Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1929 — Page 5

JAN. 22, 1929.

(j. S„ CANADA FACE CLASH ON RADIORIGHTS Province of Quebec Defies Both Governments in Planning Station. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Foreign Editor, Scripps-Ilowird New*pper WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.—Proverbial good relations between the United States and Canada, which, lasting for more than a century, have become the pride of the Eng-lish-speaking race, are threatened by the radio. There is a limit to the number of stations which can broadcast at the same time without blanketing each other. So the question of allocating wave lengths has arisen between the two countries, an extremely delicate and difficult matter to adjust unless an immense amount of patience and good will is exercised by both sides This attempt at adjustment began Monday at Ottawa, where American and Canadian officials met in the first of a series of conferences. The American delegation includes the federal radio commissioners, O. H. Caldwell and E. O. S’ kes; D. H. Dellinger, a bureau ' L standards expert; and Commander T. A. M. Craven, loaned by the navy department. Public Comes First The Canadian government always has shown a disposition to put the desires of the radio public above any purely nationalistic feeling. It has held that broadcasting is not only interstate or inter-provincial, but international, and so has been inclined to treat the 130,000,000 Canadians and Americans as a whole, simply demanding that Canada shall be allotted her fair share of stations and channels. But anew element has been introducee The Province of Quebec has announced its intention to establish its own radio station. Quebec, it is stated, will relinquish none of its rights to the air, regarding them in the same light as it does the waters of its own streams, and that neither the opinion of the Ottawa .government nor that at Washington will be regarded as binding in any degree. Here, it would seem.* Canada is faced by a sort of radio rebellion in one of her provinces, one which may make history. Quebec raises the issue of who owns the air. Professing to be fed up on the programs which come to her from the other side of the border, she has announced her intention “to disinfect the air of American jazz and propaganda,” and counteract it by putting out a program of her own. Quebec Is Defiant If Quebec goes ahead with its scheme as, I am informed, it is not unlikely, it will broadcast on a wave length of its own choosing and at a time of its own choosing, apparently with the intention of breaking up other programs scheduled at the same time. An unique situation thus would be created, not only between neighboring nations, but between the national government at Ottawa and the government of one of its own provinces. That feeling in Quebec is pretty keen on the subject is indicated by some of the newspaper articles. Here is sounded anew and warning note of nationalistic. passion which, hitherto, has been absent from the negotiations. It comes, of course, only from a provincial, not the national, government, but it does show the possibility of a more or less serious disagreement between two countries whose relations have been free from clouds for so loiig.

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‘THE WILD' DUCK’ IS REA L MASTERPIECE The Little Theatre, in Presenting an Ibsen Play This Season, Does Finest Work in Its History. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN WHEN the superlative is the honest thing to use I for one am not afraid to use it because it is the honest thing to do. The Little Theatre presentation of Henrik Ibsen's "The Wild Duck,” is the finest and noblest accomplishment of this organization in the many ye&rs that I have been telling you about this acting group. The way that “The Wild Duck” went over from an acting and a scenic standpoint at the Playhouse last night is enough to make every Indianapolis citizen resolve to aid the directors and all of its members in making it the great civic appreciated institution that it should be. *

