Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1927 — Page 8

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TOM MEIGHAN HAS BETTER MOVIE NOW ‘The City Gone Wild’ Is Peopled With Many Hard Boiled Underworld Gunmen and Their Fighting Companions in Short Skirts. * >: By WALTER D. HICKMAN Tom Meighan has had mighty tough luck in some of his recent movies, but I have the thought that Meighan in “The City Gone "Wild” stacks up as pretty good entertainment. The story is strong enough to interest without a name playing the leading role. Here is another one of these underworld gangster stories which seem to be rather fashionaWe on the screen these days.

Merghari is cast as a lawyer who specializes in getting bad gang leaders out on convenient bail and who generally is able to convince the court and jury that his gang member client is as pure as a lily of the crime charged. This lawyer has a real friend in the district attorney, who starts a

cleanup campaign. The gang lawyer and the district attorney are courting the same girl. You guessed it the girl’s father .is really the power behind the throne in all big gang deals. So you see that the two suitors get into a nice mess. The gang attorney comes to realize in this story that he really is responsible to some

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degree for the crimes that his gang clients commit after they get out on bail. This attorney changes his attitude toward society when the district attorney is murdered by a client of the gangster’s attorney. Meighan makes the attorney for the gang a real fighter, and he stages a man hunt that is a thriller. In this day of man hunts, this picture will probably appeal. I think that Tom Meighan is always Tom Meighan because he does not make up for any of his characters. But, all in all, Meighan does a convincing job this time as the attorney. Some of the women of the crook gang have been well chosen, especially the one who wears mighty short skirts. Bill includes “Mooney Mariner,” Connie and his band and Jimmy Hatton, soloist. At the Ohio. a v SLAVE MARKET STORY AT INDIANA “The 'Love Mart,” which is now playing at the Indiana, is the picture that was announced as Louisianna. The story is built around the old slave markets in New Orleans, and deals with the daughter of Louis Frobelle, who whs said to be an octaroon and sold on the block to the highest bidder, who happened to be the man in love with her. This is a costume picture and I have been unable to find any fault

with the settings or costumes of the players. Even down to the twisted cigars which Captain Remy smokes the picture agrees. Victor Jallot wins a barber shop and fencing academy on a bet, and on his way to look at it, he assists Miss Antoinette Frobelle across the muddy street and accrues the enmity of Jean Delicado. As the story pro-

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gresses it seems that Mr. Frobelle took the property of Captain Remy when he thought him dead, but the captain comes back for it and announces the girl as one of the slaves which belonged to him. Jallot buys her and nearly cuts the captain’s throat to get the truth which clears her. A beautifuly worked out plot: Billie Dove has the part of Antoinette, and while the majority of her work is fine she seems overact a trifle when she is on the slave block. Gilbert Roland plays Victor Jallot. The work of Roland is forceful and full of character. Jallot is made a really fine southern gentleman with Just enough dash. Noah Beery plays Captain Remy. Remy is one of the old bragadocios, who gives not a whit for other peoples rights, and Beery makes him a little more repulsive that you could imagine him. Beery’s work is up to his standard. “The Love Mart” is good drama and melodrama mixed. On the stage Louis and Andrew Carr do a dancing act with hard shoes. Their father and mother follow them and do the daying turn that they used to do some years ago. And I have about decided that while the children are good, the parents are much better. Rosse and Gilbert have a novelty conception of “blues” that is a scream. These two are good. Nina Hinds and Pearl Leonard, who are said to be Vitaphone stars, do duet work with some of the popular music of the day. They are good. The Kikutas Japs do some rapid acrobatics. This troupe works fast and has some good things. Charlie Davis and his band do some numbers that are much better than formerly. It is my opinion that Davis is getting better all the time. At the Indiana. (By the Observer.) FIELDS AND* CHESTER CONKLIN TEAM UP Much was expected of W. C. Fields when he deserted the revue stage for the movies. In some cases he did not deliver

