Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1927 — Page 4

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It’s Up to Britain ’ This week ought to mark a turning point in world history. A week ago today, at the instance of the United States, a naval arms conference was called to order .at Geneva. At once our .chief delegate, Hugh Gibson, made a perfectly-simple proposal to Britain and Japan. To prevent competition in the building of vast numbers of cruisers, destroyers and submarines, he suggested that the Washington agreement of 1921, which limited capital- ships, be extended to cover the smaller ships as well. - No fairer proposal was ever made or could be made. But for some reason the British began to hem and haw. They seemed utterly unwilling to agree to any arrangement which would not leave them in control of the seas. Finally, at the end of the week, like Gods on high Olympus, they decided they might “allow” the United States equal tonnage in certain categories of naval craft, but Britain had not yet decided whether she could "agree to cruiser parity” with us. Instantly, it seemed, a chill swept across the Atlantic and enveloped the United States. Every American must have experienced something of a shock, followed by a perceptible stiffening of the back. Britain had completely failed to grasp the sigI nificance of the Geneva conference, America was -there on a totally different and far more worthy mission than to ask Britain’s permission to build ships. And, according to dispatches from Washington, Britain has just been diplomatically so informed. The word has gone forth that we shall insist upon parity in every type of craft, and that the only thing we are asking Britain now is, How big a navy shall we mutually agree to maintain? It is not , boasting to say we could easily build three times aS many ships as Britain, even were she to crack the very backs of her taxpayers to get the money. Likewise it is with no intention of being nasty that we remind Britain that, in the past, nations situated as we are situated, have never failed to set about ruling the world by ruling the wave. Britain herself used her vast wealth that way. Were we to follow precedent, therefore, we would set the world on fire with our ships. But we are not going to follow precedent. We want no such navy. W-e don’t want to rule the earth. We don’t want to 'rule the waves. 'A change is coming over civilization and we are blazing the trail. All we want is peace and to be let alone. ’ * Our Navy, therefore, is going to be as large as, and no larger, than our neighbors make necessary. It must be as large as Britain’s. It must be somewhat larger than Japan’s. How big a navy will Britain and Japan force us to build? That is the question. It is to be hoped that Britain, who has been the principal objector at Geneva thus far, will see the light. Leading nations used to fight it out to determine whose navy should be biggest, but the world’s got more sense than that now, particularly Britain and America. On the outcome of Geneva much depends. A sensible limitation of naval armaments on a just basis will tend to tranquilize a nervous, jumpy world and thus creating an atmosphere conducive to arms limitations on land. The reverse of this would be true if Britain, Japan and the United States score a failure. So it’s up to Britain. Comes the Dawn It is the morning after the night before in Hollywood. ,\ The movies, which for years have been spending money like drunken sailors ashore, are beginning to sober up. The first sign of normality is the 10 per cent salary cut for all employes getting over SSO a week, announced by producers last week. We fans have all wondered whether John Barrymore’s 100 per cent Grecian nose was worth its reported SIO,OOO a week, and whether Colleen Moore's Cinderellas didn’t come a little high at $8,500 per. Bidding for film actors, among the larger companies, have sent their salaries rocketing out of sight and reason, and now they are coming down, minus parachutes. Save in the case of a half /dozen sure-fire box office drawing cards, the pay envelopes ' have been ' bloated beyond all sense. But this is only half the story. We picture-goers can not conceive the colossal waste in the picture industry. Hundreds of thousands of feet of negative are shot to make a 10,000-foot Roman holiday. Scene after scene is discarded after it is made. Unless the makers of our film players cut

City Manager Election as Seen by Others

(BLUFFTON EVENING BANNER) Mr. John Duvall, who was so handsomely elected mayor of Indianapolis just two years ago, met his Waterloo in the election in that city this week, showing the flare-back to an administration jyfy.' that does not minister. In his own r * precinct two years ago he received a John heavy majority, but this week he was Duvall beaten four to one in the same voting boundaries. The entire city gave a majority against him and his administration to the tune of some five to one. However, the election was not of the political stripe. But John has probably come to ' the conclusion that he is not giving entire satisfaction. (CRAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL) Indiana’s flurry for city managers is a complement of the primary. The primary has made it impossible in many instances to get the man whom the k public would like to honor by an elecI Due tion to make the race for office. The r , busy man and the sensitive man both | to the refuse to make a campaign of from six Primary t 0 eight months for an office he does not seek and would accept under the old system merely as a duty to his community and his party. With this type of man refusing to participate actively in municipal or State government, there can and is only one result. The men elected to office are self-seekers and too many of them are utterly incompetent, hut through the light vote both at primary and election they get into office. Bewildered a* th results and with the high ideal of getting rid of a detriment to the community the people turn to the manager form for relief. If the manager is competent and a high type of

BOYD GURLEY, Editor.

