Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1930 — Page 7

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DMEN'S RIGHT fO KEEP THEIR JOGS DEFENDED Should Not Be Discharged to Give Men Work, U. S. Labor Official Says. Ru United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Women, either single or married, should not be discharged from their jobs to provide work for men during the present unemployment situation, Miss Mary Anderson, director of the labor department women’s bureau, said today. In a Labor day statement Miss Anderson made an appeal for a shorter working day and against any sex discrimination which, she skid, would only render conditions • more warped” than at present. ‘ Finding immediate remedies for our present slump is the urgent business confronting us,” Miss Anderson said. ”In planning a program of industrial betterment the most obvious feature to be discarded is not this or that class of workers, but the long work day. ‘‘The truth is that women as well as men are needed in the ranks of wage earners. It is not a question of displacement of one sex by another, but rather of satisfactory adjustment of both.” The women’s bureau head particularly defended the right of women to hold jobs after they are married. ISLE OF MAN LANGUAGE IS KILLED BY TOURISTS Native Tongue Fails to Survive Great Annual InvavSion. fiy f nited Pro* DOUGLAS, Isle of Man. Aug. 30. —Tourists have killed the language Os the Isle of Man. Each year more than 500.000 Englishmen, Scots and Irish spend their holidays in this island and the natjje tongue has been unable to withstand the invasion. Only a few of the popular terms ramain. Every farm is a “balla,” the mountains are “slieus,” the glens are “lhens" and the bogs are “curraghs.” The Manx language was brought to-the shores of many by roaming Celts in pre-Christian days and it lived and flourished until the end of the eighteenth century’. CONVENTION IS CLOSED Leltoy Smock Elected State Mechanics’ Councilor. Installation of officers closed the two-day joint convention of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and Daughters of America at the Denison Friday. Leßoy Smock, Terre Haute, was elected state councilor of the junior order and Mrs. Pearl Taylor was installed as state councilor of the woman’s organization, succeeding Mrs. Anna Malcolm, retiring coun- j cilor.

OFFICER IS PROMOTED Promotion of Merle Remley. Waynetown, from state policeman to lieutenant, effective Monday, has been announced by State Police Chief Robert T. Humes. "Remley, who has been on the fdTce seven years, advances to the post left vacant by the resignation of- Lieutenant Rossen B. Funk of Nsw Albany, in order to become a gasoline tax department auditor.

Many More One-Rcelem -6am Sax and Murray Rotli, producers of the Vitaphone Varieties at tKe Brooklyn Vitaphone studies,, are preparing for the addition of a series of fifty-two ‘ Celebrities," onereelers, to their 1930-1931 program. This series will feature not only stg.ge and screen stars, but also famous personalities in the news of the day. Roth and Sax are now negotiating with several notables for this group. Stage Director Turns Author Chester Erskin, stage director who wßn acclaim for staging "The Last Mile” and "Subway Express,” has sold his comedy, “My Mistake,” to Murray Roth for a Vitaphone Varieties' production. Arthur Hurley, another legitimate director now "gone talkie,” has been assigned to direct. .. Stage Star Signs Contract ~Eris Dressier, stage favorite nowplaying on Broadway in "Lysistt&ta," the big comedy hit of the season, is the latest Broadway star tcvbe signed for Vitaphone Varieties. .Dressier is cast for the leading role Id "Compliments of the Season.” a two-reel drama based on the story by Paul Gerard Smith. Such of Face Pays Dough Having a round, distinctly Latin face, and the right kind of mutachtos, are two assets that keep GJno Corrado, character actor, steadily on the move from one picture to another. Corrado's latest part is that of an excitable French offleer in "War Nurse.” the new Nf-G-M picture which Edgar Sel-h-yn is directing. Lawrence Had lo Take Lessons Lawrence Tibbett. practicing his opening song at the Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer studios in "The New Moon,” had to learn Gypsy lyrics. He constantly mispronounced a couple of words, and General Theodore Dodi. technical expert, insisted on correcting him. “Aw nix—what’s the difference?" demanded Tibbett. "Any Gypsy words sound just as bad anyhow!” Reward for Slot Machines Bv I'niled Prrst - WARSAW. Ind.. Aug. 30.—A $1 reward was offered today by Mayor Lewis J. Bibler and Chief of Police JUdd Pittenger for every slot machine found operating in Warsaw. AMUSEMENTS

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Lon Chaney Shunned Glare of Publicity, Turned, on Home Life

