Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 161, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1926 — Page 4

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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, )n any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana.

COMPLETING THE RECORD • The Marion Ccfunty grand jury has charge of the probe of the charges of graft, corruption and bribery which were relayed by Thomas Adams on what, he alleged, were letters from D. C. Stephenson, serving a life sentence for murder, but once the head of the Klan and the most powerful figure in Indiana politics. When that charge was first launched The Times demanded a full and complete probe of the charges ;md the truth behind the charges. There was silence in other quarters. The official organ for the Republican party in the State, the Indianapolis Star, made no appeal to save the name of Indiana. That was left to this Independent newspaper which is Interested very much in good government and in honesty but not at all in politics. For five days no official voice, was raised to back this demand of The Times. No official who had been the friend or beneficiary W the Stephenson power demanded a vindication. No State official offered to assist in an inquiry. During those five days Indiana officialdom directed its attention to keeping six State Senators and responsible newspaper men from seeing Stephenson in his celL Now the note has changed. There is a demand for a speedy Inquiry. There Is an eagerness to examine Stephensori, and an apparent readiness to let the matter stand or fall upon the willingness of a convict who, if the charges were true, held reputations of men in high places in a safety box. The Indianapolis Star, now at last alert to the seriousness of the matter, makes this demand for an inquiry of Stephenson and rests its plea upon the grounds that were made by The Times more than ten days ago. In its appeal it says: ‘‘Speed and thoroughness should characterize the grand jury investigation of the charges Thomas H. Adams of Vincennes, has been making and hinting at in recent weeks. So much has been hinted and intimated and so many half truths have been given out that in falmehs to the good name of the State and of many of its public men all the mystery should be c leared up and the whole affair aired at once. Hoosierdom can not continue to permit any one to make charges that reflect on the intelligence of its citizens and the integrity of its officials without insisting on knowing the basis for such accusations. The people have a right to see how much fire there is back of all the smoke that has been stirred up recently or to now if Mr. Adams has been misled." Several things have happened between the day 'hen The Times first demanded that the name of ndiana be cleared of shame or, if the charges were rue. that the guilty be punished. Stephenson has been seen at the prison. His first caller was Jack Maroney, a Federal agent. That visit occasioned a statement by Senator Watson, if i quotation in the Star be true, that he had no knowledge or connection with this visit. There has yet been no explanation of this explanaion or any reason why the Senator should feel the need of making any denial or any statement as to v/hat it was presumed to deny. The Governor had promised the appointment of i committee to investigate all the charges. That ias been deferred. He seee no longer any necessity md is relying upon the grand jury. The attorney general has left the State House to become a deputy of the local prosecutor, who is without funds for investigators, who has no detectives and no means of following clews or trails or hunting or witnesses. This is the official situation. Aside from this The Times has produced statenents from a photographer, an acquaintance of Stecorroborated by his wife and given in tbe >resence of witnesses, that he made photographs of nany checks and documents sent to him from his iail cell at Noblesville by Stephenson through a lieutenant. That statement is evidence that Stephenson had shotographs made of documents which he considered save him 4 grip or hold upon some person or persons. Te was eager not only to keep the originals but to tave in some other place photographs if the originals ihould be misplaced. May it not be suggested that the real inquiry and he only one which will satisfy the people of this is not whether Stephenson, under a. life senence, will produce his proof but whether the things 16 Is alleged to have said, were true. Was there corruption? Was there bribery in the legislature ? Were there vast sums spent for Corruption of elecions? * There must the search go and the people, it may Je confidently believed, will not be satisfied with any ienials from Stephenson that he has such documents >r any Inability to obtain them from him. The probe nust be deeper and wider than that. THE V. P.’S SHORT MEMORY “Personally,’' Vice President Dawes tells the loys of the American Legion in Philadelphia today. 'I believe that the' primary system should be largely ibolished and that if we follow the theory and plan if representative government laid down In our Constitution providing for nomination conventions, a beter and more impartial class of candidates will remit - How short the Vice President's memory must ie. He has forgotten William Lorimer. What a blessing, such a memory; for It must he comfortng to forget William Lorimer. It was William Loriner for whom Dawes, as a Chicago banker, executed that famous “bit of sleight-of-hand" which resulted n the robbing of a few thousand bank depositors .>ack In 1912. It was a long and weary business in he courts before Dawes succeeded In having his reiponslblllty, originally fixed at $1,487,864, pared down o something less than SIOO,OOO, so it must be good :o forget However, painful though it be. it is necessary -o recall the name of Lorimer to Dawes, for it has a .tearing on his propossal to substitute the old convertion system for the primary. They had the convention system in Illinois when vTUlam Lorimer was made a Senator. There were ales of a slush fund in connection Ith the convenlon that Indorsed him to tho State Legislature. It vaa the State Legislature that elected. Lorimer tdnt have a majority of this Legislature, notwith-