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“Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way” —Dante

ROY W. HOWARD. President.

costs at the source, their efforts toward stabilizing their tremendous business will fail. The country realizes the great importance of this lusty infant that furnishes us with entertainment, and wishes it well. But it is well to point out that a great deal more must be than merely depriving Bebe Daniels of caviar on feast days. This is the great problem of the pictures today. As for us, due to the huge cost of exhibiting films at present, we can hope for no lowered tariff. We shall still clutch our dollars In our grimy paws as we approach the ticket girl. Once we are inside, however, we may find the actors looking a little down in the mouth. Morrison R. Toomer Kindliness, tolerance, fairness, good humor, together with hard hitting belligerence when occasion demands. Those qualities are seldom found in combination. But Morrison R. Toomer possessed them and in rare proportion. The result was an editor of exceptional influence. / Applying those attributes to the Fort Worth Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, he accomplished one of the most striking successes in recent American journalism. , And he did so without noise or fuss or irritationin the same way that distinguished his accomplishments as a soldier in the World War. Back in the spring of 1917, before the first call to conflict had been officially sounded, Toomer quit his newspaper job to volunteer. He was rejected for physical reasons. He tried again with the same result. Finally, through one of those queer quirks of officialdom, he was accepted in the draft. Starting as a private, in a few months he was a lieutenant in France. He possessed those traits best described as quiet effectiveness. w Like still water the course of his life ran deep and strong. His was a strength of character that overcame the obstacles of poor health and frail physique. In Fort Worth and the community in which his paper circulated, he contributed in terms of public service that which will live throughout the years. The span of his editorship was comparatively short, but the range of his influence is unlimited even by death and will continue as long as Fort Worth exists. His passing takes from journalism one of its finest men. It is a curious fact thr.t r 'ny women who have written to ask that they be t.i .1 along on the flights to Hawaii, have signed themselves only with initials. L A Los Angeles woman of 92 took a twenty-minute airplane flight and announced she’d like to own one. Timbuctoo, watch for her! * If you run up bills you’re a spendthrift. If you don’t your credit's no good. Oh, well, probably your credit’s no good, anyhow. Airplanes are for sale in London now on the in-j stallment plan. Your bill collector of the future will have to carry a trans-Atlantic chart. Natives of Madagascar sleep on carved wooden pillows, an explorer reports. It must bs a great convention country.

Law and Justice by Dexter M. Keezer

An automobile owner had a liability insurance policy protecting him against damage claims not In excess of SI,OOO arising from one accident. After hitting one automobile, the steering gear of his car was broken; his car was deflected and crashed into another. The owners of the two automobiles into which he had crashed had damage claims against him aggregating $2,000. The insurance company refused to pay more than SI,OOO, contending that although two automobiles had been hit it was in such quick succession as to constitute only one accident. The policy holder argued that hitting the first automobile was one accident and hitting the second one was another. He asked for protection against claims up to SI,OOO arising from each accident. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision; The Supreme Court of California decided that the policy holder was entitled to protection only- for SI,OOO. It said that the crashes had been caused by one negligent act or omission, and that this constituted but a single accident even though there were several resultant injuries and losses.

