Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1926 — Page 6

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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 of Indiana.

The Little Red \ Schoolhouse mEE little red, one-room-type schoolhouses, once so familiar in Indiana are fast disappearing, according to H. N. Sherwood, State superintendent of public instruction. During the past year (152 Wiere abandoned —and now in the State there are Imly 3,029 such schools compared with 8,803 a few years ago. / Only one remains in Marion County. All of which, doubtless, bespeaks educational progress. The little red schoolhouses, though famed in song, story and mortality tables, did not furnish rural children with educational facilities equal to city boys and girls. They were full of inconveniences, faulty ventilation and poor lighting. The new consolidated schools have supplanted them and now loom all over the Indiana landscape—impressive structures consisting of mammoth gymnasiums entirely surrounded by basketball teams, bond issues and free school hacks—give the children of rural sections every educational advantage. But some way the one-room schools of the i past were not such total losses as modern educators imply. In their dim interiors lurked myopia; typhoid germs preened themselves on the rims of water buckets. But also in their interiors lurked the moral truths embalmed in McGuffey readers, and the fundamentals of education. Children who came forth from such schools could frequently spell, name the capitals of all the States of the Union and do long division. Very few of the little red schoolhouses’ graduates achieved fame as boy bandits. Respite its many shortcomings the little red school had something that the ornate modern educational system, compounded -of jazz and gasoline and complex frills, might well emulate. The Muss in Mussolini M*“""IUSSOIiINI has no more right to threaten to lick Germany than President Coolidge has to threaten to lick Italy. One of the main reasons for the Italian dictator ’s rage against Germany was that the Germans in Germany have encouraged the Germans in the Italian Tyrol—annexed aftsr the World War—to clingito their own customs and language. In short, the people of Germany would like to see a sort of “cultural protectorate”

A Sermon for Today

Text: "He telleth the number of (he stars; He calleth them all by their names.—Psalms 147:4. SCCORDINQ to Herschel's standard, of estimating the number of the stars In the Milky Way Is 40,000,000. and In the whole heavens 384,000,000. The sumtotal of- all the* heavenly bodies which constitute the visible universe ts estimated to be 2,019,000,000. That Is a figfure beyond htiman comprehension, put the visible universe Is as a single star In the firmament, or as a single grain of sand to all the particles which' cover the when compared with the boundless regions beyond, of which no human eye has ever caught a glimpse, and which no finite Intelligence has ever explored. As I thought upon these vast numbers I turned to my Bible and read with a feeing of awe the words of the text: “He telleth the number of the stars; He counteth them by their names.” And while I meditated upon the stupendous meaning of this statement I turned and read with anew and profound appreciation those words of David: "How

Famous Composers Charles Francois Gounod

OUNOD, a distinguished French composer of sacred t> __ i and dramatic music, was born in Paris, June 17, 1818, the son of an eminent painter and engraver, who died in 1823, leaving his widow and family in comparative poverty. The younger Gounod attributed all bis artistic s success to his mother. At eighteen he entered the Paris Conservatory and at the end of his first year he won the second Prix de Rome with his Marie Stuart et Rizzio. In 1839 he won the Grand Prix dc Rome, obtaining twentyfive votes out of jtwenty-seven. Dn his return from Rospe to Paris he became a church Organist and little was heard from him for-five years, when some of his work was presented publicly. In 1851 his opera “Sappho” was presented. This opera, although not a complete success, established his reputation. In 1856 his opera “Faust” was presented. It was not an immediate success, but later was regarded as his masterpiece, stamping him as one of the world’s"greatest musicians. He subsequently presented a large number of great compositions. He died in Paris, April 17,1893. .“Funeral March of a Marionette” was one of his compositions. Note —Facts about a famous composer whose work is being studied in the schools will be printed in The Times each day. It is suggested that these articles be preserved by pupils for their jnuslc scrapbooks.

