Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 188, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1925 — Page 6

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Woollen for Senator E J IVANS WOOLLEN, who has just anI nounced his candidacy for the Demoiratic nomination for Senator to fill the unexJpired term of the late Senator Ralston, is exceptionally well fitted for the place and deserves the support of the people of Indiana. I Mr. Woollen is not a politician, and unfortunately this works to his disadvantage as a candidate. However, this should be an argument in his favor as a Senator. Mr. Woollen is a man of experience in ebusiness affairs. He has for years taken*an |ictive part in public welfare and in public ffffairs generally. His service as fuel administrator, member of the State council of defense and member of numerous semi-public committees and organizations commend him to the [voters. There is every reason to believe that he would be an outstanding and creditable representative of Indiana in the Senate of the United States.

Orphans O"' IRPHANED but not orphans, two-thirds of the children in orphanages studied by the United States children’s bureau in fourteen States are found to have both parents living, so the bureau announces. Only one-twentieth of the 20,000 dependent children in the orphanages investigated were full orphans. Children from broken homes made up the largest percentage of the children thrust upon public or private charity. The next largest number was made up of those who have one parent living. Grace Abbott, chief of the children’s bureau, who reports these facts, urges two remedies. More careful study of children’s cases by social agencies before the children are accepted for placement in orphanages or in homes; and more constructive effort to prevent the breakdown of the home by family assistance or rehabilitation. Cleveland is cited as an illustration of a city where social agencies have combined to accomplish these puirposes. “In Cleveland, ’* Miss Abbott says, “a local children’s bureau serves as a- central clearing house committee for the investigation of applications for the care of Protestant and Catholic children by institutions. Jewish children are well cared for by a special agency. “Jn addition to investigating applications, the Cleveland children’s bureau follows up the family while the child is in the instituition in order to improve conditions so that the child may return home, if possible. “The workers also help with children presenting special conduct problems in their own homes.” The United States children’s bureaij is studying the methods and results of the Cleveland plan with a view to recommending it for use in other communities. Coolidge at Chicago | UMMED up, President Coolidge’s speech to the farmers of the West and Middle West, delivered Monday in Chicago, seemed to say that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. If he can just sell that idea to the farmers everything will be lovely.

WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW Sallie Sailed in and Took Harrison Away From Anne

By Walter D. Hickman S' OME girls in any town annex the best looking and most popular regular he-guys for their best friends because she happens to be a "highbrow girl” and comes from an “old family.” Such a girl was Anne Cromwell and by divine right of birth and family position she “annexed” Harrison Crisp as her companion. Anne was no dumbbell and she had her charms and college intelligence. She was a proper girl but she had a Heart ajid a bunch of pride. She had clear sailing tvlth Harrison Crisp until Sallie Ealing, from a family not so important and new to the town, sailed in with her modern silly Cleopatra ways and took Harrison away from the Queen Bee, Anne Cromwell. The conquest was made more interesting because Anne suddenly developed a great big human heart all covered with a bunch of pride. And the tricks that Sallie Ealing used to get the men. Sallie had lot of bait on her hook and line and the men just swallowed hook, line, sinker and all. And the good looking Harrison Crisp fell for Sallie and “ditched" Anile Cromwell, a “highbrow girl” from an "old family.” Will tell you where you may get acquainted with Sallie, Anne, their mothers and Harrison Crisp. You. will find them as living characters that step right out of Booth Tarkington’s new book, “Women,” published by Doubleday, Page and Company, selling for $2 a copy. Antoher “Best” I got my copy for review from the book department of L. S. Ayres & Cos.

