Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1927 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROT W. HOWARD, President. BOYD OORLBT, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • * Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * PHONE— MA la 3500.

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| THE GOVERNOR’S CHANCE ■ If reports, apparently inspired, are correct, Governor Jackson will advise the Legislature to make no investigations of the various scandals which have pccupied the public mind during the past few months. Let it be hoped that this report is not correct, for certainly no real friend of the Governor would counsel such a suggestion. In fact, the Governor has a most unusual chance to establish public oonI fldence in not only urging but !n demanding complete | investigations. To attempt to stifle any inquiry by the Legislature at this time could not but recall many painful Indents of the past few months. The people would unerringly remember that iihen D. C. Stephenson, who had much to do with ILe last Legislature and something with the elecof Jackson as Governor, made his charge of corruption, no official took any notice or Hde any denial until Col. Theodore Roosevelt delanded that the charges be answered. I The Governor remembers, undoubtedly, that ocItalon and remembers the form of denial which wa3 Bitten by Colonel Roosevelt and submitted to hlmHlf and Chairman Clyde Walb. W The people will also remember that every effort ■as made to prevent any person seeing or talking K> Stephenson and that six members of the State Senate were refused permission to call upon him ■n his cell. 1 Then came that hurried meeting of the prison board at the bedside of one of its members and the approval of the action in keeping the man who said that he could tell away from the public. It will not do to say that these matters have been investigated by the Marion County grand jury, for the report of that Jury was such as to challenge some interest on the part of the Legislature. The funds which paid for that investigation came from funds appropriated to the Governor, and the Legislature might, so it would seem, show some interest in the manner in which they were expended It may be remembered that when the grand jury met, at the insistence of the attorney general when he discovered that 'Prosecutor ltemy had named one special assistant, there was appointed another special deputy, selected by Gilliom, and that this deputy was paid $5,500 from the Governor s funds. The Bame amount went to the Remy selection. The report suggested that unusual conditions prevailed in that grand jury and the Legislature should have some interest in discovering whether the fees paid from the Governor’s fund helped in any manner to create those conditions. Surely the Legislature is interested in knowing what evidence was presented to that body which might not have proved actual crime, but which also might, bearing on conduct in departments and in offices for which the Legislature must appropriate moneyMost certainly the Legislature can not act intelligently on the matter of the public service commission, which is in such sad disrepute that most citizens are demanding that it be abolished,, until it discovers what truth is back of the charge made by the corporaiton counsel of this city as to the influences which governed its personnel. If there were ever a time when an investigation seems to be necessary it is now. And if there was ever a Governor who should make that demand it Is Governor Jackson. It is his opportunity to let the people know and understand all the facts. It is his chance to obtain a public vindication for his entire administration. Any pressure to check or curb the demand for investigations is likely to be Interpreted in a most unfavorable manner by the people who are watching this Legislature and are expecting it to act.

WILL WE WAR ON MEXICO ? While the governments of the United States and Mexifco apparently are further apart today than they have been in many years, tho people of these two countries seem nearer to a friendly understanding. A curious situation exists —curious, unfortunate and dangerous. The American people, as a whole, see the beginnings of h sound, stable government in Mexico and are giving it their good wishes and moral support. The Mexican government recognizes this and so do the Mexican people. The American Government, blind to this mutual feeling of good will, today ask\ futilely for the people’s support in a course calculated to destroy it. With perverse stubbornness it persists in its attacks on the sovereignty of this neighboring nation, seeking the while to enlist America people behind it. The Government, in this instance, is meant the White House and the State Department. America’s official policy is in the hands of President Coolidgo. and Secretary Kellogg. The latter seems to have made it or blundered into it, the former now asks the American press and public to support it. Together they are seeking to lead the American people into war. That is what it means if they do not take warning from the people's attitude and abandon the course on which they are embarked. They may not know this- It may be one of the many things in the present situation which they do not know. But it is the fact. If reason does not supplant the present policy of our State Department, this country will soon be launched upon as shameful a military undertaking as ever besmirched a proud nation’s history. New Year’s eve, at midnight, with merrymaking reaching its height in Washington, a very different scene was being enacted in Mexico City. There the Chamber of Deputies iu an extraordinary session was ringing with bitter denunciation of the Government of the United States —the Government, not the people of the United States. And the galleries roared their approval. Speaker after speaker condemned our State Department, and the group pf oil concerns responsible for the department’s policy. Deputy Soto y Gama, leader of the Agrarians, asked "if the descendants of Washington and Lincoln, descendants of those men who in 1867 in Mexico fought for liberty, and thiJfee men who went lo Europe to fight for the rights of weaker nations, have taken into account the actions of their Government in these days.’’ He added that protests should Kot be directed against the people of the United I

