Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 239, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1922 — Page 4

JtaMatta Sal!® SFltnes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. / New York, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising offices \ Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. NO ONE expected the naval officers to approve the proposed reduction in their appropriations. COAL MINING is a question of interest In more places than in the -United States Senate right now. UNCLE JOE CANNON doubtless feels that things are not as they used to be in Washington, anyhow. SEEMS like the only way to make sure of a safeblower is to follow up a shooting immediately with leg irons. INCIDENTALLY, there are a number of aspirants to county offices who feel the same way about primaries as President Harding. IN SOME PARTS of Indiana Senator New’s managers evidently wish him to stand as a symbol of the Harding Administration. In others, they do not seem to be so particular. Why Use Cement? Regardless of any propaganda that may be circulated to the contrary it is a fact that excellent hard-surfaced roads may be constructed without the use of cement and it may be possible that in this fact lies a solution of the troubles the State administration is having over the high cost of cement concrete road work. Twenty-two States have or are now laying surfaces for highways without the use of cement In most of these instances the hard-packed gravel and crushed stone that has formed roads for yea-s is being used as the foundation for a top dressing of asphaltic origin and the resulting highways have proved satisfactory. While they are doubtless less permanent than either the cement concrete or the brick surfaced roadways, highways constructed In this manner present solid surfaces that require only a minimum of care and can be laid at far less cost than the type of construction which has been used so generously in this State. N Cement manufacturers are by no means dependent on road construction for outlets for their product. In fact, they have heretofore made the statement that highway construction is only one of numerous uses to which their product is applicable and it is not necessary for their prosperity that any cement be used in highway construction. In view of the fact that the Attorney General and the Governor have expressed themselves as being by no means satisfied with the identical bids submitted by the cement manufacturers for the privilege of supplying the State with cement for its highways, the advisability of constructing roads without cement is at least worthy of close consideration. 1 Insupportable No matter over whqt issues or to what degree there may be differences between officials and citizens as to the policies pursued it should not be forgotten that the government of the State of Indiana and the government of the city of Indianapolis are alike the government of the people of this community. . Disparagement of either is self-disparagement. , Avery little investigation will disclose that both in the Statehouse and the city hall there are earnest office holders trying to administer the affairs of the various offices according to their best judgment and in the interests of the people who selected them to do that work. There may be differences of opinion. Authority and authorities may clash. The plans of one may interfere with the plans of the other and in the interference whole programs may, of necessity, have to be altered, or even abandoned. j But on no possible grounds can personal abuse be justified in a controversy between representatives of these two governmental units. Dignity cannot countenance the spectacle of the kettle calling the pot black. For, in the last analysis, the authority of the city government is from the same source as the authority of the State government and when one abuses the other the abjUse is merely a reflection on the source of authority. Anri no community, as a whole, cares to be abused by those it has chosen to represent it.

Lincoln and the Law Every once in a while someone, intent on making a defense of the illicit liquor traffic, endeavors to show that Abraham Lincoln was connected with a groggery fit one time and was directly interested in a license issued by the State of Illinois for the sale of liquor. Whether this is true or not may be disputed, but there can be no dispute that Abraham Lincoln stood, foremost and always, for tlje support of the Constitution of the United States. In an address given in Indianapolis in 1861, Lincoln said: “Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate'in the least particular the laws of the country and never to tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of '76 did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution, and laws let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor. \ "Let every man remember that to violate the laws is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own and his children’s liberty.” Think you that to day he would remodel that speech to except prohibition, which has become just as much a part of the Constitution as liberty? t A Sane Course The evident intention of the leaders of the United Mine Workers to abandon any attempts to obtain higher w r ages and devote their energies toward better working conditions in the negotiations of the new scale is a wise concession to public opinion. It is generally known’that wages must be adjusted downward, rather than upward, under present economic conditions. There is a general feeling that the wage scale of the miners is by no means out of relationship to the wages paid in other industries and little sympathy could be aroused for a demanded increase. Especially is this true when the prices of coal on the market show so plainly that the non-union mines are able to operate profitably with a much lower price for their product. Miners, as well r.s all other workers, should be expected to seek betterments in their working conditions at all times. As long as the proposals for better working conditions do not become ridiculous, as did some of the railroad employes’ demands, the public will uphold them. But, in the present state of public opinion, nothing could be more detrimental so the cause of any union than the precipitation of a strike for iliigher wages. Favored Criminals The other day In Indianapolis a woman saw a large machine speeding at the rate of twenty-five mile3 an hour through the streets bearing down on a 4-year-old- child. The woman saw it, the three men in the machine did not see the child or did not care. At the risk of her life tne woman rushed into the street, grasped the little tot, but before she could spring back she was struck by the fender. Happily' she was not murdered and the child’s life was saved. The three criminals in the machine did not pause to investigate the damage. If apprehended they will probably be fined, ten, fifteen or twenty dollars. It is not only in Hollywood that life is cheap. There should be a law that would lodge the three criminals in the machine in jail for at least six mor.tks.—Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette.

