Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1926 — Page 6

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i The Indianapolis Times HOI' W. HOWAHI>, v Proßldent. FELIX F. BRUNEI, Editor. Wil. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspapei? Alliance * * * Client of the United Press and the NEA Berries • * * Member of the Audit Bijreaii of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday bv Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-230 W. Maryland St., lndianap>*is * * * Subscription Kates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week PHOXE -MAin 3500. No law shall "be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution o' Indiana. i ' . ~

The Postmastership "fTIALPH E. UPDIKE, Congressman from -I Indianapolis, called on President Coolidge Saturday and laid before him his objections to the reappointment of Robert H. Bryson as Indianapolis postmaster. President Coolidge Monday sent the name of Robert H. Bryson to the Senate as his choice for postmaster of Indianapolis. Further comment is more or less unnecessary. It should be said in passing, however, that Bryson has made a “gobd record as postmaster. His reappointment is deserved and the Senate undoubtedly will approve it. Updike is seeking re-election to Congress, “standing firmly on his record.” His record thus far consists principally of his unsuccessful opposition to Bryson.

Time to Repeal It HEY. used to make tariff schedules this ___J| way: The campaign committee shook down the manufacturer for a favorable tariff rate on wjiat he manufactured. Then the campaign committee shook him down for another contribution. Then he shook down the statesmen for a more favorable rate. Then the committee Shook—and so on and on. The public paid the bill in tariff-protected prices. Progressives in Obngxes-s, after a long battle, brought the United States tariff commission into being. It was to be a non-political fact-finding body. It was to furnish information that would enable Congress to check up the claims of the manufacturer. It was to be scientific. Its first chairman wa? Dr. F. \Y. Taussig of Harvard University. For some years the commission served a good purpose. True, Congress frequently preferred to rely on the views of the campaign contributor rather than the information of the tariff commission, but the commission was there to be used by any Congress that was thinking of something other than campaign contributions. Then came the flexible tariff law. It enabled the President'to call on the tariff commission for information between sessions of Congress and, based on such information, to raise pr lower -tariff schedules. Meantime, with the years, the commission gradually ceased to be a body of non-political experts, becoming filled instead with representatives of protected industries. Its reports to the President now are in line with the wishes of the protected manufacturers. With this flexible provision in operation tariff-making is back where it started before the birth of the tariff commission. The remedy that seems to be indicated is the repeal of the flexible tariff provision.

WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW President of Andorra Entertains in His Kitchen

By Walter D. Hickman We all know that the White House haa a kitchen but we don’t expectthe President to entertain guests in his kitchen. Os course when it-is announced that the President or Andorra entertained Richard Halliburton, a Yankee from Memphis, Tenn., in the kitchen of the White House, we do not become so excited. / Andorra is the hermit republic existing in the Pyrenees. It is neither French nor Spanish. It boasts of only 6,000 people scattered over 175 square miles. As Halliburton tells you in "The Royal Road To Romance," —*'I found that this doll democracy was perhaps the one spot left in Europe uncontamlnated by the vacation flood of sightseers, for the reason that, with the exception of the capital city which communicates with thel outside world by means of a sixty-mile dirt road, the entire country is inaccessible to a sure-footed man or mule. Halliburton in discovering this strange republic, sayq; “For years 1 had not beten sure "whether the vaguely familiar word Andorra meant a fish or a fruit, until one day I ran across it by accident on the map, and found it was nothing edible, but an independent republic of 6,000 people and 175 square miles, with a chief executive, a japitol building, a White House, and a Congress, all lost for ten hundred years in the tops of the Pyrenees." , 'the White House I was tremendously interested in I xlliburton's recital of how he came to know the President. Our friend, Halliburton, on reaching this strange country learned that the President received visitors at the “executive mansion” that night unless he was spending the evening at a case. * So Halliburton found the president at a case was personally conducted to the White House and was taken into the kitchen before a giant fire, place. There a mother cat and her five kittens' lay curled close to the glowing coals. Halliburton recites. Am just trying to get you interested in Halliburton’s first book, his literary baby. “The Royal Road to

