Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 321, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1927 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. WM A. MAYBORN. Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Hownrd Newspaper Alliance • • • C'llent of the United Press and the NEA Service • • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis ftmei Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Marylsnd St.. Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week PHONE—MA in 3500.

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

Is He Contemptuous? Some months ago, just before the November election, Attorney General Gilliom charged that the hkd of the Anti-Saloon League of this State had attempted to terrorize the Supreme Court. The charge was definite In that it was made before the Supreme Court and asked that Mr. Shu maker be cited for contempt of that court. The avowed purpose of the charge was to free the members of that court from the fear that political power in the hands of this organization so that, its decisions on liquor cases could be according to the Constitution and the law rather than the wisheß of an organization bent entirely upon enforcement of one law. The charge was grave. The basis was fully stated. The language was definite. The head of the dry organization was charged openly with misrepresenting decisions of the court. The Supreme Court named lawyers, picked so that they would be evenly divided as to political affiliations and these lawyers reported that the charge of the attorney general was well made and that the activities of the dry leader amounted to contempt. It is within the realm of proper discussion to call attention to the fact that this proceeding is a summary action, designed to apply an unusual remedy in a situation that, calls for speedy action. The power to punish for contempt is presumed to be used only when court proceeses are being impeded and cannot function because of obstruction. The action itself presumably is one which demands instant action. It. is also proper to call attention to the fact that since that charge was made several things have happened. An election has been held, at which judges to the Supreme Court have been elected. The Legislature met and adjourned. The members of that body make laws. They had the power to change the dry laws of the State. They had the right of investigation on behalf of the people. But as yet neither the man under charge know s nor do the people know, whether he is in contempt, of the high court or whether he acted in a perfectly legitimate manner when he issued his statements to his membership and his directorate. Respect for law and for courts is essential in any community that pretends to exist under an orderly government. It is certainly not. presumptious to suggest that all citizens have a right to know how far can go in comment upon the Supreme Court and Its decisions without impeding justice. If Dr. Shumaker was unjustly charged and wan performing a public service in his comments, he should not be restrained by a proceeding that is as yet doubtful in its outcome. If he has a policy of terror if he rules by menacing the consciences and the judgment of judges, the people have a right to know. Is he in contempt? Has he terrorized the Courts? Is such criticism as he made beyond the pale? The people ought to have an answer to these questions and the present situation should be ended. Governor Smith’s Reply Governor A1 Smith has answered the challenge to his Americanism. There was made public today his reply to the now famous open letter of C. C. Marshall, New 't ork lawyer, vflio questioned Smith's eligibility to the presidenci on the ground that he is a Catholic. Wha/ effect this reply may have on those citizens have felt that faith in the Catholic creed nece'rtjariiy conflicts with the oath to support the Constitution of the United States, can not be told. It probably will be long before any estimate can be made, but the effect on average citizens, those who have not rooted into the canons of Smith's particular church, seeking for ecclesiastical technicalities with which to damn him is likely to be favorable. • They are apt to believe the New York Governor when he says: “I have taken the' oath of office in this State* nineteen times and I have never known any conflict between my official duties and my religious beliefs.” • They are apt to believe him when he says: "I recognize no power in the institution of my church to interfere with the operations of the Constitution of the United States or the enforcement of the lawjjf the land.” And wnen he says: "I believe in the absolute separation of church and State and in the strict enforcement of the provisions of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law restricting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” < And again: ‘‘l believe no tribunal of any church has the power to make the decree of force in the law of the land.” They are apt to believe him on these points—the sole points of importance in considering Smith as a possible President—for two reasons. One is that Smith s record as Governor of New York for three terms supports his statements. The other is that the average citizen is bound to say to himself that were he a Catholic and President of the United States he would not and could not permit his church to interfere with the administration of his office. That is the essence of this whole politico-ec-clesiastical issue. And to this A1 Smith has given a common sense answer. As to what he would do, if President, he has replied in a manner that is cool, clear and convincing. As to whether he has given an equally complete answer to the technical- debate, proposed by Mr. Marshall, on the canonical law of the Catholic church, the average citizen probably can not say. This newspaper, at least, can not. And —injecting the element of humor so badly needed In controversies of this unfortunate nature —Smith practically admits that he can not. He frankly turns that job over to a 100 per cent American —measured by w-ar service—who is a Catholic priest. The Reverend Father undertakes to dispose of the fine spun arguments of Attorney Marshall. Which gets the best of the argument probably nover will be decided; it is an argument that can be carried on Indefinitely—without any conclusions. But the practical question has been answered by -4*.