THE MAJESTY OF TRAGEDY OF ‘HAMLET' REVEALED In All of Its Dark Beauty Through the Artistry of Sothern and Marlowe

By WALTER HICKMAN. The years count. Rather a strange expression, but the importance of experience in the life of an actor as Shakespeare is the vital thing* A Shakespearean actor is not born over ‘night. One must live with Shakespeare, to dream of him, to eat with him and above all love him with an intelligent love. Shakes-peare'a “Hamlet” is no longer a tragedy of mystery and of unknown impulses. Mr. B. H. Sothern and Miss .Tulia Marlowe have given the English speaking stage an intelligent “Hamlet” — a Hamlet who can be understood. It takes years of experience, years of thinking and living Shakespeare to render a flaw-less performance of Shakespeare's master tragedy. A Juvenile can not make a satisfactory Hamlet. It takes years and years of experience to reveal the soul and purpose of Hamlet No maiden of. tender years can portray the blinded soul of Ophelia when darkness comes befdre death. Youth has its PrpoA. but it takes the weight of years to intelligently play Shakespeare. Master minds are needed to reveal the hidden beauty of such a grim tragedy. Tragedy generally does not possess beauty, but there is limitless beauty in Shakespeare’s tragedy of “Hamlet.” The lines of Shakespeare do not recite themselves because the soul is not so easily revealed A chHd may recite in a sweer way a Mother Goose rhyme, but it takes the maturity of years to find the soul and the hidden message of Shakespeare's lines in "Hamlet.” Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe have studied Shakespeare to that degree of understanding and even sympathy that his mournful passages in this tragedy become a grand opera of troubled soul*. The sharp and piercing notes of fear, the pitiful sob of troubled Ophelia, the vow of Hamlet to avenge the death of his father, the crafty designs of Claudius to fathom the cause of Hamlet s strange

Ve TOWNE GOSSIP Convright, 122. by Star Company. By K. C. B Dear K. C B.: If you were a woman and married to a good, moral man, and you kept house neatly and cooked to please his appetite, and at Christmas you gave him gifts from money you had earned yourself, and he would make anv comment on the food and would take the gifts without even a kiss for them, what would you do with such a husband ? I get new clothes and he never see* them and never gives me a word of praise for anything or on any occasion. What say you? I say it hurts. “KATIE DID.” DEAR KATIE-DID. YOU’RE A lucky woman. • • • FOR JUST SUppdSG. • • • THAT ON some night. • * * HE SHOULD come home •• * / WHEN YOU were dressed. i• • • IN SOMETHING new. • * • AND SAY to you. • • • AS HAS boen don*. • * • “WHY KATIE-DID. • • • “WHEREVER IN the world "DID YOU get such a dress • • • "IT'S A terrible thing.” * • AND THEN suppose. • * • AT PINNER time. • • • HE SHOULD sit down. • ♦ • AND START to eat. • • * AND THEN should stop. AND SAY to you. • • • AS HAS been done. • • “OF ALL the rotten mashed potatoes • • • “I EVER ate ♦ • • “THESE ARE the worst.’ * • • IF HE did that. -*• • • • YOU HAVE pood can hp. • • • TO MAKE complaint. BUT HE doesn’t do that. HE JUST comes home. > • • COMPLACENTLY. • •• AND NEVER praises. • * * OR COMPLAINS. BECAUSE HE knows. • • * THAT YOU should know. ♦ • • THAT In his eyes. • • • #*' Y OU'RE A perfect wife. • * * AND IF you are. • • * AS I'M sure you are. * * * YOU SHOULD be fflad • * * YOU HAVE a man. • • ♦ WHO HAS found It out. * • * AND OF course I know. * • * IT WOULD be nice. • * * TO HAVE him say. * • * EVERY' ONCE in a while • * * HOYV GRAND you are * * • BUT A sleeping dopr. * • * IS THE safest dog. * • * AND IF T were you. * • * I'D “LEAVE him be.” * * * I THANK you.

