Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1927 — Page 4

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No law shall be passed restraining the freeinterchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana.

Finish Something Ordinary citizens may be pardoned for a lack of interest in public affairs when time after time, they are led to think that something is about to happen and nothing ever finishes. Two years ago the highway commission was investigated and indictments were returned against officials and junk dealers charged with conspiracy to defraud the government or the people out of huge sums of money. The people were led to believe that here was something which concerned them and which would be followed by drastic action. And at the end of two years the indictments are dismissed, there is not even an apology to the officials and the public statement is made that there was no evidence against those who had been under criminal charges for two years. No answer is made to the question as to why indictments were returned when there was no evidence to convict and the people are given only a guess as to the truth of the charges by those indicted that they were framed by public officials and that the bringing of charges was a sinister misuse of official power for the purpose of terrorizing officials. Just how much this incident added to the public fund of confidence in government is a matter of speculation. Any guess is as good as another. Months ago the attorney general of this State charged that the head of the dry forces of this State had attacked the integrity of the Supreme Court, had interfered with the orderly processes of government. had menaced the usefulness of courts and brought law into contempt by his attacks upon court decisions and judges. The people were led to believe that here was something that would redeem the State and relieve it front any danger of being quietly overthrown by an invisible government more powerful than elected officials. The attorney general said that the actions of this dry leader and political power constituted contempt of court. Month after month passes and the people have yet to learn whether this dry politician brought the court into contempt or was exercising his rights as a citizen when he criticised its decisions and its action. Over in the local court a grand Jury last fail ..spent eleven weeks listening to evidence of cor rapt ion or lack of it. The State was told that this inquiry would either lift the burden of disrepute from the State or bring to the bar of justice any official who had betrayed his trust or misused his power. At the end of the long inquiry, for which the Governor paid two special attorneys from his contingent fund, the sum of SII,OOO, the jury returned no indictments, but did clare that peculiar conditions existed within its body and suggested that some other grand jury take up the task. The suggestion may be pardoned that these un finished efforts, these things which are started and never ended, this State of uncertainty contributes to the bad repute of the S'ate and brings in into disfavor. Unfortunately the Legislature, at its regular session, did not find it convenient to once and forever take off the lid and make a sweeping investigation of all the incidents and charges that militate against the growth and progress of the State. It is unfortunate because such an inquiry would have forever given the answer to false charges and forever corrected any evil condition which is now magnified perhaps in whispers. Indiana is too fine a State to be handicapped by tins blanket of doubt, uncertainty and suggested scandal. Possibly a special session, if one be needed to legalize appropriation laws and other measures which seem to be queerly changed between the legislative halls and the executive chamber, might find the time to finish someone inquiry and give at least one answer to someone question. Whose War Is It Anyhow? Fear a great Chinese uprising against all foreigners is gnawing at the vitals of official Washington, according to the latest advices from the national capital. And well might this be so. When the World War broke out in Europe thirteen years ago a foreigner in Germany who might be mistaken for an Englishman or Frenchman, found his vcyv life in danger. And, in France, any one who looked like a German was equally in peril. The Case Viennois, in the very heart of Paris, was sacked and wrecked by an angry mob over which the police had absolutely no control. Even a British shop, a business owned by the subject of an ally, suffered the same fate simply because the Briton had a German sounding name. The Britisher himself and the owners of the Case Viennois escaped personal harm only because (hey discreetly made themselves scarce while the storm was ou. Have we any right to expect the Chinese to be more civilized than we are—who think our culture no superior? > Despite the fact that the Chinese have every reason to hate all foreigners for the way they have been exploited for the past hundred years, they have shown admirable restraint from the beginning of their civil war until now. Foreign lives aud property have been respected more than they would have in a western land under similar circumstances. Meanwhile foreigners steadfastly refused to heed the warnings of their governments to quit the more dangerous zones of the interior and seek refuge in the treaty ports of the coast. Closer and closer to them came the carnage and still they stayed on until at last they were run over by the irresistible juggernaut of war. It is no excuse to say that these foreigners were in China on legitimate business. No doubt that is true. Nor is it. pertinent to claim they remained at their posts because they had valuable property to safeguard. Property, if destroyed, can be paid for; it is human life that counts. The shedding of British blood angers Great Britain. The killing of an American arouses the United States. And the ■helling of densely inhabited Chinese cities by Brit-