standing the convention’s indorsement. That is, he didn’t have it at first. Fifty thousand dollars changed hands beffore he found the majority with him. Some of the $50,000 changed hands in a bathroom of the old Southern Hotel in St. Louis; some of it changed hands in a bathroom of the old Grand Pacific Hotel- In Chicago. Certain members of the Legislature got the money and lorimer got his senatorshlp, which he held until the United Stater) Senate threw him out. That is how the old convention system worked. The weakness of present primary laws is becoming clear. But nothing has yet occurred to show that a return to the convention system would improve matters. The job is not to abolish the primary, but to improve it. Such improvement seems likely to result, due in part to ths manner in which Mr. Dawes' friend, Sam Ihsull, spent his money in the'recent Illinois primary. i— . . , - ■ ■ THE FIRST TRIAL The jury which heared evidence for twentythree days in the Harry Daugherty and Thomas Miller conspiracy spent almost three more days in trying to reach a verdict and finally disagreed. By disagreed, is meant that one or more of the jurors were unwilling to vote for the same verdict as the others. Questions asked of the presiding judge by one of the twelve jurors led persons In the courtroom to believe that he alone stood out against the other eleven. Whether he stood for the acquittal of the two defendants or their conviction is not told. It is unusual, of course, tor the minority of a jury to hold out over a long period for conviction, while Instances of one juror holding out a long time for acquittal are not uncommon. Sixty-five hours and forty minutes the jurors had the evidence before giving up the attempt to agree. A large time to consider the case of a man declared by the senior Ohio Senator, Mr. Willis, to be “as clean as a hound’s tooth.” Another trial seems to be necessary. Before this comes to pass, Senator Borah has indicated that he will cause Daugherty to appear before a Senate committee to be questioned on facts brought out in this trial. Daugherty avoided taking the stand during the trial. It Is possible that a Senate committee may be able to draw information from him which will make a secjnd disagreement by a jury more difficult. S HEMP’S SCHEME On first returns the Muscle Shoafc bid sponsored by C. Bascorn Slepip. former secretary to Coolidge, looks like the nicest bit of power camouflage yet at tempted in Washington. The organization to take over the Government's $166,000,000 power property would be known as the Farmers’ Federated Fertilizer Corporation. Ar.d hard-up farmers would be allowed to subscribe to some of the capital stock. All of which sounds fine. But —the private pmver Interests, of course, would retain a majority of stock even in this farmers’ corporation, and all of the surplus Muscle Shoals power would he sold to thO national power combine. An onion, by any name, smells just as sweet A French writer declares that Americans do not smile. It does seem as if the laugh’s on us this time. The woman pays and pays, but the man hasn’t always got it. British war office has offered a fortress on the English < hannel for sale. There's your chance, Mr Pyle. Vale and Princeton have agreed mutually to quit scouting. Now if they’ll only stop playing. Headlines you never see: MOVIE ACTRESB MUM ON SELF.