States, but against the men who are lessening the prestige of the United States. “The hour Is critical,’’ he said. “Latin America is with Mexico. The American press Is not backing their Government in this dangerous venture. The American people are not supporting this policy. “I Insist that protests of Mexicans should be directed against the invasion moved by Wall Street.” And presently, as was bound to occur in such a speech, and as was heard In various forms from other speakers during this excited hour, this “The Mexican people will know how to die fighting.” That brought wild applause and cheering. These deeply stirred deputies were not threatening war on the United States. They threatened only to defend their country against oppression by our country and—to die fighting. The years have proved they will do just thatDo we wi3h to put them once more to the proof? Or do we wish to square the American Government's course with the clear desire of the American people? Our Government is asking us to align ourselves with It. Isn’t it time we asked our Government align Itself with us instead? TRUTH IS DANGEROUS George Dale, editor of a paper at Muncie, must go to jail. He is sent there for saying things about a grand jury which indicted him on a liquor charge, but which was never tried because of lack of any evidence. His real crime, aside from telling the truth, which the Supreme Court says is no defense when the truth concerns Judges or juries, is a lack of funds to get his appeal in printed form before the Supreme Court of the United States. Unable to pay for the printing of the record, he is also unable to have that court pass upon the legality of the sentence. So he will spend six months at the prison farm. Not a very pleasant spectacle in this year 1927 in a State which is proud of its constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press and proud of its many newspapers. Dale blurted out a lot of things about the grand jury which indicted him. The judge said that the printing of such charges interfered with the work of the jury. Dale offered to prove that his charges were true. The judge, who is not hampered by any jury in such a proceeding, said that the truth was no defense and proceeded to give him the sentence to jail and i a heavy fine. Here is one place that the right of a trial by jury for what is a crime, if it be anything, is denied. And judges are becoming more and more zeelous in their use of this power which they take to themselves. They do not like criticism. Just what Dale might have done, if he had evidence that his charges against the jury which was, he said, persecuting him, is left to the imagination. Perhaps he should not have tried to expose conditions which he thought were against the public good. He might have copied the tactics of other editors who are blind to anything which their party or their particular politicians happen to be doing. He might have copied others and demanded a share of the profits of illegal businesses. But Dale, as it would appear, happened to be a different sort of an editor- When he saw the truth, he had the mistaken idea that he ought to print it and let the people know. But he knows better now. He has learned that truth is a dangerous thing in the hands of an editor. He has discovered that it is no defense when you are before a judge for contempt to offer to prove everything you have printed. A jury trial for every case of contempt committed outside the presence of the Judge might make truth a little safer in Indiana. But perhaps the people do not want the truth.