I have seen the Civic theater in New York do Ibsen and I found the same care that has made Ibsen human and intelligent just off Broadway, very apparent at the Playhouse. It seems to me- that I am completely honest when I tell you that “The Wild Duck” is the best thing that the Little Theatre has done in my experience. This production guarantees its usefulness in Indianapolis for years to come. It paves the way for more Ibsen and an annual presentation of Shakespeare. You see I am back harping again on my pet—annual Shakespeare at the Little Theatre. There are many reasons for the success of this Ibsen play last night. The first I should say is the cast. There was better all round casting for “The Wild Duck” than in any previous production. There were four outstanding characterizations last night. The four are George Somnes as Hjalmar Eckdal; the Gina Eckdal of Jeanne Merrill Wagner; the Hedvig Eckdal of Virginia Byers, and the Old Eckdal of Hardin Callithan. These characterizations were so humanly and tragically Ibsen that at times I had the feeling that here we had at least an all-star cast of four playing the major roles. This is not said in the spirit of flattery but my honest conviction. I have seen a bunch of Ibsen and some of it has been terrible. Ibsen is human. His satire is biting, but honest and there is always tragedy there. Have seen George Somnes many times on the stage and he has often been masterful but never to that degree as when he played Hjalmar last night. He caught the heavy touch of the tragedy of the character with as much ease as he did the lighter and humanly pathetic side of the character. Jeanne Merrill Wagner looks the Gina that Ibsen must have had in mind. She dresses the part, walks the part and talks the part in true Ibsen spirit. And that is masterful. Virginia Byers as Hedvig, who takes her own life as a sacrifice so that her father would love her again and so get his release from gloom, is another fine example of what may be accomplished in acting at the Little Theatre. It is interesting to note how Hardin Callithan is growing in the power of complete characterization under the true direction of George Somnes. There wa.-> one or two cases of miscasting, but this does not damage the picture. On the whole the cast is so worthy that I give it to you as follows: Werle, a maufacturer W. Austin Bruce Gregers Werle, his son Robert 8. Wild Old Eckdal Hardin Callithan Hialmar Eckdal. his son... George Somnes Gina Eckdal. his wife Jeanne Merrill Wagner Hedvig, their daughter Virginia Byers Mrs. Sorby. Werle’s housekeeper Mrs. Grace Clarke Pierce Relling, a doctor Volney Hampton Molvig, a theological student Allen C. Miller Graberg. Werle’s bookkeeper . Gordon F. Engler Petterson. a servant Hamilton Clarke Jensen, another servant... Almon J. Coble Chamberlain Kaspersen Walker \V Winslow Chamberlain Halle Edward Green ! Chamberlain Flor.. . Anthony J. Lauck Jr. Other dinner guests: Paul J. Harrington, Vernon Bronson. Volney Hampton, Allen C. MUler. William Garvin Bastian and William E. Hickson. Maids at Werle’s: Margaret Gabriel, Betty Hargitt and Annalee Howell. The direction of George Somnes has never been finer or more true and intelligent than In “The Wild

Duck.” The scenic production shows that this department of the Little Theatre is keeping right up with the acting part. See “The Wild Duck” and be convinced if you axe not already, that the Little Theater is one of those commanding civic institutions that is building a bigger and better Indanapolis of the future. At the Playhouse for the remainder of the week. * n * BILLS RUNS TO COMEDY AND DANCING The new bill at the Lyric is rather spotted in entertaining value. Two acts of an athletic nature follow each other, as well as a couple of eccentric aGts. Such an arrangement does not make a bill of sufficient variety in nature, but several of the acts do land audiende interest. Jimmy Reynolds is one of those story tellers who knows how to tell yarns about the abused wife. His stuff is all hokum, but he knows how to put it over. And yet as I study this man he will be the outstanding individual or the one you will be thinking about when you leave the, theater. His material is inartistic hokum, but he knows how to sell it ana that is an accomplishment.

Fred and Daisy Rial do some ring stunts in a clever way. They are preceeded by Frank Viola and company, who specialize in the perch and trapeze. A good act. More hokum of the domestic nature done in sketch form by Billy Farrell and company. Farrell has wicked feet as he is a splendid eccentric dancer. His supporting cast is of the oldfashioned type. Again this sort of stuff gets over with a bang. Hawthorne and Cooke are eccentric hokum comedians. “Strains and Strings” is a musical offering composed of a string grouping of six men. The music they play is above the average, way above it. There is also a woman dancer. The movie is Lois Wilson in “Object Alimony.” Now at the Lyric. ft tt n LOOKING OVER NEW BURLESQUE SHOW Bob Startzman and Billy Lee just about have the whole show to themselves this week at the Mutual in “Mischief Makers.” Comedy by this pair is not always so new but it is invariably well done. Ruth Price and Marjorie Morris, soubrettes, and Bobbie Eckard, ingenue, have the leading female

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—Photo by Voorhis. .Virginia Byers

One of the acting triumphs In “The Wild Duck,” now at the Playhouse, is the work of Virginia Byers as Hedvig,

leads and the dances, peppy songs they offer are all to the good. Others prominent in the show are Arthur Malloon and George Reynolds. The chorus is both lively and good looking, they are dressed well and the music is full of pep. So the show’s a success. At the Mutual. (By Observer). Other theaters today offer: “The Red Dance,” at the Apollo; “Naughty Baby,” at the Indiana; “The Last Warning,” at the Circle; “The Singing Fool,” at the Granada; movies and stage revue at the Colonial, and “The Trial of ’98,” at the Palace.

