Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 226, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1922 — Page 4

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Jlutota Sato STimes y INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. , Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MAin 3500; New, Lincoln 8351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. V * - - , . t New York, Boston, - ayne, Burns & mltb Inc. Advertising office* j C bi oac o, Detroit, St. Louis. G. Logan Bayne Cos. _ CONGRESS should enact an immigration law excluding lecturers. THAT PREPARED statement didn’t sound like it had been dictated by the mayor. Lucky Mr, Shank • No one in Indiana has (nore occasion today to congratulate himself on the peaceful dispersing of the crowd at the Siatehouse Monday than Samuel Lewis Shank, jnayor of Indianapolis. Mr. was the dupe of those intent .upon destroying him throughout the whole of the organization of the demonstration he led last Monday. He was induced by his enemies to set the stage for his own public funeral and the most remarkable thing about the'whole demonstration is that the people of Indiana are today lauding rather than damning Samuel Lewis Shank. The same little group of self willed manipulators of public affairs who once brought about Mr. Shanks ruin to suit their own purposes aided-and abetted him in the organization of this demonstration because they confidently expected that from a peaceful crowd of .citizens there would develop a howling mob with the mayor cf the city at its head. Against the advice of his best friends and at the urging of those who have injured him in the past and are only awaiting the proper opportunity to destroy him now-, Mr. Shank called on the spirit of discontent and unrest that prevails in Indiana for a demonstration against the public service commission. He was confident vtthout reason that it would be orderly. He risked a mob and the lives of many without purpose. One brick hurled'by an irresponsible member of that crowd through the window of the Governor’s office would have afforded his unrepentant slanderers the opportunity they sought to denounce him as the inciting influence and the directing genius of a mob intent on the overthrow of our government. The brick w T as not thrown and the unscrupulous strategists who laid the trap for the elimination from public life of the mayor of Indiana's largest city were disappointed. Yet, their disappointment was not complete. They succeeded by their manipulation of Mayor Shank in sending a chill down the spinal cords of men whose support is necessary to the success of the Shank administration. They succeeded in creating a tremendous doubt as to the safety of the city of Indianapolis under his administration. They succeeded in the first of their efforts to make Mr. Shank appear before the State as wholly irresponsible, even dangerous. I Even though the remarkable ability of the man to control thousands of his fellow citizens prevented the violence that was expected and saved Mr. Shank from the ignominity of standing as the leader of a> mob, there was rejoicing last night in the camp of his secret enemies. Opportunity has been afforded to strike a blow at Governor .McCray by quoting a thoughtlessly uttered sentence in big type. Spleen against, the chief executive of the State and his appointees which they were too cowardly to originate had been uttered without malice or forethought to be heralded to the State with malicious intent and diabolic care. As we said before, Mr. Shank is to be congratulated. In offering himself as a sacrifice to those who hate him he escaped being burned on the altar he helped erect. In listening wholly to the advice of those who ! have boasted of their intent to ruin him before half his term as mayor j is over he has done nothing worse than Invite the antagonism of the Governor of Indiana, shake a great deal of the conservative element’s j confidence in him and leave objective no nearer accomplished than it : was before he started. But we sincerely hope, for the sake of those who have given loyal I support to Mr. Shank and who look upon him as more than a success for a day, that the mayor will not again trifle with the rebellious spirit of the public at the beh.est.of aqy one. Another such gathering may not be so peaceful, and insomuch as It accomplishes no lasting good It Should : not be permitted to mask even a temporary, evil. Mr. Shank now stands committed to a program that calls for the abolishment of the public service commission. He has offered nothing constructive to offset its destruction and we sincerely doubt, whether In his own heart he favors his announced program. His opposition to the proposed merger of several utilities is merely an incident .to his campaign. His declaration of belief in home rule is a popular appeal. But before any citizen of Indiana can afford to follow him he must make whether he intends to pursue a safe and sane path or whether following him means to be led to the point of rebellion’against government. The mayor’s friends will look upon him now as a stronger man than before he staged his demonstration, rUs enemies will take some satisfaction from the knowledge that the higher he goes the greater may be his fall.