Smith. The answer is this: Any true American who happens to be a Catholic can not properly be barred from aspiring to the highest office within the gift of the American people. As for Smith himself there may be reasons why ho would not make us a good President; the church to which he belongs is not such a reason. A Dollar Can Blot Out the Sun Captain Robert Dollar, as our gifted commentator, M. E. Tracy, has told us, is hopping mad about China This grand old man of the Pacific world, who has grown hoary headed building up a fleet of merchant ships connecting this country with the Orient, thinks we lack backbone. If he were the United States Government, we infer, he would tel! the Chinese where to head in. If they didn't behave we’ve an idea he’d give them a whiff of TNT and steel. Despite our very sincere admiration of the peppery skipper, now 83 years young, we feel bound lo say we are afraid his native Scotch caution is carrying him a trifle far. Hi3 is the old-fashioned way of treating enormous, but backward, masses of humanity. Ramsay MacDonald, another Scot and former prime minister of Britain, now visiting among us, to our way of thinking has a better understanding of the situation. “A politician Without a moral sense,” he told New Yorkers on landing there, ‘‘is a bad egg and a politician without a sense of history is half a fool. A statesman is a man who possesses both.” That is better than an epigram. It is the virtue of being true. The struggle in China is nature's own foment. The people are waking up. Like ants after a long hard winter, they are swarming 'about the task of building themselves a better place to live in. Like dumb oxen we can step on them and kill a lot, but we can’t stop them. We can wreck what is on top of thp ground, but we can't destroy the main w-orks underneath. Now “the politician with a moral sense” will try to help the Chinese. And the politician with a sense of history will not be such a fool as to think for one moment that he can arrest the fundamental impulse of four hundred million people. He is a statesman who will see this and shape his country's policy accordingly. American lives in China must be safeguarded and American property protected insofar as may be. But a principle is at stake out there and the Chinese have a right to find it out just as we had to the Civil War. China did not intervene in the eighteen sixties to protect the chop suey restaurants and laundries of her nationals that got caught between the lines in Richmond and Atlanta. “The thing to remember in the Chinese situatoin,” former Premier Ramsay MacDonald went on to say, “is that whenever and however the revolution comes to an end, China will remain a part of the world, as will you and we. We will still have to be China's neighbors and to trade with her.. I would say: 'Don't sacrifice the future for the present moment.’ ” There's a canny Scot talking and a statesman. If you put a dollar close enough to your eye you will blot out all the glories of the sun and the heavens and the earth. There are Americans and others in the China trade so afraid of a reduction of the profits of the moment that they are blind to the whole golden future.

With Regard to Democrats

-By N. D. Cochran-

The weakness of the Democratic party is its strength. The solidity of the-solid South is a liability instead of an asset. It isn't solid on any principle of government, tinless you want to call white supremacy in a section of the country where the Negro population is densest, a principle of government. In most Southern States nomination at a Democratic primary is equivalent to election. So in both houses of Congress the Representatives are Democrats Occasionally, when the people want to punish the Republican party, they elect a Democratic Congress, adding enough members from the North to make a majority with the Southern members. As the seniority rule governs in the make-up of committees in both the Senate and the House, a Democratic majority in either house means that the South gets the chairmanships: for, naturally enough, the members of long service come from the South. If nothing but political principles were involved, somo of the Southern States would be Republican on the tariff issue—notably Alabama and Louisiana. Other States are affected by the movement of the steel and textile industries to th e Souh and the growth of manufacturing. Such an old-fashioned theory as a tariff for revenue only is merely a memory. The free trade philosophy of Frank Hurd, who was a Democratic leader in Congress when McKinley was the champion of a high protected tariff, has even faded from memory. Naturally enough, when t) e Democratic party of the solid South went over to fundamentalism, prohibition and Ku-Kluxism, its opposition to sumptuary legislation evaporated. It got so far away from Jeffersonian democracy that the shade of Thomas Jefferson wouldn’t have known his party in its Federal disguise. There are, however, many Jeffersonian Democrats all over the North, East and West who believe in the hill of rights, but they are all dressed up in their Jeffersonian democracy with nowhere to go. They have been lost sheep ever since Bryan led them into strange pastures in 1596 and thereafter. Many of them came back home when Wilson led them back to Jefferson and democratic idealism, but the poor old party, under the leadership of the Anti-Saloon League, began floundering again when MeAdoo snatched the shroud pr Bryan and tried to lead them back into the wilderness. Mac was no more of a Joshua than Brya n was a Moses. Anyhow, the sun wouldn’t stand still over Gideon, and it looks like thirty-two more years in the wilderness unless the party picks up the Jeffersonian chart and begins sailing the true course. The chances of electing a Democratic President in 1928 are almighty slim. And it isn't because a majority of the people all over this country do not beeve in the Democracy of Jefferson or the Republicanism of Lincoln. It is because the Democrats have wandered far away from Jefferson and the bill of rights and have become a sectional party and slave to the traditional enemies of liberty. If there were any chance of a come-back for Jefferson’s Ideas of liberty the people would punish the Republican party for getting so far away from the Republican principles of Lincoln. “ In being compelled to make a choice of two evils, most of tlie States take a chance with the one they have rather than fly to another that seems to have no sense of direction. In other words, the game of some Democratic leaders to win by ducking and dodging won’t work.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TTMES

