Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1925 — Page 6

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[City Manager Progress ■vKHLANS are being made to increase the membership of the city manager cam■ajigin committee and to follow this increase in Membership with an educational campaign, ■hanging the form of city government, even Kor the better, is a big undertaking and it reiquires persistant effort. Let us have an educational campaign by all means. City manager government should Lbe presented to the people of Indianapolis in touch a way that everyone will understand it. But something more than an educational campaign is necessary to bring aboqt the lhange. There must be definite and concerted action on the part of everyone who favors business government and the abolition of political rule by and for politicians. Undoubtedly i vast number of Indianapolis people favor ;ity manager government. What is needed now is definite action to bring it about. (The Law and the People *<r ■_ i F the people continue to demand yrij liquor, it will be almost impossible for government to prevent it from reaching market,” says Assistant Secretary of the iMeasury Andrews, who is in charge of prohiBtion enforcement. General Andrews thus comes close to a truth that is as old as law itself. That truth is that no law can be enforced until the people are willing that it should be enforced. Thomas R. Marshall in his “Recollection!:,” in discussing something entirely different from prohibition, remarked that the law is not tlat which is written on the statute books but it is what the public thinks should be the law. The problem of the prohibition crusaders in Indiana and elsewhere is a big one. Their job consists not only in enforcing the law but in selling prohibition to the people. When the demand for booze ceases the law will be enforced. Until it does, bootlegging will continue. Judging from the amount of holiday drinking that is evident to the most casual observer, the demand is not shrinking very rapidly. $100,000,000 Too Much for Toys! | VilOW that Baby has eaten most of the I paint off his rattle and Little Sister’s doll is giving hints of approaching dissolution and Father is beginning to lose interest in the train of cars that Santa brought Little Brother, we feel free to take up this subject of toys. We couldn’t do it earlier without arousing a suspicion of our motives. But the unpleasant fact is that we pay too darned much for our toys. This is the way it works: A toy from Germany, or Czechoslovakia or one of the other ancient toy-making countries, is imported into New York. Before it enters our country it must hurdle the high wall of the protective tariff by paying 70 per cent duty, ■hat is, if the value of the toy is sl, it must "pay 70 cents to Uncle Sam. The importer passes along this extra cost £o the retailer and the latter hands it you with the toy. That isn t the whole story. If the toy

' ——WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW Was Theo Blent a Wise Girl in Her Love Affairs?

By Walter D. Hickman SHE other day two women were talking on a street car about a girl called Theo Blent. They spoke as if Theo was an Indianapolis girl, a neighbor or something, but when they mentioned New York I was sure that Theo was not of this city. ' The two women on the street car had different ideas regarding Theo, the daughter of one of Now' York’s richest men, in marrying a cashier In a bank. The penalty of such a marriage waa to be ordered out of her father’s home without nary a cent. The conation that Theo might return home that she should get rid of her husband. The two women on the street car failed to agree on Theo’s choice. I became interested in the discussion 1 and kept one of my two very large ears open to find the name of the book wherein Theo existed. , I discovered that Theo Blent is the chief character in Basil King’s new novel, "The High Forfeit.’’ Published by Harper and Brothers. I went to the book department of L. 8. Ayres & Cos. and received a review copy of this book, because I wanted to meet Theo. The Real Test Theo was one of those rich girls who had brains enough to want to marry a real he-guy and not a social cake-eater. So she fell in love with George Pevensey when it was the thing to do to take wounded soldiers into the home. For several years after society became forgetful of the price that some fellows paid for fighting, Theo and

