Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1927 — Page 4

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One More Reason Mayor Duvall seems intent on furnishing each day an added reason for a special session of the Legislature to end the present farce in Indianapolis and restore to its people the right to install the City Manager system for which it voted. If the committee of 'outstanding citizens who made the demand upon Governor Jackson failed to impress him with argument, the mayor should certainly convince the Governor with his fantastic antics. One day he proposes to march a mob of his “organized boys” upon the Indianapolis Times for merely suggesting that committees of property owners try to persuade him in person of the necessity of his resignation. The next he appeals to the city council to investigate the acts of Lewis Shank, scarcely cold in his grave, and try to show that the members of his boards were corrupt and venal. No one would object of course to an investigation of any administration, but it may be suggested that there is something grotesque in the selection of the time and the investigating body by the mayor. He, waits until Shank, neVer noted for his lack of response, is dead and then turns the job over to a city council whose controlling membership is even more discredited than the convicted mayor. It requires little bravery to attack a man in his grave. It calls for imagination to believe that any investigation by the city council which has so conducted itself as to call for grand jury inquiries’ which is as friendless as possible, would convince any reasonable person of anything. If the former administration did things calling for inquiry, the mayor has had months to present facts to grand juries, and to the public. For a brief period he had liis. own newspaper in which to reveal those facts. For a much longer period in the past and for a greater one in the future he has The Times which will be glad to print any facts of public import which can be proved by evidence acceptable in courts. , The Times, it may be remarked, has never printed any svory which it was unable to prove in any court. It has never been called upon to retract a single detail of any statement it has made concerning any public act. It is true the Governor denied one story in its entirety, but he asked for no retraction and the truth or falsity oft the published statement will be established when the Governor goes to trial. So it may be remarked that the mayor is a trifle late and certainly- misguided when he waits until the death of former Mayor Shank and then calls upon the council to investgiate. The mayor misunderstands the situation. He is now convicted in the Criminal Court. He is. declared by that court to have been ineligible to have ever held his office. His case is in the courts. Whether the Supreme Court will look with complaisance upon his importation of preachers of hate to stir up mobs and anger while his case is pending remains to be seen. What the'mayor does not recognize is that lie has reduced this city administration to chaos. The bankers’ attorneys say that he has no authority to sell bonds. That means that they believe he has no authority to do anything whatever. He is under sentence of jail. He is advertising each day the bad government of Indianapolis. He is a continuing liability to the city. Instead of threatening to organize mobs, he should be preparing his resignation. Instead of demanding investigation by a discredited city council, he should be asking the people for suggestions as to any successor who may be named to take over the administration. The Governor should reverse himself on this special session if for no other reason than the actions of the mayor. The people of this city have been chained to this government by the Legislature. The people of the State bear part of its reflected shame and troubles. Perhaps a renewal of the demand on Governor Jackson for that session, backed by personal appeals of the civic clubs, would convince him that he was mistaken. If he remains obdurate, the appeal should be carried to the members of the Legislature themselves. They might convince the Governor that they wish to make amends for the wrong they did this city a few months ago. Roosevelt on Trees “A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless. Foyests which are so used that they can not renew themselves soon will vanish, and with them all their benefits. When you help to preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part of good citizens.” That is one of the important things that Theodore Roosevelt said. It is being called to mind now by th* American Tree Association in observance of Rtjpsevelt’s birthday, Charles Lathrop Pack t

