Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1929 — Page 18

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$200,000 VALUE ON WIFE LOVE Hammond City Clerk Sues Wealthy Banker. Bu Times Sneeial HAMMOND, Ind.. Dec. 6.—Arnold H. Kunert, Hammond city clerk, asks $200,000 in an alienation of affections suit filed against Walter J. Riley, East Chicago banker, alleged to have won the affections of the clerk’s wife, Mrs. Mabel Kunert. According to the plaintiff, Mrs. Kunert before her marriage was in the employ of Riley and they made an agreement that neither would ever marry. After she and Kunert became engaged. Riley is alleged tc have given her the choice of giving up the idea of marrying or leave his employment. She placed her love for the city clerk above the job, and Riley lost her services. Recently Mrs. Kunert sued for divorce. Her husband alleges she told him she would be “taken care of” in Riley’s will. TEACHING STANDARD RISES. EDUCATOR SAYS Californian Points to Exacting Training Requirements. “Most significant in educational movements today is the rapidly rising standard in teacher training requirements.” Arthur Gist of the State Teachers college, San Francisco, Cal., said in a lecture on “Important Movements in Elementary Education,” at the Indianapolis Teachers college, Thursday. “At one time trained teachers were thought unnecessary. Today 93 per cent of cities require two years of training beyond the high school, and the majority require four years of training for high school teaching.” Other movements discussed by Gist were the changed attitudes in school supervision, teaching character through school activities, and the growth of nursery schools.

PRINCE AIDS YOUNGSTER Lad, Who Requested Autograph, Back In School After Wales* Answer. Hu United Press LONDON, Dec. 6.— The martyrdom of 15-year-old Geoffrey Gill, who was suspended from Leyton county high school because he dared to ask the prince of Wales for an autograph, came to a happy termination for the boy today, largely through the sympathetic interests of the prince. The boy’s father, Geoffrey Sr., wrote to the prince, after his son was suspended, asking the former if he had been offended by the boy’s request. The prince answered he had not been and the headmaster of the school allowed the lad to return to school today. PATIENCE IS REWARDED Marked Coin Is Returned After Circulating Forty-five Years. Itu United Press ST. PAUL, Dec. 6.—To him who waits—if he waits long enough. Forty-five years ago Larry' Krouse, now a prosperous merchant of Red Wing. Minn., carved his initials on a Bilver dollar and set it in circulation. He has kept a lookout for the dollar ever since and during a sale recently, he received the same dollar in payment.

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“PORGY” GOES ON HIS LONG HUNT FOR BESS The Crippled Beggar and His Goat Start Their Journey North in Search of a Woman of Catfish Row. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN PORGY was just a Negro beggar and a cripple at that, who could never walk in Catfish Row. He drove a goat and lived to see the day when he could fight and kill for his woman. Porgy in Catfish Row did not have the blessin’ of being a saint or a wise person. He was just the cripple who drove a goat through the streets of Charleston and he begged for money. I am trying to tell you of the name character in the New York Theatre Guild production of “Porgy.” We have heard a lot regarding this show. Not that we are so concerned over the cripple beggar who tries to convince his “second-hand woman” that he is a man just as capable of defending his woman as Crown, a Negro stevedore , but rather the entire background of the play.

It is the spiritual background that really makes this play not Just what Porgy does in his quest of trying to satisfy his vanity. It is in this background that we see and feel

the terrible superstitions of the raxe, the loyalty to the idea of love, the terror of fear of God and the soothing influences of the spiritual upon the various people of Catfish Row. Porgy is just one of those who live in the row. At one time Bess was Crown’s Bess, but Porgy starts out to make

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Bess Porgy’s Bess, and when Porgy can’t outhink and outwit Sporting Life, the little guy in fine clothes who sells dust and bootleg liquor, Porgy starts out with his goat to find Bess in New York. The chief characters of ”Porgy” are played as follows: Maria, keeper of the cookshop Jake, captain of the fleet Wesley Hill ri,” • Dorothy Paul Richard Huey Sporting Life Percy Verwayne Serena. Robbins’ wife Rose McClendon Robbins, a young stevedore “V"- * stevedore Peter Clarke g 1 ?™. Jake s wife Edna Thomas Peter, the honeyman Haves Pryor Porgv a crippled beggar Frank Wilson Crown, a stevedore Jack Carter it, 2fJf c £* ve Frederick Smith Undertaker Leigh Whipper Sciplo Wallace Hill Simon Frazier, a lawyer. .Morris McKenny Nelson. a fisherman Frank Allen Alan Archdale Erskine Sanford S or l? n wJ Garrett Minturn MRn ••• Leigh Whipper Policemen Felix Jacoves, Gene Lyons The thing that I will never forget is the “saucer” burial, where the Negroes of Catfish Row pass the