Helping the Farmers to Help Themselves E r ~~ mm FFORTS of the farmer to lift himself from the bottom of the economic heap—where he has been struggling for several years —through co-operative organization are at last to receive direct and constructive support from the Government. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, in his annual report, declares the resources of his department are unqualifiedly behind the farmers’ cooperative movement, and cooperative leaders are much pleased. The Government has been slow in coming to the aid of cooperation, its main achievement being partially to free the movement from the hampering effects of legislation passed/for far different purposes but which acted as a bar to farmers’ efforts to combine to market their own goods. Jardine pledges his aid to inform farmers of business conditions, to spread the “gospel of co-operation,” and to advise and support the co-operatives’ work in taking over marketing, standardization and packing of farm products. The last function is the most important, for the reason that practically everything the farmer has to sell is raw material. His cotton and wool must be made into cloth or garments; his hides into shoes, his wheat into bread, his cattle into beefsteak. Every such change requires scores of processes, and each process pyramids the price. The farmer must buy back the finished product, at the rate of several hides for a pair of shoes, several bales of cotton for a suit, a bushel of wheat for ten loaves of bread. He is thus at a great disadvantage, and to some extent must always remain so, trading large quantities of raw materials for small quantities of finished ones. But insofar as he can take away part of the finishing process from the middlemen who always have had the unorganized farmer at their mercy, he can take part of the profits and better his own position. Oranges, packed and graded so that the box leaving the co-op sheds is only opened by the retail grocer 2,000 miles away; wool and cotton and tobacco graded and marketed by the farmer himself; milk protected and graded by the co-operative—these are all partially pared products. Encouragement of the farmer to prepare them himself will lift him a little, perhaps, but permanently, toward the top of the heap, and this is what Jardine proposes. Sunnyside C UNNYSIDE, the Marion County tuberculosis hospital, is planning to ask for an appropriation of a little more than $400,000 for additions and improvements. This is a request that deserves careful consideration. Sunnyside, since its establishment, has been doing a wonderful work in the saving of lives. It is combatting one of the greatest enemies of humanity, tuberculosis, and it is achieving results. Money cannot be better spent than in the saving of human life. HELL is paved with good intentions, but Indianapolis is paved after political contributions are recorded.

Now m3' way of thinking about this Tarkington book Is that it is neither a novel or a collection of short stories. It is more- than that —slices of life done in natural color -without a lot of romantic hokum splashed over It. That is the greatness of Tarkington. He takes life, not the sordid, dreary old complex life, but the life of the town, my town and yowr town and the town of all America. You know your Anne Cromwells, your Harrison Crisps and'your Sallie Ealings. You do, you ’sure do because it is everyday life. Tarkington gets into the heart and the brain box of the characters of life. Tarkington’s characters are not just dolls, but people who walk, motor, love, fight, cry and sin in their own little ways. The sins of Tarkington’s characters in “Women” would not land ’em in criminal court. Their sins are of the mind and the heart —those petty little sprays of water the mist that falls from the wheel of life. The Flapper Again .>. Tarkington recognized the family child flapper first and the flapper juvenile family is present in “Women.” This time the infant terrible, the girl who is all grown up with moonlight and advanced ideas on mar riage at the age of eighteen, is called Lily Dodge. Lily’s mother was one of those women who was interested In the younger generation because she had a representative of it in her own house and also because she was preparing a club paper on “Spiritual Life and the New Generation." , Lily became so spiritual In her early love affairs that poor dear Mrs.

Dodge never completed the paper. Lily recognized in that young Mr. Oswald Osborne the spirit and soul of a night. The fact was that Oswald was no more of a knight than a cookstove Is. To Lily he was heaven and earth just because her mother and dad ruled that Oswald should not come around the house. Lily threw some mighfy fine fits. In fact, she pulled the dramatic stuff better than. Mrs. Leslie ever staged the same line on the stage. And Lily, when she threw the grand fit In her bedroom, a sort of a death scene, Lily’s father recognized that he and his wife were wrong and so Oswald was invited to the home for dinner. And somehow the second that Mamma and Papa Dodge invited Oswald into their home, Lily discovered that Oswald wasn’t as much of a grand knight as he used to be. Oh, there are many other characters from life In Tarkington’s story called “Women.” Here Is the Tarkington of glorious fact, everyday fact. You will love “Women,” revealed by Tarkington In his latest contribution. Between which' countries and when was the first American trans-Pacific cable laid? The first American cable across the Pacific, was laid by the Commercial Cable Company, between San Francisco and the Philippine Islands miles.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