has sent out a call to the schools of the country to use the phrase quoted above in any birthday program. “Were T. R. alive today,” says Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the association, “he would be on top of the Mississippi flood control problem with both feet. It was a way he had with him. “In marking Roosevelt’s birthday, what finer thing in his honor could be done than turning the thought of the nation to tree planting and trees in his honor?” There are millions of idle lands that should be put to work growing trees. The burned over and cut over head waters of the streams and rivers of the Mississippi valley help to bring on devastating flood conditions.” i A tree planted on Oct. 27 would be a beautiful memorial to a great man and serve to help a good cause. * Kidding Ourselves Speaking of the Mexican revolution, aren’t we neglecting our own little revolt just a trifle? We mean the down in Nicaragua. Yes, it’s still going on. We accidentally discovered that fact while persuing an interesting item about a flier who “hit a mountain.” “After dropping bombs on Gen. Sandino and 200 of his followers in northeast Ocotal Sunday afternoon,” the dispatch recorded, “Captain Thomas of the U. S. Marine corps, crashed into a mountain but signaled he was unhurt.” Incidentally—but only incidentally, it would appear—“many of Sandino’s followers were killed in the attack.” What a whale of a difference the point of view makes! When we do a thing, it’s different. Expressions of pained surprise were heard all over the country when President Calles’ troops killed two or three hundred revolutionaries. It was a bloody and revolting spectacle. When we kill a lot of rebels Nicaraguan rqbels—the emphasis is laid on our llier crashing unhurt into a hill. Most any way you look at it this revolution of ours in Nicaragua is remarkable. According to Henry L. Stimson, President Coolidge’s special envoy to Central America, Gen. Sandino only had “about 150 followers” to commence with. Recently, in the first battle between his followers and our marines at Ocotal, he “suffered great loss, exceeding 400 men.” Yet. according to the above item, in the second clash at Ocotal, he was known to have 200 men with him and nobody knows how many more in the bush. The more rebels we kill, it would seem, the more spring up Really we do love to be kidded-so much so that we spend a deal of our time kidding ourselves. If marriage could be dissolved as easily as business partnerships half the married couples in the country would be divorced tomorrow, according to J. Ham Lewis. But, Mr. Lewis, who’d get the cash register? / An eastern editor says the average driver would rather lose his right to vote than his right to operate a car. The distinction seems to be that he uses his car. The Harvard football team entertained the Vermont eleven at tea after their game. The Crimson seems to be getting just a little pink The American people spend ten times as much money for surgar as for books, some statistician has announced. The pantry is mightier than the library > N Sir Oliver Lodge predicts we’ll soon have control over the weather. We hope that includes the weather conversation too. Some race tracks, to circumvent the sheriff, have labeled the wagers "contributions.” That, at least, is candid. The NeW York pushcart peddler who stole $50,000 in jewels is pretty sure to go to Jail, having no pull. Here s Dora again! She’s so dumb she thinks the sugar restriction bill that the Cuban Senate passed the other day has something to do with the butter and egg men. Don’t you suppose the New York judge who made that ruling about scantily clad chorus girls had lots of fun explaining to his wife why he didn’t handle some different kind of case? \

Politics and People

By RAY TUCKER

Political campaigning has been steadily losing its color and clash for many years, for a variety of reasons. It has been due to the public’s lack of time or energy to devote to national crusades, to a change in manners and taste, and, more than all, to the disappearance of leaders with appealing personalities and stirring issues. In fact, political indifference has actually been encouraged by the present Administration, though that may not have been the purpose. President Coolidge has repeatedly said that he sought to take the Nation’s mind off Washington. His antagonism to extra sessions of Congress has been based largely on His desire to conduct the Government without the criticism or suggestions of its 531 members. Whatever the reason, it is a fact that interest in government and politics has been at low ebb. PolitL cal philosophers deplore the fact, for a natural consequence is the average citizen’s neglect of his civic duties. There are those, however, who believe that this is only a temporary phenomenon, due as much to the general lassitude following the exciting war days as to the Coolidge laissez-faire attitude. It is predicted that the next campaign may be quite different from that of 1024, when no candidate succeeded in arousing a whole-hearted interest or understanding of what he represented and was fighting about. This hope is baaed largely on the personalities of men mentioned as possible candidates on both sides. “Jim” Reed or “Al” Smith or Newton Baker for the Democrats ought to be able to dramatize any contest in which they happened to be participants; there would be no lack of color if either of these figures headed one ticket. And if they should be sent against “hell-and-maria” Dawes, with his pipe that belches fire and smoke like Vesuvius, the days of indifference might soon disappear. Secretary Hoover is another whose record at least appeals to thff imagination. He has not the dash or picturesqueness of the other three, but the man who fed Belgium and twenty other countries, who brought relief to the flooded who has been called “humanity’s doctor,” would hardly speak to empty halls or indifferent audiences. Men rather than measures seem to stir the American people. t

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M. E. TRACY \ SAYS: If Fall and Sinclair Were Poor Men Could They Get Away With What They Have?

