Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1922 — Page 4

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Jnfciatra ilaily kitties Published at 25-29 South Meridian street. Indianapolis, Ind., by The Indiana - Daily Times Company. W. D. Boyce, President. Harold Hall. Treasurer and General Manager. Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . , .. . _. New York. Boston. Payne, Burns & Smith, Inc. Advertising offices. Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Subscription Bates: Indianapolis, 10c per week; elsewhere, 12c per week Entered as Second Class Matter. July 25. 1914, at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind. under act March 3. 1579. THAT POLICEMAN who fought a revolver duel with a negro In the darkness and hit him three times should be made marksmanship instructor for the department. Daugherty and Watson A demand for the resignation of Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty has been made on the floor of the United States Senate because of his acceptance of a fee to bring about a pardon for C. W. Morse, who ■was serving a sentence in the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. Os course, it is too much to expect that the man who so prophetically depicted President Harding's romination in a “smoke-filled room at 2 a. m. months before it was accomplished will acquiesce in the demand, but nevertheless his connection with the unsavory deal will to a large extent prohibit the public from having the confidence in its Attorney General that it should. The debate on the floor of the Senate following the expose of Mr. Daugherty’s deal with Mr. Morse by Senator Caraway of Arkansas brought Senator Watson of Indiana to his feet with a ready defense for the Attorney General, but before the session had ended the Hoosier Senator must have felt as though he had picked up a red-hot poker. Under the merciless questioning of Senator Caraway Senator Watson said, according to the Congressional Record: “I know that he (Mr. Daugherty) did not get any fee from Morse for getting him out of the penitentiary or helping to get him out.” Mr. Watson admitted that he had discussed the affair with Mr. Daugherty because he “had heard the rumor” and later he ended the debate by declaring that he had “never asked him about any fee, of course, because he said he did not get any.” Senator Caraway read from photostatic copies of letters that had passed between Mr. Daugherty and Mr. iV>rse and between Thomas B. Felder, an attorney, and Mr. Morse. Mr. Daugherty’s letter, dated April 30, 1913, states that, "I inclose herewith copy of the letter setting forth the contract you made of Aug. 4, 1911, with Mr. Felder for his services and mine. You will observe that I was correct in the statement that there was a balance due of $25,000 when you were commuted. * * Mr. Felder’s letter, which is the contract between the attorneys and the former prisoner sets at rest any doubts what was paid for Morse's freedom in the following stipulation: ■■4, xVe are to receive, in the event we secure an unconditional pardon or commutation for you, the sum of $2.>,M00, which is to be in full compensation for services rendered in connection with your application for pardon.” Perhaps Mr. Daugherty had never taken Mr. Watson sufficiently into his confidence to inform hm of the existence of these letters, yet the Hoosier’s eager championship of his friend in trouble demonstrated that h 9 does not necessarily have to be possessed of the facts in order to defend acts of the Administration or its individuals.

