Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1926 — Page 6

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Hedjaz Just a Suburb of Indianapolis ( qIOMB people keep on insisting we should I I let the rest of the world go hang. What’s it to us? they ask. Last year, the Department of Commerce says, foreigners bought $4,908,743,259 worth of goods from us —things you made with your own hands or produced out of your grouild. While they were doing that, we needed, and bought, from them $4,224,225,962 worth of their goods. Thus our trade with foreign countries, during 1925, totaled exactly $9,132,969,221, the *‘trade balance’* of $684,517,297 being in favor of You, Us & Cos. Add to this the billion dollars more which American citizens invested in foreign countries last year and you will get some idea of your stake in foreign lands. The total—slo,l32,969,221 for one year—is just simply staggering. Staggering, did we say? That is not the word; the human mind can not grasj) any such sum. That much money would build thirty Panama Canals. It would pay for our Navy, lock, stock and barrel, plus the Marines, maintenance and bases, from 1884 down to the present day. ,It would cut ten new canals across Nicaragua costing a billion each. Milled edge touching milled edge, it would girdle the globe with silver dollars eight times around. In a straight line these dollars would reach almost to the moon. ' Yes, sir, that’s some money! And all of us got some of it. It helped make our prosperity. Foreign trade helped keep our industry going. Without it, a lot of employes would have been laid off. Dry goods, groceries, homes, automobiles and what not, would not have sold so readily because there ivould have been fewer people with money to buy them. So other business would have Felt the pinch, and laid off still more workers, adding to the unemployed and hard up. And so, round and round, the vicious and ever descnding spiral would have gone. Foreign entanglements? Os course no American wants his country to be forced into wars hither and yfin when they do not directly concern us. But you can bank on this, that we are already, everlastingly and unavoidably entangled abroad in the sense that nothing of consequence can happen in this small world of ours. If nowhere else you will feel it in that most sensitive of human appendices known as the pocketbook. i We are neighbors to the rest of the world. Folks everywhere are our customers. We, in turn, must trade with them or go without many tilings we urgently require. Our common prosperity is dependent upon one another. We are all part of one small mondial community. Thus anything we can do legitimately to boost this neighborhood of ours—the world—be it our own ward, the United States, or one

A Woman’s Viewpoint

Women’s Clubs and Men’s By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ~~*i UMAN beings are .awfully I—l funny, especially men. The _ other day I heard one holding forth upon the foolish expediture of time and energy which was taken up by women’s culture clubs, and quoth he, “Just what good are they?” Now, bo far as most of us are able to see, they are just as much good as the men's clubs, for when it comes to useless organizations the women certainly have nothing much dn their husbands. So far as wasting time and energy is concerned, the men run us a mighty close second. Women’s clubs were organized primarily to improve women; whereas most of the organizations kept ut> by men seem to have been originated to give their members an evening out. The women's culture clubs may look silly, but they are not always that way. In them are plenty of women who actually study and learn things. Most of the members strive .to increase their knowledge of some subject, whether it be better cooking, or politics, or the newest Fast Indian religious cult. Their purpose and their program is the acquiring of some sort of knowledge. The men’s clubs, on the other hand, do not seem to tend in this direction. They sometimes take the term of a mid-day luncheon, when the members gather and consume tough veal chops and beet salad, listen to an out of town speaker oompllment them and “their thriving little city,” smoke endless cigars and call It a meeting. Or they go to their secret lodge halls and “put on the work,” as they call it, dressing themselves in their Moslem regalia find doing the same thing

of our suburbs known as Europe, Asia, Africa or the Hedjaz, we’d better do it. It will be bread cast upon the waters. Foreign news? That’s just a name. It’s really all home stuff, touching in a very real way our own intimate firesides. Remy for Prosecutor iv; ILLIAM H. REMY has announced that he W will seek renomination for county prosecutor in the Republican primaries in the spring. Remy has an excellent record as prosecutor and he deserves the support of the voters of Marion County regardless of party. During his two years in office, Remy has been compelled to handle an unusual, number of difficult cases, including the D. C. Stephenson case, in which he secured a conviction. The work of the prosecutor’s office is increasingly heavy, due to the increasing number of laws. Tt is necessary that Marion County have in this office a man who is experienced and dependable. Politics should he the last thing to be considered in the election of a prosecutor.