The Elk Hills and Teapot Dome leases constitute what probably was the most gigantic swindle ever attempted in this country. The public property that was handed over to private interests by these leases amounted to no less than $400,000,000. tSuch figures make Tweed look like a piker. Both leases have been annulled on the ground of fraud, but in a recent trial, Fall and Doheny were acquitted. Fall and Sinclair new are on trial at Washington, and one wonders if they will experience similar good fortune at the hands of a jury. Scathing Court Decision It has taken three years to bring Fall and Sinclair to the bar. Those three years, howeyer, have proved insufficient to obtain two important witnesses. In one of the most scathing opinions the Supreme Court of U,he United States ever wrote, Sinclair was deprived of a lease on the ground that he had obtained it fraudulently and former secretary Fall was described as a faithless servant. In spite of that they may be acquitted, just as Fall and Do heny were some months ago. Ignorance of Juries The layman finds it hard to understand how the law can cry fraud in a civil case and then acquit the perpetrators of it in a criminal case. It is a curious phase of our system of justice that a jury which is acceptable chiefly on account of its ignorance can, if it feels so inclined, nullify the words of the highest co.urt in the land. The lease negotiated by Fall and Sinclair has been cancelled on the ground that it was hatched in corruption, but it is within the power of twelve men and women to whitewash those who hatched it. Witnesses in Hiding Blackmer and O’Neil, who know more about this business than they care to tell, hide in Europe to avoid taking the witness stand. Government authorities have not been able to locate O’Neil and serve him with a summons, but they have served a summons on Blackmer, which his counsel claims is unconstitutional because it was served outside the territory of the United States and which will not be obeyed for that reason. This is a pretty state of affairs for a sovereign government to face. The United States of America cannot gain full information with regard to a transaction by which a former -cabinet member and a multi-millionaire attempted to defraud the people out of millions of dollars because a witness is able to thumb his nose at it from across the ocean. What better method could rich men ask for balking prosecution? If witnesses can escape giving testimony by taking ship for Europe and getting beyond Lie jurisdiction of American courts, is not their removal just a question of cash? Truth Should Be Told In these days of easy transportation, a country might just as well throw its law in the waste basket as admit that it has no power to summon and compel the appearance of witnesses, no mat_ ter where it finds them. The essence of a fair trial is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but how is that to be obtained if witnesses can place themselves beyond reach by moving across imaginary lines? Red Tape in Courts

In prosecuting these oil cases, the Government has had the services of able counsel. The difficulties they have encountered prove nothing so distinctly as they way the orderly and efficient operation of law can be hampered with technicality and red tape. It has taken longer to get Fall and Sinclair into court than it would to bridge the Golden Gate, and even so the Government finds itself obliged to go to trial with two important witnesses absent. Does that represent the effective administration of justice and the idea of obtaining the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, or does it represent a game, and artificial mechanism, a hodgepodge of conflicting rules and precedents, which has come to stand for nothing but a contest of wits and in which the man who can have the smartest attorney enjoys an obvious advantage? Cash Hampers Justice If Fall and Sinclair were poor men, if they could not afford $1,000,000 worth of counsel and if they had attempted to defraud the United States of a truckload of uniforms, instead of a king’s ransom, could they get away with what they have? It is gratifying to know that there is enough vitality left in the civil law to spoil their scheme, but it is discouraging to realize the multitude of ways by which they have been able to stall the criminal law, and by which they may be able to elude it. No one can recall what the prosecution has been compelled to go through in order to bring them into court, the stumbling blocks that have been put in its way, the technicality and quibbling with which it has been delayed, without suspecting that cash hamthe “blind goddess.”

