Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1927 — Page 4

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MORE INVESTIGATIONS Two more suggestions for legislative Investigaans are added to the list of real things it should vestigate over the week-end. Someone wants the merger of the electric ants investigated, and espcially the part played by e public service commission. Inasmuch as the >en charge was made during the merger hearing at the commission was dominated by a huge cam,ign gift from corporations which ran things in 24 and which did not include the present merger (ad, this would seem necessary and essential. The lawmakers have a duty to the people. It ould find out whether the commission is induced by campaign gifts. It should discover whether ey gave former decisions for that reason. They ould find out whether the members remained true their first bosses, if they had any, or doubleossed them for the new stranger in the utility mily. The payment by the State of long distance teleone calls between the highway commission and Lomas Adams, the Vincennes editor who started the pose last fall, is immediately siezed upon as an cuse for another Inquiry. That, of course, is an effort to forestall the instigations which the Adams charges make imperare. It Is an old trick. But if there is any wrong- : use of money by the highway commission or any ler body, for telephone calls or for anything else, 3 people should know about it. * But neither f these new charges should oblre the duty which the Legislature has concerning ne other matters which have interested this State • the past few weeks. The Marion County grand jury and its peculiar port on its inquiry make essential and necessary open and public probe into the matters it eonlered. There were the charges hurled by Stephenson m his cell which have had corroboration of a sort ilch distresses the public mind, but which settles thing. Either those charges were true or they were seMany statements were made publicly which imed to corroborate them and to prove them aside m the fact that Stephenson never produced anyng. , The peculiar treatment of Stephenson, the attiie of the prison board, the disappearance of witises from the State are matters of- shame, of sus:lon and of eternal challenge to the decency of s State. The people want to know, and want the Legislate to find out, what influences were at work which it husbands into hiding, girls to fashionable hotels other States, men into hiding rather than face i grand jury. The people want to know whether there is a ver in this State greater than law, greater than irts, greater than established institutions. The Legislature, If It starts, will find ample ds for Inquiries In many parts of the State governnt for which it must make laws. Nor can it have a higher or greater duty than pursue a real investigation and lift the burden disgrace from this State if the charges be false place responsibility for betrayals of public inter- , if they be true. The sooner it starts, the better. MR. RUCKER’S SIN Inevitable, of course, was the passing of Alvah tucker from the official family of Mayor Duvall. He could have hardly expected to retain his ce as the head of the city legal department after ig a suit to collect several hundreds of thousands dollars from former county treasurers, of whom present mayor is one. The people should not have expected that he jld be in office when that suit is tried, if it ever tried. That is not the manner or the custom of politics [ politicians, especially in Marion County. Mr. Rucker committing the sin of service pays h a penalty of banishment. The fight that'Mr. Rucker made against the rger and his grave charge against the public vice commission only hastened his end or made-it ittle easier for the mayor to replace him with tan whose mind is more likley to be in tune witli own desires. With the dismissal of Rucker and the coming the Republican district chairman to head the ’s legal forces, the people can expect a much ster administration. They need not expect to see that suit brought er the Barrett law for the collection of thousands iollars decided very quickly. The deliberation of successor of Rucker in the matter of Fairbanks, ■se & Cos., by which that concern was and is beprevented by politics from expanding its operas Is probably a keynote. The sudden shifting of legal forces and the ulsion of Rucker is just another reason why citis of this community should study carefully tho :kest way of obtaining the city manager form of ernment. A city manager who would discharge a public -ant who apparently was attempting to serve the lie would not last long. Mayors do. A GRIM BUSINESS JOKE There was grim humor, unseen by themselves, he appearance today of several Texas Congressi before the House Appropriations Committee, story is told elsewhere in this paper of their est for an additional $20,000 with which to proa better trade relations between the United es 2>tiz-America. while these Congressmen are seeking $20,000 Use In one year, the State Department continues ng off the friendship of Latin-America at the rate bout $20,000 a minute! To serve the purposes of certain American oil :erns —not all such concerns, but some of them Mexico, the State Department is daily damaging lly the interests of nearly every other kind of erican business in all the countries of Central and th America. Competition between Europe and the United :es for business in Central and South America ivs keener year by year. Last year the trade exiged, between the United States and those coun-

