Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 137, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1924 — Page 8
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JOHN W. DA VTS He Lost First Law Case, One Involving Ownership of One Turkey Hen and Twenty-Seven Chicks — Taught and Served in Legislature. ms LIFE STORY
SYNOPSIS or PRECEDING CHAPTERS John W. Davis, son of John James and Anna Kennedy Davig, was born in Clarksburg. W. Va, April 13. 1873. His rnother, a woman of remarkable ability, early gave him the groundwork of a splendid education. He grew up as a studious, serious-minded lad. bashful to a fault. At Pantops Academy, Virginia. and later at Washington and Lee University, his tendency was to turn toward books rather than to social activities and athletics. After being awarded his B. A. and Bachelor of Law degrees at Washington and Lee. he returned to Clarksburg and -entered his father s law business. CHAPTER 111 OR the sake of this story. John Davis should have won i__J his first law case. But unfortunately, just as Davis omitted licking the school bully, so again he upset tradition by failing to win his first legal battle. The case was a thriller. A farmer was—or, at least, claimed to have been —the owner of a fine turkey hen and twenty-seven young turkey chicks. Somehow, he claimed, one of his neighbors had gained possession of the brood—illegally, of course!—and he demanded that the turks be returned. The countryside was aVoused. The plaintiff farmer turned to Davis to secure him justice, and Davis, inflamed with the ambition to "do himself proud” in his legal getaway, went into court and made a masterly plea for restitution. His plea was a great success—histrionically. But it didn't bring back the turkeys. The alleged legal possessor of te fowls obtained a series of injunctions, restraining orders and whatnots—everyting known to law The turks were tied up In so much legal red tape that it became evident the youngest of them would die of old age befoe being returned to its once happy home. Davis’ first plunge into the pactice of law was a short one He tped Beauty A Gleamy Mass of Hair 35c ‘TDanderine” does Wonders for Any Girl’s Hair
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a few cases after the tukey episode —most of them involving the ownership of various wandering animals —but within a year he was asked by the trustees of Washington and Lee University to accept an assistant professorship in the school of law Ma.nv of the older students—and even the faculty members —shook their heads. “Too young,” was their verdict Davis was still in his early twenties, and had had the scantiest bit of practical legal experience But the "boy prodigy” left his father’s law office and became "Professor” Davis of the Washington and Lee University Law School faculty. Within a few weeks he had become one of the most efficient — and most popular educators in the school A few terms of teaching and Davis returned once more to re-enter business with his father in Clarksburg. Three years later came his entrance into politics He was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates. As mentioned before, the elder Davis, coming from a family of oldline Democrats, had become a power in State politics. His son shared a certain amount of his prestige. Entering the Legislature he became, almost immediately, his party's recognized leader on the floor of the House. After one term Davis had enough. He then returned to his father’s law office, "stuck to his knitting,” and quickly built a reputation as one of the ablest attorneys In the State. At this time he had an added Incentive for success—a wife! He had married Miss Julia McDonald, daughter of Major and Mrs. Edward McDonald, born, and brought up as a West Virginia ‘‘belle,” on the beautiful McDonald estate near Charlestown. During his practice of law in Clarksburg lie defended strike leaders when they were indicted for sedition and inciting riots in the West Virginia coal mine strikes. Two brief forays into the political field marked this period: One in 1900—a year made sad in his memory by the death of his wife —when he served as presidential elector: the other in 1904, when he went to SL Louis as delegate to the Democratic National convention that nominated Judge Alton B. Parker. But in the main he was an attorney, not a politician. In 1906. at the age of 33, he was elected president of the West Virginia State Bar Association. The following year came the “accident” that gave him his start in national politics, brought about Hie first of the series of rapid political promotions which led him to stand fourteen years later on the threshold of the presidency. (More Next Issue) In Concert
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Jane Cowl Sips Tea and Dips Toast Between Acts While Alice Brady Remains Dressed Up as Cassie
By WALTER D. HICKMAN x „ j ILL take you right back W stage. Wanta go? * T Sur you do ’cause I know you want to meet Jane Cowl as she is when she is not Juliet and I am also sure that a chance £o meet Alice Brady will he welcomed. I don’t go back stage very often, but I did It twice the other day. Once at the Murat to chat with Miss Cowl after the potion scene in "Romeo and Juliet.” The other trip back into the land of mystery was made at Keith’s, where Miss Brady is holding out this week. First meet Miss Brady. When Phil Brown piloted me back stage at Keith’s, I found to my horror that she had been waiting thirty minutes on me. She was (tressed like she appears as Cassie Cook in her dramatic playlet. Underneath all the tinsel, the paint and the make-believe of character, I found the real Alice Brady. She handed me a box containing some special cigarettes. We smoked in silence for a second and then began to talk. Alice Brady is very