Shank and the Primary Law Mayor Shank has announced that he will go before the Republican State convention to utter a plea for the retention of the direct primary law, which the reactionary element in control of the party desires to abolish. The mayor, as a well-known Republican leader and the co-chief — with William H. Arrcitage—of the biggest single political organization in the State, can be assured of respectful attention and probably his recrudescence to vaudeville jokes will win him many hearty laughs, but it is doubtful, unless something slips, that his views will make a sufficiently deep impression to save the convention from going on record against what the stand-patters firmly believe is an obnoxious law. No one is better qualified to speak in behalf of the primary than the redoubtable mayor of Indianapolis. He has been counted out and counted in through primary organizations until he knows whereof he speaks when he cants upon its desirabilities. And furthermore, it is true as it is In the case of hid friend. Mr. Beveridge, that neither would be in the position they now are if the convention system still survived in Indiana. The standpatters do not hanker for the primary, because it has the habit of completely upsetting their plans at unexpected moments. It affords the mere voter a chance to express his opinion and unfortunately that is sometimes at direct variance to the views held by the so-called leaders. Therefore it must go. President Harding, who is frank enough to admit that he is a standpatter, has little liking for the primary. Neither has Senator Watson, nor Governor McCray, all of whom have had some bitter experiences at the hands of the ordinary voters. The Harding influence will be reflected in the decisions of the convention and the Watsons and the McCrays will be in charge. It is difficult to see unless, as has been said, something slips, where the Beveridges and the Shanks will have much weight, although they may have plenty to say. The Health Exposition The Indiana Health Exposition at the State Fairground this week stands out as a fitting climax to the long period of public service of Dr. John N. Hurty, secretary of the State board of health, the directing genius of this educational event. Dr. Hurty has announced his intention to resign as secretary of the board after twenty-five years of service. The health exposition Is In a nature of a farewell. For twenty-five years Dr. Hurty has labored for the public good. To him, more than to any other man, are due the health laws of Indiana. To him is dup the fact, to a large extent, that Indiana school children are protected in every possible way. He has had much to do with food inspection laws. He has raised the standards of health In the community from the depths of twenty-five years ago to their present high level. He has had assistance but he has always been recognized as the head of the movement for prevention as a means of eliminating disease. Through all of his work. Dr. Hurty has met with almost insurmountable opposition. He has been repeatedly called a crank and a fanatic. In every step obstacles have been thrown in his way either by unenlightened public opinion or the ignorance and cupidity of legislators. In view of these facts his achievements deserve praise. Dr. Hurty is preparing to resign but not to retire from public life. He is advanced in years, but he wishes to perform one more public service. His greatest opposition has been In the legislature, and now he proposes to become a member of that body in order to assist in putting through measures that he has been unable to have enacted into laws as an outsider. * The secretary of the board of health has never been a politician. He has served under Democratic and Republican Governors alike. When ho sought office he was complimented with the highest number of votes cast for a legislative candidate of the party with which he chose to affiliate. Murder Car Sources If the authorities charged with the enforcement of the law are unable to see any moral laxity in “hip-pocket” parties which are said to constitute the principal attractions in Saturday night revels at roadhouses in and about Indianapolis they should at least regard these, places as potential sources of drunken motor car drivers. A belated start in cleaning up an intolerable situation was made Saturday night when Sheriff Snider and Marshall De Vault of Broad Ripple arrested two men for speeding and qbtained the license number of ten others who they say they will arrest on similar charges. All of these offenses were committed either going or coming from a notorious resort which is frequented by "hip-pocket” parties. Operations of automobiles by drunken persons must be stopped, as the toll of four lives in the last few weeks demonstrates even to slow-moving officialdom. The only sure way of curbing the “murder cars” is for the authorities to clean up the sources. This cannot be done by winking at violations of the law, either on the part of the Federal, county or city officials. It may require a vast amount of energy and patience to stamp out week-end orgieß in w’hich liquor and automobiles are mixed with often fatal results, yet it U something which the law-abiding rightfully insist upon. ■

Judith Lowry as Helen Hardy Tries to Look Beyond the Horizon in Big Play

There is a play being presented by Stuart Walker at the Murat this week whieh deserves to be called a real American play. It is called "The Detour,” by Owen Davis. I am ready to call it a play with brains. There is a real something—a worth while something—to this play of a mother’s dream for her only daughter. And then on the Murat stage there is the Walker something—the cast. In my years of covering the Walker company, I never have seen more human work than that done by Judith Lowry, Aldrich Bowker, Mary Ellis and Donald Macdonald. I did not see Effle Shannon and the original oast in "The Detour,” either in New York or Chicago, but I am ready to bank my reputation as a judge of plays on the statement that the four principal characters, in the Walker production were not surpassed by the New York company. These are not extravagant words. I am measuring my words because I want Indianapolis to know that the real article—both as to (day and to acting is on view at the Murat this week. It is the duty of those who write of the theater to tell the public when the real article Is on view. I would be a "thief If I didn’t urge you to attend the Murat this week for the purpose of seeing Judith Lowry and Mr. Aldrich Bowker at their very best. Just give these two old dependahles of the M alker company a chance and they will register from the first curtain to the last. It isn't my right or duty to "plug' any kind of entertainment, but it is my right to tell Indianapolis people that they have a duty this week and that duty is to support Miss Lowry and Mr. Bowker as they never have been supported before. They are doing the best acting of their career as far as 1 have witnessed. The best should be sup ported and the truth is that if Indianapolis really means it when she declares her love for those two fine players, then there shouldn't be a vacant scat at the Murat this week. There were too many vacant seats last night. We have "cried out” season after season that Judith Lowry be given a ’ big chance-” She has it this week in “The

