Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 85, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1923 — Page 3
MONDAY, AUG. 20, 1923
STATE SHOWS 1 ARRESTS IDE IN WEEKLYCLEAN-UP Fifty-Two Persons Charged With Failure to Have City Licenses. With fifty-two persons charged with failing to have city licenses, records at the turnkey's office at police headquarters today showed 203 persons arrested over the week-end. One hundred and c: y-seven are men and sixteen worn-;.. Lieutenant McGee and squad raided the room of John Oswald, 543% E. Washington St. Five men were charged with visiting a gambling house and gaming. Oswald was charged with keeping a gambling house. Gambling Charged Scott Mitchell, 29, colored, 1415 E. Sixteenth St., was charged with keepiflng a gambling house and two men arrested at his place were charged with visiting and gaming. When Lieutenant Winkler and squad swooped down on the home of William Payne, 26, colored, 532 E. Court St., they found four men and two women. Payne was charged with operating a blind tiger and keeping a house of ill fame. Virgil Payne, 30, colored, 524 E. Court St., Leo Cox. 24, of Columbus, Ohio, Lucius Richards, 28. Cleveland, Ohio, and Charles Kincade, 42, St. Loui3. Mo., were charged with associating. Lola Carter, 23, colored, 122 N. Liberty St., and Frieda Leonard, 22, colored, 610 E. Court St., were charged with a statutory oense. Eight Held on Booze Cliarges The same officers arrested Dacey Brady, 506% E. Washington St., on a charge of keeping a house of ill fame and renting rooms illegally; Roy Leonard, 830 Udell St., and Roy Underwood, 2538 Union St., on charges of associating and statutory offenses. Alice Carson, 21, Oxford Hotel, and Virginia Lamont ,318 N. New Jersey St., were charged with statutory offenses. Several men and one woman ■were charged wtih operating blind tigers. CORONER PUSHES OUIZ IN SHOOTING Patrolman Faces Technical Charge in Killing. Coroner Paul F. Robinson pushed his investigation today into the fatal shooting of David Wright, colored, 30, of 905 Coe St., who died at the City Hospital Saturday night of a bullet wound inflicted by Thomas Carter, patrolman, Aug. 9. Carter was slated on a technical charge of involuntary manslaughter, on orders of the coroner, pending his investigation. He was Immediately released and resumed his post. Wright was shot, police reports shew, after Carter and Patrolman Orval Wininger attempted to arrest him as he was driving his car northwest on Indiana Ave. while he was lntolxcated, A sudden swerve of his car caused Wright to shake both officers off the running board. A wheel passed over Wininger’s legs. Carter leaped to his feet and fired at Wrightfi who was running. Boy Seen Stealing Clock Detectives are searching for a boy who stole a sls dashboard clock from a machine belonging to Ed Mock of the Gibson Company, Capitol Ave. and Michigan St.
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Mrs. Reid Bares Her Soul in Dope Film; Best Fight of Ages Staged in “Spoilers”
By WALTER D. HICKMAN. SHADOW of the beloved late Wallis Reid hovers about “Human Wreckage.” Out of the misery of part of the life of Wallace Reid, the widow has drawn a strong indictment in inovle form against the dope evil. “Human Wreckage” is more than mere entertainment as being presented at the Apollo this week. It is a terrific indictment agamst the use'of drugs. At times one feels that the soul of Mrs. Wallace Reid is crying out loud for the return of the boy she once loved before he became a dope victim. It is this sincere attitude which raises “Human Wreckage” above the footage of a mere film. As Mrs. Reid lifts the veil of ner past unhappy domestic life after she discovered the “wolf of dope” in her own home, one is impressed with the sincerity of her efforts to bring home a real lesson to the American people. Os course, the movie producer has not lost sight of the financial end of such a campaign, but has given the film a marvelous cast. The Cast Is as Worthy as the Theme Is Noble First, believe that Mrs. Reid is absolutely sincere in her efforts to stamp out the drug and I admit she has suffered aTOut as much as any normal person could suffer from the traffic, not as a user of the cursed stuff but as the wife of a national hero who went to his grave because of the dope habit. The reason T believe that Mrs. Reid is sincere is because she has insisted that the theme of “Human Wreckage” be true to facts. The theme contends that the dope habit is a disease and the victim is really a mighty sick person. In the second place, the movie contends that all sick people should be treated as sick people and nor as hopeless outcasts. In the third place, some of the best actors on the screen have been called in to aid Mrs. Reid to drive home a. great lesson. I believe that the majority of those who see “Human Wreckage” will agree with Mrs. Reid that unprincipled doctors have had their hand in increasing the,use of drugs. Mrs. Reid is cast as the wife of Alan McFarland (James Kirkwood), who as a great criminal lawyer becomes a victim of the dope habit by listening to the advice of an unprincipled doctor. Kirkwood shows the terrible and destroying effects that dope has on the human body, mind and soul. Here is great acting, not pleasant acting but acting with a terrible warning back of it. It is during terrible scenes of suffering when McFarland attempts to break away from the dope habit, that one feels the shadow of the late Wallie Reid hovering close to the screen. It is nearly a message from the grave. Bessie Love Does a Great Piece of Acting as MaryBessie Love as Mary Finnegan, who becomes an unwilling victim to the dope habit and who nearly kills her own baby by making a dope slave of the infant, does some of the most powerful work I have seen on the screen for months. George Hackathorne is cast as a chauffuer who is a dope fiend. Splendid work. The method of distributing dope, I sincerely believe, is honestly exposed in “Human Wreckage.” The fact is, the entire cast is magnificent. I am going to indorse "Human Wreckage" as a movie with a sincere purpose. This picture will make you think, think and think. See “Human Wreckage.” Don’t miss it. At the Apollo all this week. ■l' 'l' 'l' A Little Adventure in the Land of Mystery We all love the things we do not understand. We all appreciate clever showmanship. I guess that is the reason that Kara, announced as a “mind reader”
