Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1929 — Page 28

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TWO RUSSIAN GENERALS ARE FILM EXTRAS Ex-Sea Rovers and Society Buds Included in List of Minor Actors. Bu Tim'l Bpff i'll HOLLYWOOD, Cal., May 25 This Is a story about these movie players who never get their names in the papers and rarely on the screen —the bit players who flit on to and ofl the screen, providing the background against which the stars glitter. I i you think they haven t some gripping personal stories among them, well then, neither did Trader Horn or Marco Polo. Many of them have careers benind them that overshadow in dramatic interest the ballyhooed stars whom they support. Photoplay Magazine shows. From All Comers Gathered from all corners of the earth and all walks of life the Hollywood extra horde is as colorful a segment cf life as can be found in one community. Its membership ranges from exiled noblemen and generals to cx-sea rovers, from society girls on a lark to veteran ai vc of the old tent show days '< :~.0 hr.Y< found a haven in the iliir. colony. i k< the generals. Theodore Lodijtn 1. commanded a Cossack brigade iO’ the czar until the revolution stripped him of position and iortune. He runs a Hollywood restr.linin' now and fills in where the pictures need a picturesque military liiure. General Alexander Ikonnikofl also ,v a. a commander under the old Russian regime. For several years now lie has been fighting in makebelieve wars for the screen. Remember the quaint, wizened old French mayor of "What Price Glory o’’ 0 ’’ Hr really was. and is. French, but hardly a villager. Augusta Tollaire played the theatrical circuits r! all Europe and most, ot America before settling down in the sunshine of southern California where he is rounding out life by playing an occasional character part. Typical Sea Rover Then there's Shorty English, typical cockney British sea rover, whiskers and all. who roamed the ocean lanes for a lifetime until Dick Barthelmess coaxed him into a picture. Barrett Whitelaw is Adolphe Menjou's chief rival for the title of the best dressed man in pictures, although he is still an unknown outside of Hollywood. And the feminine extras! The photoplay article just skims a cross-section. But there you find Frances Hamilton, wealthy society girl who likes to play around with extra parts: Ada Chidley, tent show vetert n, who played in her first picture at 35: Eugenie Coughlin,j wife ff an army officer, who takes time off from household duties to j be a character actress now and then—and dozens more. PRACTICE FOR BANDITS Oklahoma Towns ’Minute Men’ Ready to Rout Bank Looters. Rit l niti'l I’rty LEXINGTON. Okla.. May 25. j Bank bandits and gangsters who have had their eyes on Lexington j merchants had better read the feats of the Lexington "Minute Men" dur- j ing the American Revolution. For the counterpart of that famous band has been formed here. Lexington merchants are planning a reception of hot lead for the next gang that invades their peaceful hamlet. The men have formed an emergency committee holding rifle and pistol practice regularly. Practice dates are kept secret so bandits will not know when the group are out of the city on their rifle range.

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SICK PREFER TO BE LEFT ALONE Many Tubercular Patients Not Social, Says Doctor. | II" Sri, It, , >I f' id ATLANTA, Ga.. May 25.—Tuberculosis patients are inclined to prefer solitary amusements and purI suits, particularly in early stages of the disease- Those who have become bed-ridden are more generally eager for social contacts. This new angle on the mental tendencies that link with physical disease was presented before the American Psychiatric Association this morning .by Dr. Clarence A. Neymann. of Chicago. It has been a general presumption among physicians that patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis in its various manifestations were happy, cheerful, and if anything rather elated individuals, the psychiatrist said. This would place them in the personality class known to psychiatrists as extrovert or so-cial-minded. Dr. Neymann gave 300 tuberculosis patients in a sanitarium a test including questions are: Do you like excitement, like to be alone a great deal, enjoy social gatherings just to be with people, like to do the things you dream about? The test showed that 46 per cent of the patients were introverts, that is, they preferred being alone and were more absorbed in themselves than in the world about them. Thirty-nine per cent were classed as extroverts.

COURTESY IS URGED Bus Division Will Seek to Keep Traffic Clean. Organization of motor bus operators throughout the country affiliated with the motor bus division of the American Automobile Association. are preparing for a determined drive for highway courtesy on the part of their drivers this summer, according to Frank D. Hatfield, president of the Hoosier Motor Club. "However,” Hatfield said “a phase which frequently is overlooked is one that is more or less psychological. The truck, which is as wide as the bus and which moves much slower as a rule, is more of a 'road hog,’ but due to long familiarity with the truck it is not noticed as much. “On the other hand, the bus, because of its newness, attracts attention and any obstruction to use of the highway it may cause remains vividly in the mind. $n general terms the actual hindrance that the buse causes to general highway traffic is very slight.” CLOTHES ARE WATERLOO Five Shirts. Three Trousers Not so Good for Swimming. Bu Time* Special CLEVELAND. May 25.—Robert Bankhead was dressed for any social event when he dropped in on the city. However, he hadn't planned on swimming. Police found him in a freight car, dressed in five shirts, three pairs of trousers, two vests and two coats. As they were questioning him he leaped into the lake. It took an hour to fish him out,

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‘Mother Knows Best ’ Is Rule for Movie Stars

