Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1930 — Page 14
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STATE'S EDISON WINNER WANTS PURDUE COURSE Michigan City Boy to Get Indiana Scholarship, Win or Lose. Win or lose, Purdue university is the goal of William Loy, 17, Michigan City, Indiana's entrant in the national Edison scholarship contest. Loy will go to Menlo Park to be Interviewed by the greU Thomas A. Edison. From the lorty-eight states Edison will select a youth for a scientific scholarship in any college the winner may select. The Michigan City boy already has chosen Purdue university. Should he fail to win the national competition, he will be given -a Purdue scholarship by the state. Assured of Enrollment A senior at Michigan Citv high school, he is assured of being enrolled at Purdue next year. Loy was selected Saturday frem a group of eight high school boys who had passed successfully the tests provided by a state committee. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Loy. His father is employed by the Insull utilities in Chicago. Loy’s scientific interest does not follow those of Edison, he said. He wants to be a "scientific farmer.” 4 "During the summer." the boy explained to the committee, “I visit my aunt on her farm. My cousin and I have great sport preparing calves for show purposes. I want to be a scientific farmer, feeding and showing cattle and winning all of the prizes at the shows.” Reading Is Hobby Toy listed his hoobies as "reading and athletics.” Being but five feet four and one-half inches, he was unable to make better than a substitute position on the Michigan City high school football team. He is a member of the track team at the school, however, and competes in both sprints and hurcHes. "Growing taller” Loy bated as one of his life's ambitions. Michigan City won all the laurels in the Edison state contest. Ferdinand Klopsch, 17, also a Michigan City high school senior, was chosen as alternate. Final tests were held at the office of Roy P. Wisehart, superintendent of public instruction. Sexson Humphrejs, 17, Bloomfield high school, was chosen for the Indiana liberal arts scholarship. He will ettend De Pauw university.
DOLL FESTIVAL WILL BE HELD EACH YEAR Prizes Given in Elimination Trials at Community Houses. The municipal doll festival staged Saturday at Jphn Herron Art Institute will be an annual affair. Miss Julia Landers, assistant recreation daector. announced today. Eliminiation contsts in six community houses preceded the final judging. Winners were Miss Mary Margaret McCormick, 906 lowa street, costume prize, wish Dutch doll: Miss Rosemary McCann, 1836 Howard street, Swedish doll: Miss Magdalene Sanders, 1406 South Harding street, and Miss Evelyn Moorman, 2418 East Sixteenth street, original idea dolls, and Miss Sarah Taylor, 2123 Columbia avenue and Miss Rosemary Shank, 1648 Sheridan avenue, best home made dolls.
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Hank Simmons’ Gang Gives Old Melodrama Back to Thousands. BY ISRAEL KLEIN NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, May 26.—From the loud speaker come the confused sounds of a carnival —the noisy blare of a brass band, the shouts of refreshment vendors, the chatter of spectators, and through it all the gruff, good-natured ballyhoo of Hank Simmons. Hank Simmons’ Showboat is on the air. It is Saturday night in the
SMART IS JUST THE WORD FOR THIS FILM Norma Shearer Is at Her Best as an Ex-Wife Who Tries to Make Merry in ‘The Divorcee’ at the Palace. BY WALTER D HICKMAN HAVE found just the right word to tell you about Norma Shearer in “The Divorcee." This movie is smart and then some and a beautifully acted and an intelligently directed talking urama. If you promise not to geo all bothered and expect the wor.se, I will tip you off to the fact that “The Divorcee" is none other than the book “Ex-Wife” under another name. They say that a leopard does not chance his spots, but lot of the scarlet on Jerry, the ex-wife, has been turned white by a very smart director. When Jerry goes on her spree with many other men after her divorce from Ted, the director by clever direction suggests that Jerry is wild and wicked. _____
