Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1928 — Page 7

ME 18, 1928.

HOOVER PLANS ‘BACK PORCH' ?VOTECAMPAIGN 'All Preparations Will Be Drafted at His Residence. BY JOSEPH S. WASNEY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 18.—Herbert Hoover today planned a temporary “back-porch" campaign for . the presidency. The Republican nominee is conferring with political leaders at his office this week. But the real campaign will be directed from the back-porch of Hoover's S St. home. On this spacious porch Hoover will meet his lieutenants. All plans and ideas will be drafted there. The “back-porch” campaign will be opened tonight. Hoover will meet a number of his aids who were at Kansas City. Hoover conferred today for thirty minutes with Representative John Q. Tilson (Connecticut), the Republican House floor leader. Tilson said they talked campaign! procedure and that details could not be made public. Atterbury Is Caller W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Ogden Mills, undersecretary of treasury; Secretary of War Davis, and Elwood Cox, head of the Hoover committee in North Carolina, were other call- , ers. Hoover lunched with Secretary of | Interior Work. Congratulatory telegrams and letters continued to arrive. One today ■was from Senator Goff (Rep.) West Virginia, who was defeated for the , nomination. Goff wrote that he had wired Hoover congratulations the day ester the nomination and that the message must have been lost. He said he “will return home to go on the firing line for Hoover and Curtis.” Number of letters were received from West Branch, lowa, Hoover’s birthplace, askihg him to come there to be officially notified of his | nomination. May Not Quit Job Those close to Hoover said there Js a possibility the secretary may continue as head of the Commerce Department until March 4, regardless of the November election. The question of his resignation, however, has not been definitely decided. He may resign in a few weeks. Hoover is expected to decide this and ether important questions after a conference with a committee from the Kansas City convention which meets here Thursday. A luncheon has been arranged for Hoover and Senator Curtis, vice presidential nominee, and the committee at the Willard Hotel June 21 at noon. Curtis is expected here Tuesday. Hoover spent a quiet Sunday and ■did not discuss politics with the handful of callers who visited his home. The nominee attended the services at the Friends Meeting House. No Commotion at Church Hoover was late. A congregation of eighty-six had assembled at the Quaker church and prayers were being read when the church’s most distinguished parishioner walked in with Mrs. Hoover, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Jr.,_ and Allan Hoover. Only a few glances were directed toward the nominee. Bible reading continued. After services, the Hoovers were surrounded by the congregation and showered with congratulations. Hoover retired early Sunday night, so he could reach his office by 9 a. m. today to meet James W. Good, lowa, his pre-campaign manager, and other political leaders. Curtis to Capital By United Press TOPEKA, Kan., June 18.—Eager to swing into his first national campaign, Senator Charles Curtis, Republican vice presidential nominee, was en route to Washington today to confer with Herbert Hoover. Senator Curtis also will complete senatorial duties he left unfinished before leaving the capital for the Kansas City convention. After he has disposed of his work !n Washington, the Senator will retire to a secluded place for a short rest. SUICIDE OF HARVARD YOUTH IS MYSTERY No Motive for Hanging of Boy Popular Millionaire’s Son. ’ Bz' United Press NEW LONDON, Conn., June 18.— No explanation was offered today for the suicide of William Wayri) Neff, 21-year-old Harvard junior, whosf body was found hanging Jfrom e tree in Stonington late Sunday. He had hanged himself with his belt. The Harvard student, an assistant crew manager, had been missing for a week. He left school to join the crew at Red Top, Conn., and was last seen when he registered at the Btonington Inn. Neff’s father was a wealthy Chicago real estate • man and the 6tudent had been popular on the Campus at Harvard. RAPS FIREMEN’S WORK Evansville Union Official Objects to Outside Jobs By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., June 18.— Firemen here who do painting and paper hanging during their days off, were condemned before a meeting of the Evansville building trades council by its secretary, B. W. Brooks, who said: “The workers need the money to pay taxes to support the fire department.” ,

POWELL HAS HIS BEST SONG PICTURE ‘Red, Red Rose’ Gives Circle Master of Ceremonies and the Dancing Girls Chance to Stage One of Prettiest Numbers of Season. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN WHEN it is all said and done, the Circle has staged its most beautiful song Picture this week by presenting “Red, Red Rose.” Two soloists are used, including Dick Powell and Edward Galbreath, tenor, and then the dancing girls come on and form a pretty picture before a background of roses.

