Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 160, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1926 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times BOX W. HOWARD, President. BO)’D GDR-LET, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * * Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • * * Member ol the Audit Bureau of Oirculatlona. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * • * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents t Week * • • PHONE—MA in 0000.

No law shall be p&ssed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, >n any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana.

KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA has approximately 5,000 manufacturing plants. These distribute a pay roll of about $375,000,000 per year to approximately 300,000 wage earners.

GET THE FACTS At last there is promised an investigation in this county of the grave charges of graft and corruption and bribery which were related from the prison cell of D. C. Stephenson by Thomas Adams of the Republican Editorial Association. The attorney general of this State is urging one. So'is the judge of the criminal court. And prosecutor Remy, always willing to act and one of the very few officials who had no connection at any time with Stephenson except to send him away for life for the murder of a girl, declares that he will de\ote all his energies and all his powers of office to this task. That much has been gained by the day after day demand of the Times that the charges made by Stephenson be investigated. It may be well to remember now, because of the nature of the charges, the happenings of the first few days following the public statement by Adams nine days ago. The Times alone of the Indianapolis stressed the importance of these charges and tno necessity of freeing the name of Indiana from any load of libel, if the charges be false, or of clearing its name by relentless prosecution, if the charges were true. Six State Senators had listened to the story and passed a resolution demanding an inquiry. In their name Thomas Adams had appealed to the' Governor of this State to permit these State Senators, each bound by a solemn oath to preserve the dignity of the State, and responsible newspaper editors, to visit Stephenson in his cell. To that came a reply from the Governor that the trustees of the prison alone had power to order Warden Daly, who had refused to permit any one to see Stephenson, and particularly newspaper men, and waived the Senators to that board. , There was a hastily called meeting of these trustees at the bedside of one member who was too ill to attend. These trustees passed a solemn resolution placing the burden of refusal upon Warden Daly, and he again refused. Each day the Times had asked, on its own account, for such a permit and had been refused. Five days of this silence passed and then, Theodore Roosevelt appearing in the State and demanding that a stand be taken against corruption—but th ' cell door at Michigan City did not open for the ‘Senators or the newspaper editors. There had been no interest on the part of the Federal Government in any phas*e of the matter during that time, but significantly or by coincidence, there appeared at the penitentiary one Jack Maroney, Federal investigator, for an hour’s talk with Stephenson before lawyers in a civil action, armed with a writ to obtain Stephenson and bring him back to Indianapolis, appeared. Just why he went or what he said to Stephenson or what Stephenson said to him is buried in silence. The Indianapolis Star considered the matter important enough, in view of the relationship of Watson to Maroney, to deny on the part of the Senator that, he had anything to do with sending Maroney. That is the surface of things as this event enters its tenth day of history making. But what are the fundamental facts? Stephenson was quoted as saying that he could prove certain very grave crimes. He said he could show by documentary evidence how huge sums had been spent for the corruption of elections in this State. He said he could prove how a huge bribe had been paid for the killing of a bill in the Legislature. * He said that he could prove many other crimes on the part of officials, crimes relating to elections. He said he could prove it by documents and photographs. He may have lied. But the big outstanding fact is that no one doubts that he had been in position, as far as his relationship to officials and to politicians were concerned, to prove them if they had occurred. The only reason the charge was important at all is because Stephenson had been in sucli a position of power to do the very things he says he can prove were done. Would any attention have been paid to these charges had they come from any other person who ever lived in this State? Would any importance have been attached to them had they been made by any other convict in the penitentiary? It Is for that reason that the people of this State are entitled to a full and complete investigation, not as to whether Stephenson has the proof of what he charges, but as to whether the things he said he could prove were true. It a pity and a shame if the good name of the State depended upon the hidden safety boxes of a convict for its power of protection. It is more than unfortunate that the outburst of indignation and of promises of investigation were n6t immediate and prompt. , It is unfortunate that for five days the eyes of the Nation looked at Indiana with inquisitive eyes and no word was uttered by high ojficials which would even hint at an inquiry. It is unfortunate that the people of this State have been put in the position of attempting to keep the man who made these charges hidden from their own State Senators who asked only for permission to question him. Now that the investigations of various sorts have been started there must be no half-hearted measures nor any limitations. It will not do to attempt to bury it, if Stephenson, the convict, should suddenly declare that he has no evidence. It will not do to smother these charges by any public statements that Adams was ill advised and impetuous. The people want the truth. The Times pledged to devote Its energies to discovering the truth. \ The people mast have the facts surrounding