-Verdict of the Movies V INDIANA—“The Love Mart” is good drama and melodrama mixed. Charlie Davis and band good. APOLLO—Fields and Conklin strut their comedy stunts in “Two Flaming Youths.” CIRCLE—“Her Wild Oat” is filled with good comedy situations and all are well handled. OHIO—Tom Meighan has a better story than usual In “The City Gone Wild.’*

because he did not have a comedy foil. So it was decided to team Fields with Chester Conklin, who is one of the best steady hokum comedians on the screen today. Conklin is always guilty of being a good low comedian and he is no exception to the rule in “Tw’o Flaming Youths” with Fields. Fields is either blessed or cursed w'ith a bunch of business tricks that he uses in many of his movies. He is always funny in pictures when he drives an auto and he was a panic on the stage in such scenes. In “Two Flaming Youths” Fields is cast as the owner of a freak show of a carnival. The first part of the movie show's Fields very much in distress because he is broke, business is bad, his freaks want* to eat and the sheriff is ready to close him up. Conk’in is the sheriff and he sure makes a dumb one, Just the thing that is needed to give life and pep to this rather disjointed story. Conklin and Fields play a game of tag during most of the movie as the sheriff thinks he wants to serve a legal notice upon the freak owner. Os course these two characters run a race to see who may marry a widow and the owner of a village hotel. They become flaming Romeos and they sure make Main Street a warm place. I cannot say that “Two Flaming Youths” .is a 'sensation but it does give both funmakers a jpighty good opportunity to pull their own brand of comedy. Mary Brian and Jack Luden are important in the cast. The bill includes a Pathe special, “Young Hollywood,” made up of children of the stars; a news reel, Ray Winings at the organ; Emil Seidel and his orchestra, and Cliff Williams, soloist. At the Apollo. u n m A PRETTY fcIRL TAKES HER CHANCE Mary Lou Smith ran a lunch wagon, but when she went to a fashionable beach club she named herself after a soup. Just couldn't keep away from the food idea. “Her Wild Oat” is the story of a girl who had a fling and was satisfied. Colleen Moore falls in love, but Daisy, who is one of those flowers that bloom in night clubs, made

her go after the “guy;” and then Tommy Warren puts in an oar to make her famous after she had been high-hatted by the fashionable guests. The whole thing is a riot. Plain farce is hard to digest, but mix it with some ripe romance and you have a dish for the king. And that’s what Miss Moore serves you.

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Daisy expresses her conceived mode of walking in society when she says, “This is the day of aviation, dearie, so let the hips fly where they may.” And Mary does. Mary Lou Smith is made a very live and real girl by the acting of Miss Moore. To get across her Ritzie stuff she must burlesque her work, which, however, does not detract, but rather adds, a bit. •Larry Kent takes the part of the young man who comes into the little lunch wagon girl’s life —and stays after she has sown “her wild oat.” Philip Latour, as he is known, gets her all wound up at the beach, but she don’t fool him by being the De Granville, who incidently happens to be his stepmothar. The film is full of comedy situations, all well handled. This story, while it is a simple little thing, is handled with a master’s touch. Being simple makes it good comedy farce. On the stage is Louise Powell’s Kiddie Revue, which I got to the theater too late to see, and the Circle Brass Quartet, which plays several Christmas carols. The backdrop used by the quartet was very beautiful and blended unusually well with the spirit of the day. Comedies and news reels complete the program. At the Circle. (By the Observer.) u n n Indianapolis theaters today offer: Grace George and McKay Morris in “The Road to Rome,” at English’s: Watson and Cohan Revue, at the Lyric: Guy and Pearl Magley, at Keith’s: movies at the Bandbox; "The Magic Flame,” at the Walker; burlesque at the Mutual and "Circus Age,” at the Isis. Values Love at SIO,OOO „ Bu Timet Special • > JEFFERSON, Ind., Dec. 26. Claude M. Kirk asks SIO,OOO in a suit against Jennie Mace, alleging she alienated the affections of his wife, Elsie 3* Kirk., The husband says the alleged love theft occurred while he and his wife were living in the defendant’s home. The couple was married eighteen years ago.