Anita Page Sleeps Nine Hours Nightly, Declares Magazine. HOLLYWOOD. May 25.—1n this era of feminine indepenciance a working girl whose weekly pay check can be cashed for SI,OOO a week and upward might be expected to be the self-assertive captain of her own career—particularly when she is vital, beautiful and flattered on every hand. She might be, but it doesn't work out that way with the newest generation of young beauties to come into motion picture fans out here. The old-fashioned “mother knows best” system prevails successfully in the homes of nearly all of the piquant youngsters whose home life has been checked up by Katherine Albert, writer for Photoplay magazine, who tells in the current issue of that monthly how the mother-and-daughter problem is solved in these upside-down menages where the daughter is the most important member of the family. “With a few exceptions they are restricted as the high school girl on a $5 allowance.” she says. Little Anita Page sleeps nine and a half hours every night, is never imehaperoned and never drinks or smokes. “It is a business proposition.” explain her parents. “If she is to make a success of pictures she must be fit. and Anita understands that and agrees ” The mother of Alice and Marceline Day uses a subtle system. When Marceline suggested that she intended to smoke and drink Mrs. Day procured a bottle of wine and a package of cigarets and demanded that her daughter drink and smoke the lot of them at once. Marceline doesn't care for either now. Sally Eilers is always in bed at midnight. The mother never remonstrates with her. but. when her conduct doesn’t meet parental approval. she finds little notes and clippings from newspaper suggesting the joys and love and obedience and the placid pleasures of a wellordered home life. Lois Moran's mother explains: ‘‘l >treat Lois like I would any person I like. If she ever did foolish things I just couldn't like her any more. I’d leave her alone. She understands that.” And her system works, too. AWARD HONORS DOCTOR Prize Established for Outstanding Mental Disease Discovery. 111, Science Service NEW YORK, May 25.—A search for the scientist, famous or obscure, who has made the greatest original contribution of the year to the cause of preventing or treating mental disease is to be conducted annually. When the scientist is selected each year, either in this country or abroad, his work will be recognized by anew award, to be known as the Thomas William Salmon Memorial. He will be requested to give lectures in various cities of the United States. This is the project designed to honor the memory of one of the outstanding American psychiatrists. Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, who died in 1927.

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WALKING DUNES RUIN PROPERTY Sand Hills in Michigan Are Shifted by Winds. Bv l nil cl Brest LANSING. Mich., May 25. “Blowouts” in the sand dunes of Michigan are making “walking dunes” of them and burying houses, forests and fruit farms and the state conservation department has opened an investigation to determine some means of remedying the situation. Large dunes along the shores of the Great Lakes, heretofore protected by heavy vegetation, are being literally transferred to other localities by action of the lake winds, it has been found. This is caused by removal of forest growth to make way for summer homes. Once a “blowout” as these shiftings are termed, is started, nothing has been discovered that will stop it, and thousands of dollars worth of property is endangered by the movement. Development along the lakes furnishes Michigan with one of its most profitable industries —tourist trade—and the problem is being attacked with the idea in mind that such development must not be interfered with. Ten Guard Guns Stolen Captain L. H. Rockwell of the Indiana National Guard told police today that ten .45-caliber guns, the property of the government, have been missing from the National Guard armory since Feb. 6. They are valued at $187.50.

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'CITIES OF'9B, MADE BY GOLD. SLOWLY DYING Alaskan Towns Decay as Famous Adventurers Become Memories. BY DAN CAMPBELL. I nited Press Staff Correspondent I SAN FRANCISCO. May 25.—Like ; many of its famous characters, the | once roaring cities on the “trail of | ’9B” are slowly dying. From out of the fastness of the ! Yukon one of its few remaining i adventurers “came back" the other day, to tell of the vanishing romance of the golden fields and offer cryptic comment on advanceing “civilization.” Richard J. (Dick) Aegus, grizzled “sourdough” of thirty years self-imposed exile in the outposts of northernmost Alaska had ap- ! plause only for that part of modj ern life as exemplified by the flapper. Likes Flappers “Damn fine,” the old man said ; ,vith a twinkle in his eyes, half nidden by bushy, straggling eyebrows. “Even though they don't wear enough to flag a handcar, they look healthy,” he declared admitting the first sight was somewhat of a shock. “Up in my country they sprinkle Insect powder on the chairs at dances because the Eskimo girls wear so many clothes and furs.” Although Alaska is still “a land of wonders” to Dick, he related that little of the old time glamor of the gold rush days remains. Nome Is Dying Readily recalling the “Great Northern” saloon and its equally famous proprietor, the late Tex Rickard, Dick declared that Nome is now a dead city. “The old hearty days of dog racing. dancing and gambling are gone. What a difference. Nome, once a city of 40.000 gold mad adventurers housed 168 souls this past winter. At St. Michaels there are but two white men and two white women.” To Tex Rickard, the old sourdough paid a short but earnest trib-

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PROPOSED TUBE IN NEW YORK DIFFICULT FEAT Tunnel Would Be Greatest Underwater Task'Ever Undertaken. NEW YORK. May 25.—What will probably be the greatest underwater j construction task modern engineer- : ing has ever undertaken will be the j proposed vehicular tunnel across the ; Narrows, under New York bay, connecting Brooklyn ancl Staten Island, i The Success of the Holland vehicular tunnel, the underwater link between Manhattan Island and New Jersey, evidently impressed officials to such an extent that the demands of residents of Brooklyn and Staten Island for an outlet for Jersey bound traffic will in all probability be realized through this tunnel. The board of estimate and apportionment of New York has directed the board of transportation to select a route and prepare plans for the tunnel. This means that everything is in readiness for construction as soon as details are worked out. Two possible routes present themselves. One in consideration is the abandoned Hylan freight tunnel, started in 1923. on which $6,000,000 was expended during the former mayor’s term. This route, should it be selected, Would extend from Brooklyn to Ft. George, Staten Island. It would entail underwater construction of about two miles and would be be-

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