■By Rev. John R. Gunn'

precious are thy thoughts unto me, oh God! How great is the sum of them? If I should count them they are more in number than the sand.” I was made to think of the words of Job: “Doth He not see my ways .and number all my steps?” I thought also of the words Christ spoke to Hls disciples to encourage them In the midst of life’s dangers and perils. To them he said: “The very hairs of your head are numbered. Fear not therefore.” Never a hair falls from your head that He has not counted. Never a sparrow falls to the ground without His knowledge. •‘Whenever I am tempted. Whenever clouds arise. When song give* place to slrhing. When hope within me dies. I draw the closer to him. From care he sets me free; His eye Is on the sparrow. And I know he watches me.” Numbering the sparrows, numbering the hairs on my head, numbering the sands of the seashore, numbering the stars of the heavens, I know-He numbers me, too, and I am not afraid to trust Him. (Copyright, 1926, by John R. Gunn)

exercised over the German minorities in what is now northern Italy. Not more than six months ago Premier Mussolini himself officially expressed a similar desire for Italians abroad. He specifically urged that Italian “cultural centers’" be established here in the United States. Thus we find Mussolini threatening Germany for almost the identical act he himself contemplates trying out on America. If he is right in talking about unfurling the flag of Savoy over Berlin, then President Coolidge would be equally justified in threatening to plant the Stars and Stripes over Rome. Temperance SHE hearings scheduled by Congress on the question of modifying the Volstead act will serve a useful purpose, under certain conditions. Principal of theso conditions are two: v First—ls the Senate and Honse committee members approach the subject with a disposition to learn. Second —If they devote their attention chiefly to witnesses who have no personal or professional ax to grind. That is to say, if they give the most of their time to witnesses who are neither professional wets no professional drys. (Professional wets include men representing the liquor interests. Professional drys are men who make their living out of prohibition.) It is becoming hard to ignore the fact that prohibition enforcement, in the national sense, is a failure. The people of the country grow more and more disposed to face this situation. Few, indeed, are those who like conditions as they are. But The desire for temperance In America is as keen and as general as it was when prohibition was enacted. Temperance is yet to be tried, as a national policy. If anything useful comes out of the congressional hearings it will be something that points the way toward temperance. It ia useless to look for wisdom of this kind out of the mouths of the professional prohibitionists. It is equally useless to expect it from the paid agitators oef 4he liquor interests. If prohibition is headed for the rocks, as seems to be tha case, don’t look to the two crews that wrecked it to salvage the one thing worth saving. Neither ever has understood temperance, although it is the one policy really in keeping with the temperament of this democratic Nation.

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Oscar Wilde Knew Very Well That a Fan May Blow Up Something Besides a Breeze

By Walter D. Hickman mHERE Is an old saying to the effect that It ia an iU wind that blows no)x>dy some good. Oscar Wilde when he wrote "Lady Windermere’s Fan” knew that even a nice pretty fan may blow up something besides a breeze. Some ladles of fashion use the old fan to blow up scandal while they talk. The men In Wilde's London so- ttMgMpgMHB dety didn’t resort I to the fan to talk scandal, but they recognized with ease the meaning s of a lady’s fan In nr .yiJMfc a rich bachelor's apartment. And so k ~ a fan may Mow an Kps? fl|r evil wind. Wilde's V "L ad y Windermere's Fan” as .$ stage entertainment Is one of those very smart % *.J ultra successes of vFwViiau"spreading scandal. It Is about the Irene Rich last word In such an undertaking. It Is brilliant, smart and cleverly written. Every character has a definite purpose In his play. And now comes “lady Windermere's Fan” as a photoplay, being directed by Ernst Lubitsch, a director, has brains and who knows how to use ’em. And the cast assembled under Y.'-v ner Brothers’ banner is people by such magnlflcient Individuals as Ronald Colman as Lord Darlington, x a victim of the fan; Irene Rich as Mrs. Erlynne, a lady of no social standing, an outcast, who made herself still more of an outcast by claiming Lady Windermere's fan when it was discovered at a late hoflr In the bachelor apartment of Lord Darlington; May McAvoy as Lady Windermere, the owner of the fan whjch created .such a bad breeze; Bert Lytell as Lord Windermere, who never knew what the*little fan might have fanned; Edward Martindel as Lord Augustus and Carrie Daumery os the Duchess. For an Oscar Wilde play on the screen, we have an Ideal cast in these six people playing the leads. But the one great and wonderful triumph In this movie is the deliciously beautiful work of Irene as Mrs. Erlynne. Miss Rich lifts the characterization to that state of development which makes the character as striking and as powerful as if It were being presented upon the spoken stage. She knows the value and the use of gowns In putting over smart scenes. She knows how to walk before the camera. She doesn’t glide and she doesn't run. She just seems to melt Into the eye of the camera. She Is “smartly” smart at the races. When blackmailing upon a high-class scale she is immense, and when she Is “slumming” In her own salon she is extremely Intriguing. Here Is a characterization that is extremely smart and intelligent. It Is seldom we see so much brains in movie characterization as Miss Rich uses In bringing Mrs. Erlynne to the screen.