Noted Stage Actor in Cast of u Spoilers” s 1 ,'p.- . f WWf JttEggKsiM* .Jp .^-ESON In the new production of "The Spoilers,” at the Circle this week, Robert Edeson, noted stage actor, has the role of Joe Dextry. and entertainer, has been successful for many years ■ ' before the public. 'He opened yesters day a limited en- \ ! > gagement at the Ohio as an “added atraction” to * v: the regular movie and musical proK ram - He states < ’■H in the beginning ■S3 that he claims no s u per natural Jt|| soon impressed ILO' < wise and good showman. Ho knows how to deKARA termine and feel the temperature of an audience. He knows how to joke an audience, how to impress an audience with his unexplained power to repeat questions which have been written and placed in envelopes, and, above all, he knows how to handle any one who might attempt to prove that he knows more than Kara. I Consider such demonstrations purely entertainment. If I did not, I would take an entirely different course in my review. I think Kara is clever and a man who has a keen and active intellect. This helps to make him a good showman. Please remember, I look upon Kara only .os entertainment and being a skilled showman. He is such a good showman that he has the assistance of a singer of
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oriental melodies and a dancer who looks very classical as well as Oriental in a few clothes. I saw nothing shocking in her efforts to be classical. Remember I have seen the Morgan dancers and a flock of nature dancers. Kara is putting up an interesting show at the Ohio this week. No review would be complete this week about the Ohio unless it mentioned the big hit made by the Miami Lucky Seven. These men know how to play jazz music and how to make an intrument "talk.” They stop the show. The movie feature is Betty Blythe in “The Truth About Wives.” It is a most uninteresting and foolish movie. It is so slow that I got the impression that It must be a slow action movie. • The bill includes a comedy. “Winter Has Came” and a news weekly. Kara and the Miami Lucky Seven are giving more value in entertainment than one has the right to expect for the admission price charged. At the Ohio this week. -I- -I- -IIs it a Fight You Want?. Then Don't Pass Up "The Spoilers” Any producer had t,o gather up a lot of steam to boat the first production of “The Spoilers" with William Farnujn and Thomas Santschl. But Goldwyn, with the aid of Lambert Millyer as leased a brand MILTON SILLS new production of “The Spoilers.” with Milton Sills and Noah Beery as owners of the two fightin’ mits. Really people, never in my life have I seen two men stage a fight as Sills and Beery put up in this Goldwyn picture. I got so blomin’ excited that I cried out loud in meetin'. Gosh, oh gosh (would like to use stronger words, but the censor would get busy) how these two men do fight. Oaken cabinets are smashed to pieces; tables become toys, a book case becomes a mere scrap of wood ami an entire office is turned Into a Junk heap. I am told on good authority that both Beery and Sills were carted off to a real hospital after this fight was staged and I am one little individual who actually believes that story. I believe you will also when you see "The Spoilers" at the Circle this week. And let me yell from the housetops that the director of the new version knows hiu business. He understands the little trick of putting action into
atmosphere. The story starts out with atmosphere plus action. Let me first give, you the Goldwyn cast of “The Spoilers.” It Is as follows: Roy Glennister Milton Sills Cherry Malotte Anna Q. Nilsson Helen Chester Barbara Bedford Joe Dextry Robert Edeson “Slapjack" Simms Ford Sterling Broncho Kid Wallace MacDonald Alex McNamara Noah Beery Marshall Vorhees Michell Lewis Attorney Wheaton John Elliott ! Struve Robert McKim j Captain Stevens Tom McGuire ! Landlady r Kate Price ! Matthews Rockliffe Fcllowes Burke . . Gordon Russell I Tilly Nelson Louise Fazcpda l Judge Stillman Sam de Grasse I Mexico Mullins Albert Rosen- ! Bill Nolan Jack Curtis You -will agree with me that every I one in this cast knows how to act. |No false alarm there. Especially do I like the work of Miss Nilsson, Edeson and Miss Bedford in addition to Sills and Beery. I am not going to repeal the story. We all know that “The Spoilers” is a real “he-man” affair and the women are flesh and blood characters. This I do want to say: The new Goldwyn production of “The Spoilers” comes mighty close to being my idea of being perfect screen entertainment. It is on© of the really big pictures of the year. If you have any faith in my judgj ment, then do not fail to see “The Spoilers" as being presented at the Circle this week. The bill includes an overture by the orchestra and a comedy, “Wrecks.” At the Circle all week. -I- -I- -INorthwest Mounted Police Story at Smith’s [ A Northwest mounted policS story jls playing at Mister Smith’s this j week. It is one of James Oliver Curwood’s stories, but does not quite live up to the Curwood standard. Eva Novak heads the cast, which is a good one. She has the role of a girl who marries Beery does some IRVING excellent work as CUMMINGS the renegade who marrlea the girl. There is a happy ending after the ruffian is found to be a murderer, and the two lovers are united. Frank Whitson and Robert Klein are also In the cast, as is Rin Tin, a dog. "Fighting Blood” is a good addition to the program, as it has George O’Hara and Ruth Horton. A news reel follows. (By Observer.) ■!