V- Sayti A Murder Trial Remains ■ the Greatest Drama of Them All.

By M. E. Tracy Tnough they intended nothing of the sort when they cooed at each other, held hands and plotted murder over a bottle of hootch, Mrs. Snyder and Henry Judd Gray are about to provide a “Roman holiday' for millions. What is quite as interesting, the millions are ready for it. With all their elaborate plans and preparations for covering the trial, it is doubtful if the newspapers have overestimated the public demand. A murder trial, specially if based on a particularly brutal crime or if It involves the sex element, remains the greatest drama of them all. Nothing that Shakespeare ever wrote or that Hollywood has produced creates equal interest in the popular mind. As the messy details of this case unfold, they will furnish subject matter for table talk, smoking room arguments and street corner conversations front Maine to California. We have discontinued cruel and public executions, and we treat defendants with a courtesy and consideration never before known, but when it comes to a desire to know what happened and all that happened. we are as morbid as were our ancestors 100 or even 1,000 years ago. Science Tinkers The one promise of improvement consists in the fact that we are willing to let scientists tinker with an accused person to see whether they can find a mechanical cause of his offense. Experts have not only been allowed to quiz Gray, but to drawblood and spinal fluid from his body. The blood and spinal fluid have been subjected to laboratory- tests to see whether they show signs Indicating a nervous disorder. If they do Gray may be sent to an asylum for life, which would mean very little to him or to society. Unless science can go farther than that to find out what ails a criminal after he has engaged in crime, it will have accomplished nothing of real value. What society wants is pre\ention. and what inspires it to tolerate all the prying, probing and psychoanalyzing is the hope of getting prevention. Pretended Wisdom The American public is fairly sold on the idea that science can find the cause of many crimes and provide a remedy, but it is not sold on the idea that science has done much more than become intelligently interested. The Impression prevails that a great many scientists pretend to know much more about the matter than they really do. and this hurts. Ready enough with elaborate explanations after the crime lias beer, committed, science seems still unable to pick the potential criminal, unless he is obviously crazy, or to warn society against him. Great Universities have not only harbored, but honored, potential criminals without so much as suspecting it. Worse still, whenever the question of sanity is raised it seems as though just as many experts can be found to testify for one side as for the other. All this damages the case for science, and no one is so palpably to blame for It as those scientists whose enthusiasm, or thirst for notoriety, induces them to go farther than present, day knowledge warrants. It is legitimate to probe, experiment and theorize, but it is not legitimate to presume on the result. An Abiding Faith The wonder working powers of a science have almost made it a religion with this age. People trust it not only for what It has done, but more still for what they think It can do. Things have come to the point (hat when told that some irreplacable resource, such as oil or timber, is about to disappear, people merely shrug their shoulders and say, “Why should we worry? Science will find a substitute.” Such an abiding faith offers little less than an open road to quackery. Without realizing it, we are in about as gullible a frame of mind as w-as Europe during the sixteenth century when the alchemists and astrologers enjoyed their greatest glory. The situation is peculiarly dangerous. Not only are the people in a mood to be misled, but science itself is likely to suffer. When to Talk Scholars who discover things and talk afterward are rendering real service, but those who talk first, who make wild, extravagant claims are doing irreparable harm. When you are told that green fruit has been quickly ripened by ethylene gas after months of experiment, you are justified in assuming that a process has been brought to light which may prove a great benefit to the farmers, but when you are told that it is possible to determine the degree of intoxication by analyzing a person's breath, you want to laugh or swear. You can understand how chemical analysis of the breath might determine the amount of liquor a man had taken, but how. in the name of common sens© could it possibly determine the mount required to make him drunk? The flaw in Dr. Bogen's theory is that some men can get pickled on a jill.

