Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1921 — Page 4

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Jttfem fflathi EimtQ INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Stret. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351. MEMBERS CF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . „ ( Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Adrertising filoes J New York, Boston, Payne. Burnii k Sm'th, Inc. IT IS NOT HARD to see tlie finish of the miners’ organization if it is unlawful to collect dues by the “checkoff’ method! THE PUBLIC seems to agree with the secretary of the Humane Society that $4,000 is a bit too much to pay for the solicitation of sß,ooo' UNDOUBTEDLY that dance where Rose Goetz met the “strangers” ■who left her unconscious was supervised by our most efficient policewomen! PROSECUTOR EVANS can do much to eliminate professional bonding by the simple process of compelling the professionals to live up to the bond they fumishi Deplorable! The majesty of the law must be upheld at any price. The village marshal at Antioch, 111., who arrested William Jennings Bryan and said he had never heard of the great grape juice advocate, has been discharged by the village president. And Dover Plains, N. Y., where some rogue stole the door to the city lockup is going to get anew jail in the near future. It appears that the marshal in Illinois was so zealous of at resting speeders that the motorists threatened to divert tourists’ trade to other routes. He did pinch Bryan. The officer was an exponent of law and order, of American justice, tempered with mercy and giving the accused a fair start and half the road in the trial for guilt or innocence. But he had never heard of William Jenning- Bryan—four times candidate for the presidency cf the United Slates. Unless the marshal was a very young man he should have been relieved for his ignorance, if not for his zeal in annoying automobilists, for what citizen of America has not heard of Bryan, the silver tongued champion of free silver, government ownership of railroads, freedom of the Philippines and prohibition of alcoholic liquors? No public man has been so much and so long in activity as Bryan, has seen so many political rivals buried or retired. Often in America, how ever, the quality of officialdom is low. as though the public did not have time to heed those who enforce its laws. A man might stop a speeding automobile even if he could not remember the name of a statesman. He might catch a thief and still not read a newspaper. It puts forward the wrong foot for a community to let someone steal its jail door, as at Dover Plains, or to display too gross ignorance as at Antioch. The law should have some majesty. It is safe to assert that the weeds grew thick along the road to the Dover Tlains bastile. It is a certain hazard that the town marshal of Antioch has not worn a collar since the manufacture of the paper article died out, thirty years ago. And he never heard Bryan talk at a Chautauqua meeting in his life' ( Lo, the Poor SailorV Once it was popular to sigh, “Lo, the poor Indian," but since oil has made most of them millionaires, one who follows the news can say, “IvO, the poor sailor.” No reports of “shanghaied” sailors attend police activity in T".dianapolis, but that gentle art of dealing with man, long ago countenanced in England for her navy, still exists. Recently an American soldier named Earl Clark was court-martialed in New York and his story was strange. He was with some Swedish sailors, in Colon, being off duty from the Panama Canal zone—and he showed them the sights. When he awoke he was out at sea, bound for Stockholm. The ship touched England and Clark escaped, only to be put in a British jail and held several weeks. Then when he reached America he was court-martialed and acquitted. yrifn the time he was on th - Swedish ship, he worked a a member of the §Jrew. It was for this purpose that he wr.- abducted and taken aboa.J. for every extra hand made the labors that much less, in proportion. It is no light experience to awaken and find one’s self our at sea. bound for some unknown destination, on a strange ship. On the other hand It is discovered that many Germans are shipping as sailors on ships bound for America, at no wages, or 1 cent a month, so as to get the transportation. They land here as ailors and then disappear in our vast interior. It therefore seems, some are coming and some going all the time over the seas. The necessity of discipline, the need of men to work and the great distance at sea caused peculiar customs in years gone by. Every port has strange tales to tell of local history, most of which is tradition. But Indianapolis has no port, no shanghaied men. no yarns of ships and fishes and pirates. That sensation an inland town misses. For Law Violation? We take it that the people of this community, as of every American community, believe in law enforcement We take it that the laws of this State were made to apply to every individual who resides or sojourns therein. If there is any class of citizens who have been exempted from obedience to the statutes of this State by reason of superior intelligence, training, ■ attainments or position In life, we have failed so far to find any constitutional foundation for such exemption. In Indiana it is a misdemeanor to mutilate a dumb animal. The statute does not make it a misdemeanor for a layman and a privilege for a doctor, or a surgeon or a professor. The law says "whoever mutilates.” In the city council of Indianapolis there is pending an ordinance to make it a misdemeanor to maintain a place where animals are harbored for the purpose of mutilating them. . There is opposition to the passage of this ordinance because, its opponents say, “the purpose is to prohibit vivisection in medical schools.” Vivisection in medical schools in this State is unlawful. It is now prohibited by the statutes of Indiana. Opposition to this ordinance, based on the theory that it is an ordinance to prohibit vivisection is, therefore, opposition to the enforcement of a law' that ha.s already been enacted and has stood on the statute books without opposition for years. And those persons who oppose this ordinance on that ground are in reality opposing the enforcement of the State law,-. Opinions may differ as to the propriety of a State law. There can be no difference as to the propriety of law- enforcement. Let those persons who are so interested in conferring on certain individuals the privilege of mutilating dumb animals come out in the open and advocate such preferment by statute. They certainly cannot be taken seriously in any opposition to the enactment of an ordinance to aid in the enforcement of a law which iheir friends wish to violate. It Pays to Do Right The hauling of stock to market in trucks is a comparatively recent but very efficient method of marketing. It has grown to be a big business in ; Indiana and promises to grow to still greater proportions. That it has its weaknesses and its abuses must be admitted. Among these abuses Is the inhumanity of some of the men who are I engaged in it. Stock haulers .gdmit that they gauge their loads by the weight, regard- ; less of the bulk. They admit that not infrequently they come into the ; stock yards with animals crushed, maimed and smothered en route. They are not penalized for the loss of such stock, except in the general way that such losses affect their popularity among stock raisers. Stock haulers admit that they do not take exceptional steps to prevent injury to the stock in their loads. They explain how calves and sheep and hogs are killed in transit, but they exhT&tt little interest in the suffering of the animals or In the economic loss that follows mishandling. There Is, in Indianapolis, a system of inspection presumed to be functioning in a way that would prevent much of this suffering and much of this loss. Recently this system has broken down. Friday, a citizen moved by the cause of humanity, interfered sufficiently to start the machinery of the law-from its state of coma. That citizen ought to have the support of the whole community, not only on humane grounds but because of the economic phase of the movement. It profits no one to permit livestock to suffer and to die because of improper loading. It is Just as easy to haul stock in the riglmanner as it *s to haul stock careless and contrary to the law.

