Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1925 — Page 4
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Community Good Will prtIUESDAY night Dr. S. Parlies Cadman of 1 1 | New York, nationally known preacher and orator, will address a community good will meeting at Cadle Tabernacle. The community good will movement was started by the Church Federation of Indianapolis, comprising most of the Protestant churches. The Church Federation invited Catholics and Jews to join in the movement for community good will and cooperation, r The Times, believing* good will to be one of the greatest ends toward which any city could strive, has asked a leader of each of the three principal religious groups to express his sentiments on the subject. We are turrning the editorial columns today over to these three men aiid they have expressed themselves just as they feel they should, without any suggestion from The Times as to the content of their editorials. ‘Peace on Earth’ V * By BISHOP FREDERICK DELAND LEETE Head of Indianapolis Area of the Methodist Episcopal Church. jt=r lIE very purpose of Christianity is 'ij “Peace on earth among men of good make peace, it is that of a religion which presents to the world the conception of a God of love, the norm of a life of love, and the Evangel of a brotherhood of love, if Today we see the picture and we acutely Sense the problem of human jealousies, prejudices, divisions and animosities. Is religion responsible for this? Certainly not the religion 6f Jesus! He who taught kindness, mercy and affection for enemies, who sought to find and help the lost sheep of the House of Israel, who died with and for transgressors, is not to be accused of responsibility for the unhallowed Estrangement of nations, races, classes and individuals. Whence, then, come the evils which embitter and impair the sweetness and strength pf human relationships? Out of the unregenerate thinking and conduct of men. Out of hearts which are unsanctified and ungodly. Dut of disobedience and disloyalty to Jesus Christ, and to all true leaders and teachers of History. Out of unjust purposes and unfair methods of competitions and rivalries. The fault is not in one group or party only. Those who maintain unjust and unnecessary exclusiveness will produce in some quarters suspicions and dislikes, which may become hatreds. Those who form a restricted solidarity of interests and ambitious efforts will arouse opposition and ill will. Those who seek to .take advantage of others or to control them and their governments are makers of war — 'Social, religious or military. :;v Is it too much to hope and pray that soon perhaps at the present sacred season —the world will look into its spirit, and that each of ; -us will examine his own mind and heart to see vvhat ideas, motives, attitudes are unworthy of :6ur religious faith and ought to be overcome and expelled? In our own community and -State may all causes of unnecessary differences be removed, may our churches and other institutions seek the (fdmmon good, and may fellow Citizens respect each other’s convictions, aid oach other’s wise undertakings, and preserve vin power all kindly and fraternal feelings. % Religion and Good-Will £ By RABBI MORRIS M. FEUERLICHT • :of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, Tenth and Delaware Streets. :|V-p 0 Dean Swift is attributed the statement j?i.l that “some people have just enough religion to hate their fellowmen, but not enough 'to love them.” The distinction he had in mind Bs quite plain. : ■ Some men are in the habit of confusing [•theology and the organized church with religion, just as they are wont to interchange uniformity with unity. They forget that theologies are many, whereas religion is one. Theology may separate men; but it is the primary •function of religion to unite them. However varied the labels whereby it is jknown, therefore, the basis of all enlightened "and genuine religion is good will. This is ;what constitutes, after all, the real problem of fundamentalism in the churches today. We may dispute and argue our questions jof fundamentalism and modernism, or orthodoxy and heterodoxy, of this doctrine- or that; but unless a church postulates good will '"among men, whether within or without its fold, it may claim to be a good church, but it is not yet representative of the highest and truest form of religion. Someone has casually, but cleverly, said that “to be able to quarrel amiably is one of the exquisite delights of civilization.” When savages quarrel, they use the tomahawk and battleax on one another. When
hooligans and hoodlums have occasion to argue} they resort to the bludgeon and pistol. But when civilized men organized in the name of religion quarrel, it is alike the delight and the test of both their civilization and their religion to use the spiritual instruments of mutual bantering and humor and good will Happily, we of America, profiting by the experience of medievalism and barbarism, are warranted in believing that we have reached this more exquisitely delightful stage of civilization. We, of Indiana, despite appearances to the contrary in the last few years, are able to meet, as we shall on Tuesday evening—Protestant, Catholic and Jew, Presbyterian and Methodist, Disciple and Baptist—and good-naturedly say to one another: “Your doxy is not my doxy; and my orthodoxy may be your heterodoxy; but we still stand together and clasp hands as religionists, as Americans, as friends.” This is the spirit of true America and true