BRINGING UP FATHER.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1922.

exhibition of grief over the death of his I father, blend themselves Into a majestic opera of emotions in the hands of Sothern and Marlowe. Inexperienced actors cannot afford to toy with “Hamlet.” This tragedy is for the very, very few, and often has Hamlet been "murdered” .on the stage. I have attended several such funerals in the past. I But In the hands of the chosen few — Sothern and Marlowe—Shakespeare’s sublime tragedy is safe. People are going to the Murat the first half of this week for the sheer love of . seeing Shakespeare perfectly presented, ! not experimented with. Years mean a great deal in the life of an actor who present Shakespeare and every milestone 1 means the discovery of new and hidden ! beauty r the lines of the bard. | Last ight many people (and there ! should have been more) assembled at the Murat before 8 o’clock to see Sothern ‘ and Marlowe present “Hamlet.” A few minutes after 8 the curtains parted, and until after 11:30 the audience i sat In complete submission to the artistry 1 of Sothern and Marlowe and the newly discovered beauty of the lines of the play. The famous soliloquy of Hamlet took on anew and significant meaning in the hands of Mr. Sothern Each word was understood. There were no rantings, but the measured calm and the controlled burning fire beneath the spoken words of Hamlet. Mrv Sothern remaina seated most of the time during the delivery of the soliloguy. This method of delivery is not atfempted by most actors who attempt “Hamlet.” But Mr. Sothern knows his Hamlet and he permits the audience to become very well acquainted with.him. Mr. Sothern’s Hamlet Is not a madman, but an intellectually clever individual who measures well the means by which he can avenge the death of hls father. He even permits Horatio, friend of Hamlet, to understand that be is feigning ; madness for a purpose. Even the Claudius of Mr. V. L. Granville reflects the Sothern interpretation because Claudius i fears that Hamlet may not be really mad Even in the scene when Hamlet tells Ophelia that he has never loved her, Mr. Sothern makes us understand that it hurts Hamlet to be cruel. And in recalling that scene during the burial

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Wallace Reid and Elsie Ferguson. Wallie lteld looks very qnnint in this picture. Don’t you think so? And isn't Elsie Ferguson just too sweet fur words? The picture gives you a splendid idea of how they appear in "Forever” at Loew s State this week.

of poor Ophelia, Mr. Sothern proves that Hamlet really loved Ophelia when he de> glares his love at her grave. In other words, Mr. Sothern ha* given tha stage not onyl an lutelectuaL. resourceful ami clever Hamlet hut he has made him a flesh and blood creation. Uls Hamlet Is not a mere ghost of a man—but a man who is capable of love and hate, and one who is strong enough to 2111 like a man and not liko a maniac. Mr. Sothern has placed the necessary emphasis on the second scene of the third act which lakes place In the Queen's closet. It is hero where Hamlet reveals the true love for his mother when commanded to speak to her by the ghost of his father, in this scene, Miss Alma Kruger shakes off her colorless idea of Gertrude, Queen of Denmark and mother of Hamlet, and becomes a woman capable of grief. Miss Kruger Is filgnlfl- ! cant In this scene as well as lu the linal scene of the tragedy when she drinks the poison. It Is not necessary for me at thi* time to repeat, what Is admitted by most critics and student sos Shakespeare—, Miss Marlowe has the right to be called the “best Ophelia.” in the famous mad scene, following the murder of her father, Miss Marlowe’s Ophelia reflects the Inroads that insanity has made not only upon the mind of Ophelia but upon her very person. The eyes reflect the dark- : ness within; her nervously twitching fingers reveals the tragedy of woe upon j the body. Miss Marlowe’s Ophelia Is ; not stagey, not a theatrical creation, but j \ a lovely maiden whose soul has been

