Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1927 — Page 4

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Saved From Disgrace Governor Jackson deserves praise for,his act in saving the State from the stupid humiliation of putting to death a Negro boy. It is true that the boy had taken a life. He had taken it in a cowardly manner. He had shot his victim after he had robbed hiin and a crippled father and mother lost the support of their son when his revolver cracked. But the life taken by this Negro youth cannot be brought back by taking another in the name of the law. That 30,000 men and women signed petitions for a commutation of sentence to life imprisonment, indicates that there is a very wile belief that capital punishment is not the best protection of human life. The old rule of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth has never accomplished much. Those who petitioned for life imprisonment for this Negro youth called attention to the fact that he was but 16 years of age when he committed the act of murder, a cold-blooded murder it may be admitted. * Perhaps those who signed this petition had a lingering suspicion that the youth was not alone to blame and perhaps they had some share of responsibility for not taking a little more interest in an environment and education of boys that permit them to become killers at 16. The problem of crime and its cure is always a puzzling one. The terror of death penalty has been tried for centuries and the number of murders does not lessen because society kills its slayers. That any life in this State could be in greater danger today because this youth was taken from the electric chair at the last minute and thrust into a cell for the rest of his life does not seem reasonable. What was saved was the rather degrading spectacle of a stupid society killing a youth because it knew no other way to protect itself. The Governor showed some courage in overruling his prison board and following a higher wisdom than that of the strict letter of the law. Not the Answer If any act were needed to complete the evidence that Mayor John Duvall should be forced to resign and turn the city government over to some outstanding man who has no connection with politics, it is the naming of his wife to a position that would automatically place her at the head of the city government when the sentence to jail is carried out against the mayor. As “the first lady,” the people of Indianapolis have given to Mrs. Duvall all the courtesy and honor which attaches to that position. But it may be remarked that fine as is that loyalty which prompts a wife to stand by in storm and stress, there is something more important than the family interests of the Duvalls at stake in this matter. The people never intended, by any stretch of imagination, to elect a family to the mayoralty, to be passed along by its members as the edicts of courts might make necessary. The people voted five to one against the era of Duvall when they adopted the City Manager form. A jury has now said that the election of Duvall was tainted with corruption. The jury has said that the mayor should serve a sentence in jail and only the technical delays of the courts or a review in the Supreme Court stands in the way of that sentence. For him to attempt to hand over the succession to his wife smacks too much of a bankrupt placing his money in his wife’s name to defraud his creditors. No one had any but the heartiest sympathy for Mrs. Duvall nor any but the kindest wish. But that should not prevent Indianapolis from saving its reputation and making some gesture of redeeming itself. Why should net the managers of the City

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(Chicago Tribune) (Independent) The conviction of Mayor Duvall of Indianapolis on a charge of corrupt political practices is a welcome indication of the trend in Indiana, and, we hope, in other states as well. A jury has found nnmnll the mayor guilty of accepting while a ijuvuu candidate $14,500 from William H. ton- Armitage, described as the boas of In-' victed dianapolis politics. In return Duvall promised to let Armitage control the board of public works of the city, with all its contract awarding powers. For making such an agreement Duvall has been sentenced to a month’s Imprisonment in the county jail, he has been fined SI,OOO and deprived of the right to hold office for fou* years from Nov. 2, 1925, the day on which he committed the offense of which he wsu> found guilty. The significance of the conviction lies In the fact that Duvall was the favored candidate of the Klan and the Anti-Saloon League. The conviction and sentencing of Duvall can be interpreted as a verdict against these two agencies of the higher sanctimony, the screen behind which he was able to operate. The conviction is a demonstration not only to Indianapolis and Indiana but to the entire country of the kind oi candidate which bigotry commonly prefers. Bigotry demands that its candidates deliver themselves, bound hand and foot, to the agencies of intolerance, and a candidate who will sacrifice his independence if that degree is hardly %ely to be possessed of much independence or integrity The leaders of the Anti-