every incident mentioned by Stephenson. It is not a question of whether Stephenson can prove by canceled checks and written contracts his charges, or if they can be obtained by representatives of the people. Are these things true? Did they happen? Quite incidentally, the most fundamental fact and the starting point for an Investigation, was given by the Times when it produced the statement of a very respectable citizen and his wife that they had photographed documents, canceled checks, written statements for Stephenson while he sat in the Noblesville jail, amazed to discover that lie was not the "law' in Indiana,” but under a life sentence, and that those photographs were sent to him. There is proven, at least, that Stephenson had something at that time that he believed so important that he took duplicates. Let the facts be had. What were these things he cherished? And why did he cherish them? NATURE MUST TAKE ITS COURSE A number of letters have come to us from readers of our recent Russian and Italian sources. Some express uneasiness lest communism gain ground and spread to us. Others are equally as apprehensive.about fascism. * As for our ourselves we are Just Pollyanna enough to see the silver lining. What is happening in both' Russia and Italy, it seems to us, 'will lead; toward, rather than away from, the sort of democracy in which most of us believe. Take Russia. The Russian masses have never had a chance to use their minds. They simply existed. A handful of Czarists herded the people like a drover herds his cattle, and they accepted their lot pretty much as a law of nature. Almost entirely illiterate, they did not seem to be aware that it was not a law of nature. Now the Czarists are gone and another handful of autocrats, at the other end of the pendulum’s swing, are in power. But there Is this difference: While there is still no such thing as free speech, free presu or any other kind of individual freedom in Russia save within the extremely narrow confines of communism, the fact remains that, within these limitations, the masses are being encouraged—almost forced —to participate in the business of government. Today, all over soviet Russia, in the cities, in the villages and in country districts, councils or groups composed of men and women, old and young, are holding meetings, making speeches, debating those questions which interest them or their communities. And they are learning to read. Those in power oversee what they read, but they are, nevertheless, learning to read. Perhaps these things seem unimportant. But are they? Are they not bound to have stupendous and everlasting consequences in the evolution of Russia? The Russian mind is waking up. It is beginning to think. The people are beginning to know something about human rights and of their power to win those rights. So, no matter what happens, Russia can never go back to where she was. One good way to get out the vote in this country, it seems, would be to put a high fence ground every booth, with a sign saying "Keep Out.” Now if il just gets a little colder so we can avoid the disastrous results of this hypersensitiveness to pollen proteins. Cheer up. Lady Astor made one speech, in Virginia, that the reporters didn’t cover.

WHY SHOULD ANYBODY VOTE, ANYHOW?

•By N. I). Cochran

If you want to know why about half of the eligible voters in this country don’t vote, just ask yourself why they should vote. It’s easy enough to tell American citizens that the franchise is one of the proudest possession of a free man, and that it is the duty of every patriotic citizen to go to the polls and vote. But it isn’t so easy to tell him what he’s voting for dr what he'll get for himself if he does vote. Outside of prohibition you don’t hear people discussing any of the issues supposed to he involved in politics. Not one voter in a thousand gives a thought to the tariff, the World Court or the 'League of Nations. The protective tariff isn’t Niscussed on street corners, in drug stores or in the smoking room of Pullmans. If you try to start an argument on the French debt you'll be taken for a nut. People are not thinking about what politicians think they are thinking about. You can get up an argument about the Yanks and the Cardinals. Most anybody will talk about why Tunney licked Jack Dempsey. The Hall-Mills murder will start a conversation anywhere. They’ll even discuss Aimee McPherson and her love affairs at the family fireside. Valentino's funeral and Pola Negri’s lamentations over her lost love were full of human interest. If Babe Ruth were standing on one corner and Cal Coolidge on another. Babe would attract a bigger crowd than Cal; and Charlie Chaplin, Doug. Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Jack Delaney or even Harry Wills would attract more attention than Andy Mellon, Herb Hoover or the Secretary of State. Probably not one person in a thousand knows who is Secretary of AYar; and nobody cares. Not one person in the entire United States can give you an intelligent definition of a Republican or a Democrat. Nobody knows what either party means to his personal fortune as a citizen of the United States trying to make a living. ' Voting won’t buy the baby new shoes, pay the installment on the radio, pay the way into a movie show or buy a package of cigarettes. In other words very few people see how voting for somebody on election day has any real connection with their own daily life and its problems. Few of those who do vote know what they voted for after the ballot has been cast. If two opposing candidates make their contest enough like a dog fight or a prize fight to stir up that partisan feeling that exists in all of us, then people may go to the polls and vote for one or tlje other of them much as they would pick a favorite in a horse race without knowing much about the horses. To many people corned beef and cabbage, or even a hot dog sandwich with plenty of mustard, Is more interteresting than the World Court—and much more digestible. People don't eat beefsteak because it’s their duty, j They do it because they want to. And nobody will get | far trying to induce American citizens to vote for no i better reason than that somebody else tells them it’s 1 their duty. The citizen who enjoys having somebody I else tell him what his duty is, is a rare bird. When voting means-something real to all voters then the stay-at-homes won’t be worth counting.