chilled by the cruel blasts of an untimely tragedy. The graveyard scene is lifted to major Importance by the work of Mr. Rowland Buckstone as the first gravedigger. His makeup Is a masterpiece and his splendid ability as an actor lifts this strange character to that position necessary to make one willing to associate the name of Buckstone with Sothern and Marlowe. The cast in full of “Hamlet,” as presented at the Murat last night, is as follows: Claudius, King of Denmark Mr. V. L. Granville Hamlet, Son of the Late and Nephew of the Present King Mr. Sothern Polonious, Lord Chamberlain ! Mr. Frank Peters Laertes, Son of Polonious. .Mr. S. Mather | Horatio, Friend of Hamlet Mr. Frederick Lewis Kosencrantz Mr. Vernon Kelso Guildenstern ....Mr. Charles Warburton A Priest Mr. Harold Webster Marcellus Mr. Jerome Collamore Bernardo Mr. Charles Warburton Francisco Mr Harold Webster Reynaldo ilr. J. W. Latham : Osrtc Mr. France Bendtsen First Flayer ....Mr. Jerome Collamore Second Player Mr. <T. W. Latham First Gravedigger Mr. R. Buckstone Second Gravedigger... .Mr. James Hagen Ghost of Hamlet’s Father. .Mr. A. Howaon Fortlnbras, Prince of Norway j Mr. William Adams i Captain of the Guard Mr. C. Zazzali 1 Gertrude, Queen of Denmark and Mother of Hamlet Miss Alma Kruger Ophelia, Daughter of Polonious Miss Maflowe Plarer Queen.. Miss Lenore Chippendale Ladies of the Court—Miss Lillian Gray, Miss Maude Walker, Miss Carolyn Feri ridny, Miss Dina Schleicher. : Pages—Miss Eleanor Wells, Miss Elaine Sims. Lords, Soldiers, Messengers and other attendants. j Mr. Sothern in creating his production ! for “Hamlet” has taken advantage of the modern scenic Idea—the use of drapes, i lights and rise like to obtain the neces- | sary results. The production from a scenic standpoint is as beautiful as the acting. Tonight, Mr. Sothern and Miss Mar lowe will close their engagement at the Murat by presenting “The Taming of the Shrew.” The curtain tonight is at 8:15, Instead of at 8 o’clock.

ON VIEW TODAY. The following attraction's are on view today; Milton Nobles In "Llghtnin',” English's; Sothern and Marlowe In “The Taming of the Shrew.” at the Murat; On.n Munson and her revue at Keith's; “Cinderella Revue,” at tha Lyric; Billy Watson and his Big Show at the Park; "Forever,” at Loew’s State; ‘‘The Four Horsemen,” at the Ohio; “Molly O," at. Mister Smith's; "Hail the Woman,’’ at the Circle; "The Lure of Egypt,” at the lets and “Nancy From Nowhere,” at the Alhambra. -|- -|- -IJASTK COWL DIE THURSDAY AT Ml RAT. Jane Cowl In “Smilin’ Through,” will open a three-day engagement at the Murat Thursday night. While “Smilin’ Through’ Is, ns a leading clergyman has described It to his congregation, “the greatest sermon on Immortality ever preached from pulpit or stage,” It embodies In this very fact one of the most compelling love stories ever conceived. In each of Its dual greatest thing In life, not only i n this experience, but In that which follows after. As both Moonyeen Clare and Kathleen Dungannon, Miss Cowl ts tho beautiful embodiment of the power of love to -dissolve nil human evil and to tear down even the dark veil we call death. The separate—yet exquisitely interwoven—love stories of the girl of fifty years ago and the Irish lass of today, are unfolded in the same old English gnrden with Its quaint cottage set like a little gem in