I found the work of Miss McAvoy exactly true to the character of Lady Wlndemere. Probably Ronald Colman does not look quite English enough, even with his wicked-appear-ing little mustache, but he is interesting upholstery, needed as human atmosphere in this picture. Lytell meets every demand. And I am glad that Lubitsch was selected as the director for this picture. He knows how to handle Individuals os well as groups to get the very best possible comedy and dramatic effect. The camera trick (location) that he uses tn the last few feet of the movie, proves he has marvelous ability. As smart fun, “Ladiy Windermere’s Fan" is one of the few real sensations of the movie season. Not to be mslsed by those who desire the best in smartness. A complete triumph. Ruth Uoyd Kinney, contralto, is singing two numbers, one with the orchestra and' the other with the Ampico in a Knabe Grand piano. She has a splendid voice and above all she knows how to “sing” her words so the public does not have to guess at the meaning. A satisfactory stage presentation. The bill Includes an orchestral overture and a news real. At the Circle all week. -I- -!- -IMARION ATTEMPTS TO FOLLOW A FORMULA Marlon Davies had a real big-sized hit In "Little Old New York.” It was such a hit that she attempts to follow up the same thing In “Lights of Old Broadway." “Lights” Is by no means another "Little Old New York,” although the story motive is about the same. "Lights" is Just theater, while “Little Old New York” was romantic charm/ itself, quaint and beautiful. In "Lights,” Miss Davies has a chance to play two roles, twin sisters who were separated shortly after birth, one being taken to a rich home and the other to just a shanty. As the shanty gir';, Marion attempts to do the tomboy stunts employed so successfully toy Mary Pickford. Marlon does very well, but she will never be another Mary Pickford, especially In tomboy roles. “Lights of Old Broadway” was made from a stage something called "The Merry Wives of Gotham”— Just why the title I do not know nor do I care. “Lights” Is interesting because we see Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt, Webex and Fields and other notables wMn they were boys. From a scenic standpoint, "Lights” Is interesting because It reflects an Idea of the life when New York was growing. Conrad Nagel is in the cast He hasn’t much to do bAt to make love to Miss Davies while she is the shanty girl. When Conrad makes love, he does It with that suggestion of innocence which is in keeping with the tone of the picture. I have been asked by readers of this department to make public my idea of the work of Ruth Noller at the organ. She is developing organ music as an important part of movie presentation at the Ohio. She senses the mood of the scenes and then the organ to produce the

Movie Verdict CIRCLE "Lady Windermere’s Fan,” adapted from Oscar Wilde’s play, la one of the smartest and best pictures of its kind ever reflected upon a movie screen. APOLLO—As a “leg' - show, “The American Venus” may prove a box office winner, but It will rfever please those who have respect and love for t.he movie screen. OHIO —Marion Davies is not nearly so successful with “Lights of Old Broadway" as she was with "Little Old New York." COLONIAL Laura La Plante with Harry Meyers and Alexander Carr has a vehicle filled with many laughs and funny situations in "The Beautiful Cheat.”

mood as melody. She Is doing splendid work along these lines. The bill Includes a Van-Bibber comedy and music by the Charlie Davis orchestra. At the Ohio all week. -I- -I- IWELL. WELL. WEIX. AT LAST WE HAVE IT Long before “The American (iVenus” landed on the screen of the Apollo there was and Is quite a stir In industry. The reason being that In certain scenes showing the beauty contests held each year at Atlantic City, where “Miss America” is crowned anually, that more feminine legs BMpm probably are exhibtted on the "=orcon at any onp Bp? time than fy er flk: before. .Said "legs” are Just ' legs, whether exhibited * at Atlantic City for the glorlfica- .. tion of the board walk walkers or Kitting on a street •’ar. As long as men will look, By|®r *ugj surh films as "Th- f|gHr 'MmBW American Venus” will , be turned loose upon the Ford Sterling screen. There is one lesson to be learned from “The American Venus”—that the alleged most beautiful women In America

THE VERY IDEA!