How much did the largest brook and lake trout that have been caught, weigh? Brook ti;out (1917) weight 7 pounds ten ounces, caught by Carl S. Carlson in Magalloway River, Maine: lake trout (1922) weight 36 pounds, 8 ounces, caught by E. D. Calvert in Loke of the Wood*, Ontario, Canada.

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‘Beau Geste’ Is One of Ten Best Movies: Esther Ralston Is Now a Famous Star

“Beau Geste” has arrived in town And it will be the talk of the town this week and as long as it desires to stay in its present local home. The arrival of this Broadway moie hit marks the reopening of the Colonial Theater botn in brand new dress as well as policy. The new Colonial management has spent

much real money in compltely overhauling this theater so tnat “Beau Geste” and all future presentations may he given in both I) eau t i ful and mighty comfortable surroundings. “Beau Geste” is now being presented here as a road show attraction, carrying its o w n orchestra. Tnis movie is still going strong on Broadway. You

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recall that on my return from New York last fall I told you about this movie. I state with no hesitation that “Beau Geste" is one of the ten best movies of the year and probably the leading mystery melodrama j-et given the screen. Here is a movie of almost universal appeal. It has mystery, drama.'more piystery and some of the weirdest situations yet reflected upon the screen. Herbert Brenon directed tnis really big photoplay for Paramount. It is peopled by a cast, the very names of which really foretells its quality. Supreme in tlie cast is Ronald Colnian. and he has the splendid services of Noah Beery. Neil Hamlltn. Ralph Forbes. Mary Brian, Alice Joyce. William Powell. Norn an Trevor, Victor McLanglen and several others. The keynote of the story is that of the love of three brothers, played by Neil Hamilton, Ronald Colman and Ralph Forbes. That Is the keynot of the story, and it is splendidly and humanly put over in the first part of the story by the three brothers. A gem, a most valuable one, is stolen in the darkness in the presence of the three brothers. All take the blame and vanish. Then the French Foreign Legion, an organization which in stories at least yields tons of romance and mystery to this photoplay. It has been niy policy with mystery stories and weird romances of this nature not to tell you the story. I believe it robs one of the greatest pleasure. When I first saw "Beau Geste” months ago on Broadway I was thankful that I did not know too much aboutt this story. Yes, this is the movie where "dead men” in a fort fight “to death.” To my way of thinking this is the weirdest and most effective mystery scene I have ever seen in my life upon the screen. And talk about fighting—this picture has somo real battles before a fort of mystery. It takes real artistry to portray characters of the type reflected in "Beau Geste,” but it is no job for Colman, Beery, Hamilton, McUaglen and the others to give realistic characterizations before a melodramatic background. "Beau Geste” comes nearer being

Movie Verdict COLONIAL—“Beau Geste” is one of the ten best movies of the year. Romance as it should be done on the screen. CIRCLE—ReaI sob drama, that's “Three Hours.” Corlnne Griffith proves herself to be a real emotional artist. Mighty good. APOLLO Esther Ralston has made herself famous as a polite comedy actress In “Fashions for Women.” One of the treats of the week. OHIO —Asa mail man. Eddie Cantor in "Special Delivery” shows some new ways to deliver mail. Eddie Cantor again is Eddie Cantor.

The All Absorbing Topic

-By Walter D. Hickman

the perfect mystery melodrama of the screen. This is one picture that has about all the "theater” that any movie could boast of. • Again. I tell you with pleasure that "Beau Geste” is the best mystery movie melodrama I have ever seen and that it is one of the ten best movies of the year. “Beau Geste” is being presented twice daily, matinee and night, at the Colonial all week. REAL HEART DRAMA IS “THREE HOURS” Most of us can recall that Madame X,” when presented upon the stage years ago, was a sob drama. Now the movies has its own expert sob drama of a modern type. It is