religion. In hoc signo vincet. In this spirit, both will conquer. There’s Nothing the Matter With Indiana By MONSIGNOR FRANCIS H. GAVISK. Rector of St. John’s Catholic Church. IqOOME years ago the State of Kansas was I [ departing from sane methods in its public affairs and was getting some undesirable notoriety thereby. William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette wrote a brilliant and famous editorial about it under the caption: “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” A similar question is being asked of our State: “What’s the Matter with Indiana?” There is nothing the matter with Indiana. Our people just got into one of those states of mind called by the psychologists a “complex.” Communities get that way as well as individuals. We are getting over it and are like the man, after a fit, who looks around and asks ‘‘What happened to me?” To continue the simile, we have had some violent seizures in times past like the KnowNothing fit in the fifties, the A P. A. fit in 1892 and now the present one. But we are recovering and will soon be normal. We are the same good Hoosiers we were before, proud of our State and forward looking in social betterment, in literature, in commerce and in all the things that go to make a progressive community. The average Hoosier so loves his State that he lies awake of nights fearful that some harm may come to it. We lave so many good qualities that it is not surprising that we also have room for a few faults: we are, perhaps, a little too fond of politics and of office holding; but that means that we are interested in public affairs; we have also a weakness for joining things and passing laws for reforming other folks; we are somewhat given to hysteria over our unfounded fears. We are a trusting people, and because of these nice blemishes in our make-up, designing persons take advantage of us for purposes of personal gain—the leader of them has recently been banished from Indianapolis to the sandy shores of Michigan City. The same sort of persons appeal successfully to our trusting natures when they unload on us gold bricks, 100 per cent oil stocks and “blue sky” securities. But over-confidence is an amiable weakness. There have been adherents of varied creeds and persons of various racial stems in Indiana long before it was a State and since. Catholics were here first, Jews were among the earliest traders and long before emancipation came negroes were welcomed to Indiana. Their sons and daughters are here now, loving their native State as intensely as others., They are not in any great number, it is true, for Indiana is the most homogenous of the central States. Less than 10 per cent of the population of Indiana is negro, Jewish or Catholic. Isn’t it a complex of hysteria sor the 90 per cent to be afraid of the 10 per cent? We pet a frightened child who wakes up with nightmare and assure it that all is well. Some people in Indiana have been having nightmare. Every one, when he begins to think sanely, must admit that these elements of our population have been and are now mighty good citizens, taking part with their fellows of every creed and race in everything worth while, that they have added to the wealth and esteem of Indiana and that in the wars of the country they have enlisted, in surprisingly great numbers, for the honor of the State and the defense of the country. Os course, every Hoosier knows this and when he gets over his “complex” he wonders what, in the name of common sense, he has been “hollering” about. There was a happy time, not so very long ago, when Indiana was a nice place to live in; we were neighborly, had mutual respect for ? each other’s opinions—and we held to our L opinions very strongly—there wa;\ good feeling
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
ARREST SPOILED THEIR PLANS —the oldest 18 —who staged a series of $6.98 hold-ups during the past month, freely admitted their depredations after their capture by the police a few days ago. Did they regret their criminal escapades? They did not. They said they were sorry to be arrested just at this time, because they had planned a busy week or two and several Important "jobs”—including stick-ups, hl-jacking, and an attempt to rob an Indianapolis bank. Their lament is that they were knocked off by.the law and their plans spoiled. As for the future — well, one of the trio ventured the opinion that the State Reformatory at Pendleton wouldn’t be such a bad place. He said fourteen of his old companions are there. Nice boys, aren’t they? But they are typical specimens of the young bandits who are giving our social fabrlo such Intensive dusting at the present moment. Crime with them Is not accidental, the slipping of the moral foundation due to the sudden pressure of circumstances. To them It is an easy and logical vocation—money without work. In dealing with this younger generation of criminals our modern penology, that restrains tenderly for a few months and tries to reform the wrongdoers, Is just about as futile as trying to sweep back the ocean with a broom. APPETITE FOR PATRONAGE rpr*IALPH UPDIKE, Congressman from Indianapolis, threatens to go to the President unless the Postmaster General accedes lnstanter to his request to order a civil service examination to qualify candidates for postmaster In Indianapolis. Os course, the Hoosier metropolis has a postmaster, apparently In an excellent state of health. But his term expires next month—and the postmastership, says the Congressman. is the Congressman’s