ish and American warships inflames the anti-foreign feeling, already fervid, in China. There is the danger. Young China is fighting for her freedom. She is in the midst of one of the most important revolutions in all the anuals of historyShe is struggling to free herself from the shackles of ignorance and superstition and medievalism on the one hand and foreign domination on the other. Abroad, yet tve insist upon thrusting ourselves in between the battle fines. Some of us are bound to get hurt and we are bound to get mad. But when we turn our guns loose against vast agglomerations of humanity amongst whom are bound to be perfectly innocent women and children, the Chinese —who are just as human as we are—burn bloody berserks and the trouble is on. Americans should have been summarily ordered out of the danger zones long before now. For weeks we have had ships enough in Chinese waters to evacuate those who, for any reason, could not get out otherwise. Had this been done there would have been no need for Admiral Hough to be "drawn in” by the British admiral at Nanking, which incident bids fair to set all China on fire. The Japanese, significantly enough, did not allow themselves to be “drawn in” and their nationals were rescued precisely as were ours. It may be locking the stable door after the horse is gone, but if it is not too late we should pr<> ceed at urgence to evacuate the remaining Americans in China, taking them to Shanghai or Manila, then inform both parties of the war they would be held accountable for every dollar's worth of property harmed. Then we should let the war proceed without interference from us. For it is China’s war of freedom and we have no right to try to stop it, even if we were foolish enough to think we could. The great powers might seize the present opportunity to wade in, slaughter tens of thousands of natives and then sit on them for a time but, quite as the nationalist generalissimo, Chang Kai-Shek, said: “There aren't enough foreign battleships in the world to stop for long what has now begun.” Our Chinese policy must be based on that axiom. If it isn't then God help us and the rest of the world. China holds a quarter of the population of the globe. Strike May Be Averted Negotiations of the past few days give some hope that the impending strike in the soft coal fields may be averted. If these negotiations fail of their purpose, work will cease Friday in many mines. The principal point at issue is the wage scale. The miners, who have received $7.50 a day or $45 a week—when they work a week, as they do not w ith, any regularity—want this scale continued. The operators want wages reduced to the lower level paid in nonunion mines of West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Strikes are an old story in the coal mines of America. Operators of other industries have, perhaps, become calloused to the troubles of coal mine owners. The public, it may be, has become calloused to the suffering of miners, tl eir women and their children, as a consequence of strikes and lockouts. But in the past few years anew factor has entered into the consideration of wage disputes. What is sometimes called the Ford idea has taken hold of the imagination of business men. This is the idea that high wages make for the prosperity of everybody concerned, including those who pay the wages. The capacity of America to consume the goods which it unquestionably has the capacity to produce, depends on the income of the great mass of citizens. Coal miners number many hundreds of thousands—733,ooo was the number in 1920. With their families they form such an important part of the total population that they can not be disregarded as an element of general prosperity or the lack of prosperity. Whether a certain single miner in a distaut State crawls on his stomach, picking coal, for $6 a day or for $7.50 a day may mean little to the average of us. Whether several thousand work for the smaller or the larger wage, may mean a lot. The other dollar and cents consideration, of course, is the effect on the price we pay for coal.

Rebellious Old Age By N. D. Cochran

Most of us are familiar with rebellious youth. If age hasn't hardened our arteries, we can sympathize with it. And it’s just as well to sympathize, for there isn’t much else we can do—fortunately. In all ages youth has rebelled; as it has a right to do and ought to do. In rebellion there is progress. But old age is different. It is too submissive. Grandpa and grandma submit too softly to being shoved into comfortable rocking chairs in cosy corners, where there is nothing for grandpa to do but smoke his pipe and grandma to knit something or other ofr somebody. One trouble with all of us is that we determine arbitrarily, by years, the difference betw-een old age and youth. Some years ago Dr. Osier raised the dickens by intimating that after people reached sixty they might as well be put out of the way. But Osier was wrong. Some men at sixty are younger mentally and physically than others are at forty. Anyhow, it is both encouraging and refreshing to learn from the New York Travelers’ Aid Society that even age revolts, rebels and runs away from home. There is something about a runaway grandma that appeals to the imagination and the eternal fitness of things. There was the New England grandma of over eighty who ran away from home and was picked up by the Travelers’ Aid at a New York terminal station. Her youthful son Joel got fresh and wanted to sell the farm—though he was only 68—and grandma packed up her duds and ran away to the big city. Then there was the venturesome old lady of 65 who wanted to see something of the world and its bright lights before she sank back in the rocking chair to await the finish. She ran away and came to New York, as other girls have done, and was hobbling around on her crutch when the Travelers Aid horned in and persuaded her to go back home to an anxious daughter. These are but two illustrations of rebellion In the blood of grandmas, but. they serve to illustrate the fact that in these days when the mysteries of the endocrine glands arc being solved, you can’t always tell what’s going on in grandma's bloodstream when she is sitting by the fireside knitting. And while grandpa may look meek, submissive and thoi-oughly tamed, don't bet too much that his mind is entirely occupied with vain regrets. He might like to run away, too — if he only dared. The glory of grandma is that now and then she daree.