came in free, our American manufacturers would have to make one like it for $1 or lose our business. With the present high tariff they don’t have to. They have 70 cents extra leeway, and just so they make their toy sell for $1.69 they can underbid the Germans or the Czechs. So this invisible burden of profits to the home manufacturer is piled on the toy if you buy an American-made one, and the visible import tax is piled upon it if you buy a foreignmade one. And this item for toys, aggregating SIOO,000,000, it is estimated, is only one fraction of the total we pay in our all-the-year-round orgy ofgenerosity for the privilege of having a hightariff Congress and a higher-tariff President, who every now and then thoughtfully raises a tariff schedule that the law overlooked, thus compelling us to give still more to the manufacturers. The People’s Reconstruction League, a progressive organization in Washington which is studying the tariff, estimates this year-round gift of ours at $2,180,000,000 in invisible, indirect payments beside the $547,000,000 collected on imports by Uncle Sam this year. Can’t this thing be carried too far? The Christmas spirit is one thing, but the perennial sucker spirit may be something else again. On Mexican Immigration mN spite of the desire of railroads, sugarbeet men, cotton growers and other big employers for cheap and patient labor, it is growing apparent to the Southwest that Mexican immigration' is far from am unmixed blessing. Mexicans arc now here to the number of 2,500,000 and are pouring over the border at a rate of 150,000 a year, forming the biggest item of our national immigration total. That they are not being assimilated is shown by prison records, housing and health reports and a general wail from social workers of every city at all near the border. The Mexican government realizes the situation is an unhappy one. Mexico needs her nationals for her own restoration. Moreover it cannot but feel humiliation over the realization that its citizens are wanted here for the roughest sort of unskilled toil. The Mexican consular offices are kept busy with complaints over the treatment of Mexican workers, man£ of whom become helots of labor, Ishmaelites and outcasts in the most degrading camps of the west. How stop the flood? Not, to be sure, by the sort of diplomacy that has characterized our recent dealings with Mexico, or our immigration dealings with Japan. Americans, says Dr. David Starr Jordan, have the hearts and the worst manners of any race in the world. Fortunately a way is at hand for dealing with our Mexican neighbors in both a kind and courteous manner. The organized labor movement of both republics are getting together with the hope that some gentleman’s agreement may result under which Mexico would halt the flood at the source. Here is a real sign-post of progress. If self-restraint can be imposed by a nation on its own restless nationals, anew era is indeed upon us. How much better, and possibly how much more effective, would such a method be than exclusion laws, quota regulations and “Keep Out” signs along the border!

George kept up their secret meetings. George was only making $35 a week in the bank owned by Theo’s father. Theo was brave enough to picture married life with George but she made one terrible mistake—she thought that her father would thaw out and welcome she and her husband home. But father said this as he tied up his millions from his daughter: "If you get tired of it, or can’t cut yourself down to the forty-dollar-a-week standard, .the door will always be open for your coming,” provided that she comes alone. Then the battle started. Theo found that to think and live on $35 a week salary was nearly impossible. Pride prevented her from returning home. She attempted to learn to cook. She became one of the many millions of American women who do their own work. But Theo had trouble to think on the $35 a week scale. Her old friends left her. She was an outcast in anew world—a world whose language was foreign to her. Begins to Fade But George had the knowledge that the woman he loved was becoming a shadow on account of the worry and the new life. He urged her to take her father’s offer—to return home alone. Theo, -of course, misunderstood the sacrifice that George was making. Then the separation became so dramatic that the story becomes one of those moving and powerful things which lifts it way up In the scale of literary entertainment. And this thought comes out of the

book: Although the father fixed a penalty for Theo marrying for love and did all he could to ruin the match, it was Theo, her father, her husband and the others of the family as well who helped pay the high forfeit. Here is a story a little more honest and sensible than the regular run of such stories. The truth is, I was tremendously interested in Theo because she seemed to be a flesh and blood character. Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writins to The Indianapolis Times Waabinrton Bureau. 1322 Sew York Ave., Watkington, D. C.. inclosing 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 breeds of dog were crossed to make the Airedale? The Airedale originally was a cross of the rough-haired English terrier and the otter hound. Who owns and governs the island of Malta? Malta was annexed to the British crown by the Treaty of Paris in 1814, and has been held by Great Britain ever since. Its harbor is England's premier naval station in the Mediterranean. There is an elected Legislature to control local affairs, consisting of a Senate of seventeen members (partly nominated) and an Assembly of thirty-two elected members. There Is also a responsible ministry.