This is the third ol six stories on the life of the Ute Lon Chaner. the screen 1 * greatest character actor'. BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer •Cos w-right. 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 30.—What sort of a human being hid behind the masks of fiends and phantoms that Lcn Chaney wore in the mo- : tic n pictures and which made him famous as the world’s greatest character actor? Hollywood really knew little about Chaney wren he was alive, and his death has not added veiy much to the sum total of available information about the personal side of this renowned star. Chaney would talk about almost anything you wanted him to talk about, except himself. “It is silly for any man to talk about himself,” Chaney told me during the course of an interview about two years ago. "In the first place, no man is going to say things that are detrimental to himself- And if he says favorable tnings about himself, people win say: ‘Just another actor blowing off.’ ” ana BUT here are some facts that are know’n about this man whose reticence concealed his own personality as much as his famous makeups concealed his face: He lived a quiet life in a Spanish model house in Beverly Hills. He owned three autos, but had no chauffeur. He built five houses in the last few years and sold each at a profit. He spent his vacations camping and fishing, with his wife and a few close friends. Chaney looked more like a business man than an actor, but they called him the star who lived like a clerk. He never went to Hollyw r ood parties. After work, he went home and he and his family had a few close friends, not connected with the movies. He was stockholder in several businesses. He liked mathematical puzzles and undoubtedly read more than any other Hollywood star. He was a skilled musician. He hated to travel. a a a HIS hobby was amateur movie photography, and he used to take numerous reels of pictures on these camping expeditions—and also “shoot” scenes in his owrn movies, in which he did not appear. He raised an awful row with studio executives when they wanted to hire a valet for him. Among hs closest friends were companions of his days as a vaudeville “hoofer;” notably Clinton Lyle, he and Lyle having married two girls playing a “sister act” when all were in vaudeville in San Francisco years ago. He hated the tinseled brilliance of gaudy ‘first nights,” but he attended them occasionally—probably because he felt he ought to. He got a tremendous kick out of that familiar gag about the bug: “Don’t step on it; it may be Lon Chaney in disguise.” He liked prize fights and would travel clear across the United States to see a big one.

“TV/fY home.” Lon once nald. “is iTI my own. The public, I am sure, has no curiosity about my domestic life.” In line with this, he refused to permit the movie press agents to publicize his private affairs. Indeed, he was so reticent about his own life that it was not known until after his death that, as a youth, he had been married for a short time before his marriage to his present wife twenty-three years ago. Even today, nobody in Hollywood knows anything about that romance. The first wife was the mother of Lon’s only child, Creighton Chaney, a successful young attorney. Tile second Mrs. Chaney, however, proved an ideal wife and foster mother. Bravely, she stood by her husband in the lean days’when he was a struggling "extra” in Hollywood, striving to get on: and success and riches neither turned the head nor marred their happiness. a a a WHEN Chaney died his personal fortune was estimated at $1,500,000 and his salary was quoted at $5,000 a week —quite a far cry from the day when he and his w-ife landed in Hollywood, broke, and he got hi® first job as an "extra” riding a horse at $5 a day. That tough spot in his career w-as about 1913. "Well,” said a friend of whom j he asked advice about getting on

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This is one of the few pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Chaney. It was taken at one of the few “first nights” he attended.

at some studio, “if you can ride a horse you can make $5 a day ” That was his beginning as a movie actorOn his trips to New York, which averaged about once a year, the star spent most of his time on the East Side and in Bowery resorts, searching for types. He prowled around alone—and unknown. ' Night police courts, with their backwash of human wreckage, were his favorites. He became particularly friendly with Magistrate Brodsky, who invited him to share the bench as a “guest of honor,” but Chaney declined. He preferred Unnoticed, in the crowd. His New York friends never knew just where they could find him. Once, when his office wanted him in a hurry, the town was combed and all his hangouts visited. Later it was learned that he had been at Mr. Zero’s “Tub,” studying the various types of bums that wandered into this unique emporium of charity to beg a bowl of soup and a slice cl dry bread. .tan THE last time he was in New York he visited Mayor Walker. The latter was posing for a sculptor and the clay model was in a crude state. “My God, it looks like one of my characters,” exclaimed Chaney, taking up the clay and modeling the mayor himself. Walker still has the work. It is quite a creditable job, too. Visiting his offices he invariably arrived with a pocketful of neckties for members of the staff W'ho had done him a good turn. He always left at least one tie with each publicity writer. He had many pet charities, mostly among stage hands and the unsuccessful screen players, but he never w’ould talk about these gifts. a a a CHANEY always shunned the crowd. Except on very rare occasions he never permitted a picture showing him as he really was without his make-up to be taken. “I think that as long as the public doesn’t know what I actually look like in every-day garb it’s good showmanship because it keeps ’em curious,” he once explained. Shrewdly said, perhaps, but the real reason—and the honest one—dobutless lay deeper. Chaney wanted to be able to walk down the street without being stared at; to go where he pleased without being pointed out by curious people and beset by heroworshipers. Next: Chaney and the talkies . . . you can’t talk with a mouth full of false teeth, cotton in your jaws and ritbber plugs in your nostrils. Grace Goes to AVork Again Grace Moore, immediately on finishing her work in her first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer talkie depicting the life of Jenny Lind, plunged into' work in “The New Moon,” in which she and Lawrence j Tibbett are co-starred. She didn’t even have a day off. “Oh well—l asked for work!” she said.

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Here is one of the dancers witli Rcisman’s Alabamians now at the Lyric.