tries amounted to two. billion dollars, and It is just beginning. Eventually, many believe, our greatest foreign trade will be with the Latin-American countries. Our geographical location gives us an immense advantage over Europe in this trade- Shall we conlinue indefinitely to throw this advantage away by a policy of stupid affront to the Latin-American people? If this is to be our policy, let’s not be -ridiculous as well. Let’s not think that $20,000 a yerrr spent on traveling good-will promoters can undo the damage of the State Department’s gunboat diplomacy. A platoon of United States Marines iji Nicaragua, under present conditions, will do more harm to our Latin-American trade in a week than a. -whole regiment of trade commissioners can repair in ten years of hard traveling. American business men can surely see this. PROMPT AND CERTAIN How far the prosecuting atotrneys of the State will succeed in carrying out the demand of Attorney General Gilliom for "prompt and certain” punishment for liquor law violators remains to be seen. The Federal Government has failed to get veryfar with its enforcement of the Volstead act. No one claims that any county in this State has done much with the Wright law to reduce drunkenness. But in that phrase of "prompt and certain” punishment lies the solution for all crime problems. If violators of the liquor, or any other law, believed that punishment would be certain and prompt, crime would be reduced to a minimum. The truth Is that lawyers have built up a technical barrier for all law violators so that certainty of punishment is not only impossible but extremely improbable. The police departments of the State have never been very vigilant in getting all violators of the liquor laws. There have been discriminations and protection for classes and for privileged venders. And when cases are obtained and violators brought into court, the likelihood of punishment is extremely remote. If the bootlegger be big enough to hire the right lawyers, he may expect to reach a fine old age before his case is disposed of. The Attorney General has only to look at the docket of the Supreme Court to discover one reason why his appeal for prompt and certain punishment is likely to be very theoretical. He v/ill discover that the law firm of which the junior Senator, Arthur Robinson, is a member, represented fourteen men who had been convicted in the lower courts for violations of the liquor lawsPrompt and certain enforcement of the liquor law Is an experiment which the people would applaud. But they would like to see It general and not discriminatory. They are not interested in efforts to jail a few men who get drunk on moonshine and letting those who can afford to buy the imported whisky from tho big dealers escape. Inasmuch as the law in this State makes the purchase of liquor as much a crime as the selling of it, a complete compliance with the edict might suggest the need for many more jails. PIGS ARE PIGS, BUT— ARE CHRISTIANS CHRISTIANS? ■" 1 By N. I). Cochran It must be apparent to intelligegnt readers that from time to time I write on controversial subjects and sometimes express opinions that are provocative. As I j haven't the slightest desire to make anybody think as I think, and feel that something has been accomplished if what I write makes somebody think, it doesn't disturb me at all when somebody writes in to a newspaper jumping all over my opinions. Often they may be right—l don’t know. I have a notion that when peoplo start to thinking things out for themselves it doesn’t make much difference how wrong they think to begin with; for once they start thinking for themselves there’s a chance i that they’ll think right finally, however wrong they think at the outset. The big thing is for people to do their own thinking. Most of us are lazy mentally. Too many of us I are willing to let somebody else do our thinking for us. j That's v/hy we are so set in our opinions about re- j ligion and politics. We let political bosses do our political thinking and religiou bosses do our religious j thinkingWe are all prejudiced. In that I don’t claim to i be different from others. ■> No matter how fair I try to ! be in discussing religious matters, it is a fact that I start out with Protestant prejudices. That's because I was born and raised in a religious Methodist family and got all of my religious training in that church. But that isn't my fault. I couldn t help It. Most of us are Protestants, Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians or something else for no better reason than that our parents raised us that w-ay. Mighty few of us know what it’s all about. One thing I did get through my head was that whether we were Catholics or any of the many kinds j of Protestants, we could still be Christians. By that ! I mean that we have a good chance t> be Christians, although I can’t believe that many of us are real ! Christians. Both Catholic and Protestant preachers Preach what they think is Christianity, but I have j met very few qf them that practice what they preach. One thing I couidn’t understand then and haven’t yet got through my head was how the Christians of England, France, Italy, Belgium, the United States, Germany, Austria and Russia could murder one another in wholesale fashion during the World War; and all the preachers, both Catholic and Protestant, could send up to high heaven prayers to the same Christian' God pleading with Him to take sides between two sets of murdering Christians, all of whom professed to believe In the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. And I can't understand now why In the United States of America we haven’t Christian sense enough—we who profess to be Christians—to live together in Christian peace and harmony, without trying to gouge each other’s eyes out because we happen to belong to different Christian creeds. Is it because we have souls? On® might think so. > Pigs are pigs when thrown Into one big pen, even if men can point out some of them as Berkshires and others as something else. Cattle don't know that they are Holsteins, Jersey or some other man-named breed. And among themselves dogs are dogs, whether man calls them Airedale, Bull. Collie, Great Dane, Setter Pointer, Wolf Hound or plain cur. Man alone of all the animal kingdom is the only one who insists on being something other than what lie is a human being. And whatever lie happens to think he is he wants to force all other humans to be I think I’m happy because I don’t want to make anybody do anything he doesn’t want to do or be anything he doesn’t want to be. And I want him to Golden Rule me in the same way.