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Things Have Come to a Pretty Pass inflndiana, He Says,

Ity M. K. Tracy Things have coma to a pretty pass I when the warden *>£ a State prison won’t let a convlot come into court for the purpose of giving evidence, though ofdered to do so by the presiding judge. They want I). Stephenson, fori mer grand dragon of the Ku-Klux Klan, but now serving a life sentence for murder, to tell what he knows tibout political conditions In Indiana, and ho is said to be ready, but Warden Daly says "no." The attorney general says the warden is. acting within his rights and Governor Jackson refuses to Interfere. -I- -I- -IOn Guard The present campaign has been re plete with scandal, but the mess that is on the point of coming to light in Indiana promises to eclipse everything. Here you have not only the corrupt use of money In large amounts, but the acknowledged subserviency of officials to an unofficial organization; not only ‘ the rottenness of bought and sold elections, but an obvious attempt to conceal it by the 1 abuse of official privilege. If it had not been for a few fearless newspaper men, the people of Indiana would never have realized how they had been duped and manhandled. Such things show this country would go if journalism were muzzled. Something to Explain Three millions for a Republican primary in Pennsylvania; more than one million for a Republican primary in Illinois; a Republican ex-secretary of the interior under indictment In connection with oil leases which three courts have held as fraudu lently obtained; a Republican ex-at-torney general lately on trial for con--1 spiracy to defraud the Government, [and now this Klan scandal In Indiana, where the. State government Is I wholly Republican. There is something for the party | in power to explain besides the great I era of prosperity, the surplus in the I treasury or the blessings of a high ! tariff. -I- -I- -IEnglishman’s View Hamilton Fyfe, British editor and author, who has corgo to tills country for a two lecture tour, says that England Is suffering from j lack of leadership, that most other European are in the same j boat and that Franc© would have had a dictator during the recent financial crisis If she could have found anybody big enough to fill the job. What is of more immediate im- [ portance, ho say®, that “Franc© does not intend to pay on© cent of her war debt to America and does not care what the United States Government does about It.” -I- I' I' Legion Steps In Meanwhile, the American Le.gion in Franco has adopted a strong resolution denouncing the "Insidious propaganda being conducted In tho United States for tho purpose of destroying the friendly relations hitherto exleting between th# two people of America and those of France.” Although irritated by other incidents, the legion was peculiarly aroused by nll/, r n tions of Senator Caraway that Some graves of American soldiers had been desecrated by Frenchmen /ho took that method of showing their animosity. The Legion claims that Senator Caraway declared th© charges were based on what h© learned from other persons when asked to furnish proof. •I- •!• -IGo to Work A committee of British economists observes that, instead of blaming the United States for their financial woes, some of the European countries would do well to lop off their own unnecessary expenditures. This committee says that onefifth the revnue of such nations as Roumania, Czecho Slovakia and Ju-go-Slavla goes for military purposes, and that though neither of these three has one-fifth of the population of the United States, each and every one of them maintains a bigger army. STRANGE NOISES ABOVE Resident of Town Ask That Power Lines .Be Investigated. Strange noises are characteristic of the radio, but none so strange as those being heard in the town of Swayzee in Grant County, so thirtyfive residents of the hamlet have declared in a petition filed with the public service commission. Believing that the strange ethereal disturbances originate in the electric light wires which criss-cross the town, the complainants request the commission to inspect equipment of the Northern Indiana Power/and Light Company, which serves in that neighborhood. ' Causes of the noises are attributed in the petition to "short circuits, leakage of current and groundings.” FORMER WARDEN IS FREE Westbrook Completes Sentence for "Beer Baron” Favors. Bit United Free* CHICAGO, Oct. 11. —Having served all but one day of a four months' Federal sentence, Wesley Westbrook, former warden of the Cook County Jail, will be given his liberty Westbrook was convicted of allowing Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake, notorious “beer barons” too many liberties while they were in the Cook County Jail when Westbrook was the head of it. . i