A Sermon for Today

mHE seeming prosperity and ease of the wicked is a problem which sometimes perplexes good people who strive to be honest and righteous. This is not anew problem. It is a question often raised by Old Testament writers. Asaph, one of the psalmists of ancient Israel, became envious of the wicked in their prosperity and 'his feet well nigh slipped. Said he. “Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish, and being always at ease, they increase in riches: surely in vain have I cleansed my heart and washed my hands in innocency; for all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.” Have not yo|) who are trying to live correct live,6 ofjpn found yourselves thinking in this manner? “The thought was painful for me," says Asaph, “until I considered their end, when their feet are set In slippery places, and they are consumed in terror.” You have no occasion to be envious of the arrogance and pleasantry of wicked people, unless you are willing to ex-

RIGHT HERE

IN INDIANA

•By GAYLORD NELSON

NEW COP SUSPENDED OINE of the forty-eight new policemen appointed by the ty a few days ago was suspended from the force Sunday morning to answer charges of misconduct. It Is claimed that he appeared at roll call intoxicated. Thirty-six hours on the police force, then suspended for drunkenness. That’s quick action. Perhaps the fall from grace of that particular fledgling cop was purely accidental, merely the result of exuberance over landing a city job. Nevertheless the episode Is of interest to the public. What sort of men are being apponited to police jobs in Indianapolis? Five of the forty-six added by the board of safety last week had to their apotheosis a.nd had been arrested on sundry charges such as blind tiger and law violations of like caliber. Arp ex-operators of blind tigers and officers of alcoholic tendcnc ies likely to he very diligent in liquor law enforcement? Possibly in these law-burdened days It is hard to find human material for the police force that hasn’t broken some statute. It may be a task calling for a Diogenes—and there is no Diogenes on the Indianapolis board of safety. We don’t expect of course that policemen will wear halos and twang harps. We expect them to be mortal—sometimes disgustingly so. But the public does expect that policemen will respect the laws they enforce. Officers with •questionable records wouldn't get on the force if the board of safety was as interested in the applicant s private character as his politics.

A FEW FUR COATS S RAPPERS and hunters of Fulton County will realize between $50,000 and $5,000 this season from the sale of pelts of fur-bearing animals. It is estimated by Rochester, Ind., fur buyers. One of the best trapping seasons in recent years. According to St. Louis and New York fur men, more fur bearing animals are killed in Fulton County each year than In any other county In Indiana. Mink, skunk, muskrat, raccoon, opossum and fox are the principal producers. The presence of this flourishing industry in a Hoosier county dispels the popular notion that all the sor 1 colds of commerce will respond to the call "Kitty,” "Bunny” or “Towser.” Some of them have a pedigree extending back into the great open spaces, and were originally worn by Inoffensive forest creatures. What does the fur trade mean to the animals involved? A creature whose foot Is caught and crushed In a trap, then later has his pelt yanked off, never fully recovers from the treatment. Yet many women who devote

Hoosier Poet

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Barton Rees Pogue

Among: the several qualifications for his following: in the path of fame of the greatest of all Hoosier poets is that Barton Rees Pogue not only “grew ‘up” in Greenfield, Ind., but he swam in Riley’s “the ol* swimmin’ hole.” Pogue is known as “The sweet singer of the Brandywine.” He has just written anew collection of poems, published under the title of “Songs of the Soil.”

-By Rev. John R. Gunn'

change a good end In life, when your way will be Arm and sure and your conscience at ease, for a bad end In life, when you will begin to trea<s on sinking sand and be consumed with the terror of a flaming conscience. Let no one be mislead by those who forsake the good and the true for the apparent gain of the evil and untrue. To pursue such a course will lead to failure and disappointment in the end. Bosh new and in the end it pays to follow the principles of truth. I know this often appears to be contradicted In actual life. But let no one Imagine that things are going at haphazard in this world. In the midst of ail the lltrangte inconsistencies an dirregularities which appear in human affairs, there Is a moral order that is sure to vindicate Itself sooner or later. Wise is the man who sides with that order, for he has God on his side, and in the end his triumph Is certain. Foolish Is the man who runs counter to It, for he has all forces of the universe against him, and in the end his doom is inevitable. • (Copyright, 1925, by John R. Gunn.)

their lives to rescuing stray dogs and cats from the hardships of a cruel world or relieving the suffering of canaries or gold fish revel In a fur coat which represents more cruelty to dumb animals, Including husbands, than the causes •wTiich excite their militant compassion. They are not consistent, which is characteristic of man’s attitude toward all the lesser creatures of the animal kingdom. When a lion kills a man It Is horrible; when a man kills a lion he has his picture taken.

