve as sky
flares, and bursting shrapnel are
initiated by special Cronkite shells
actually fired from mortars. They
contain chemicals which spray
down realistically enough to scare
the daylights out of any ex-infan-
tryman.
If you provide the locale and the
men, Cronkite will put on a me-
diminished scrap for you for $4,000.
For this he will use about 500 pounds
of explosives. However, if you want
to hurl a couple of whole armies
at each other, along with earth
shaking bombardments, advance
barrages, and gas, the cost is like
ly to run to $3O,0GC.
Battlefields Available
Pictures such as "All Quiet" and
What Price Glory?" require sew
eral tons of bang-up material.
Near Hollywood there are 16
battlfields, ranging in area from two
to several hundred acres, which
may be rented for martial argu-
ments. They're all covered with
trenches and shell-holes and barbed
wire. Only the shell-holes aren't
made by shells, but are excavated
by shell-hole diggers.
Before a battle these are covered
with flimsy wooden platforms, which
in turn are covered with dust and
sand. Explosives send up showers
of earth and debris, and the gaping
holes remain. Very effective.
Cronkite, who hates war, congrat-
ulates himself that so far his battles
have been practically bloodless, al
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-28
to Sing
at Tabernacle
so Voices Are to Be Heard
in 'ChriStuS.'

Fred Newell Morris is to direct
The Tabernacle Presbyterian Choir
of go voices in performance OF
Mendelssohn's oratorio, "Christus,"
at 7:3O tomorrow night in the
church auditorium. A Lenten play
let, 1.-THE Two Thieves" by Esther
Willard Bates, is to be presented by
Kenneth F. Hughes and P. H. Weer
on the same program.
Soloists for the oratorio are Mrs.
Walter E. Wallace, soprano; Perry
M. Rush and Russell Barton, tenors;
Richard Strother, baritone, and
Jack Strickland, bass. Paul r.
Matthews is organist.
The choir is to sing the Verdi
"Manzoni" requiem week from
Sunday night.
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the possessor of splendid voice.
In group of solos by Handel, Buo-
noncini, Massenet (''La Reve" from
"Manon'O and Rummel, he sang
with intelligence and warmth. A
lyric pianissimo was displayed adj
vantageously in the Massenet, al
though his voice had ample power
when needed.
Billy Holland was heard as piano
soloist in the "Humoreske" of
Rachmaninoff, and with Mrs.
Luther King, furnished the accom-
panimentS. (BY j. T.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-28
SuitOr Wins
Merry Race
After. Lady
DaShing CaroIe Lombard Is
Pleasing in Film With
Preston Foster.
BY JOHN w. THOMPSON

Although there is very little love
and much less breakfast, Love Be-
fore Breakfast" at the Indiana
lacks little else.
In this one we have Miss Lombard
just about where every one wants
her, dashing about in bathrobe or
fancy dress and part of the time
with gorgeous black eye.
The black eye, which Preston Fos-
ter delivers, bothers us. The adj
vertisements play it up, so we ex-
pected something real. 1t does look
real, but when she first displays it.,
it's her right eye. The next morn
Ing the camera momentarily reveals
it as her left eye. Then the next
scene finally decides that it shall
be her right eye, and there it stays.
Clears Out Competition
Kay Colby CMiss Lombard), a gay
young thing with mind of her
own, has hard time lodging Scott
Miller Mr. FOSTER, a rich young
man. She thinks she loves one of
his employees, Bill Wadsworth Cesar
Romero), so Scott sends Bill to ia
pan, leaving the field open for him
self. Unwittingly, he tells Kay his
plans and she walks out on him.
The picture is occupied with
clever, little tricks the principals
play on each other. Extremely
amusing, too many details here
might spoil your fun. One of the
funniest goes like this:
Forcing himself upon her, Scott
takes Kay to a fancy dress ball
There Kay meets a boy friend of
hers who has been anchored to a
chattering Southern miss for the
evening. Kay pawns the girl off on
Scott. First she tells each of them
that the other is deaf. The subSe-
quent shouting between the two is
good for barrel of outlaws.
One of Seasons Best
Scott, after taking it on the chin
finally gets his girl. Bill, back from
Japan, gets a bad cold, a hangover
and a countess with yen for PEEK
ingese pups. The audience gets one
of the best comedies of the season.
Preston Foster, away from things
like Last Days of Pompeii," shows
he is good for better parts. Cesar
Romero is seen briefly, but effective
ly, as is Janet Beecher, whose movie
stock has gone up since her role in
1.-THE Dark Angel"
A lively and entertaining Eng
lish-made musical, First A Girl"
the second picture on the double
bill, is hampered only by the fact
that Britons and Americans never
have beer able to agree on what
constitutes sc use of .1umor. Jessie
Matthews, the star, shows herself
a capable dancer and a clever
coincidence. Well wager she goes
to Hollywood.
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106 in Chicago.
Two companies have had the play
on the road for many months, bus
the company coming to Indian
apoiis is the original one that
played New York and Chicago.
Boston is seeing the number two
cast. The choice seems to indicate
that Producer Pemberton has
placed this city in the top-ranking
theatrical list.
Personal Appearance" is to play
for three nights and a Wednesday
matinee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-28