the taidst of its June roses, a scenic investiture which shows Joseph Urban at his artistic best. In securing the service of Joseph Urban to design and execute the beautiful stage settings of "Smilin’ Through,” Miss Cowl deserves the thanks of theater-goers everywhere, for Urban’s wonderful achievements in the 'adornment of stage presentations have revolutionized the art in America. The English garden in which the action takes place has been pronounced the "masterpiece of the Urban studio. Washington Briefs £. Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—“ Margot” cast the spell of her scintillating presence upon a large and fashionable Washington audience, mostly women, at her postponed lecture in Washington. Diplomatic society folk were present in full force, thoi/gh there was not as large a sprinkling of the strictly official set as might have been anticipated. Accounts of Mrs. Asquith’s animadversions upon the great and near-great who have crossed her strenuous path seemed to interest her capital auditors, though there were moments when they seemed more concerned with her costume. When "Margot” emerged in a blouse-topped gown of silver tissue, with a skirt braided in moleskin and with cuffs to match, there was a feminine gasp throughout the house that audibly mingled awe with admiration. Senator George Wharton Pepper, unbeknown to all but his Intimates, is a cartoonist and caricaturist of no mean talent. Possessed of a “nose for news” that would do credit to a journalistsleuth. the Senator’s skill with the pencil Is such he Is capable of sketching a scene transpiring before his eyes with faithful accuracy. With an irrepressible wit. most of his drawings lean*toward the humorous. His friends wonder if he will Immortalize his senatorial experiences some day In g book of memoirs “illustrated by the author” a !a du Manrier. A good deal of Mr. Pepper’s time these days is devoted to denial of a story he Is to become Attorney-General in the spring. X I.ondon real estate agents are quick to sniff a deal where good American dollars are the quarry. Secretary Mellon said at the Treasury be had an offer already from a property-owner in London who aspires to sell or lease the United States allied debt funding commission an appropriate headquarters. The Secretary of the Treasury tock occasion to explain the commission Isn't going to have any headquarters abroad. Its duties will not take it to foreign parts. The American association for recognition of the Irish republic which plans tc assemble 5.000 of its cohorts at a great national convention in Washington In April would like to entertain Michael Collins, .Arthur Griffith and Eainonn de Valera on that ocaßlt.n. Intimations have been cabled to Ireland that Erin’s great triumvirate would be welcomed ai 1 acclaimed In the United States. Members of the Recognition Association say they will always bracket De Valera’s name with those of the Irish Free State’s responsible leaders. They point to the former "president's” tumultuous ovation In Dublin as evidence of the hold he maintains on the Irish people. The , recognitlonlsts claim a million members | in the United States. They boast their ! oragnlmlon—by town, county and State * —ls as compact as any American political machine ever devised and assert It will remain "on the Job” until Ireland Is a republic in fact as well as In theory.— Copyright, lff.’J, by Public Ledger Com pany.

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By GEORGE McMANUS.

Say He Tried to Jump From Window of Hotel Following an alleged attempt to jump from the second-story window at the Wilson Hotel, West Washington street, last night Adolphus Hone. 78, was brought to police headquarters. He Is charged with being insance. K. C. Wilson, proprietor of the hotel, stated the man had lived there more than three years and recently had shown signs of being demented. Hone has a daughter living at McCordsville. RECOGNITION OF OBREGON URGED Oklahoma Governor Favors Favorable U. S. Action Toward Mexico. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 15.—Governor .T. B. A. Robertson of Oklahoma, who headed a pilgrimage of thirty-five Oklahoma I business men Into Mexico, said today he strongly favors recognition of the Obregon government by the United States. "If the people of the United States knew Mexican conditions better they would be partial to recognition,” said : Governor Robertson. "The sole proviso of the American Government should be it is satisfied with the stability of the Mexican government. There is an astounding. amount of ignorance among Americans concerning conditions in Mexico. This trip has no political signifii oauce. We merely are trying to bring business relations of the two countries closer together.”. Among others in the American party are W. J. l’etter, president of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce and Col. A. N. Leacroft, Oklahoma State treasurer. The visitory have ap appointment to see President Obregon and members of the cabinet late today if the president’s health permits.