CALVIN COOLIDGE’S COATTAILS By N. D. Cochran -

As this isn’t a presidential year and Coolidge isn’t running, candidates for Congress can’t grab Calvin’s coat-tails and be dragged through to victory. So they are doing the next best thing by hanging on to his name and popularity by promising to be rubber stamps if elected. Probably candidates would like to stand for something, but the trouble is they don’t know what to stand for. That’s because they don’t know what the people will stand for. Neitheij do most of the people themselves. It’s not easy for politicians to know which way the wind is blowing when the wind itself is loafing on the job and doesn't know when to blow or how. It’s easy enough to be Wet in a Wet State or district, or Dry in a Dry State or district, and keep one’s mouth shut on other issues, but where both sides are Wet or Dry the candidates muSt dig up something else ,to fight about —on make a bluff at fighting. In some States and districts, however, candidates can’t be quite sure that the people haven’t changed their minds on the Wet thing, so the temptation is for' Republicans to duck that issue and he strong for Coolidge and prosperity. Republicans have the advantage there because nobody knows whether Coolidge is Wet or Dry, and Wets, Drys, Republicans, Knights of Columbus and Ku-Klux Klanners are all strong for prosperity. Next to hanging on to Calvin’s coat-tails politicians appear to like hanging on to a prejudice. Chief among prejudices is religion. So some Democrats and more Republicans are seeking votes on the ground that this is the year to keep Governor A1 Smith from being nominated or elected president in 1928. That appears to be the attitude of McAdoo Democrats in Qilifnrnia and some Southern States. McAdoo himself has put all his presidential eggs in the bonedry basket, and has evidently made up his mind to go to market in the West and Solid South, letting New York, New .lersey, Maryland, Massachusetts and Connecticut go to the devil and A1 Smith. This is going to make it difficult to locate the Democratic Heaven in 1928, with some prospect of locating the other place in the next national convention, as in 1924. In the meantime Democrats outside of the Smith and McAdoo belts will ’ t have to stick around purgatory and, while watchfully waiting, pick up a Senator or Representative here or them on some uncelestial issue. Altogether it’s going to he a high mix this year. Neither party is solid for anything but prosperity. Both are divided on prohibition, the League of Nations. tht World Court. Mexico, farm relief and the tariff. ” And how can the poor politician tell which way the wind is blowing when each of the alleged major issues is a cute little whirlpool all by itself? NEXT: What If the Democrats Do Win?

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Tracy Let Stephenson Talk Out Loud, So All Can Hear Him,

By M. E. Tracy What the people of Indiana want is for D. C. Stephenson to speak his piece under such circumstances that tt can be made public. If there has been graft, they want to know It, and if crooked officials are holding office, they want a chance to vote them, out. A grand jury investigation is all right to lay the ground for court action, but It Is all wrong to lay the ground for political action. It serves no purpose so distinctly a* to bottle up the evidence. Let Stephonson and other wit nesses go before a grand jury, its the attorney general of Indian has planned, and what they know becomes virtually lost to the public until the actual trials take place. The grand jury might unearth all kinds of rottenness; It might indict scores of persons; It might find a desperate situation to exist,- but its records would be inviolate and un* usable, j If a committee of State Senators and newspaper men could have interviewed Stephenson, as Thomas Adams and his group of editors suggested, what the former grand dragon had to say could have been made public immediately. Was a grand jury investigation started to forestall this possibility? -I- -I* -ITry Them Again The Daugherty-Miller case has resulted In a mis-trial. Though held for more than sixty-five hours by Judge Mack, the jury could not agree, It Is said to have stood six to six on the question of conviction of Daugherty and ten to two in favor of coftvicting Miller. This Is quite enough to warrant re-trial of the two defendants. Innocent they may be in the eyes of the law until a jury declares them guilty, but enough has been brought out against them' for the public to Insist on further prosecution. T -I- -ICan’t Explain Columbus * Just as a passing thought In deference to the day, It is easier to understand what Columbus did than what he was. Science can explain 1 his discoveries, but not the man him--1 self. Navigators duplicate his feat every day 1n the year, hut parents, though wishing It from the bottom of their hearts, fail to reproduce his genius. Thousands of boys grew up on the Italian waterfront in that piping era when Venice, Genoa and the other coast towns bred sailors • for the world, but if you had been privileged to walk among them It is doubtful 'whether you would have noticed any difference between Columbus and the rest. It is even doubtful whether our best psychologists could have picked him as the coining prodigy of his time. •I- -I- -IAnother for Science Benjafnin Wallace of Caniden, N. J., beat his wife to death w-ith a chair Sunday morning. He was 75, she was 65. and they had been married forty-two years. He couldn't stand her nagging any longer, he said. After committing the deed in an apparent frenzy, he walked calmly to the church where hi* son was acting aV superintendent of a Sunday school, told him he would hette; come uomc because ' mother is pretty sick,’’ went back to the parlor, lit : his pipe and resumed reading the Sunday paper uniil police arrived. There is another Incident Which science finds It hard to explain. + I* + Lftam Ourselves We know rather more about the things around us than about ourselves. Genius, temper, prejudice, warped mentality—these are back of the most perplexing problems we face.