citizen the plan works well, but there has got to be a starting point even for the selection of a manager ( and that is the primary no matter what intermediate machinery may be provided for the selection of the manager. In our pride of State we wish Indianapolis success in its selection of managers, but at the same time other qities should be warned that it is a method which may be productive of greater evils than that from which they are fleeing. ' (FT. WAYNE NEWS-SENTINEL) While we regret that numerous legal obstacles prevent the early inauguration of the city manager plan adopted by the people of Indianapolis this week, * we are glad that the capital city is to City Man- have a tr y at the new system, in time. ~ We have always contended that the ager No city manager plan furnishes no guarGuarantee antee against graft, corruption and inefficiency; and there has been abundant proof of that in varioiis parts of the country. Still we are glad that Indianapolis is to have an opportunity to satisfy herself as to whatever merits or disadvantages may be entailed in the plan as opposed to the present type of government. Any improvements which may be noted upon adoption of the city manager arrangement at Indianapolis will have to be viewed in the light of the fact that th£ Hoosier capital has been in the grasp of a well-organized minority group, which, taking advantage of the direct primary system, has used the Republican party as its tool and puppet. (DAILY CLINTONIAN) The fact that his own precinct to one in favor of the city manager plan might possibly cause Mayor Duvall to think that his neighbors do not regard him as a success politically.

W. A. MAYBORN, Business Manager.

MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1927.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. TRACY SAYS: ‘America Wants Disarm- , ament, but She Is in No Mood to Leave Herself Undefended for the Sake of the Ideal.’ 9

American delegates to the Geneva disarmament conference have let it be known that this Government is prepared to take its chances in a navaL building race if the Coolidge plan is not accepted. Harsh as such a warning may sound, it was needed to clarify the situation.' The United States has approached the question of disarmament with too many soft words and in offensive phrases. The world has gained impression that the American people were bent on disarmament and were merely trying to persuade other nations to adopt a course already decided on in this country. It was high time that somebody corrected such an erroneous idea. America wants disarmament, but she is in no mood to leave herself undefended for the sake of the idea. If other nations are wining to go further than to make formal agreements which they do not intend to keep in spirit, or to quibble over essential conditions, this country is quite prepared to continue to play the old game. Third Term Talk The plan now is to carry the third .term issue to Congress. Republicans opposed to Coolidge believe it might embarrass him, and Democrats are willing to* join them on the ground that it could not possibly do any harm. At best it is one of those cheap political tricks which deceives nobody. Congress has no more to do with the third term than any similar number of citizens. It can argue and resolve to its heart’s content, but it cannot prove or decide anything. The fact that no President lias ever been given a third term is a matter of custom and precedent. Mr. Coolidge can undertake to set aside the precedent and break the custom if he is so inclined and the only power that can prevent him from doing so is the voice of the people. National Memorial Gutzon Borglum has gone to South Dakota to begin work on a huge national memorial. It will be carved on the side of Mt. Rushmore and will include heroic figures of Washington. Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt, together with many lesser lights, and a tablet eighty feet wide and 120 feet high, on which will be recorded the great events of American hjstory in letters fourteen feet high. Mr. Borglum calls it “the completion of the dream of Columbus.” The fact that it will cost $4,000,000, of which only a few thousand have been subscribed, suggests that it involves the completion of at least one other dream. Not Enough Business Trans-Atlantic telephone service at $75 for the first three miputes and $25 for each minute after has proved a losing proposition for the first five months. From January 17 to June 7, when it was first inaugurated, a total of 485 calls were placed Great Britain and 615 in the United States. Calls are now being placed at the rate of four a day in this country and three a day in Great Britain. This Is not enough, officials of the service declare, to show a profit. Pleasant Exceptions Babe Ruth wants $9,000 deducted from his 1924 income tax on the ground that he used it to entertain sports writers, press agents and other persons, to “keep himself before the public and establish good will.” Ruth asserts that this was a necessary business expense and deductable. The Government contends that it was a personal nature. The decision should be of importance to thousands of people, for if the Bambino is allowed to deduct such expenditures as essential to his business jt hecessarily follows that.every husband, who pays for a dinner given by his wife to help him put over a deal is entitled to the ; same consideration. | Stars’ Salaries Slashed j Mussolini cuts the wages 'of all Italy without trouble, but a similar cut in the American movie’industry promises a strike. We have been led to believe that the movie business was ruled by an oligarchy, if not by an autocrat, but reports from Hollywood indicate that those who serve in the ranks have not lost their disposition to question the powers that be. According to these reports, everybody from the star down is prepar-' ing to fight the reduction. It would be a novelty to see a strike organized by people who draw from five hundred to five thousand dollars a week on the ground that a ten per cent cut would make it impossible for them to rhaintain a decent standard of living. An Old idea Tfce idea of flying across the Atlantic ocean is not so new. Thirteen years ago Rodman Wanamaktr had a Curtis biplane built at Hammondsport, N. Y., which Lieut. Cyril Porte was prepared to fly from Newfoundland to Ireland. It was named jhe America, had a wing spread of /72 feet, weighed 4,500 pounds and was equipped with two motors capable of developing 200 horsepower. The World War broke out just before Lieut. Porte was ready to start and he was called home to England. The airplane was later sold to England and though erroneously reported sunk, rendered good service for several.years.