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American People Will Find it Necessary to Take China Seriously.

By M. E. Tracy The American people are not as Interested in the Chinese situation as they ought to be or as they will find it necessary to be some day. Several WTiters have explained this on the ground that the names of cities and leaders are too hard to pronounce. What a pity it is that the western world couldn't have foreseen such a difficulty before it meddled in Chinese affairs. Fiery Gospel One hundred years ago the Chinese were giving the outside world little trouble, and probably would have continued to do so had the outside nations left them alone. The market for commercial and religious wares, however, proved too tempting. Some folks couldn't bear the idea of China going to hell in Ignorance of the Gospel, while others couldn't bear the idea of her going to Heaven without modern equipment. Missionaries and treaties were forced upon her, the control of many of her ports was taken over by foreign governments, and if she dared to so much as murmur a protest, Christian guns were turned against her to prove how fiery the new gospel was. China broke under the strain, went democratic and though we have some sixty warships in her rivers and harbors, with hundreds of marines laqded and more likely to follow, we beg the question of what it is all about by proclaiming that we can’t make head or tail out of the Chings and Changs, Sings, Fangs and Mings. Exploitation The western world has had a rather enjoyable time lording it over China. Her cheap labor made it possible to buy many raw materials at a low price, while her helpless condition made it possible to force fa*th, opium and other things down her throat. Napoleon seems to have been about the only statesman of his time who realized what the 'end of the game might be. He said China was a sleeping giant and those should be aware who waked her. Asa matter of common sense, China is merely trying to do what the western world has been telling her she ought to do for a century, abandoning her antiquated form of government, discarding her stupid customs and traditions, undertaking to be modern in politics and trade. We are appalled at the first step of the process. The chaos and confusion It involves leaves us bewildered. For some asinine reason we expect China to become Christian instead of heathen, a republic instead of a monarchy without disturbance. It all goes back to the idea that Chinese names were too hard to pronounce. We have protended that we are Interested in China herself, that we wanted to see her prosperous and in control of her own affairs. Asa matter of fact, we were Interested in very little except what we could buy from China at a cheap price on the one hand and sell to her at a high price, on the other. It Takes Time The Chinese revolution of 1911 caught the w’orld completely off guard. Very few people suspected that such a thing could occur, much less that it would. Instead of waiting to see W’hat the revolution really amounted to, however, we Jumped at the conclusion that it was all its sponsors claimed for it, that China had changed from a 4.000-year-old despotism to an up-to-date republic over night and that other nations faced no grenter problem than to adjust themselves to the new condition. It took the English people 600 years to substitute a workable democracy for a monarchy. Latin America has been trying to do the same thing for more than a 100 years with only partial success. China had farther to go than either; It was preposterous to suppose that she could do it in Jess time. If we hadn’t found those names so hard to pronounce we would have guessed as much. Worst to Come The Chinese revolution has barely begun. It is still in the destructive stage; a few of the leaders may have a constructive program in mind, but the chances arc that most of them have nothing deeper than lust for power. As for the masses, they are drunk with liberation from the old restraints. But there is strength in the chaos. You sense it in the fall of cities, the size of mobs, the excitement in foreign capitals, the alarm of statesmen. Whatever else may be occurring, China has visualized her bigness, her latent energy and resources as never before. Western nations are worried by the quesiton of whether to go on with her repression, or Jet go. If they were not suspicious of each other they would adopt the latter course, but each is dismayed by what the others may take if it quits. France is reported as willing to give up her concessions, but she probably won’t because of fear of what England, Japan or Russia might gain. England would undoubtedly give up many of the special privileges she enjoys if it were not for the ugly thought of what a liberated China might do to encourage revolt in India. Japan and Russia are the two most logical rivals of them all. Neither dares relinquish her hold on China so long as there is a chance that the other will step in and take the advantage. Outside of rescuing a few Americans from immediate danger, the United States appears to have little part in the show, except to pull somebody's chestnuts out of the fire. The problem for this Government to solve is how many it is willing to pull out and for whom.