Science is prepared to present us with some wonderful boons—cold light, the visible telephone, atmospheric electricity, the transmutation of metals, atomic energy—but none of them will mean very much if we can't learn how to control ourselves, to live in i>eace. to maintain order. -I- -I- I News for Roumania Sailing for America today. Queen Marie of Roumania will occupy a suite of fourteen cabins of the Leviathan, enjoy the use of a private deck, be accompanied by a retinue of thirty persons, have enough luggage to fill two freight cars. Meanwhile, 3,000,000 peasant children of her country cry for bread, and only get it once a week. The rest of the time they subsist on roasted corn, or meal and water, such as is fed to hogs on many a western farm. The cost of Queen Marie's trip and. entertainment, woufld provide many of them with a bowl of soup, but that might be said of a lot of things —of prize fights, world series and what not. Just the same, the contrast between the way the queen travels and the way some of her people eat is considered sufficiently serloi* for' the Roumanian government to impose a rigid censorship, and the multitudes who look to coarse grain for twenty out of their twenty-one meals each week know very little about the roval progress toward America. -I -I’ -I’ Indictment Four hundred thousand French veterans pot only protest against ratification of ihe debt pact, but threaten Premier Poincare and his ministers with loss of their portfoliors unless it is revised. They declare that the amount of the debt is open to question and demand a fresh accounting, which is going pretty far. since it virtually accuses the United States of having charged France more than was right and of having rendered a crooked bill: j

Phil Baker and His Chief Cook Serve ‘ ‘Hopple Pie’ in a Great Revue Here

By Walter D. I lie kin an Mother of yesterday served “hop pie pie” but she didn’t know it because she was so old fashioned that she called it apple pie. But Phil Baker, who teases tunes so nifty from his accordion, or whatever you want to call it, because I

“might be wrong,” and his companion of the riot insists that it is “hopple pie.” They give a new name to something else during the progress of then - merry banter in "Artists and Models,” now being revealed at English’s all this week. Baker plants his foil (and I hope it isn t printed “fool”) in a box. This man not only knows how to sing a

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song to success, hut he has the personality which aids Baker in completely and without doubt stopping the show. No wonder Baker calls the audience “my public.;’ Baker and his companion certainly turned things upside down at English's last night. Baker starts the show with his intimate explosion with the audience. Then it is easy for the Hoff rnann Girls and the many others to carry revue to real success. Baker is a comedy artist who has perfected a certain line of talk to offset some melody that more than lands solid. lie has a good deal to do with this revue Just now because he is working In some of the sketches. When anybody mentions “Artists and Models.” the Paris edition vou can hank your last cent that they are thinking of Baker. So that there can be no misunderstanding—this is the very first time that this edition of ‘‘Artists and Models” has over been presented in this city. We have had other editions or another edition, hut this is the first time that this edition has been here. I saw this show la'st year at the Winter Garden in New York in its first v\wek. Can say In all truthfulness that it is now in better shape than when it was in. the process of being created. Told you In this department about this show when I saw it *n New York. It has been going steady ever since. It recently left Chicago Cincinnati and St. Louis have seen it and now we have it. Am satisfied in my own judgment (and I compare it with the newer revues that I saw in New York last monthl, that this edition of “Artists and Models" Is one of the best dancing shows I have ever seen. The Gertrude Hoffmann Girls are not only great dancers of every step, but they are the best looking bunch of hoofers I ever have seen collected under one label. Those who contribute to makitig this the best dancing show I have |oen. are as follows: The eighteen Gertrude Hoffmann Girls —the mom versatile and accomplished set of dancers ever assembled under one banner. Their fencing. dancing and other contributions to this revue merit this statement of praise. Teddy Claire—A lad who has wicked and fast feet. Bernard and Richie —Here is a dancing team that really twists itself in knots. The man is a wonder. The Hoffmann Girls —Again when they do their specialty dancing numbers. A great scene. Again in “The Pastels” number. Again in the fencing number.

