Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 239, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1930 — Page 20

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HARNESS FIRM IS FORCED OUT BY AUTO GAINS Three Partners Promise to Care for Ancient Wooden Horse. Bv United Press KANSAS CITY Mo.. Fob. 14.—The automobile age at last has caught up with three pioneer Kansas City business men and they have decided to disband a business that has been a landmark here for the last half century. The “sale” which is being conducted by Foster-Helmreich-Wag-ner Harness Company is not being advertsed heavily n the display columns of newspapers. I may last a year, John J. Foster, senior member of the firm said, and really if people want harness these days they will look up the shop, he added. Foster has been in the harness busines' for the last fifty-five years, starting work when he was 17 years old. He was forced to quit school at that age because his parents could no longer afford to keep him in school. Partners 23 Years Adolph Helmreich, second senior member of the firm, is known "as the best harness maker in Kansas City,” and has been in the business for forty-eight years. The “junior” member of the company has spent forty-one years in the business. He is George N. Wagner. The partnership has lasted for the last twenty-three years. Kansas Cityians of other decades can remember when “Display,” the gallant wooden horse was wheeled out In front of the store every day. “Display” has served the partnership continually and one of the agreements of the men is that "Display” will not be sold to a junk dealer but stored away in a loft and given his annual coat of paint and varnish. High Priced Outfits In the heyday of coaches and riding horses here Foster-Helm-reich-Wagner furnished the majority of high priced outfits. Foster and his partners sold many sets of harness that cost 'sl,ooo or more. Silver or gold mountings, hand sewed ornaments in flowered or butterfly designs, monograms, gold terrets, quarter blankets of leather or broadcloth were some of the embellishments. None of the partners is sure W’hat he will do when the business finally is closed up. Foster, who has traveled extensively, may continue his trips about the world. He is certain, as are the other men, that whatever business they engage in, it will not be something connected with motorized age. SEEK FLEET REDUCTION Modification of Naval Building at London Parley Requested. Bv Bcriope-Howard Xetcspaner Alliance WASHINGTON. Feb. 14.—Pressure is being applied on President Hoover to modify the American naval building demands at the London conference in the name of the Hoover reduction pledges. Following objections by Senator Borah and others to the proposed cruiser and battleship increases, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, of which Jane Addams is head, has appealed to the President “to make the Hoover reduction policy the official American policy at the conference.” Has Badger for Pet Bn United Press ROY. Mont., Feb. 14.—R. Shipman, Warm Springs creek fur farmer, owns a “one-man” pet. It’s a husky and scrappy badger. Whenever Shipman goes shopping, his tame badger trots along dutifully at his heels.

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PERFECTLY LOVELY IS SKINNER’S PLAY Beloved Star Makes “Papa Juan” a Grand Old Man While He Celebrates His Hundredth Birthday. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

PERFECTLY lovely is the way to term Otis Skinner and his new play, "Papa Juan.” Skinner has given us many, many happy hours in the theater but he probably has given us no sweeter character than Papa Juan while celebrating his hundredth birthday. "Papa Juan,” as the star said in his curtain talk last night, after the third act. “is a play that has no sex, 'ensationalism or slapstick, but it is just a 1 little play that takes one away from town into a land far away where an old man is celebrating his hundredth year w r ith members of his family and friends.” There is a lot of talk in this little play, not

much action, but It gives Otis Skinner a chance to dream the dreams of other days as an old man and it gives him a chance to make t!f2 simplest words sound like poetry.