DIVORCE AND ALIMONY Eudge HOELSCHER, of Richmond Ind., defends the practice of granting alimony to divorced wives—which practice a Chicago Jurist recently condemned as one of the causes of the divorce evil —and will give sympathetic hearing to pleas for financial salvage in cases of marital shipwreck. Hoosier wives, whose husbands snore or are otherwise cruel and Inhuman, should hasten to Richmond. There they can sever the bonds of matrimony with profit. The alimony question Is evoking considerable discussion among jurists and social uplifters. It is claimed that the liberal compensation granted by most judges to divorced wives is turning matrimony Into a mercenary occupation for gold-digging gals and Is harmful to social Institutions. They exaggerate. There arer’t many Peggy Hopkins Joyces, professional divorcees, who regard marriage certificates as endowment policies to be cashed in before a pliant judge at the earliest possible moment. Most women marry for some silly reason like love. There are more men thinking of financial advantages when marrying than there are gold-dig-ging gals. No maid, no matter how unattractive in face, figure and personality, la unsought if her papa thumbs a puissant check book. But few girls tried to catch Kip Rhinelander. Os course the increase of divorces in the country is disquieting. Abrogation of alimony pro- . visions In divorce statutes, however, wouldn’t Improve conditions except on the surface. It would merely compel many blameless wives to suffer in hateful wedlock, take In washings or starve.

BREAKING ROAD RECORDS C<—~ IANNONBALL BAKER, Indianapolis race driver and in ■—J chief test pilot for a prominent automobile manufacturing company, has just finished breaking a flock of road records in the east. Last spring he drove from Indianapolis to Cincinnati and return at an average speed of 54.1 miles per hour, anew mark. That stunt achieved considerable publicity and caused a mild, belated furry among State motor police. However, they quickly subsided. . On his recent eastern run he drove up a famous Pennsylvania hill, three miles, 9 per cent grade, twenty-one bad curves, at an average speed of 61 miles an hour. And came down at an average speed of 66 miles an hour. No casualties. It would have been interesting if some luckless rustic whose taxes has helped to build that particular public highway had been stalled in a flivver behind one of those curves. Cannonball then Invaded Canada. He drove from Montreal to Quebec, 173 miles, at an average speed of 52 miles an hour. On the route there were 710 turns, 32 railroad crossings, 42 bridges and 24 towns. Two feet of snow for the last 35 miles, through which he “loafed” at 65 miles an hour. Completing his eastern trip he drove back to the factory, 710 miles in seventeen hours, a mere matter of 42 miles an hour. All very interesting. His feats with a stock car is doubtless very gratifying to the maker of the particular brand of automobile used. They will furnish much advertising copy for that manufacturer, even though they are in defiance of driving regulations and speed laws. Suppose a firearms manufacturer should advertise in newspapers and national magazines the deeds performed with his stock pistols by Gerald Chapman or Dutch Anderson? Road stunts by daredevil drivers in the employ of automobile makers, are in the same category.