Over Dead Men’s Bones iY/ E live and learn, an says. But a mightier truth still is that we die and learn. - > ■ The human race is driven by a sort of divine urge to climb higher and higher. And always its upward trend is over dead men’s bones. But fortunately for us all another divine tduch the human has is his willingness to add his bones to the pile so those who come after can reach a mite beyond. Which is about half ot what we have to say of the Shenandoah verdict just handed down by the court of inquiry. It is intimated that dirigibles of the future may be built a little differently from the Shenandoah. The report also observes that perhaps it was unwise to reduce the number-of automatic valves in the big airship. However, when*the Shenandoah was built she was considered the last word in the dirigible art; and those who cut down the number of her valves thought, of cotvsc, they were doing the right thing. If we know better today, the knowledge is our because Commander Lansdowne and thirteen other gallant officers and men paid for this knowledge with, their lives. # The disaster, the report says, “is part of the price that must inevitably be paid in the development of any new and hazardous art.” And so it is. But we must not take such tragedies too much for granted, inevitable though they certainly are. We must learn something from each of them else the lives sacrificed will have been lost in vain. In other words if death is the ijrice we must pay for progress, let us make sure we get what we pay for.

Ford in Indiana 1 SHE Ford Motor Company has-.just bought 1,400 acres in Lake County for the establishment of a flying field and warehouse.- The plan, according to an announcement accompanying the purchase, is to transport Ford parts in airplanes to the Lake County warehouse for distribution to assembly plants, including the plant at Indianapolis. When Ford goes about a development, he does it in a big way. For instance, it is reported that 10,000 persons eventually will be employed in the Lake County distribution plant. This will mark the first us§ of the airplane in this country on so large a scale. Incidentally, the Ford development .in Lake County will mean much to Indiana. The Calumet district still is experiencing a boom and it is a very healthy and permanent sort of boom. In this connection, it probably is safe to say that within the space of twenty years the Lake County metropolitan district will outstrip Indianapolis. Indiana may lose its character as an agricultural State with two large urban centers. When Ford gets busy and where Gary already is busy there is likely to be no end to the development.

Romance,” published by Bobbs-Mer-rill of this city. h* You will recall that I told you recently about tills “literary tramp" who has bummed his way all over ‘he world, hunting beauty and romartco. He was in Indanapolis recently. The Right Sort I found this twenty five-year-old “tramp,” (in this case a literary genius) a most delightful individual. You probably will never meet hirp personally, but you have the feeling that you know him when you read, “The Royal Road to Romance.” He takes you over the world, not in the style of a tourist, but Just as you would want to travel If you had the chance, w And ’what a glorjous adventure this chap has had. He writes just as he talks. He Is genuine. He gives you romance and beauty without rubbing it in. Halliburton has made "mental”

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Richard Halliburton Here is Dick Halliburton, a literary tramp, in other words a genius, who has tramped bis way all over the worlds He tells you of his glorious adventure4n “The ce, ’ ’ pub-

travel a great pleasure. I say frankly that I.received my greatest travel “kick” out of his first book I seemed to experience the same things that ho did. And that is the test of great 'writing. And another great thing—he gives you the world, as it exists today and in another second you go back to the -days of the great poets, the dreamers, the fighters and all the others. You haunt the places they visited. Don’t let the year pass until you meet. the president of Andorra in the kitchen of the White House. Halliburton’s first literary child is a delight. The SAFETY VALVE It Blows When the pressure Is Too Great. By The Sinker We saw the "Song of the Flame" in its tryout in Washington, D. C., and liked it. It is a rich mixture of colorful spectacle, choral music and musical comedy plot. Its theme and inspiration are Russian. Its nominal star is Tessa Kosta, but we would pay the admission price to see Ula Sharon do six steps. She is exquisite. Arthur Hammerstein presents—and he presents extravagantly. • • • The writer once had a train visit with the late Frank Munsey. As is the case often with great men, at least it has been the Stoker’s experience, the visit consisted mostly in listening. What stands out In our memory at the moment is this. ‘Stoker,” said Munsey at the end of the first hour, “the difference between you and me is that; when I think a thing I do it. You think just as man ythings as I do but you don’t do them.” To \vhlch we humbly gave silent assentX We believe that was the method V education a’to in Do-The-Boys HalU-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