BE NOT ASHA MED A T TEARS SHED ON O VER THE HILL’ Neilan Provides New Kind of Movie — De Mille's ‘AnatoV Is a Golden Movie

By WALTER D. HICKMAN. Tears is the highest compliment that -an be paid to “Over the Hill." So be not ashamed if you cry real tears on seeing Mary Carr as “Ma Benton”

in TYilliam Fox's production of “Over the Hill” at Loew’s State this week. Here is a movie so fine and big. so true to every day life, so full of the genuine emotions, and so marvelously acted-that I do not hesitate to admit that “Over the Hill” is the thoroughbred of emotional screen dramas. It has been my duty to review hundreds of movie plays In the fifteen years that 1 have

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covered the theater and never have l been so affected emotionally as when I witnessed the suffering of dear Ma Benton as impersonated by Mary Carr, Here is genuine character work, so truthfully and carefully drawn that it nearly becomes an indictment against selfishness cf ehil dren to forget their mothers on leaving the old home to make their way in the world. I tried In vain to keep the tears back bnt I failed. The truth is, I was emotionally whipped after seeing this movie. I am not ashamed of my tears. To me “Over the Hlil” is the master sermon of the sereen but one does not realize the overwhelming message of the story until dear old Ma Benton wends her way over the hill to the poorbouse. Tjhen one recalls every curt word and s-Ifi-h deed done to a mother. Again I say, be not ashamed of your tears on seeing “Over the Hill.” William Fox, in producing this movie, has contributed to the screen the master piece of mother love. I cannot bestow too much credit on the work of Mrs. Parr as Ma Benton. Here wo have the most faithful mother characterization 1 have ever seen on the aereen. The acting of every one in the cast is excellent. The mo/?e may be a little too long, but 1 am willing to overlook that. Let me tell you abont Ma Benton, of her six children, of her husband who would not work until he landed a jeb which measured up to what he thought