All we do see is some cleverly suggested petting on the part of Jerry end her boy friends. We see Jerry holding her male companions at arms’ length from her while she dishes out some smart talk. The
fact is, the conversation is more rapid than anything that Jerry and her bunch pulls off. These changes in the book has resulted in “The Divorcee” being even better for entertainment purposes than the book, taking it without debate that Ursula Parrott's book is entertainment. Jerry started out being
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a good girl as the wife of Ted, and she would have remained so if she had not caught her husband twotiming her. Now Ted is one of those moderns who says to the female, ‘•You must never play around, but with the man it is different.” So Jerry decides that what Ls “sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.” I hope I have the “noble” expression correct. Ted admits to his wife that he has been unfaithful, but he wasn’t in love with the other w oman, and so it didn’t count. So Jerry goes out with Ted’s best friend and evens up the score. Ted throws a fit when Jerry tells I him. and he makes a bee line to the divorce court. And so Jerry, as an | ex-wife, gets busy going a wild pace, j And Ted gees the sure route to the j do’s. We have he happy ending in the movie version when Jerry makes up to Ted just when she was getting j ready to marry Paul. First of all Norma Shearer as Jerry is the last word in smartness. This is her very best piece of work and absolutely guarantees her future as one of the best actresses on the talking screen. She is now the great artist and “The Divorcee” has made her that. Chester Morris gives a splendid performance of Ted, the husband who maintains that the man can | play around but the woman never. And Robert Montgomery as Don and Conrad Nagel as Paul are both rightly cast. Here's the perfect cast. To my way of thinking it is the smartest movie of the season. Now at Loew's Palace. a u # DR. FU GETS CRIMINAL AGAIN When Dr. Fu first arrived on the talking screen with Warner Oland as the Oriental fiend carrying out
wholesale murder, the movie as well as the charactei was a sensation. Dr. Fu in book form p r o b ably frightened all of the reading world into fits, but the first movie sure did pull the chills into the movi e-going public. I find it difficult to repeat sudden hits. They have attempted a come back with Fu in ’"The Return of Fu Manchu.” As
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i far as my reaction to Dr. Fu’s return, I did not g#t half the kick out of his evil doings on his return visit j as I did on his first visit. It is difficult to get new fonnu- ; las of death because Fu used so many of them in his first movie. We are more concerned with Rhat will i happen to our heroine, played by ; Miss Jean Arthur, than in just Dr. Fu. But the ending of this m %jm
studios of the Columbia Broadcasting System here. Freddie Rich’s orchestra is blanng away a noisy carnival tune, picked up by one microphone. Into three others are being shouted the conglomerate noises of the actors in this weekly radio hour and of some seventy-five visitors who have been brought into the action as “the audience.” In front of the ’ hired” audience stands Hank Simmons, who is Harry C. Browne in real life, an
seemed to assure me Dr. Fu gets his final papers to the cemetery this time and that he will never be able to kill the young doctor and his future wife. Maybe I expected too much out of “The Return of Fu Manchu. “It is well acted by Oland but the novelty of the whole think is gene. Probably I am the one that is wrong. Be your own judge as usual. The stage show, “Puttin’ on the Dog,” is just so so. Sammy- Cohen is the featured member, and to my way of thinking he is not funny in this show. The show sags at times and +he band is given enough to do on the stage. Now at the Indiana. “Mammy” is in its second week at the Apollo. There is a divided opinion on this Jolson movie. I thought it weak. The box office tells another story. “Ingagi” is still the talk of the town in its third week at the Ohio. “Song of the Flame” is now at the Circle. It was reviewed in this department last week. Mighty fine entertainment. Other theaters today offer: “Isle of Escape” at the Lyric; “Speed Girls” at the Mutual and George Fares at the Colonial.