RIGHT HERE . IN INDIANA By GAYPOKD NELSON

LAWYERS AND AND APPEALS Z 1 1 ACH T. DUNGAN. el.rk Os the Indiana Supreme Court, told a Bar Association gathering: at Orawfordsvlllel the other day that lawyers could halt crime if they would refuse to appeal cases in which they realized their clients’ guilt. “One of the reasons for the enormous Increase in crime,” he d<?" dared, “is the tremendous jump in the number of criminal cases a.ppealed. Since 1918 there has been an increase >f 700 per cent in the , nnmber of criminal cases appealed In Indiana. More than 300 such cases are now pending before the Supreme Courts’ There’s food for thought. "Leading legal lights and bar associations frequently and audibly view with alarm the growing disrespect for law in this country, increase in crime, congestion of our courts and slowness of judicial machinery. They sagely discuss remedies for the pressing ills of our judicial administration. The principal reason our courts are falling to function satisfactorily and Impartially is due to the lawyers themselves. Who believes that there were seven times as many cases In which miscarriages of justice or* judicial errors jbstltied appeal to ■ the Supreme Court in 1925 as in 1918? If so Indiana judges and juries must have suddenly become incompetent. The conclusion is obvipus. Lawyers are more and carrying criminal cases to the higher courts on gauzy technicalities and flimsy pretexts, in the hope of delaying if not frustrating justice. There’s something for bar associations to reform. QUICKER THAN A WINK mer Hoosier, scientist and—.J inventor, famed for his inventions in the moving picture' and radio field, has perfected a machine that will take 3,200 photographs a second. , By means of the device engineers and scientists will be to study the flight and impact of projectiles and other fast moving objects. It takes about one-sixteenth of a second for a visual Image to impress itself on the human eye. Di*. Jenkln’s camera is 200 times faster than the human eye; it photographs quicker than wink. This marvel?''of photography is possible within less than a hundred years from the time Louis Daguerre worked out his Slow and cumber-

A Woman’s Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson l NOTHER letter from a hurt A Bachelor. He says, “We do *~I not think we are shirking our duty by not marrying, and I believe that statistics will show that we are fairly liberal to charil y funds. It’s true we have a little fun now and then, but don’t you think we are entitled to our share?” Certainly, Sir, certainly. But Just exactly what is this fun that you bachelors talk about having? Is it the sort of “fun” that you would want your spinster sister to have? Oh, mercy, no. What a foolish question. For it is upon this very question iof “fun” that society in general and I bachelors in particular, are so woej fully unfair. Suppose a. man does not care to saddle himself with a wife, does that mean that he forever walks in the straight and narrow path of virtue? Does it prevent him from taking a sweetheart “without the benefit of clergy?” Absolutely not. Suppose, on the other hand, that his spinster sister, the intelligent professional girl, comes to ti e same conclusion and does not vdsh to relinquish her career for a husband, can she, feelin gthe need of companionship and love, go and do likewise? You all know the answer to that. And her bachelor brother would be one of the first to cry aloud in righteous wrath against her. Confronted >vith the question of just common decent justice about the thing, he would be the first to give that age-old masculine retort to such a query, “That’s different.” Sure, it’s always different with men and women when it comes to morality, and men, with all their logical brains, and all their high class intelligence, and all their superior 'mental abilities, are still never able to see the sharp injustice of their point of view concerning the sexes. Their fine reasoning powers are never able to encompass the breadth of this problem. They claim in many instances, these unmarried men, that they do not care to wed because the women of the present age are too wild, that immorality is growing among girls. And having such a record as their sex hgs accumulated throughout the centuries, having, in only the rarest oY instances, been able themselves to preserve a clean record of morals, one wonders how they dare bring such a charger . For one thing is quite certain, in spite of the pitiful plaint of the present-day bachelor, and that is, though the search may be arduous and the fiuest long, it will always be possible for him to find a woman approximately as 'good as he Uj to -marry. v S - X What qualifications roust a mah have to Join -the United States MaVine Cbrps? He must be at least 17 years of age and not over iO. He must be at least sixty-four inch* tall and not, over seventy-four. I* weight must be in right propCrtial to his height