Naughty Ed Wynn Invents New Kind of Sport Shoes for Sporty Horses of Today

By Walter D. Hickman Ia”1 way with th ® old faahioned JyL\l shoe for horses.rrJ into the ash can with the old style horseshoe, because Ed Wynn has Invented a postry looking shoe for the modern horse of today.A horse may be just a horse, but even a horse Is permitted to wear something- new on his front “feet” at least. Anyway that is what Ed Wynn thinks and when he thinks—well something unusual 1,, | I, w i,m is bound to happen. if So Ed has thought - shoe, done in red jf:’:-§ : horse with courage. H And it sure would < • f take courage for a Anyway this >•" that lid Wynn iL 4 QBn9 !,;,s 1 '■'■t i• t• ik-,1 Hit this town with Ids the question is—la Ed Wynn "The Grab Bag,” a better show than “The Perfect Fool?” My answer Is —“The Grab Bag," is the smartest and most unique entertainment that W?,-nn hat, given the American stage. And in proof of this indictment of being fine and funny entertainment, 1 will list the big hits as follows: First—Ed Wynn because it is Ed Wynn. Second—The Volga Boys because Wynn knows how to introduce a Russian chorus of eight men in songs not in English. Here is great showmanship coupled up with fine choral singing. Third. —Eva Shirley because she has a voice and a personality which puts over a song. -Of course, Wynn introduces her and teases the audience into complete submission, but It must be remembered that Miss Shirley knows how to put over a song and she has a voice of high register. Fourth—The Three Ormond Sisters, because they know how to put over a Scotch song, with the proper kidding introduction by Wynn. They are real hits. Fifth—The Le Grohs, acrobates and contortionists, who simply tie up the show. These men just unbend and work themselves all over the stage. Sensational hits. Sixth —Albert Shaw and Samuel Lee, because they know how to de\-elop eccentric dancing without making It a disease. Here are six good reasons for supporting my theory that Wynn not only has his best revue in "The Grab Bag” but <hnt the whole\show is entertainment proof. Wynn’s position is unique upon the stage. He is an inventor of strange and different entertainment. He talks all the time and the funnv part about it, he is funny all the time. When people howl as they did last night at and with a comedian, I know that he is funny. The secret of Wynn’s comedymethod is that he seems to think up hiP stuff right on the stiige. That is not true, but he sells'it as anew thought at every performance. And another thing that I admire in Wynn and his entire crew is that when they get out on the road, that is away from New York and Chicago, they don’t seem to be afflicted with that terrible sickness known as “the back to Broadway feeling.” From Wynn down to the last chorus girl, every one works on the road with as much interest and pleasure as they would on Broadway. Wynn knows how to talk an individual act Into a big success. Take for example the Russians singing "The Volga Boat Song.” Here Is a great number, but who would ever have thought It would stop a revue. Wynn knew that by the proper Introduction and comedy atmosphere he could put these singers over to a hit. Wynn calls them "organ singers" and allows that he can’t sing with them because he has had an operation and has had an organ (pointing to his throat) removed. And Wynn paves the way for his unit entertainers to register with ease. Os course he has a talented hunch with him but this comedian knows how to dress ’em up and permit them to strut their stuff to big success. “The Grab Bag” does not run to lavish scenes. People go to an Ed Wynn show to se Ed Wynn present himself. He has plenty to do In this show. I feel that I am honestly right when I tell you that "The Grab Bag” Is Wynn's best and most novel revue. At English’s all week. + I’ + THE OBSERVER GOES WIIJ) OVER LYRIC SHOW Without question, the Lyric this week has the best and most attractive bill so far presented this year. Considering the number of really fine offerings we have seen at this theater the past few months it sounds rather forcible to say such a thing, but In the opinion of the writer, it .s the truth. Topping the bill are two acts of unusual merit. Joyce Lando and Company, in a dancing revue and Lamberti, a soloist on the marimbaphone. ( v ln the Lando act, with the exception of one piano solo and a song, the entire time Is given to dancing. The dances are all continental in their theme, there being those of the Russian order and Spanish while the last may be consjdered also a gypsy dance done In a beautiful manner. The costumes of the act are entrancing for the originality and color In their makeup. Lamberti, with his great marimbaphone, gets right Inside you from the first note on his Instrument. The first part of his act was given to selections of the popular kind, but when the audience made known their appreciation of his efforts by the deafening he applause really gave them a treat In a musical way. For his first encore he played one of the most beautiful things we have ever heard on the vaudeville stage. It was a quartet arrangement from the Barcarolle In the "Tales of Hoffman." Not content with this the audience