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Ma O’Neill Raised a Family of Fire Fighters in ‘The Fire Brigade’ Film By Walter D. Hieknian " 11 ■'

Ma O’Neill married u fireman, and her three sons were all fire fighters. Mrs. O'Xeill dreaded to hear a fire alarm because one of her sons and maybe three of them would he on the same job fighting the tire. And this wonderfully human mother saw several of her loved ones pay the supreme price for being a fireman.

You will meet Mu O'Neill and her three sons, Terry, Joe and Jim. in “The Fire Briende.” Here is a human movie, full of both grand melodrama and realism. Here is one of the most human pictures of )’he season. There is not a dull second in “The Fire Brigade.” This movie really glorifies the firemen of America, and at the same time

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it drives home a powerfu' lesson. It makes one respect more than ever the firemen in every city and town In this country. “The Fire Brigade" is glorious human entertainment. It is powerful theater. And what a climax it has with the last of the horse-drawn steamers actually passarid beating to a fire a powerful motor truck. This exciting triek actually made me so excited that I would yell for the horses to gain speed and leave the motor truck in the shade. This race of the tire apparatus is just, as exciting sa the chariot race in "Ben Hur.” You will love the human characterization of Eugenie Besserer as Mrs. O'Neill, whose sons were firemen. Here is an excellent characterization. human and so real. Mrs. O’Neill actually lives in the hands of Eugenie Besserer. X am willing to state that here is one of the best mother characterizations which the screen has ever had. "The Fire Brigade” has the services of Charles Ray, Tom O’Brien and Warner P. Richmond as the three fire fighting brothers. This picture gives Ray the best and most human part that he has had in the last two years. When Ray has a real human part to play, you can rest assured that he will play it for all that it's worth, and he certainly is doing it in “The Fire Brigade.” You are going to love Terry O'Neill, the baby in the fire fighting family, as played by Ray. In the love scenes May McAvoy, as Helen Corwin, and Ray are teamed. / And pretty love scenes they are to be sure. Vlvia Ogden as Bridget and Bert Woodruff as Captain O’Neill have most of the comedy scenes, although Ray has much to do with some of the comedy. Have been told that the firemen ol America are benefiting from “The Fire Brigade,” as a certain percentage of the box office gross goes to the firemen's organization in every theater that plays this picture. I have always loved the fire horses and these noble animals of other days figure in the dramatic action of this movie. “The Fire Brigade” Is filled with human beauty. It is splendid entertainment. Corking good theater. Let the whole family see this one. Tite ltill includes Sammy Epstein,

Movie Verdict APOLLO —“The Fire Brigade,” is blessed by having many moments of fine theater, a thrilling story and one of the most 'human easts ever assembled for one picture. Here is real entertainment. ClßCLE—Colleen Moore in "Orrhids and Ermine,” is just as cute and sweet as she has ever been. Good clean fun. OHIO —William Haines has made himself famous by his work in "Slide. Kelly, Slide.” Here is one of the winning comedies of the season and the best of the baseball movies.

radio artist; Elmer McDonald, another air artist, and Emil Seidel and his orchestra. At the Apollo all week. The Berkell Players opened their fifth stock season at English's last night before a capacity house. The bill for the week is “If I Was Rich.” Other theaters today offer: Ledova, dancer, at Keith's; Frederick V. Bowers at the Lyric: Helen Staples at th Palace: “Bardieys the Magnificient” at the Sanders: “Tom Mix in “The Great 1 and a Train Robbery” at the South Side: "Corporal Kate”

of Prepared by Rev. Charles Emerson Burton, D.D., for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Copyright ipct