i Ye TOWNE GOSSIP Copyright, 1922, by Star Company. ! li> K. C. U thebe Are two friends. • • • I HAVE in mind. AND ONE of them. • * * IS ALWAYS pleasant. AND NEVER argue*.* AND TAKES for granted. EVERYTHING I say.* AND AGREES with* me. THAT BLACK Is white. OR W HITE Is black! ’ . . FOR HE hates disputes. AND I could go on * • • FOB A century. * * . AND NEVER quarrel. WITH THIS good* frUnd. AND THE other friend. . • IS A noisy euss AND BLFSTEHS *ii* * LIKE THE winds'of March. AND SITS him down* AND LIGHTS his pipe. AND PEACEFCLLY.* ... WE WILL converse. ... FOR A minute or two. * * • AND I’LL say something. AND HE'LL rise up* ’ AND SAY to me* ... YOF’RE ENTIRELY wrong.’’ • • * AND THEN we ll start. AND IT won’t be long AND IT seems almost WE’LL COME to t lows. # • • AND THEN somehow. • • • WE’LL WORK it around. • t • SO WE will agree. • • • OR PRETEND we do. • • • AND PEACE will come. • • * FOB ANOTHER mlnnte. • • • AND HE*UN say something. • • • AND FIX rise up. •* • . AND SAY he’s crazy. • • • AND WE’LL start again. * • • BUT WHEN he ** * • WE'RE ALWAYS frirrtds. * * • AND SOMEHOW or other. • * * WHEN lIE comes In. * • TIIOFCn I always know. • • • WE ARE going to fight. • • • I WELCOME him. • * • WITH OPEN arms. • • * WHILE MY peaceful friend. * * * SORT OF oozes in. * • * AND I get no thrill. • * • WHEN I see him come. • • I THANK yoil.

BRINGING UP FATHI’.R,

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Detour" as Helen Hardy, a farmer’s wife who has lived in the kitchen for twenty years as she nursed her only daughter into womanhood. Helen Hardy wanted her daughter, Kate, to be a great artist, a wonderful painter. Helen for years built aireastles and she saved her egg and butter money Ri a ginger Jar. That was Helen’s hope chest—the means by which she hoped some day to educate Kate to be a great painter. She did not tell Stephen Hardy, her husband, of the money or her plans. Stephen thought only of buying more farm land. He was honest but he was firm. Then In the big scene, Stephen discovers the money and Helen’s plans have been detouned. Judith Lowry hits the very peak of honest and sincere acting when she forgets her twenty years of wedded life to Stephen and accepts his challenge to leave the farm and go to New Y'ork with Kate. I am frank when I state that the work of Judith Lowry In the second and third acts of "The Detour” wns not excelled

THEY LOVE TO LOVE ON THE STAGE

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Mary Kills and Donald Macdonald as the two love birds in ’’Tho Detour." Donald is quite a “man” in this play as he smokes a corncob pipe. Wears overalls. but he makes love Just the same to Mary Ellis. This Is about the most phasing juvenile lea in of players that Stuart Walker has ever had with him. Both are gaining rapidly In public esteem. They appear to bo honest-to goodness people.