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HON. MARTIN C Ansorg* II OIAF, of Representatives. WASHINGTON, D. C. MY DEAR Martin. • * * THE OTHER day l FOI'ND in my mail. AN ENVELOPE. WITH VO IK name on it. AND IT had been franked. s • * AND HROLGHT to me * • # A SPEECH you made IN THE House of Congress * * • AND I'VE raed the r; eech I GLESS It's all right. • * * IH’T REALLY, Martin I DON'T tare a Lang * * * A HOI T WHAT you sar ON THE floor of Congress AND MORE partieula-ly 1 DON’T -are n hang FOR THE things you *ay • * • AND SEND to me. s * • RECALSF. IT’S a cinch FROM YOLK standpoint THEY'LL Ue alright. AND YOF'LL send me nothing THAT'LL lITRT you any AND, BESIDES that, Martin. r.M ONE of tha men s * wno PAT the bill* ess rOE PKINTTN-G these speech**. s • • ANT) THE envelope*. AND MATIJN'O them. AND IT costs a lot AND I'D just as oon. YOU'D (TT my name OFT VOIR mailing list. AND SAVE that much s • * AND IF yon must make speeches. AND THEN must mail Vm • * • WHY NEVER mind me. * * * AND, ANYWAY, Martin IF TON can't do that. YOU COULD shorten them up BY CUTTING out ♦ * • WHERE IT koys “applfliin*.'’ • * • AND LETTING the fellows. YOU SEND them to • * • DO THF.IR own applauding. * * I THANK you.

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was worthy of him and of her great devotion and sacrifice for her children and for her husband. In the prolog we see Ma Benton with iter flock of children around her. She kisses away the bruises of experiences that the children receive. Ska spares Johnny, who is the “wild Indian” of the family from many experiences with a slipper in the hands of his dad. Here we have a real home and real children who quarrel. John, who is the black sheep, is detested by his brother Isaac, who always quotes scripture and who later becomes a minister. Dad will not work. He allows ma to take in washing and ironing and (tewing. While the otte rs sleep ma is at work, but she Is happy because it is all for her loved ones After the prolog all the children have inarrlpd but John, the “black sheep" of the family. Isaaae is now a minister and herefusos to have anything to do with John. John is .the pride of his mother Dad Benton has developed the ability of being a corking good horsethief. John, to his horror, discovers that his dad is a thief, takes the blame on the condition that he will never tell his mother the truth. John goes !o prison Ah, it is here tlyjt the tears begin to flow when Ma Benton suffers at the thought of her boy being in prison for three yaers. When John trels out of prison his father had died John finds it best to leave for another city and makes arrangements with the Rev. Isaac Benton to send money to Isnaa to lie used fur his mother John warns Isaac that if he fails to take care of his mother Isaac will “pay" to John. Time passes. John sends the money and Isaac pockets it for his own use None of the nth-r children will have m:i in filler homes. Finally she g-e-s to the poorbouse. Thru John comes l.onu on Mother's day He learns the truth and drags the Rev Isaac through the stre-is. telling the crowd tha' Isaac had sent his mother to the poor farm After teaching Isaac a lesson, John runs to the poor house, picks his mother up In h!a arms and carries her back home- back to the dlean, aid of tier youth. The whole story is full of “home, sweet home” atmosphere. 1 haven't the time to speak further of this ui 'ie I will give yon the cast in full : Ma Kenton Mart O.: r Dud Benton William We,eh Isaac, the lirst born Asa boy Sheridan Tanvey Twenty years later . .. Vo-1 'I-arU-Thomas, their second son As n boy Stephen Farr Twenty y.ars later .1 hn liw v, r John, tile Id. k sheep Asa boy . lerrv P.-vine Twenty years later ...John Walk-r Charles. th youngest eon--A* a boy .Tames Sheldon Twenty years later . Wall n- Kay Itch erea. their -ld-.st daughter As it child . ...Rosemary Farr Twenty years lu'.r . . . I’hvlli- Older Susan. their voungest daught-r Asa child Mart Rett < 'arr Twenty years tat. r . l.o*: j t arr Isabella Strong John's Swat heart Vivienne Osborne Agulntis. Issa -'s wife . P rothy Viler I.ncy. Charles’ wife Edna Mart in If you miss "Over the HU!" at Loen't State this w>rk. you will ya-s up In my humble judgment the sweetest story ever filmed M ILAN T 1 It N S MOVIE SCKFF.N INTO A MAGAZINE. Ever pick un a magazine In ft sort of a careless vay and ask yourself what you wanted to read? As you turn tha pages, suddenly vour attention t claimed by a story. then you start reading. Such a feeling comes over one while witnessing Marshall Nellau's Jat st >n