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Like a Most Glorious Benediction Is Sir James Barrie’s ‘What Every Woman Knows’at English’s

Come, let us find out what every woman knows. And we turn to Sir James M. Barrie of years ago and we find c t something about charm and what every woman knows. Today we find the duty (probably) manuscripts brought to light again

with an understanding cast as well as a most sympathetic director who has kissed into everlasting beauty the dream thoughts T Barrie. It is like going back to one's greatest and most innocent pleasure of decision, that cf kneeling a t s mother’s knee for advice. It is, indeed, a most glorio u s benediction this play of Bar-

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=rid! It brings one to a closer mental as well as a sympathetic understanding of what every woman knows. And what does she know, this ‘every woman?” She knows that the man very high up doesn’t know that a woman thought up the big things of life which he just “polished up” into “gems.” To really capture this elderly but always young gem of Barrie, one must have a cast that radiates charms. And we have such a cast at English’s this week. An invitation to charm Is offered one by Patricia Collinge, who, as Maggie Wylie, is wearing the magic “shoes” of several great women of the stage. Miss Collinge catches the cobweb but sterling beauty of Barrie when she starts to paint the “every woman” character of Maggie. You see her knitting in the first act and you see her knitting in her great third act when she learns the danger that every woman knows. Her Maggie is a painting of many colors and tone. It is much like a great pipe organ, now tender and soothing in tone, now a little troubled, and then, very suddenly, a laugh of much meaning, and, then, only a moan. That is the beauty and majesty that I found in the character work of Miss Collinge. I am very satisfied to tell you that in my opinion Miss Collinge has captured all of the '•possible beauty of Barrie in “What Every Woman Knows.” And now turning to Larry Fletcher, who is the new John Shand of the play. It is the same Fletcher in body that we had with us in the Stuart Walker Company here last season, but it is a more powerful and understanding Fletcher. He is a good John who doesn’t understand what every woman knows. He is fine in the tender scenes of charm that Barrie paints. In fact, he is the understanding actor who turns out a very conceited and lovely John. A real performance. It shows great growing power along character drawing lines. I ask you to study the charm of understanding of what some women know on the part of Selene Johnson as the Countess de la Briere. Here is a picture that deserves the frame of the unforgotten, if there be such a thing. Here is high character work done in a true Barrie complex. And then again turn to the "charm” of Lumsden Hare as Mr. Venables. A little bit “Pickwick” but still Barrie. Real charm here. There are numerous others present, especially Edward H. Loeffler, Eu.eene Waber and John Robb. Here is a very tender and charming “What Every Woman Knows.” Those who delight in the best should not fail to see this one. At English’s all week. HERE IS THE DRAMA OF A CAT’S EYE RING You have heard of the cat’s pajamas but—Have you ever heard of the cat’s eye in the devil ring? Probably you have not unless you have seen or heard of “The Donovan Affair.”

Ask Dad; He Knows!

•BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

Here is a mystery play that goes a little deeper into the character

of the several people present. You start with a dinner party. One member of the party is wearing a ring. He states that the set in the ring is the eye of a cat and that it shines in the dark. He is “kidded” about it and the hostess bids the butler to turn out the lights. The “eye” of the ring shines and then it moves. The lights in tie dining room are turned on. And

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—the man who wore the cat's eye ring has been stabbed to death with a long knife. And the ring is missing. Up to this time you think that all the well dressed people could never be characters in a Sinclair Lewis novel or “libel.” Yes, my dear, you have not heard half of the dirt. For three acts you wonder why Shakespeare ever took time to stage the bedroom scene in “Othello," because the author of “The Donovan Affair” lets you know about every skeleton that ever rattled in the closet of every character he introduces you to. And speaking of murder —you have one before the curtains goes up, you have one on the stage at the close of the first act, then you have near murder and then you have a pretty mess just before the guilty guy of murder No. 1 is unmasked. Now ask me his name. You know I will not tell you. I never have given away the plot of mystery play and I will not start after “Abie’s Irish Rose” is five years old and then probably some more. Will tell you about the acting. The Berkell Players are doing well with this tricky mystery play. On the opening night it moved with greater dispatch and sureness than other plays of this nature that this company has given. This was accomplished by the sure work of Milton Byron as the detective sent to find the guilty guy. Byron gives a performance that keeps you guessing. That is what is demanded and he accomplishes that and something more. Alney Alba gives a good reading of Jean Rankin, whose past is dished up something awful before the last act is over. Larry Sullivan comes through with a corking performance. He, too, keeps you guessing up to the last minute. Bernice Marsolals has a chance to do some emotional work that cracks like a firecracker. Good work. There are many others in the cast. From a scenic standpoint this one set show is right. “The Donovan Affair” is of the theater and as such it answers its purpose—it entertains and keeps one guessing. At the Colonial all week. PLENTY OF MELODY ON THE LYRIC BILL Accompanied by the La Chapina Marimba Band, Gautschi and Phelps dance a Spanish dance and an Apache dance. The Spanish dance is well done and has a great deal of rhythm to it, while the acrobatic motions are superb. The Apache dance lacks the necessary fire that is associated with such a dance. The marimba band plays the accompaniments for the dances and between appearances of the dancers. The band is composed of six men, five of whom play on the marimba and the other the bass viol. The Four gather their quartet in a novel wayt While one member of the company tries to sing, another sells peanuts in the audience. The third is dressed as a stage hand and the fourth is the director. They feature the Rosary in four-vqice harmony. While animal acts do not as a rule impress me, Hunting and his seal strikes a responsive chord. The seal shows nearly a human intelligence when it responds to Hunting’s commands. Talking over the telephone and dancing tgfe “hula” are

