Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1922 — Page 7

AUG. 26, 1922

'TIE OLD SOU' WOBBLES OUT 1 NEW YORK STAGE Warming Phiiosophy of Life Finds Fellow Feeling in Hearts of Audience. ‘FOOL'S ERRANT OFFENDS ‘Light Out’ Generously Cheered —Frank Tinney’s New Show Has Pretty Chorus. Bit WESTBROOK FEOLER. ( nited Xews Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK. Aug. 26.—" The old soak." a living, mellow sermon upon the importance of being drunk and shiftless, wobbled on to the New York stage at the Plymouth Theater this week, complaining that this world is a sort of jail, wherein people are sentenced to hard labor. Indolent, shabby, a humiliation to his family and a constant trial to his worried wife, "the old soak." with his warming philosophy which had the flavor and bead of good rye. found a fellow feeling in his audience. He stepped from Don Marquis’ daily newspaper column. “The Old Soak.” played by Harry Beresford. was recognized. incidentally, but only incidentally, as a full brother to Lightnin’ Bill .Tones of “Lightnin’. ’’ but maybe you’ll like him even better, because he keeps himself in a genUy simmering alcoholic state. That seemed to elect him to brotherhood with his audience without further examination of his fine credentials. "The Old Soak" stated his platform in the first act when he said, in a voice made slightly husky by the treacherous brews and spirits to-which

| Tlie Hopper of iodotj is itve tnoiher op | j lo. twrroul I HEBE DANIELS * Gdnkad Nagel / IN William de/Aitles tatest jjrochzcHoti hJtrE S OPL V Vw I I H A From the Play by Rachel Crothers A RE the young people of today headed for the dogs on a jsVj j/\ \ Jt\ wave of Jazz? That’s a vital question. Here’u a plo- -L >l\ f / / \ ’ ture that answers It. A dramatic and compelling story of life 'A \ / A 1 In America today. A strong and amazing portrayal of the Y X /\1 mad gayety of the younger generation. \v\ // \ s~\ N the stage it was the season’s biggest success. On the \\/ ) screen, it is greater, truer and more thrilling. I " yk t OOK at the cast! Look at the producer! Here's a pic- i I j ture you must not miss! \ J Jr 0 International Weekly Bobby Dunn in “Give Him Air* l (X (paramount picture

prohibition drove him: "They’s three things I’ve always held to in my life: Old-fashioned religion, calomel and good rye whisky." “Fool’s Errant Is Messy Tangle "Fool’s Errant.’’ by Louis Shipman, was another of the week's productions, a messy tangle of Jove affairs and not very pleasing to the critics. A rich young fellow, full of uplift, marries another man's mistress just to relieve the distress of the other man!s wife. 1 The other man dies and the wife then 1 discovers that she loves the obliging rich man. "Lights Out.” also opened since the iast letter, a comedy with detectives and a light mystery, transpiring in a Pullman car. It was generously cheered on its way, which was more than the first-nighters could do for “Manhattan." another comedy of recent production. Frank Tinney's show, "Daffydill,” opened Tuesday night. This is a music and chorus show with one little thread of plot—and Frank Tinney as himself. The chorus was appraised as the prettiest that escaped Flo Ziegfeld himself and the costumes revealed more nakedness than usual to the naked eye. John Golden’s production of “The ; Serpent’s Tooth,” with Marie Tem- 1 pest, opens this week. So does Edward A. Paulton’s farce, “Her Temporary Husband,” with William Courtney; "Molly Darling,” r musical comedy. and George M. Cohan’s production of the year, called "So This Is London,” a comedy concerning an American in a famous capital. "So This Is London” was written by Arthur Goodrich, who has been known heretofore chiefly as the author of short stories. AUTO BACKFIRES Woman Reports to Police Shooting in Neighborhood. Mrs. Mary Walters. 1539 E. ThirtyFifth St., reported to police there was shooting in her neighborhood. A flurried run was made to the pla/ and after the circumstances were uncovered Mrs. Walters decided thv. it was the backfire of an automobil .

SEARCH FOB BODY AND FORTUNE OF DOCTOR IS MADE • Federal Agents Conduct Probe of Mysterious ‘Death’ of Dr. J. Newton Roe. FRIEND THINKS HE LIVES Grave Is Believed Located at Markle, Ind., but Money Has Disappeared. Rv Timeh special HUNTINGTON. Ind., Aug. 26. Two questions confront Government agents here trying to settle an inheritance tax matter involving an estate valued at a million dollars or more. Does Dr. J. Newton Roe still live? What has bcome of his fortune? Dr. Robert W. Souter of Chicago, still asserts his friend. Dr. Roe, still lives, although the body is said to lie buried in the cemetery at Markle. Dr. Roe's death is supposed to have <<ccurred at Chicago on April 27, 1921, and the body was reported to have been buried In two places, Valparaiso and Markle. A body was exhumed at Valparaiso but couid not be Identified as that of Dr. Roc. An undertaker said bodies could not have been switched on him. Although the physician's grave is c'alnfeq to nhve been located last week at Markle by an investigator, disappearance of his fortune has not been accounted for.