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general title. I found N-llau's latest .novie a very refreshing form of scr—r. entertainment and I s.— a big fulur ahead for this sort of thing Neilan pare* the way for filming many ehur' stories Hint arc entirely too short to make a movie So he has thrown away all the padding and has produced four short tories, three of which lia>c s;, peared in popular magazines The fourth one vax written by Neilan. Each story contain* it* own dramatic punch or climax. Also the characters In each story are as carefully developed and p/oduced as If each one was a separate movie. The first "bit” 1* called “The Ba 1 Samaritan." In the principal character is a “within the law" crook, who changes his "spots" of black for a robe of white. Tha mlnnte he does a kind job he is re warded by being arr st-d and placed In prison. Interest, cent* rs entirely upon the central character, which 1* the crunk although U.sJy Barry, that freckled fa-ed wonder of the screen, Ims a small part in this "lilt." It Is my personal opinion that the see oud ‘"hit,” called “The Man Who Heard Everything,” is the finest of the lot from a ohuracter standpoint as null ns in tin-inn value. This story concerns a barber who Is deaf. He has been deprived of las hearing for fifteen years and during that time he has loved with a dlvtn- passion bis lazy utul untrue wife. Ho trusted his wife and his great love for her und for his poetry resulted in making hita n dreamer One day n customer shows th- deaf barber an InatTiiment which will enahb him to hear. The instrument arrive* am' for tiie first time in fifteen veare the bar tier is able to h-sr tiie sound of t human voice. The firat. thing h- hoars is a customer tilling his barbers ri "dirty” story That giv him a rude awakening. The barber plan* t. surprise his wife and he goes home rejoicing lie will be able to hear her sweet voice. When he

arrives home he overhears a conversation which diedoet * to him the unfaithfulness of his wife. Instead of beating hjs wife, tho barber goes ba-'k to hie shop and destroys the instrument, which enables him to hear. Pretty Idea oh ? Then Mr Neilan turns the pages of another magazine until he finds a story called “Hop,” by Hugh Wiley. Her,, we have one of the s trance-t stories evi r unfolded on the screen. I refuse to tell you the contents of this thriller because the ending has a terrific punch. The fourth “bit * is a llfle comedy af fair called “The Strange Adventure.” which was written by the producer. It Is a light little surprise party which leaves the audience laughing I am surt- that the majority of movie fans will welcome this kind of movie entertainment because it is different from anything ever attempted on the screen. "Kits of Life” is tho feature attraction at the Circle tills week. -I- -IC ONCE It SING “TIIE AF FAIRS OF ANATOL.” ’I he magic finger of Ci vil I' Mille has touched tho stage version of Arthur S •hnitzler s “The Affairs of Anatol,” and the result is the in-st extravagantly pro

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enact the leading roles T his is the first nun io | have ever seen where I am will ing to admit that the east i “all star " Here Is proof of the pudding, as the cast follows In full: A:..P0l l>e Witt Spencer Wallace Reid Vivian, his wife Gloria Swanson Max Runyon Elliott Dexter F'lit.e I!ebe Daniels Al l n- r Kit lot Monte Blue I mille Dixon Wanda Hawley G-rdo-i Bronson ... Theodor- Roberts *nnic Llliot Agnes Avres Na/.z-r Singh Theodor ■ Kosloff OreheGnU Leader Polly Moran Iloflmicer Raymond Hatton ‘ l, ' r Julia Fay Pr Bowles Fhurles Ogle •’>' Johnson Winter Hal] • I *' s !"'mer Butler. . Guv OH n, r Spencer Maid Ruth Miller I t.e Spencer Vale: . ..Lumen Llltpfi-ld Zeliua Mnja ■ horns Girl Shannon Pav Bridge Players. • ■ ■ J - ill*- r Fly: and. Lady Parker Gu-s'i VV ill'- m B .yd and Maud Wavne zei Fred Huntley < horns Girl . . Alma Bennett No on- hut D,- .Mille would dare to s :i ’h a thing but every one of th<above appear in the geratly heralded ho-,.- I~r no n-w have waited for a glyrtips- at t h , gulden affair. Her vr hi. !se M V 11. h.s mist extravagant nil' The sky appears, to be the limit In this movie. He overwhelms you yvith !l - " **:.l l h of lip ttir.gs, the cost and importance of the on it the magnitude ->t ■ -v“ Hiibtsria - Inga - well as tiic daring it required to mix so many stars into one offering Many liberties have b-cn tak*n with the original play. As He Mille ha F rued out The Affairs of Anatpl. ' it "!!l r. main f-r months tno must c.s t avagant uiovle on the screen. Gloria Swanson is cast as tho wife of 'h" loving a 1 ..- times silly Ant.tol Her gowns, and there ar** many, r-fl-ct •tic atmosphere of th, movie studio. Won yvill see Gloria s liar,* f.--t at the very ■■eglDnlt g of th - picture and ah- e\ p-.a-s them In no uns-ifish manner In the hypnotl. scene of the piny , Viol this picture is long on its kiss-s. Wjlis'-o Ibid plants easily a half hundred of tu lingering variety in Hits movie, most „r th-m being directed in opposite direction to that of his wife First Anatol attempts to 'save Lmi 1— Pixou from shaking lior shoulders in th modern jazzy manner fur the amusement of an old N-nta Glaus who has more moij-y than bruins. Entile