Sadie Wanted to Go to Paris But Herb Gave Her a Wedding Ring With a Kiss

By Walter I). Hickman Paris or a walk up a church aisle while the organ echoed with a certain significant tunc by Mr. Mendeisj sohn. That was just what Sadie Hermann faced. And she solved it one way one minute and then cha'nged her mind. j Am telling you that Sadie found it a pretty tough job to Jmck this 'Cupid individual.

This struggle between love and duty is told in a rn out charming an and refreshing way in “Subway Sadie." Dorothy Mackaill is Sadie and Jack Mulhall is Herb McCarthy, the chap w h-o turned out to be more important to Sadie tilln Paris find all t lie fur i oats in the world. “Subway Sadie” is

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tfu. a. .mu just a love story of a girl who worked in a swell suit shop for women in New York. To look at Sadie you would think that she was tho sister of tho Prince of Wales. Sadie had class, a mile wide. She certainly did strut herself. Sadie didn't motor to work, she took th© subway and acted like a sardine. There she met Herb, a subway guard at first, but he turns out to be in Sadie's defense of him, a “traction expert.” Ixrve does change things you know when you look at the world with orange colored glasses. The way that Miss Mackaill and Jack Mulhall put over this story is a delight to all. She poses a whole lot, but she does it in the most human way. And Jack Mulhall—this chap chows gum, smiles and bus the Lost time. And wherrit comes to making love in Central Park, well the best and most advertised love maker has nothing on Jack. Ho doesn't pull the old sympathetic moon stuff, hut ho pulls out a ring and says. "Sadie let's get married.” and when everything is fine ho nnd Sadie quarrel over th© great problem of whether they would have sat in wood beds or brass. Not going to tell you more of the story. It is a cute little love yarn, smartly and humanly added. Oh, by the way, Charlie Murray plays the part of a taxi driver. And what a buss he drove. You will have a grand and glorious time seeing Sadie deciding whether she would go to Paris or walk up a church aisle. Th© program has another enjoyable feature, a James A. Fitzpatrick musical feature," Songs of Italy." The Circle orchestra plays some beautiful Italian tunes while a little love story is being reflected on the screen. Tho bill includes an overture by the orchestra, a News reel. Circle Chat and other events. At the Circle all week. •!• -I- -ITHKY DON’T DRINK SO MUCH IN THE MO\ IKS TODAY When "Th© Old Soak" was first presented on tho stag© It was a comedy showing how Dad got his hooch from a bootlegger by the name of Al. The stage version made the “old soak" a funny and yet loyal steady

drinker who didn’t work much and who was loyal to his family when his son “horrowed” a nice |mm of money from his employer so his chorus girl friend could wear an oxl>onsivo coat. The chorus girl appeared only In one scene . In the stage play, she' was a rather hard and wise creature but she wanted her gentlemen friends not to be crooks. In the

Jean Hersholt

stage version, dad kept right on drinlting and meeting Al. the bootlegger. But the movie version lets dad go to church and instead of drinking th© whiskey, we see him emotionally breaking full bottles on the floor. And so dad becomes a mal© Carrie Nation. The movie version makes a regular girl out of the chorus girl. She sticks by the boy she loves and helps him to get straight with the world. “The Old Soak” as a movie takes a hundred liberties with the original stage story. Characters who didrxit have much to do on the stage are about the whole works In the movie story of the play. Os course. Dad Hawley starts nut to boa regular old soak, hut he gets on the water wagon. In the stage version the comedy scenes were handled by Mister Hawley, the maid and Al. These scenes in the movies are not as numerous ns on the stage. Jean Hersholt is Mr. Hawley, and he does a mighty good job with the character, although I think that the directors should have left Hawley in the same spiritual situation as tho stage version. Dad Hawley is a lovable old souse as a character. He harmed himself. He was nobody’s fool, and he had a fine sense of family loyalty. He was pathetic and yet lovable. Y'ou will find “Th© Old Soak” an interesting photoplay, made from a widely known stage success. George Lewis and June Marlowe are others in the east. Th© Serveny Twins and their Jazz Pirates have a fast moving little song and dance revue. The twins do a lot of things, their “Kentucky Home” number with the orchestra is a good hit and stops the show. Act pleases with ease. Bill includes Floyd Thompson’s orchestra and a comedy. At the Colonial all week. -I- -I- -!- CORKING GOOD MOVIE ON VIEW AT THE OHIO College football with all the thrills, speed and energy that Is present on

