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KLAN CASE ON TRIAL MONDAY 1 New Hearing to Be Held at Portland. Rv Times Soeqial PORTLAND, Ind., Dec. 10.—Muncie’s Klan case will get another airing In Jay CJirsuit Court here beginning Monday with A. L. Bales of the itanaclph Circuit Court sitting as special judge. He was chosen after a motion for anew trial had been granted by Judge B. D. Wheat of the Jay Circuit. The suit' is entitled Charles W. Cecil et al vs. Samuel H. Bremenderfer et al. At the last previous trial the plaintiff obtained a $7,000 judgment and the defense asked for anew hearing. At still another trial, judgment was for the defendants. Plaintiffs are members of an organization known as the Knights of American Protestantism, while the defendants are Ku-Klux Klansmen. The case is based on alleged wrongful collection of certain funds by the Klansmen. RELIEF'IN TRAFFIC JAM Indiana Motorists to Benefit in Wider Calumet Entry. Bu United Preh HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. 10.—Indiana motorists traveling to Chicago through the Calumet, district soon will be able to avoid the paralyzing; congestion on Indianapolis road as the result of the construction of a wide thoroughfare,from the Chicago loop to the IndianaIllinois State line. Ordinances introduced In the Chicago city council last Week will turn over to the South Park board parts of south side streets for the proposed boulevard, which will connect with Indianapolis boulevard, north of the American Maize Products Company plant, over a proposed extension of 112th St, west, and will receive a large volume of the traffic which now creeps Into Chicago at a snail’s pace over the old nbute. URGE GARY MEMORIAL Citizens of Indiana City Steel'■CJiief Founded Start Movement. Bu United Press GARY, Ind., Dec. 10.—Men from all walks of life have united in a city-wide and community-embrac-ing movement for erection here of. a suitable and lasting memorial to the memory of the late Judge Elbert H. Gary, founder of this city of steel and “Gary people’s best friend.” Approximately sixty representatives of as many different official, business, civic, industrial, utility, educational, fraternal commercial, professional and church organizations took part in the organization dinner meeting held in a local hotel. Sentiment was unanimous in favor of the proposed memorial.

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BEGIN HERE TODAY When Dlanan Farwell’s mother overhears talk of love between her daughter and a schoolboy triend, she is fearful that Diana will “go wrong" like her sister. Vivian, who ran away from home four years before. So the mother hastens a marriage of Diana with Arthur Vane, some years older, a successful San Francisco lawyer. Diana is only IS and goes into marriage believing "Arthur is so different from other men he always will be satisfied with merely spiritual love.” He respects her heserves, as a young girl's respects her reserves, as a young girl’s months of loveless life, he tells her she has wrecked nis life. Some time after her mother dies, Diana leaves Arthur and finds her long-lost sister. Vivian, preparing for a trip to New York. Diana rents a room at the home of Mrs. Burton, widowed friend of Diana's mother, and enrolls in aeton’s School of Acting. Within a few months she has progressed o well with her school work she is taken by Shelton Seton, head of the school, as his personal pupil. He arouses * In her. In the Impassioned love scenes they rehearse, together, sensations she has never had before. Diana falls passionately in love with Seton. Arthur refuses to divorce her. Seton's wife goes East for six 'weeks and Diana notices a coolness in his attitude toward her. She calls on Mrs. Burton, who gives her a letter from Vivian. , Vivian returns to San Francisco and disapproves of Diana living with Nadine in an apartment paid for bv Jim Devlin. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XL DIANA’S voice was cautious. . “What’A the matter, Diana? Someone else there?” “Yes, there is.” “I want to see you,” declared Shepherd Seton. “Shall I call later? Say in half an hour?” “I .wish you would,” she replied gratefully. But she did not fool Vivian. “I know that was a man,” she said severely. “Well, my heavens, you don’t expect me to be a hermit, do you?” Vivian smiled, somewhat reasf rured, and rose, drawing the fur closer about her white throat. “I don’t expect anything impossible of you, darling. You’ll have to have a few friends, of course. “Thanks.” “But don’t lose your head over any of them,” Vivian continued serenely. “And I Intend to find a room for you right away.” “Please don’t, Vivian,” begged the younger girl. "I’ll ask Nadine to take an apartment we can pay for ourselves. And if she won’t I’ll fnove the first of December ...” “Is that a promise?” "I suppose so,” Diana agreed, sulkily. “But I think you are awfully unfair. You live your own life and do as you please. You haven’t any right to interefere with mine.” '“lndeed, I have.” Vivian retorted, complacently. She added a shade more color to her rosy, petulant lips. Diana was reminded of the quarrels they had had when they were children. "I’m the oldest, Diana,” was an