trlbution to the scr-eu. which I* called “Bits of L if e " This movie 1* a radical departure from anything that I have seen on the screen. It s-ts a new era in screen entertainments. "Bits of Life" might be_ called, "The - Short Story Book of the Screen " That Is what "Bits of Life" r- ally is four short and complete stories put togc'hcr under

r ari y wrecks Anatol while be is trying to "save" her. Then Anatol falls a victim to Annie El Butt, the "Innocent” country girl wifi cf Abner Elliott, she trims Anatol of a fat pocket book. Then Satan Sy one tliisi.es on the horizon of Anatol Satan is a proper name for this g;rl She lives in a most * xtravagaut manner. It is in these scene* that De Mille lias run wild Never have I seen such golden extravagance in my life. Th-s- a-enes reflect iho zenith of Mr. De Mille's ability to put on a movie In the most costly way. After Satan gets through with Anatol. b- is ready to go back to the arms of Ills wife, but ho finds that aho has adopted the theory of seeking the bright light* Just ns Anntol has done. lie then realizes what a fool he has been. "The Affairs of Anatol” is the grand boll of the movies. It is a golden fairy land nil Jazzed tip with wealth. fine clothes, lingering kisses, pretty aui naughty women, even "wild” women. It is De Mllie at the golden sunrise of his career. There is going to b- a lot of taik about this movie, he-auae it is the wild cabaret of the screen. Nothing has ever been done on the screen which resembles it It Is the classiest movie of the age. Os course you will Join the crowds at the Ohio this week. Carnival and high life is king in this movie. On view at ihe Ohio all week CONCERNING “MOTHER O' MINE.” Tills week seems to ba mothers’ week in local movie land Tiie Alhambra i contributing its part by presenting "Mcth-r O’ Mine.” which is an adaptation of Charles Belmont Davis’ "The Octopus." It was directed by Fred Niblo. In tli- first place the cast is so Important that it i necessary to give it in full. Here it is as follows: Robert Sheldon Lloyd Hughes Doily Wilson Betty Ross Flark Fan Baxter Betty Blythe

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tom mix. Tom js a real bad man in “T he Night Horseman." which is tho attraction non lon view at the Isis, ills path is covered with dead one*. When he is on his wild expeditions. Torn rides his horse which is name I Satan. The movie 1* baseJ on a novel called, “Wild Geese" by Max Brand. Willard Thatcher. Joseph Kilgour Mrs Sheldon Fin ire M.-Dowell District Attorney Andrew Robson 11-i.ry Godfrey Vndr-w Arbnekle The burden of th- acting fall upon Joseph Kilgour as the father wh" appears t • lo- absolutely heartless Ills work in this characterization will rank very high in iin* screen activities of th- s-a son. The rob- of the son Is enacted by Lloyd Hughes and if I am not mistaken we arc going to hear a great deal mot.about this seer.,i. Betty Blythe has one <,f thus- Broadway dames who is experienced in everything but religion. Betty Rogs Flark who has graduated from being a player yviih a certain tat comedian who is now an out. ast in the film world, again gives one of her natural Impersonations of a sweet and clean minded her dm- Andrew Robson is cast as the district attorney wh . has an important bearing on the emotional status of the story flair- McDowell plays the mother role in this movie of suspense and heartaches. The dramatic kick to this movie is different from the regular run of movies of this r.vpe. The big scenes of the play arc those dealing yvith the efforts of the heroine to prevent her sweetheart. Robert Sheldon from being ele-troomed on a charge of murder Everything is set for "justice” to claim its reward. Robert had been tri-d on a charge of 11. murder of his ow n father, who had deserted hi* yv fe years before the story begins Th- boy is not really to blame, bnt the father on his deathbed insists that Robert did the job. Suspense Inereast-s as a big motor car whirls over a country road in the mad effort of th- o viipatits to ask til- dis trh-t attorney to prevent the execution The car rashes through a railroad gat- • •ro.sain-g. Somehow you get. the feeling that th- high power-d • ar w 11 never get to the city in time to prevent an innocent man from pnylr s a 1 -ht he dres not ow* The occupants of the car g-t the same feeling ami realize that they can't make it. Ttr-y solve th- problem by stopping at a power house which furnishes the e'e-trie -iirrent :•> the prison. They sue v-ed la g-ttug the current "out off " That is the dramatic "lei* k” and the big surprise of Mf i-r (■' Mine.” Although some of tii* -fory may appear ineonsiMnnr. yet the dramat 1 - events are m well ! r.dlf I ti nt M -GT-r O' Mine” is go .and melodrama This mother picture will held your in t-rpsf and will work you up to a high emotional pitch At thr Mhsmbrs all week G. V R. X ISITORS SHOI Ir> VlilT MISTER SMITHS. T he management of Mister Smith ha* chosen as the feature offering at

