The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-20
.Squaring
The Circle
With
McCREADY HUSTON


w ron Art Institute the other
day. Joe Collier and I. Joe was
TO look into the Egyptian exhibit
and I just went along for the ride.
In the Victorian era when coun-
try folk saw buggies and carriages
going by they often hitched up and
joined the procession. knowing a
funeral was on the program. They
might not have known the late la
mented but it was an excuse for
getting together and catching up
on the neighborhood news. So when
I saw Joe wrapping his muf1ler
around his neck and starting for
Heron I decided to go along.
r AM glad I went. For I got to
L see the travelling exhibit of pup
pets which is at Heron until the
end of the month. Puppets have
always interested me from the time
saw my first Punch and Judy
show.
The Punch and Judy show drama
ties the basis of all life. 1t is uni
versal. Punch beats his wife and
the devil drags Punch off to his
deserved punishment If the younger
generation of this age does not get
to see Punch and Judy show it
is being deprived of something more
important than algebra and the in
direct discourse of Caesar in his
story of how he built the bridge.
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TN the Heron exhibit are all kinds
l. of puppets-those operated by
wires from above and those oper-
ated by the push and pull system
from below. They are in costumes
Of all periods and some of the ex-
hibits show them in scenes from the
dramas which, with the voices OF
their operators, they enact.
Maxwell. ANDERSON, perhaps
~ Americas No. l playwright,
has an assistant from Indiana
named Carroll French who entered
the stage world by working with
puppets. He learned to draw ard
design stage settings to scale. Going
east, he met up with Mr.. Anderson
and now has an important part in
planning and executing the settings
for Mr.. Anderson's plays. Mr..
French was once window trimmer
for an Indiana department store.
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MY reference to the newspaper
A'A published on the U. S. S. In
dianapolis has brought quite
response in Navy circles. The local
recruiting officer, j. A. Murphy,
sends word that Wallace Berry
holds the rank Of lieutenant COM
mander in the Naval Reserve,
Aviation Corps. He adds that Wal
ter Winchell is lieutenant in the
Naval Reserve. Imagine the con-
fusion of the enemy were Mr.. Berry
to drop bombs upon them and Mr..
Winchell to take charge of propa-
ganda!
THE mail brings also note from
\ Ralph Cannon, of the Chicago
Daily News, thanking this depart
ment for some compliments paid
him for a recent article in Esquire.
Our paper is not in accord with
Ralph's boss, Frank Knox, on some
political subjects, but that does not
keep us from admiring the indi-
viduals on the paper.
The sports department of the
Chicago Daily News, conducted by
Howard Mann, is one of the few
complete, unhurried, polite sports
departments of the country. For
some reason attributable to good
management, you can drop in there
at almost any hour of the day, sit
down and talk with Howard about
any subject under the sun. T.
barged in on him in the fall when
the World Series was on. The Cubs
were playing in Detroit. You would
have expected Howard and his staff
to be in a Other. But there was no
other. We gossiped for an hour and
the paper came out just the same.
= =.
F Mr.. Knox is elected President he
= should nominate Howard and
Ralph for the diplomatic corps.