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* Corlnne Griffith

great start with Madeline, down and out after being forced from the wealthy home of her husband, st ooping to steal the pocket book of James Finlay, played by John Bowers. , The pocketbook contained enough dough to dress Madeline up j in the same style that she had before she left her husband. She wanted to steal, because her husband had sent word that she might see her baby daughter. Finlay gives Madeline three hours grace, meaning that as soon as the time was up he would turn her over to the police as a common thief. The past life of Madeline is told In some finely constructed flashbacks relates her story to Finlay. Then we see Finlay escort Madeline to Durkin’s big home. There the old ship builder had i a surprise for Madeline. , Yes, he would let her see her daughter on the child's birthday. And then the nursery door is opened —well a little casket greets Madeline. That is Jonathan’s idea of a grim joke. And it is good theater. It registers with a bang. And they applauded yesterday at the Circle when the old shipbuilder is given a “sock” in the nose by the first real friend that Madeline has ever had. Miss Griffith, under the direction of James Flood, shows that she is there on that sob. drama-tic stuff. Quite'a fine performance. Os course. Bosworth is excellent as usual. And Mary Louise Miller as Baby Durkin, she is a dear. Quite a picture for those v.-lio love the sob stuff. It 13 mighty effective theater. The Vitaphone presentation includes Bernado De Pace, mandolin player, splendid; Gigl, noted opera tenor, in a scene from "Cavalleria Rusticana,” the voice is there and well projected, but the ensemble does not get over as it should because stage space has not been given, and Roger Wolfe Kahn and his orchestra, splendid. The Circle orchestra as an overture is playing "Love Lyrics of India." At the Circle all week. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT ESTHER IS NOW A HIT Am sure that we have another fine new polite comedy star on the screen. Name —Esther Ralston. Reason—her charming work in the polite | comedy of fashion, “Fashions for Women.” , The screen needs more clever women who van play parts like Mis3 Ralston takes in her new comedy. The stage has several good repre sentatives of polite comedy work. The screen seems to be limited in

this particular bx-and of polite com edy women And so tne success of Miss Ralston in “Fashions for Women" takes on a bigger meaning because it definitely gives the screen an artist in this line of work. * Miss Ralston really plays two holes in this movie, as she is seen both as Loa Rauvrv, a eigaret girl in a Paris case, and as Celeste de Civray. the best dressed woman in Paris, who sells ner beauty to two male dressmakers in Paris. Celeste has a high priced press agent, and it is this smart guy who gives the picture a novel start. It’s clever and a bit, should 1 say, spicy. Two men are seen in a beautiful room. They are ringing their hands. One gets tne idea that one might be madam's husband, present at a certain'important event in any woman's life. A third man appears, then a nurse. The men are told that Madame is doing as well as expected. So far we have not had a movie look into the bedroon . And when we do—well. Mine. De Givray is naving her face lifted. Qute a wow, lid. The press agent then gets madante in on a scheme to pull a fake mystery disappearance stunt. Then the press agent goes forth to get a girl to impersonate Madame. This, of course, is the pretty eigaret girl who looks just like Madame when she is all dolled up. From-now on you see some of the best polite and clever comedy that the screen has revealed for come time. It L here that Mira Ralston mokes herself a real star on her own merits. She is a complete success in her first starring movie. She has the fine assistance of Raymond Hatton and Elnar Hanson. And this movie has a beauty parade which is some parade. The b vst that the movies has yet had. Hero is a winning light comedy picture with a real plot to it. Bill Includes Mabel Normand In "One Hour Married." a news reel. Emil Seidel and his orchestra. Frank Holland, tenor, and Ray "Winnings at the organ. At the Apollo all week.

called "Three Hours," and has the fine services of Corlnne Griffith, John Bowers, and Hobart Bosworth. Mr. Bosworth as Jonathan Durkin, an eccenir'c ship builder ; ml a most jealous husband, is the one who causes Miss Griffith as Madeline Durkin to pull some of the heaviest and best sob stuff that the screen has had for many moons. The story gets a

EDDIE C ANTOR IS NOW AN ORIGINAL POSTMAN Everything that Eddie Cantor doss on the screen is just Eddie Cantor, and that seems to be sufficient, just as it is in the case of W. C. Fields. Cantor. Fields and a few others, including Will Rogers, all of whom h. ve an enormous stage following,

Eddie Cantor

ture becomes melodramatic, with Cantor rushing to an ocean pier to arrest the bond swindler on a fire truck. But it is the personal comedy business of Cantor which gives the picture what merit it has. Cantor is an individual comedian and he has his own way In putting over his scenes. His special delivery postman suffers with "bad dogs,” modern for feet, and so Eddie has unique ways in getting the mail to the seventh story of an apartment house. He uses toy balloons and they do tbe work. At another time Cantor sings for two blind musicians on the streets, and when the crowd gathers Cantor gives the mall in person to those assembled. And so Cantor cuts down on the actual "hoofing.” Cantor is using his eyes more than ever In this film. His funny, shy eyes have been a gold mine to this man on the stage. It should