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Tracy Houston Is the City That Made the Sea Come to It,

By M. E. Tracy HOUSTON, Tex., Jan. 10.—It gives one a peculiar sensation to see the j masts and stack of some great ship I moving inland through the prairie. | but that is the secret of Houston’s | strength. | Monammed went to the mountain, but this man’s town made the sea t come to it. It took twenty years and j as many million dollars to turn the j trick, to convert a small, crooked j bayou into a broad, straight river, to | form a harbor where good merchant j able timber stood a generation back. Men laughed at the project when it was first conceived, and Uncle Sam, though inclined to be liberal toward ports and port improvements, would have none of it unless Houston matched dollars with him. Houston not only did tnat, paying her share for the ship channel, but when it was completed she built the necessary docks and warehouses on her own account, a mile and a half of them, concrete and fireproof. Port on Plain Houston is situated on the coastal plain of Texas, fifty miles from natural deep water and twenty-five miles from the head of Galveston bay. Galveston bay is big, but shallow, The ship channel cuts straight across it and then follows the curse .of Buffalo bayou to with a few miles of the heart of the city, where It terminates in a basin which is big enough to permit the largest oceangoing ships to turn around. The channel is thirty feet deep. It was opened for navigation twelve years ago. A thousand ships nowenter and clear from it annually. Tho trade is mostly with foreign ports—cotton for Liverpool, Havre or Toklo; crude oil from Mexico; gasoline for the Atlantic seaboard; bones from. Argentina; grain for Europe. Rich in Oil “Has the slump in cotton hurt business?” you want to know. Not so much. Houston handles from a' fifth to a sixth of the American crop, but largely on a commission, while her other industries, particularly oil, lumber, cattle, cement and railroading, serve to stabilize conditions. There are thirty known oil fields in the immediate vicinity, twenty of which have been opened. Besides, there are mountains of salt albeit underground, and vast deposits of sulphur. ’ Houston is well supplied with natural gas from fields that are two or three hundred miles to the southwest, and, as in so many other regions, the development of electric power is being consolidated and linked up through a network of plants that operate under a common ownership. I am told that in east, south and central Texas no less than 500 small electric companies have been bought by larger concerns during the last few years, and that not less than $100,000,000 is being spent on their co-ordination and improvement. Generous "Ma" "Ma” Ferguson has issued more than 3,000 pardons and paroles during her two years In office and is now hitting a faster stride than ever. The betting Is about even as to whether she will reach 4,000 during the eight days she still has to serve. The people of Texas are not in sympathy with this eleventh hour display of executive compassion. They see little logic in it either from a political or social standpoint. They have suffered too much from the crime wave not to be alarmed at the way convicts, some of them guilty of the most outrageous crimes, are being free'd. Al Smith Talk Here, as in most other places, I have visited, political interest centers around Al Smith and his prospects of receiving the Democratic nomination. McAdoo forces are said to be hard at work already for the Texas delegation, but appear to bo making little progress. The prevailing sentiment cannot be described as pro-Smith by any '• means, but there is as much for him, apparently, as there is for McAdoo. This condition is due to two things. In the first place, the Ku-Klux Ivlan has suffered a surprising collapse, and, in the second place, sentiment with regard to prohibition prescribed by the Volstead act has undergone a great change, especially in the cities. , Desires Peace Texas is not worried over the Mexican situation. It neither want?* nor believes there will be serior.s trouble. Oil interests, of course, arre quite concerned as to what will be the outcome of the controversy as to the new law which seeks to substitute a fifty-year concession for permanent title, hut they ty.ke it more calmly than do some other people and appear content to let diplomats and lawyers work it out. It is paradoxical, perhaps, but as one approaches the bordq?- between Mexico and United States talk of trouble seems to grow and less excited. I can think of no l etter explanatkm for this than thai. the wish for peace is father to the thought that it will continue. Is it correct to use phone as a verb? The colloquialism “phone” has been commonly afiropted by English speaking people and is now recognized a’ a verb by lexicographers, who have inororpornted it in the Idiomatic language. Hence, “I shall phone you” is torrect and of course the longer form "telephone” may also be used. Can “cancellation” be correctly spelled with one “1?” Yes.