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A Sermon for Today ■• By Rev. John R. Gunn

Text: “Forgetting the things wliich are behind.”—Phil. 3:13. j ,-pl HERE are things behind i I which will hinder us, if we l .J allow ourselves to be continually looking bock to them. There are the sins of the past. Let them be forgotten. We must not let an act of the long ago poison our present living. Let the dead past bury its dead. If we have sought and obtained divine forgiveness and made all reparation possible, let us consider those evil things of the past as the acts of someone else—a weaker self that is now dead and not the self that lives today. A great editor once said, "The true secret of editing, is to know what to put in the waste basket.” And so one secret of fine and better living, Is to forget the old discordant thoughts, depressing memories, mean ambitions, false standards, low ideals, unholy living and bad acts which belong to the dead and forgiven past. The past is under the blood. The cross covers our lives. Therefore, forgetting the things behind, let us press on, keeping a vigilant watch against the dangers of the present

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

STOP-AND-G 0 SIGNS THAT DON’T GO mRAFFIC at the intersection of Pennsylvania and New York Sis. the other afternoon was in a quandary for several hours and collisions war-' narrowly averted. The silent cop guarding the corner was out of order. It posed for east and west traffic .then held the pose. That’s a rather frequent occurrence with automatic traffic signals in Indianapolis. I Recently ore of the green eyes of a Meridian St. silent policeman failed to gleam for more than a week before efforts weie made to revive the optic. And several times during evening rush hours all the automate signals on Meridian from Ohio to St. Clair have stalled on "change.” The automatic traffic signals greatly simplify traffic regulation. In general they are almosi *s es indent as semaphores cranked by human agency, although they can’t cuss careless motorists or cast admiring eyes at passing goloshes. But they are not infallible, and they do get out of order. They can’t clear the Intersection in an emergency to give fire trucks and, ambulances their legal light of way. There is nothing more dangerous to traffic tha i automatic : •* p-and-go signals that don’t go. They lull drivers to a false feeling of security that doesn’t exist. Absolute assurance of safety at an intersection depends on the motorist’s exercise of prudence. Th-re is no substitute for that. If he relies too implicitly on the silent cops he may start across an intersection and wake up in the New Jerusalem. ARE EYES' - GROWING DIM? rr - ' ORE than one-third of 2,044 Mi Gary (Ind.) children under r*7 school age, recently given eye tests by Federal investigators working in conjunction with the Eyesight Conservation Council of America, were found to have defective vision. The results of the survey apparently confirm the alarmists who proclaim that blindness and defective vision are growing apace—due to the strain and abuse of eyesight caused by movies and other modern conditions. The prospect is disquieting. We would hate to lose our sight just now when feminine skirts are growing shorter and feminine calves gambol more joyously on village green and downtown streets than eVer before. Rut probably the alarmists who say eyes are growing dim are overpessimistic. The keen vision of the aborigines and the people of olden times Is mostly fiction. Tests show that the average Indian has poorer vision than the average white man. And scientists say the reason so few people could read and write in ancient times was because most of them had defective vision that precluded the use of their eyes for such fine work as reading and writing. We use our eyes as never before —which emphasizes faults of vision that in a simpler age would have passed unnoticed. Despite the fact that a large fraction of the population now wear cheaters, the human eye is not growing dim. It is standing the strain of civilization better than the human heart, liver or morals.

Praise for Claude Statesmen of different parties and beliefs unite in amity when it comes to appraising "Jeffei> son and Hamilton,” by Claude G. Bowers. Franklin D. Roosevelt wishes its facts "could be learned in the newspaper editorial rooms as weli as in the homes and schools of America.” Johij W. Davis, Democratic candidate i’er President in 1924, says: "No lover of American history and* no student of American politics can afford to overlook it.” "The best story of the origin of Jeffersonian democracy that has been published—stirring as life- itself and full of color," writes former Senator Albert J. Beveridge, and Senator William E. Borah says of it: "More fascinating than fiction and more instructive than the most profound treatise on government.” Houghton-Mifliin Company announce that the book has Just gone into Its fourth large printing

and with our eyes fixed upon the triumphant goal of the future. “Forgetting the things which are behind.” Yes, forget the dead and forgiven sins of the past. Forget also your past failures and defeats. Brooding over past mistakes and break-downs clouds our future witi) hoplessness and despair. Don’t stop to brood over these things. There is no time for such brooding. We need to be running. Forget also your past successes. There la r.o time for Jubilation over victories already won as the great victory lies yonder at the final goal still before us. It is quite a common thing for men to be so enamored with what they have done in the past that they are absolutely disqualified for the service of the present hour. The man who habitually lives in the past, glorying in its successes, has reached the end of his progress. • Let us begin the new year as though it was anew life we were beginning, with nothing of the old remaining, but its sweet memories and the wisdom it has taught us. (Copyright, 1925, by John R. Gunn.)