By Hal Cochran Over Yonder mKNOW of a place where we’d all like to go. Where all of the world longs to wander. The name of the spot? Well, I don’t seem to know, bo let's call the place Over Yonder. There’s happiness there and the sun’s always bright. There's freedom of thought and of action. The days are so long that there’s no time for night, and the spot's built on real satisfaction. % Who enter/ must leave all his worries behind, and a smile must spread over his face. For only the bright and the cheerful ycu’U find In this wonderful wonder where place. The thrill of ,’t all is a ‘hrlU bound to please, and I wish we could all reach the goal where mind gets a rest and all nerves are at ease, and there’s peace for the body and soul. We’ve all had our dreams of this place of content, and we’ve all let our leeper thoughts wander. I’n sure you will know, very well, what is meant, by the spot that I call Over Fonder. , • a a Maybe you’re sitting on top of the world, but round things are easy to slip off of. * • • Prof. Ofergosh Sake* has Just discovered that a gossip invented the expression, ‘Til tell the world.” f> • • ' Just got to wondering If the guy who used to sing, "Where, O Where Has My Little Dog Gone,” ever found the poor purp. • * • Whatever else you may spend depends on how you spend your time. • • • He always spilled tils vituals, but Ho didn’t give a whoop, Because ho had a vest that matched Tile color of Ills soup. • • • NOW. HONESTLY—“Wait a minute.” Stop and add up all the time you have lost through that expression—through waiting a minute before you did something. it’s more or less of a habit with most people—and a poor one. If you re going to do something that you ought to do—do It now. You Irritate other people by repeatedly, saying,’ “Walt a minute.” And, besides, remember that he who hesitates Is last In getting things done. T * * TRY THIS ON YOUR TROM BONE; “Mary Ilad a Little Lamb— But Her Mother Ordered Pork.” • • * Most pf the leaves that were turned over January first have already started to fall. • • * MISS TAKEN —Where were you going yesterday In your new car? MISS FORTUNE—I haven’t any idea—l was Just learning to drive. • * * FABLES IN FACT LITTLE SISTER GOT HER HAIR SHINGLED AND WENT HOME TO SHOW THE FAMILY PERIOD MOTHER AND FATHER AGREED IT LOOKED FINE COMMA BUT BROTHER TOMMY BURST OUT LAUGHING PERIOD QUOTATION MARK SISTERS GOT A SHINGLE COMMA SISTER S GOT A SHINGLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK HE SHOUTED PERIOD AND THE LITTLE DICKENS KEPT THIS UP UNTIL MOM AND POP GOT TIRED OF HEARING IT PERIOD THEN WHAT HAPPENED QUESTION MARK TOMMY GOT A SHINGLE COMMA TOO PERIOD. (Copyright. 1920. NEA Service. Inc,)

(now being Miss Fay Lanphler) Is a thousand miles away from being even a good actress. The real "acting" in this movie Is done by Esther Ralston, Ford Sterling and Lawrenoe Gray. The story Is Jumpy, and even fussy. It doesn't convince. But this I admit—“ The American ' Venus” will prove to be a box office winner. As far as I am concerned, "The American Venus” Is less than fair entertainment. Have your own idea about this one, as usual. If you don’t agree with me. write and tell me. Please. The direction is very bad In spots. The bill Includes a Fox comedy, a news reel, ’ muslo by Emil Seidel and hla orchestra and songs by Henderson and Weber. These two singers have that trick of popularizing a melody, developing it, and then "Belling” It Into a hit. They have that something, that musical trick, which puts them over as favorites. The applause proves that. At the Apollo all week. •I- -I- -ILOT OF LAUGHS AT THE COLONIAL THIS WEEK From Mary Callahan of a department store basement to “Meritza Callabansky," the famous Russian dramatic artist, is the dream that comes true or Mary Callahan as played by Laura La Plante In "The Beautiful Cheat,” at the Colonial for the week. The story Is that of a young and beautiful girl who has ambitions for a movie career and through the financial troubles of a film magnate suddenly finds herself made overnight into a great star. To get the proper atmosphere it Is necessary that she must go to Paris for months In order to acquire a French accent and the rudiments of the Russian school of acting. In Parts her press agent, played by Harry Meyers, immediately after getting his Job falls In dove with his star. Then follows the publicity stunts In Paris In order to give the foreign star a name before she makes her debut In America. A short time after arriving In New York our star finds herself in trouble. She has promised to give a shipboard friend a party In her great house of many rooms, but she has no such house. The way In which this difficulty is Ironed out an<J the final scenes furnish a surprise ending In keeping with the continuous fun of the picture. Alexander Carr as Goldringer of "Goldringer Films. Inc., with all his financial troubles, furnishes some good hearty laughs, as does Rbert Anderson In the part of Dan Brodle, the truck driver, who thinks he is what all maidens pray for. Bill Includes piano solo numbers on the stage and some featured songs by the orchestra Also remedy and news reel. At the Colonial all week. (By the Observer.) -!* -I- -IOther theaters today offer: The Manhattan Opera Company, singing ‘‘Madame Butterfly,” with Tamaki Mlura, at English's; the Pennsylvania Orchestra at the Lyric; Original Brown County Fiddlers at the Palace; Lew Shank at Keith’s; burlesque at the Broadway, and “The Tough Guy” at the Isis.