A REAL WATCHDOG This is the way Uncle Sam spends the taxes he collects from you: Congress appropriates the money to run Government departments, taking the dollars you pay as a part of the four billion needed each yearThe administrative departments spend the money, and their expenditures are then subject to a check by Comptroller General McCarl, who decides the Government’s executives have spent the money as Congress decreed. How often these executives embark on at least doubtful spending sprees is shown by McCarl’s last annual report, which said he had discovered $300,000,000 in illegal payments. Now Senator Couzens proposes a bill to eliminate such, payments and to make McCarl a complete watchdog of the Government’s purse. It would transfer the administrative auditors, who decide for the departments whether their money is being spent legally, to McCarl’s bureau. He would then decide before instead of after an expenditure is made whether it is legal. The bill also would give him power to rule on the payment of refunds to taxpayers and on customs drawbacks. These two Important expenditures are not now under his supervision, although $174,000,000 was refunded last year to 287,000 American taxpayers. And it should not be forgotten that the Couzens Investigating committee questioned rulings under which hundreds of millions of dollars were secretly abated or refunded in the last six years. If you believe what he tells you, you’re in love. The faster you travel, the sooner age catches you. Accountants and dietitians keep figures straight. Firemen have an easy life; they can park by water plugsChiffon hose at least give you a run for your money. Love doesn't always want to way. Now, if we just had an oil commissioner.

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Tracy Despite Dry Law, We Make Alcohol Safe for the Drinker,

By M. E. Tracy It i3 a sad commentary on the Eighteenth amendment, the Volstead act and all the expensive machinery set up to enforce them that we must now make alcohol safe for the drunkard. * You can explain the thing any way you like, but it is rooted in public horror as an appalling casualty hst. People who would rather flirt with death, blindness or insanity than obey the law are becoming too numerous for Comfort. Our best minds can think of no remedy but to make a forbidden beverage harmless for their consumption. Who will say that it should not be granted? Coolidge Is Late President Coolidge resents criticism of his foreign policy by the press. He thinks it is peculiarly harmful because it shows lack of accord and may encourage governments that disagree with it to take a firmer stand. Whatever you may think of his viewpoint, it ia regrettable that he did not adopt it before, that he did not express it under circumstances where he himself had less at stake. It would have been a splendid thing and would have made his position seem entirely consistent had Calvin Coolidge counseled his party to give Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy the kind of support he now wants for his own. G. 0, P, Bluff On Wednesday a Senate subcommittee will consider the question of investigating the alleged disenfranchisement of southern Negroes. The big idea is to scare southern Democrats into voting for Smith and Vare, but it has not taken hold as some Republicans hoped it would, and probably will be dropped. Senator Caraway of Arkansas called the bluff when he declared that the only use of police power in politics against Negroes in his State was upon the occasion of a meeting of white Republicans at Little Rock, when police were called in to bar Negro members of the party. “The white Republicans wanted to get Federal offices for themselves,” he said. “There weren’t enough offices to go around for the white Republicans, and if they gave Negroes gome of the offices some whites woulii-—to go to work.” When it comes to manhandling southern Negroes Democrats have rather less to fear from an investigation than have the Itepublicans. Important Decision A Rhode Island electric company r sold power to a Massachusetts concern. The Rhode Island public utilities commission undertook to invalidate the contract on the ground that it was against publio interest. The United States Supreme Court, before which the case was brought on appeal, has just decided that it had no right to do this, that a State eominisison has no power to regulate the sale of power into other States. Such a decision brings us face to face with a problem which promises to become very important The sale and transmission of electric power is already an interstate affair. If States have no right to regulate it, then we must turn once more to the Federal Government or take chances with an unregulated super-industry. Tattling Risbcrg’s tattling puts that of "Dutch” Leonard in the shade. The baseball scandal has been materially enlarged. Instead of three besmirched stars we now have a dozen. I have been one of those skeptics who doubt whether a sport can be I commercialized and remain the real thing for very long. Organized baseball has weathered its obvious temptations for a surprising length of time, or, as some think, has covered them up. This latest outburst, which is refilly a hangover of one that occurred seven years ago, will prove whether you can set eighteen men to play for money while 18,000 pay to look on and keep the game straight.