this past season at the Murat when the , road shows wt re on tour. I have not forgotten that Margaret Anglin was present In her great second ai t in “A Woman of Bronze.” I pride myself that 1 know 1 real acting when I see it and I know that .iudlih Lowry Is going over the top j this week. Al lrieh Bowker as the practical farmer measures right up to the high standard j set by Miss Lowry. I have seen nothing more real and more convincing than the second and third acts of ' The Detour” as : done bv these two players with the assistance of Donald Macdonald and Mary j Ellis. I give the cast in full ns follows: i Helen Hardy Judi h Lowry Kate llarly Mary Kills I Stephen llar ly Aldrich Itowker (Tom I.trie Donald Macdonald Dunn Lnmoe.t George Somnes Dora I imriiit Belle Murry Ben GJenny .. T.ewaril Meeker Weins ein Walter Poult*: Jake Leslie Fenton “The Detour” is an exceptional platan 1 demands exceptional acting. Here 1-t in play whieh possesses some brains. It is a real American document, i If you have any faith In my opinions of things of the theater, then go to the Murat this week ami sea Judith Lowry and Aldrich Bowker contribute some of the hest acting visible on the stage today. At the Murat all week—W. D. H. -I- -I- -1KEITH’S nAS ANOTHER WINNING BILL THIS WEEK. Dancing and more dancing, plenty of music and song with Tom Patrtcola the ! featured attraction, makes up a fast moving bill at B. F. Keith’s this week. Tom I’ntrlcola and Irene Delroy in “The Girl nnd toe Dancing Fool.” received n royal reception when they made their appearance yesterday afternoon. Pntricola wns a great fnvorite when he last appeared hero and was well remembered. Patricola’s billing describes him well for ho is surely a “(lancing fool.” Miss Delroy lends class to the act and ably assists Fatricoln. Tint Princeton Five are four men, one of whom is a blackface comedian, nnd a girl who plays xylophones, saxophones, cornets, trombones and drums. Tlieir program is well arranged and fits in nicely with so touch dancing on the bill. Mmc. Voroboll and company open the | bill with songs and dancing. Mine. Vern- • bell has a pleasing voice and sings the better class of songs. Virginia, the | dancer, who assists In the net, belongs to the class of dancers who reminds one of a glass of jelio. McConnell and West contribute more dancing to the bill as well as some rapid pat ter. Llanuka Japanese Troupe has an elab-

orate setting and perform many feats of magic. The entire bill shakes up like another Keith winner. -I- -I- -IDOIJBLE BILL OFFERED AT RLALTO. The Rialto is offering for the first half of the week a musical comedy called “Live, Love and Laugh,” and a feature picture, “Where Lights Are Low,” with Sessue Hayakawa as the star. “Live, Love and Laugh" ts a tabloid version, it seems, of a recent musical show. Two we!,-known songs, ‘‘Mary Is a Grand Old Name” and “Good-bye Mary,” nre featured. * The action of the piece takes place a short way from New York City where a millionaire has Just died but no will is found. The heir apparent comes to the place with his future bride and his future morrher in-law. lie brings an exprize fighter with him as private secretary. The secretary fails In love with Mary, the house maid, who is the real heir when the will is found. Sue Hale

handles the role of Mary nicely and Chuck Ilobaek makes a good looking heir apparent. The bill wlil be changed on Thursday as the Rialto management has decided upon a spilt week policy. -I- -I- -ILYRIC OFFERS I'LL IKING BILL. i Jewels and Jesters, a revue which heads the current LIU at the Lyric, consists of four girts and a male pianist. Three of the girls are dancers nnd the fourth sings ; special songs, Including a "kid” number i which was nicely done. Mr. nnd Mrs. Bert Melbourne In “On The Sleeping Porch” have a “classy" setting for thoir act. Mr. Melbourne cleverly portrays i „ for arid has many 'J&ffflb l *- ■s ■ t •(W tn n * " s * Ss glasses drinking out of Feminine and \. s S!-;> Shelly get lots of ¥% laughs from a “*VOI burlesqu* on a xA trapeze act which they call “PulleyGone of Gene nnd Pulley." Th e n Mlnette. they settio down and give rnnsle lovers a real treat with difficult selections on the violin and on an old-fashioned accordion. This is an act of real merit. Stanley, Doyle nnd Reno, a trio of Southern boys, have arranged a good program of harmony songs. Tho boys | have pleasing voices and were favorites when we saw the show. I Gone and Minetto sing a group of songs | nnd play the violin, piano and banjo. 001. . line and Dunbar make up a dancing team. Togo, who doses the bill is a real showj man and does some difficult stunts. t’:iinI ilia's birds, a well trained bird act opens i the bill. At the Lyric all week. -I- -!- -|. ON THE SCREEN. Tbe following movies are on view today: “Missing Husbands," nt Loqw's Slut"; “Beyond the Rocks,” nt the Ohio; "Smilin' Through,’ at Mister Smiths; “Trouble,” nt the Circle, and “.Man to Man,” at the Isis. 6H YEARS WITHOUT B\TIT MANCHESTER, England, May :j.-l n a tenant suit brought here, Thomas Ludston boasted (lint ho had not had a bath in sixty-eight years.