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CJTAND under the southern portico of the Parthenon, and look down from the Acropolis to the sea. The blue Aegean lies some eight miles away, smiling complacently under the sun. x On that Island across the bay King Xerxes sat; and in those waters, so quiet now, the Greeks rewon their liberties. „ Nearer Is the Piraeus, with its shipping like toy-boats on a lake; closer still the road which was once walled in from the city to the port; and at the bottom of the hill the modest homes and narrow streets of Athens. But here at our feet, rising from the level belo walmost to where we stand, is one of the great places in hunW history. It is the Theatre of Dionysus, where every year, with drama festival and song, the Greeks commemorated their joyous and suffering god. T Thirty thousand" seats, once of wood, then of marble and stone, range themselves in long half circles, row upon row, narrowing down at the base of the Acropolis to meet the stage. In these carved and ornamented sqats at the front the officials of the city sat. and the priests "of Dionysius. This plain semi-circular space, paved with great slabs, was the stage itself. At the rear was the actors’ booth —the skene of “scene;” its front might be transformed to represent a temple or a palace, and its roof supported a strange contrivance of pulley and crane designed to let down, as from heaven, the deus ex machina (the god from the machine), whose Intervention was used by pious—or lazy—dramatists to untie their knotted plots. Otherwise the stage and the seats lay open to the sky; no rain was to be feared in the season of festival; every breeze was welcome, and the stars were sufficient covering. a a a

'T'O reach thirty thousand AtheX nians, rising tier on tier against the hill, considerable voice was necessary. Therefore the actors, even of the women’s parts, were alw&ys men; a special shoe, the cothurnus, gave them added height, and the masks they wore, besides making their roles distinguishable from afar, gave resonance and carriage to their speech. Dramatis personae originally meant the “masks of the drama (per-sonare, to speak through). Actors, dramatists, chorus and musicians were organized in a union called the “Artists of Dionysius.” Their profession was far better honored than in medieval or modern Europe; they were exempt from military service, and were allowed safe passage through the lines in time of war. It was an honor, not a disgrace, to play a part upon the stage, and so give life and action to a philosophy. Almost as important as the actors were the members of the chorus; before Sophocles it dominated the scene. Indeed, the majority of Greek plays were named for the chorus— suppliants, Persian women, Trojan women, Choephori, Eumenides, Bacchae, wasps, frogs. The chorus served partly as a vehicle for a poet’s interpretations,

old, unanswerable argument. It had always been. “I got to do it first—mine is the biggest—l choose this It was exactly Vivian’s attitude now. She would have adventures, beautiful possessions, a romantic, irresponsible life, but Diana must stick to the role of “good little girl.” “I’ll show her," Diana thought, saying goodby. “She can’t bob up wherever she pleases and start to boss me.” Asa matter of fact, she was not nearly so impressed with her sister away from her luxurious background. Vivian’s eyes were shadowed with fatigue. Her voice a trifle shrill . . . Against her will Diana had found herself noticing these things. Her sister seemed like an rose, marvelously beautiful, but with petals almost ready to fall. She was still thinking about Vivian when Shepherd Seton came. Perhaps her pensive mood appealed to him. Perhaps he regretted the previous incompatibility. At qny rate, he was his most charming self. Winning, irresistible. . . . “What did you do with the other suitor?” “No suitor,” she answered, smiling. “My sister lias just returned from New York.” “Sister?” “Yes. Perhaps you have met her. She knows Jim. Hter friends call her Vivian.” It was as if a shade were lowered across his face. “I used to know Vivienne,” he said. “Is she your sister?” “She is,” asserted Diana. Why hadn’t Vivian told her she was acquainted with Shepherd Seton? He took her hand and drew her down beside him. “What a mysterious young person you are. The first time you enter my studio I would have sworn you were fresh from your mother's arms. Absolutely inexperienced! Then Klesalek informed me that vou had been married. Later I learn that marriage had not meant anything . . And now yqu suddenly proclaim yourself the sister of Vivienne.” * “Yes. Well, what’s so amazing about that?” v “A great deal,” he said, thought- | fully, shaking his head. "My God, Diana, I don't know whether to love you or leave you.” “You seem to think,” she said with a childish pretense of dignity, “that it’s un to you to decide.” He put his hand beneath her chin and forced her to look at him. I “Isn’t it up to me?" he asked, ! quietly.