Powell, in presenting this song number, states that he thinks it is one of the most ambitious attempts to stage a song picture since he has ben at the Circle. And this is true, and I can tell you with easy assurance that to my way of thinking

it is one of the best and prettiest numbers I have ever seen in a stage presentation. And the remarkable thing is that Powell can follow up this corking number by stopping the show himself with his songs. He has had many requests for a certain number, and so he decided to sing four songs

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that have had the most requests. Os course, he has selected numbers that most people are singing and whistling, as well as dancing to, but it is the nice way in which Powell puts over“these numbers that make the whole thing so pleasant. And the stage show this week is strong j on talent. Coleman Goetz is in his ! third week as a comedian, and he j again scores with greatest ease, j There is a banjo player, the name j I have forgotten, and I am sorry, j who about stops the show. He is I good on comedy, also. Ed and Morton Beck are still doing their travesty song number on window cleaners. Sally Sweet has a cute and individual way with her in putting over her song numbers. She takes delight in teasing members of the orchestra in a comedy way. And it gets across. The movie feature is “The Hawk’s Nest,” with Milton Sills, and it seems to me that the producers tried to get as near to "The Sea Hawk” in title as possible. You agree with me, I am sure, that,“The Sea Hawk” is Sills’ best picture. “The Hawk’s Nest” Is one of those big underworld melodramas that are popular with the public just now. Sills is cast as the “Hawk,” a leader in Chinatown, who fights his rival in the entertainment business in that district, course there is a lot of Chinese atmosphere. This movie is interesting and I believe it w'ill hold one’s interest about all the time. I know that I was anxious to see how Sills finally won his point. Doris Kenyon plays the sweetheart role, a rather strange type of a sweetie. Here is interesting melodrama. Ed Resener and the Circle orchestra is scoring with the overture. The news reel contains some interesting shots of the Republican national convention. Now at the Circle. nun THE BOYS. WILL LOVE “WE.IT POINT” Even before “West Point” with William Haines as the smart cracking lad, who entered the place with a big head and smarter ways, arrived on an screen, I had heard a whole lot about it. I was told that the boys and the men would go wild over it. I am sure that this is the truth. Here is a human little story about “West Point,” and it in no way damages the fine reputation of this institution. In fact most of the scenes, I am told, were taken at West Point. Am sure that this movie contains the best and most exciting football

game ever filmed. I know I have seen one that equals it. It is a game between the Army and Navy and it gives Haines a chance to throw the game by his fast work at the last minute for the Army. Here is one story about a football game that has not a villain in it. Interest is kept up when our hero gets the big

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head and gets in so much conceited trouble that he is practically ruled out of the game. But our hero does come back, proves that he is made of the stuff that West Point always wants. Haines does a lot of mighty clever work. He is the real he-man trype and he fits in well in the West Point atmosphere. This picture gives many an intimate glance into the life *of the cadets. Os course some “theater” has been injected, but not enough to destroy the realism. It is this type of a play that Haines excells. Oh, I forgot to tell you that when the football scenes are flashed the big screen at Loew’s Palace is used and this is a mighty effective trick. I am sure that “West Point” is one of the most healthy movies

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that the screen boasts. Boys and mefl of all ages will go wild over it. And the women will love it just as much. And many of the subtitles are comedy knockouts. Take the whole family to see this one. The feature of Emil Seidel’s stage show this week is his radio number. Seidel has certainly worked this number up as a sure winner. Corking good idea and wonderfully worked out. Seidel and his orchestra are stopping.the show. The set for the finale is a beauty. The act is made up of numerous other entertainers. Other events on the bill. Now at Loew’s Palace. ana “SKYSCRAPER” HAS MOST UNIQUE PLOT The idea as to what enters into a photoplay that makes it entertaining is somewhat diversified. Everyone has different opinions on the subject. And then too, it depends a great deal on what kind of a picture one has in mind at the time. To be really entertaing it must have something that is slightly dis-

ferent than anything seen heretofore. “Skyscraper" has some things that are out of the ! ordinary. Mainly, the plot, as near as I can remember I know of no picture that deals with the loves of riveters and their ilk. Then, too, the photography, or a of it, is unique. The story is of two men, “buddies,” who are

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steel workers on skyscrapers in New York City. One of them falls in love with a girl who becomes a chorus girl. It is their difficulties that are worked out. The plot idea is old, love. The persons to whom the idea is attached have not, as far as I can remember, been portrayed in the films. ’’’Blondy” is the younger of the two men, and he is the toughest. Just a happy go lucky person who would give his last for a friend, and does. William Boyd takes this part. He does splendidly with it. He makes “Blondy’ a person to be proud to meet. He is just “a good guy.” His partner is “Swede.” This man fights “Blondy’s” battles for him and finally puts him on his feet again. Go->d work on the part of Alan Hale. The girl who “crashes” the chorus unexpectedly is Sue Carol. This young lady makes a good chorus girl. And a very natural sort of girl for a rivter to take out to “Coney.” Alberta Vaughn ia also cast as a chorus girl and while her acting is good there is but little of it. All in all, “Skyscraper” is good entertainment. There are thrills and pathos, the kind that is deeply felt but not expressed outwardly so much, and other emotions that go to make an entertaining pictureHowever it is light. “Knick Knacks” is the name of the stage show this week. The performers are introduced as curios, not the kind to put on the shelf, but the real thing, Winifred and Mills are a couple of “knick knacks” from China, according to Charlie Davis. One of the men is a blackface comedian and the other dressed as a Cinese coolie. They appear in a rickasha. Their comedy is good and funny. The coolie counts up how much he is owed for pulling his fare all over the town and it finally boils down to a nickel with one cent out for tax. Some good dancing and singing in this, and some that is strangely like that of the Chinese. Llora Hoffman sings several bers that are semi-classical but light in character. She has a mighty good voice. Mildrqd and Muriel Lee are the pages that present some of the knick knacks. They are clever tap dancers and do an eccentric dance besides. These girls are twins and look it. The two Rath brothers have an offering of picture acrobatics. They work slowly so that every move is accentuated. Some of their positions are very good. The opening chorus is clever. Part of the girls are seen sitting on chairs that are the rest of the girls. The dance that follows is fair. The