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GREENSBURG—A peach, sixteen inches in circumference, grown by George Wirt of Clarksburg, would make enough filler for one pie. MARION—Police Captain Rosen crance wants mufflers placed on automobiles not ear muffs. LAFAYETTE—As he pounded a .22 caliber cartridge, it exploded the bullet lodging in a finger of the left hand of William Etten, 17. NEWCASTLE—A concessionaire at the Henry County fair got half a doz en loafers to put on an imitation drunk and sold near beer at 25 and 50 cents a shot. KOKOKO—When arrested, Eddie Elliers, wrestling blacksmith, tried to put a half Nelson on three police officers on way to headquarters. FT. WAYNE—That Henry B. Mercer, tenant, used the summer kitchen for a chicken house was the complaint ! of Mrs. Mary E. Paul In court. WASHINGTON —Because Charles Miller was making more than fifteen miles an hour, Charles Hudson, William Nalker and Ernest Osha said they threw stones at his car. SOUTH BEND —Failure to mourn after her husband's body was found, led to Mrs. Maude Storrick’s arraignment here on a murder charge. EVANSVILLE —"My wife told me she didn't care for me as much as she did for her cat,” Otis Durneli testified in a divorce trial. EVANSVILLE Louts Chevrolet, racer, made the 186 miles from Indianapolis In six hours, but he hoped to cut it in half going back. COLUMBUS —Officer Stanley Coop er saw L. B. Merritt, who escaped jail here, start rowing across White River and he slowly walked aerbss a bridge and arrested him. TERRE HAUTE —When Jesse Nevins of Fontanet is released from serv-

ing a penal farm sentence it’ll be time to start his campaign for justice of the peace. LEBANON—A friend invited Levi Stevens to sit with him in a circus band, but a man hit him in tne eye when he appeared. SOUTH BEND—That his younger and more sturdy wife, Appolonia, has swindled h.m out of his farm, was charged by Fred Renes, 68. TIPTON Enforcement officers failed to find booze on Robert Christie's farm, but Game Wardens Bravy and Everson found a trap fish net. COLUMBUS—A clog bit three holes through the right cheek of L. .1. Wilson. 7. t / FT. WAYNE—Defense testimony was that ”a mysterious stranger” attacked James Rounds, railroad shopman, but because of conflicting evidence E. C. Webber and J J. Krill were fined. SOUTH BEND—Since Dec. 14, 1921 Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Baxter have vis-

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ited every State In the Union and walked 8.000 miles. BLOOMINGTON—Nimrods are smiling over the statement of Tom Beloat, State deputy game warden, that squirrels, quail and rabbits are abunant. OLUMBUS Claude Griffith of Shelbyville was relieved of $240 in a framed hold-up and two local men are held. EVANSVILLE While Harry Woods fished at Charlevoix, "Mich., a drawbridge opened just as he got a “bite,” and he slid into the water. TERRE HAUTE—John Godsey, 32, was sent to jail for thirty days for getting full of booze and beating his mother. TERRE HAUTE—A holt of lightning knocked over a chimney, smashed a plate-glass window and shocked two people. ALEX ANDRIA —Two original land grants, one dated March 20. 1857, and signed by Martin Van Buren,

and the other dated Aug. 5, 1843, and signed by Andrew Jackson, have been discovered here. SHELBYVILLE —Amateur shows are spotted all over Shelby County since the circus left, and the admission price is pins. FRANKLIN t-Two magazine salesmen, East and Meloy, flimflammed an Edinburg girl intef subscribing by telling her a friend had subscribed. RUSHVILLE—The county board of education is laying down the law to hack drivers in preparation for opening of school. ACCIDENTS INCREASE State Indstrial Board Reports 3,663 Casualties in July. Accidents reported to the State industrial board in July totaled 3,663, as compared with 2,633 in January, according to the monthly report made public today. Os this numbr 119

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were accidents to females and 51 were accidents to children 16 years of age or * under. The highest weekly wage paid any adult male employ was $99 and the lowest was $4 with the general average at $23.37. The highest wage paid a female worker was $39 and the lowest $4, the average being $12.51. Among children 16 year or under, the highest wage reported was $37, with the lowest at $4, and the average at $12.39. TO RESTAGE TRAGEDY Motion Picture Diretcor Hopes to Escape Charge of Murder. EDGEWATER, N. J., Aug. 26. George F. Cline, motion picture director, today was to stage a retake of the real life drama in which he killed John Bergen, with police as actors and spectators. Cjine hopes to prove he fired in self | defense when he shot and mortally j wounded Bergen, a movie “stunt.’' I actor.

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