dur-d and east movie that the screen lias ever reflected Decile De Mille has turned his pocketbouk upside down and has produced a movie of such staggering golden licanty that one shuddf rs at the thought that xev- - r i! good siz' and fortunes have b—n spent so lavishly. In tli- lirst pla-e. I>. - Mille signed up twelve of th- leading film players to

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ten year* before attempting to do It on the sliver screen. His ability to transform hltuxelf Into a living likeness "f Mi- h-loved rail splitt-r and former President is a splendid p!er of work IPs make-up and the mannerisms of the sr-at Lincoln d-serve sp-ciai mention. Interest will center on this characterization because of the fact that the Drinkwater play. "Abraham Lincoln." has revived so much discussion. Ince has his big chance in this movie when lie allows the kindly "heart of the great President to sway itself in favor of saving Bobby Goodwin, a lad who left his regiment at’ the front during the Civil War to plant a farewell klsg on tiie Ups of liis dying mother. Here one sees the gentle and human touches of tiie beloved Lincoln. If I nm not mistaken, many a veteran will wipe away the tears on seeing this picture. Hobby Agnew plays the ml- of the boy. “Th- Highest Law" remains on view at Mister Smith's all week. AT THE COLONIAL. The feature attraction at the Colonial thi* week is Conway Tearle in “After Midnight.” The cast includes Xena Keefe. It is a sort of a mystery story. Ralph Ince directed It.