Giant Dirigible Karl Arnstein, formerly of the German Zeppelin Company, but now with Goodyear, told a Senate Committee yesterday that there was no doubt about the safety of a dirigible of six million cubic feet. Dirigibles of the future, he said, would be able to weather any storm. While one can hardly agree with such absolute assurance, it is a foregone conclusion that dirigibles have been greatly improved and that this Government is overlooking a real advantage in not building more of them. Instead of talking about cruisers our Congressmen would do well to talk about these and other modem devices which seem destined to play the major part in wars yet to come. Science and inventiveness have clearly taken command of the drift of Empire. If the United States would be secure, she must look to them and the improved instruments they are constantly producing. OTHER THEATER OFFERINGS Other theaters today offer: One Increasing Purpose,” at the Colonial; “Valencia,” at the Apollo: ‘ Bardelys, The Magnificent,” at the Circle; "There You Are,” at the Ohio; “The Speeding Venus,” at the Uptown; "The Savage,” at the South Side; "Sparrows,” at the Sanders; “A Regular Scout," at the Isis, and “Bathing Beauties,” burlesque at the Mutual. What Ls an inverted arc lamp? Arc lamps, in which the rnechf. nism for operating the arc is located below the arc Itself, are sometimes called “inverted lamps.” The mechanism is concealed in the pole.

‘The Vagabond King’ Is Best Musical Play to Visit This City in Many Years

By Walter, I). Hickman The verdict of my best possible judgment is this —“The Vagabond King” is the best musical play to visit this city during the years that I have been telling you about shows. I do recall the beauty of “Rose Marie,” the dramatic quality of “Blostom Time,” some of the haunting tunes of “The Student Prince” and

many others, but I do tell you in all sincerity that “The Vagabond King” is the best musical play I have witnessed in the past ten years. And I have had time to think this over many months because I saw The Vagabond King” last September in New York. You know as well as I do that this is the musical play that has such wonderful melo-

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dies as “Love For Sale”; the stirring drinking song, "A Flagon of Wine”; the most powerfully dramatic of oil the numbers, the moving and swaying “Song of the Vagabonds” which is the key melody ~of this play; ‘’Some Day,” “Only A Rose ” “Love Me Tonight” and “Tomorrow.” You also know that “The Vagabond King” is based upon Justin Huntley McCarthy’s romantic drama, “If I Were King.” With such a start and with the melody gems of Rudolf Friml, the only thing that is needed is a cast and a production. And I can tell you now that "The t agabond King,” as being presented at English’s this week, has a most satisfactory cast and a beautiful production, an exact duplicate in ‘every detail that. I saw in NewYork. This is also a confession this cast on the whole is just as good as I saw in New York. I hesitate to say “I” so often, but it is necessary to call upon past experiences to drive home a positive statement of fact. The story, as you know, centers about the Vagabond poet in the underworld life of Paris, known as Francois Villon, the poet dreamer thief, during the reign of Louis XI. On one of his unannounced tours of the underworld taverns, Louis, the King, hears Villon boast of what he would do if he were King. He gets the chance at power and a great love, but tbo penalty is the gallows. Interest, of course, centers upon John Mealey as Francois Villon. He is magnificent in the first act, especially the great dramatic moments leading up to the first singing of “Tho Song of the Vagabonds.” Mealey and every member of the company makes this song the real key as it should be of this moving story of old Paris. Mealey at ail times speaks and sings every' word so that the most far away person in the theater may hear every word. And this is a great accomplishment today, when so many actors seem afraid or are unable to make people hear. In the second act, Mealey of course runs into a comedy situation which really has no bearing upon the play. In the second act the comedy events are skillfully handled by Mark Smith as Guy Tabarie and Oliver Le Dain, keeper of the bath, played by Emil Hoch. In the love scenes with Katherine De Vaucelles, played by Gene Wallin in both a lovely manner and a delightful voice in song, Mealey is at his romantic best. He is possessed of great energy and he never lets down, during a performance which started last night promptly at 8:15, and which closed about 11:30 o’clock. Mealey is convincing as Francois and you have the feeling that Francois actually is living before you. His makeup, especially in the first act, is well created. Hex - e is | mighty fine work in a most trying role. And in this large cast of characters, the influence of H. Cooper Ciiffe as King Louiij is felt throughout the entire play. He looks the part and he knows how to act it, not over act it. The cast of “The Vagabond King” is so satisfactory at English’s this week that I givt it to you in full as follows: i Rene De Montifmy Harold Conklins | Cnsm Cholet S. K Binyim : Mars-ot Alice Belmore Ciiftc I Blanche Katherine Van Brunt j Habeaii Vivian Ovictte LJehari be Loup Hozrof I'azrad’ni Trcia Echelles Azins Detro Hunirtte Du Ho-.net lane Victory J.hanm-ton Roma Uankell Guv Tabarie Mark Smith Colin Dr Cayetil Harry Glover "ristaii L’Hermite Frank Fanning