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old-timer of the stage. Tall, broadshouldered, heavy-set, he looks the showman that he portrays. Hank is waving a small sign directing his visible audience to chatter on as though they were at a circus. At the same time he is booming into the microphone: “This way, folks, this way to the big show! The original Hank Simmons’ Dramatic Comedy Company, playing Oliver Brown’s four-act English melodrama entitled, “The Inside Track.” Four big, smashing, realistic acts—” And so on, amid the blare of the band, the cries of the barkers and the noise of the crowd. Actors Arc Enthusiastic The actor is these weekly radio melodramas are as enthusiastic and serious as they would be were they actually on Hank Simmons’ show boat. They stand in two groups, their copies of the evening’s script in their hands. Miss Elsie May Gordon is Maybelle and always enacts the part of the heroine. Harry Browne, as Hank Simmons,“is the hero. Lawrence Grattan, as DeWitt Schuyler, plays the villain. Edith Clinton is Letty Simmons, wife of Hank, and is the villainess or the “heavy woman.” Edith Thayer becomes Jane McGrew on the showboat, enacting the soubrette or children’s parts, Frank Readick becomes Happy Jack Lewis, the light comedian and juvenile. Harry Swan is Joe Carroll, who takes the comedy and character roles: James Ayres is George Morris, doing the “heavy” character parts, such as the spy or the gambler, and Eva Taylor, as Jeanette Marlow, is the character woman. Hank Gives Cues The show is about to start, the “audience” is seated, but is still the floor. Turning the pages might cause a noisy rustle. As the show goes on, the “audience” applauds, laughs, boos and hisses, just as Hank directs with his waving signs. It is all melodrama of the old type, boiled down to slightly less than an hour’s performance, to meet radio limitations. For the past two years, this Showboat hour has offered anew melodrama each week. Yet it remains one of the favorites of radio fans. noisy and restless as directed by Hank, and his waving sign. “Howdy, folks,” Hank speaks into the microphone, as he holds up the card marked, “Applause.” The audience” applauds until he withdraws the card. “Everybody happy?” At the same time he shows the card marked “Laugh,” and the crowd obeys. Now the show is on. Those low, whispered stage directions are from Hank himself. As the actors finish a page of their script they drop it silently to
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FOUR SLAIN AS FEUD FLARES AT JARNIVAL Bystander One of Dead in Shooting Fray on Crowded Midway. B\t Vnitcd Press LEPANTO, Ark., May 26.—A short-lived feud, climaxing years of moonshinipg in this section of the Arkansas hills, was believed today to have caused a pistol battle on a crowded carnival midway here Sunday night which left four men dead and almost a dozen wounded. Conflicting versions were told today of the manner in which Ira (Blackie) Williams, Walter Moffett and Clyde Keller lost their lives. It was believed, however, that a gang feud over liquor dealings, started with a fist fight some days ago and flared up again when the principals met on the crowded carnival street. William (Doc) Laudermilk, a bystander. was killed by the flying bullets. Officials said several others were seriously injured and still others received slight wounds. Hugh Luttrell, one of the principals, was arrested after the shooting and charged with murder. He escaped injury. Witnesses said Williams, Luttrell and Moffett met Keller on the carnival street. Luttrell, it was said, gace his weapon to Williams, yelling at him to shoot. In the first exchange of shots Keller wounded. He fell to one knee, but emptied his gun at the trio, killing Williams and wounding Moffett. Luttrell fled unhurt. Keller continued to fire, witnesses said, sending the bullets into, the crowd which milled excitedly over the street. Constable Refus Adams rushed to the scene to find Keller still firing. He ordered him to stop. Keller refused, witnesses said, and Adams shot the gun from his hand. The woftnded man reached for the weapon again and resumed his wild firing. His gun was silenced only after Adams had fired four more shots into his body. Keller was lifted into an ambulance with his rival, Moffett, and was started for the hospital. Ambulance attendants said the two men resumed fighting in the ambulance and had to be forced apart. Both died later. AGED CITY WOMAN DIES Funeral Services to Be Held Tuesday for Mrs. Sarah Querry. Funeral services will - held Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. Sarah Querry, 78, of 1948 Bellefontaine street, who' died at the Methodist hospital Sunday night from injuries sustained in a fall at her home a week ago. Burial will be in Center churchyard near Mays, Ind. Mrs. Querry is survived by her son, Harvey Paxton, and a daughter, Mrs. William Burton, both of Indianapolis.
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$6,000 DAMAGE VERDICT City Street Car Conductor’s Estate Wins Judgment in Death. Judgment of $6,000 was obtained in Shelby circuit court Saturday against the Indianapolis Street Railway Company on complaint filed by Richard D. Evans, administrator of the estate of Aubrey A. Kirk, killed by a street car here Nov. 6, 1928. Kirk, a conductor, employed by the street railway company, was placing the trolley on the wire in bams at West Washington street when the car backed, passing over him. The case was venued from Marion county. GANGAVENGERS MURDER ENEMY Two Men Flee in Car From Chicago Death Scene. Bu Vnitcd Press CHICAGO, May 26.—Two revolvers, one emptied of its bullets and the other clutched in the hand of Peter Plescia as he lay dying in a dark west side alley, told police a mystery story of gangland vengeance which they sought to solve today. Witnesses reported hearing the shots Sunday night and seeing two men leap into an automobile and speed away from the spot where Plescia, gunman and extortionist, was found a moment later. He had been struck by three bullets and died as he was being taken to a hospital. From an undertaker with whom Plescia was associated in an automobile livery enterprise, police learned the dead gangster had been involved in an alcohol deal which resulted in serious disputes among “competitors.”
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