Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1929 — Page 16

EXPERT BLAMES PRUDE PARENTS FOR SEX FAULTS Hiding Facts From Young Is Cause of Scandal and Broken Marriages. Bv Times Nnerial NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Parents who withhold the essential facts about sex life from adolescent boys and girls are responsible for a great proportion of the bachelors, spinsters and unhappy marriages that are present in modem society, as well as for many of the adolescent love affairs that lead to scandal, in the opinion of Dr. A. A. Brill, eminent psychologist. “Every human being today is a conflict between nature and civilization," says Dr. Brill in an interview' with Adela Rogers St. Johns, published in the current issue of Smart Set Magazine. “The two great primitive instincts, sex and the struggle for existence, still re..iain with us. But civilization ha? entirely changed the manner in which they are allowed to operate. Explain Situation

“For Instance, a boy and girl of 15 arc by nature ready for mating. This instinct comes normally into being at this time. Yet society can not allow Its untrammeled action, as nature decreed and intended. “Now if the boy and girl understand all this, they will understand what it is that they hav* to control and how to control it. They will not be troubled by dark and confused struggles between their natural instincts and the laws of society which have been taught them. If a girl Is told that the mating instinct is a perfectly natural thing, nothing to be ashamed of or worried about, and that marriage Is civilization’s way of handling this biological urge, she will be content to await the arrival of marriage and prepare to control nature in the proper manner." Cites Two Caws Dr. Brill cites, in the Smart Set Interview, the contrasting examples of two girls nearing maturity, both taken from his own experience. Tire first, whose parents had evaded any explanation of sex problems even to the point of refusing to answer her childish questions, had followed natural promptings, lookin'* up the answers in a dictionary or gleaning haphazard information from other sources. The result was that she grew up with an abhorrence for these perfectly natural phases of life about which her parents refused to talk. The second girl, relates Dr. Brill, “came home one event j after being out with a young r an and said to her mother, ‘I don’t think I’ll go out with him any more.’ The mothor asked why. ‘Oh. he insists on too much neekbng. I don’t mind a few kisses, but it’s no use fooling with dynamite.’ “Can you not see how wonderful it is for a young girl to have surh an outlook and to be able to talk everything over frankly with her mother?” WALKS INTO TROUBLE Gives Up On Check Incident, Arrested on Watch Theft. The conscience of Harlan Wells, 23, of Columbus, got him into a peck of trouble Christmas eve. Walking into police headquarters. Wells told Edward Moore, police clerk, he had passed a forged check at Columbus and asked Moore to call the sheriff at Columbus by telephone. Moore was writing a report of theft of a wrist watch from Miss Margaret Talley, 345 North East street, accusing a Harlan Wells, when the conscience-stricken marwalked in. Noticing Wells wore a woman’s wrist watch. More had him locked up in city prison. 75 CHILDREN GUESTS Mission Gives Fete; Fruit Distributed From Christmas Tree. Seventy-five children were made happy Tuesday night by the God’s Army Mission, 523 North Noble street. Candy, apples, oranges, bananas and glasses of jelly were distributed from the Christmas trees. Isaac Ramsey was in charge of the program, which featured Christmas carols and readings.

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IT’S SEAL HOLIDAY

Mickey Is in on It Today, Too

BY ARCH STEINEL. EVERYBODY has stockings, filled ones, on Christmas—even a seal. While citizens of Indianapolis were beating the alarm clock today to ravish the kitchenette evergreen a small group of folk gathered around a Christmas tree in the basement of the Lyric theater. Mickey, a 3-year-old Alaskan seal, was the center of the holiday gathering. In the background was a Christmas tree and the entire bill of actors playing this week at the Lyric. “80-mo-ooh-og” chortled Mickey as his Christmas stocking was shoved in front of him. And what a Christmas Mickey got! Cape | Cod had nothing on him! He had every fish that a forty-fathom trawl could drag in to his stocking.

But if Mickey was the centerpiece of the Yuletide cheer, it was only because he’s the youngest trouper of the lot. Mickey has only seen three Christmases go bv, while Scobey, the Lyric’s cat, has a questionable Christmas lineage. U ft AT 4:30 this afternoon the Lyric theater management gave a dinner for the actors. Presents were exchanged and while Mickey dined on fish, Scobey got a saucer-full of dairy products. “We wouldn’t be satisfied if we were at home Christmas—we’ve been on the road so many of those Santa Claus days,” declared Don Santo and Exie Butler and The ! r Gang, the theater’s feature act this week. Don and Exie • gave “Their Gang,” seven male dancers, a harmonica player and a girl dancer, rob'’ for Christmas. “Dressing robes, not Santa Claus nighties,” chuckled the hu-

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AUTHOR TELLS OF CHAPLIN’S KOVIE_DEBUT ‘Can’t Last,’ Charlie Said; Other Stars Began on Sennett Lot. • Bu Times Snecial NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Charles Spencer Chaplin, comedy king of the movie screen and several times a millionaire today, was delighted to get a job at S6O a week just fifteen years ago, and he wasn’t quite sure fie was worth it. This is the story of Chaplin’s humble beginning told by Harry Carr, the author, who was an aid to Mack Sennett, pioneer comedy producer, in 1914, when Sennett gave Charlie his first movie job. “I would like to say that all of us on the old Sennett lot recognized the genius of Charlie from the first,” says Carr, telling the story in the current issue of Smart Set Magazine. “But we didn’t. He didn’t even recognize it himself. Sennett had offered him S6O a week. Charlie told me that he knew no such salary could last, but he thought he might as well take it as long as he could.” Chaplin had drifted to America with a vaudeville troupe when Sennett spotted him in an obscure theater and made his offer. The comedian had nothing, not even the oversized shoes, antique derby, or twitching cane that have since made him famous. Those he picked up in Hollywood. “For weeks Chaplin wandered around the studio like a lost soul,” says Carr, “for Sennett had a peculiar way of hiring an actor, then ignoring him until that actor’s ego was so reduced that it could pass through a needle’s eye. “When they didn’t' ignore him, they insulted him. It was during this period of sulking around in the shadows that he wandered into the studio prop room, and found the little hat, the big shoes, and the cane that were to become world famous.” Finally Chaplin got his chance, but the sublety of his pathetic smile, his expressive feet, and his nervous cane failed to register with a direc-

tor who had been trained in the slam-bang comedy tradition. He couldn t however, make Chaplin change his method, and finally he i-pealed directly to Sennett, relates tLe Smart Set writer. “Sennett thoughtfully considered the British mutiny. ‘Say you,’ he said at last, ‘get out there in front of the camera and let me see you do it your own way, just the way you think it ought to be done.’ 0 “In about seventeen seconds from that time the technique of the motion picture comedian’s trade had been changed forever.” Carr also reveals other interesting beginnings, disclosing notably that Ramon Novarro’s first job was as one of the famous “Keystone Kops,” and that Harold Lloyd and Wallace Beery also served with those pioneer comedy police. CLEVER, THESE FELINES London Cat Either Turns Knob or Uses Knocker to Enter. Bu United Press LONDON, Dec. 25.—A Catford cat doesn’t need any one to open the door to let it in. By climbing on

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