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Colleen Discovers That One Little White Lie May Become a Big Elephant in ‘Naughty but Nice'

One little white lie or fib or whatever you may call it can grow into a white elephant. A really big white elephant. That is what Colleen Moore as our cute little heroine in “Naughty but Nice” discovers. You 6ee our heroine was one of those "gals” who was raised on oil. Meaning that some Texas land once

spouted oil and then the money flowed right into the lap ol our heroine. Up to this point, Berenice, our heroine, / looked like the wrath of about eighteen summers, but being a good “gal,” she wanted to be a “lady,” and so she departs in a fur coat# for a smart boarding school for girls. Everything was smart but our sad look-

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ing Berenice. The other girls had snobbish class, but our haroine had a heart full of human emotion and a pocket book which leaked oil. The smart gals sure ritzed the little oil queen, but when her roommate discovered the money that our herqjne had. well, it was nobody's business. Right then and there they started to redecorate our sad looking little heroine. And when the decorators got through with Berenice, did the lads step up and take notice? They sure did. It is then that our little heroine just ritzed the gay boys of that college town even into Washington, D. C. Berenice tells one little lie when caught in a fashionable hotel and that lie (whisper it) nearly gave Berenice a husband. But Berenice cracked so many other fibs and got into and out of si many mixups that finally, when the picture is all over, we leave her in the arms of the ‘ad who splashed mud on little Berenice when she was hoofine it to college. Am trying to avoid telling you too much about the story. It is a corking good little yarn for Colleen. And Colleen has a mighty gay time framing up one fib and then telling another one to cover up the first one.

Colleen is the cutest ever. Never has she been as cute as in this picture. Really and that one leading man of hers, well, his name is Donald Reed and he is very much there. You will have a mighty comfortable and jolly time seeing "Naughty but Nice.” Vincent Lopez and his Casa Lopez Orchestra have their own idea of how modern music should be presented. Lopez certainly can bring the piano Jto life. One number of the orchestra, ‘‘1776,” stands out above all the others. Ido not care for their eccentric number, “Impressions in a Crazyhouse.” Os course, the music ©f the hour is played with nice restraint and with much syncopation. At the Circle all week. ■ YOUTH COMES INTO * ITS OWN AT THE INDIANA Youth seems to hold full sway on the new bill at the Indiana. The contributors are Jack Mulhall and Alice Day in a movie. "See You in Jail;” a company of young people, mostly girls, in “The Sports Revue,” and Harold Ramsay at the pipe organ. But of the several things on the bill there is one that stands out in 'my estimation, and that is the way Stolarevsky has directed the Indiana Symphonic Orchestra through “Grand Opera Gems.” The “gems” include Victor Herbert’s “Natoma”; "Meditation” from “Thais;” "Ride

Another Spike in It!