New Walker Theater Opens Its Doors Today

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Realty Board Committees of 1928 Chosen

President Emerson W. Chaille today named the followihg real estate board committees for 1928: Appraisal Board—J. S. Cruse. Frank E. Gates. L. G.Holtegel, Z. B. Hunt. Paul McCord. J. J. Reilly, F. C. Tucker, George T. Whelden. Arbitration-H. G. Knight. C. C. Binkley, Frank L. Bridges. E. L. Cothreil, E. E. Shelton. John R. Weich, Charles R. Yoke. Constitution and By-Laws—-William L. Elder. J. S. Cruse. Frank E. Gates, L. C. Holtegel, Lawrence J. Welch. Budget, Finance and Audit—Frank J. Viehmann. E. J. Holloway. Forest B. Kellogg. frvin Morris, Dan LeGore. Legislative-- R. B. Wilson. Wm. S. Allen. George E. Brewer. Alex Chambers. Robert Collier, S. H. Creighton, Donald Jameson. O. I. Smith. Membership—H M. Stackhouse. Wendell Covel. R..M. Hadley. Russe Hartman. J. L. Holloway. J. Harry Miles, A. C. Moidthan. William A. Moslander, H. G. Templeton. U. B. Tuttle, Frank Woolling and Robert Stockwell. Publicity—B. C. Cartmell. J. F. Cantwell, George L. Clark. P. A. Havellck. C. W. Henry and Lafavette Perkins. Social Affairs—Frank A. Throop. William L. Bridges. F. C. Cash, L. P. Davis. Edson Wood Jr.. Walter M. Evans, Charles R. Ettlnger. C. A. Goodpasture. Wavne Harryman. Joe J. Klee. Louis S. Hensley. Fred L. Palmer. R. E. Peckham, J. .Edward Robins. Lawrence J. Sexton, Carl O. Seytter, Norris P. Shelby. Civic Affairs Committee—D. A. Coulter. Peter F. Blaz. Frank C. Bopp, Fred Buskirk, William H. Cooper. Bowman Elder. J. Roy Moore. D. T. Nicoson, Thomas J. Owens. L. M. Peterson. O. L. Price. Louis Sakowitz. Oscar Schmidt, H. D. Tumbleson. A. Van Treese, Leo F'. Welch and Ernest E. Woods. Forms—Z. B. Hunt. Chas. H. Bailey, O. H. Clark, Lacey Hearn. John A. Royse. Walfare—Frank E. Brown. Lee Dove, H. B. Griffey. Edward Kuntz, A B. Marshall. Fred Mertz, T. P. Sexton. Robert Shelhorn. Multiple Listing—J. J. Argus, R. C. Burcaw, John K. Burgess. C. A. Dehlman George W. Russell. Insurance—A. J. Huebcr. Cornelius Holloway. Harry Meyer, Augustus Jennings. J. Albert Smith, H. D. Waddy, Henry Bakemeyer. New Industries—Geo. T. Whelden. M. M. Andrews. W. A. Brennan. C. O. Grinslade. H. T. Hottel. J. W. Hurt. L. J. McMaster. Chas. S. Maxwell. Coliseum—Albert R Uhl. J. T. Barnett. Tom Dillon, Wm. M. Huse. C. G. Jacquart Henry Ostrom. I. Watt Pugh. Using Word “Realtor"—Frank L. Bridges, Roland M. Arens, Lowell Frazee, Thos R. Jones, George D. Lance, B. M. Ralston, John W. Roberts, Fred Slllery. Wa.ter S. Strong. Noon Luncheon—E. K. McKinney. E. E. Brodbeck, Gilbert L. Helms. Forest Knight. Frank Woolling. Ways and Means (More Revenue)— Paul L. McCord, Edward Barker. George C. Harness. Robert MacGregor. A. Edward Mantel, Glenn Ralston. J. F. Rainier. Advisory—L. H. Lewis. J. S. Cruse, Scott Brewer. T. F. Carson. E. L. Cothreil. Wm. L. Elder. Frank E. Oates. J. Edward Morris. J. J. Schmid. John R. Welch. Property Management Bureau—Frank L. Thomas. Frank S. Clark, B. W. Duck, W. R. Hunter. George W. Klein, Robert P. Moorman. H. E. Redding. Membership Examining Board—Noble C. Hilgenberg, Robert Allison. Wendell Coval, B. W. Templeton. F. C. Tucker. Safety Council Committee—Frank T. Woolling. J. J. Argus, E. M. Schofield. National Association and Convention— Thomas F. Carson, L. H. Lewis. J. Edward Morris. Wm. Low Rice. Fraternal (Get Acquainted) Committee--Joseph J. Schlmd, John C. Barnhill. J. W. Elder. I. L. Elmore, Wm. Pruitt. E. J. McCralken. Harry L. Mott. Oscar Mufr, W. O. Polkinhorn. A J. Quigley. Own Your Home Committee—Walter T. White, chairman; Harry Dillehav. C. O. Grinslade. Glenn L. Holsapple, Charles R. Longest, H. L. Richardt. Ralph R. Scheldler. Frank C. Smith. Marlon Stump. Btate Auto Association Committee—L. H. Lewis, Scott Brewer. George Whelden. Sergeant-At-Arms—Joseph F. Schmid, Howard Fieber, assistant,. Code of Ethics—C. B. Durham. O. M. Fowler. William McClure. John Mllnor.