COPS USE CHALK ON TIRES WHILE SPEEDERSGO ON Contributor Hits Lax Police Work and Foolish Stickers. Editor Times—Are all automobile owners and drivers criminals? I ask this question on account of the attitude assumed by the Indianapolis police departmeat and believe I am justified in mnklng , the inquiry. Further, I would like to ask if an automobile owner is supposed ; to Ivr a post graduate in the art of dis- | sorting police orders, notices, etc., and ; if so why the police department doesn’t j open a school and teach us the method of interpreting their wonderful police strat- ; cgy. j The following “Police Notice” is, while * printed in type used by most Englishi speaking peoples to express their wants, dislikes, etc., a fair sample of the conglomerated mess of rubbish the police department hands the autumobilist from, time to time and which, to my mind, is about as clear as mud : POLICE NOTICE SIGNAL, BRAKES, HORNS. ETC. “Section IS. Burns Revised Statutes 1914 of the Laws of Indiana. Every motor vehicle shall during the period from one-half hour nfter sunset to one-h;Jf hour before sunrise, display at least two lighted lamps on the front and one on the rear of suefe motor vehicle, which shall display a red light visible from the rear. Said rear light to he independent of any other light or lights and so adjusted that in lighting and extinguishing same, the motor vehicle must lie Stationary anil file rays of such rear lamp shall shine upon the number plate carried on the rear of such vehicle In such a manner as to render the numerals thereon visible for at least one hundred (100) feet In the direction from which flic motor vehicle is proceeding, and every . motor bicycle shall, during said period. display one lighted lamp on tile front thereof. Tile light of the front 1 lamp shall he visible at least two hundred (200) feet In the direction In which the motor vehicle Is proceeding, | Punishment on conviction f. t vio- ! fating this statute is drastic, namely, I imprisonment for sixty days and 'or- ‘ feltnre of ones license for six months, i TRAFFIf POLICE DEPARTMENT,

(Not-e—Any spelling errors in the above arc chargeable to the tratTio police). The above notice is so worded ns to leave the average motorist in doubt as to jus: what he can and cannot do. For instance. it says you must have two lighted lamps on tie front and one on the rear of your car from a certain time to a certain time. .Then it says tho rear light must be independent of any other light or lights Now if you are real bright you can figure out just what is expected of you in this lighting proposition, but I. for one. am Just a tritle curious to know whether it Is a guessing contest or just a hoax to got you if you do or don’t. Can you, according to this notice, park your car a' a 45 degree angle, leaving your rear lamp lighted, your front lights not lighted, comply with this law? Can you park flat, to the curb in the residential districts, leaving your rear light burning and tho front lights extinguished and comply with this notice? If so, then why the order that your rear light be controlled independently of any other lights and what if you permit them nil to burn? It certainly docs seem ns if the motorist is a suspect or an out-and-out criminal In the eyes of the police and it appears some Sherlock was staying awake nights trying to figure out spate way to catch the auto owner and hale him into police court. The-/ Is a class of law violators in the automobile line that should be 100. e<l after - speeders, boozers and car and equipment thieves. There are enough of them to keep the police department busy day and night and I would like to suggest that a part of these traffic boys who lun around the downtown streets pasting stickers on some car that has stood five minutes over time in some [i.arkinc [lace be given a little work in a really helpful way. While the traffic policeman goes up the street making chalk marks on your tires and pasting on Ae littlo sticker the equipment thief follows him up and steals your spare tire, motoni -ter. tools, etc., and then you i> port it and a record is made of your loss at the i slice station. Also, while all this watchfulness to catch seme one parking over’line is -going on --.iMtie spader in the outlying district is running down some woman or child. True, the police always come to the scene of these accidents —too late —but if tho same energy were put forth In capturing tho speeder or drunken driver as is spent in watching the honest, lawabiding motorists there would be less loss of life In our fair city. Eliminate the blind tigers and bootleg- i gers In Indianapolis nnd you will do morn to make nufffmoblllng safo for both drivers and pedestrians than all the j stickers you may pnsto till the end of time. i Lew- Shank made the assertion before his election, when asked what hts attitude would be on the blind tiger nnd bootlegger, “That every policeman knew every bootlegger on his heat and If he didn't bring him in after he was in the mayor's chair ho would get anew police- I man,” or words to Hint effect. What has he done, along this line? j Have you heard of many policemen losing j their Jobs? Have you heard of many i bootleggers being sent to the .penal farm? No! Things are as bad if not worse than : they were under the Jewett regime and ij have hoard it said there is more booze : being sold in Indianapolis today than any ' time since the Volstead act became a law. Close up the blind tigers and clean out j flic bootleggers and you have done more. Lew, to eliminate the crimes committed ! with automobiles than any other one i thing you could possibly do. Cut the four-flush nnd stop trying to j kid tho public that your police depart- j merit is a wizzard by keeping the law j abiding citizen busy with some fool law or rule nnd put your policemen out doing some real good. A CITIZEN.