Stage Verdict Keith’s The Paramount Four, Singer’s Midgets, and. Jimmy Nervo and Teddy Knox are the three big hits this week. And they are real hits. English's—Ed Wynn in the very best revue he has ever given the American stage. Called "The Grab Bag.” Lyric—For a good dancing act Joyce Lando and Company are among the best that have appeared here for some time. Palace—“ln 1999,” a farce, some amusing things are shown as to what will be the fate of the men at that far distant time.

demanded more. Then was heard the complete overture from "William Tell.” To miss this act is to have lost something in music for it is so very seldom that the instrument played is heard in capable hands. Mahon and Chc-let liven up the bill with many wise cracks and some very good eccentric dancing. Jones and Elaine another humorous act also have some good features In a cornet solo and some harmony singing. The Four Symphonists are four girls playing two pianos a violin and 'cello. It is a musical act featuring solos on the violin and 'cello. Their ensemble work Is fine. Ethel Marine and Company offer some very distinctive and striking poses by a woman and a dog and then some excellent work on a trapeze. The bill closes with the Five Avalons, a group who do some entertaining and difficult things on a tight wire. I- I- -I----PI TTING INDIANAPOLIS TALENT ON THE BIG TIME You know that I do not boost Indianapolis talent just because It happens to hall from the old town. Indianapolis talent on the professional stage must be judged by professional standards and not by the home-made yard stick. The Paramount Four won the local quartet contest recently held at Keith’s Theater. They went to Cleveland, Ohio, and competed against eight other quartets. The Indianapolis quartet did ■HmH| not win the secHHpPPiHIIIIII tional contest at Cleveland, but W t hey came mighty I - y t " near currying off that prize. They . ;C-c were praised for R j their showmanship, their apf’ ** W M pearance, and, their US' personality They ImT MM have splendid : m|w voices, and the\ kn-'W how f--handle 111.- com edy element. This week the ParaPaul W alters mount Four Is singing at Keith’s. I am not saying this because these singers are from Indianapolis. but I know that if they would accept a big time contract in vaudeville they would turn out to be one of the hits of the season. They have what vaudeville needs today—male

Bumps Not Appreciated

Lot Mr. Fixit olt rryur troubles with city officials. Ha i Tito Times' renrosr itativo at tlie city hall. Write him at The Times. Dreams merge Into cold reality when your automobile hits East and Sanders Sts., the Hoosier Traveling Man, indefatiguable correspondent of Mr. Fixit, writes today, DEAR MR. FIXIT: Did you ever have an old friend turn you down? Os course you have. Ain’t it pleasant? The other day those poor holes at S. East and Sanders Sts., certainly did bawl me out. Was all ready to make a graceful right and left swing when my dreams were very quickly changed to bump, bump, bump and plenty of side motion. I wish I could start a good old Irish Hill fight near that corner. Maybe after the smoke had cleared away there would be enough brick for the street commissioner.

U. S. Big Booze Buyers

Editor's Note—This Is the fourth of a series of article* by Mr. Gardner reporting- the operation of liquor laws In the various provinces of Canada. By Gilson Gardner MONTREAL (By Mall)—We of “the States” are the best customers the Quebec Liquor Commission have, so the officials of the commission tell me. Fully forty per cent of all the commission’s business is done with visitors from "across the border.” And, since the gross receipts of the commission average about twenty millions a yeq.r, the States’ visitors must account for about eight millions. This figure is, of course, an estimate. There is no accurate data on the subject. It is based on the reports of tourist bureaus, the hotels and the government "stores” where the liquor is sold. Each year since the Quebec Liquor Act went Into operation—that Is each year since May, 1921—the stream of tourists arriving at Montreal and Quebec has been swelling. One Montreal hotel proprietor estimates the average summer tourist crowd at 30,000 a .week or 200,000 a season, but whatever the real figures, there is no disputing the fact that the hotels are crowded constantly to overflowing and the business of the liquor stores is a rushing one. Montreal business men are now debating what steps to take to handle the Increasing crowds. One plan Is to erect a “summer only” hotel on the banks of the St. Lawrence, or In a suburb of Montreal where the visitors from the south may tarry while they satisfy their thirst. "We like the revenue from your purchases,” said Mr. Arthur Saint Pierre of the commission. "It is a considerable item in our budget. But