The Gentle Art of Ignoring Beveridge The supporters of Senator Beveridge haVe prob'ably never entertained the delusion that the Republican State committee would keep its hands off the senatorial race, but if any were so foolish they have been disillusioned by the happenings in Indianapolis this week. The campaign opening was arranged for the Republican Editorial Association banquet, and Senator New invited to speak. Mr. Ileveridge was as utterly ignored in the invitation as though he were a total stranger. Then the State committee met. It sent a committee forth to invite Senaor New to advise it and to comfort it with his special brand of eloquence. The committee had no difficulty in finding the Senator, who was conveniently near—just as though some little bird had told him thafhe mtght he invited In. But no committee was sent out to look for Beveridge. Thus the participation of the State organization in the campaign in an active way : s shown. In this district the district chairman is being counted upon to "deliver” Allen County and the district to the junior Senator. Under the convention system Mr. Beveridge would stand but scant chance. Even under the primary he would be-handicapped but for-his rather ardent personal following, among which are numbered not a few practical politicians who know a thing or two. The acjion of the editors and the State committee In Indianapolis this week will only tend to intensify the determination of the former Senator’s supporters and/a battle royal is as certain as the rising of tomorrow morning’s sun.—Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette.

MAYOR SHANK’S DEMONSTRATION

The demonstration organized by Samuel Lewis Shank yesterday as a protest against the actions of the public service commission is jmique in the history of any commonwealth and the orderly manner in which ten thousand people assem bled, listened to him and then dispersed was probably never seen before. An observer writes the Times that “We have witnessed, not an uprisingyof an unreasoning mob, but the beginning of a mighty protest against the undermining of the principles of the American Government. It is the “voice crying in the Wilderness:” the voice of the people in the wilderness of bureaucracy and paternajism, with their regulations and restrictions, demanding the return of their rights as free citizens and of local self-government. This ".uprising” was not tieeessnrily against the several men composing the public service commission: it was not reflection upon the integrity of our Gov>mor, nor an accusation ■ against the honesty of any one. It was but the sudden outburst of burde'ned citizens against the system which is back of the public service commission and all similar bodies. The public service commission statement said that such actions are “against orderly government.” Probably they may seem to be. but so was the action of (he “Boston Tea Party” seemingly against orderly government. The historical incident was nor of anarchy and neither was this incident They both were reflections <5? the public thought in protest against taxrftb n. regulation and legislation without representation, and our political wise-acres would do well to heed these inurmurings And stcip this vicious tendency toward

government by regulation through bureaus and commissions. TTj less this is heeded there is grave danger that the pendulum will swing to the other extreme. for the sjfhrit of the Declaration of Independence is still strong in the ..hearts of the American people. Thev know that they are “endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable righ's” and that government its “Just power from the consent of the governed" and “that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it Is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.” S .Tust ns in the early days steps to : “alter or to abolish” must, because of | conditions, start with a popular pro- ; test and follow with an orderly correc- : tion. So we have the beginning of a vigorous and openX protest against the . departures fronj the government of our forefathers and if it goes unheeded, jpe nle wHI make the change a t the polls. I The writer of the foregoing has made a ; true analysis of the situation. Contrary ! to the opinion of many. Mayor Shank is | merely an incident in tmrs affair. Mr. Shank assumed the responsibility and the leadership of the demonstration ' and it vas a fearful responsibility. He risked thp future of himself and his administration on his own ability to control the crowd and prevent an overt act. His ability to stage this orderly protest depended on the confidence of the crowd in his sincerity and honesty and he succeeded. Regardless of whether there is merit in his position against the public utility commission, Mr. Shank has demonstrated an ability to define and direct public sentimt^it.

MEN AND BUSINESS By RICHARD SPILLANE

PHILADELPHIA, Jan., '1. —Something must be done to bring down the prices of coal. Despite the fact that this country is remarkably fortunate in its possession of'great fields of fuel, and nowhere else on earth is there such an amount of machinery used in mining, coal costs today are a great burden for the people to bear. Take anthracite, for Instance. That is the coal commonly used in the homes of the East. Today it costs about 150 per cent more than It did ten or twelve years ago. There are tremendous wastes in connection with it These wastes can be corrected. There are excessive expenses in its production and it handling. These must be reduced.