Manager election in whom the have shown confidence suggest some name to the mayor as the man who should become the receiver for its moral bankruptcy and then see whether public sentiment is not strong enough to impress even the mayor with the necessity for yielding to some sense of the common decencies and fitness of things? Are They Only Joking? Argentina considers a 6 per cent increase in the tariff on all imports from the United States, the proceeds to be used to help boost Argentine chilled beef over our tariff barriers. * England smiles benignly on a system of rebates devised by British steel producers to block sales of American steel In that country. France celebrates the tenth anniversary of our decision to join her in the late war by making enormous increases in duties on many imports from the United States, at the same time making liberal tariff concessions to Germany. And President Coolidge remarks that the agitation about tariff barriers is directed to the backward countries of Europe and shouldn’t be understood to cast reflection on the tariff policy of the United States. Perhaps the President is right. Perhaps all of these seeming thrusts at our tariff barriers are made just in a spirit of fun, and really don’t indicate any serious displeasure with our tariff system. If that’s so, a lot of countries with a distorted and un-American sense of humor are carrying their Jokes too far. Just for the sake of preventing possible misunderstanding, President Coolidge ought to tell them to quit the kidding. Idaho is going to advertise her chief product with an automobile license plate shaped like a potato. There’s a tip for the South—which State will be first to adopt the cotton bale? It takes fifteen pounds of soap to bathe an elephant. Many a small boy has had more soap than that applied to him at one scrubbing, and his ears aren’t as big as elephants’ either.

Politics and People

By RAY TUCKER

An administration noted for the silence of Its President seems determined to end in a burst of loquacity. Even Coolidge, since his return from the Black Hills, has shown a disposition to use words less sparsely than heretofore, so It Is hardly to be wondered at that his subordinates violate the Coolidge canon that governments, like little children, should be seen and not heard. In fact, Coolidge started it with Ills “I do tiot choose” statement. Nobody expected him to say anything about the third-term discussion raging around him, at least not at this time. It seems that, In making the public his confidant, he set an example which the rest of his official household is following. First there was Seymour Lowman, Federal dry chief, who incurred Secretary Mellon’s anger by his political attack on Governor Smith and his routing of both wets and drys from their summer sleep. Though censored for this outburst, Lowman came right back the next day with a formal statement charging corruption in the prohibition service and holding out slight hope of immediate improvement In enforcement conditions. Lowman’s two outbreaks were attributed to his ■known tendency toward Indiscretions, but what can be said of Mellon’s expansiveness in discussing presidential politics! The censor lifted the lid completely on his own tongue on his return from Europe, despite the fact that his influence a tthe convention mr.y prove decisive. A more practical politician, in Mellon’s shoes, you might think, would have clamped ills lips and held them that way right up to nomination time. Not Mr. Mellon! First, he expressed the opinion that Coolidge was really out of the race, thus helping to close the doors on the President. Then he admitted that he and Charles Evans Hughes had talked presidential politics while coming home on the Leviathan. This was significant enough, ih view of the fact that Hughes seems to be going through the motions and emotions of a receptive candidate. It made It appear as if the two had agreed upon some deep plan, whereas they probably gossiped as two laymen would. But Mellon’s most surprising statement was his voluntary comment on a news article definitely placing him in the New Yorker’s camp. Here Mellon out-Lowmanned Lowman. For though he tried to make it appear that he was not committed to his former Cabinet colleague, he failed to destroy the impression that he was. And the result was another series of newspaper articles tying him more closely than ever to Hughes. It was all very unfortunate, especially as some of Mellon’s advisers regard Herbert Hoover as a stronger candidate than the former Secretary of State. Edmund Platt, vice governor of the Federal Reserve Board, has also talked mord than is customary. Flatly disagreeing with the board’s action in forcing a cut in the Chicago rediscount rate, he said so and revealed the existence of dissension in the board. The administration had been hoping the disagreement would ascape notice, but Mr. Platt spoiled that hope. Kellogg and Wilbur, in talking about the trade war. tariffs, a larger navy, hops and similar problems, have shared in the epidemic of loquacity.