eduction byJMilion Bidding Generally L More Important Than Playing,

The pointer for today Is: THE BIDDING GENERALLY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE PLAY; EVERY BRIDGE PLAYER SHOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH BIDDING CONVENTIONS As was announced last Saturday, this is to he "bidding week” and the program will be that each day from now until Friday, I will give four hands and ask my readers what bid should be made with each. The conditions will he varied. One day the hands will be those of a Dealer: another, of a player in some other po sitlon, etr. When the hands arm those of any player except Dealer, the declarations for the preceding players will be given. Each day there w-il! be an answer slip so that the leader can note what he thinks is the correct bid with cacli one. Make J’our entries in pencil and keep your answer slip until the next day; then compare your bids with mine and. if they do not agree, read carefully the reasons that I give in support of my bids. Again I suggest that you get as many as you can of your Bridge friends and clubmates to fill up an answer slip each day. and that you all keep your respective records for the week. There will be a total of twelve bidding hands this week and the contest which you can thus cJjfe duct for yourselves shoul dbe a mWF interesting one. Today's hands are all supposed to be held by a Dealer, the score being lot c all, first game and the question in each of the four cases is: what should the Dealer declare? The four hands are: 50. I No. i A <2 A-Q.RM y A-K-Q-I-* O ?•* 0 4* $ A-E-Q ? * * M yp. s y. 4 A a A.9.M.* 0 A-ff-Q-4 y A-7-A O <•• 0 A '*' 9 A *•* * ■ Rrldge Answer Slip of April 18 No. 1 Dealer should. No. 2 Dealer should .. No. 3 Dealer should No. 1 Dealer should John F. DJIe Cos.

Your Drains UnieM

This is a test of music. Some of the questions concern Indianapolis. The answers are on page 12: 1. Who wrote Sky Lines, an ern symphony? 2. Where is Bayreuth and for what is It noted? 3. What effect aid Napoleon’s proclaiming himself emperor have upon Beethoven? •!. What two opera:- are the re suit of a prize contest? 5. Os what country was Victor Herbert a native? 6. In "Aida,” what is the relation of Amonasro to Aida? 7. What composed the music, for “All Alone”? S. What prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera was formerly a "Follies" girl? 0. Who is Samuel Instill? IP. What world famous conductor conducts entirely from memory? 11 Who has sponsored most of the concerts in Indianapolis in the last several years? 12. Who composed the “Nutcracker Suite”? work the same on the screen. Here is an eye comedian and he knows how lo work 'em. In all modern comedies there must be a love element, and "Special Delivery" lies it. The element in this case is Jobyna Ralston. The villain is Donald Keith. “Special Delivery" is blessed with snappy and funny subtitle which sounds like Cantor. Charlie Davis, by his continual work of pleasing his followers, has built up not only a local reputation but a State-wide one. this weentt presenting his gang in "Jazz tarium.”, Davis is known out of town as (lie “Paul Ash of Indianapolis.” Bill include s"The Last Word, ' a comedy. At the Ohio Ona B. Talbot tonight at the Murat presents Fritz Reiner and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Sophie Braslau, soloist. Other theaters today offer: “Whispering Wires” at English'*, Gordon and Healy at the Palace, Gene Austin at the Lyric Will Mahoney at Keith’s, "Flesh and the Devil” a: at the South Side, "The Rambling Sanders. "The Black White Sheep Ranger" at the Isis, Kiddie Revue at the Uptown and burlesque at th Mutual. What is the tallest building In the world? How will the proposed new building in New York City compare with the Eiffel Tower and the Woolworth Bldg. The Woolworth Building In New York is the tallest building in the world. The Eiffel Tower in Paris is a taller structure but is not a building. The projected building at IV. Forty-Second St.. New York City is to be 1,208 feet high and will have 110 stories. It will be 228 feet taller than the Eiffel Tower and 416 feet highor than the Woolworth Bldg. Os the following instruments which is the easiest to learn, banjo, ukulele and mandolin? The banjo is much easier to ]eWn than the violin because it has frets, or markings where the fingers are to be placed to produce the notes, while the violin has no such markings. The ukulele and mandolin are easier to learn than the banjo.

have rec e n tly gone into the movies. Cantor and Fields seem to have struck "movie oil,” and it looks like they will stay put upon the screen for some time. In "Special Delivery” Cantor is a clever postman who causes the arrest of a mail swindler, one of those guys who sells bad stocks to good people. At times the pic-

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