Dunninger Is a Complete Mystery Triumph Here

By Walter I>. Hickman There are events in the theater that require special and separate attention. Such an event is Dunninger who presents “mind reading extraordinary." In all fairness to all concerned, I admit from the very beginning that these so called "mind reading acts” were a pain in the neck to me. With my years of association with the theater, l often recognized the trickery possible with mind reading acts and I have often wondered liowin the world ouch stuff got by under the guise of entertainment. And so I approached Dunninger after a mental battle with myself in the light that he would have to prove his big assertion that he had no confederates or helpers with him. And so on last Sunday morning, I rolled out of bed to carry out my end of an invitation issued by Gus Sho-w-alter and Phil Brow-n at Keith's to see Dunninger work at a 12 o’clock noon breakfast at the Columbia Club. The other critics and other newspaper people of the city were present. And I make this complete confession —Dunninger did one marvelous demonstration after another not ten inches away from me and he didn’t have a confederate. And so in one blow, Dunninger convinced me that he is the best In his business. He shows marvelous intelligence. He did practically right under my nose about everything he does In his act and then some. He asked four members present to mentally think of numbers with

Louis XI H. Cooper Ciiffe Francois Villon John Mealey Katherine De Vaucelles Gene Wallin Thibaut D Aussizny . . . Kandolph Levman Captain of Scotch Archerß . . . Olaf Olson An Astrologer S. K. Binyon Lady Mary Ethel Pasztor Noel !*• Jolys Herbert Crane Oliver be Dain Emil Hoeh First Court Lady Mabel Potter Second Court Lady Doris Kemble Toison D'Or, Burgundian Herald Ralph Moan The Queen Agnes Maepeake The Dancer Evangeline Edwards Another Dancer Herbert Crane The Bishop John Willard The Hangman Leo. Moran First Courtier Edwin Rice Seeond Courtier Lorenz Horst Master of the Hunt Vincent Galii Dame De Chase Dolores Suarez Scotch Archers Leo Moran. Adolph Frank, Victor Sabin. Edward Watkins. Fred Burke, Louis Syracuse. Edwin Rice, Richard Webb. Tavern Men—Lorenz Horst, Alfredo Cornelli. Frank Mandes. Larry O'Dell. Arthur Young, Vincent Galls Harry Glover. Leo Moran. Adolph Frank. Victor Sabin. Edward Watkins. Fred Burke. Louis Syracuse. Edwin Rice. Richard Webb. Hosrof Bagraduni. Raimondc Jones, John Willard. Seifried Langer, Paul Jenson. Alexander Shishman. Tavern Girls—Mae Robinson. Vivian Oviette. Katherine Van Brunt. Marie Muller. C.ara Small. Charlotte Boekenthein. F.sther Brankin. Marion Booth. Esta Mober, Lucille Burton. Eleanor Leach. Mabel Potter. Constant* Durand, Claire Hill. Roma Gaskell Elsie Muhri*. Arnes Detro. Mae Adler. Dolores Suarez, Leona Riggs. Dancers and Pages—Grotty Syrtnok. Edna Koch. Evelyn Miller. Hazel Miller. Agnes Riley. Clara Burke. Polly Kirke, Her tee King. Floris Waldo. Muriel Dawn, Court Ladies—Vivian Oviette. Dolores Suarez, Charlotte Bockeuthein. Lucille Burton. Marie Muller. Clara Small, Roina Gaskell. Doris Kemble. Violet Andprson. Eleanor I-each. Elsie Muhlig. Margaret Coloord. Bertha Carlisle. Mabel Potter, Rose Santschi. Courtiers—Leo Moran Adolph Frank, victor Sabin. Edwarvl Watkins. Fred Burke. Dominie Olivero. Frank Mandes, Edwin Rice. Richard Webb. Ralph Samuels. Larry O Dell. Vncent Gall. Arthur Young. Lorenz Horst. Alexander Slpaman. Harry Glover William MeDargh. Raimondr John, Seifried Langer. John Willard. Paul Jenson. This cast list dives you an accurate idea of the magnitude of the cast of "The Vagabond King.” And in addition to this there is fn the pit one of the larget orchestra I have ever seen at English’s. August Kleinecke is director of the orchestra, and he hrings out all the haunting beauty of a score filled with the most thrilling as well as the loveliest melodies. Probably I should gt> Into detail regarding other important people in the cast. It Is now after 3 o'clock in the morning as I tell you about this play. But there Is one fact I want to Impress—be In your seats not later than fourteen minutes after 8 o’clock, as you must have the atmosphere and the very beginning of the overture to get the most enjoyment out of a show which offers the most possible enjoyment. Am not boosting this show because it needs business. I warn you to get seats at once, because this show is going to absolute capacity at every performance. At English's all week.