Saloon League and Klan may or may not have known of the deals Duvall was making with Armitage; the important fact to note is that no candidate of character would be likely to pledge himself to accept the dictation of the Anti-Saloon League, the Klan, or for that matter, any one else. The presumption that a candidate who would make such a pledge is either a weakling or a trimmer is amply justified by the political records of this country. Indiana is by no means unique. Organised fanaticism in almost every State has been able to place in office its sheep and its wolves in sheep’s clothing. It is difficult to say which variety of office holder has done the greater Injury to good government. Thousands of citizens voted for Duvall because tney thought of him as the candidate of the churches and therefore the man who would bring to government the ideals of churchgoing men and women. It is now amply apparent that Duvall was not the candidate of church idealism but of certain churchmen possessed of a lust for political power and an appalling indifference to the principles of constitutional government. The conviction of Duvall by his fellow citizens Is a welcome indication that in Indiana the ordinary man is no longer overwhelmed by the mere appearance of sanctity. Stephenson, dragon of the Klan, Is in prison for life; Shumaker, the reverend, is under sentence; now Duvall. Others are under indictment. The indications are that Indiana is passing from beneath the yoke of bigotry. What is happening in Indiana promises well for the rest of the Nation.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. TRACY SAYS: If History Can Not' Be Written at the Poiiit of a Gun, It Can Not Be Written by Trumped-Up Tribunals.

The United Press is doing good work In summarizing the political situation from time to *time. Its reports are clear and impartial. They should be of great value to those who lack the opportunity to make a detailed study^ In its latest summary, the United Press finds that Governor Smith is strong in the East and Northwest, but that opposition to him Ls organizing in the South. On the Republican side, it finds that Hoover and Hughes are about strong in the East, and that there is considerable sentiment in spots for the renomination of President Coolidge. noth withstanding his obvious refusal to run. Catholics Against Al At this particular moment, there can be little doubt that Smith is the outstanding candidate on the Democratic side, while Hoover is the most likely choice of the Republic ar.s. Though Hoover and Hughes may be > about equal in the East, the former is far stronger in the West and South. Curious as it may seem, the most dangerous opposition to Governor Smith is developing around the leadership of two dry Catholics Sena tor Walsh of Montana and Colonel Callahan of Kentucky. Colonel Callahan declares that it is as intolerant to vote for Smith as it is to vote against him on account of his religion, and that his attitude on the liquor question is the most important feature of his candidacy. Growth of Cities The Census Bureau estimates that New York now has a population of practically 6,000,000, Chicago a population of more than 3,000,000, Philadelphia a population of more than 2,000,000 and that one-third of the Nation lives in its hundred largest cities. All these cities have grown up within a century, almost within half a century. There never was such an era of city building as has taken place in the United States. Machinery has made it possible. Zoning Plan Gains U til recently the American city suffered from promiscuous development. No one expected it to attain any such size as it has, consequently little attention was paid to planning for its future. About; twenty years ago a few of the clearer thinkers realized that city planning was even more badly needed than houses, hotel; office building or factory planning. The idea has met with bitter opposition, chiefly because" many people looked upon It as just one more Interference with personal liberty, but it has steadily gained. The same intelligence that produced mechanized life is needed to make it safe. The more we go in for "speed and power the mo;e we must subordinate ourselves to system and discipline. Danger in New Devices Automobiles have brought death to 7,00 people in this country during the last twelve months which is an increase of 400 over the preceding twelve months. Celebrating last Fourth of July resulted in 196 deaths and 3,179 Injuries. This is a larger casualty list than America suffered in most great battles of the revolution. Gun powder, combustion engines, high tensioned cables, airplanes and other modern devices are dangerous to fool with, except when operated by experts ih a systematic way. War Guilt Argued Two years ago, the United States Senate adopted a resolution “to collate the evidence on the origin of the World War,” Charles E. Tansil, expert historian, was assigned the task. He made an exhaustive study of the subject which is embodied in a document covering more tfian 800 typewritten pages. Instead of being published that is held under lock and key in the Congressional library. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are said to fear that its publication might lead to unpleasantness especially with France. Senator Borah, however, believes it ought to be published. While doubting that the document absolves Germany of “war guilt;” as completely as claimed by former Senator Robert L. Owen, Mr. Borah believes that, “it contains information which might be valuable for the public to have.” Evidence Concealed The Idea of having the question of “war guilt” before a body of impartial judges, as Von Hindenburg has suggested is quixotic. In the first place, It ls fanciful to suppose that a body of impartial judges could be found, and in the second, it is just as fanciful to suppose that they could settle anything. If history cannot be written at the point of a gun. It cannot be written by trumped up tribunals. About the best that can be done is to lay all the cards on the table and let the truth gradually take shape through the prolonged, arduous labor of historians. Concealment in behalf of pride, prejudice and patriotism confused the issue to begin with and still confuses It. It is amazing to find the United StAes government concealing evidence which it authorized to be collected.