some photographic prqcess, that made photography possible on a commercial scale. How will they be taking pictures a century hence? Perhaps then they 1 will actually be photographing human thoughts and the workings of the human brain. It isn't safe any more to pronounce anything impossible. LOCAL TAX LEVIES SHE Indiana State tax commission, during the past year, saved Iloosier taxpayers $a,000,000 by reductions It ordered in local tax -levies and bond issues appealed to the com-mission-for review, according to figures recently compiled. Wild and prolonged cheers from harried John Citizen! But rbally did_the commission save the taxpayers $5,000,000 or anywhere near that sum? Usually a local tax levy arbitrarily cut one year must be correspondingly increased the next. The ultimate effect on property owner is no actual saving; it merely postpones his killing. Last year the all-knowing tax commission arbitrarily cut cents off the Indianapolis school "levy. Vitally necessary Items In the budget -veie thereby s icnflced. This year the school levy is 1756 cents higher to make up for the lost ground. What did the State tax commission save the Indianapolis taxpayer in that case? Possibly the review of local levies and bond issues by State authorities may accomplish some good, and restrain extravagance of local governments However, the people of a locality are as capable of determining how much they should spend for local government purposes as three austere dignitaries in the Statehouse. The system of giving a State board control over local tax levies is just another example of growing paternalism in government—the logical result of the theory that the citizen needs a guardian for his protection. PROFITS OF PROHIBITION |R. E. S. SHUMAKER, Indiana Anti-Saloon League suporintendent, in a recent statement, cites an impressive array of figures showing the improvement of economic, industrial and soolal conditions in Indiana in the past ten years—attributal, he believes, to prohibition. In Indianapolis since 1913 the number of employes in industry has doubled. The number of manufacturing enterprises Increased 50 per cent. Bank clearing and postal receipts have doubled. Assessed valuation of property in the ctly has risen from $200,000,000 to more than- $600,000J)00. And so on. It is an impressive record. Perhaps it is all the result of the prohibition llalws, but to a bystander there would seem to be other contributing factors; for instance, the wAr and industrial boom 'fn the preceding decade 4vet Indianapolis and wet America also increased in wealth and expanded Industrially and economically. How do prohibition propagandists evplain that? The spokesman for dry organisations claim too much when they attribute every gain in population, wealth and economic progress to the effect of prohibition. The dry law doesn’t make the sun shine brighter or the winters milder. They take .in too much territory. No one disputes that we are better off without the saloon, and prohibition. if tried, might have a surprisingly salutary effect_on our nai tional life, and industry. But even actual prohibition won’t bring in the perfect millennium.