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much In earnest about \\vr stage work. She must live the part. “When Cassie Cook cries, I cry real tears,” she said. “I can t playdown because I am in vaudeville. I must give my best even if I have to live my character.” Some of us who cover the theater don’t always agree about “living’’ a chancier, hut I am convinced that Miss Brady does live her character on the stage. I noticed that she was still trying, while I talked to her,, to throw Cassie Cook out of the dressing room, but Cassie bobbed in and out all the time. I mentioned Shakespeare to her. Miss Brady has never played Shakespeare. She doesn’t care for it herself. “It takes a big artist like Miss Cowl and John Barrymore to do the big thing with Shakespeare,” she said. “It takes the big effort. With them Shakespeare is a great big thing. To me I was fed up with Shakespeare while in school.” We talked of her famous father, William A. Brady, who is one of the great New York producers. Father and daughter are now separated by
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many miles, but mentally they are mighty close together. And that is Alice Brady; nervous and sincere. Always anxious to give
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JANE COWL her best. Not up stage but mighty, mighty human. One of the folks, so to speak. Miss Cowl Sips I landed back in the star dressingroom at the Murat just after Miss Cowl as Juliet had taken tho dreadful potion prior to going to the tomb. Juliet was not in the room. There sat Miss Cowl dressed Juliet, but Jane Cowl was in command. "Sit down,” she said, as a maid handed her a little tray containing a cup of tea and some toast. “One of the lovely women of the company brews me a cup of tea and makes me some toast each night after the potion scene,” she explained. “See, I dip my toast in the tea. Please forgive me in this.” And who wouldn't forgive this wonderful woman for a thing like this? Jane Cowl is a beautiful woman. She knows her art, and her art right now is Shakespeare. She gives her best. While on the stage, she is a real Juliet. In her dressingroom, she is Jane Qowl, the woman. “Shakespeare, that great man, was an actor,” she said. “He knew life and people. He knew poetry and beauty and he knew people. Don’t forget life. We are trying to give dnd are giving She c peare. Youth Is here with us He
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wrote during the swashbuckling time in England. Real color in those days. And why shouldn’t we have real color and life in Shakespeare? I asked hpr if she found any difference in the reception of “Romeo and Juliet" on Broadway and on Main St. "No.” she said, “not until I arrived here. (Monday night’s business at the Murat was pitiful. I think it was an I can't understand what is wrong here. We are trying to give a beautiful production. The other cities have agreed. You recall that I have been from coast to coast with this play.” 1 suggested that the school teachers of Indiana may save the day and Indiana’s appreciation for Shakespeare. "If they don’t,” she smiled between dips of toast, “I feel like getting on a soap box on a street corner and telling the people about it.” “And I will help you,” I said. “Shake," she said. Then a voice from the door, "The last act is called. Miss Cowl.” "Thanks,” she said.
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One more dip of toast, and Jane Cowl walked on the stage, laid down m the tomb as the death-llke Juliet. What a woman! What women —Jane Cowl and Alice Brady. -I- -I- -IIndianapolis theaters today are offering: Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters in “Romeo and Juliet” at the Murat; Alice Brady at Keith’s; Billy Sharp and his revue tops an anniversary bill at the Lyric; "Sundown” at the Circle; Odiva and a complete new show at the Palace; complete new movie bill at the Isis; “The Red Lily” at the Apollo; "The Thief of Bagdad” at English’s; “The Torch Bearers,” a Little Theatre attraction, at the Masonic Temple, tonight; “The Side Show of Life” at the Ohio; “The Last of the Duanes” at Mister Smith’s; “Go-To-It” at the Capitol, and “The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come” at tho Lincoln Square. Board Cuts Expenses Nineteen inspectors employed by the city engineer's office for street Inspection work have been dis-
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charged by the board of works, due to slack work in the winter season. Saving of $1,910 Is effected in the monthly pay roll. LA FOLLETTE DENOUNCED By United Press MONTI CELLO, Ind., Oct. 16. La Follette was denounced as an. agent of Socialism by former Governor W. L. Harding of lowa at a Republican rally here Wednesday night. Every vote La Follette gets will be an indorsement of the socialistic program, he declared. “A third party is dangerous because it is apt to mean minority rule, tvhile two strong parties mean rule of the majority,” he said. “We can't afford to throw down the sung damental corner stones of our couni try because everything Is not as we think it should be,” he said. SICK WOMM MADE HAPPY Entirely Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound “I have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to build me up, I whs all runwho was taking the Vegetable Compound Insisted on me trying a bottle of It. The medicine helped me from the first, and the best of all Is that I can even sew again without the awful, nervous feeling I was used to having. And I used to take crying spells, with such a blue feeling that I cannot explain. Now all that has left me. I feel so cheerful, and I have gained in weight, sleep well and eat hearty. Oh! I wish I had words to express what this medicine has donsf for me! Ia ma housekeeper and dt# everything from the sewing to the washing now and it doesn't hurt me. You may use my letter in any way you wish. I w r ill be glad to help any suffering woman to the road of health and happiness.”—Mrs. B. F. Brannon, 404 Travis Ave., Mart, Texas.—Advertisement.