A Devil in High Hat Is Adolphe Menjou in D. W. Griffith’s ‘Sorrows of Satan’

By Walter I). Hickman Nobody in the world can direct suffering melodrama and make dramatic movie opera out of it as well as D. W. Griffith. That is exactly what Griffith has done with “Sorrows of Satan," by the late Marie Corelli. Dramatic movie opera, that is exi actly what this photoplay is under I the magnetic touch of Griffith. One really feels the

touch of genius as scene after scene is flashed with an individual touch of the director upon the screen. There are at least four people who reflect this touch as never before. They are Adolphe Menjou, a modern Satan, in a dress suit and with a tendency to lure men In many ways; Ricardo Cortez; Lyda De

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jPutti as a siren of modern make, 1 and Carol Dempster, the mold who suffers as only a Griffith heroine can suffer. There are examples of the artistry of the director in “Sorrows of Satain” such as the revelation of Menjou as Satan to our pathetic hero who makes women suffer by loving him. Griffith uses a suggestion which reminds me of “The Bat” on the stage to expose Menjou as Satan. He does it by the means of a shadow that seems to cover both the body and the physical body of our alleged hero of the story. This means is so striking and so individual that one knows without asking that Griffith directed this picture. And Griffith was lavish with the spending of money in making “Sorrows of Satan.” For example, he desires to bring upon the screen the effect of female temptation upon Geoffrey Tempest who starts out to be a hero of low degree but honest before Satan gets busy with him. To put over this idea, Griffith uses the movements of a wild ballet, showing the bare feet of many dancers. The effect of this is so strong that one suspicions at once the weakness of T mpest. Many, many times you see the genius of Griffith reflected in the manner that tho lights are handled. At times many of the scenes become really wonderful paintings In motion, only to return to a pathetic close-up reflecting another movement of the story but connecting up with the thought of the scene being shown upon the screen. In other words, Griffith keeps. one thinking ! about many characters although he does not place them all In the same scene. An example of this Is when Menjou Is tempting Tempest with a fine meal while a reptile of a vampire is making cold but warm eyes at Tempest. Then without a sudden warning, Griffith shows us the mental suffering of Mavis Claire, the girl to whom Tempest should have been nice. In this, I think Griffith show 6 such mastery of direction that he becomes without any doubt the leading director in America upon the lines of turning a movie into dramatic opera. Menjou yields magnificently to the touch or the inspiration of Griffith. Menjou is an artist in a dress* suit, he probably can convey more meaning in his dress suit nice way than any other man upon the screen today. Under the direction of Griffith, Menjou really becomes the Prince of , Satans, who had an hour on earth 1 after being tossed out of heaven. When ceiptain scenes of "Sorrows ; of Satans” t were being made last September in the Paramount studio in New York, it was my good fortune to visit the studio on the day that Griffith had Miss Dempster and a young Russian actor at work upon j certain scenes, those reflecting some of the suffering of Mavis for loving Geoffrey too well and unwisely, as the moralist would say. Griffith was at work with Ivan Lebedeff in some of the scenes. Os course I wanted to see Griffith actually at work. I had been told it was as easy to see Griffith at work as to get to the breakfast table of the President of the United States if you were not a “good” congressman or a “good” Senator. I heard a violin play a mournful tune. It was whispered to me and my friend. Charles McGrady, who was with me on this trip that Griffith vyas busy getting a “tone picture.” Could I see the master? Wasn’t I there sty.- the purpose? And so we were token around a little set in the j big studio. Griffith was upon a stool. j The cameras were clicking. A violin j waa playing. And Griffith was slowly, but surely putting the stamp of genuine suffering upon the face of t&e young Russian actor. Lights went off. Mr. Lebedeff was told to rest. And Griffith came over to us. We were Introduced and he began to talk to us as only a great man can talk. He told us of the young Russian, his experiences in the World War and how this young actor had certain sure for goodness connection with royalty in other days in Russia. Lebedeff joined us. He talked in a broken accent, but with a charming command of English. And then the Russian listened to the instructions of the master and another scene of “Sorrows of Satan" was being made. A great man is never too busy to be a gentleman and Griffith and those with whom he associates have that same quality. Griffith breeds fine taste and big thought. He thinks big things and he is big. Just thought I would tell you that Griffith found time to talk to Charlie and myself while he was actually directing “Sorrows of Satan.” Griffith has put dramatic music into this photoplay. It is a study of both dramatic and mental passion expressed in the tempo of grand opera upon the stage. See this one. Please write and tell me how you liked or did not like it, but I know you will have a grand experience watching the magic touch of Griffith. Charlie Davis and his gang this week is presenting "Ohio Capers.” Because of the rush of shows yesterday, I was unable to hear Davis but I will try to find time before the week is over. May I make a suggestion—Go to