Stars Cast For Another Film
Herbert Marshall and Gertrude
Michael, now appearing in Re
union" have been cast together in
Something to Live For" which will
start soon after the completion of
the current picture.
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Young Peonle to Act

Two one-act plays are to be pre-
sented at Woodruff United Presby-
terrain Church tonight by the Young
Peoples Society of the Salem Ind.)
United Presbyterian Church.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-28
Dale Rhodes Tops Lyrics
Vaudeville Bill With His
Funny Joe Penner Stunts
Best Comedy of Stage Show, Going Hollywood Comes
in Finale When Master of Ceremonies Gives His
ImperSonation of Comedian.

Some of comedy Going Hollywood the Lyrics current
stage i TO be the finale.
Dale Rhodes recently heard on
representation OF Joe
fnnr than Joe himself AT yesterdays
himself choKed on
smoke and everything We're il the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-28
Was School Athlete

During her high school days,
Maxine Jennings, working currently
in Farmer in the Dell" was a no.
table athlete and won eight medals
for swimming and diving.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-28
Ginger Rogers Advises

Lucille Ball. appearing in Farmer
in the Dell" is advised on problems
connected with her film career by
her friend, Ginger Rogers.
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works out the idea for the end Of
the play and each girl gets a man.
It's on the usual George Brent-Pa-
tricia Ellis level-(By j. w. I'd
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-28
Warner Bakers Mexican
Picture at Loew's Is Sad,
but Is Filled With Beauty
Story Goes Back to CALIFORNIA; Gold Rush Days When
PeaceabIe Natives RuthIessy Were Driven From
Their Land by Americans

Warner peon Robin Hood of
Dorado Loews died
he killed ruthey,
knew only to fight.
Since the "Amercanos
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-28
Tulsa Provides Juvenile

William Benedict, ow-headed
youngster who appears with Ann
Harding in THE Witness Chair"
is a native of Tulsa, Okla.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-28
Stars Home a Showplace

Stars Home ShOwplace
The home of Leila Hyams, who
plays opposite Richard Dix in "Yel-
low Dust" is one of the show
places of Beverly Hills.
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He's a,Mi|d hammered Man, but
Big Battles Are His Business
Charles Cronkite Specazes in Hollywood Battles; Sees
Pictures as Peace Aid
Z PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD NEA), 28-Chares
fight contract
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-03

An old constitutional provision
designed to protect incumbent Of
flee holders provides that in the
event of a recall election, if the
incumbent is not recalled he shall
be repaid from the state treasury
any money legally expended by
him in such an election.
In other words, state officials
interpreted the provision to mean
that Merriam, if he desired, could
spend millions and incur heavy
debts to- combat the recall, once
it was qualified, and if he was
victorious the taxpayers would be
forced to meet all his campaign
expenses.
If he could not obtain enough
ready cash to finance a huge cam
paign, he would follow a procedure
like this:
Send his lieutenants to news
papers, printing establishments
billboard operators, advertising
agencies and radio stations and
offer to purchase daily full page
advertisements, millions of hand
bills and circulars, rent hundreds
of billboards and contract for
countless hours on the air under
the following arrangement: "If you
are willing to take a chance, we
will guarantee full payment after
the election, provided Merriam is
Continued on Page 2; Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-03

their report on wheat conditions
at the first Of July estimated the
spring wheat yield this year would
total 134,000000 bushels, 102,000,000
bushels less than predicted a month
ago.
The only bright spot in the re-
port was the estimate on winter
wheat. The estimate of ACT, 900, 900
bushels about equals predictions of
a month ago and was 60,000,000
bushels greater than year ago.
Today's report was compiled by
five grain experts representing
large Chicago grain commission
houses. Their estimates were
based on personal inspection of
conditions in the nations bread
basket" and on dispatches from
thousands of farmers, elevator
owners, and grain men.
The $100000,000 drought and
pest plague held the great agri-
cultural northwest in an unrelent-
ing grip as grain prices skyrock-
eted the limit. Throughout the
stricken area county officials ap-
pealed desperately for additional
federal aid and farmers spent their
waking hours praying for rain.
Scattered summer showers of the
kind that in normal years pass
unnoticed became headline news,
but were Intellectual.
Thousands of farmers faced
poverty under the scorching mid
summer sun and the added pes
thence of chinch bugs and grass
hoppers.
Only an occasional oasis of fer
tility spotted the huge agricultural
area in the district bounded by
the Ohio and Missouri river and
the forests OF northern Canada.
Reports that 1O0,0O0000 bushels
of spring wheat burned up in June
sent wheat futures up the full
limit of five cents on American
markets yesterday.
The flat, scorched plains of the
Dakotas and Wyoming, Montana
and Iowa were in the heart of
the drought district and hardest
hit.
There is actual want on many
FARMS" Mayor Eric Wallin of
Steele, N. D., told the United
Press. "The farmers have no
produce to sell. The chickens are
MT laying. The pigs and sheep
look like ghosts, they are so thin"
He said many farmers are pen
niless, and relief funds are ex-
hauSted.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-03
Fl CENTRANS
DESERT CITY
FOR FOURTH
Business Houses To
Close All Day
Saturday