By Walter D. Hiekinan

of the Valkries” and Veerdi’s “Miserere” from “11 Trovatore.” In the Verdi number two soloists, Robert Moore and Yvonne Stuart, are most effectively used. In the “Thais" number we have a chance to hear Edward Reseller play violin, obligato. You know as well as I do that Resener is a fine artist and he makes this gem sparkle as it should. It seems to me that the Indiana Symphony certainly comes into its own this week and that great music is not nor ever will be thrown out entirely for Jazz. Great music, splendidly played and expertly directed is being revealed at the Indiana this week by the regular orchestra of this theater. The more I hear Harold Ramsay at that marvelous orchestra the more am I impressed with the ability as well as the showmanship of this man. He is featuring a pretty thing this week called "Sundown.” Beautifully played and conceived. I consider "See You in Jail” a farce comedy which will have its greatest appeal among young people. I do not mean the very young, but those who are over 16 and those under 60. There are several reasons, the first being that Jack Mulhall is in the cast and he is assisted by Alice Day. Mulhall is one of those good looking chaps, who is fast learning the art of playing farce comedy on the screen. There are mighty few on the screen today, who can play this brand of fun correctly and Mulhall comes nearer to it than most of them. Will not tell you the story of “See You in Jail,” but if you like light farce, then you know just what kind of entertainment awaits you on the screen. "The Sports Revue” lives up to its title. With‘the aid of chorus girls of athletic tendencies, football, basketball and tennis are introduced. * Two men play basketball on bicycles. Good for many laughs. Ruth Glanville and her saxopnone land solidly. The eccentric dancing team of Burns and Foran suggest a football game by dancing it. Charley Calvert acts as master of ceremonies. This revue, to my way of thinking. is just a light novelty event built around sporting events. The bill includas a scenic novelty, a news reel and other events. At the Indiana all week.

LON CHANEY PULLS A MIGHTY WEIRD TRICK Lon Chaney, using his feet in place of hands. That’s his new melodramatic stunt in “The Unknown.” And I confess right now that Chaney certainly does lots of weird things with his feet. As you know, this man Chaney can twist himself into many odd shapes, but it remained for this

movie to show him armless, most of the time. Chaney is seen as the "armless wonder” in a gypsy circus in Spain. The truth is that “The Unknown” is not armless, but by a clever trick unknown to everybody but one man other than himself, is able to appear armless. One of the weirdest moments of the picture is when

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Chaney gives the audience a chance to see how he becomes armless. This scene certainly handed mq one of the biggest kicks I have had in many a week. Os course, the “armless wonder” falls in love with

a sweet girl in the circus. Her dad does not like “the unknown,” and so the armless wonder plants hate into the girl’s heart sot men who have arms and use ’em. So it is with pride that. “The Unknown” the circus girl turn down flat the strong man of the circus.' Then he realizes that he must really be armless and he goes to a doctor and forces him to amputate his arms. But in the meantime, the strong man had influenced the circus girl to understand that his love was real. It is a dramatic moment when Chaney returns really armless and finds the girl he loves in the arms of another. Chaney plans a wicked and terrible revenge. Here is most melodramatic theater, but it certainly gives this movie a gigantic wallop. But of course true love wins and “The Unknown” dies in the trap that he had planned for the strong man.

“The Unknown” is strong melodramatic theater. It is really freak theater. It has been splendidly acted in a grotesque way by Chaney. Joan Crawford and Norman Kerry do mighty good work. The bill includes a Buster Brown comedy; Earl Gordon at the organ; Apollo Merrymakers and other events. I forget the name of the soloist with the orchesta, but he knows how to put his songs over. At the Apollo all week. ANOTHER COLLEGE MOVIE MAKES GOOD “Rolled Stockings” isn’t the kind of a story that I expected. Judging by its title. It isn’t the girls who roll ’em in this one, but the boys who make the boat team at college. “Rolled Stockings" concerns two brothers who go to the same college. The older brother is really

a man about r town in experience. The younger brother is athletic and such a reg ular person that he makes the varsity boat team Things become complicated when the brothers fall in love with the same co-ed. The older brother takes advantage of his age and experience as an upper fraternity man. Poor young-

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er brother realizes that he is just a freshman, but being a good freshman he gives his brother a mighty good run in the game of love. Just when the younger brother is about to win in the love game, he throws a “show,” and his older brother takes all the blame. The younger brother is forced to win the boat race, and does. Then the father of the boys decides that he has two mighty fine sons, instead of just one. and the pretty co-ed decides that she likes husbands a little older, and tne older brother wins. Cute little story? Yes. And it has been acted in the spirit of real youth by the Paramount stars, including James Hall, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen and Nancy Phillips. Rather think it will be more than safe to keep an eye on James Hall, because he has that, personality something which the screen photographs so well. “Rolled Stockings” Is a jolly little storv of college life, or as it Is supposec to exist. You will like it. Bill includes an O’Henry comedy and Ruth Noller at the organ. At the Ohio all week.