Movie Verdict OHlO—Richard Dix has a real picture in “The Quarterback." He is the college football player all over. CIRCLE —“Subway Sadie” is a human little love story which will make you glad that you saw it. COLONIAL—Jean Hersholt does not make "The Old Soak” as wet as lie was on the stage. APOLLO —Raymond 1 latton again uses his high hat to comedy advantage in “You'd Be Surprised.”

any college campus duri/g the football season is the great drawing power of “The Quarterback” with Richard Dix at the Ohio this week. The footl ill game is real. Every lilt of tho game shown has the

stump of a game that *can be seen at any one of our large schools. There are some people who imagine that a football game is played only when everything is right that the players, Ilk© a baseball team wait on the weather. That this is not so is proven in this picture. Remember when I was in school that one game our eleven

Richard Dix

played it was raining so hard during tho last quarter that our team had to put on track suits in order to run on the slippery ground. And we won. The story tells of a grad of 'O9 who was a member of the Colton tearrt of that year. In order to win th© girl he was after he promised her to stay with his school until they had beaten the strong State eleven. But he grows to manhood | and is still with his school and the crack State aggregation is as yet unbeaten. His son then enters Colton and falls in love with a girl from State. She makes him play football and in the end she makes him the promise that she will wear his fraternity pin if Colton beats her school in the big game of tho year. Richard Dix as the speedy Colton quarter back takes to this role as a duck to water. He is every bit a football player as h© runs out on the field. During the big game of the picture the strain of the playing was so intense that several times | I almost got up and started to yell' for Colton. In fact, someone just I back of me was trying to get a bet [ of two to one on Colton. Esther Ralston as the pretty un-! dergraduate fits into her part excellently: she doesn't hnvo much to do, i but she gets the necessary atmos-1 phere and puts it into her part. If you liko college football see this picture. Charlie Davis and his band are; in Egypt this week and are strut- j ting their stuff as “,feh<*ks.” They I make good ones. too. “Doc” Stultz has another one of his eccentric j songs and Charlie has a surprise to offer in what he calls som© "native j Egyptians.” Included on the bill is j a blues singer who has a catchy per-! sonality. To be seen at the Ohio all week. | (By the Observer.) •I- -I- -I----IIIGH lIAT COMEDIAN POKES FUN AT CORONERS Raymond Griffith and his high liui are both becoming comedy fixtures on the screen. Griffith and his hat have struck a popular note. His latest Paramount

comedy Is “You’ll Be Surprise d.” Hero is just plain hokum dished up in the individual manner on the part of Raymond Griffith. He starts out ns a coroner, who does the strangest things when he investigat'es a murder. And at the x-ery beginning of the movie you are told that everybody loves a good murder except the person

Raymond Griffith

who is murdered. Asa coroner, Griffith high hats the official and puts a dress suit on him and two tickets to a girl show in his pocket. This coroner tastes the kisses of pretty fcwfale witnesses. At times “You’d Be Surprised’’ is farce and then it swings into burlesque, especially when the coroner’s jury is obtained. This movie might be considered a sort of a travesty or burlesque on “The Bat’’ and other mystery plays. Nearly all of the old hokum tricks are used in putting the r.tory over. It is my thought that many people will take the viewpoint that this movie strikes anew point of comedy view. Rather think it does although it is rather mixed up as to motive. It has a surprise ending but it does give Griffith an opportunity to be mighty active. lie dominates every scene. That is to be expected because his method to be effective must have this recognition. Here is a mystery comedy which is different from the regulation brand. I think that Griffith accomplishes his purpose to amuse and mystify. The Apollo is introducing J. Russell Robinson and his orchestra. I was unable to "catch" Robinson yesterday but I promise you I will do it mighty soon. Pasquale L. Montani and his harp are again present. Lester Huff is at the organ. Bill includes a comedy and a news reel. At the Apollo all week. •I- -1- -IEnglish’s will open its season tonight by presenting for the week. “Artists and Models,” the Paris edi-