FAT PEOPLE UNHEALTHY FROM CARRYING WEIGHT Alabama Professor Says Sweets Not Only Flesh Cause. Bu United, Press UNIVERSITY, Ala., Dec. 26. Why is a fat person unhealthy? The answer is eaiSy, according to Dr. James S. McLester, professor of medicine at the University of Alabama. “First they carry twice the load of normal persons,” the physician explained. “Second, the heart has to do twice the work, handicapped by deposits of fat.” Reducing processes are very slow, Dr. McLester explained. In cases of young children and old persons, he said it was often inadvisable. Sweets, according to the specialist. are no more fattening than carbohydrates, such as bread and potatoes.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

The new Walker Theater located at Indiana Ave. and West, will formally open this afternoon. It is estimated that the building, which contains a modern movie theater, office rooms and factory for Mme. Walker enterprises and business rooms, cost about a half million. Rubush and Hunter were the architects and Henry Behrens the decorator. It is primitive architecture with Maya influence. A pipe organ has been installed and the theater has rest rooms and all modern equipment. The building is flatiron in shape. Charles Erwin, formerly manager of a large colored theater in Philadelphia, is manager of the Walker. The policy is movies with two changes a week at present. The opening bill includes “The Magic Flame,” Reginald Duvalle and his “Blackbirds”; Mary Singleton at the organ and short reels.

KEEPS AUTOGRAPHS Collection Lacks Only 3 Presidents. Bu United Press FOND DU LAC, Wis., Dec. 26. Autographs of Presidents, military heroes, prime ministers, signers of the Declaration of Independence, and even the signature of a queen, may be found in a collection of State Senator W. A. Titus here. Senator Titus has the autographs of all but three of the thirty Presidents who have served the United States. The three missing signatures are those of George Washington. John Adams and William Henry Harrison. Among the military heroes whose autographs Titus has obtained are General John J. Pershing, Rear Admiral R. D. Evans, Rear Admiral W. O. Schley, Maj.-Gen. John A. Logan, General Ulysses S. Grant, Maj.-Gen. Richard Pearson Hobson and others. Prime ministers of England who have contributed autographs to Titus’ collection are Gladstone, Pitt, Walpole and Palmerston. Titus also has in his possession a military order directed to the Duke of Wellington, and signed at the top by Queen Victoria. SAXOPHONES FOUND IN MEXICAN RUINS Jazz Old Stuff Below Rio Grande, Archaeologist Says. Bu United Press PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 26.—The aborigines of Mexico, may too, have had their saxaphone pests, their ‘syncopating Sues,” and their black bottom days. On the other side of the Rio 'Grande, in the land of revolutions and short-lived presidential candidates, the Mexican Irving Berlins were versed in jazz music thousands of years ago, according to Harola Lyman Brown, archaeologist, of Portland, Me., who stopped here on his way to Chicago from Mexico City. “Excavators in the Mexican valley,” Brown said, unearthed strange implements which resembi* modern instruments of jazz. These discoveries bore evidence of a prehistoric race with a propensity for syncopation.” There are more than 40,000,000 savings accounts in the United States.