By GEORGE McMANUS.

Highways and By-Ways of Lil’ Ol’ New York By RAYMOND CARROLL ———— (Copyright, 1922, by Public Ledger Company.) ■ ■-

NEW YORK, May 23.—When the stock market, after attaining sublime heights, suddenly turns upon a downward course, those who bought heavily on the rise I all the way up are usually wiped out and left high and dry. That about expresses the sad plight of thousands and thousands of New York working giris j caught napping with dresses at knees - in the drop of the style market which | has carried skirts back toward shoetops. For three seasons these economical giris had been cutting off and re-hem-ming the bottoms of their dresses. As ; long as the tendency of the fashion was j for shorter skirts, their problem was a ' matter of scissors, needle and thread. The average New York flapper cannot buy , new dresses with the prodigality of pre--1 war days, and she liuds herself lucky In this age of dancing to be able to re plenish her shoes anually. I In years there has been nothing to ; equal in volume the efforts being made lin the big and little stores to match j dress goods. Long skirts have necessitated extra pieces of the same material |of the old dresses. This quest, to one j young woman, was a revelation of ths ; varieties of black cloth ; tho distinct dis- ! ferences between the blue-blacks and the ! green-blacks, the gray-blacks and the brown-blacks. She discovered that the "economical black," vvliefl it came to being matched, was a tough proposition and she ended her difficulty by inserting a deep band of old lace as a method i of lengthening her best Sunday dress. On a Fifth avenue bus this morning I board a tail girl and a short girl disj cussing the buying of models. “Oh, you tall giris are out of it this season,’’ said tho short girl. “I can go into any store i and buy what I want and shorten it down to my needs, while you, if the frock is too short for you to wear with dignity, must wait until other models come in, probably a week or two.” Tho tall girl admitted, with dresses worn long again, this is the season for short girls when It came to buying ready-to-wear gowns. About every woman Is talking dress and the difficulties of conforming with the new style. What many people talk about Is always worth writing, for it reflects the trend of the crowd mind. A bronze portrait of Caruso in bas-re-lief has been iustalied upon the mezzanine floor of the Metropolitan Opera House, it being the work of C-. I’uil Jen- j newein, the sculptor. There are two standing, full length figures on either side of the head of Caruso, symboli-lng the muses of music. John Kenlon, chief of tho New York fire department, thinks the future will substitute roofs of skyescrapers for the present fire bouses upon ihe ground. Here in the branches of the forest of concrete and iron will be stored the fire-fighting J apparatus, which will be winged where needed. He is sure by that time chemists will have discovered a gas harmless to life but destructive to fire. He also visualizes a radio alarm system installed on every building, which will automatically act upon an aiarm of fire and "call out the gas” without human assistance.