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

■By GAYLORD NELSON

BACK TO EARTH /—IRT SMITH of Ft Wayne, lAI a * r Pilot and one of the most daring and experienced aviators In the oountry, was killed the other night when, lost In a thick fog. his plane crashed near Montpelier, Ohio Just another martyr to aviation. He took up flying a dozen or more years ago. In the early stages of airplane development In this country. He was with one of the early flying circuses that used to thrill with exhibition flights and air stunts. He waa the originator of sky writing a*<t the loop-the loop. And now he Is killed while flying In the prosaic business of carrying the mails. What have become of his com-, pafilons of hla early flying days? Practically every one of them died the victim of an air accident Regardless of their ability and *• perlence in flying, In the end they all came back to earth In a tangle of wreckage. Scarcely a promlnant flyer of a dozen or fifteen years ago Is still alive and In the game. Sooner or later the law of gravitation got them. Aviation has made marvelous strides In the last few years. The plane has become a commonplace mode of transportation. But man’s conquest of the air is still far from complete. It wilf cost many more lives before he solves the problem of getting safely back to earth no matter what happens to his inichine In the air. ON WITH “ THE DANCE mHE Ft. Wayne Avenue Clvio Association plans an oldfashioned square dance and an old-time fiddlers’ contest Thursday night. “Swing your partners,” “allemande left,” "Turkey In the Straw.” “Arkansaw Traveler” and such dance trappings of the peat will shake a mean hoof all evening. On with the dance. That’s the slogan of the day. And the battle between the old-fashioned dances, spurred by the reslned bow, and the newfangled Jazz, the offspring of the saxophone, makes America twitch all over. < Henry Ford, la responsible for pushing the old square dances onto the front page. Fiddlers’ contents and square-dance contests are the rage. Uncle Henry doesn’t like 1 the modern dances. They aren’t graceful. Perhaps they remind him too much of the way a flivver driver feels when piloting one of Uncle Henry’s creations over a rutty road. Also Charleston contests and Charleston marathons are all the rage. A town which does not hold a Charleston contest is dead. Indianapolis Charlestons one night and square-dances the next for cash prizes. On with the dance. It Is a

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battle to the death between Uncle Henry and the saxophone. We don't care which side wins—whether the old-fashlonod danoes or jazz. But, geel the battle Is hard on feet. If you don’t pull a tendon or sprain an ankle for one side or the other, you are shirking your civio duties. THE HEAD OF VILLA rpn ANCHO VILA. Mexico's |r* I most enterprising bandit L_J and revolutionist— i again In the news. The body of the completely dead Panoho waa exhumed the other day by ghouls, who severed and stole the head, which Is now on the way to Chicago, acocrdfng to announement of Dr. Orlando F. Scott, prominent Chicago brain specialist. Chicago scientists and criminol oglsts eagerly await the arrival of the grewsome trophy. They look forward with interest, solely from the sclentlflo standpoint, to the opporunlty to examine and study the skull and brain of Villa, described aa the “greatest orimlnal of the age." Perhaps the head of Panoho will contribute some valuable chapters to science. But such graverobbery Is a disgusting piece of business—on atrocious act of vandalism. Villa hasn’t, been dead enough to make his remains the legitimate prey of archeologists. If the Instigator of ths deed—the backer of the grave-robbing expedition—said, to be a Chicago millionaire, wanted the head of Villa so badly, why didn’t he go out and snatch it off Pancho's shoulders some years ago when the wily Mexican was active and In position to argue the matter? Then the head-hunter would have won applause If he had succeeded. That’s the way the Jiead-hunt-ers of Borneo, and the redoubtable Poncho himself operated. When they wanted to add to their collections of heads, they cllw*ted them fresh from very active gents. But of course they were only benighted savages, while the collectors of Villa's head are civilized. Brill ordinary folks, not Interested in science, like Villa’s method of head collecting better. One wishes he would come to life and do a little more collecting on his own acount, specializing in the heads of his grave despoilers. Why Is it that the words “includipg the Scandinavian” are often found In the copyright notice, In books? The Scandinavian countries are not Included In the copyright union between the European countries and the United States. Separate copyright arrangements must be made with those countries. Whon such arrangements have been made, the words “including the Scandinavian" are always printed with the copyright notice.