ROSCOE AND KATIE BIG SENSATION AT THE LYRIC It is seldom that an act becomes a complete comedy riot because of talent and novel handling of that talent. This week at the Lyric I witnessed when covering the show' for you, one of the most remarkable triumphs I have ever witnessed in this city in

the number of years that I have been telling you about shows. This trium.ph was honestly won by' Roscoe Ails, Katie Pullman and the many others associated with this act. These two people who top j the act are real showman. They have worked out a comedy dance offering with orchestral assistance which stands mighty close to the top in this lihe

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of work. Alls and Miss Pullman first appear in their eccentric talking skit. This gives Ails a chance to develope his individual method of delivering his fun. He Is a fast thinker and always works with his audij ence. His makeup, if I may call it | that, is so commanding that he lands | solid the second he gets upon the | stage. Following the close up ; comedy offering of the two, the eurj tains part and Syncopation's FavorI ite Band, as it is named, starts a | melodious parade of tunes. Ails of course as well as Miss Pullman gets mLxed up with the melody and when Ails shirts that pair of feet of his doing their funny dance stuff, well the triumph of the uct is so secure that there is no argument. Then for good measure he brings on Dorothy Ellsworth, what I call and acrobatic dancer of many movements. Ails “sells” her in a comedy way before she starts her work. He makes the going easy for Dorothy because Ails brings into play his natural comedy manner. But she

four digits. Dunninger then thought out those numbers, totalled them to himself, wrote the total on a slate

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Here is a photo of a man who is going to be the talk of the town this w’eek. He is the greatest and the most sincere worker of his type. At Keith’s all week. His name is Dunninger and he is a mind reader who actually reads minds.