July a will be observed in
Imperial Valley by a gen.
eral exodus to coast and
mountain resorts, by a val
ley-wide Townsend picnic in
the mountains, and an old fashion,
ed celebration in the Eastside city
park in Ell Centre.
Many business and commercial
concerns will close all day Saturday
in observance of the day. The
post office, banks, federal, county,
district and city offices will close
as required by law The sheriff's
office and the police departments
will remain open throughout the
holiday period. The Post-PresS
will publish as usual. Most of the
stores in Ell Centre will remain
open until 9 o'clock Friday night
Continued on Page 2; Col. q
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no income is realized, is entitled
to exemption. Church parsonages,
however, are not included in the
exemption, according to Charles
c. Halliday, deputy district attor-
ney.
The legislature three years ago,
changed the law to make it neces-
sary for someone who is respons-
ible to file the affidavit requesting
the exemption.
The same law applies to veterans
and nurses who saw service in the
Army, Navy or Marine corps in
time of war, and who have been
honorably discharged. They are
entitled TO exemption of 81 500 if
they do net own property in ex-
cess of $1,000. The widow or moth
er of the veteran or nurse, also
is entitled to the exemption if the
veteran is dead, Halliday said
The attorney general recently
ruled that it was not necessary
for the individual to appear before
the assessor to make the affidavit.
1t is possible to appear before a
notary public to make the applica-
tion, Halliday concluded.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-03
SAFEST DRIVER
WILL GET TRIP
TO METROPOLIS

Imperial Valleys safest automo-
bile driver will be given a chance
at a free trip to New York with
all expenses paid in a program
sponsored by the CIT. Safety
Foundation, Chairman W.H.Rhodes
of the Ell Centre chamber of COM
merce safety committee announced
Friday.
One delegate and one alternate
from each city will be selected to
join a motorcade to draw public
notice to the increasing need for
safety on highways, Rhodes said.
The motorcade will reach New
York Aug. 81.
Imperial Valley lis allowed Is ap-
plicationS. Applicants must have a
10-year record without an accident
or traffic citation, and must have
driven at least $4,000 miles in that
time. Details may be obtained from
Rhodes or the Ell Centro chamber
of commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-03
Second Siamese Twin
Succumbs In Hospital

MEDFORD, Mass, July 3. UIR)-
The second Siamese twin died at
Lawrence Memorial hospital today
after surgeons were forced to
abandon plans for a severance op-
Grafton to free her fom her sister
who Succumbed 81 hours earlier.
Il was unable to operate because
the child failed to respond to spe-
cial treatments given after she took
a turn for the worse during the
night" explained DR.. John B. Vern-
aglia, who delivered the twins late
Wednesday and who was at the bed
side when death came.
DR.. Vernaglia said the chances
were 100 to l against the infant
surviving and even if she had lived,
the chances were 1000 to l against
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-03
MANDAMUS SUIT
SEEKS LICENSE
IN RACIAL CASE

Rosa Corriea, 20, Thursday filed
a petition for mandamus to compel
County Clerk Ed Law to issue a
marriage license SO she may marry
N. Khan, 80 The races implicated
caused the clerk to refuse to issue
the license June 26, and to return
the fee.
In her petition she alleged that
she is not white She said she was
born in the Cape Verde islands
which makes her a Portuguese and
that she always understood she is
part Negro. She alleges Khan is
not British Indian and is not
white.
County Clerk Ed Law was order
ed to appear in superior court July
7, to show cause why he should not
issue the license to the couple.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-03
Doctor Exonerated
By Verdict of Jury
In Damage Action

DR.. Lamar O. Webster of Holt
vile was exonerated from charges
made by Bethel and Eva Brown
when the jury heard the damage
case returned a verdict for the
defendant in superior court Thurs
day afternoon.
The Browns sued the physician
for $4,000 damages because of his
alleged treatment of Mrs. Brown
while she was his patient during
September and October last year.
Mrs. Brown had asked for $4,000
and Brown for $4,000.
Harry Horton represented Web
ster and Ray johnson and A. C.
Finney appeared for the Browns.