New York goes in for the sex stuff but as Skinner oes farther west be is finding large audiences that welcome a sweet jxperienee in the heater. The star’s aith in this play s more than justfled by its splenid reception on our. It gives him an opportunity to uggest to one’s mind that an old star is not playing just an old

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man but rather the medium by which the sweet days of the stage have been captured and brought back to the footlights. When any play makes one happier and gives one a little journey out of the every day world into the land of dreams and sweet thought, I for one am not going to find fault with the play. In the hands of Skinner and those associated with him, "Papa Juan becomes a symphonic fantasy, rich in color, mood and thought. And when Papa Juan sits in the big red chair in the last act following his hundredth birthday dinner and he dreams not of the past, but of the years to come, even with death just around the corner, it is then that we realize the beauty and magnitude of great acting on the part of Otis Skinner. I shall remember Otis Skinner in "Honor of the Family” and in other roles, bu tthere will linger in my memory the gentle sweetness that he gives to the character of Papa Juan. Papa Juan never raves or rants, he is the grand old man, rich in mind, wealthy in love and endowed with beautiful memories of his friends of this world. And Otis Skinner enriches the character of the authors by his splendid skill in acting. I have no fault with the company; it has been carefully selected, especially well balanced. The cast is so satisfactory that I give it to you as follows: Manuel Thomas Donnelly Carmen Campos Georgia Harvey Dona Marciala Katherine Grey Don Evarlsto Ge-a’d Hamer Paoa Juan Otis Skinner Dona Filomena Oetavia Kenmore Eulalia Florence McGee Trino Donald Dilloway Currita Mary Arbenz Rosa Veronica Rey Antonon Robert Harrison Alooso Lotus Laßey "Papa Juan” with Otis Skinner will give you one of the most piens-

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When “Vanities” comes to English’s for a three-day engagement, Elsie Connor will be one of the beauties present. ant and sweet experiences that the modem theater offers. ’ At English’s tonight, Saturday afternoon and night. nan Other Indianapolis theaters offer: Frances Kennedy at the Lyric, "Chasing Rainbows,” at the Palace, "Playing Around” at the Indiana, "Happy Days” at the Apollo, "Behind the Makeup” at the Circle, "Show of Shows” at the Ohio, and burlesque at the Mutual. The "monkey” WTench was named after its inventor, Charles Moncky.

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RETIRED LAKES CAPTAIN HOLDS LYINGLAURELS Veteran Skipper Is Best Fibber of All Contestants. Bv United Preen BURLINGTON, Wis., Feb. 14. Anton Delano, retired Great Lakes captain, is acclaimed the champion 1929 prevaricator of Burlington. That title is slanderous to some, but to Captain Delano, it carries great significance. When several years ago Burlington’s aged citizens vied with one another for the honor of telling the biggest “whopper,” no rules or regulations governed the contests. In 1922, however, the competition was placed on an orderly basis. A code embodying the following principles was adopted: Contestants must be at least 70 years of age, they must tell at least three fibs and they must be related in ordinary conversation in the presence of one or more of the judges. The winner’s “champion lie” was related only three days before the close of the 1929 season. "Before I came to the lakes, I served my time on the seven seas,” the captain said. “On one voyage in a bark out of Havre to Boston we were driven far north by contrary winds. We passed a lot of icebergs, some of them bigger than the biggest ship I’d ever seen. “One day we came upon a school of whales. There were some of the biggest of their kind you ever saw. Even the babies must have been 15 fathoms long. A fathom is six KQ-WE-BA fMEANS the BEST’S COFFEE ’ KOTHE, WELLS & BAUER CO. INDIANAPOLIS

feet, you know,” he explained carefully. “But the biggest whale of all was Just a trifle over three miles long.” The listeners interrupted the narrator with jeers tinged with sincere disbelief. The captain grew angry. “I know what I'm talking about,” he insisted. “I measured that whale. It was easy. We were making three knots an hour. I threw the log over to make sure myself. At eight bells we were just even with his tail. "At one bell, half an hour later, we still hadn’t passed him. Just a trifle after two bells, one hour from the time we started, we passed his head. And that makes him just a bit over three miles long!” Captain Delano was presented with a medal by Chief Police Frank Beller, donor and sponsor of the “whopper contest.” Deer in Lowlands Bn United Preen MARTINSDALE. Mont., Feb. 14. Crusted snow through which they are unable to pierce in search of iood, has driven great numbers of deer to the lowlands where forage is easier to obtain. Residents of this section are protecting the weakened animals from hunters.

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