JUNE 27. 1927

Why the asTnlman Weather? Mfteorolofy

LOCAL WIND NAMES Modern science is satisfied with a few generic wind names, of universal application. Our however, knew nothing about broad features of atmospheric circulation, and a wind prevalent in a particular locality was. for them, a distinct entity, deserving a name of its own. Hundreds of these names are still current in different parts of ‘ the world. The lakes and valleys of the Alps have been extremely prolific in local wind names. "Solnre," “vent du Mont Blanc," Joran,” “morget,” “rebat," "breva,” “tivano,” “ora,’* “sover.” and “pontias” are a few of these. The winds prevailing along coasts and on the high seas are most fully recorded and described in the great collections of ’pilots’* issued by the hydrographic offices of the leading maritime powers. In these books one may read of the furious “wllllwaus” of the Straits of Magellan; the “levantcr,” “leveche.” “gregale” imbat,” "etesians," and other winds of the Mediterranean; the “leste" of Madeira and the Canary Islands: the “shamal.” "kaus," nasht,” and “suahlll” of the Persian Gulf; the "belal" of the Gulf of Aden; the “tehuantepecs.” and “papagayos,” of the west coast of Central America; the “kona” storms of the Hawaiian Islands; the “collas” of the Philippines—and so on, through a formidable list. Everybody has heard of the "mistral,” the "bora.” the "simoom” (commonly misspelled "simoon), the "sirocco,” the "harmattan.” the "pampero,” and the “khamsin;” though the average citizen may be rather hazy as to the habits and habitats of some of these blasts. i All rights reserved bv Science Service, Inc ■

Free Speech BY LOUIS D. BRANOEIS iFrom his opinion, as Associate Justice if the United States Supreme Court. In the Anita Whitney case.)

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in Its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness Jnd courage to be the secret of librty. They believed that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth; that without free speech and assembly discussion would be futile; that with them discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to ireedom Is an inert people: that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American Government. They recognized the risks to which all human institutions are subject. But they knew that order cannot be secured merely through fear of punishment for its infraction; that it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that far , breeds repression: that i breeds hate; that hate menace" stable government; that the path k>f safety lies In the opportunity to I discuss freely supposed grievances [and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for; evil counsels | is good ones. l Believing in the power of reason 'as applied through public discussion they eschewed silence coerced by law—the argument of force In its worst form.

Brain Teasers

Here's anew game. Today’s questions aro statements, some of which arc true, and some of which are not. Tell which statements are correct and which incorrect. Answers arc found on page 12. 1. Congress approved the construction of the Boulder Dam, which will provide power and irrigation to the Colorado River valley. 2. The Tacna-Arica dispute relating to the Nicaraguan revolution has been settled by Admiral Latimer. 3. Senator William E. Borah refused to become a candidate for Vice President in 1924. 4. Governor Lowden of Illinois has declared that he will not be a candidate for President in 1928. 5. Senator Reed of Missouri and Senator Reed of Pennsylvania aro cousins. 6. The Stars and Stripes were first flown in battle at Ft. Stanwyx. near Rome, N. Y. M 7. Paul Poiret was premier oP France under President Poincare. 8. The hundredth anniversary of the death of Beethoven was widely observed in radio programs early in 1927. 9. Victor Herbert composed music for “The Mikado,’’ and “Pirates of Perzance." 10. American warships fired on Nanking. China, during the recent revolutionary riot.

Questions and Answers

What is the tallest building in Chicago? The Clark St. addition to the Morrison Hotel, that, is 635 feet high and hr-", ‘forty-six stores. When were tanks first used in the World War? In the battles of the Somne, September, 1916. When did Czar Nicholas II asrend the Russian throne? Oct. 20 i Nov. 1 modern calendar), 1894. What famous men In history have tried to conquer the world or build a world empire? Xerxes Alexander the Great, Jenghis Kahn. Julius Caesar. OTHER THEATER OFFERING!^ Other theaters today offer: “Smilin’ Thru," at English’s: “Icebound." at Keiths; Modena’s Fantastic Revue, at the Lyric; the Original Horlick Family, a the Pal. ace. and “Silver Comes Thru," at the Isis. 4