The Big Idea I T-i'jARMERS’ organizations recently meeting I * I in Washington didn’t find it so easy to determine just what ought to b done to help the farmer. After the meetings had ended, two big fellows were talking it over. Said the first, “Well, the big idea is to get rid of the surplus.” Said the second, “Yeah, that’s the big idea.” Said the first again, “Yeah, that’s the big something with the surplus.” Responded the second, “Yeah, that’s the big idea, all right.” Then in unison, they both said, “Yeah, that’s the big idea.” Obstructionists? No! C r ' ERTAIN conservative newspapers have ___ been charging the Democrats in the Senate with obstructionist tactics against the Administration bill. It is an unfair charge. No more meek and lamb-like set of statesmen ever sat in she Senate than the present group of Democrats, judged by their attitude toward taxation. Obstruction? Nothing to it! They are just riding along, helping to flatten out all real opposition. Such suggestions as they make are equivalent to proposing hold-back straps instead of the skid chairs, and a whip socket instead of the self-starter on the old steam roller. What is the function of a minority party, anyhow? The Democratic leaders, in this instance, seem to think their function is to act like minors; that is to say, “Yes, Uncle,” to everything that is proposed.

over and over as their rituals prescribes. They may all have a noble purpose, but so far as anybody can see with the naked eye, that purpose is far from educational. They do not study politics or religion; they do not read good books or endeavor to understand excellent music; they make no effort to better their conception of art or poetry or the science of living. The club women of the nation, sensible of their limitations, are at least trying to learn something; the men, considering perhaps that they already know it all, merely join and let it go at that.

Ask the Times You can ret 9n answer to any quesI ,O T_P I fact or information by writing to The ludiai r.polis Times Washington Bureau. New York Ave.. Washinsrton D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in st .raps for reply. Medical, leva! and maritai advice cannot be trlven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a per'onal reply. Unsirned requests cannot ♦la 1 All letterß BX6 confldfnIs there a special rule for spelling proper names? No. They may be spelled in any way the owner prefers; if he wishes to change the spelling to make the name less confusing, he is at liberty to do so. What nationality is Ronald Colman, the moving picture actor? He was bom in Richmond, Surrey, England, February 0, 1891. He is English with a slight trace of Scotch. How much does a railroad locomotive cost? t It depends on the type of the locomotive. The Railway Age for Jan. 3, 1924, gives a list of unit prices that range as high as $90,000 for a locomotive. What are the names of the books written by Robert E. Peary and who are the publishers? “Nearest the Pole" published In Doubleday Page and Company, Garden City, L. 1., New York; "The North Pole,” published by F. A. Stokes and Company, New York City (1910) and “Command of the Air” (an adress) published at the Government Printing Office, Washington. £>. C. (1917).

The SAFETY VALVE It Blows When the Pressnre Is Too Orest. ’By The Stoker———— Take a look at the automobile convention in New York and see What is possible when an industry is not monopolized. * * * That good old Hungarian, Count Apponyi, says the motive in the sensational counterfeiting conspiracy is not "criminal” but ‘'political.” Thus, by adding ’’fascist” we get three synonyms for the same thing. • • • Democrats say th© terms of the Italian debt settlement amounts to concellation. As to the British debt, what’s tlie difference between canceling a debt and having the payments taken back in the guise of payments for rubber? * * * In last year's Senate there existed a'coalition between the Democrats and the Progressive Republicans, nominally in majority, were a helpless minority. The seating of Nye and other little things indicate the possibility of another such coalition. Which, to our mind, would add to the gayety of nations. • • • According to the Couzens committee report the favored rich got their taxes rebated to the tune of 260 millions. This certainly shows that there should be no publicity of tax returns. (Such revelations are too painful. t * • * We are all het up fiver this new ten million dollar association that is going to grow rubber trees by next Sunday and thus buck the British rubber trust; but what Ve want to get het up about is a coffee association that will canned cofffe by week after next and bring back-those dear dead days when we paid i3,‘i instead of beat. RAj,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