would win without it although Ails, method is the best. Then there is another dancer, Cecil Graham. When the audience got so warmed up when I was present, Ails told those present, and those present filled every available inch of room in the theater and in the lobby, that just as long as he was welcome the act would stay' on the stage and everybody did. Os course Ails and Miss Pullman did their toy soldier number but it was when they did their own conception of Black Bottom that the audience went even wilder than ever. Ails and Miss Pullman have the wildest and the most untamed demonstration of this human upheaval that 1 have ever seen on the stage. Y'ou know how I hate tliis dance, well these two artists made me like it and even applaud. And that is going some. Be sure and see Ails and Katie Pullman at the Lyric this week, the act is beaut:full; mounted. It 1s the real goods in entertainment. The audience also got excited over the eccentric comedy work of Lewis and Ames in “We Know a Thing or Two.” It is the final song number of many verses which causes this couple to panic the audience.. It Is Just hokum, but they seem to know how to sell it. I am letting the audience judge this one. Chisho m and Breen offer a sketch, “Frozen Romance,” which is full of mystery. Monte and Lyons appear in “A Letter From Italy-"' Dancing is offered by Melissa Ten Eyck with the services <3f Boyce and Evans.. The bill includes Potter and Gamble, and, the Golem Troupe of Persian Entertainers. The Lyric has a whale of a great show this week.

WELL PRESENTED DANCE OFFERING AT THE PALACE An exceptionally' well mounted act, the “Rosemont Troubadours," with dances and goad singing interspersed all make for a very entertaining number in the featured position of the first half’s hill at the Palace tills week. The act opens with the company in an ensemble number singing a

spirited song. Following this Is a Spanish dance by a young woman, who possesses all the grace and charm necessary to make a colorful number of the offering, Rosamond Tyler is present. Next is the “Toreador Song,” from “Carmen,” sung by a man with an excellent voice.. This is the singer’s best number although he does several more in the

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act. Following these are numbers' by a dancing team and a soprano, all good. Wo think this is one of the best offerings in the line of good music and dancing the Palace has had for some time. The act Is a fine start toward a good new year.. Hamilton and Hayes have taken the “old man cat” and put in some new things. Instead of the usual old man with a line of rather raw “cracks," we have a bit of old romance that carries a good measure of human interest along with the comedy Inherent in the act. Tower and Darrel might well dispense with the services of the man in the act. He does nothing but take up space on the stage that could well be used by the woman with “go-getting” personality. The feature of the act is the eccentric comedy of the woman. Groh and Adonis is somewhat of a surprise in that you do not see what you expect. Act is a man and three very clever dogs, who show the evidence of careful and land handling. Great act for the children. Fred Henderson heads a blackface act in which the comedy is so-so, but which features some different melody on several brass instruments. Included on the bill Is a photoplay. “Gigolo," with Rod La Roque, and a news reel. At the Palace the first half of the week. —(By the Observer.) CONSIDERING OTHER ACTS AT KEITH’S As I have handled Dunninger, the mind reader, at Keith’s under a separate review, I will devote this space to the other acts. First of all, I call attention to the Four Diamonds. Here is a dance offering of established merit. The two

and placed the slate about six inches away from my plate face down on the table. When the four gave their figures and the four were totalled upon another slate the total was exactly the same that Dunninger previously had written on the slate. To me this is the most wonderful demonstration of the many marvelous things that this man accomplishes. I know that no confederates were present and I know that none of our gang were framed because we newspaper people w-ere there to get the low down on the whole business and I know that we left not only baffled but very quiet. And even before the matinee on Monday, Dunninger paid me a visit at The Times and without a seconds preparation he did one gigantic demonstration after another and I know that he had no confederates here and that his visit to The Times was not prearranged. On the stage at Keith's he is just as w r onderful. I am convinced that Dunninger works without any assistants. If I did not arrive at that conclusion after the most careful tests I would not lie to you on the question. But I am convinced and I can recommend a visit to Keith’s this week with the plain understanding that Dunninger is the most wonder ful entertainer along these lines on the American stage today. He should be seen this week, because he ls not only a gigantic personality, but a rare artist In his chosen work.

JAN. 4, 1927;

Work, Give Your Partner Assistance by Bidding Intelligently.