REFORM AGENCIES AND UTOPIA -j=nT-|EV. EDWIN W. DUNLAVY, Inndianapolis pastor, told his congregation Sunday that "agencies of reform will not reform this world.” Certainly they are trying hard enough. Wo have an imposing dumber of anti-organizations trying to force Utopia down the throat of a reluctant citizenry. Anti-Saloon League, anti-vlvlsec-tionists, anti-cigaretters, antlbobbed hair, lipstick and bare knees. Anti-this and anti-that. All of these organized reform agencies furnish Jobs fqr paid secretaries and paid agitators. But somehow they don’t make much progress toward Utopia. In spite of them the Nation, judging from crime statistics and such data, is getting no better fast. That ought to discourage some professional Reformers —but it doesn't. They keep right on leading a horse to water and trying to make him drink—at so much per diem. A nation can’t he pulled up to a higher moral and ethical plane. It must push itself up by the slow growth of public opinion. It would be an interesting experiment if all the special reform agencies would close their offices. Probably the American people would press onward and upward Just as rapidly without them. PAYING THE PIPER mNDIANA’S expenditures for State government increased 76.8 per cent from 1917 to 1924—from $4.28 to $7.57 per capita, according to United States Census Bureau data. During the same period the average for all the States of the Union shows an increase of 114.7 per cent. The near-statesmen in Congress point to these figures and say that, though the Federal Government has cut expenses to the bone, State and local governments are indulging In a saturnalia of unbridled extravagance and are putting an intolerable burden on the taxpayers. The argument sounds plausible. But while Mr. Per Capita of Indiana Is digging up $7.57 for his State government he is also paying over sl3 for the support of the Federal Government—almost twice as much. Obviously Washington does its share to make the tax burden irksome. And the extravagance of State and local units doesn’t Justify Congress from abandoning attempts to cut further Federal expenditures. Taxes are high. Everybody admits it. However, they will never come down if local, State and national governments merely point their fingers at each other and say "he’s to blame.” The money to run a township, a county, State or the Nation comes from the same source—the taxpayer. He pays all the pipers out of the same pocket. And he will get -elief .vhen the total taken is reduced, regardless of which branch of Government effects the* saving. If Washington will worry about unneeessay Federal expenditures instead of pointing the finger of scorn at other taxing units it will find enough to do.

MR. FIXIT Asphalt Principal Paving Material Used by City.

Let Mr. Flxit pursue your complaint* ' with city officials. He la The Tim,;* representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. Asphalt is the principal paving material utilized in Indianapolis street construction, Mr. Flxit learned today in investigating a request for information. DEAR MR. FIXIT—How do asphalt and concrete compare In street contracts awarded recently? I understand most property owners get asphalt. TAXPAYER. The report of the board of works for the past four years will show 81.61 miles of streets paved with asphalt and 21.84 mites of concrete paved. With forty-five miles, concrete leads as a paving material for alleys. TO MRS. F. 0.. A SOUTH SIDE BOOSTER: Mr. Fixit suggests you aid in obtaining that library near School 22, by submitting a petition signed by as many property owners as -possible to the school board.

Fannie La Pompadour Tells Louis XV That He Will Be Remembered for Bum Furniture

By Walter D. Hickman

OOUIS XV. had a “turrible" time with La Pompadour, known in Music Box history as "The King’s Gal.” Louis (in private life, Bobby Clark) had a weakness for eighteen

years for Pompad o u r (Fannie Brice). Pomple wanted to stick ’round for two years more because den she would get for herself one Tension, but her gentleman in waitin’ told her that the king was going to give her the “gate” and wnen the old boy did, she was to take the paJace along with the gate. It was then that Madame Pompa-