A Sermon for Today — By Rev. John R. Gunn

Text: “Behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”—Judges 6:15. SHIS was Gideon’s excuse when the Lord summoned him to deliver Israel from their oppressors, the Midianltes—the old excuse of poverty and the lack of prestige and influence. It was an unworthy excuse, and God refused to 'consider it. “Go in this thy might,” he said to Gideon, “And thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianltes: have I not sent thee?” • It has often been said that the true prosperity of* the great is poverty. It is the mold into which it seems Divine Providence often places a man when a hero is to be made. Homer was a blind beggar, and yet we are told that, “Seven Grecian cities fought for Homer dead. Through which the living Homer begged hia bread.’’ Burns was a peasant plow boy, and yet he caught the story of the poor cotter, the field mouse and the modest daisy and sung of them in melodies that shall never die. Herchel was a poor music teacher

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

ADDLED STATE OF MATRIMONY Mr " IRS. EDWARD F. WHITE, reporter of the Indiana Sui_l pretne and Appellate Courts, with a delegation of club women recently conferred with President Cooiidge in the interest of a uniform Federal marriage and divorce law. The club women are much disturbed by conflicting marriage and divorce laws now in force in various States. They argue fortyeight sets of lawmakers have made Cupid a nervous wreck. In some States divorce la scarcely obtainable; in other it is ridiculously easy. Consequently two persons legally married in one State could be thrown Into jail because of that marriage If they crossed the boundary into another State. A person n Ight be single, married or a bigamist depending on what State he or she might be in at the moment. Distressing of course. And doubtless the diversity of codes Is confusing. But persons need not become so entangled that they don’t know whether they are legally single, married or bigamists. They don't have to go to Reno for divorce or to Tia Juana for further matrimonial adventures if they don’t want to. They can marry, live happily and die peacefully without- ooining in contact with the marriage and divorce laws of any except their home State If they desire. The addled state of matrimony is due to the diversity of State codes than to the addled state of the parties married.

TRAINING BOYS TO BE SOLDIERS SHE REV. EDWIN DUNLAVY, Indianapolis clergyman, told his congregation Sunday night that he favored/ compulsory military training for* boys in colleges and schools. The training, he believes, is excellent discipline and promotes democracy and fratemalistn instead of militarism. Now the parson has let himself in for it. He will have the professional pacifists, who are now flooding the country with propaganda against military training in schools and all measures designed for na tional defense, yelping at his heels. The uproar over an insignificant amount of military training given to boys in colleges and schools is silly. Such training isn’t likely to turn out a generation of soldiers itching for a war. We have been turning out for years Boy Scouts, who have had a sort of military training and instruction in woodcraft and such subjects. Very few of those Scouts have taken up Indian fighting as a trade as a result of their Scout training. And fewer yet of them have taken up banditry as a profession. There’s more to military training for youths than preparation for the remote contingency of war. Training them for soldiering is the least of it. They are taught neatness, cleanliness, alertness, discipline and obedience. Certainly useful qualities. The amount of martial spirit such training will fan into flame is more than offset by its influence to peaceful, decent citizenship.

NATION OF GYPSIES HARLES H. PLATTENBURG, Chicago lecturer, ii-.. i J speaker at a Y. M. C. A. meeting in Indianapolis Sunday, believes that the morals and stability of this country are endangered, because “we have become largely a gypsy people.” Folks here move around too much tc suit him. Sure, we are restless rovers. Families don’t stay put. One of the surest ways to get your picture in the paper is to live in the town in which you were born and in the same house fifty years. “Go West, young man,” was Greely’s advice sixty years ago. And since the Pilgrims landed venturesome spirits have gone West, North, East and South, until they have spread across (he continent. •Nowhere else’in the world has there been such a constant intermingling of population drawn from different sections of the country. The result is that there is a homogeneity, uniformity, and lack of provincialism in customs, speech and outlook of the p >ple of different sections. A Hoosier fits into the scheme of