By .Milton C. Work The pointer for today is: After once passing partner’s Major bid, a bid of another suit is not a denial. Yesterday’s article contained tho following North hand: 4 ev Sp.: 4-3-2. Ht.: Ace-IClng-Jack-9-8. Di.: 7. CL: Ace-Jack-8-7. It was stated that South hajJ opened the auction by bidding one Spade; that West had passed; that North, deferred from bidding No Trump by his singleton Diamond and from bidding Hearts by his normal support for his partner’s Spades, had passed; thai. East had completed the first round by bidding two Diamonds; and that South and West had passed ‘ on the second round. The question was what North should do then. Had North bid two Hearts over. South’s Spades on the first rouhcl!’ that would have been a denial of Shades and a positive announcement that the hand contained not more than two Spades—or not Acex or King-x if only two. If We had bid two Diamonds on the (irH round, North’s duty would have been to bid two Spades rather than two Hearts because, under those conditions, the two Hearts would have been a denial of Spades. But North's first-round one word “Pass” said: “Partner, either I have normal support for your Spades and am satisfied to play at Spades; or I am without normal support for your Spades but have a trickless hand and would not be justified in bidding.” The former of the two contingencies would be the more probable. On the second round, when North’s turn arrives, he can bid two Hearts safely. If he had held a trickless hand and for that reason could not bid and deny the Spades, he could not be bidding now; censequently the JJeqgt bid on the second round a strong Heart suit, plus normal assistance for the Spades and gives South the choice between the two. It announces also that the assistance is not more than normal because, with four Spades, North would not now bid Hearts. North’s double declaration (pass and two Hearts) gives South a valuable option between Hearts and Spades. Here is anew question for tomorrow. Suppose South bid one Spade and that West holds the following:: 1. Sp,:: x-x;. Ht.r KLngslack-9-x-x Di. :: Queen-x x. CLt x-x-x. 2, Sp.; x-x Ht: Ace-Queen-x xx. ,Di.: Queen-x-x. CL;: x-x-x. What do you think West should do in each case? (Copyright John F. DUle Cb.) Work, the international sty on Auction Bridge, will answer questions on the game for Times readers who write to him through The Times, including a self-ad-dressed, stamped envelope.

younger member* of the family- have juvenile personality which, would win anybody over.. Their collegiate number, done as a duet and then as a dance is a wonder.. The so-called dramatic sob number of the woman has no legitimate place in 11.*e act, but this does not prevent the ttf’t from being a triumph. Ray and Dot Dean have an eccentric offering in which the man, by his strange red head make-up, gets tons of fun out of bis material. Here is one eccentric act that pleases. Arthur and Morton Havel, with the aid of Helen Lockhart and others, have worked out a clever sketch idea in “Oh, Uncle.” Sergeant Franklin is a crack rifle shot. Harry Jolson admited that ho had throat trouble but he kept on the job as he said the show must go on. He has winning numbers. Lottie Atherton styles her act, ”A Unique Dance Offering.” At Keith's all week. Rhetoric Test In all questions except the first two a sentence ls written Incorrectly. Answer the first two questions and correct the eight sentences. TM check your work turn to Page 1™ for the correct answers; 1— What is the plural of radius'.’ 2 What are the comparative anil superlative forms of “good”? What errors appear In the following sentences: 3 Each of the members are responsible. 4 To who did you give the message? 5 Neither Herman or Arthur could go. 6 Everyone has their troubles. 7 Columbus is the eapitol qi' Ohio. 8 — It don’t make any diffemoce. 9 “Where shall Igo he asked?” 10— He only saw you.

Stage Verdict LYRIC—With a bill headed by Roscoe Ails and Katie Pullman, the Lyric is presenting one of the best comedy shows 1 have ever seen at this theater. Ails and Pullman are positive hits. PALACE The Rosemont Troubadors are offering here the first half an excellent offers ing. featuring Spanish dancing and songs. ENGLISH’S “The Vagabond King” Is being presented here for the week with an excellent cast. To the writer it is the most moving dramatic musical spectacle presented on tho American stage In the past ten years. Should be seen by everyone who loves the best. KEITH’S Dunninger, a mind reader, by his wonderful method, whatever it is, is giving one of the most remarkable demonstrations before the public today.