'i he late Richard Canfield set the fashion for gamblers to collect art. He developed into a first-class connoisseur and most Americans who met him abroad 1 thought dealing in works of art was his business. The late I’at Sbeedy uiso went i in for art, and he could ie’l a genuine old master on sight. The late I>avy Johnson knew a thing or two about paintings, and he owned some fine ones. I fancy It came about through the gamblers hanging the walls of their lairs with the sort of thing they fancied their wealthy patrons were accustomed to see In tlieir own homes. And now comes the sale of the art works and paintings of the lute Sol Lichtenstein bookmaker and gambler, and quite the last person one would have suspe"teu of such a hobby. Lichtenstein, It appears, owned a carved Italian renaissance boudoir suite which took first prize at the World’s Fair lu St. ! Louis, and got it by outbidding the late Alfred G. Vanderbilt. Ills collection includes valuable oil paintings, prize pieces of bronze statuary, sporting books with colored plates, Flemish tapestry j panels, salon vases, cut crystal and oilier J priceless what-nots. i Sol, lu the good old days of racing | 1 with unrestricted open betting, was a nightly figure a: the original Rectors, seated" at a table with Ataxic Blumenthul, Abe Levy and t te late Joe I liman. • Ulirian was tbe prince of all the Broad- ; way gamblers. I recall one night when Ullrnan Imparted the confidence he was going to back a world concert tour for Nordic"., the grand opera star. Lichtenstein advised against It, saying. “Never ! pm a bet on a singer’s voice; they cost i more to make than they ever earn for | their backers. It Is different with a : horse.” This proved to be good advice in the case of Nordics, for Ulirnan lost a young fortune in the concert tour of 1 that great artist. Since the phenomenal success of Jackie Coogan of the “movies,” there has been a wild rush into the limelight of parents with their talented offspring to place upon the altar of the drama, spoken and j silent. Carl Kitchen recently returned | front the Pacific coast, says Hollywood ; is full-up with juvenile talent Itching to j be fllnfbd. Asa verity every community I has Its Jackie Coogan and It Is becoming I a dangerous proceeding to talk with male j parents upon the subject of gifted ehll- j dron unless one Is prepared to listen for ’ hours to accounts of the supernatural tai- . cuts of some other Johnny. New York City's outstanding entry to j the juvenile acting sweepstakes is S-year- i old Louis Brandt, a regularly installed star at the Yiddish Art Theater, appearing first in “The Rivals" and now in a piece called “Oaks.” Between performances little Louie goes to public school, lie obtained his engagement through his sister who was attending a dramatic school run in connection with the theater whore tho boy now appears as n finished ) actor. He declares when he grows up lia i will be found in the same profession, but i the records of most juvenile stars is they 1 fall by the wayside and usually end as i cashiers or traveling salesmen, or if girls, j the wives of substantial business men. j

MAY 23, 1922. \

If one enjoys the low, filthy profanity of the water front, “The Hairy Ape” will amuse. It holds the stage record for swearing In the vilest language, and nothing that A1 H. Woods ever put on the stage can compete. The profanity la not part of a climax to some dramatic situation but It Is the backbone of the piece and Its outstanding feature. Not such mild cus9-words 'as "damn” and “hell," but—well, they are simply unprintable. I have not met a single jnan who has seen this well-touted Eugeiffe O’Neill play who would take either his sister or his daughter to hear the disgusting Niagara of vile words emitted by Louis Wolheiw. the hero of “The Hairy Ape.” Then why have tbe editorial pages of the metropolitan press taken an almost united stand against the proposed supresslon of this swearing play? Because the critics approved of the play when it opened, and they must be sustained. In fact, the majority of tho editorials were written by the dramatic critics themselves. It does, Indeed, make a lot of difference whose ox is being gored. Listen to this from the pen of one of them on “The Hairy Ape.” “Few theatrical productions of the year are cleaner in Intent. Indeed, the teaching of its powerful final scene Is puritanic in tendency— suggests by Its conflict that unless emerging man kills the brute the brute will kill him.” There is one thing in A1 H. Woods. He says he puts on his “bedroom farces” to get the money and he doesn't hide behind any screen of hypocrisy with the smug use of such words as “intent" and “tendency.” The to-do over the O'Neill play is but an Instance of the literary log-rolling that goes on in Gotham, always spiced by expert teamwork between the dramatic and literary departments of some-of the principal daily newspapers. However, readers are not fooled at all and one wrote a letter today asking “how is it that those who get so excited about the “Demi-Virgin’ have closed their eyes to ‘The Rubicon’ as vile a play In its suggestlveness as was ever produced ?” Those editorial inconsistencies constantly cropping up are active agents in destroying the influence of great Journals and help explain both the overwhelming majority given Mayor Hylan at the last municipal election, and the more recent dropjdng In circulation of several of the once-influential newspapers of the big town.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Wherefore, putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.—Ephesians 4:25. What is meant by our neighbor we cannot doubt; it Is everyone with whom we are brought into contact. First of ail, he Is literally our neighbor. Then it is he who is close to us la our own neighborhood, our own town or street. Beside these, as our Lord teaches, it is everyone who is thrown across our path by the changes and chances of life.—A. F. Stanley. HAVE YOU STRING FEVER? LONDON, May 23.—" Work should ba regarded as a privilege and not as an affliction,” is the assertion of a famous English psychologist.

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