Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1922 — Page 4

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Jtiifcma JMg STitties INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MAin 3500; New, Lincoln 8351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. 1 New York, Boston, . ayne, Burns & tnitk, Inc. Advertising offices ) Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. G. Logan 1 ayne Cos. ."cANIT BEthat the boiling of the G. O. P. political pot Is occasioned by hot air? _____ WHY does a counterfeiter fall to make his product the same size as the genuine? AN INDIANAPOLIS jeweler advertises "ribbon wrist watches for women.” Stand back, men! TOO BAD the man who starved his wife before going on a hunger strike didn’t reverse the process NEW YORK GIRLS are said to be dividing their apparel with less fortunate sisters. Looks hke a suicide pact. BEVERIDGE declares the United States Senate is unlike anj other body Does he include the village sewing circle? , ' THEY ARE giving concerts by radio, but until a sending detice is placed in the Senate there is no occasion for alarm. jUST AS Republican Senators are about to throw out the bonus life line, along comes Mr. Mellon and ties a brick on it. THAT FEDERAL JURY with nothing to do might volunteer its services for the trial of some of our Marion County criminals. SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS knock out their wives’ teeth, but some American husbands expeet ’em to wear the same hat two years. ANYHOW, that undertaker who is said to have delivered white mule” in a hearse has a keen sense of the eternal fitness of things. NO ONE will deny that sixty-six fire alarms in twenty-eight hours is indicative of the necessity of further fire prevention work in Indianapolis. THE THIEF who stole an auto while the owner was procuring a license at the State House doubtless felt that license plates could be obtained without waiting. Not Noticeably! The able daily contributions of JuHa C. Henderson to the woman s department of tfce Times are not without their interest to mere man. For example, she wishes to know if it is not really true that men have become so accustomed to the short skirts that there no longer is a bevy of men standing on the street corner or huddled together in a corner drug store on a rainy day to watch the comings and goings of the women who had to be out in the elements. Most assuredly men have not yet become accustomed to the short skirt. The best evidence of that is the fact that women still wear them and never, no never, will the women be caught following any style to which the men have become accustomed. As to the men standing on the street corner for the purpose of observing women, it is plain that they no longer find it necessary. In any part of the business block they can see all that there is to be seen without the necessity of standing on the corner and with no other iucon venience that an occasional failure to recognize an acquaintance by Ihe appearance of her ankles. We knew a man who once, once we say, passed by his wife under these conditions. Men no longer gather in the corner drug store to observe the women. Those inclined to feast their eyes, and few are not, are afraid to go into a drug store even when it is necessary, just as one old bachelor said he hesitated to enter a theater for fear he would miss something. Accustomed to short skirts? We’ll tell the world that the time will never come when a short skirt, worn with a reason (two reasons, we mean), will fail to attract its due amount of attention. t Hard Facts Jitney drivers and their friends who are now seeking a modification or rep al of the restrictive ordinance governing jitney operation should not lose sight of the fact that the future of the jitney in Indianapolis Is inseparable from the future of street car service In Indianapolis. It has been demonstrated recently that Indianapolis can get along without jitneys. It is manifestly impossible for Indianapolis to get without street cars. • Even the jitney drivers themselves will admit that street cars tire necessary to the handling of the people of this city. Now, officials of the street car company declare that the company cannot continue to operate with jitney competition. The company officials are the court of lfist resort on that point. They have the power to stop operations when they deem it necessary. The question then before the people of Indianapolis is whether we have jitney service or streer car service, and there is little doubt as t 9 the answer of the majority of our citizens. Street car service we must have, jitney service w'e can do without. When the jitney drivers realize that fact and join fair-minded citizens in an effort to place the street car company where it can meet operating expenses without collecting all the nickels the public will spend for rides, they . ill be In a much better position to claim the privilege of operation which is now practically denied them under the city ordinance. Why the Secrecy? Doubtless, in the course of time, the public highway commissicfr will let the public in on the little secret of what price the cement manufacturers are willing to take for the cement the State wishes to buy from them. "When it does, the taxpayers, whom the commission is supposed to represent, will be able to get some kind of a definite idea of whether they want cement concrete roads constructed in Indiana this year. Just now they are in the darkness—the same darkness that the commission seems to feel is essential to the protection of the bids submitted several days ago. The highway commission is today the only public body that insists on transacting public business in secrecy. There is, of course, no good reason why it should prefer secrecy to candor, but it does. Already there has been created more distrust of the affairs of the highway commission than the affairs of any other branch of our' government. This -distrust the highway commissioners are increasing every day that they fail to make public facts in which the taxpayers are interested and facts which they should have. Will someone kindly explain what particular foolishness compels highway commissioners to open bids on public work only in the secrecy of their chambers? A Winter Necessity In the far away Yosemite Valley they have awakened to the fact that it is a good thing to keep automobile roads free from snow in the winter months, and someone has invented a tractor-driven snow plow. How strange it -is that such a necessity as a tractor driven snow plow had not been invented sooner. Perhaps it had been thought of before now, but like a good many ideas, did not materialize. Now that it has been tested and proved a success, there should be no hesitation about accepting the motor driven snow plow for general use all over the country. It goes without saying that dread of country and suburban life in winter would be greatly diminished if there could be assurance of open roads during the months when old winter persists in, beautifying ibe landscape and subsequently making the roads impassable. This would probably result in an increased development of outlying .districts and tend to spread the population to some extent. Anew chapter would be added to the joys of touring, lor who can deny that a trip in the country in a closed car—or even a touring car for those who like the sting of snappy weather—over a good road in winter would be a pleasure for those who are fond of scenery? It is true that we do not have a great many heavy snowfalls in this part of the country, but most of the disadvantages connected with it be eliminated by this newly invented tractor snow plow.