There Is little variation in the amount of anthracite produced year by year. The average is 80,000,000 tons. Os that total, about 11 per cent is required for colliery consumption. < Anthracite comes in a variety of Nlzes. Where the veins are level the percentage of large coal ie high. Where the veins slant the percentage of small coil is greater. But year by year the percentage of sizes brought out storages about as follows: Large Sizes—Broken, 4.2 per cent; egg. 14.3 per cent; stove, 19 7 per cent; chestnut, 25.6 per cent; total, 63.8 per cent. Small or Steam Sizes—Pea, 9.2 per cent; buckwheat, 14.4 per cent; rice, 7.2 per cent; buckwheat No. 3, 3.5 per reut; boiler, .8 per cent; others, 1.1 per cent; total, 36.2 per cent. THE large sizes command, generally v speaking, a ready sale, but the small sizes are in such restricted demand that they have to be sold at less than cost of production. The anthracite mine operators put the cost of producing their coal at $5.55 a ton. The average price they obtain for grades below pea, they say, is $2".20 a ton. To make yp for the loss on the small sizes they have to add to the price they charge for the domestic sizes, so it happens that the *price of egg. stove and chestnut, at the mine, ranges, from $7.60 to $8.60. Obviously, one answer to the problem, In part at least, is to make the

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1921. by Star UompMj j By K. C. B j A LONG while ago. • • • SOME ONE sent to me. * • TWO STATUETTES. • • • THE ONE of Maggie. • • • AND TIIE other of Jiggs. AND I 6tood them both. * • • ON THE top of a case. . 6 • * IN WHICH were books. • • • AND THERE they stayed. • • • AND GAZED on me. THE WHILE I worked. • * • AND THE only 111. • • • THAT CAME to them. • • IN ALL that time. • • • OCCURRED ONE day. WHEN THE colored maid. UPSET POOR Jiggs. . • • AND BROKE the lobe. • • • FROM OFF one ear. • • • AND THE colored maid. • • • SAID TO my wife. • • • HUE WAS very sure. • • • THAT MAGGI’e smiled. • • • WHEN JIGGS wa* hurt. • • • BUT 1 have my doubts. • • • AND ANYWAY. • • • WHEN WE packed our thine> • • • FOR A warmer clime. • • • THE FOOLISH packers. • • • PUT JIGS ajJd Maggie IN A cardboard box. AND PACKED them away. IN A wooden box. • • * AND THE other day. • * • OUT IN our yard. • • • IN TIIE bright warm sun. VVE UNPACKED the box. AND SI OKOHOMA. • • • THE NIPPON boy. . • • • FOUND THE cardboard box. • • * AND BROKE the string. • • • and REMOVED the top. ••• V f AND HISSED at me. • • • AND REACHED inside. WITH HIS one free hand, v AND THEN drew forth. TIIE MORTAL remains. WHEREIN HAD dwelt. * * * THROUGH STORM and strife. THE SPIRIT of Jiggs. FOR IIE was dead. • • * HIS NECK was broken. AND HE had no head. BUT MAGGIE was there. • * * AND ALL intact. V * * AND I tried to tell Yoko. THAT MAGGIE killed Jiggs. *OO AND HE only hissed. . 0 0 0 I THANK you.

BRINGING UP FATHER.

f} r 2 SAOY.’ WAKE up- I T NOW HOW S z. Z ' ?Mi-. ecr COLLY-T sounds i CAN’T t>LEXD WITH AM I <QNNA Z .*2 // Wfch V,. UKE A FCX, HORN ON| X i an- Any . “ -- \ J ,

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31,1922.