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dour told the old king himself that he would be remembered only for his bum furniture. That nearly floored the old boy himself but he got rid of his “gal’' by a clever method. After the vanishing scene of Pompadour was staged, the king ala Bobhy Clark remarks with much ease, “Mighty clever, these Chinese.” Am just trying to tell you that the fourth annual edition of The Music Box Revue is now on view at English’s with Fannie Brice, ‘Clark and McCullough, Ledova, the Runaway Four, Wynje Bullock. Lottice Howell and many others. This Music Box is one of those tuneful and beautifully colored creations of the stage with -everal large dashes of comedy on the part of Miss Brice, Clark and McCullough and several others. The revue will be remembered for its beautiful song pictures, some marvelously beautiful dancing on the part of Ledova, some clever singing mixed with beautiful song pictures by the Brox Sisters, and above all some well mannered comedy There Is no strutting of the form unclothed, but a deliberate attention to prove that a revue may be famous without exposing the human form. The girls presented In this revue are beautifully draped. It is a relief to see a revue in which the dressmaker (an old-fashioned expression) may properly be given some credit. Among the prize winning scenes of beauty may be listed the following: 1. “Rock-a-Byc, Baby,” sung by Lottice Howell and with the aid of many others. This one scene shows that the song picture has reached perfection in this revue. 2. The finale of the first act. called “Bandanna Ball,” sung by the Brox sisters and presenting a painting in sudden color which nearly makes one rise to his feet and applaud. 3. “The Weeping Willow Tree,” a study in an enlarged Idea of a fan suddenly becoming the branches of a willow tree. 4. “Toklo Blues,'* sung by the

Who’ll Pay the Taxes?

By Koscw B. Firming Editor'* Note: This is the Mound of nix article* by one at The Times' Washington correspondents. designed to take the n'w Federal tax bill apart and enow what it contain*. The hill haa passed the House and is now before the Senate. fc'yVj ASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—‘'A Iyy I Christmas gift to the AmeriL. ,J cpn people” was the characterization by Republican Floor Leader Tllson of the $385,000,000 tax-re-duction bill which recently passed the House and is now before the Senate. Analysis of the bill shows that a better chnacterization might be: "A golden Christmas gift to the big fellows. but another hole In the little fellows’ sock.” Take the case of Treasury Secretary Mellon, one of the wealthiest man in America, and one of the bJU’s chief proponents. In income and supertaxes alone, Mellon, who paid $1,882,000 In taxes last year, will save about $850,000 under the bill. Assuming that 'his taxable annual income Is about $4,as his tax Indicates, he would save about one-flfth of it. His income tax is cut; his supertax maximum is cut from 40 to 20 per cent. And beside these big cuts at the top, he saves exactly as much in the lower brackets as the smaller taxpayer—for Instance, on his income up to $5,000 he saves just as much as the man who has only $5,000 in all. Now take the case of an actual small taxpayer, who may be called Littleman. Last year this slightly over $5 income tax on about $3,800 income, if he had a wife and two children. Under the proposed bill he will save the $5 —about enough to take his wife to the theater. His saving is one-seventh of I per cent of his income. And the bill is nearly done with giving benefits to Littleman, while it continues to shower them on the Mellons, as will be shown later. Auto taxes are cut 2 per cent, but if Littleman wants to buy a SSOO car, he will still have to pay sl6, or 3 per cent, federal tax. The cigar tax is cut slightly, but that on cigarets and smokin’ remains unchanged. Taxpayers now pay about $343,000.000 yearly to the government on to bacco. Under the bill they would pay $331.000,000 —and Littleman pays most of It. The tax on alcohol is cut, so he can get his patent medicines a little cheaper—ls the vendors don’t absorb the cut. Theater admissions under 50 cents will not be taxed, but those above that figure be. Littleman can, under the bill, get a gun untaxed, or a camera, or a slot machine. Still Pays V.. r Tax This about ends, the benefits of the bill to him, and he still pays In “war” taxes on tobacco, autos, etc., many time what he sa\es in Income tax. And he bears the $2,500,000,000 burden of the high protective tariff which the tax bill was designed to leave unchanged. Mellons case is far different. In addition to the big saving in income and super-taxes, the maximum inheritance tax on big fortunes has beeft cut from 40 to 20 per cent—exactly in half. Mellori’s fortune Is variously estimated, hut never at less than SBOO,-