saving his meager earnings to buy a telescope, and yet he placed new stars in the diadem of night. Bonaparte was a charity student at Brlene University, and yet he laid half Europe under his feet and blazoned his name high upon the sky of fame. Abraham Lincoln was a back woodsman and a rail splitter, and yet he rendered such service to ids country and the world that his name will never fade from the memory of mankind. And so the story runs through all history, proving 'that the greatest triumphs in all ages have been the triumphs of toil over penury and privation. Instead of poverty being a handp.iCap, it has often proved a blessing to the man of high purpose and determination. The man who is born and reared in the midst of ease and- luxury, as a rule, is not the one who achieves greatness. If the voice of some great need or task is summoning you to high endeavor do not plead Gideon’s excuse. That voice is God's call to you. and accompanying it is his promise, “Surely, I will be with thee.” (Copyright, 1926, by John R. Gunn.)

things in Florida as easily as h© does in Indianapolis. Perhaps our failurp in some locality and vegetate generation after generation hns rubbed off some of the moral luster we would have if we were more stable. But it is one reason we have a single, unified nation from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific instead of forty-eight with forty-eight varieties of animosity and suspicion. NO REST FOR POLITICS C 1 AN DI DATES for Marion County offices are beginning to put out buds, tender little boomlets; senatorial and congressional candidates have already blossomed. Another political spring is not far behind—a primary campaign. followed six montlis later by an election. , There is no rest for politics in Indianapolis. Last year ft was the municipal primary and city election, each with its protracted campaign. The year before, election of national and State officers occupied time and attention for eight or nine months. In Indianapolis we have an election in three out of every four years—politics is not an occasional dissipation but a steady civic diet. The arrangement is designed to keep party machinery well oiled and efficient year in and year out. But campaigns and elections in endless procession tire the voters who have no personal Interest In the result, and breed Indifference. Hanihara, former Japanese ambassador to the United States, in a recent article on the American political system, points out as a defect that “general elections in the United States are too tedious. National elections make such a constant round that members of Congress can not be wholehearted in the discharge of their duties. With State and city elections added, voters become indifferent." You said it, Hanny. It would certainly be nice for the plain voting citizen if he could choose his public officials—national, State, county, city and what have you—all at one time and not have i-olitl-cal campaigns recurring -.-very spring like chills and fever. Three years out of four devoted to private business and one year to politics would suit him.

MR. FIXIT Smoky Apartment and Dead Dog Bring Complaints.

Let Mr. Fixit present your problems to city officials. He is The Times representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. An alley has been the resting place of a dead dog since last November, Mr. Fixit was informed by an angry correspondent today. > DEAR MR. FIXIT: In the alley between Minerva and Agnes Sts. .and north of the first alley south of Michigan St., a dead dog has been lying since last November. Several requests to the board of health have failed to remove this carcass. TIMES READER. The remains of the dead canine will be disposed of at once, the hoard of health promised Mr. Fixit. In the future, if you desire action on a dead dog, call the garbage reduction plant,, Belmont 2144. DEAR MR. FIXIT: An apartment in the 1200 block on Park Ave. sheds great clouds of black smoke. Can’t something be done? TAXPAYER. H. F. Templeton, city smoke inspector, will .Investigate at once. DEAR MR. FIXIT: The fourth time asking for cinders is sure a charm, as we received them today. Am very thankful to you. A. H.. I* 1320 Bradbury St, Persistence often brings- home '.he bacon. Where is the “Blue Boar Inn” so often mentioned in Dickens’ novels? That is a fictitious title and represents a typical English inn of the time of Thackery and Dickens. Some critics suppose > that the “Green Dragon” ip Leadenhall Market, was meant. The name occurs in "David Copperfleld,” “Cur Mutual Friend,” etc.