By RICHARD SPILLANE

low-size coal more attractive and marketable. The low sizes have just as many heat units, are just as good, but ! they don’t fit in. They can be used in plants that have special grates for them, but there they meet the competition of bituminous. What’s more—and this may seem ridiculous, but it is true ! —the American people seem to run to fashions and the vagaries of fashion in coal, as they do to garments anu a lot of other things. One season egg will be In full demand and chestnut and stove difficult to sell. Another season stove will show a boom tendency. Even in steam sizes, buckwheat number one and buckwheat number three, sometimes termed barley, will be in favor, while rice will Iftg dreadfully. Pea was hard to sell all through the year 1921. The way to make the small sizes more valuable is to devise grates suitable for their use generally or to use th'em In briquettes. Both of these methods are practicable, but, unfortunately, it Is almost ns difficult to change the fuel habits of a people as their food habits. But the change is coming. And hero is how it is coming about. IN Europe they use briquettes to a considerable degree They are com polled to do so Germany uses 16.000.006 or 18,000.000 tons of her coal In that form annually. The great trouble with briquettes Is that no one thus far has discovered a hinder that is smokeless. The American is finicky. Anthracite is smokeless. When he gets an anthracite briquette and smoke results he objects strenuously, so strenuously that he boy cotts It. Ordinarily, the binder has been coal-tar pitch It Is declared that one of the students long struggling with oho problem has devised a hinder that is satisfactory or nearly so. It produces smoke, but a white, not a black smoke He accomplished this, it is said, by using a heavier oil. but in smaller percentage than lrt other binders. Almost as important, possibly more Important, Is the Invention of anew style furnace sos the home. Some remnrkable claims are made f<>r this fnrsnee. Tloty would seem questl'#iable if not confirmed by some of the men prominent In anthracite circles In this furnace it Is declared, the small sizes of coal can be used with as full, if not greater, efficiency than the big furnace burns the stove sizes now used The anthracite authorities confess there's a big work of education ahead to get the American people to see the virtue of' briquettes and to install the new style furnace, but thev appreciate now is the time for starting It. And while they declare ther' is de elded economy in the briquette and the now style house furnace, they point to the tremendous in r>-ase in labor cost* In mining Wages now, they show, are higher than the war period peak And they point also to the great tnrr-ase in railroad rates and In charges for dis fluting coal in the cities. ’1 liey are worried. So are the people who rsy the bills —Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company.

PROVES HERSELF RESOURCEFUL Farm Woman Acquires Comforts for Home By Ingenuity. A woman who lives far from cities writes Pellncator a* follows: “For tlie' pat ten years 1 nave lived on a farm where the only water that was procurable lias come from a well. I’atlently and laboriously all the water that Lns been used iu the household lias been drawn from that well and carried into the house. It has not ail of it been my labor, for I have made almost superhuman effort to avoid too much of this back-breaking work, but it has not always teen avoidable. "it about ten years, however, for me to get rny plans organized for changing the stitualiou and for the family flnaflcot to reach such a point that my desires for a change could materialize Into an actual result. “This is what we have now done: We have purchased a pressure pump that is worked by hand. We have built a small tank, which we have placed In an unused room on the second floor. We have connected this with the well bymeans of a pipe. Twice a day toiy husband takes ills daily arm exercise at the pump and (ills the tank. This tank connects with faucets In the kitchen, and with a boiler heated by gasoline and also connected with the sink. “Further I have installed an indoor toil'll and connected It with the running water which we drain into a septic tank. “It seems to me that the investment we have made in this very simple and In expensive water system has done more to give me back my faith fit life, my enjoyment my home, and my belief that home-making is amore pleasant task {than all the lectures that could be spoken from a public platform.” PYTHIAN'S INSTALL OFFICERS. Officers oi seven companies of the First Regiment? Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias, were Installed at a public meeting last night at Castle Hall. The installalion was conducted by Maj. William Ivrieger, assisted by Maj. C. .T. Ititter. Speeches were made by Gen. \Vllliarn li. Gray of Covington, Gen. William L. Heiskeli of Indianapolis and Col. Frank Shellhouso of Indianapol's.

GRANDMA RETT ALLOWS SHE WILL'LIVE QUITE A SPELL A Real Musical Comedy at E nglish’s—Old Favorites Gather at Keith’s