Brox sisters and adorned with a magnificent touch of majestic beauty with a haunting l;ouch of the Orient. 5. "Wild Cats,” a dance number which is as wild as its title. • 6. “Come Along With Alice,” sung by the Brox Sisters, a brilliant and beautiful rendering of the old story In a modern way of "Alice in Wonderland.” Here is a scene which Is a gem. / The comedy Scenes would probably be listed this way: 1. Fannie Brice, Jack Pearson, Bobby Clark and others in "The King's Gal,” a smart and sassy burlesque on the old boy himself, Louis XV, maker of bum furniture. 2. "The Kid's First and Last Fight,” a prize fight scene that takes first prize because Bobby Clark is present. 3. There may be a difference of opinion upon the comedy merits of "Adam and Eve," played for the most part by Fannie Brice and Bobby Clark, the Eve and the Adam. And the apple had a whole lot to do with the plot. Ask me no more. 4. "The Honor System,” Just a trifle but shows that even a policeman may lose his pants. They still call such a scene comedy. 5. “Fools Rush In” In which Bobby Clark wrestles with a live bear while Bobby thought it was a fake bear. 6. "Russian Art,” with art ever present, a travesty upon the S2O a seat Russian craze, done by Fannie Brice. The "climax” is a wow on parentage. , There is so much that may be listed as beautiful and as comedy, especially the beautiful side of the ledger. I am sure that you will find The Music Box Revue a beautiful attempt to entertain with a sufficient amount of comedy to keep Fannie Brice, Clark and McCullough busy. I recommend this revue as a real buy regardless of the seat tax. At English’s all week. -I- -I* -IAMUSING NONSENSE ON VIEW AT PALACE If you feel rather sour on the world and would like to have a good

laugh, will let you in on something. Johnny Barry and company at the Palace today and tomorrow have just about the most amusing bit of nonsense ever, In their act. It is a little sketch with lots and lots of hokum and burlesque worked Into It. Really I believe a cigar store Indian would laugh at this. The plot concerns the workings of a

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000,000. Should he die soon, the government would get over $100,000.000 from this estate. Should he die after the tax bill haa become a law, the government would get about $50,000,000—a gift of $50,000,000 to his hears, and a corresponding loss to thd United States. But the bill Isn’t yet done benefiting him. 1 There Is now a Federal “gift tax” designed to prevent estates being “given” to the heirs befo e death, and thus escaping the lnhe itance tax. The bill abolishes this. Profits Tax And the bill isn’t yet done! Most of the corporations In which he and other business men of his magnitude are interested have piled up large "surplus profits,” which pay a flat Federal tax of 12% per cent. If these profits were now divided among stockholders, the later would have to pay on them the heavy income and supertaxes, running up to 46 per cent. By keeping the profits undivided, the total tax on them Is 12% per cent. In the case of only one Mellon Company, the Gulf Oil Corporation, these surplus profits amount to about $78,000,000. Suppose Mellon,, as a large stockholder. Is entitled to $10,000,000 of these. If paid him In one lump now, he would have to pay approximately $4,000,000 to the Government. If the tax bill passes, and the profits are then divided, Mellon would have to pay only approximately $2,000,000 to the Government—a saving on this one Item of $2,000,000, and a loss to the Government of $2,000,000. And there are many such companies. Nor is the bill yet done with benefiting him. The tax on works of art, the tax on Jewelry, the tax on yachts, all are removed. They mean much to men of Mellon’s class and little to Littleman. It might also be stated here that the fact that multimillionaires are supposed to pay up to 45 per cent of their income in taxes now does not mean they actually do, according to Professor R. M. Patterson of the University of Pennsylvania. By means entirely legal, he says, it, is thought that the tax on big incomes is reduced to c point where they now pay about 18.82 per cent —and if the tax bill pisses they will pay about 9.41 per cent!

Stage Verdict Keith’s —This week’s bill is one filled with class and delightful artistry. Real material Is used and put over by real artists. English's—A most polite and beautiful show is The Music Box Revue, a spectacle of rare beauty and at times some smart fun and clowning. Lyric—Some real "Blues” singing and some red hot Jazz are th 6 features V>f Wen Talberts Chocolate Fiends, a colored orchestra here. Palace—Johnny Barry and Company are a scream in a most amusing bit of nonsense which centers around a marrage bureau.