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saucer for money for the purpose of getting enough money to pay the undertaker. All this is done in the presence of a too-long unburied corpse. Here is realism with a kick. The cast is the original and comes as near being perfect as any that I have seen in this type of a show. Here is the first nearly all-Negro cast show that has dramatic as well as comedy actors of great power. There is fine acting here. Here Is stark and powerful drama splendidly acted. Now at English's. nan THEATER ON THE AIR ONCE A WEEK There are hundreds of people who have said that they could see no enjoyment in sitting down and reading the cold type of a play as spoken on the stage. But the day has come when the printed text of the spoken word may be a best seller and hundreds of people remain at home to hear the play acted over the radio. That is what is exactly happening every Thursday afternoon over the air when Eva Le Gallienne and members of her New York Civic Theatre enact parts of plays that the organization is actually acting in New York this season. I admit that it took me some time to be able to visualize a scene of a play over the air that I had not seen on the stage. Last season “The Lady from Alfaqueque,” a comedy, was one of the new offerings of the Civic Repertory theater of New York and it was presented this week In New York on the stage and broadcast two weeks ago. Le Gallienne Is not in this cast

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but she directed the production. The method of putting over the play on the air is to introduce you jto the characters and tell the story up to the point of the opening of a scene, then some music when the scene ends, then the continuation of the story after a prelude of music. Each character is actually played before the microphone by the actors and not all characters read by one person. The result is that Le Gallienne and her players actually creates a theater of the air every Thursday afternoon. Indianapolis theaters today offer: “The Mighty” at the Indiana, “Flight” at the Circle, “The Taming of the Shrew” at the Palace, “Sunny Side- Up” at the Apollo, “Acquitted” at the Lyric, “Sweetie” at the Ohio, burlesque at the Mutual, “Lilies of the Field” at the Playhouse and movies at Colonial. SNAILS HOLD UP TRAIN Millions of Slugs Covering Tracks Make Progress Impossible. PARIS, Dec. 6.—A heavily laden freight train on its way from Cadablanca to Kourigha was recently held up by snails. It ran into a stretch along the rails where, although the wheels of the locomotive continued to revolve, the train wouldn't move forward Investigation showed that millions of. snails covered the tracks pre- j venting traction.

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SEND BODY OF GRIESTHOME Pennsylvania Congressman Dies of Pneumonia. B v United Press MT. CLEMENS, Mich., Dec. 6. The body of Congressman W. W Griest, Pennsylvania, who died here Thursday night, will be sent to Lancaster immediately for burial, relatives announced. Griest, the dean of Pennsylvania's representatives, had been suffering from acute pneumonia. He came here several weeks ago to recuperate and improved for a while but suffered a relapse Wednesday. Physicians said he remained alive the last twenty-four hours solely by will power. His wife and daughter, Rebecca, were with him.

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POSSE AWAITS ARREST Alleged Corn Thief’s Home Guarded by Twenty Farmers. Bu r nited Press NEW BETHEL. Ind., Dec. 6.—A posse of twenty farmers armed with pitchforks, shovels, clubs and shotguns, surrounded the house of Roy Evans, 37, near here and held him until deputy sheriffs arrived to arrest him on a charge of stealing corn. The farmers said they had seen two men stealing corn and had traced them to the house of Evans. The sheriff said that Evans confessed after he was arrested that he had stolen nine bushels from two farms and named two accomplices. STRIKES AT PACIFISTS Bn T'nited Press CHICAGO. Dec. 6. War likely will come again within the lifetime of men now 50, Samuel Instill said in a speech here in which he struck at pacifists. The multimillionaire utilites magnate said the only way the United States can be prepared for war,

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