, Grandma Bett wants enough tea in her tea so that it “will taste like, tea | at least half way down.” She tells her daughter. Lulu, not to \ stint the tea and Lulu must have fol- i lowed Grandma Bett’s Instruction, because she drank the tea and didn't find fault with it. Grandma Bett Is the denrest and most lovable old relic I ever have seen on the stage. There Is so much real life to Grandma Bett as created by Louise Closner Hale of this city in Zona Gale's ‘ Miss Lulu Bett” that it is difficult 'to believe that it is merely ploy acting. Last night at the Murat, Indianapolis citizens "turned out and nearly filled .the,' theater for the opening performance of "Miss Luiu Bett.” The Cbristamore Aid Association was sponsor for the evening and a marvelous audience cooperated with the association In nearly packing the Murat. I am told that the association realized a substantial sum, which will be added to their worthy fund. In fact, it was really Louise Closser Hale night at tbo Murat, us Mrs. Hale is of Indianapolis. In a curtain talk, Mrs. Ilale told of the dnyg when she was a girl and how she, and the Olliers gave shows &ln the barns of Fred Ayres, General Harrison and the "abode for Booth Tarkington's horse,” the price of admission being pins. -Today. Mrs. Hale Is famous on ttie stage and people are , giving more than pins to witness hei ( i work. Although Carroll McComns is the sea- ! j tnrod player in the company, she waved that aside last night to permit Mrs. Hale > i to receive alone the plaudits, the flowers ' ' and the esteem of her home people. What ; j a really beautiful sight it was to see Miss 1 McComns tiptoe off the stage, leaving ! Mrs. Hale alone bowing before that . i nagnifleieut audience. And another I pretty 6lgh‘. was when Mrs Hale after < Uer curtain talk, left the stage to bring Miss McCombs to the center of the stage to share ths great honor of an Indtannpoj lis audience. Such sights ns these gives I one more confidence la things that arc of the theater. Miss McConius. I have seen featured player* refuse to yield the footlights to a local favorite, but your great humanness last night ha* made you a ■ really great woman in the eyes of Indi- | anapolis theater goers. Beautiful, Miss I McComas, beautiful. And the best part of ' it aii that Miss McC’omas rejoiced in the i,ration extended Mrs Hale. As Lulu Bett, the kitchen drudge in the household of Dwight Herbert Deacon, Miss McComas has contributed to the stage a finished characterization—not a comic creation but a real woman who has never been able to be real because she was a drudge. You see her step from ; tiie pathetic kitchen slave into a real woman. The transition reveals some of 1 the most polished and accurate character acting revealed on the modern stage You sympathize with Lulu, you cry with her. you laugh with her aud not at her. I have indicated my opinion of tilwork of Mrs Hale. Her Grandma licit has never been excelled on the stag* Vou will love her funny l.ttte toddle; }*ou will chuckle at her attempts ot shake off her years and be independent. . lon will laugh when Dwight Deacon brings ice cream to her. "V\ hat kind be It? #he asks. "Chocolate,” he answers, “Vanllie goes down much easier,” she remarks as she takes the cream and like * child ‘‘swipes'' a spoon to eat it after siting site would put It in the lee box, •it is difficult to discover where Mrs Hale begin* ty act as her work is so far remote from anything that smacks of the theatrical. Catherine Calhoun Doucet as Ina Deacon, the small town wife of Dwight Deaton, is finished iu her portrayal of the i grapevine sort of a wife who fears to i disobey any wish of her “dear' - husband, j A most difficult role, but finely acted by

Miss Doucet. The entire cast is so worthy that I give it in full: Monona Deacon Lois Slr re Dwight Herbert Deacon... John Thorn Ina Deacon... .Catherine I'alboiiii Do :cet I.ulu licit Carroll M ' lmiai Hobby Larkin "...Waiter Vaughn Mrs. Rett Louise Glosser time Diana Deacon , . Beth Varden Nell Cornish Russell Morrison Miiian Deacon Brig.mm Royce To miss Miss Lulu Rett” is to pass up a plum pudding tilled with Joy and basked in many smiles and a few tears At tlie Murat all week.—ff. D. H. -FAIRBANKS TWINS X TAKE LEAD AT ENGLISH'S. After quite an extended famine of mu-■d'-nl comedy Erlnngcrs pleasing production “Two Little Girls In Blue” opened at English's last evening . It is a gay fluff of musical nonsense, sparkling with wholesome /humor, tuneful songs, clever dancing, ail decorating a unique situation forming the plot. The Fairbanks twins, Madeline and Marion, demurely charming in the title roles ami Jack Donahue, whose every gesture brings a laugh from the audience, carry the show along with a rush. Donahue as Morgan Atwell is aimuly and obviously .1 mu" without ri nsun for being only to keep the laugh waves moving. The story taken from Fred Jacken’s book, deals with the Sartoris twins. Dolly and l'o.ly, who must get to India to see about an estate left them, but they have only money enough for one passage. So by book or crook, they manage to get aboard the steamer Empress, on one ticket and tlie remainder of the Journey deals with their efforts to keep the fact that there are two of them a secret. They are so identically alike that no one can detect the difference and they take turns going down to meals, strolling on the deck and coquetting with infatuated young men. Complications begin to arise when Robert Barker nnd JerrJ- Lloyd simultaneously fall In love with Dolly ns they think. Os course the truth is that Roily falls in love with Bobby and Dolly can see only Jerry, and the conflicting state meats and forgetful memory of the lovely changeable Sartoris maiden are decidedly puzzling to tne two young men. Os course there is a jealous past sweetheart of Hobby’s, the venegefiil Ninon 1# Fleur, who carries wicked looking knife handily in her bosom. She plots against the Ingenuous Miss Sartoris by stealing jewels from the passengers and placing the niarire on the girl. The searching of the Sartoris stateroom nearly brought disaster but -for the quick wit of the twins in turning a unique trick