| tion, This edition lias never been presented in this city before. Other theaters today offer; Yorke and King, at Keith’s; Gene Greene, at the Palace; Miller-Marks Revue, at the Lyric; “The Son of tho l Sheik." at the Isis; “Men of Steel,” at the Uptown, and “Kandy Kids,” at tne Mutual.

GUESS WHO

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You shouldn't have utiy difficulty ; recognizing the accompanying pic- [ ture and answering the first question | correctly. The correct answers to ‘ the following questions can be found | or, page 12. 1. Who is shown in the accomI panying picture? 2. Who was the first pilot to fly an airplane over the north pole? 3. What do the initials B. B. C. stand for, as known to British radio fans? 4. Who is the creator of the comic strip character Major Hoople? 5. What are gnats? G. How many dragons are used in j playing mah jotigg? 7. In what time division is Cal- ' gary. Canada? 8. How many days are there in October? 9. Os what two words is “etc.” an abbreviation? 10. What Is an asterisk? NURSES WILL RETURN Deride to Have 1027 Convention in Indianapolis. Members of the Indiana State Nurses' Association, who Saturday concluded their annual convention here, have decided to return to Indianapolis for their 1927 meeting. Officers elected for this year were: Miss Ana M. Holtman, superintendent of the Ft. Wayne Lutheran Hospital, president; Miss Helen Norwald, first vice president; Miss Edith G. Wiilis, Vincennes, second vice president: Miss Rosetta Graves, Terre 1 Haute, secretary, and Miss Mary E. 1 Thompson, Princeton, treasurer. 1 Plans for coming conventions of the i Indiana Tuberculosis Association, j Child Welfare Association and the nurses' association were considered. I (iUTI.ER GOES TO WEST COAST | Davis Butler, having completed che of the principal roles in support of Richard Dix in his latest Paramount stellar effort, “The Quarter Back,” has left for Hollywood. Fred Newmeyer, who directed the picture, followed him by a few days.

Some Stage and Screen Gossip

Helen MacKellar has decided to call her vaudeville engagement off to return to New York for anew dramatic production. Whltford Kane Is to stage “Black Waters” for the Playshop, Inc., producers of "Not Herbert." He will also act in the play. Bessie Barriscale, now resting at j her home in California, brings her person and talent to Broadway next month for anew play. Eva Leonl, a noted Hungarian prima donna, is to be presented to music lovers of the United States by the DeForest Phonofllm Company. "Children of the Moon," the play by Martin Flavin that was a success In New York two years ago, was presented in London this week. John Kane, anew juvenile, was one of the outstanding successes of “Happy Go Lucky,” the new musical I play produced this week by A. L. i Erlanger. Louis Macloon may produce "Craig’s Wife," the Pulitzer prize play, on the coast. He is negotiating for the rights In behalf of Pauline Frederick. Curtis Cooksey, a fire dramatic actor, who is to appear in the next David Belasco production, returns to Broadway from a vacation spent cruising in a motor car. Ethel Clifton, the writer from California, will see her strong drama, "For Value Received," produced in New York again. She is also writing another play which will be produced before spring. fed win Franko Goldman, the bandmaster and composer, has written a new march called “On the Pier.” He got his inspiration during the engagement of the band on the steel pier at Atlantic City. Whitford Kane received a telegram a'Sking him to join a cast in Chicago for a role that requires the services of an actor weighing one half of his weight. He thanked them for the compliment and decline'. Miriam Hopkins has been selected to play the role of Sondra in “An American Tragedy,” adapted by Patrick Kearney from the Theodore Dreiser novel. It was produced this week at New Haven and opens in New York a week later. Peggy O’Neil, the American actress now in London, finished her engagement in “Mercenary Mary” after 480 Londo* performances. She is now negotiating for "Grasshopper,” the play that was produced by Iden Payne in New York several years ago. Pauline Frederick, who has been starring in a revival of “Madame X” in California, has broken under