Supplying Backbone of Dry Enforcement

Nan’s Little Girl Still Ccmplains of the Bows That Cruel Mama Puts on Her Best Party Dress

Maybe you have met Nan Halperin’s little girl; that is, the naughty one she makes up like in her vaudeville act. Well, this little girl comes on the stage and whispers her tale of woe because her mama has decreed

that she must wear three red colored bows on her dress and hair and another bow that doesn’t match and doesn’t show unless the little girl wants to exhibit it. This little girl hates her mother foi making her wear bows on the day that she is to have her picture taken. And the little girl tells you that she hates everybody in the

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world and only wishes that the world was bigger, so she might have more people to hate. This child impersonation is one of the perfect gems that Miss Halperin has given the stage in her remarkable career as an entertainer. Today she stands mighty close to the highest peak in this particular line of work. Her next impersonation, followed by a complete change of costume, is the debutante who asks the world why a girl has to have tons of clothes just to land one mere man. Here is a dramatic characterization which is remarkable. Os course. Miss Halperin’s program contains the famous jazz wedding number, which gives her a chance to put the jazz tempo squarely up against a dramatic background. Here is a great artist and one that is a compliment to the vaudeville stage. Naughton and Gold form an eccentric dance team in which one of the men specializes in an acrobatic fall. Sandy Lang ar.d company present a roller skating act. Here is an excellent example of how a skating act may be made into an art picture full of melody and poetry of motion. Charlie Wilson is one of those nut comedians who scatters his wares freely all over the theater. He makes his entrance in an airplane, called “The Spirit of Canada,” and he admits that something “ailed” her on the Canadian side. He has two assistants, Paul Weil and Claude CoHins, also of the eccentric breed. A wild, funny act. Les Gellis present a dance revue that is a little different from the regular run. Two of the men are splendid acrobatic dancers, their “souse” dance being a wonder. The photoplay is a movie version of the stage mystery play, '‘The Cat and Canary,” with Laura La Plante. From a technical standpoint this picture is interesting because it proves that the screen can retain the suspense and mystery of the stage. It registers easily because it shocks the audience into silence. A good attempt at photographing a mystery play. At Keith’s all week. GOOD DANCING ON BILL AT LYRIC. Dances are presented in many and novel ways, but the idea that Rucker, Eard and company uses is the best that I have seen yet. Using the stage as a shop they “sell” you their dances, solo and ensemble. The girls of the chorus and the lead are costumed in keeping with the dances. Many new and novel steps are inaugurated in their act. There, has been many revues on the stage, but one of the most striking of them is “The Tiny Revue.” Seven small persons and one very large man constitute the company. Their school room scene is very clever and the contrast supplied by the big man makes the skit amusing and novel. They are not overshadowed in their dancing and singing by any revue of the same caliber, composed of large persons. Quite often there appears female impersonators on the various stages throughout the country, but It takes Jane Dillon to do the impersonations of men characters. Miss Dil-

BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

lon uses as her guide men whom she knpw, as she says, in her home country. Lumber jacks and old farmers and even an “old sport” of the kind you read about and sometimes see are her impersonations. She has caught the voice inflections and mannerisms in a most effective way. Four piano accordions and a dancer are the members of the Balbanour Five. Melodies both ancient and modern are played in harmony parts by these performers. They also have the three smallest piano accordions in existence and several selections are played upon them. The company ls dressed In Russian :ostuma and the idea prevails in tha music and the dances. Fred Morton finds one box in his large assortment of packages that contains pieces of paper that he proceeds to tear into intricate patterns, and in one, upon unfolding it, is seen that the name “Gene Tunney” appears around the middle of the pattern. He is also a fair performer on the “mouth organ,” and plays several selections, using at times two harmonicas. Rice and Cady have a long argument about nothing in particular and everything in general. They are dialect comedians and finally wind up their act with a lengthy song that is a riot. The Texans do some tricks with a rope and whirl loops all over the stage. The “educated rope” is part of their paraphernalia. Songs and some stories that are not so funny complete their act. Coyiedies and news reels complete the bill. At the Lyric all week.— (By the Observer). "FLAMING YOUtti” FLAMES A LITTLE NOW .*ND THEN When the flapper became an institution in fiction and then spread itself upon Main St., the stage then took up the “tribe” and turned out many alleged different types. And so it is not surprising to see such plays as “Flaming Youth,” by Walton Butterfield turned out for box office purposes alone. The flapper In “Flaming Youth,” by the name of “Pat” Fentriss is supposed to be one of those gin hounds who would go “mugging” and hugging, but who has enough decency to stay on the right side of the fence. / Pat’s language is often wild and somewhat to the point. When she finds the older members of the family starting to run wild, she takes the blame for the wrong ideas of several members 'of the family. She becomes a little martyr to the cause of keeping happiness in the family. And because Pat is not wrong, , virtue triumphs. The characters have not been well drawn by tthe author and there is generally more talk than action. Pat as a character never rings true and Alney Alba doesn’t attempt the impossible. She attempts to make Pat both cute and a little wise but awfully, awfully good at heart. Larry Sullivan is cast as Ricardo, one of those men wrecking-machines who specializes in married women. Not the sort of a role that suits Sullivan but he gets by with it. Milton Byron is cast as the good and true hero who likes only good women. Idabelle Arnold Is up to her trick of making a small part stop the show any old time she pleases. Others in the cast Include William V. Hull, Dorothy Farley as Cissy (very good); Adelaide Melnotte, Robert St. Clair, Herbert Dobbins, Sidney Jerome, J. F. Marlow s_.id Bernice Marsolais, who wears some magnificent gowns. “Flaming Youth” will flame all week at the Colonial. Asa play It Is just so so, but the Berkell Players do make it flame at times. “BAND BOX REVUE” , IS PLEASING SHOW The features t f the “Band Box Revue,” now at tie Mutual, is modeled after a revie that carried a name similar to that of a few years ago. The main attractions of the show are the Saxophiu- Octette and the drum corps. Th 4 drum corps is composed of sixteeen girls of the

chcrus who roll and play the drums as if they had been at it for years. The eight principals of the company make up the octette that play classical and jazz music. They are led by the diminutive Anna Propp. I have seen many burlesque shows, but the danaing of Margie Burke is about the cleanest of any lead women I have seen in many a day. Miss Burke, while dancing with abandon, keeps the dances from getting rank, as such dances have a tendency to do. Although the costumes leave little to the imagination, this dancer does not try to prostitute the ancient art. Anna- Propp, who it is said is a recruit of the English stage, does acrobatic dances and sings her way through the show. Rith Darling is the other soubrette who although she can't sing, gets by with her dances. The comedy of the piece is supplied by Al Flatico, a dialect comedian, who has been here before, and Jack Ericson. They have several skits that have been taken from several of the larger shows and burlesqued. Notable among these skits is a bit from “The Hairy Ape” and a scene from “White Cargo.” While enough of the original remains to be able to tell what it is, the parts are made funny by the way they are done. Henry Neiser does a turn as a frog and he is good in the contortions that the part necessitates. In the second act Neiser performs on a huge web that is suspended from the ceiling. In this he is a spider and wjiile in some unusual postures he crawls around the web and finally into the center from which he emerged. In this production the chorus is not worked very hard. Most of the hard work falls on the principals. The chorus is well trained and can wear the costumes in a most becoming manner. They do a soldier act that shows much training. “Sheikee” was billed as a special dancer with the company, but for 3ome reason or other she did not appear, or if she did I failed to recognize her. Would say that the Band Box Revue ls the best show that the local burlesque theater has had this season. At the Mutual all week.—(By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer. Charlie Davis at the Indiana; "Chang” at the Apollo; “What Price Glory?” at the Circle; “The Blood Ship,” at the Ohio, and movies at the Isis and Rivoli.

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What are the qualifications for a captain in the merchant marine? He must have served three years as able seaman at sea or two years in a ship school, after which he must have been third officer for one year, second officer for one year, and first officer for one year. He is then eligible for examination for ship master or captain. In order to qualify he must have a working knowledge of navigation, the rules of the road, storage of cargo, ship’s business, law of storms, and general knowledge of “agency for the owner.” He must be nineteen years of age before he can be third officer. What was Walter Johnson’s share of the receipts of the game on Aug. 2, at Washington, D. C„ celebrating his twentieth anniversary in the major leagues? It amounted to $14,750. Who was Stephen Watts Kearney? An American soldier born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1794; died in 184f. He entered the army as a first lieutenant in March 1812, served in the war of 1812, became a brigadier general in June 1846, and during tbe Mexican War effected an

■SEPT. 27,1927

Mr. Fixit Protection of School Children From Speed Demons Assured.