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GRADE CROSSING TOLL IS HEAVY No. 3 Hoad—See Puzzle Accidents This Year to Cost 2,000 Lives in 1927. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—More than 2,000 persons will lose their lives in accidents in 1927, if the present death rate continues. , Reports filed by the railroads with the Interstate Commerce Commission for the first six months of 1927. show * total of 1,062 fatalities, a decrease by three from the number of deaths so caused during first six months of 1926. Other accidents in which the victims were injured, but not killed, totaled 2.901 during -the first six months of 1927. This is a reduction by 209 from the number injured during the corresponding period last year. There were 83 fewer grade crossing accidents during the first six months of 1927 than during the first six months of 1926. Last year the number of accidents during this period was 2,644. Complete elimination of highway grade crossings .s both physically and financial impossible, the American Railway Association declares.

FINDS YOUTH HAS, FAITH Sunday School Buttons Still Used, Says Endeavor Teacher. Bit Times Evecial ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Dec. 26. “There are still many young Jtolk who w’ear Sunday school buttons in preference to fraternity pins and whose pocketbooks contain small Bibles instead of cigarets,” in the opinion of Stanley Vandersall, vocational superintendent of the Christian Endeavor Society, which is meeting here. I “The only trouble is,” he said, “that this portion of the American youth does not receive enough publicity. One misdemeanor, however, is shouted about in loud and sure terms. Thousands of young people of the Christian Endeavor who remain faithful to their pledge to read a portion of the Bible daily, are unsung. If a man were as strong in comparison to his size as a flea he could pull a seven-ton load on a wagon.

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SANTA LAVISH WITH PRESENTS TO NEW YORK Most Benevolent Saint City Has Seen in Many Years; Free From Want. Bm United Press NEW V YORK. N. Y., Dec. 26.—The Santa Claus who returned to New York Sunday was the most prosperous and benevolent saint that the city has seen in many a Christmas. Remarkably free from want and hunger, the city celebrated in a spirit of lavish generosity. Turkey dinners were just as numerous along the Bowery as in the million-aollar apartments of Park Ave., and the hundreds of charitable organizations saw to it that few persons hadn’t a Santa Claus of s<sme sort. Not an arrest was made. Poison Booze Kills Eight Poisonous Christmas "cheer” took a toll of eight lives in the period of celebration which began Friday night. Other deaths from that cause probably occurred but had not been recorded today. The thousands of “speak-easies,” festively decorated with lighted trees and holly, did a record business. The postoffice disposed of every Christmas gift and card on hand by midnight, Dec. 24. Thirteen members of the “Alimony Club” were removed from the gloomy “club house” in the Ludlow St. jail and entertained with a special dinner by Sheriff Culkin. While playing Santa Claus before a group of small children, Walter Nickols, 74, veteran stage actor, died of heart disease.

Chokes on Sandwich George Dew’ey, 50, choked to death on a roast beef sandwich in a Newark restaurant w’hen he tried to take all the beef in one swallow. Smuggling a knife into his cell on “murderers’ row” in the Raymond St. jail in Brooklyn, John Hanson, 51, ended his life with two slashes across his throat. While decorating a Christmas tree at the home of Warden Lewis ELawes of Sing Sing prison, Vralph De Salvo, a trusty, escaped. Fifteen minutes later he was recaptured by a policeman.