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quartets which are able to harmonize melody and personality. The quartet is composed of Paul L. Walters, C. C. Lloyd, William T. Pearcy and Robert A. Halter. Chris Albion is at the piano. They are winning a deserved success this week. I have said so much In the past, about Singer’s Midgets It seems to me that It is only necessary to hint at the ability of these little people. The midgets this season are appearing in a gorgeous revue, slmllar ln some respects to their offering of last season, but containing enough new material to make It splendid entertainment. The dress parade number and thf jazz band episode are among the winning numbers. Os course, the elephants are present. Some of the sets are as lavish as used In the big revues. Want to call your attention to the eccentric artistry of Jimmy Nervo and Teddy Knox. Their slow motion wrestling match is one of the comedy delights of the season. And be sure and notice how these men "sell” personality. Janet Adair sings songs of an Individual nature and gives for good measure ono of those poems of the heart that gets across. Hketches are hard to find, that is good ones. Valeric Bergere in “A Woman’s Way” has a poor skeptch. At times it is poorly acted by the two supporting members of the cast. Miss Bergere deserves better ms. teriftl and she shoukl lie wise enough these days to know where to get a sketch of merit. Hollaway and Austin dance on the wire. The movie Is a Hal Iloach comedy, “laughing Toadies.” At Keith’s all week. -I- -I- IBIT FOUR ARE PRESENT If you are puzzled as to what is to become of the man of today, would advise seeing the little farce "In 1999" at the Palace today and tomorrow. In this playlet the time Is shoved ahead for a good many years and you are supposed to be looking at a scene in the year of 1999, some surprising things happon. For Instance a man is re wing on some baby clothes, while his wife is at the office earning the family living. The triangle of todny is enacted witli the change that it is another woman who steals a husband on account of the neglect of his wife. Quite amusing. The Four Foys have left "Pop” and are now on their own. The act is not centered on any one thing or brand of humor but each of the four is given a chance to do his or her stuff and get the laughs in their own way. A golf game furnishes most of the fun while the harmony singing of the girls is another feature. Laurel Lee has an amusing little act dealing with the way the modern chorus girls would do things of today. Marlettes Marionettes open the show and the bill is closed with Swegles Sax-O-Tette, a group of six men ploying saxophones. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By Observer.) -I- -I- + ' Other theaters today offer: “The Unguarded Hour,” at the Circle; "Irish Luck,” at the Apollo; "The Keeper of the Bees,” at the Colonial; "The Best. People,” at the Ohio; "All Around Frying Pan,” at the Isis and burlesque at the Broadway.

-By Mr. Fixit

HOOSTER TRAVELING MAN. Old friends often smite us. Harry Stevens, however, la not that kind. He'll send the forces of the Improved streets department to the scene with repairs In view. DEAR MR. FIXIT—My friend says you can't play cards on trains In Indiana. I say you can. Who wins the bet? LIBERAL, Take the pot. You can play cards, but not for money, on Hoosier trains.

Do You Know? The police maintain an accident prevention bureau to vestlgate dangerous crossings and other places where Injuries and deaths are possible.

if you reform and decide to adopt our plan, we shall have to find other sources of rovenue.” Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to Tho liullauapolia Time* Washington bureau. 1332 New York Are.. Waahlngton. I) 0.. lndoalng 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and martial advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will received a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What kind of a newspaper is the Jllas Denny? A Czechoslovak Daily published 1. Cleveland, Ohio. How many navigable streams are there in the United Statee? Two hundred and ninety-five. What was the highest rank attained by John Hancock In the Revolutionary' War. Major-General. Has Lloyds Bank of London a branch In the United States? A branch of Lloyds is, the London* and River Plate Bank. Ltd., at SI, Wall St., New York City. In addition they have many correspondents tq the United States. Was Thomas Paine one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence? * No. What is the meaning of th* Latin motto "A'bstullt Qul Dedlt." Translated It means “He who ga v# hath taken away." It is & shortened form of tho proverb, “The Lf/4 hath taken away, blessed be ,ha name of the Lord.” *