Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1929 — Page 6

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AUTO BUILDERS TO BATTLE FOR FOREIGN TRADE U. S. Market Nears Peak as Firms Prepare for Export War. B'l I ni’GJ P"!t* DETROIT, Mich.. May 17—No United States automobile manufac- : turer will make the flat statement that the home buying market has reached, or soon will reach, the saturation point, but last week's automotive field developments cleanly indicated the battle fronts now being drawn for export trade. The ultimate day when the home market reaches its peak buying point is an avoided subject with manufacturers, but tucked away m the annual report to stockholders of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of General Motors, is this statement: "It is recognized that the curve of development within the United j States must necessarily flatten out— j as a matter of fact it already has— : as the years progress. The oppor- ; tunity for further progress in all j overseas countries, however, is and j will continue to be great for many i years to come." Have Foreign Plants With one car for less than every five persons in this country, Sloans | report is significant. Edsel Ford left for Europe, ostensibly on a vacation, but the Fords often manage to combine pleasure with business. Fritz Opel, chief engineer of the Adam Opel Company, the German company recently acquired by General Motors, has been going through an intensive investigation of the local General Motors plants. General Motors has purchased j Vauxhall Motors in England and James D. Mooney, president of the General Motors Export Company revealed that General Motors with a ,1100,000.000 yearly European business is the fifth largest industrial organization in Europe. Figures show that 51 per cent of the entire American truck produc- | tion during March went to foreign lands. Used Cars in Demand While the new stocks are reported in a healthy condition used car j stocks in the‘United States are said j to amount to about 160 per cent of the total new car sales. Ford and Chevrolet are production leaders, with the former crowd- j mg the 9.000 daily mark. The showing here this week of the Ruxton. “America's first front wheel drive” automobile, caused a mild stir among local manufacturers. Net earnings of General Motors for the first three months of 1929, according to figures, released today. ! were $61,920,987. compared to S6J,468.576 for the same period a year ago. Sales were more than a year ago. but abnormal expense in model changes cut earnings. LIQUOR HALTS SUICIDE “Just Onr More Drink" Results in Miss of Gun. Bn l nit‘d Pm is SAN FRANCISCO. May 17—Joan Anderson. 35. rooming-house proprietor, did her best to end it all and if it hadn’t been for a bottle of liquor she would have been successful. Before attempting to shoot herself in the head. Jean decided to take one more drink on earth. She did—she drank liquor—she pulled the trigger of the gun—and she missed.

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CHEVALIER TO MAKE LOCAL DEBUT TODAY Noted French Entertainer Opens at the Circle in the Film Singer-Talker, “Innocents of Paris.” JNNOCFNTS OF PARIS,” a Paramount all-talking picture presenting ■* for the first time in films, Maurice Chevalier, opens at the Circle today. The new weekly bill is being offered one day early in order that the picture will have a longer run in Indianapolis than the average production, according to the management. Chevalier for many years has been recognized as one of the world's premier entertainers because of his brilliant work at the Folies Bergere in Paris. He persistently refused to enter films, however, until the advent of talking pictures made it possible for him to bring his voice with him.

And that's exactly what he done, if one is to place any credence in the observations of New York critics who attended the first presentation of “Innocents of Paris." Probably no foreign candidate for American motion picture popularity has ever been received with such gusto. "Innocents of Paris’ has a Paris setting and Chevalier first is seen as a junk man in the coloiful Flea Market district. After saving a small boy from drowning in the Seine, he meets a beautiful girl (Sylvia Beecher), with whom he falls in love. From here the story wends its way to a happy conclusion, although on many instances the romance is threatened to go on the rocks. In several of the sequences, Chevalier sings “Louise,” which was written especially for him and this picture. The supporting cast includes Margaret Livingston, George Fawcett and John Miljan. Baa "DESERT SONG” TO BE HELD OVER In no other picture has there been so convincing a demonstration of the new possibilities of the Vitaphone as in “The Desert Song,” now r rounding out a record breaking week

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at the Apollo and which, Manager I Kennedy announces will continue for a second week. “The Desert Song' 1 is the first musical play to be transferred in its entirety to the motion picture j screen. Warner Brother have made | other talking pictures, some of j which included singing, but when j they undertook the production of “The Desert Song,” they were confronted with anew problem—the inclusion of a large chorus for the ensemble numbers, with its members grouped all over the settings which constituted the scenes of the play. How well they met this situation is indicated by the fact that the chorus consists of 100 men and women whose ensemble work is a real treat. Sigmund Romberg’s /delightful music is played by the Vitaphone Symphony orchestra. The star cast is headed by John I Boles, tenor, /who sang the leading j role in the stage show; Carlotta King, lyric soprano; Louise Fazenda, Johnny Arthur, John Miljan. Myrna Loy and many other wellknown stage and screen names. a a a Indianapolis theaters today offer: “The Green Hat,” at English’s. “Syncopation,” at the Lyric; “Ra-

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dium Queens,” at the Mutual; "The Trial of Mary Dugan,” at the Palace; “The Desert Song." at the Apollo. “Innocents of Paris," at the Circle: “Gentlemen of the Press." at the Indiana; “Black Waters," at the Granada; “The Letter," at the Ohio; and the Colonial Players at the Colonial. GOSSIP DRIVES WIFE OF PASTOR TO SUICIDE Woman Ends Own Life After Collecting Damages for Libel. B i/ f'nited Pres* PRAGUE, May 17.—The death of Mrs. Stephan Gyorkes, wife of a Protestant minister, was blamed today on her friends’ gossip. Mrs. Gyorkes, a suicide, was buried Thursday. She had been separated from her husband several months as a result of a sex novel she wrote and published. Her friends identified her as the heroine of the book, and she filed

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a libel suit in which she was awarded damages. Nevertheless, the minister and his wife separated, and after several months she committed suicide. The minister* declared he never doubted his wife’s innocence of her friends' charges, but that the novel had poisoned his opinions of married life. AMUSEMENTS /£olk* 6. firihawTn. l FAlR&OONOlM \ OP TH£\ 1 CIROJSX Izis a ftisl I ( f 1 WORLD! 1|- I I l I Society j I jUV / 1 IVhoRSE?/ if J BURLESQUE THEATRE RADIUM QUEENS With TESSIE TERESINA NORA FORD—A Radium Queen Chorus On thr Illuminated Runway

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