patronage. “I insisted on my right,” he said, referring to his demand for a qualifying examination. Whether the present incumbent is an efficient postmaster or an Incompetent blunderer Is not at Issue. Nor Is any question of Improvement of the postal service In Indianapolis even remotely Involved. The city’s Congressman Is merely fighting for hls pound of flesh—his choice bit of patronage. That’s characteristic of the attitude of Senators and Representatives toward public service. On the stump they weep scalding tears over the high cost of government and loudly proclaim economy and efficiency as their watchwords. But how they love their patronage. Try to take the appointment of a prohibition director or a postmaster away from a Senator or a Representative and the so-called statesman begins to fight with tooth and claw. He Is mad from stem to stern at any attempt to curtail hls customary perquisites. No wonder the Postofflce Department accumulates a $40,000,000 deficit annually—ar.d all the business functions of the Government limp. , DAYS IN | SCHOOL | |H. DIRKS, assistant princlj j I pal at Shortridge High I ' School, told an Indianapolis civic club recently that in 1840 the average schooling of a person consisted of about 200 days In hls entire lifetime. The average person spent less than a year at school. Under the Indiana compulsory school attendance law now Hoosier children between the ages of 7 and 16 have to go to school. So on the average they get eight times as much schooling as the children three or four generations ago. But are they eight times as well educated when they step out to wrestle a livelihood from a reluctant world? Rapid a a have been the strides In popular education the requirements and complexities of life have increased faster. The present long siege of school doesn’t fit a child any better for this automobile, airplane, radio age than the sketchy schooling of the past prepared children for life in a more simple age. Many men without undergoing any formal schooling whatever have risen to distinction in after life. Others with long records of school attendance have failed to do anything later! So the actual number of days spent in school Is not important except for statistical purposes. At best formal education whether It consists of two hundred days or a dozen years is just training In fundamentals. What Is built on that foundation depends on the individual —now as heretofore. JUNK FRONT THE SKY flying over downtown Indianapolis the other day __ at an altitude of approximately 3,600 feet a four-pound fire extinguisher dropped from the air-
all around and—l was going to say “tolerance,” but 1 don’t like the word —let’s say helpfulness as members of the big family of Indiana. Let us get back to the Indiana of old. The civic meeting of next Tuesday to be addressed by Dr. Cadman is to restore the former good will between all elements of the population. The movement came from the Federation of Churches of this city. They invited Catholics and Jews to join with them and they readily clasped hands in friendship. Dr. Cad-
plane piloted by a local police officer, who Is also a reserve officer In the aviation corps. Fortunately the missile struck no one and caused no damage. But what would have happened had the extinguisher landed on some Inoffensive ciitzen is unpleasant to contemplate. By the time It reached the earth It was zipping at a velocity of several-hun-dred miles an hour. If it had fal len on some persons’ heads perhaps only the extinguisher would have been dented. More likely the person who stopped It V oul d have been completely obliterated. At any rate It would have interfered with that person’s Christmas shopping. Any junk from a monkey wrench to a light remark dropped from a plane soaring over the heart of the city Is dangerous to those below. • Consequently unnnecessary flying over congested areas Is discouraged by War Department regulations and civil authorities, and aerial stunting over cities Is prohibited. Despite municipal ordinances and Army regulations downtown Indianapolis Is frequently regaled with flying stunts In the air above It. So far no flier has been Hlapped on the wrist or disciplined for the performance. Why wait until Some gay aviator in attempting to suspend the law of gravitation merely pushes it in" the face of a downtown shopper before putting a stop to such flying? MR. FIXIT City Promises to Repair Hole at fay and Harding Sts. Lei Mr. Fixit solve your troubles with city official,]. He is The Times’ representative at the city hall. Write him at The Time*. The concrete domes of some truck drivers. If removed, would repair a pavement at Fay and Harding Sts., is the opinion of a correspondent of Mr. Fixit today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: There Is a hole In the concrete pavement at Fay and Harding Sts. and from the way some of these trucks run into it, you would think there was enough concrete on the seat to repair the hole. But perhaps that is not the right kind of material. 1232 S. HARDING ST. Harry Stevens of the improved streets department prefers hls own brand of concrete. He has ordered an Immediate investigation. DEAR MR. FIXIT: I hereby give you the name of the contractor whose workmen broke my step while paving the alley at 806 E. Sixteenth St. I certainly appreciate your effort to help, as I am an elderly widow, and that house Is my only source of income. , EMILY S. BARBER, 1235 Central Ave. Mr. Fixit will start the campaign at once, so hope for the best.