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Verdict of the Screen CIRCLE—Dick Powell and the way that the song, ’’Red, Red Rose,” has been developed will be the talk of the town this week. The prettiest song picture that this theater has ever had. LOEW’S PALACE —"West Point” should be seen -by every boy. The men will go wild over it and the women will love it. Here is healthy and inspiring entertainment. APOLLO—“Glorious Betsy” is glorified Vitaphone entertainment. Now in its second week. INDlANA—“Skyscraper” is the story of the love of a riveter for a chorus girl. Some charming bits in the picture, with William Boyd and Sue Carol in the leading roles. This is entertainment. OHlO—"Sailors’ Wives” tells what a girl did that was to have her eyesight for but a few months. Only a fair picture.

finale is presented with all the chorus dressed as “Amazons” in shining armor. Quite a striking appearance. Charlie Davis’ band plays "When” as a feature and it is a “hot” number. Charlie plays the chorus on T ,he trumpet. He had to play several choruses when I was there. Stuart Barrie's organ solo is called “The Battle of the States,” in which songs about the different States are played. At the Indiana.—(By the Observer.) * a a LOOKING OVER NEW OHIO PROGRAM What would you do if the doctor told you that in a short time you would be blind? That you would never see again. Suppose that that same doctor gave you so many i months in which to see. What would you do with them? “Sailors’ Wives” tells the story of what Carol Trent did with her time. She tried to amuse herself to the utmost, but failed at last. Then in desperation she shot herself, but a stroke of luck did what surgeons could not do for her, brought back her eyesight after she had gone blind. Carol Trent met Dorr Manning in Brittany and fell in love with him, but when she learned of her predicament would not see him again. He found her months later in “Dorrisdale,” a suburb of New York and there she tried to pass the thing off

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INDIANA G. A. R. MEETINGOPENS Veterans Convene Today at Columbus. By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ina., June 18.— “Boys in Blue” that were—veterans of the 1861-1865 conflict who fought on the Northern side—marched into Columbus today when the Grand Army of the Republic, Indiana department, opneed its four-day fortyninth annual encampment. Social events and registration were the activities today and will be followed tonight with a concert by the boys’ band from the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans’ Home, Knightstown. Business sessions will begin Tuesday. A parade will be the feature of Wednesday’s program, followed by the annual campfire at night. Thursday will be given over to final business matters. Officer’s Gasoline Stolen WABASH, Ind., June 18.—Eight gallons of gasoline were stolen at a garage at the home of Deputy Sheriff Zenno Mallot here. The gasoline was taken from the tank of the officer’s automobile. musical score standpoint as well as the spoken voice at times. Here is a sweet love story, beautifully photographed and acted. You recall that I had only praise for this movie when I told you about it last week. Movietone News completes the bill. BUB Other theaters today offer: Don Barclay at the Lyric; “The Dover Road” at Keith's; “The Triumphant Bachelor” at English’s, and “Drums of Love” at the Fountain Square.

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GRANDSON OF HOOSIER WINS SCHOOL HONORS Ernest Reyer Ilolle Graduated by Los Angeles Academy. Ernest Reyer Holle, son of Mrs. Marne Holle and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Horn of Los Angeles

and Indianapolis, granduated this week from Page’s Military Academy in Los Angeles. He received the school medal for his cornet work and holds the record as the finest bugler the school has ever produced. He is also the youngest student ever to graduated from the school, being 12 years old. The boy has been of-

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MENACES HEAD I OF STATE BANK Blackmailer at South Whitley Asks $7,770. SOUTH WHITLEY, Ind., June 18. —Clews are lacking today in an effort to trace the man who demanded $7,770 from Harvey Krider, 45, wealthy president of the South Whitley Farmers’ State Bank, although Whitley County authorities set a trap for the blackmailer. A note pinned on the door of Krider's home Thursday night demand the money in $5 and $lO bills, threatening 1 death of the banker and members of his family unless the demand was met. Authorities were notified and watched a place where It was directed the money should be left, but no one appeared. A masked man accosted Ralph Dunkelberg near the town cemetery Saturday night and gave him a note, asking him to deliver it to Krider. The note directed Krider to a field near Dunkelberger’s home. Officers visited the field and found a lighted lantern and a sack with a note ordering the banker to place the money in the sack and “beat it.” No one was found near.

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