Meet This Man De Sarto in Big Melody; Melodramatic Acid Is Found in ‘Aloma’

By Walter D. Hickman I .“ 1 MAN, two men, walk upon J the stage. ' *4 One places himself at the piano, the other carries a violin with him. Hostile winds may blow an audience, but pure, honest and true artistry will gain that wonderful understanding and appreciation that a foreign expression will squander. Am speaking of pure artistry— Pablo De Sarto with the violin and

Alfred Calxin. It is true that there Is lot of fire works j present, but the bombarding is done with such ' exquisite ease and understanding that it is easy to understand the value of complete artistry | And you will be very happy to know that this exquisite and fine exI perience in definite ' melody is to be found this week on a vaudeville stage. Not a concert stage,

Blossom Seeley

but containing those qualities which makes poslble a concert stage. Go to Keith’s this week and observe the tantalizing bit of wonderfully executed melody given by De Sarto with the violin and Galzln at the piano. Fireworks? Sure. But done with and by the touch of two masters. And during a piano solo. Abe Hammerschlag as director of Keith’s orchestra puts his musical brains and intelligence right upon against the artistry of the man ai the piano. Here is consummate presentation of musical beauty. And on a vaudeville stage. I am sure that De Sarto with the violin has had unpleasant experiences with his violin. He knows this. When he finishes bis program, he is master. A complete tribute to De Sarto with the violin and Galzin at the piano. The mimic artistry of Jimmy Savo has that quality of being new which makes it possible to repeat his tricks the world over. A woman sitting near me said, “Crazy.” A man Just across the aisle whispered to his companion, “Wonderful comedian.” Joan Franza is with him. The best thing that Tom Smith owns is his fall. Right against that trick is his pianist, Harry Newman. Should not be put on the same bill with Savo to get desired results. Mighty poor booking. When the sketch. “Solomon’s Children,” started I had the terrible feeling that something awful was going to happen. But it did not. After an artificial start, it suddenly became human. And while human it Is splendid. Due more to the human qualities of Solomon Hirsh than the guy who wrote the thing. Hirsh is the actor who giees life to the proceed ings. No credit is due to his support. George I.auric and Vera Rayne appear in “Steps and Styles.” Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields are supposed to be the big noise on the bill. I do not like to be told by them that they are so important to another zone of entertainment that they will be with Paul Whiteman next season. Miss Seeley, there are people in your audience who buy seats to see your regular stuff, not to hear you sputter praise about next season’s booMng. Without Benny Fields and the two men at the piano. Miss Seeley would be in a terrible mess. You can't kid me with your lights and your sob sister song. Get back to jour own self. Blossom Seeley (not relying upon lights or splendid drops, two fine pianists and Fields to put you across), but do your own stuff. Cut out those two curtain talks. Stay within vaudeville, the place just now where you get your money. If you want to exploit the virtues of Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, then rent your own hall, but don't take the time of a great Keith audience to spill that stuff Get right with vaudeville, Miss Seeley. Or stay out of Keith vaudeville. They don’t need you. The closing act Is Van De Velde and company in “The Gypsy Camp.” The movie is 'What Is the World Coming To?" At Keith's all week.

THROW BRICKS AT ME AND BE SURE TO HIT ME I invite those who found fault with “Desire Under the Elms” as being honestly real, to drop in and see “Aloma of the South Seas.” I also Invite everybody who desires honesty and intelligence upon the stage to compare “Desire” with “Aloma.” “Desire” stands as a torch to dramatic honesty compared with the cheap hokum dished Up in tantaliz-

lng nothing in “Aloma.” There Is an honest difference of opinion as to the entertaining merits of O’Neill in “Desire.” I will grant this. But I maintain that “Aloma” Is a cheap jazzed up edition of “The Bird of Paradise.” It hasn’t the good taste of being half as honestly thearically "native” as the “Bird.” I can excuse good

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Marguerite Risser

theater, but I will never forgive John B. Hymer and Le Roy Clemens for dishing up such a cheap theatrical mess as "Aloma.” It is not the fault of the ladles who look half clad, nor the fault of Jane Victory or Marguerite Risser as Aloma that the mess cannot be served. The playwrights have put hokum into a subject that does not ring true. They have written so jnuch hokum into nothing that it loses its value as dramatic entertainment. Anybody has the right to applaud and even love “Aloma.” If that is done, then it is an honest opinion. I have the right to mine. "Aioma” is an unconvincing mess. Remember that is my opinion. There was applause last night. I did not applaud. The other fellow who did can be as honest as I. Have your own verdict. I have mine. At English’s all Jfareek.