j NEW YORK, S-pt. 20. -Tile vaudeville war now is on with a vengeance. For a 1 week the struggle between the Shuberts, the newcomors In tno field and the vet-ran and reliable Keith outfit, hast been on In four eitbs. New York. Baltimore, Boston and Cleveland, and beginning today the conflict was extended to Philadelphia, Dayton, Detroit, Newark. Pittsburgh and Washington. On subsequent Monde ys other groups of rival Souhert hoiisys will i be opened. j in New } ork ttie Shuberts instituted i their entrance into vaudeville at the For jty Fourth street theator, in Manhattan, j ami lie Shubert-Frescent Theater In I Brooklyn and this week they expand their vaudeville venture to the spacious Winter | Garden, thro- blocks from the palatial Palace theater, the "home otli.-e” and j show off stage of the Keith circuit. Ben I Atwell is pounding out the -press su ff for the Kbuln-rts. whi> Walter .1. Kingley's typewriter is rattling for E. F Al las- the genius of Keith s. Nothing lisa happened f >r y-.irs in the aterdnm to equal the mjgnitude of i insight Just slatted. Th T' are mild- us of dollars ui stake on both sid.-s iinFse tliern is always ail unless tb-n is enough of the public purs- io support n new vaudeville competitor The Shu lierts have refitted their chain of vande villc amusement house*, including five in Canada, for the present only extending west to Kansas City and south to Louis vlll- and Washington. They tore engaged four vaudeville a ts up to date and within thirty days will be committed to a .weekly pay roll of s£oj.O'l to i'S>. utO exclusive of musicians, stag - hands, tub ei> a..d other non acting supernumeraries of th- theater. Cm the other bund, the B. F. Keith Booking Exchange has in the neighbor hood of .T.bOd acts now playing iu the •gOtt'N-andevlll- theaters of the i-K th eir cult ami the 1 .Hi additional theaters of tiie Orpbeum circuit west of Chicago, the Bolt Theater in New England an 1 the Niltuer and Vinpond Theaters in th Mid die States Tin K-itli ciren.t works in conjuetion with the Marcus Loew's RSI picture houses, which us- vaudeville actors. while th- William Fox swing of motion picture houses s reported to have cast it* lot with the Shuberts Obv ousiy, the -hies beneficiaries of the entrance of the Shuberts into vaudeville are the vaudeville actors and actresses, some of whom are receiving fabuh us sal arics. Th- Shuherrs have patterned their entertainment aft-r the big London music hails such as the Hippodrome, th-Folis-um and the Pala-e The theaters th-y have transform-i Into vaudeville houses in the main were forrueriy ]e gititnate house* playing road shows, which sold seats at a top price of $3. The new vaudeville top price is sl. Naturally, one wondera how the Shuberts exp- t to make out at the lower prices received for vaudeville Vaudeville theater* give fourteen shows a week. That 1* double the capacl.y of the house* which formerly played 'ix night performance* and two matinees. Further, the theater* were sedlorn filled to capacity at the high gate rat-, which could not be lower and while salaries remained at Hie war time level. By creating almost o'er night i circuit, of vaudeville theaters, with art* moving around them in rotation, the Sh "berth have a-com ■ f a j first would seem impossible. Virginia Kappe* rvai name wa* Z<-a.ine K.ipp--. and the alleged victim of the Arbti< kle tragedy ad *-de ag > lived in Fiftieth str-c mar Eighth afeu-ie with her mother and stater. She tis-td in automobile when motor ars w-re rare Now r.nd th-n tli 'nt< rJoin ge ■ a thrill from a patron. For instance, one day recently. Mrs. Pierre Du Pont of \\ ,lutin g ton. Delaware, brought fifty guests to New York in a private rto s.-e “ThClrcle.” a reminder of the bonanza dayof the war Madame Margaret M.-ttz-nauer. the grand opera soprano, was out walking with her new husband. Floyd Glatzbach. the California garage mau recently, showing him the two sides <>f th- Metropolitan opera house. A grand jubilee testimonial •ok is being circulated among theatrical so h for “yours merrily" John It. Rogers, who spent half a century as a malinger entering to th- amusement public of toe w ' rl 1 in which pursuit he circle; the globe eight times, crossed th- Atlantic lift tines and managed aiuo g other-* J K Em.nett. Mary Anderson. Minnie Palmer and Wil son Barrett. Babe Ruth's salary in vaudeville will be n week, which is more than lie is getting in baseball, it is the same as a used car bringing more than on- direct from the factory. Music is all card Indexed, just like books, grade* of coffee or wheat, and the dealer* new band you lists giving the mouth's six best sellers which can be

till-, house a movie which will have strung appeal to the hundreds of G. A R T-teranu who are in the city this week. The picture, because of Its v-ry nature. wUE inter e*t nil American citizens. Tiie movie in question is called "The Highest Law.” and give* Ralph lets a cause of its very carefully studied characterize i o n of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Ince studied the Lincoln rule for over

AT THE KEGEXT. William Patton ln “Outlawed” is one of the offerings at tho Regent tills week. The cast Includes also Carolyn Wagner. Buck Conners. Edward Burn, ttid numerous others. The bill also Includes Harold Lloyd in "Among Those Present.” -!- -1- -iON THE STAGE. Jo Weber * production of Tloneydew" opens a week's engagement tonight at the Murat. The Shriners have taken over the house for tonight's performance. All other performances are open to tiie public. "Twin Beds" opens its annual engagement at English’s tonight The engagement closes Wednesday night. On Thursday the famous Georgia Minstrels will open a three day engagement. Toto, famous clown. Is the hardliner on the new bill at B. F. Keith’s. .Tone, the “Pearl of the Pacific." and her Ilawallans will ton the Dill at the Lyric tills week. "Abe Martin." a musical comedy, is this week's offering at tlie Rialto. The Broadway Is offering anew- bill of family vaudeville in addition to feature photoplays. “Little Bo Teep" Is this week's attrac tion at the Park.