• •!• -!• “Tile Miracle Baby” Is on View at Isis. “The Miracle Baby” is a story of three partners, and is playing the first part of the week at the Isis. One cf the three partners is a baby, and another is Harry Carey in the role of a man accused of murder. Strangely enough, the other Is the
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‘Merrily We Roll Along,’ Sings Motorist, Happy at Low Prices
The dog that had his day had nothing on the happy motorist. Cheap gas, cheap tires, cheap batteries, cheap accessories, improved motor cars, cut prices everywhere—these are the joymakers of the automobile owner of today. At the beginning of the year, the motorist was told that everything connected with motor vehicle operation was on the increase In price. Tires advanced 20 per cent in a few months, the State put a two cent a gallon tax on gasoline, business prophets predicted great advances in car prices—and then came August.
father of the man Carey is accused of murdering. From this situation, the story of the play is built. The man is exonerated of the charge against him, and the real murderer is punished. A Plum Center comedy and a news reel complete the bill. i At the Isis the first half of this week. (By Observer). Sixth Week for Griffith Spectacle at Rialto Theater D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” is now in its sixth consecutive week at the Rialto. It is making a great record in coming back as a box office attraction. It will be on view all week at the Rialto. I understand that this is the last week of the run. 'l' 'l' -IOther attractions on new today include: “Jonathan Makes A Wish” at the Murat; Lottie Mayer and her divers at the Lyric and the Klown Revue at the Palace. Boy, 12, Reported Missing Carl Eseh, 12, of Lynnhurst Dr. and Franklin St., near Ben Davis. Ind., was reported missing from his home •since 2 p. m. Sunday. Police were told the boy said he was going to Wabash, Ind., to join his brother.
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Everything began to fall, until today prices are down to a level the car owner hardly dared dream about. The latest automotive product to hit the price toboggan was batteries. Within the past two weeks sweeping reductions in battery prices have been announced. Battery prices now are cheaper, dealers say, than they have been in years, and, considering the quality, they are the cheapest in history. So the car owner fills his car with cheap gas, turns his motor over with cheap electricity and rolls away on cheap tires for the most miles per dollar in his experience.
GLASS CUTS PASSENGERS Police Seek More Information of Brick-Throwing Incident Police today asked assistance of the officials of the Big Four railroad in getting more details and names of three passengers on train number 20 bound for Cleveland, Ohio, who were cut by flying glass when a brick was thrown through the window as the train left the union station here at 11 p. m. Sunday. A telegram from the conductor at Bellefountaine, Ohio, notified the police four hours later. Immediate search revealed no suspects. Evansville Creditors Safe By Times Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., Aug. 20. Evansville creditors of the R. L. Boilings Company or subsidiary companies are amply protected and a number of the subsidiary companies are in sound condition, according to John A. Bushnell, chairman of the Stockholders’ Protective Association, appointed to take care of the stockholders interest in the Dollings receivership proceedings.
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SIX ATTEMPT 10 SWIMCMEL Girl Is Among Participants in Contest, DOVER, England, Aug. 20.—Six attempts were to be made to swim the English Channel today and break the record established by the Argentine Enrique Tirabosehi. Among the contestants was a woman, Miss Zotta Hills, who started from Folkestone at 7 a. m. and was six miles out on her way to France an hour later. Others scheduled to start from the British shore were Charlie Toth, the Boston waiter, who was forced to abandon his attempt last week when within a few miles of his goal, and the Englishmen, Fred Record and Frank Parks. The men all expected to start from near this port this evening. Toth had expected to start this morning but on his pilot’s advice postponed the jump-off until 7 p. m. Two swimmers, Ferrault and Mitchell, were to start from the French shore, near where Tirabosehi put off. They had planned to start yesterday but postponed the attempt until today because of bad weather. BOY, PAGE KING BEN! By United Xetcs PRAGUE, Aug. 20. —Now is the time for all good Czechoslovaks to raise a beard for their country. An organization, whose object it is to induce all Czecho-Slovaks to wear beards as an expression of their nationality, is to hold a convention soon at Maehrisch-Ostrau soon. Members of the organization declare the Czechs during the greatest period of their history wore beards and that those who are loyal to the republic should do so djw.
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