the matinees this week if possible, because the nights will be capacity for this big picture. At the Ohio all week. TIIE OBSERVER LOOKS OVER BARTHELMESS MOVIE “The White Black Sheep," with Richard Barthelmess and Patsy Ruth Miller turns out to be a much overworked story that is saved from mediocrity only by the work of Miss Miller as splendid support to Barthelmess. Everyone is familiar with the story of the young Englishman of noble birth who

I gets in bad with society and runs iff to the colonies and enlists in the I army. Such is the i plot of this film | and although it is old it does have a j few new angles added which keep it from missing fire as entertainment. Engaged to an English girl who seems to be one of the "other' kind, Robert Kinsr cairn, played by Barthelmess, gets

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himself into a bad situation by shouldering the blame for a theft the girl has committed. Leaving England he goes to Palestine and joins the British forces stationed there. By hard work he raises himself from the ranks to a corporal's chevrons. A revolt of, the native tribes is effected by one of the most trusted of the native attaches of the army post and Kincairn through misfortune is laid up in a fight and is carried away by a couple of friends. Classed as a deserter he stays away until he finds out the complete plans of the revolt and then returns to his post. At this point the story is given an original twist that helps a bit in the interest. Miss Miller takes the part of Zelle, a Grecian girl, who is in love with Kincairn, and who finally wins his admiration by her pluck In sticking to him in trouble. She saves the picture from being a total loss. A supplemental picture is offered which tells the romantic story of Gainsborough's inspiration for his famous portrait, "The Blue Boy.” The orchestra this week, under the direction of Stolarvesky, Is featuring the overture, “The Birth of the Blues,” by George Gershwin. On the stage is a novelty offering in a phonograph with some lifelike melody by a quartet. At the Circle all week. (By the Observer.) EMPIRE BUILDING REVEALED AT APOLLO Dreams of empire in which a halfbreed wished to make a vast republic out of the Canadian Northwest is the central theme of “The Flaming Forest.” with Antonio Moreno at the Apollo this week. The great Northwest of Canada as it was thirty or forty years ago is shown. Thousands of square miles

of fertile country without even the vestige of law and order. It is a picture to stir any imagination. The situation in this country finally became so unbearable that the Dominion organized what is now a famous unit of it’s police system, the Northwest Mounted Police. Renee Adoree plays the part of the daughter of

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one of the settlers who will not have anything to do with tho idea of making a republic of the wilderness. The father is murdered as the result of his antagonism to the project and the mother with him. Jeanne-Marie is left with her crippled brother, and together they try to carry on in the face of the odds against them. As the settlers are being driven from their homes the mounted police come and bring their gifteof law and order. Moreno has the role of David Carrigan, a sergeant of police. Carrigan, after he sees the beautiful Jeanne-Marie, falls In love with her, and it is a hard task when the brother Is arrested for the murder of two of the former members of the rebellious faction of the country, for it is to Carrigan that the arrestig job is given. A great battle between the police and the Indians is a feature or the picture. Another inspiring sight are j the pictures in color of the Mounted Police in their bright red coats and uniforms as they parade. It is a picture worth seeing. Included on the bill are selections by Emil Seidel and bis orchestra and songs by Cliff Williams and Tade Dolan, also news reel and "Our Gang Comedy.” At the Apollo all week. (By the Observer.) NEW POLICY STARTS AT THE COLONIAL Pictures are being combined in many theaters with vaudeville. In other houses, the act is called