Few Capital Fatalities Eji United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—A man w’as killed when he Stripped over a Christmas tree and fell downstairs and twelve persons were injured in automobile accidents during the week-end holiday in the national capital. Fatalities and injuries were unusually isolated as compared with previous years. Joseph T. Halpin, formerly of Du - buque, la., assistant manager of sales in the United States Shipping Board died at a hospital from injuries he received when he flipped over a Christmas tree at his home

Tonight at Midnight After 12 o’clock tonight, the RA ndolph office will be changed to TA lbot. Important changes and rearrangements in the telephone equipment have made it necessary to assign this new name. All telephone numbers having the prefix RA ndolph are listed in the telephone directory now being delivered as TA lbot. For example: RA ndolph 1237 is changed to TAlbot 1237. Please be sure to call by the new office name. Failure to do so may result in delays and wrong connections. i The new January directory (brown cover) contains hundreds of changes in telephone numbers. Please consult it before calling. Beginning with the January issue of the directory, manual subscribers reporting telephones out of order should ask for “Repair Service.” Heretofore this department has been known as Repair Clerk. Dial subscribers should call 114.

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When the new Walker Theater, Indiana Ave. and West St., opens its doors for the first time this afternoon, the interior decorations will be discussed both by patrons and those interested in theater building. Henry Behrens, who is responsible for the beauty of the many theaters and other buildings here was the decorator for the Walker.

and plunged down a flight of steps. His body will be sent to Dubuque for burial. Two Die in Chicago Cil United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—Two persons w’ere burned to death and a third seriously injured in fires caused by Christmas trees becoming ignited yesterday. * Mrs. Irene Jorgensen and Lee Horton w’ere killed when crossed wares ignited the woman’s tree during a party. Miss Alice Clinton, another guest, was seriously burned. URGES BETTER HYMNS Princeton Choirmaster Would Make Bonfire of “Tawdry Anthems.” Bu Times Svecial NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Hymns, with lugubrious tunes and sentiment texts, should be consigned to a bonfire, together with many cheap and tawdry anthems of the Victorian era, said Dr. Alexander Russell, choirmaster at Princeton University, at a conference on church music held at the Waldorf-Astoria by the National Federation of Music Clbubs. “Poor hymns are a disgrace to music and to religion,” he declared, “and in college chapels, at least, those having to do with sin and repentance. with death and gloom, should be discarded. “Right or wrong, the young people of today are not interested in such matters. Let us choose hymns of nobility of thought, true devotion and high musical value.”

DEC. 26, 1927.

1927 YIELDED MANY RELICS OF EARLY LIFE Archaeologists Had Banner Year; Fossils Found in Scotland. BY N. R. PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 26.—Archaeological discoveries, ranging from the re mains of prehistoric man to newlj found remnants of ancient Egyptiai glory, have made 1927 a banne; year, according to scientific author ities who have been interviewed b; the United Press during the past few days. The Investigations which havt been made during recent months in an effort to throw’ more light on pas', civilizations have been of a universal scope. Many Sections Visited They include exhaustive work in the British Isles, Greece, Syria, Morocco, Palestine, Abysinnia, South Africa, France and even In the parched sands of the Sahara. ' Another outstanding event has been the work in connection with the discovery at Giza of the tomb of Hetepheres, the mother of Cheops, who lived some 3,000 years B. C. This find revealed for the first time in the history of Egyptian excavations the procedure for the burial of great personages of that period. Scotland Fossils Found Proving for the first time that pre-historic man inhabited Scotland during the crude stone period when caves w’ere regarded as palatial mansions, fossilized skeletons have been discovered near Incnadamph, in Sutherland. Excavations here unearthed several long, narrow human skulls, representing a mentality little higher than a monkey’s. Another curious discovery has been that of the remains of a woolly rhinoceros in a cave near Lecce, in Otranto, in southern Italy. This is regarded as important by archaeologists as substantiation of the theory purporting that this region was once exceedingly cold; and that the now barren Sahara was thickly populated due to the frigidity of the rest of the world. Americans Help Other more important archaeological works during the year include excavation in Greece by the French school of classical studies, excavations by the German school at Tiryns and at Samos; and research w T ork at Ur of the Chaldeees, which is being jointly carried out by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania. Exploration along the Euphrates, in Assyria, by a French expedition with Father Poidebard, Beirut University, and M. Maurice Dunand of the Syrian department of archaeology, at its head, also was Important,