Burial of Floyd Collins

You can fret an answer to anyqnestion of fact or inforntation ter writing to The Indtanr.Dolta Thnes Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D C. inclosing 2 cents in sUmoa for reply. Medical. Jegal and marital sdvice cannot be cl yen. nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a pergonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. \ Nowhere was the body of Floyd Collins finally buried? Can you tell me something about the • funeral? • Floyd Collins was buried on \a small hill overlooking Crystsi Cave, Ky., Apry 26, 1925. About 500 people attended fiineral. The automobile containing the body left Cave City, Ky., followed by, about fifty automobiles. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. J. S. Smith, of Central City and Rev. ft. B. Neel, Bowling Green anad lasted about one hour. What states comprise the Union of South Africa? Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Transvaal and the Orange Free State. If a child is legally adopted and receives the name of his adopted parents, is a marriage contracted under that name lqgal” Yes, so far as the ram* is concerned. What is the base pay of an enlisted man in the Army Upon his first enlistment? Twenty-one dollars a month. Who said, "Let the Alps sink; the gods raised them to shelter Italy; they are now no longer needed?” Cicero said it after the conquest of Gaul by Caesar. Can you tell me some way to rid a house of ants? The surest wy to keep a house free frorru uW is to leave no food lying about, on shelves or in open places/where they can reach it. Ants go ‘Where they can find food, and it'the food is kept in metal containers or tightly covered jars or ice box, they can not reach it and will not stay. Cakea, bread, sugar and meat

Ethel Plans a National Wife Strike; „ ‘Rose-Marie’ Returns in Finest Shape

By Walter,D. Hickman i —| EN, there am trouble in the IMI alr Ethel Davis carries out I*]”, a terrible threat. Ethel has gone wild over an idea which tho Russian Act Theater, the musical end of highbrow art, hits brought to ('his country. This Ethel Davis, a person made famous in the Greenwich Village

Follies; that is. she made herself famous, comes right into our quiet ahd beautiful city and gets the wives all aroused. Ethel has a most terrible Idea. She plans a national strike for wives.No more "woiking” in a small kitchen She wants larger kitchens for all wives. And she wants some other things, such as every luncheon

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uptown and a few other little trifles. | And part of this busi- | ness is that the women are applaud- • ing the idea. Am just telling you | that Ethel Davis, one of those few | great artists in individual songs, is j back in the city. This time at B. | F. Keith’s. She is a positive delight, and it Isa a pleasure tQsee this funwoman of song regifiteh with so much ease. Her material has class appeal because she Is an individual artist, but she Is able now to win the entire audience. Not to be missed by those who enjoy rare artistry in song i£nd fun. I have written about Long Tack Sam many, many times. As an entertainer, he stands at the head of his class. He has a wonderful company of Orientals "with him. Here you fine art and showmanship all mixed up with genuine entertaining ability. He will prove a genuine sensation before the week Is over. Senator Murphy Is back, grating about politics and everything he cares to think about. Another clever Individual entertainer who wins with remarkable ease. Am refusing to let you In on the great fun dished out by Glenn and Richards and many others In “The Test.” Everything in this act isn’t what it seems. A mighty fine surprise. Will and Gladys Ahren again present their quiet brand of comedy and polite hoofing. ' Carl Nixon and Gussie Sans again appear as "Assorted Chocolates.” Johnson and Baker are hat thrown ers. The movie is Charley Chase in Wedding." At Keith's all week. WE NOW HAVE THE BEST ••ROSEMARIE" PRODI CTION I am yelling this from the housetops—“ Rose Marie” is now being presented much better than when presented at the Murat last season. This Is saying a "mouthful” but it is true. I have seen five different companies do “Rose-Marie.” The company now at English’s is by far the best and I am not forget-

ful that the original V'Rose-Marie” with not the original principals, that H have seen. In the first place, Rose herself is magnificent, glorious in voice and extremely dramatic. She lifts the vocnl climaxes to extreme heights and when it comes to drama she has that touch which blends with th# emoting of the singing. This time, Maria Shamshon is singing