Movie Verdict Ohio—The magic of D. W. Griffith makes “Sorrows of Satan,” dramatic movie opera. A wonderfully directed picture. COLONIAL—This theater Is offering its first show under a new policy of movies and miniature musical comedy. The first show gives the new policy a good start toward success. Apollo—A h'eroic romance of the Canadian North West of many years ago is a great theme in “The Flaming Forest.” Circle —Richard Barthelmess is suffering from a misfit picture, but with the help of Patsy Ruth Miller does offer some fair entertainment In "The White Black Sheep.”

presentation and in others it is called musical comedy in tabloid form. The Colonial this week comes under the head of a movie theater offering both features photoplays and a

miniature musical comedy. First for the photoplay, “The Third Degree” with Dolores Costello, Louise Dresser, Rockcliffe Fellows and others. As I recall it, this movie is made from the Charles Klein play of the same name, first presented when “Within The Law” established a certain fashion in crook melodramas. I doubt if it is necessary

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to go into this story which finally results in a young girl learning just who her mother is. She learns it at a time when her husband is about to be Judged guilty of murder through the so called famous method of using the third degree upon prisoners. I was chiefly interested in the work of Louise Dresser as the mother who murdered a man. I recall “The Goose Woman” and I had a right to expect a certain dramatic tension at the hands of Miss Dresser in "The Third Degree.” One may be sure that Miss Dresser is always in character. She can be both high and low with the greatest ease. In “The Third Degree” she is the fine lady who murders a man. She uses all the tricks of high-powered emotional drama. Here is a wofnan who has definitely established herself as a really worth while person upon the screen. You also will be interested in what I call for wanting a better expression, trick photography. I first saw this method used in some foreignmade movies, that is eye of the camera at times becomes the eye of the spectator, or the eye of an actor or character rather in the play. The director has used this strange method with telling effect in “The Third Degreee.” Consider this movie, melodrama and place the rules of melodrama against It when considering It. The first musical comedy under the new policy is being offered by Hauk’s Sunshine Revue Company. When you consider the price of admission, j this revue is giving really big I values. Its chief features ineludo the work of ten girls in the chorus; the "blues” song of one of the men with string quartet arrangement; the same man singing “Baby Face” as a request number and the costumes of the gil ls in the final moments of the revue. There are really two sets of male comedians in this company. It is difficult to get new jokes and new business on the stage. That is true in many of the big legitimate revues. But I feel Hauk's Sunshine Revue is 'giving more than enough. Dancing, melody and costumes are the outstanding qualities of this revue. At the Colonial all week. Other theaters today offer; Cantor Josef Rosenblatt at the Lyric; Daphne Pollard at Keith's; George Niblo and Helen Spencer at the Palace; “The Silent Rider” at the Isis; "Sparrows,” at the Uptown; “We’re in the Navy Now,” at the Sanders; "Laddie” at the South Sjllde and burlesque at the Mutual. IRIS GRAY IS LOANED Iris Gray, loaned to .Robert Kane for a featured role in the picture being directed by James Ashmore Creelman, has finished her work at the Cosmopolitan Studio and returned to her Long Island dressing rooms. Ben Lyon, Sam Hardy and Mary Brian have the leading roles in the Kane picture which First National will release under a title still to be I chosen. “SOMEWHERE” IS NEXT The forthcoming Ken Maynard super-western for First National will j be shown as "Somewhere in Sonora” Instead of "Somewhere South of Sonora.”

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How many of these questions are you able to answer? You’ll find the correct answers on page 12: 1 — Who is the actress shown in the accompanying picture? 2 What word is abbreviated “cwt”? 3 Who played the title role In the picture, “Don Juan”? 4 What State is directly north of Alabama? 6—-Who is king of the House of David, Benton Harbor, Mich.? 6 Who wrote the opera, “Lohengrin"? 7 Into what body of water does the Merrimac River empty? 8 — Who wrote: “ ’Tis better to have loved and lost"? Than never to have loved at all”? 9 Have explorers ever reached the south pole? 10— Did the jury find Patrick MeDermdtt innocent or guilty of the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher?