Let Mr. Fixit. the Times' representative at city hall, present your troubles to city officials. Write Mr. Fixit at The Times. Names and addresses which must be given, will not be published. Need for protection for school children at Keystone Ave. and Forty-Sixth St., was pointed out to Mr. Fixit today. Mr. Fixit: We, in our neighborhood, have appealed to every official we know of In an effort to have some protection for our youngsters who attend the school at FortySixth St. and Keystone Ave. This is a large school and needs traffic protection badly. Keystone Avenue is smoothly paved and has become one of the many speed tracks of the city. Several times recently children have been almost dragged from the jaws of death under the cars of some of these speed demons.. This is out of the city limits and it seems impossible to obtain any action from the county officials. Will you please advise us where we might be able to obtain the protection so needed here? A READER. Tod Stoops, Hoosier Motor Club secretary, informed Mr. Fixit he . would investigate the situation and take any steps possible to provide relief for the district.

Thumb-Nail Sketches

“Milk and eggs!” was the busy doctor’s presecription for the thin, nervous, aneamic little woman who was seeking free medical advice at the city dispensary. Milk and eggs, indeed! How was she to provide milk and eggs for herself and feed a husband and eleven children on $5 a week! She shrugged those pitifully thin shoulders and went back home to prepare the potatoes and cornmeal mush on which the family lived. Cheap, but filling. Milk and eggs! But the doctor was not too busy to observe that there was no improvement in his undernourished patient, “She’s not following my advice,” he told the workers at the board of social service of the city dispensary, “Then there’s a good reason,” .they replied, and set out to find and correct it. To find a better job for the father of this large family and to provide the necessary milk and eggs in the meantime as well as to substantiate and vary the rest of the menu, were tasks outside the duties of the city doctor, tut the kind of tasks these workers were able 1o perform because of YOUR COMMUNITY FUND.

Times Readers Voice Views

To The Editor: Since Purdue is to have a fund for gas engineering work why would it not be well to consider the modernization of home heating and abatement of the smoke /nuisance through the production of cheap gas. Steam heat can not be profitably distributed except for small areas. We are making no progress in heating science. There is plenty of hydrogen in our streams. Indiana coal mines have the necessary carbon. The miners are often unemployed. • If Indiana science can And a low cost way of producing hydrogen gas with the use of Indiana coal our heat and smoke problems would be largely solved. Water gas has been made at as low a cost as 10 cents per thousand feet for material and labor, and sold in some communities for 25 cents. Many would prefer gas to coal at anywhere from that price to 50 cents. Put the gas plants at the coal mines nad distribute through pipe lines as we did natural gas. AL B. HALL. Reformatory Official Hurt Bii Times Special ANDERSON, Ind„ Sept. 27.-~ Stanley Way mire, assistant superintendent of the Stare reformatory at Pendleton is in a serious condition as the result of injuries suffered when an automobile he was driving was wrecked in an effort to avoid striking another car. His son Joseph Waymire, and Fred Records, Elwood, escaped with bruises.

easy conquest of New Mexico, occupying Santa Fe on Aug. 18, 1846. He then went to California to assume the governorship, but came into conflict with Stockton and Fremont and caused Fremont to be court-martialed for disobedience. Later he was governor of Vera Cruz and of Mexico City. He was breveted major general for gallant conduct in New Mexico and California. Where was Estelle Taylor, wife of Jack Dempsey, born? Wilmington, Del., in 1900 of Irish parents. She is five feet four inches tall, weighs 129 pounds and has dark brown hair and brown eyes.

Stage Verdict LYRlC—Rucker Bard and Company present may dances in their dance shop. The Tiny Revue is a clever thing with little people in the cast. MUTUAL—Better burlesque has come to town with the Band Box Revue. Margie Burke and Al Flatico are featured in the cast. COLONIAL “P-laming Youth” was written with both eyes on the box office. KEITH’S Nan Halperin lives up to her reputation of being one of the best character artists on the stage.