OCT. 11, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to an.v question of tact or information by lo Thu ImliHiiMtioilH Times Bureau 1322 New York Ave. ton. U. C. inclostnif 2 cents tn for reply. Medical, lecal ami marital advice cannot bo irivcn nor can extended research lie unlertalien. All other o neat ions will receive a personal reply. UnsiicneU reuuests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Which football teams are familiarly known as “Big Ten” and “Big Three”? Tho “Big Ten” are the teams ol the University of Chicago. Unk versity of Illinois, University of lowa, University of Michigan, Purdue University, University of Minnesota, Ohio State University. Indiana University, Northwesterri University and tho University of Wisconsin. The "Big Three” are Harvard, Yale and Princeton. What does the name “Krautc” mean? Crisp. Is t here a species of sheep known as “Marco Polo"? That is a popular name for sheep technically known as Pamir Argali. They inhabit Pamir, a plateau in East Turkestan known as the “Koofi of the World.” They were discovered by Marco Polo in the thlrteent It century, and named for him. They are wild, like our Rocky Mountain, goats, and are hunted as game .animals. What i' a Juggernaut? Juggernaut or Jagannath is a town of British India. Tho word also used to designate a huge anBP floridly ornate car on which the image of Jagannath, a diety of India, is carried through the streets of the town of Puri, on its way to a festival in a/iother temple. In the press and excitement of the enthusiastic multitude many fatalities occur when persons are crushed under the wheels of this enormous car. Thus, juggernaut has come to mean ruthless killing. What boat brought the bodies o’ the victims of the Battleship Maine to tho Washington Navy Yard? The Scout Cruiser Birmingham.

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Editor Times It is not necessary for me to have greater proof of the desire and ability of Mr. Evans WoollenDemocratic candidate for United States Senator to aid the farmer than the actual benefit I have already received through his efforts, we are farmers and know that profits in this industry do not come 1 readily. The farmer producer's Job is not an easy one, but if intelligent-’ ly directed it Is quite necessary to' tho consuming public. It would seem therefore that the farmer should be encouraged to such a degree that he may realize sufficient profits enable him to go on producing. We have known Mr. Woolen for twenty-five years and during that period we have found in every in-' stance where we have turned to him that Ms friendly advice and council have been most helpful and encouraging. And I am sure that the farming interests of the country as well as any other branch of public utility could not be placed in safer hands. Republicans If you wish to vote for the right man, vote for Mr. Woollen. MRS. RICHARD TAYLOR. Orchard Hill, Route K, Box 12, Indianapolis.

the strain of this play's popularity and she will rest awhile until Louis Macloon, her manager, arranges her London engagement In this and other I plays. | Madeline Grey has been added to j the cast of “The Cradle Snatchers," now being presented by three comj panics. Miss Grey, a Bostonese, if | you know what that means, will appear in the company that plays that important city, while the original New York company continues there. Paloma de Trlana, one of the famous Spanish dancers, has come to the United States to visit Mind Aguglia, the noted Italian actress who is appearing briefly in York en route to Havana. de Triana and Madame Aguglia well, will be among the noted foreign artists to contribute to Btltadway programs in the spring. The DeForest Phonolllm is to bo installed in a hundred- important American motion picture theaters. This marvelous device, which shows on a screen the face, figure and voice of the subject, has been used to register some of the famous men of our times, including three presidents and others high in politics, science, commerce and the arts. One of the Broadway contingent to visit the recent contest between the Messrs. Tunney and Dempsey was Charlotte Wynters, the blonde Broadway actress. It was Miss Wynters’ first observation of the sort. "What I can’t see,” she complains, “is what there is in common between the two rings—prize and wedding. One of them is wrongly named. v William Faversham, Jr., a son of William Faversham and the late Julie Opp, will make his debut on the stage next week at the new Repertory Theater in Boston. Asa student in college he acted several Shakespearean roles, notably Marc Antony and Orlando, with considerable skill. His father is one of the most noted Marc Antonys of recent times. Dr. Lee DeForest, the inventor the DeForest PhonofUfn, as well many basic patents to radio arff other new inventions, has been rated by the London Post as "the American Marconi.” Americans have long accepted him as one of the most brilliant minds in the scientific world. The phonofllm, his latest Inventions is the most remarkable of all his inventions. It photographs the form and the voice of the eubjeet on a strip of film no wider than the ordinary motion picture film. . #