JAN. 10, 1927

Questions find Answers

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot he given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What is the meaning of Dunbar It is an Irish name from "dun,' meaning stronghold, and "barton,' meaning "Britain”—a stronghold 0 Britain. What is the chemical compositioi of glass? , There are many formulas, but eg sentially, it is composed of silicat of soda or of potash combined with i cilicate of some alkaline earth o other basic body, such as the oxid l of lead. What is a “common law” wife? A woman who is a party to i "common law” marriage which i, not solemnized in the ordinary way but created by an agreement ti marry, followed by cohabitation. What is the birthplace of Melba the singer? She was born at Richmond, nea Melbourne, Australia. Her addrest is Coomlic Cottage, Coldstream, Vic torla, Australia. What is Coolleen Moore’s age am homo address? Is that her re name? She is 24 years old and resides a Beverly Hills, Cal. In private lif, she is Mrs. John Emmett McCov mick and her maiden name wa Kathleen Morrison. Under what flag was the Tit anti, registered? It was a British steamship of th' White Star Line. Can fleas be trained to perform? They have been taught to drav miniature carriages and cannon am to perform other tricks. Does Mussolini read and spea! English? Yes. Why are diamonds and rubies usei in watchmaking? | Because of their extreme hardnes: and resistance to wear? How many times did Jack Demp sey light between July 4, 1919 am Sept. 23, 1926? Five championship fights and tei j exhibitions.

These Busy Movie Folk

B.v Dan Thomas NEA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Jan. 10Luncheon at the Montmartre: Music of the jazziest nature . . . swaying, clinging humanity . . . the clink ol ice against glass. . . . Joan Crawforc showing an out-of-town girl frtenc the sights. . . . Mrs. Clarence Brow:: entertaining as usual. ~ . Jack Dempsey and his actress wife, Estel le Taylor. . . . Jack's all dressed ur and really is quite striking ... a waiter pointig out various celeb rities to a party of iourists. . . , Marshall Neilan and Blanche Sweet his wife, swelling the' throng on the already crowded dance floor. . . . Richard Barthelmess playing host tc Mrs. Irvin Willett, better known tr screen fans as Billie Dove . . . and she declining a dance with Lou t aneter . . the music stops and everyone concentrates on food once more . . . whilo Ruby, titan-haired cigaret girl, moves quietly from table to table . . . there comes Viola Dana and Shirley Mason . . .more music .. . Jack Mulhall and hi:, pretty wife . . . this is one place where husbands and wives may be seen together . . . Jimmy DeTarr and Margaret Ettinger . . .the lifesized painting of Dolores' Del Rio . . . pretty Ann Rork walks by am! smiles .. . Percy Mannont and Lewis Stone way back in a corner . . . more tourists letting their food get cold while they gaze at the cinema folk without their make-up . . . Lon Chaney all by himself . . . Mrs. Robert Leonard . . . Gertrude Olmstead . . . and Norma Shearer . . . Colleen Moore and May McAvoy talking as if they hadn’t seen each other for years . . . and it has probably been only a day or so , . . Rod LaUocque dancing with Pola Negri . . . Gene Ahern and his wife just coming in . . . wonder if he’s getting some new ideas for ’’Major Hoople” . . . Louise Fazenda and Corinno Griffith with their mothers . . Doug and Mary leaving . , . the crowd’s thinning out now they’re going back to work. Clara Bow, screendom’s greatest flapper, has grown up. The “redheaded gal" Is playing the role of a mother in her new picture, "Chil dren of Divorce." Eventually the day will come who -1 all visitors will be .barred from filmland’s studios. Demands upon the studios are becoming too great. The motion picture Industry is becoming bigger and busier every year. So many visitors are slowing up production and it’s hard to tell where to draw the line. Their only redress is to bar every one. John McCormick, producer-husband of Colleen Moore, raised strong ol> jections to an item printed in this column about Colleen a short time ago. The particular sentencos referred to were “Colleen is no different than many other girls. Her success is due largely to the fact that she is just herself.” In my opinion, no higher tribute could be paid a movie actress than to say "she is Just herself.” Very few could qualify for such praise. The other night I previewed Harold Lloyd's new film, "The Kid Brother.” Lloyd has again “crashe ; through” with a great human inter est comedy. One of the most unusual things about the picture is that it hasn't a single wisecracking title. After the show, while hundreds jammed the sidewalk and street in front of the theater to see him. Lloyd slipped out a book door and went home. He hates to b# looked at.