GRANDMA BETT AND DA UGHTER LULU

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, Carroll McCOMas and louise closser hale. Here is a picture of dear old Grandma Be't as played by Mrs. Hale and Lnlu Bett a§ acted by Miss McComas in “Miss Lulu Bett," new at the Mural. These two graciously shared the honors of a real big “first night” at the Murat last night.

to hide the fact that there were "Two of them. Atwell, asinine as he was, proves himself the hero in the end by pointing out the true thief and establishing Innocence of “Miss Sort oris." A lively and most satisfactory denouement is brought about by the coming aboakd of the esta‘. attorney us 1 the ship) is laying off shore, >rior to un i loading the. passengers, and calling for the twins who come forth timidly hand in hand. The role of Harriett* Neville, Jerry's my liter, who No* been done over by a beauty doctor, is taken by lamina Janvier, who carrier,off the part ot the flirtatious re-made madame iu dashing style. Louise Tveiley who has a powerful true dramatic soprano voice takes the par: of Ninon and her s'nglng <jf the “Gypsy Trail” Is encored aud re-encored. The two love sick swains are splendid and have unusually good voices. Some artistic dancing is done by Vanda Hoff and Evelyn Law, a pretty feature bthirg the mermaid ballet of the Maid of the Mist. The lyrics are pleasing, the familiar "Oh Me. Oh My, Oh You" coming in for a huge share of enthusiasm. Bobby and Polly having to sing arid r ■ sing it. The scenes nre most effectively arranged, the moving of the boat in the last scene showing the lights of the liar lo>r. being natural enough to give the audience a touch of sea-sickness. The production as a whole is unusually en tertaining. Today aud tomorrow at English's. -I- -I- -!- MANL OVD FYVORITE9 ON NEW BILL AT KEITH'S. j A visit to Keith's this week Is ft good deal like a reunion or a picnic because so many old frbnds are there. First of all there are Blanche and Jimmie Creighton iu their oi-d time but funny “Mudtowu Vaudeville." The team is doing, ihe same old character parts but their chatter and stunts ere all new. The act opens with the display of a curtain showing the “I. O. U. Hill" at town. In the ha> an entertainment is staged to celebrate the calciintnlug of the hall Jimmie and Blanche then stage a “programme" of entertainment which consist* of everything from the imitation of a Hawaiian guitar and- centric dancing. Here Is a rural comely off -ring. The headline act, ivau Bankoff, iu “The Dancing Master," is another o!J time friend. He is assisted by Cliff Adams and Beth Cannon- The act Is similar that offered in other seasons. Bankoff comes into his own while doing syitie famous Russian dance whirls on his toes. William and Joe Mandel first appear as st age hands who explain to the audience that they are taking the place of at! act and with that explanation they stage one of the funnest burlesques on head and hand balancing ever presented on the vaudeville stage. Another “old" friend Is Vincent O'Donnell who bills himself as the ‘‘miniature McCormack." He is Just a lad but a seasoned vaudeville entertainer. Betty Wheeler first appears wearing a goregous gown made exclusively of pearls. While she Is singing, Bert AVheeler ‘‘clowns’’ himself into popular favor by his remarks and stunts. They present a travesty on mind readinz. A clever act and well presented. Fantlno Sisters and Company, two women anil two men, offer a * trapeze act. Bessie Clifford, an art model, closes the show in "Art Impressions.” Owen McGiveny plays each of the fiy characters in a sketch called "B/U Sikes," founded on Dickens’ story. Mr. McGiveny jfeays the following characters : Monks naif Brother to Oliver Karin. ...A receiver and trainer of thieves ‘ Hill Sikes A brutal robber. J Tli- Artful Dodger. .One of Fagin's gang Nancy \ poor girl who loves Bill Sikes Kv, rj oka merer played throughout by McGiveny alone. The program gives the following synopsis of the act: "Tlie plot of the sketch is based on the leading events In Charles Dickens’ j famous novel ‘Oliver Twist.’ Monks, I inspired by a cowardly hatred of his |