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the “Rose-Maries” role. She Is by far the most satisfactory of all the Rose-Marles I have seen. There is no controversy regarding Sibylla Bowhan, who is Vanda, the dancer

are equally attractive to ants and should b§ carefully protected. Floors should be swept frequently to collect stray crumbs that may have fallen. Tartar emetic and powdered sugar in equal parts, moistened with a bit of water and placed near their haunts will drive ants away. Where a house is badly infested, the legs of tables, ice box or cupboards may be set in cans of jwmer and the water in turn treated with a few drops of kerosene or crude oil to prevent mosquito breeding. How many Atlantic and Pacific Tea stores are there in the United States? , About 10,000. Are rats and mice the same? No, but they belong to the same rodent family, the genus, Mbs. 'They vary in size and habits. Have you any Information about the smallest* three"-cube radio set? The smallest one, of which we have knowledge, measures 3H inches long and 5>4 inches high. It operates head phones and a loud speaker. t Is Mark Twain’s daughter Hvtnr? t Hie daughter, Jean, died a number of years ago and wax buried at Elmira, New York. What fts the meaning ©f “Wtntimt"? It to a Sioux: Indian nme meaning “first-born dfcngbter.T Who Sr the author and publisher of the novel “Under the Orescent”? Mrs. He Ben B. Shipman ta the author aftd the publisher is CSreeeet and Dunlap, 1140 Broadway, New York City, Why are green and red need ee cronspteuougty In Christmas- decoration*? TO carry out the heUy cellar schema and give a cheerful tone te the decoration. Where are the United States Navy prisons located? Portsmouth, N. H_; Mare Island, CaL; Paris Island, 8. C.; Cavite, p. L

Some More Charleston

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In lesson No. 8, explained by Miss Mildred Melrose, the original Miss Personality, and Illustrated by her In the photograph above, she Is getting ready tq close the knees together step. The hands In this movement should be held away from the body, elbows slightly extended upward and fingers pointing downward In as awkward a position as possible. Miss Melrose, who Is the stage attraction at the Circle Theater this week, is being presented by Managing Director Ace Berry in a stage presentation entitled ‘‘Rtruttin’ Tlv’^Charleston.” In addition to the presentation the Circle is also introducing a Charleston Contest with a large number of contestants, who are participating daily for the prlvelege of winning the valuable £ash prices being offered, while in addition the winner of the first prize will be sent to Chicago' with all expenses paid to Join in the National Charleston Contest which will take place at the Trianon Bull Room during the latter part of February.

Stage Verdict English’s—" Rose Marie” is being presented In the finest possible manner. Never before has it been so well given hare. Lyric—" Stateroom 19,” a sketch featuring McLain Oates and Genevieve Lee, is a laugh from start to finish. An amusing story about newlyweds. Palace—Jack Blgljgw’s eight muslcnl misses offer some fine melodies and excellent solos, ineluding tho- violin, trumpet and xylophone, Keith’s—Ethel Davis now has a complete song-comedy triumph. Long Tack Sam and company repeat their great success.

half-breed. This woman la a wonder. She is marvelous in the "Totem Tom Tom” number. She has that dramatic something, dancing intelligence I call it, that few dancers possess. This sho uses to the hurt degree in every dance number, Again, she is the best of the Wandas, I have always liked Charley Sylber (meaning after he got into the part several seasons ugo) as Hardboiled Herman a# well as I did Skeete Gallagher. And that is saying several tons of praise. Thomas Conkey Is the Jim Kenyon. He has the looks and a dramatic poise which meets ail demands. Voice, satisfactory, Betty Byron as Lady Jane is one of the .cutest little bodies on the stage. She Is a cute little trick and mighty gifted. Her work with Sylber is immense. A Joy she is. I could rave on and on. The production is up to the highest standard. Lights, costumes, chorus, both male and female, and everything that goes to make "Rose-Marie" the great success that it has been from the start. And I repeat again—you are seeing the best and most satisfactory presentation of ‘‘Rose-Marie” at English’s this week that Indianapolis has ever witnessed. The demand for seats is so heavy that the Wednesday and Saturday matinees are completely sold out. So a special matinee will be given Friday. And I make this gentle request— Please don’t give me a telephone call and ask me to get good seats for you. This thing Is starting already. If it keeps on I am going in hiding. Have a heart. Stand In line yourself and get your own seats. A critic can’t get front row seats when there "ain’t” any. Kef “Rose-Marie.” At English’s all week.