ETHEL BARRYMORE AND FAY BAINTER SWOOP DOWN Upon Local Theater Patrons a t Same Time, hut Different Places

Strange bookings of the theater gives Indianapolis playgoers three important plays—“ The Famous Mrs. Fair,” “Declassee” and “East is West”—all in a week's time. J Ethel -Barrymore opened at English’s last night in “Declassee” and at the samy time Fay Bainter in “East is West," opened her engagement at the Murat. Indications are that both stars will do heavy business, judging by the large houses which greeted them last night. -I- -I- -1,CONCERNING ETHEL BARRYMORE. The tribute of remaining in their seats at the close of the play and calling her back again and again was paid Ethel Barrymore by the audience who saw her in “Declassee” at English’s last night. It is so rarely that an Indianapolis audience does this that it- is an event. It is almost unnecessary to comment on the acting of Ethel Barrymore. To say that she is a great actress would be as trite as to say that Shakespeare was a great poet. In “Declassee” she has made the part of the woman whose life Is as a star shooting across the tirmament into the darkness a great part. She has taken what might hare been only a mediocre play, full of poetiw. moufabings and sentimental fancies, and made of It a great success. In the hands of one less competent It might not have lasted a month. Miss Barrymore Is cast in the part of a woman who is extravagant, Impulsive, foolish, and at the same time pathetic, a part that stirs the sympathies. As Lady Helen Haden, daughter of one of the noblest families of England, she appears as the extravagant and rather reckless wife of a brute of a husband. At a party she finds the man she loves cheating at cards. There Is an unpleasant scene in which the husband figures and Lady Helen leaves home, never to return. We see her next In America where she Is selling her pearls one by one merely to gain subslstance. She Is reckless, even care free on the surface, but there Is a shadow as she gazes Into the illimltible future and wonders what will happen tomorrow'. Then It appears that she has found a solution but by one of the strange coincidences that occur so often In real life and occasionally In plays the situation changes. The ending in a sense may be called tragic, but the ending, nevertheless, Is happy for a .woman of the nobility Svho has become declassee in all but her noble spirit. Miss Barrymore makes the best of every moment on the stage. She dra\Vs the audience to her by her personality and she holds it through some of the scenes that might otherwise prove dull to an ordinary audience. But with Miss Barrymore in the part there can be no dullness. For the most part tb supporting cast is well chosen. A great deal could be * said about the acting of Edward Emery. Tn a less brilliant environment his acting would stand out remarkably. O-her members of the cast arc Henrv Daniel. Cyril Delevantl. Charles Wellesley. Philip Lord. Hubbard Kirkpatrick. Alfred Hesse, Edward T.e Hay. Virginia Chauvenct, Trby Marshall, .lane West. Mary It. De Wolf and Gahrielle Ravine. If you miss “Declassee” you will miss one of the iframntSe treats of the season. At English's the remainder of the week, j with matinee Saturday. WE HAVE WAITED MANY MONTHS FOR FAY. “In the infinite beyond there Is no east, there is no west, for \v p st Is east and enßt Is west," says Lo Sang Kee. Just before the curtain descends on the sparkling comedy “East is West “ in which Fay Bainter as Ming Toy. dainty and piquant, captivated Indianapolis at the Murat last night. Andc thereby hangs the tale, for the conclusion is reaily the beginning, as It : would seem. And as the honorable Chi- ; _nese merchant also says, “there are white men who are yellow and yellow- men who ' are white," which resolves It Into the ; thought that folk are Just alike the world over, you can't tel! a man by the color of his exterior decoration, The wist- j ful little tale though classed as a comedy, j