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1 Paul Robeson

The Negro spfrltuale has its place in the musical world. In such songs, Paul Robeson, a Negro artist, will be heard Wednesday night at Caleb Mills Halt

THE OBSERVER FINDS PLEASURE AT PALACE There are trips and trips, but my idea of a very pleasant journey is to

sit and watch the act, “Around tiie Globe,” at the Palace today and tonarrow. Composed entirely of girls, the act resolves itself into a picturesque jaunt, by means of costumes, scenes and song, to she far corners of the earth. Several of the scenes are done with such remarkable good taste and beauty that I doubt whether the famous “FI o"

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Lulu Moore

Ziegfeld could have glorified to a greater extent the examples of feminine loveliness present. The most striking of the many scenes was one representing that mysterious land of the east, India. As the curtain goes up we are looking into what appears to be a harem or something of that order. A girl is playing the accompaniment on a violin for another who is singing the “Song of India,” words in English. After the song the ballet of six girls get} up—they were wrapped around some cushions—and go through a well drilled and executed dance. Following this are a number of scenes representing many different climes and countries. “Fields and Johnston” along with many witty songs and “wise cracks” have something new in the burlesque of a radio announcer giving the details of a program being broadcast. “Eddie Foyer” limits himself to a

THE VERY IDEA! " 1 By Hal Cochran

RUB-A-PUB-PUB rrri ÜB-A-DUB DUB, there’s a lIVI tot * n tub ’ Ita a sight I I that you ne’er can forget. A dash and a splash and aplayin’ with trash, an’, the bathroom is gettin’ all wet. A queer little boat that the baby kin float and a cup that is made out of tin. A standin’ up tot who is, likely as not, try’n to drag the poor klttycat in. New, the sound of some cries. It’s got soap in Its eyes, but ya clear up the tears with a towel. Some more raisin’ ned. Baby’s- bumped Its wee head and it brings forth another good howl. Weil—it’s played long enough and a fuzzy and rough little blanket is wrapped round its head. Then a rubdown is stood, and it feels mighty good when the youngster is tucked into bed, * * • It’s perfectly all right for autos to go from one State to another, f.o.b. —unless the initials mean full of booze. • * • You can’t figure that a man feels like helping a would-be son-in-law in the future, just because he feels like booting him into the middle of next week. • • • My sympathy goes out today to the man whose wife refused to talk loud enough to produce an echo for fear said echo would have the last word. * • • He told her three good reasons why They never could be wed. “I have two kiddies and a wife,” Is wlmt he meekly said. • • * NOW, HONESTLY— Oh, my gosh! Hook at your shoes! Haven’t been shined for a couple of weeks, have they? And you reply, “I should worry.” That’s the funny port of it—you SHOULD worry. Surely you want to stand on your own feet. Weil, tidiness counts for a lot, and you’ll find people will think more of you If you apply a bit o’ polish, now and then. Shine the shoes you wear, and you’ll find it a lot easier to stand on the feet that are in them. • • • Why the dickens does a man lie to his wife so he can get out and play poker, when, if he’d Just tell the truth—he wouldn’t Jose any money. • • • When you begin to feel that you’re one of the best people your office has turned out, be careful that doesn’t happen to you.