Deliver Bboze in Winnipeg
Editor'* Note: Thi* in the ninth of a soriea of art‘de* by Mr. Gardner reporting the operation of liquor laws in the various provinces of Canada. By Gilson Gardner WINNIPEG, Manltobia, Canada— This province, Manitoba, Is wet. too; but on a "home delivery" instead of the "cash and carry” plan of Quebec. It has a liquor commission to operate a state liquor monopoly. It has "stores” like Quebec, where wines and liquors are retailed. It has abolished the correr saloon, and has not even the “tavern” for the exclusive consumption of beer. Nor can beer or wine be bought for consumption with meals. But all drink can be bought, in as large quantities as any human could possibly consume it, on the basis of a personal license and the written signature of the license holder; but it must be delivered by the commission to a “home address.” This province places the accent on delivery. It is moro generous than Quebec In the amount the individual may purchase, "a case a week” of liquors or two cases a week of beer. In Quebec it Is a "bottle a day to a person” (theoretically) of hard drinks, with no limit on wine. But the purchaser here must have a name and an address, and he must pay two dollars for a permit good for a year, or fifty cents for a permit good for a single order, if he is a transient passing through, or a dollar for a permit good for thirty days: and he is not permitted to take the bottle and slip it Into hls pocket, or to take the case and put It in hls auto. No, he pays his money, leaves his order and waits for the commission’s delivery truck to come. Or he may save himself time and trouble by sending In a mall order, which is the only way for the man in the remote sections of the province. The obvious Intent of the law Is not to limit the amount of drink consumed. but to send it to the home. The transient? Arrived at the hotel he looks about for a bar. Is none. Asks about a little drink in
man, who is to speak, is one of the great orators of the country. Aside from the message of good will he is to give, he is well worth hearings And it will be “a sight for to see,” near tue eve of Christmas, the season of good will, to look upon a great audience of men and women, differing in faith and racial origin, but united as citizens of the republic and of our great State. This sight ought to convince every one that, after all, there's nothing the matter with Indiana.
What a Gal That Royle Girl Turned Out to Be When Griffith Landed on the Lot
By Walter D. llickinan mURNING water into wine was a miracle, but the placing of a magazine story on the movie screen so as to make it a big success is just plain artistry. There is no hit and miss about artistry. A director either has it or % 1-4 l - ln Breat screen what David uj Belasoo Is to the | 7 clone, not a rain■it %#£■.!' s orrn - And W. ■ f); fti/L put a cyclone In < V y ’’That Royle Girl.” ;|\ - | Asa magazine i* i -tory, the “girl” atv If '- ra cted a^' 11 ; 3' tentlon because It BY i.,; IL was concerned with political graft and Carol Dempster jazz excitement in Chicago. Griffith has actually re-created the jazz nervousness which was found in the story. Griffith has a magnetic, even a spiritual, effect upon hls leading players. He transformed Lillian Gish into a lady of strange and haunting appeal. He has accomplished 'the same miracle with Carol Dempster, cast as the Royle girl. Griffith is one of the very few movie directors who Is able to hide the personality of a player, causing the player to completely become the character he or she is playing. That Is where Griffith hits the stars. When he desides to make a somebody great, he does just that and nothing more. Griffith has made Carol Dempster just as he made Lillian Gish years ago. He forces a hidden something to come out of his stars. The result being that Griffith’s artistry blends with the talents of the actor. He permitted Lillian Gish to develop along a sort of a spiritual way. Miss Dempster becomes the flapper of today with a soul and a brain-box. The Royle girl Is a product of the flapper age, but she isn’t a streetwalker. Griffith is the only director who knows how to put a cabaret upon the screen. I mean by that —Griffith knows how to direct a cabaret scene so as not to make it look like a stupid studio masquerade ball. Watch hls cabaret scenes and see how he has photographed "jazz music.” He makes you feel *the music by seeing hls actors prancing in a cabaret scene. Carol Dempster becomes a flaming and powerful creature as she battles her flapper way In life. This woman handed me an artistic punch In both eyes every second she was on the screen. Forgot to tell you that W. C. Fields, that “funny man” from the Follies, has one of those sweet, but soused papa roles ln this movie. Here is another Individual artist, who becomes even bigger in assoclaon with Griffith. The Griffith charm works wonder fully upon Harrison Ford and such a veteran as James Kirkwood. “That Royle Girl” Is a melodramatic knockout coupled up with some of the mo3t realistic acting that the screen has ever reflected. The music has the jazz tempo thl? week. Among the creators of jaz2 music on this program are: Charlie Davis and hls orchestra, Ruth Noller at the organ and Cy Milders in songs. At the Ohio all week.