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Upper—Fay Bainter as she appears In “East Is West” at the Murat today and Saturday. Lower—Ethel Barrymore as she appeal* in “Declassee,” now at English's. nears tragedy In spots and holds a “heap” of sound philosophy. Among the galaxy of modern plays of American life and problems that we have

been seeing of late, the glowing Oriental dramatic offering stands out like a gorgeous eAtic flower in a clover field. It is beautifully staged, the cast is excellent, the plot sufficiently interesting, and Ming Toy irresistible. The prolog, showing the love boat on the Yang-Tse River, where the “singsong” girls are sold on the highest tld. puts the audience In the proper frame of mind.*- The sobbing Chinese music, the gaily robed Orientals, who look on the young frightened girls as of less value than their pigs, all give the proper touches to an offering that moves the audjence from laughter to tears. The plot is built around the beautiful little Ming Toy, who. as the daughter of a Chinese father of some sixteen daughters, Is about to be sold to a leering Chinese buyer when young Billie Benson, wealthy young American with hls friend, Lo Sang Kee, most honorable of Chinese merchants of San Francisco, who are visiting China, happen along. The merchant, Instigated by the horrified American, buys the trembljiTfc Ming Toy. and takes her to San Francisco, treating her as his tjatighter. The lovely chlid, however, gets the merchant into trouble by sitting at the window and Innocently •vamping'’ the men as they pass. The mission sends word to the merchant that h> cun not keep a Chinese gl-d there and keep his good reputation and that he must* send her away. ,> marehaut, who Is the soul of hono. pi-unlse* to do "So. Charlie Vang, ‘the Beau Brumtnel of Chinatown, begs for the maiden, promising to be good to her, and the credulous merchant, believing him, pledges his wofd that. Charlie may have her. Charlie already has throe fade-* flowers In his household and la look tg for a fresh blossom. Then the real story begins. The young American. Billie, who comes home from China the crucial moment, and the friend who works in the mission atuowg the Chinese, rescue the girl again and install her in the Benson household as maid to Htllie's sister. Vang swears veugeance on the merchant’ for being tricked Into losing ”his girl,” and traces her to the house, ready for murder, with two or three Chinese confederates. Billie is on hand, however, and with a thrilling rush, a brilliant finale settles everything In piost satisfactory fashion. Fay Bainter Is all that can be desired as Ming Toy, with her ready tongue and spicy humor. The slip of a girl fairly bewitches her hearers, Just a snap of her Ungers and she has changed from a tragedy actress to a scintillating flash of mirth. She says a million anil one clever tl lug?’, wheu she is going to America she bubbles “Glad to see statue of liberty hoping big 'punl ’ stick." Ralph Cocke as the sleek Americanized version of the OBinese zhop sttey joint_ proprietor, Charlie Vang who Ming Toy says Is “fifty fifty" Cilnese-Amerlcan, wins loud applause with his effective characterization of the egotistical cocksure "Chink." Robert Hgrrison as Lo Sang Kee. the dignified philosophical merchant, Is splendid, and Frederick Howard makes a lovable “real man" of the role of Billy Benson. Ronald Colemao as James Potter, Marla Nttmara as Mildred Benson and Leonora von Ottlnger and George Fitzgerald as Mr. and Mrs. Benson acquit themselves admirably and Harry Maitland as Tbotnas, the butler, comes In for his share of approval. The performance of last night was sponsored by the 10-a! League of Women Votera and the lohhy was lighted with varicolored lanterns, with tea tables presided over by Chinese robed women who served the patrons with real Chinese tea between acts. “East is West" will continue at the Murat through Saturday evening, with matinee Saturday. -I- -|- -|- ON VIEW TODAY. Other attju-tions on view today Include: "On Fifth Avenue,” at B. F. Keith's; Mile. Rhea and company, at | the Lyric; "Jazz Babies.” at th* Tark; ! “Peacock Alleys." at Loew s State; “The Lane That Hath No Turning.'' at the Ohio; “The Three Musketeers,” at Mtsi ter Smith's; “The Sin of Martha Queed." at the Isis; "The Last Payment,” at the Alhambra; 'Tangled Trails,'' at the Regent; “R. S. V. P.,“ at the Circle, and “The Blot," at the Colonial.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

