Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1928 — Page 9

DEC. 17,1928.

STATE FOREST i GROWS MANY f ACRESINYEAR Year's Accomplishments Are Listed in Wilcox’s Annual Report. Three hundred and thirty-one acres were added to the state forest during 1928, according to the annual report of Ralph P. Wilcox, state forester in the department of conservation," made public today. The total forest reservation is now 4,818 acres. The new land was added at an average cost of $9.41 an acre, according to Richard Lieber, director of the conservation department. He estimates the wood lot value of the new land at sl6 an acre, making a total valuation of $31,750, aside from its use for twenty years as a recreation area. Lists Accomplishments , The Wilcox report lists the following accomplishments for the year: Replaced the old wooden fire tower with a 72-foot steel tower with enclosed cabin. , Aided in holding Purdue university summer forestry school at the forest reserve, where students are given practical training in forest management. Replanted most all the old fields w here trees died. Induced strip coal mine operators to plant trees on many acres abandoned when coal is removed. The program calls for planting five acres each year to every shovel operated, which will mean a quarter of a million trees each year for five years. Start Scout Forests Induced Boy Scouts of Linton, Clay City and Jasonville to start Boy Scout forests on stripped-over coal lands. Planting was also done by Terre Haute scouts near Riley. The Logansport American Legion and Boy Scouts started a legion forest on land donated by the city, the department co-operating. Demonstration and experimental plats were planted at the Brown county game preserve, Clifty Falls and Pokagon state parks. Supplied 16,000 trees, mostly evergreens! to the state highway department for roadside planting. Established anew nursery of fourteen acres at the Clark county forest provided with automatic irrigation system made possible by construction of a 2,000,000 gallon reservoir, constructed this year. Trees Are Sold Sold 1,484,734 trees raised in the nursery. Sold cross-ties, lumber and fireplace wood from the annual cutting on seventy-five acres at a profit of $2,393.60, or $31.90 an acre. Registered visitors from twentynine states, who came to see how experimental work in Indiana progresses. The reserve . was a recreation center for thousands during the year. Total receipts from sale of products frorh state forest amounted to $9,648.46. FIREMEN TO AID POOR Toys, Clothing and Furniture Brought to Station 13. Toys, clothes, and furniture were gathered by members of the fire department at station house 13 Saturday for distribution with their annual Christmas baskets to poor of the city. An east side citizen was the donor of the truck load of presents and more will be welcome, said Captain P. H. Kile. A house committee has been appointed to handle the basket and present distribution. It consists of Captain Kile, Captain Harvey Kepple, Lieutenant J. V. Ray, and fireman Garrett Crume, Michael Hyland, and Joseph Gallegher. Steal Auto Awaiting License Bi 1 United, Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 17. Clifford Bullard, Cynthiana, parked his automobile in front of the city hall here and went inside to purchase 1929 license for it. Upon his return he found the automobile had been stolen.

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YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT BUT SEE ‘THE WIND’ In This Movie-Drama Lillian Gish Puts the Pauline Lord Touch of Realism to a Strange Character. BY WALTER HICKMAN THE other night at a dinner, a piece of mince pie was served just before the coffee. I seldom eat pie, but I finally took the suggestion of my hostess and ate it, much to my delight. And I am just reversing the idea this time—Go and see Lillian Gish in “The Wind,” at Loew’s Palace this week, even if every one of your friends tell you in advance that you will not like it. Many people have no taste for extreme unpleasant realism both on the stage and on the screen, and they just will not “taste” the dish. I am very serious and very much in earnest when I tell you that Lillian Gish has put the Pauline Lord touch of realization upon a strange

character, a woman who goes into the wind country and undergoes a complete mental and physical reformation. I firmly believe that Pauline Lord brought this artistry of creating such realism upon the stage to a

very high peak when she created “Anna Christie.'* And I just as sincerely believe that Miss Gish has brought this same artistry to the screen when she created the chief woman character, in “The Wind.” It may not be just a pleasant sight to see ugly facts of life turned loose upon a pretty girl who goes northwest to face a

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strange country as well as strange people. But you will see sbme of the truest acting you have seen on the screen for many months. You will come face to face with the honest purpose of filming a really big story in the right way—realism until it hurts. I frankly admit that it took me several hours to get calmed down after I saw “The Wind.” Her* is not a movie that pictures horrors, but rather, the truthful recital of what went on in the very soul and mind of a girl when suddenly transplanted from her southern home and taken to a state where the wind howls all the time and wild horses as well as men are waiting for a fatal cyclone or twister. The wind gets into the very soul of tills girl as she battles with fear and circumstance. And Lillian Gish becomes a very fine dramatic actor in this one. Under the direction of Victor Seastrom she has thrown away her D. W. Griffith pose and gets right down to hones' characterization. You actually get the feeling that when the sand gets even into her food that the sand of life is really getting. into her soul. It is the way' that Miss Gish puts over the many sides in the development of the' character that makes her a great dramatic actor. And opposite Miss Gish is Lars Hanson as a harsh product of the wind country who loves as fiercely as. he fights the winds. We see very plainly the horror that the girl faces on her wedding night—it was the wind of fate and the wind of passion that she faced then. If honestr dramatic theater is going to .exist upon, the movie screen today it Will. Tie necessary to support such pictures as “The Wind.” Here is. a tremendous story as tremendously acted. There is no Pollyanna treatment to this story of life. I am sure that if you will just go to see Lillian Gish in “The Wind” that you will leave the theater convinced that at least one story of life has begn honestly acted and directed uporrthe screen. That is all this picture needs, just that verdict of understanding. And the sound effects and the music give you the wind during all the time that the picture is being flashed upon the screen. The remainder of the bill is made up of Metro Movietone acts, a news reel and Lester Huff at the organ. Now at Loew’s Palace. SPEAKING AGAIN OF “KING OF KINGS” In this department on several occasions, I have told you of the merits and the beauty of “The King

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some bright prospects if given stories of a different nature. June Collyer is the girl and gives a most excellent characterization in her part. Included on the bill are a Charles Chase comedy, Vitaphone acts and Movietone news reel. Vitaphone musical accompaniments are synchronized to “Me, Gangster.” At the Apollo. (By T. J. H.) Other theaters today offer: Jack De Bell and company in "Twins;” “Submarine” at the Granada; burlesque at the Mutual, and Buddy Kane at the Colonial.

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