Topic for the Week “SPIRITUAL INTERCOURSE” Monday “We Should Pray in Private” SCRIPTURE: Read—Luke 11:1-13. “But thou, when thou prayest. enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut, thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret” (Mt. 6:6). “He went up into the mountain apart to pray and he was there alorfe” (Mt. 14:23). “He went out into the mountain to pray; and he continued all night in prayer to God” (Lk. 6:12). See —Ephesians 6:18: I. Thessalonians 5:17. MEDITATION: Jesus could pray anyhwere. Yet he knew the essential value of private prayer and fled to the mountains to practice it. Private prayers favors sincerity, freedom from distraction, the sense of responsibility, the opening of the secrets of the heart and specific prayers in place of generalizations. It breathes "the heart's sincere desire." Personal interviews with God —what privilege could be higher! “Thy wishes must themselves he prayers—golden desires that thy good may he the good of all.” HYMN: Immortal Love, forever full. Forever flowing free. Forever shared, forever whole, A never ebbing sea! We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down; In vain we search the lowest deeps For Him no depths can drown. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is He; And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. —John G. Whittier, 1866. PRAYER: Thanks for true servants of God. Pray so of surrender; judges; lawyers; criminals. Collect —Lord of all truth, whose mind is quick and powerful, we praise Thee for the universe, so vast, so orderly, so dependable. We bless Thee for the persons of men and the powers of friendship in them and us, but yet more for friendship with thyself, for fellowship with Thy Son and for Thy pervading presence with us in the Hqly Spirit. Precious are the moments of intimate intercourse wi*h Thee. Reprove us, we entreat Thee, for the pursuit of things to the forgetting of friendships human and divine. Give us the discriminating mind which detects tlie* subfiles of sin and the beauty of holiness. So shall we know victory in the conflict. Therefore we covenant with Thee to put first thir.es fi’st by the grace of Christ. Amen.

at the Uptown; “The Whispering Sage” at the Isis, and burlesque at the Mutual. C OLLEEN MOORE IS JUST RIGHT IN HER NEW MOVIE It seems to me that Colleen Moore is a city sweetheart as far as Indianapolis is concerned. Judging by the way many young people who went to the Circle yesterday to see Miss Moore in "Orchids

and Ermine.” applauded and laughed with Colleen, it ig safe to say that she is one of the most popular film players. Colleen Moore is always the cut little trick, and in “Orchids and Ermine” she is no exception to the rule. In this story Miss Moore is seen as “Pink” Watson, a telethon e operator who dreamed the

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sweet dream of one day marrying a rich fellow who would give her both real orchids and a real-for-goodness ermine coat.. The author has been mighty kind to “Pink” because all of her dreams come true. To tell you how it happens would rob you of some of the pleasure which you will have when you see “Orchids and Ermine." Jack Mulhail is seen as Richard Tabor, a very rich young man who changed places with his valet. Richard did this because he wanted the girl lie married to love him for himself alone instead of his bank account. And while Richard was searching for the real girl, his valet had a gay lime of it masquerading as the rich young Mr. Tabor. “Orchids and Ermine” is just comfy, pleasant and sweet little entertainment. In other words it is another enjoyable Colleen Moore picture with Colleen just as cute and interesting as she ever has been. It is jolly good fun. It reflects youth in its lighter moods. Just the show for a fellow to take his best girl. Van and Schenek are the easy winners on the Vitaphone part of the Circle's bill this week. These men film well and their voices have been weil recorded. They sing four numbers in their individual way of putting over a number. They are real winners any time and any place. Margaret McKee is a whistling soprano and her Vitaphone work is interesting although not sensational. Pauline Albert is what is known as a hot piano player. She does not film so well but she does have a jolly “wicked” effect upon the keys. The Circle orchestra this week under the direction of Stolarevsky has made the beautiful music of “The Chocolate Soldier," as haunting and as melodious as when it was first composed. Here is delightful music, beautifully played. Dessa Byrd again succeeds in getting about every one in the audience to sing, with her while she plays the pipe organ. At the Circle all week. HERE IS THE REST OF THE BASEBALL STORIES As far as l am concerned, "Slide, Kelly, Slide,” with William Haines

Questions and Answers

When did General Gorgas, the American Army officer and sanitary engineer, die? July 4. 1920. Is there a rule about the colors for baby boys and girls? Formerly pink was often used for boys and blue for girls, but in tlie present day there is no rule, and most mothers follow their personal tastes in dressing babies.

MARCH 28,1927

Cvjg cAixction Lead in No-Trump Different Problem Than in Trump.