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TUESDAY, JAN. 6, 1826

MELODY WINS ON NEW BILL AT PALACE

Melody, a a put forth by Jack Biglow and his Musical Misses, holds out as the feature attraction of tho bill at the Palace today and tomorrow. ,| The usual number of popular stuff Is played along with some unusual things which are Hi# real features of the ant. Throo trumpet# played by Blglow and two of his girls furnish some pleasant melodies and as things seem to run In threes the same number of girls attack the xylophone In another good trio. Alfist not forget a violin aolo by one of the girls Jn which she played some favorites such as bits from Victor Herberts "Fortune Teller,” and “Coming Through the Rye.” The Novelle Brothers have an amusing act In which the two are dressed as clowns and play the violin with much foolishness. Another lilt they make Is their Imitation of a couple of love birds with the talking done In whlHlles, Wilbur Mack and flertrude Purdy have a continuous line of “wise oi’acks” that; are full of humor. As a finale to I hair act they danoe. Billy "Swede” Hall as a sweedlsh maid in a hotel presents his Idea of what the aforesaid maid would do and look like were she to drink too much hard liquor. Most of the fun Is derived from the dense quality of the maid's mind when It comes to things such as getting married an-J telephone conversations. ™ John and Winnie Hennings have a very sophisticated little offering about a fellow who has lost all his money on the girls and his troubles wtlh the latest one. At the Palaoe today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) IiOOKING OVilr 'nEW EVENTS AT THE LYRIC VL pair of newlyweds on an ooean liner. It is night and a storm is in progress. Thunder and nerve racking sounds are heard. The young wife is hysterical In her fright and almost ha# her husband the same

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that & modern Jans orchestra will condescend enough to place that l lasHio instrument, the harp, in thalri Ynidst, but the “Seveq Brown Girls,’■ realizing the time-proven worth oU this instrument, have used it totthe fullneHH of it’s possibilities. The orchestra Itself is composed of seven girls playing the /Tegulf* instruments of a danoe orchestra and the harp. Featured are violin, saxophone and harp soloa One would naturally expeat two dyed-in-the-wool Chinese boys to sing with somewhat of an aooent. Don Sang anA Ah Chung have an accent, all right, but it could have been acquired in one place only, New York. These two oriental harmonists give a fine account of them selves in a program consisting es the latest of the popular senga tmd some Chinese melodies that one would suppose popular in their own country. Both possess good singing voices. Asa feature this couple give an impersonation of the famous Harry and the equally famous bagpipes of Scotland. Delano Dell, in a perfectly sincere manner, lets the audience In on a secret. In his matter of fact way he calmly announce# that “I’m nuts.” And then he begin# a linn of chatter that gets the laughs. Relying solely on he says, he gets his stuff over in suoh & way that it Is worth a laugh almost ev ery time he opens his mouth. Franklin and Vincent, the man at the piano and the woman singing, ,get off some hot little songs and some good 'comedy. Their feature is a little song that seemingly has no end, the verses coming one right! after another.- , iS ' Dunbar and Turner offer eom* slapstick comedy and eccentric danc ing. The Elry Sisters open the bill with anew way of dancing the Charleston; they do it on roller skates. A# each number they portray needs a change of costume they get around the time question very nioely by changing on the stage. Three Weber Girls close the ehow with some harmony and a surprise finish of tumbling and balancing. I- -I- -I* Other theaters today offer: "Bluebeard’s Seven Wives" at the Circle; “Madam Behave” at the Colonial; “Little Annie Rooney” at the Ohio: “The Vanishing 1 American" at Apollo; burlesque at the Broadway, and “Tlie Arizona Sweepstake#" at the Isis.

way A final crash and the door opens. The captain of the ship looks In, and to the ques tion as to what the trouble Is, ealmly announces that the ship has net left port as yet, It’s even funnier than It sounds in the aot of MoLain Gates and Genevieve Lee lu “Stateroom 19,” at the Lyrio this week. Seldom it is