Folks, how can I make Whoopee up here . . . when down in front the ‘coughers’ are whooping?” \ \ \ - “Maybe the audience would be grateful if I stepped to the footlights 'some night and voiced the above protest about the toughing chorus’ down in front. “But that wouldn’t be kind and it wouldn’t be just. The cougher doesn’t cough in public on 4 Jr ; ’i& purpose. He can’t help it. It embarrasses him l|fißss9|9ra as much as it annoys his neighbors. “What he needs, to avoid that throat tickle, is an introduction to OLD GOLDS.” J (SIGNED! EDDIE CANTOR \ • | j Premier American comedian \ |||B|Hk|| ' in a carload r * * * starring in the glorious new j|s - V / production, “Whoopee.” | . / mSm ffli L / OLD Gold Cigarettes are blended from c .jBH| ” HEART-LEAF tobacco, the finest Nature j >y?Jf J * 4 , jtt| grows. Selected for silkiness and ripeness i} from the heart of the tobacco plant. Aged ,4V’ ' ** wW Hm and mellowed extra long in a temperature ' P* of mid-July sunshine to insure that honey- * like smoothness. OF.LoriUanl Cos.. Brt.ua rt 1 eat a chocolate . . . light an Old Gold . . . and enjoy both!

$19,000 PAID IN TAX FERRET CASEJIEFUNDED Action Obviates Civil Suit Filed in Fulton County. By United Press ROCHESTER, Inc., Jan. 22.—End to the civil suit against Howard Du Bois, Fulton county Republican chairman, for the return of $19,120.37 for services as a tax ferret, came here today when Du Bois went to the courthouse and paid County Auditor Hugh McMahan the sum. Du Bois stated that he took this action because of dissatisfaction of many taxpayers with the transaction and that he wanted to stop any future unpleasantness over the matter. The case, started in 1927, involved employment of Du Bois by the board of county commissioners as a tax ferret at aSO per cent fee. A few days later he turned in sequestered taxes of George Rentschler, wealthy farmer, who claimed he did not know he owed taxes on some of his Ohio properties- The money was paid Du Bois after it was appropriated by the county council. In May, 1928, the transaction was brought to the attention of the state board of accounts. After an investigation, the board demanded the return of the money claiming the payment was illegal, and AttorneyGeneral Arthur Gilliom filed a civil suit for repayment. Witnesses were heard here by Special Judge John Kitch, Plymouth, on Dec. 23. The case then was continued until Feb. 11. Peruvian Fleet Sails BALBOA, C. Z., Jan. 22.—The Peruvian fleet was proceeding from Talara, Peru, today after being overhauled there.

LIQUOR PLOT QUIZ NEAR Federal Grand Jury Expected to Act at South Bend Wednesday. By Titles Special SOUTH BEND. Ind.. Jan. 22—Investigation of an alleged plot to violate the national prohibition law at Ft. Wayne is expected to be started here Wednesday by a federal grand jury. Witnesses have been

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summoned from Ft. Wayne, it is knowhn, but District-Attorney Oliver M. Loomis refuses to comment on the case. Defendants in the plot charges are John Voegtlin, former deputy United States marshal; Paul Hevshbarger, elevator operator in the federal building at* Ft. Wayne, and Ralph Rosenwinkle, Ft. Wayne private detective.

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Klan Sued at Terre Haute By Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind- Jan. 22. Foreclosure of a mechanic's lien for $4,113.17 against the Ku-Klux Klan of this city is sought by the Fromme Lumber Company, which provided materials for construction of a building used by the klan. The company alleges it never received payment for the materials.