The pointer for today is: m With the Contract No-Trnmsß and a small card led. holding Queen and one small of suit led should play the Qtie‘;- T ' unless contents of Closed Ham. make that play Inadvisable. When determining the sound play from an honor and one small in Dummy, it i.s well to bear In mind that against a No-Trump, the original leud may be a very different card from the one which would been led against a trump contract The object of the leader against .< No-Trump is to establish a long suit Against a trump contract, establishing a suit Is of little Importance Ixw cause, when established, it trumped: and therefore suit contract, high cards are held back to establish suits, but led quickly for fear they will be lost. With Ace-King and two, three or four small cards, the lead against a trump contract is the King; VnJH against a No-Trump it is the fourt®! best. So at No-Trump, with Queen x in Dummy and without a card as high as a Jack in the Closed I-land the Queen should be played, as it is the only chance for a trick in the suit. The contents of the Closed Hand, however, may alter the situation and the Queen in Dummy should not be played invariably, Suppose a small card be led from some such combination as Ace-10-x-x-x; that Dummy hold Queen and one small, and Closed Hand Jack and two small. If Dummy play small, it is obvious that the Declarer must make one , triek in the suit; but if Dummy play the Queen. Third Hand would win with the King, return the suit through Closed Hand's Jack-x. and the original leader with Ace-Ten and two others would capture the Jack and run five tricks in the suit. With Queen-x of the adverse suit in Dummy opposite Jack-x-x In Closed Hand, only one trick can he won: and that trick should be ensured by playing small on th first round. As an Illustration, look at tile fol lowing hand: North S. 9-6-4 5 H. S-5-3 r>. K-J-6-2 C. Q;.S Wtrt East S. Iv-10 S. J-7-6-3. H. 10-6-4 H. K-9-7-? D. Q-10-8 D. 9-5 C. A-10-6-4-2 C. K-7-5 South S. A-Q-8 H. A-Q-.T * D. A.l-4-S C. J-9-3 With South playing a No-Trump, the Four of Clubs w r ould be led. Note the difference between the play of the Quern and of the small Club from Dummy on the first trick, and also determine, with the small Club played, what developents would follow. Details tomorrow. (Copyright, John F. Dille Company, j

and Sally O'Neil, Is the best of the baseball movies. To me it is miles and miles superior to “Casey at the Bai.” Cnsey

seemed to be n mighty popular in dividual, although 1 did not car m uch for t1 1 • movie. “Slide. Kel ly, Slide,” is :i mighty human and funny little storj. of a. small town guy who actuali ’ broke into the hi league. Kelly wa the original big headed guy of Main St. He w r as Just filled with tricksuch ns glvlnu loaded cigars to his friends. Kelly was'

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a nice guy, but be thought too much of himself. The trouble with bird was that he couldn’t get a big enough for his head. He was tin* only person. In his own estimation* who had a. right to live. He was so well satisfied with himself that hocame mighty near breaking up tlv team. He took all the glory for winning every game, and his own con ceit nearly wrecked him. It took a mighty cruel blow to beat any brains into Kelly’s head. William Haines, by his human work as Kelly, has made himself one of the younger leaders on the screen. After you see Haines in "Slide, Kel ly, Slide,” you are going to Bee hint in his next picture. His success in this one is really sensational, and 1 am sure that I will Include hia work in this movie as one of the ten best of the year. And you wil want to watch Sally O’Neil, a cute little trick, who Is going to make Clara Bow do some lively stepping. Miss O’Neil and Haines have a love wrestling match which is a comedy knockout. Here is one of the best laugh pictures of the season. It kept the audience roaring about all the time | when I saw this picture at the Ohio yesterday. ; You recall that Karl Dan# wa* > one of the real hits in "The i Big Parade.” He Is cast as one jof the „ baseball players in "Slide, Kelly, Slide” and he actually walks away with this picture. H# is a j natural comic. I can wpi all sincerity recommend | "Slide, Kelly. Slide” as one of the ; very best comedies of the year. It i is a human little gem. of whether you are a baseball fiefl or not, .you arc going to have one of your'funniest experiences In the | theater when you see this one. The bill includes Charlie Davis and hia gang in "Kiddieland.” and a Mack Sennet comedy, “Th# Plumb er’s Daughter.’* At the Ohio all weak.