“Indianapolis, Jan. 27, 1922. “Editor Indiana Daily Times, city: •'Dear, Sir—Under the caption, 'Jitneys or Street Cars’ in today’s issue of the Times, I note you suggest the advocates of a repeal be interrogated. Acting on your suggestion I will endeavor to answer this article. We note you use the common expression an ordinance regulating jitney bus traffic. The ordinance In question should read an ordinance to elim-; inate jitneys. The jitney drivers of Indianapolis are heartily in favor of regulation and are willing to cooperate in any such movement, but we would like to have the public understand that we could not operate under this law even if two-thirds of it were repealed. “The jitneys were off the streets but a few days when the street car company made the assertion that the elimination of Jitneys had helped but Just a little and that further relief was necessary. It might be well to draft an ordinance that would prohibit persons from driving- their own private cars. Just think how much additional revenue this woulo mean to the car company. Can you imagine anything more ridiculous than one firm asking the council to pass °.n ordinance putting their competitors out of business? That Is what they did to the jttney drivers. A few years ago ihe traction lines paralleled the steam nos and took practically all of the short hauls. Did the steam lines try to legislate them out of business? “According to the car company’s own statement the elimination of jitneys has not given* the desired relief. Why, then, should we deprive the public of this service. Seventy-five thousand citizens of Indianapolis last September signed a petition favoring jitneys. These people signed this petition because they know what Jitney service is. They

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know that they can run out of their front door in the morning, get into .a bus, in not to exceed one minute, and reach the center of the city in five to seven minutes. They also know that with jitney service they could go home to lunch and get back to work in less than an hour, -awhile now they dare not go home at all at noon. “It has been said that jitneys are a fair weather business. A more unjust statement could not be uttered. The jitneys are always running in bad •leather. Not so much because they feel their duty, but because their recipts ar about double the fair weather receipts. “Jitney service in a city surely puts pep into things. Take a look down South Meridian street today. With Jitney service people get out and go to town. Ladies go chopping for little things and men make quick trips that otherwise would not be made at all. Shall we relegate Indianapolis to the list of back numbers by not allowing the use of the most modern means of rapid trausit? “Very truly yours, “R. S. WRIGHT, “President, Jitney Drivers’ Association.” Dunkirk Depositors To Be Paid in Full The First State Bank of Dunkirk has arranged to take over tfce'iiabilities and assets of the old Citizens State Bank of that city and pay off the depositors in full, according ’to a statement Issued today by Charles W. Camp, State bank examiner. The liabilities of the bank amount to slightly more than $63,000.

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