SANDY

JAN. 19, 1926

discussion of the other Acts and iM a finale gives a poem “The Blac™ Sheep." la a good entertainer, “Eastman and Lulu Moore,’* a man and a woman, feature a little novelty by designing a woman’s dress on the stage and putlng it on her, Clements Belling and Company feature the tricks of „two dogs and a pony. Bill Includes Photoplay, “Why Women love,” with Blanche Sweet, and a New* Reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) ’ -I* -I* -I’ THERE IS LOT OF BULL AT THE LIRIC What will they do next on the variety stage? Thought we were seeing things at the Lyric this week, but it was true. Think of it. a live “rnrln" bull out front and a Ouw puncher trying to ride him. Bet there were quite a few who got ready to run. This gentle entertalnor makes his appearance In the act of “Rodeo Revue” at the Lyric. The company devote most of its time to roping, riding several horses, and, on the side making all the noise possible. Trovato makes so many friends with his fiddle that I’m sure he doesn’t know what to do with, all tof them. His favorite trick is to set the theater orchestra going on some simple rhythmic thing while he amuses himself by playing of juat about everything In. the linP of old and well remembered melodies. As I heard someone say, "Frankly now, He’s good.” And I second it. 4 Another big Jilt of the bill was the “Harri3on Sisters. Two girls and two banjoes make a fine combination when the trick is turned right, and these two are some little “turners.” They held up the show for a few minutes and would have stayed longer, but the rest had to have their turn. The girls are in blackface and play the banjo and mandolin. Their bent thing was the impersonation of a couple of Southern Negro lads singing harmony accompanied by their banjoes. The Medina Trio, two men and a woman, do all their stuff while perched high up on ladders. Would imagine it a haru job to play a violin while in this position. “Frisco Bound” is a short revue of four women and two men. Featured are all kinds of dancing and some harmony by two of the girls. “McDonald and Oakes” are a song and dance team ar%l do some fancy stepping. Their best was an eccentric dance done as the finale to the act. * ‘Radio Fun” is an attempt to give some spectacular exhibitions of what can be done with high frequency cuiVents. Bill includes movie comedy and news reel. At the Lyric all week. (By the Observer.) *1- ’l' ’l’ | Other theaters today offer: Masked Bride" at the Apollo. "What Happened to Jones” at the Colonial; “The Splendid Road” at the Circle; "Hands Up” at the Ohio; "The Perfect Clown” at the Isis and burlesque at the Broadway.

IRATE FATHER: When you were In the hall, lant night, I distinctly heard that young mail kiss you. Ex plain yourself. DAUGHTER: Why, daddy—lt isn’t nloe to make a young man stand out on a 'cold front porch. • * • A lot of people sing with feeling—but not for other people. * e • : . j FABLES IN FACT IT WAS ONE OF THOSE EARLY EVENINGS WHEN BABY DAUGHTER WAS ON A RAMPAGE /COMMA SO TO SPEAK PERIOD SHE JUST DIDN’T WANT TO GO TO SLEEP PERIOD FINALLY COMMA MOTHER SAID QUOTATION MARK NOW COMMA IF DADDY LIES DOWN WITH YOU COMMA WILL YOU GO TO SLEEP QUESTION MARK QPOTATION MARK AND THE BABY AGREED TO THIS PLAN PERIOD SO DADDY FLOPPED DOWN ON THE BED BESIDE BABY DAUGHTER PERr| lOD TEN MINUTES LATER THE 1 KIDLET SHOUTED QUOTATION MARK OH COMMA MOMMY COMMA I HASN’T GOT ANBODY TO PLAY WITH PERIOD DADDY HAS GONE TO SLEEP QUOTATION MARK PERIOD. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, load INVESTIGATION ASKED Pleasant Run Condition Assailed by Councilman Bartholomew. Insanitary condition of Pleasant Run was assailed by Councilman Otis E. Batrholomew Monday night in a resolution calling for a special investigation by the council committee on parks. The resolution charged health of residents of the district near Garfield Park end the beauty of park surroundings were impaired by the stream’s pollution. EDITOR TO VISIT HERE Donald H. Clark to Attend State Bankers* Session. Donald H. Clark. St. Louis, Mo., editor and manager of the Mid-Con-tinent Banker, will attend the midwinter meeting of Indiana Bankers* Association Wednesday at the Claypool. Clark, who is national president of Signm Delta Chi, professional Journals tia fraternity, will install the Butler chapter Thursday night at the Columbia Club.