By GFOT'P-F McMANUS.

half brother, Oliver Twist, bribes Fagln to kidnap Oliver from his friends, that by association with an evil gang, the boy may be trained and brought up as a thief and criminal. Nancy,' a girl associate of the gang, in her pity for the boy, warns his friends of the plot against him, ni*i thus inspired the hatred of FaJ gin, who already afraid of the girt and ‘ her lover. Bill Sikes, schemes to rid him self of them by telling Sikes that Nancy has sqip-alcd on the whole gang. Sikes believes the lie and In his rage, mur ders "Nancy and himself meets an ig nominlous end in a rash attempt to escape \he consequences of his crime." Here is rc-aliy a vaudeville act of high Qierit. The bill remains on view all week at B. I''. Keiths -I- -I- -I“MELODANCE" TURNS OUT TO BE MELODIOUS AFFAIR. "Melodance" with Gene and Mignon, Florence Anderson, Stanford Glore ant is j Connie Beinis, is a fast moving dance revue with an occasional song, making a tir.st luss offering as the heaiL.ne act lat tlie Lyric this week. \ Miller and itock. billed as Origin- | (.-legists," certainly nre original and show gr-at promise iu future development. Neither of the boys has a voice, but i they hav# chosen mut.-rlul that they can handle. Their “Which Hazel” song was well dune as was their 1922 conception ot ; "My Gal Sal.” It was easily the best j act tti th > bill and stopped the show w-hen we sa.- it. "According to Law,” Is a sort of a mini attire musical comedy with a male singer and tour pretty girls. i'antzer and S>lv:a have a line of comedy chatter mixed with some neat hand balancing. I liey work with ease and get over to a nice hand. 1 tie \ ersatito Trio play the banjo, ac- . cordian and piano. The male member of the trio, does some good work on the banjo. Stone and Ilallo is a novelty dancing act of some merit. The Esther Trio opens the hill with acrobatic dancing. Howard and Helen Savage close the show with some fanciug and daring shooting. At the Lyric all weyk. LETAN PRODUCES A NEW REVUE. Harry "Hickey” I.eVan is again the featured f player at tlje Park Theater, ; after only a weeks absence. However ' he appears In an entirely new show called "Revue of 1922.” In the first act the entire company appears, which includes the principals, 1 chorus, a Jazz band, a comedy male i quartette, five Uawalians and the regular : house orchestra. The revue proceeds along the Tines o? j a minstrel show, with each act introduccd. Beatty, Morgan, Farrell and Cun- I ningham nearly stopped the show with ‘ their harmony and comedy songs These j boys have good voices and have enough comedy to make their act snappy. When the Hawaiians appeared the audience proved that they have not grown tired of this ltfnd of entertainment. It was not until the jazz band started that the company showed any "pep.” Mae Smith Just couldn't sit still and soon every one was swaying, even the audience. Then I.e Van appeared In a piano act and the audience showed that it was glad to see him' back again. The second act is a comedy afterpiece in which rll the reguliir members of the j company take part. The regular house j orchestra, under the direction of J. R ! Williams, is said to be the best on the ! “wheel," and the audience was glad to see them perform behind the footlights. At the I’ark all week. -I- -I- -|- ON THE SCREEN. The following movies are op, vlexy today; “Three Live Ghosts" at the A!-! hambra; "The Law and the Woman” at Loew’s State; “The Sign of the Rose” with George Behan on the screen and in , person at the Circle; “The Three Museteers” at Mister Smith's; "Sky-High”, M