CHALLENGES SPILLANE’S POSITION

The Editor. Indiana Daily Times: Dear Sir —I feel that I must take exception, for the American Legion, to the statements made in the article by Richard Spillane, that appeared in a recent issue of The Times. He writes: “Inevitably the distrib# tion of two billions of dollars to the exservice men would bring about a considerable amount of reckless spending, with a rise in prices of many kinds of classes of goods Those who got money through the bonus would have money to spend but those assessed, and they make up the bulk of the population, would have less.” In the first place, the legion denies this reckless spending argument, which is ft favorite of compensation opponents The veteran of the World War is the average young American citizen. He is not a class apart, a waster. Polls taken by the legion show that two-thirds of the men would choose some other form of compensation than cash. By taking paid-up insurance, home aid, land settlement or vocational training—the four other provisions of the compensation bill —the veteran would receive more than by taking straight cash. The veteran cannot become alarmed at the picture of rising prices. lie has been through that before. When he eamo out of service, prices were skyhigh, caused by the “reckless spending” of war profiteers and ship yard riveters. The veteran had tq pay $75 for a shoddy

WOMAN DENIES VIOLATION OF NARCOTIC LAW i,ocal Waitress Bound Over to Await Grand Jury Action. Nellie Chasteen, waitress in the restaurant of Hantzls Brothers, who was arrested Saturday, when she called at the express office in Noblesville for a package of narcotics was bound over to await the action of the Federal grand Jury under bond of SI,OOO on a qharge of violating the Harrison anti-narcotic law, at a hearing before Charles W. Moores, United States yesterday. She was released on bond signed by Nicholas D. Hantzis. her employer. The woman denied to Commissioner Moores that she had any knowledge of the contents of the package when she went to Noblesville for it, and said that 6he had been sent there by a man whoso name she did not know to get it for him. Blanket of Snow Covers New YT)rk NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—New York was blanketed today by the heaviest snow storm of the winter. Thousands of men, organized like an army by the street cleaning department, were engaged iii trying to clear the way for traffic. The snow was stil! falling at 8 a. m., driven by a high wind. DIES OPERATING ON PATIENT. ATHENS Feb. 15.—Dr. Constantine Paldis, a leading Athenian surgeon, dropped dead after he had begun to operate on a patient for appendicitis. The operation was completed by another surgeon hastily summoned.

suit because if he didn’t pay It, the *lO a day stay-at-home would. The veteran can stiyi.l it if the shoe Is put on the other foot. He won’.t mind paying $5 more fir a suit of clothes if he has the pric <f the suit. Mr. Spillane puts in the usual plea for the disabled, but asks why other veterans should benefit equally. They will not. The veteran who is sound physically although not so sound financially, wiU receive adjusted compensation, whereas, the veteran will receive adjusted compensation, plus his disability compensation and hospital care. 1 Tie veteran is inclined to question the statement that “millions of persons in civil life made sacrifices in money end service in war work fully as great as those who never got beyond training camps.” The veteran does not doubt the patriotism and sincerity of the va>t majority of the American people, but he does doutt that the man at home “served no less than those who went to ing camps.” Undoubtedly, there were scattered cases of business men who suffered as much as the men in uniform, but the uniformed men made up the class that sacrificed, and they, as a class, should be compensated for this sacrifice. It was Milton who wrote that “they also serve who only stand and wait.” but this is placing a rather broad interpretation on the performing of patriotic duty in war time. Sincerely, LEMUEL BOLLES, National Adjutant.

REGISTERED E. S. PATENT OFFICE