among the many things that the seal can do. Avery clever animal act. Birds, animals and babies are imitated in the act that Astill and Fontaine present. The man of the company is also a fair ventriloquist. The female member of the company, however, only lends atmosphere to the scene, and furnishes the leads for the different imitations. Shaffer and Bernice base their act on “The Disappointed Blues,” which song opens the act and also concludes it. The majority of the act is a woman trying to sell a man a car when he thinks that she is trying to get him a wife. The situations that are created are very, funny. The Wheelers play upon many things. The piano, French horn, saxophone and bottles being the instruments. The Barcarole is one piece in which the quality of 'he tone of the bottles becomes varied. This is accomplished by the use of a cloth strip. Fren and Jane Rinehart have a blackface act that is not all bad. He is just an old darky who is broke and has to sell his dog to get enough to eat, when he learns that his un<*]e leaves him a couple of mules and a whole raft of hound dogs. She breaks the news to him. Comedies and news reels complete the program. At the Lyric this week. (By the Observer.) “IN A PEST HOUSE” STILL LIVES ON Old friends sometimes are the best. Am now speaking of Roger Imhof and Marcelie Coreene in “In a Pest House.” Yes, this is the same old hokum classic done along the most extreme character lines. Still keeping the same old atmosphere and retaining a lew of the old standard jokes, Imhof has added many new laughs to this elderly, and it deserves to be, classic of the stage. The nutty bellhop with white hair, who must wear a fireman's uniform to get uniform heat (he fires the stove at odd moments), this season has a radio instead of his checker board. The nurse still arrives but Imhof tantalizes her with many a modern remark. Have told you many times about Imhof and his “pest house.” It is still a classic and a welcomed yearly visitor. Here is one of the few variety institutions that has the right to be exhibited year after year in variety theaters. Hardeen tells you that he inherited some tricks from his late brother, Houdini. He tells you that years ago he was a famed magician, but that one magician in a family is enough. So Hardeeen went into business. Houdini kept on. And when Houdini died, Hardeen answered the call. Hardeen is doing what may be called a magic act that depends upon equipment to present. His best stunt is the alarm clock act. He is doing a trunk act similar to Houdini. Hardeen is the magician, who has been to school while Houdini was the master. There is a difference. Harry Holmes is an eccentric comedian, who toys with a piano and a hen of the hen yard variety He didn’t knock me dead, but some laughed. He tries to be different and is because he has “no ending.” Ewing Eaton is billed as “The musical comedy favorite.” I am in doubt. While dancing Ewing Eaton shakes a rapid pair of feet, Alice Diaz and Harold Powers are wire walkers and dancers. Their act has class and charm. The movie is “The Small Bachelor,” an over emphasized attempt to do farce upon the screen. At Keith’s all week. LOOKING OVER NEW MUTUAL SHOW In the hunt for the unusual the Happy Hours company, now playing at the Mutual, has hit upon the idea of presenting a boxing exhibition between a member of the chorus and Renee De Marse, a principal. At the same time the chorus dances and sings a song that imitates the boxing. Harry Stratton is the Hebrew comedian of the show who rests his comedy on the shoulders of Freddie , ' A

Milton Byron

OCT. 18, 1927

Mr. Fixit City Lays Off of Grading and Weed Cutting Until Next Summer.