the grill. Can’t be had. Wants to buy a little. All right. Your hotel Is your residence. You pay 50 cents for a permit. You send to the liquor store for a quart or a case. In the course of four or five hours It Is delivered and you drink it in your room. But suppose you arrive on Sunday or after 5 o’clock. That’s where the | bootlegger comes in. You pay somebody a dollar or so above the regular price for stock that has been providentially put aside for this emergency. Yes. ’ There is some bootlegging. Every difficulty or inconvenience put in the way of the reasonable consumption of drink results, it would seem from the Canadian experiment, in greater or less evasion of the law. So because there is no convenient place to drink beer, as at the "tavern" or restaurant in Quebec, there are several hundred “blind pigs” in Winnipeg, apartments, rooms or “soft drink” resorts, where beer or other drinks are dispensed contrary to law. In Winnipeg there are six stores run by the “government liquor control commission” us It Is called. For the rest of the province there are four district branch stores located at Brandon, Dauphin, Le Pas and Portage la Prairie. The prices of the Manitoba commission are a trifle higher than those of the Quebec commission. But they are lower than "states” bootleg prices. Haig’s Dimple, Scotch whisky, is $5.45 a quart (26 ounces). Sandy McDonald, $4.75; Grannie Taylor (25 years old), 55.45; Dewars Special, Imperial quart (40 ounces) $7.25. Ontario native port wine, $2 a gallon: Sherry Bertola’s* Solera, quart (26 ounces), $2; Port OlTley Forrester. $1.75 quart. Claret St. Emilllon, gallon $2.90; St. Jullen, quart, 90 cents: Sauteme, quarts. $1.40 to $2.65; Champagne (Imported) Moet et Chandori Brut., imperial lrl4 quart, $4.00; Mumm’s extra dry, quart, $4.10. Cocktails: Congress Manhattan 25-ounce quart, $3.25; Silk Hat Martini, $2.20; pure grain alcohol,
SHE IS ONLY A COW. BUT WHAT A FINE COW. "Go West, young man, go West.” But did Horace Greely, as he uttered those famous words, Intend for a fellow to go out on the prairie with a Jersey cow as a lone companion? Any way, that Is what happened to Buster Keaton when he left his little Indiana home, ln the picture “Go West," and set out for the uncharted wilds of weßtern Texas. opens, the young fellow, played by "" furniture from V | hls last resting MV*-'' place ln a little Indiana village. sum of $1 for the lot. He Buster Keaton sets out for New York and spends only five minutes in that city when hls desire has changed and he hoards a Santa Fe freight car and goes to Texas. Alone and friendless, he gets a Job on a ranch and the only companion he can hold is an old jersey cow that takes to him and cannot be persuaded to leave. His attachment for the cow grows to the point where he is ready to fight when the occasion demands, as when the boss wants to ship her to the stockyards to be made Into beef. Out on the prairie is where the humor of Keaton shines at its best. Followed by his friend, the cow, he gets Into many scrapes and tangles. All through t.he picture, however, the humor is there that Is his own special brand. For good all around entertainment it is to be recommended. BUI includes solos by Charles B. Lines, a BoljJjy Vernon comedy and Fox News. • At the Apollo all week. (By the Observer). -I- I- IWHEN AMOS LANDED THERE WAS MUCH DOING It Is nearly Impossible to successfully film a novel of William J. Locke. Locke takes a lot of time and space to develop the characters in his stories. The screen, at the present time, Is not able to do that. Characters must be introC , P'tifi'* 11 screen 80 that the ,nnv know all about ’em on n ‘ reason that Inoke adapt to the screen A director ; Is forced to make 1 Loeko novel before | It can see the light v* movio screen. This Is true with "The Coming of Amos,” Jetta Goudal which Is being • 4 presented under the banner of Cecil B. De MUle. When a director Is able to bring a
65 O. P. gallon, $26; grain alcohol. 65 O. P. 40 ounces, $7; Bass Ale, per dozen pints. $4.20. Up to 1923 this province enjoyed “war-time prohibition." This meant the kind of prohibition that does not prohibit. There were all the evils of the corner saloon, and of legal and Illegal sale of drink. In a province-wide vote held two years ago the present “State Control” was authorized by a majority of 27,000. At first the saloon did not yield. But when the morality squad began arresting patrons as well as vendors they gave up. Then a vote was demanded on the sale of "beer by the glass." This was beaten by the some margin. 27,000.