Conference Notes by the Observer

Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Jan 31—Old time Washingtonians have racked their memories to recall if the capital ever had :t( disaster at all comparable to the Knickerbocker Theater horror. Strangely enough, the nearest approach was also concern*! with a theater building—none other than the historic Ford’s Theater In Tenth street, \vhere Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. In later times the building was condemned for public eiiteriauiiuent purposes and turned over to the Pension Bbreau for office purposes. TVhile workmen were engaged in strengthening the foundations of the decrepit premises they caved Jn, entailing a loss of life to twenty five or thir'y - clerks of the Pension Bureau. Observed during the snow storm: Lieut Gen Nelson A. Miles. U. S. A fretired), hardy veteran of 83, driving a .sl<-igh of ancients vintage tl rough Rock Creek Park, with two spe'i htly grand ' lAblren alongside him Prince Casimer Lnbomlnkl. mlnif*T of Poland, in high . rubber boots and mariner's helmet, sweeping the snow from Ibe legation driveway. Washington's street car service completely out of action, leaving the field o The unconquerable motor bus. ' Sudden activity upon the part of building owners and householder* in -'lcar ing room of 6now and testing their strength. Exit country, enter town. Last week the farmers held the center of the Washington stage. Today the manufacturer*, marshalled in the phalanx of their national association, hold the boards. There is prospect of plain speaking, as forceful a9 that which marked the delibera tions of the soil tillers. It Is’ the necessity of prompt tariff legislation that the mannfacfnr.-rs intend to stress, are assured of strong White House backinz in that demand, for the snail's pace yt which Congr-s* has proceeded In the realm of fiscal affairs has no more ardent critic than the President. Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania,, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House, declares there is no real foundation for current yarns that the committee is scheming to bring about American diplomatic relations with -the jrish Free State. That wish is father, no doubt, to Ihe thought of many a' member cf the Committee—such as W. Bourke Cockran of New York, for example, a minority member. But there are many budges to cross before such' action could be taken. From an international standpoint. Ireland remains within the framework of the British empire A movement for direct dip lomatlc relations woujd have to emanate from tiie British government. Even the long pending question of independent Canadian-American diplomatjc relations remains unsettled. Senator and Mrs. • George Wharton Pepper have spent virtually' every one pf their week-ends, since Ytr. Pepper came to Washington in Philadelphia. Their friends understand the magnet is their strong affection for an narily interesting brood of grandchildren. Fond grandfather and grand mother, if appears, long have been accustomed to have Sunday with the youngsters and Mr. Pepper's transfer to Washington seems not to interfere with the regulation program. There is a veritable barrage of prop aganda in Washington at the room on behalf of recognition of Soviet Rn It has all the earmarks of a con drive The “social lobby,” one of tor Kenyon's pet aversions, is i forefroy of the campaign. An K;. knight, who has been lecturing (• United States, spent the week-end a, the capita!, trying to convert skeptics to the "Inevitability" of admitting Lenin into the company of civilized statesmen. He labored for two hours with an influential member of the Cabinet. Results were dubious. An Amerle: n born “Russian princess" also Was Joined the crusaders They seem to have seized upon Ameri *an reluctance to meet the soviet at Genoa as a pretext for strenuous activity.

Have a look at the map of China, and you will see one of the big, gleaming reasons why Japan hesitates to relax her grip on Shantung. The province which has been called the “cradle ot Chinese civilization,” sits athwart the line from North to South—betwixt CanI ton and Peking—much as the Statk of ! Pennsylvania separates New England and j New Y'ork from the commonwealths that j lie below Mason and Dixon's line. With i a Shantung dominated by an alien elej ment, Intersections! strife in China could jbe prolonged with will and at ea&e. De- : cisive influence could be thrown at a , psychological moment, in whichever direction It suited the foreign intruder lto exert it. The hotly debited Shantung : railway plunges like a spearhead toward : the center of China i emergency, could frustrate any union of northern and southern forces.—Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company. State Librarians Meet at Frankfort At the district meeting of the Indiana Library Association, held at Frankfort today, Miss Florence Jones, reference librarian of the Indianapolis public library, talked on “Atlasqg and Late Reference Books,” and Miss Mary Fishback of the catalog department talked on “The Multigraph in the Library.” Miss Irene Branham of the chl’dren's department of the city library, also attended the meeting. at the Tsis, and “jimamerang BUI” with Lionel the Ohio. -I- -|- OPENING THURSDAY AT ENGLISH'S. On Thursday night at English's Frances Starr will'appoar In a revival of “The /Easiest Way,”'one of her former successes. The engagement will be for three days.

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