Let Mr. Fixit, The Times’ representative at city hal), present your troubles to city officials. Write Mr. Fixit at The Times. Names and addresses which must be Riven, will not be published. Need for proper grading cf Reformers Ave. was cited in a letter today to Mr. Fixit. Dear Mr. Fixit: The sewers on Reformers Ave., from Villa Ave. to Churchman have been in over a year and the street has never been graded and can not be traveled (having grown a good crop of weeds this year). I have a lot on it but have no encouragement to build as long as it is in th 4 present condition. Before the sewers were put in the streets were covered with cinders and was nice to drive over. But now we are paying Barrett law assessments on upwards of $l4O and if I should build I would have to walk to my house. The residents of the district would like to see it graded. Please inform me what can be done. E. C. 2147 Beecher St. Your complaint was referred to the street commissioner and Mr. Fixit was advised no more grading would be done this “season.” Get your request in early next year. Dear Mr. Fixit: Oxford St. between Seventeenth and Eighteenth St. has not been graded for three years. Could we have it done this fall? Would also like a street lamp at the dark corner of Seventeenth and Oxford Sts. MRS. D. M. D. The city owes for lights for several years back and has not funds for installing additional light standards. Your grading request should be filed early next spring, work having been suspended this year. 1 Dear Mr. Fixit: Will you please i see what can be done about the weeds overlapping the sidewalk and are so dusty in dry weather and wet in wet weather for anyone to valk on the sidewalk? They are on the south side of Pleasant Run on S. Keystone Ave. between the boulevard and Terrace Ave. M. L., 1318 S. Keystone Ave. The city will cut no more weeds until next summer.

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor of The Times: Taking advantage of your invitation on the front page of The Times of Oct. 13, I am offering you my views for the political outlook for IF2B. There is no doubt in my mind that the Republican party has plenty of rnater.al to fill all the offices in our nation, and also there is no question in my mind that the Democrat party is more equal to the occasion than the Republican party, for it is well remembered that since our late Mr. Harding was elected—with all due respect to the deceased —the pages of the newspapers have been filled with graft. > Now then as a private citizen and a taxpayer—the latter in which all should be interested in—l feel that it is time for the citizen to begin to think. We have had In the past quite a bit of organized politics which apparently has reached bevond the borders of our State. Now, it seems to me, is the time to set aside the machinery and give it a chance to be inspected. In , order to bring this inspection about I would suggest Senator James Reed of Missouri for President in 1928. For I think he has all the qualifications necessary to make a thorough inspection. It took Moses forty years to get the Children of Israel out of the Wilderness, but my opinion is that Reed could get the children of the United States out of the Wilderness of Graft in four years. Respectfully, O. Z. BRIDGES

Walker, his foil. Stratton has been here before. Etna Moore is a featured member of the company and a blues inger. Edith Palmer is the soubrette of the show and a versatile dancer. She sings such light things as “You Don't Like It” and kindred songs, and accompanies her vocal achievement with fair dancing. The chorus is well trained and executes several novel figures in the dances. The predominating mode in their costume seems to be the head band, which varies with the costume. Bobby Taylor and Fred Reese help make the wheels go round in the many scenes that are offered to tho audience. “Happy Hours,” at the Mutual. (By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer: “Loves of Carmen,” at the Circle; “Is Your Daughter Safe?” at the Murat; “Body and Soul,” at the Apollo; “The Racing Romeo,” at the Ohio; “Shanghai Bound.” at the Indiana, and “Hanger of the North,” at the Isis.

Stage Verdict ENGLlSH’S—Barrie’s “What Every Woman Knows” as being presented here is a glorious benediction of charm. Don’t miss this one if you want the best. LYRIC—The La Chapina Marimba Band plays the accompaniments for the dances of Gautschi and Phelps. Spanish and Apache dances seem to be the order of the day. KEITH’S—OId friends many times are the best. Roger Imhof and Marcelie Coreene “In a Pest House” belong to that C 6 L O N I A L—Plenty of murder and mystery in “The Donovan Affair.” MUTUAL—“Happy Hour** has its unusual moments.