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been worked out in the act of • Nathanson’s Entertainers. Primarily . It is a modern orchestra with the newest melodies but they have gone farther than that. By the ingenious, use of back drops and slides the orchestra depicts the very picture of the piece they are playing. Neal Abel in his own wajr tells etorios, and that is enough, everything he says has a laugh in it. His specialty is stories of the South. Stafford apnd Mile. Louise have a very colorful act, the chief appeal being some piano numbers and some Spanish dancing. Kennedy and Peterson have their own brand of hokum which they offer with no apologies and which le amusing. Bill Includes a photoplay, "What Fools Men,” with Lewis Stone and Shirley Mason, also a news reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow.—(By the Observer.) •I- -I- -ICLASS THERE BE ON „ NEW BILL AT KEITH’S Like a cameo of exquisite design is the current bill at Keith’s. There is enough class and real artistry on this bill to satisfy the most exacting. I don’t mean for one instant that this is a highbrow show, but it is

composed of acts, that have real terial, backed artistry and tal ent. Nlt& and All berto Galo are 1 probably giving us the real article in Argentine dancing. I do know that their stage set and general idea of their dancing act. "Spanish Dreams,” is a real-for-sure-enough dancing act. It haa the right to be termed a headline act. Nita docs her idea of how Fannie

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Brice would not do her famous “My Man” dance. Nila does it beautifully. The dancers have the asaUtaiiee of Hurtado Brothers’ marimba orchestra. This act is a treat to the eye and the ear. Have spoken several times of the showmanship and personality of William Newell and Elsa Most. Many a veteran on the stage would do well to notice how these two develop a song and capture an audience, turning out to be the favorites on the bill. Mons. and Mme. Alf. W. Loyal present their trained dogs mude up to resemble Arabian horses. Good act. Ross, Wyse and Wyser are using about their same material of other seasons in “A Family Revue." Tne only difference being that Toney is working better than ever. An act that is a. credit to vaudeville. Murry and Maddox Issue many and at times smart remarks about a girl who was always hungry and about a fellow who was always going to get paid tomorrow. Cervo and Moro are again back with their violin and an accordion. As usual the comedy element puts the act over to tremendous satisfaction. n Casson Brothers and Marie have a genuine dance novelty In their stunt called “Dancing Dolls on the Phonograph.” Another pleasing act of class. • \ The movie is Our Gang in “Good Cheer.” At Keith’s all week. •I- + + w THEY DO SOME REAL ITHrr DANCING AT LYRIC

They’re dancing fools, every one of them. The "Charleston" dancers with Talbert’s Band at the Lyric this week. And the orchestra of ten. They Just lose control on a piece and the Jazz runs wild. And Lethia Hill, the blues singer, will he a revelation to those who have not heard much of this sort of melody. No attempt is made by the orchestra to get classical, from the first to the last the program Is Jazz, and that Is the big feature. It la jazz. The rhythm and syncopation fairly mokes the “dogs” want to dance all over the floor. Even we were tempted. To the Six American Belfords a j human being seems Just so much ' flesh to throw into the air and Juggle. You have seen Jugglers take large ball Hand them with their feet? These men take each other and do the same thing. It Is one of the most spectacular acts of this kind we have ever seen. And no one gets up and makes a speech in ' broken English. A real act through 1 and through. Davis and Nelson are a good look- 1 ing couple, who expose the follies o t other vaudeville acts they have seen. ] to the undoing of the male member of the team. No big features. Just a continuous ripple of funi Conn and Albert are a comedy * team, whose offering at times gets right down in the old slapstick realms and provokes some hearty laughter. Their Impression of a tonm of acrobats is original and gives one anew slant on this branch of artistry. Lady Suda Noy, in spite of her 3 name is a charming singer with a * fine soprano voice. Some of her I songs she s!ngs in Japanese and then • again in English for the contrast. As her featured number Bhe did Tostl s.' “Good Bye.” In Hays and Lillian w* have a J nut comedian and a woman dancer.; Both are entertaining. Especially j the little wise songs of the man. | Carl and Valeska Winters open j the bill In an act where mualu is J gotten out of about everything on 3 the stage. Everything you aee is* a musical instrument. The fence,; the flower pots, the stepa of the lit- l tie house, and even a bouquet worn ' by the girl provides some melody. Bill includes a Tom Mix picture. { “The Lucky Horseshoe.” At the* Lyric all week. (By the Observer.) 1 •I- -I- -IOther theaters today offer: ”A I Kiss for Cinderella,” at the Apollo;* "Sporting Life,” at the Colonial; i “Womanhandled,” at the Ohio; "Jol * anna,” at the Circle; ”TWe U. p, t Trail,” at the Isis and buyileaqu* ak, the Broadway,