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chosen as phonograph, records, player roll* or sheet music. The newest id-a in touring jazz band* is for an agent to go ahead and arrange a series of one night stands the musicians traveling like a theatrical company and playing in the hotel or hall in each town. Paul Whiteman, who has been on .su-h a tour tells mo it works out to the satisfaction of both the public and the musicians. Coney Island registers the complaint that the season just, closed has been the poorest Ln years both as to intake of cash and attendance. The municipal and other charitable employment sg.-ncies “clocking” the woes of the jobless give tiie actors first place numerically in tiie lisa of vocations af-fc-ted by th- hard times. On Sunday. 2 a. m, New York City reverted to the old time, which is an hour slower than daylight savings time. The change was a wel-t.me one, for darkness is already upon those who have far to go after leaving work -Madame Georgette l.e Blanc, i Maeterlinck) came ] so teljv ik- managers she has nearly finished tee development of t specta- ular drama from Flaubert's historic novel. / Salambo," in which Bhe hopes to take the leading role. Theatrical people are very- human, after aL. as is constant,y shown in their dailv ’ :f ‘ I’ l- iiKuuce, Eleanor Painter, the opera star of The Last Waltz” no sooner heard that I.ydia Lipkowska, the I oiish Merry \\ idow prima donna was a stranger to golf than she invited her to h- r h- me in New Rochelle and had her out >n th- links teaching h-r the game Flora Sheffield, of “The Night Cap.” whose father was a major of cavalry In the British army, learning that the British Great War Veterans Association had a woman * auxiliary offered her services to !,e immediately made a member ts tha entertainment committee Williard Robertson. in "The Detour,” who on-e was un officer on a freighter sailing out of New Orl-dl.s. .reading that bis old boat was anchored in New York harbor, in vited the officers to ace him act. Hearing that the wife of Eddie Cantor hml -riv-u birth to a baby girl, making four gir: In all ar the actor's Mount Vernon home and that the head of the family -as playing iu Fhi-ago, Broadway stage friends have be-u visiting the happy nn tlier in relays. 1 !:-n there William Faversham. wh> is felling exerybody of his son: “I suggested b- -h -ild see ‘The Silver Fox* in which I appear and he rebuked me with -what's th: idea of that when I -an yon anviime 1 want to in your room?” instead of going out front to see my show, he picked out The Greenwich Vil-'-IJollies, j musical revue, and went rh- re f.,r his night's entertainment." S "r take the sentimental Hilda Spong, wh-i is showing in “The Kan." She has insisted the scenery used for the piece t>" tha: designed by her father. Walter Brooks Spong.

OFFER PRIZES FOR ESSAYS ON CITY INDUSTRY Junior Chamber of Commerce to Encourage Youths in Civic Pride. Th- essay contest which is being -or. ducted in the sixth. Seventh and Eighth grades of Hit ; ib-ic schools by the India nap.iis Junior * hamiier of Fommerce to inculcate among the students a feeiiug us pride in the industrial development of the city star's this week. Each student in these three grades will write an essay mi Industrial Exposition Prizes of s2',, sls and $lO will be given b. v the Indianapolis Industrial Exposition fur these Etsays. in ea.-h room iu the school today the following message was read by tha teacher: U e . re proud of Indianapolis because it i* a city of homes. The wonderful Park '. stem, th- g-md schools and s'rong i ht.n-l.i >. its -übher's and Sailor's Mcnuin- nt ui-- things of which we all know. Prubabit we have never stopped to i-unsider wuai it is that makes the many thing!- itt L .li.manolis possible. On the week ,f Get 10 t i 15. we will have an upper:unity t s-e that part of the cit/ i slble the l ings we enjoy in Indianapolis. At the Indianapolis Industrial Exposition. to l>c held in the Manufacturers' toilldlng at the Star- jnirground. it will be I- ssi’ile for us to see Industrial ln-diauapolis-Under-One -Roof, It is la Indianapolis Industries that a great pars of th- mmey : s made with which to build the beautiful homes of the city. This industrial development has made’posslb'e the taxes with which the city has built our boulevards and parks and monuments. “The industries of the eitv will exhibit the articles that they make. Many of tliem will have machines actually turning out the products. Do you know that ibe-re are more than TOO entirely different variries of things mc.de in thU city? Nearly 400 factories will have exhibits. “On Friday y.ni are going to be asked to write an essay on 'lndustrial Indianapolis." Prize* will be given for the best essays written throughout the schools f the city. Twenty-five dollars will go to the writer of the best essav, fifteen doilars to the second and ten dollars tu the third We want to follow these tittle messages that will be used each day, as it is my hope that someone from Hiis room will win one of the prises.’*

Conscience Hurts When Near Asylum SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.-An anonymous letter bearing a Stockton, Cal., postmurk and containing ?2!V) in currency and a note printed In ink. saying, “I owe this to the Government. My eoDs ience will not let me Jtoe-p It,” way received by John L. Flynn, collector oi internal revenue. Flynn said he had ne idea who sent the money, and recallad that “there is an ssylum for the inaane at Stoc-kton.”

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