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MONDAY, DEC. 14, 1925
Locke story to the screen ln half as good shape as this director has done, then I have no complaint. Amos Is one of those back-to-na-ture boobs of whom authors are so g fond. Generally when such char-1 acters reach the screen in their primitive si age, before the boiled shirt stage is reached, they are so darned silly that the movie becomes a stupid farce. Hod Laßocque as Amos does not go to the extreme. He first makes Arnos Just a "green” man from Australia who thought all women were good and ull men wore lighters. LaRocque is clover enough to pilot Amos through this silly period of an author's fancy. But the second that Amos sees the Russian lady of quality, a strange something happens and he becomes a "man," the breed that exists In a famous ‘‘watering" place in southern France. Jetta Goudal Is the famous Russian lady who knows how to make warm love. Noah Boery Is the "l>ad papa” who sees to it that the Russian lady reserves her warm kisses for him. Richard Carle and our good friend, Trixie Friganza, are present. "The Coming of Amos" approaches the Locke standard of characterization a little nearer than previous screen stories of this noted writer. The bill Includes Joe Murphy ln “Andy’s Lion Tale." a news reel, the American Harmonists and Julia Nlehorgall In pianologues. At the Colonial all week. •I- -I- Ii SYD CHAPLIN AGAIN “ PUTS ON NIFTY SKIRTS The rule again holds true—as a comedian starts out so will he finish. Leon Errol started with the "giveaway” legs and he has to fall every so often when ho Is on publlo view. Syd Chaplin made hls first popular hit by wearing skirts ln "Charley's Aunt." The formula for Chaplin reaped a rich harvest once. Why not again? So he wears skirts during part of the “' tion °f “The Man i Is lot of rough and tumljle wor k In this PWf J picture. It might ■ railed ! he “stone mi ? ' jftjJl developement as a comedian, because * ie takes 80 many PgKYJi knocks in the first another. He does a regular Harold Syd Chaplin Lloyd window to window, and roof to roof stunt. "The Man on The Box,” moves rapidly and gives Chaplin a lot of opportunity to pull Individual busl ness. Hls “butllng" stunt shows that he can develop along several comedy lines, especially when hM makes up like famous men by uslnff cakes and other pastry. But It is when Chaplin gets on skirts that he seems to land most solidly. The audience get* the burlesque standpoint, because the Acto-s in most of the Impersonation scenes are not the Joke. The bedroom scene Is nifty and sporty, all rather well done. "The Man on the Box” Is rapid moving hokum with about everything in it known to the movies except a Hon and a cyclone. Bakaleinikoff Is proving this week that even Russian music yields to syncopation. The orchestra Is playing as an overture. “Russian Classics." syncopated. Mighty Interesting. Egliert Van Alstyne, song writer. Is presenting hls regular vaudeville act as a stage presentation this week. He Is assisted by two singers. The bill Includes a comedy* “Bachelor’s Babies." At the Circle all week. •I- -I- -I----“Blossom Time” opens a week’s engagement at English's tonight. Rae Samuels Is the hendllne offering at B. F. Keith's. Charles Althoff and hls fiddle are present at the Lyric. Mae Swift and Muriel Gibson Reyue is the chief event at the Palace: "Happy Hours," a burlesque show, is on view at the Broadway. Tom Mix ln "The Everlasting Whisper" is the movie feature at the Isis for the first half of the week. Tonight the Indianapolis OratorM|| Society will present the "Measlah” Cadle Tabernacle.