Florence Quinn —She comes into her very own when she sings and dances “Promenade Walk." one of the tune hits of the npvue She | shakes and then some. What a j daneing spirit this woman has. She is nssisted by a floek of promonaders. The Gaits Brothers —Here are two hard shoe or tap dancers. To my j way of thinking they are today the best In the business. Have said this before and I will stick to my story. And now for other events. Llora Hoffman is the prima donna of the revue. A capable singer with a. really fine voice. She scored in j “Mothers of the World.” a song j picture presented with great charm , and understanding. Again she has j another hit in a number called “Follow Your Stan” The dance or chorus background is smartly j handled to get the greatest possi ble effect. Rrennan and Rogers, the present day edition of “Margie." work In a j number of the nearly “naughty" j sketches which are sandwiched in ! between the real scenes of the revue, i Rogers is doing n good Job in keep- j lng Margie before the public follow- ! frg the death of Bert Savoy. And there is a lot more I eould | ts 11 you about "Artists and Models.” : But I am sure of this one hig fact -—You ean buy “Artists and Models" | with the assurance that you are see- j ing as good a revue as is before the puhlie today Ts T did not believe that statement. I eould not tell you that it is true. To me “Artists and Models” is the best dancing show upon modem lines that I have ever seen. And there Is a lot of comedy of all grades present. "Artists and Models” is on view all week at English's.

Stage Verdict ENGLISH'S "Artists andModels" is the best dancing revue 1 have ever seen. This greatness is not confined to any one group, but to many, with the Gertrude Hoffmann Girls naturally taking the lead. Phil Baker and his associate stop the show with their work. As safe an entertainment buy that I know in the theater today. LYRIC —Miller and Marks revue and the Four Pepner Shakers come under the head of deserved hits. KEITH'S—You will hear a lot of praise about sJodena’s Fantastic Revue and it deserves every word of it. PALACE—Gene Greene with his songs .stories and personality has an act of merit.

PI TTING GOOD MUSIC IN ITS PROPER PLACE " The question for years on the variety stage is how *'to dress up.” good music so that it will be general-* ly inviting. Modena's Fantastic Revue, a name for an act which means little in cold

type unless you have seen it, has placed good music in its proper dress. They “sell" It so successfully that this offering becomes a gem. I know that 1 am not over praising these artists, who know the value of inlividual effort as w*ll as an ensemble. Volume is to be desired in heavy operatic music, but they have the lighter touch when needed. You have

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a splendid harpist, a tine soprano j.ad a splendidly balanced jfroup of singers .and you also have a dancing team, Bishop and Lynn, who are both picturesque and individual. It is a real pleasure to state that the audience reacted to the ofift ring of the Countess Modena, a real artist on the violin, with such a fine understanding of good music and artistic beauty that i here is no doubt than an act of such a high purpose has nothing to fear from getting gene; al oppi-ocia-tion This act can not he overpraised. becouse all the singers as well as the dancers deliver cverv minute. T can safe easily that this Modena Rovuc brings hack to an undisputed state good music os it should be presented. If you enjoy exquisite beauty in melody and dance, then do not miss this act. The remainder of the bill at Keith's this week runs to eccentric nut offerings. Most of us are ac-

Columbus Test

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Today is Columbus day and the questions in this test are all concerned with the life and work of that great navigator. The correct answers to these questions appear on page 12: 1— Who is , shown in the accom panying picture? 2 Where was Columbus born? 3 What were the names of the vessels which Columbus used in his first voyage across the Atlantic? 4On what date did Columbus land on the American shore? o—Who was the queen that made Columbus’ voyage possible? 6 How many persons were carried by the three ships on Columbus’ first voyage? 7ln what year did Columbus die? s Dow many voyages did (*>lum-‘ bus make to America? " h -'t "as the occupation of Columbus' father? 10—After whom were the American continents named?