explanations and views, and partly as a convenient vocal curtain between the episodes of the play. Their lines were chanted to the accompaniment of a single flute. Often they interspersed their songs with dance; and so the stage was called an "orchestra” (orcheomal, I dance). Most of the expense oi an Athenian dramatic production lay in the training of the chorus; usually some wealthy citizen had here to come to the rescue of the state. Plutarch tells us that the representation of six plays cost Athens more than the war against Persia—presumably excluding the sack ol the capital. There was an admission charge of six cents; but many people could not afford so high a price, and Pericles made himself popular by arranging for the practically free admission of the poor. a a a npHE audience was highly heteroX genous; men*, boys and women (of a certain class), frfeemejj and slaves. Enthusiasts came the night before to stand in line for the better seats;they attached as much .n----portance to the drama as we attach to professional games. But their behavior was not above that of a bleacher congregation. They hissed as readily as they applauded, they kicked the seats with their heels as a mode of dramatic criticism, and in general they made more noise than Plato liked. They ate nuts and. fruit as they listened; and it seemed to Aristotle that the failure of a play might be judged from the exceptional quantity of food eaten by the crowd. Those who could afford it supplied food to the actors, too, when the play was particularly unsatisfactory; so that a bad play was a good means of collecting provisions. But along with figs and olives would sometimes come sharp stones; Aeschines was almost stoned to death for a poor play. Dramatists came to guard against such showers by in stalling claqueurs. at strategic points; at times they threw nuts to the audience as a bribe to peace. Frequently the crowd took active control; it threatened the life of Aeschylus for apparently revealing one of the Eleusian "mysteries;” it occasionally stampeded the judges into awarding the state prize not to the best but to the most popular play; and once it refused to permit a play of Euripides to continue until the old dramatist had suavely apologized for an irreverent line. What they had above all was endurance.# On each of three successive days they listened to four performances—three tragedies and one comedy; itw as in such groups that rival dramatists usually submit their plays. 'v Picture a modern audience, restless and yawning, trying to hear four dramas at a sitting; only iq Bayreuth is it conceivable, vlt is true that the audience now and then compelled the abandonment of a play that bored them and clamored for the next; it was a summary method of abbreviating a windy program. But sometimes, too, they called for the repetition of passages that

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Once more the deadly, exquisite attraction! Lethargy which seemed to paralyze thought. Her eyes blurred as if she were seeing him from a distance . . . “Diana!” he cried ... % But a moment later she said, “I think we ought to stop seeing each other, except at,school.” “Don’t be tiresome darling!” “But I do,” she insisted. “When I’m away from you I tell myself this is wrong and we mustn’t go on. Then when I’m with you, I weaken.” “Didn’t you want me to come tonight?” jJOf course! Nothing in the world seems so desirable as having you here. But I realize more and more that it isn’t right.” “What in the world started tHat train of thought?” She hesitated, not anxious to tell him of her visit with Mrs. Burton and the girlhood viewpoint which had been half-resurrected. “Has Vivienne been talking to you?” he asked unexpectedly. "She has advised me against men in general,” she admitted. “Os course, she knows nothing about you.” v “Well, don’t tell her, Diana! Don’t tell anyone!” “I think Nadine suspects something. She knows you come to see me.” “That’s not particularly Incriminating,” he said, smiling. “Besides Nadine is in no position to say anything. Our friendship is nothing to be ashamed of,” he added, noting her clouded eyes. “Only people are so prfne to see the worst in a situation like this. We aren’t hurting any one. It really is no one’s business but ours, is it?” She shook her head, feeling strangely ill at ease. “Don’t you trust me, Diana?” “Absolutely! Only I really don’t see what you expect to gain,” she said, honestly. “Aren’t you happy just seeing me?” “Happier than I’d be without you, I suppose.” A Well then!” he said, triumphantly. Seton left early, before Nadine returned. Diana went to bed but not to sleep. A few days ago she had wept for fear he no longer loved her. He had never been more ardent, more loverlike than he had been tonight, yet now she was cold with apprehension. He had not mentioned a divorce. Had spoken only of “going on” as they were. Did he imagine she would ever be anything more to him unless they were married? Shivering with overwrought

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