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quainted with Chic Yorke and Rose King presenting "The Old F'amily Tin Type.” William and Joe Mandel with their travesty on an pcrobatlc and bolancing offering are old friends. The routine of both acts is about the same as in former seasons. I am still of the opinion that acts of this type should have new material each season. Billy Lyteli and Tom Fant make their biggest hit while singing a travesty song on, "Lulu Belle.” The song really makes Lulu a little warmer ond a hotter tiger than sin is now in Ne w York. Alice Diaz ano Harold Powers use the wire to advantage. Horry Smith and Rick Strong go in for atmospheric flinging before : big set. Their type of singing pleases. Frank and Ethel Carmen turn out to be tamers of the hoop. At Keith's all week I. .1. i T V I* STUDYING WHAT MAKES AN INTERESTING VARIETY BILL There are at least two acts of the j Mil that I am telling you about light now which raises the question I —what makes an act a hit? At least two answers are present at the Lyric this week in the form of the Miller-Marks Revue and the Four Pepper Shakers. Negro singers

formerly associated with “Plantation Days.” Miller and Marks are two young men who have given much thought to individual dancing. They have with them a jazz band organization, but it is really these two daneprs *ho give the act the elements which makes an act popular. Both are good in eccentric stepping. These two men

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have a quiet way about them which gives the act the needed quality of class, and they do have enough variety in their dance offerings which gives the act the quality of being new. The entire act Is presented in pleasant style as well as good taste. The Four Pepper Shakers combine swift Charleston and eccentric hoofing to the tunes they sing. They have a routine which seems to have a punch in every step and every melody. They, too, have been thinking along most individual lines, the result being that they have an offering which would cause any bill to stop dead still while they are on the stage. Wise cracking of an employe of a corporation furnishes whatever high lights Goe and Sylvia BuFke company have in their farce offering. Cecelia Weston is a singer and dialect entertainer who knows what makes an artist successful. Her songs are individual her comedy utterances have the sparkle of being new. A pleasing offering. When Adllna BUI and Mick get to singing and stop some noisy quarreling their offering becomes much more pleasant. I think this con- - tinual quarreling stuff is being overdone this season. Barker and Wynne is an eccentric team that relies upon the grotesque antics of the woman to make its chief appeal. No.t too much individual talent is exposed, but they do know how to get the laughs and the applause. # The Six Blue Demons, rapid acrobats. are back again. Creli does a strong man stunt with an Idea to comedy #fects. The movie is Ben Turpin in "The Prodigal Bridegroom.” At the Lyric all week. .\ Other theaters here today present: “Subway Sadie” at the Circle; “The Quarterback" at the Ohio; “Men of

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Steen at the Uptown; “You’d Be Surprised" at the 'Apollo; "The Old Soak”/ at the Colonial; “The Son of the Sfieik” at the Isis and “Kandy Kids” V the Mutual. -I- -I- -ILOOKING OVER NEW EVENTS AT PALACE 1 It takes a few minutes to get adjusted to the personality of Geno

Green at the Pale on this last half, but after he has started one of his songs and has his old brand of fun work ' ing, one quickly feels a liking for this sort of entertainment. Accompanied by Ids pianist, Mr. Green has a large variety of songs and stories that he olYeYs with equal ease. His humorous syngs are probably the best things he does, but am

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sure that you will like his southern dialect storied. "The Parisiennc-s” title an orchestra of seven tjien and two women who have a program of popular songs by the orchestra and several specialty numbers by three members of the act. Can’t name any* of the orchestra selections, but they were clone in a pleasing manner. A yodeling song by a girl and a man was the best of the specialty numbers: a song by the violin player was not so good. Oltien'e Terry with four dancing girls has a lively closing act in which the girls offer several formation dances and Miss Terry docs some dance numbers of Iher own. Outstanding features were a pony dance, by the four girls and a toe dance by Miss Terry at the close. Debell and Vine are two men, who have an unlimited supply of wise cracks apparently. They have some fcood comedy In spots. P. Kodak and Sister is a Juggling and balancing act in which the man and woman do several good features of this type. Bill includes a photoplay "No Man's Gold," and a News Reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.)

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