ROBBED OF SSO SAVINGS Tramps Steal Kentuckian’s Hoard on Home-bound Freight Train. Hoarding SSO he had earned on a job in Lake Forest, 111., Estell-Mc-Laughlin, Calhoun, Ky., hopped a freight train to save railroad fare on his homeward trip. From what he told Indianapolis police Friday night his economy program was a failure. He said two box car tramps threw him in an empty ice compartment of a refrigerator car and stole his money and shirts. He said the robbery took place between Indianapolis and Terre Haute. Bee Stings Horse; Man Killed Du United Press DANVERS, Mass., Aug. 30.—When the horse he was driving was stung by a bee and bolted, George Thibodeau, 48, farmhand, was hurled to death under the wheels of his wagon.

' I POWERFUL DRAMA OF ROMANCE AKI> ADVENTURE | 1 STKeatte. ditauMlaC I Terminal opening today: i B OPPorrrE traction terminal I A Theatre That Exemplifies the Marvelous Growth and I 1 Artistic Development of the Motion Picture Industry 1 |H —so surpassing in beauty and luxury—so perfect in facilities J|| and complete in comforts—so superior in the presentation of r&B lit de luxe entertainment that it will be a constant source of fl 9 HH delighted surprise. frw indianapohs ttt um \ livmm. Saturday, 10 A. M. to io F.w. 1 I Sunday, Holidays, Night Hawk Show flßßVflf/ 35c Tonite 11 P. M. Children, 15c, *ll Timet The Fighting, Loving Buddies of "Flight” and “Submarine It% Gris and Mac and Marie this time —three young Yankee people whose lives and loves and fortunes meet in a far-away land and join In blood-red drama that trails around the world. The Sharpest Shocks of Drama, the Honeyed , Sweets of Love, the Ringing; Laughter of Comedy in the Grandest Entertainment of All Time. NETS FEM E—ANDY CLYDE Jn the Screaming Comedy Riot, "THE CONSTABLE"

MONSTER ROAD CELEBRATION TO BE HELD AT DALE Home Town Will Pay Big Tribute to Wedeking at Monday Rally. Successful efforts of Albert J Wedeking, Indiana highway commission chairman in having all new roads through southwestern Indiana pass through his home town of Dale will be fittingly celebAted there Monday when other commisi sioners and Governor Harry G. ! Leslie attend a monster good roads meetingThe celebration will last all day ; and throughout the evening and a | crowd of 15,000 is expected. According to the highway department's publicity representative: “Dale is the home of Wedeking. highway commission chairman, and the celebration has a three-fold purpose: First, to open the newly completed fourteen miles of paved highway between Dale and Addyville on state Road 62 between Evansville and Louisville; second to urge the completion of hard surfacing this highway on the only remaining unpaved section of eighteen miles between and Corydon; and, third to honor Wedekng, who has sponsored the extension of paved highway in all parts of Indiana. SIX NEGROES JAILED AFTER PAN CONCERT Police Break Up Musical Program on Kitchen Utensils. Six Negroes were held on vagrancy charges today after police arrested them as they were presenting a concert on tin pans, coffee pots and other kitchen utensils Friday night at Meridian and Tenth streets. They are: Thornton Lamont, 30, of 937 Fayette street; James Reeves, 18, of 1415 Newman street; Joseph Rucker, 24, of 917 East Twentieth street; Ernest Brown, 19, of 910 Douglass street; Jerry Daniels, 16, of 441 West Sixteenth street, and Robert Mailes, 18, of 910 Douglass street.

500 PERSONS IN RALLY Candidates of County Ticket Speak to Tenth Ward G. O. P. Approximately 500 persons attended the Tenth Ward Republican Club rally Friday night at 2500 Prospect street when candidates on the county ticket spoke. An orchestra provided entertainment. A Warren township and Irving- ! tion Republican Clubs rally was announced for Sept. 10 at the Cumberland community house. SHIELDS BURIAL SET Funeral Services for Auctioneer to Be Held Sunday. Funeral services will be held at 2 Sunday afternoon at Monrovia for Harrison Shields, 70, auctioneer, who died Friday. Burial will be in the West Union cemetery at Monrovia. Mr. Shields was a member of Odd Fellows lodge. Surviving are the widow and two sons, Clare and Chester Shields of Monrovia. New Kind of Comedy Wished The Vitaphone Varieties comedy starring Walter Winchell, Broadway columnist, has been completed by Director Roy Ittack, at the Brooklyn Vitaphone studios. In the cast with Winchell are Madge Evans, the feminine lead; Mona Moray, Margaret Wells, Helen Dodge and Florence Auer. Wallace Sullivan wrote the script for this film, which shows the star in his role of newspaper man.

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HOME-COMING IS TO END TONIGHT Carnival Held by Tibbs Avenue, Eagle Creek Group. Third annual home-coming of the Tibbs Avenue and Eagle Creek Civic League will end tonight with a gala carnival at the North and Rochester streets circus grounds. Grounds of school No. 46 and an adjoining Jot held an overflow of west end citizens Friday night when Harry George pushmobile speed king carried away honors from numerous other contestnts in a race at a nearby track. Festivities are in charge of C. C. Woolery, chairman of the board of Irustees of the league. 102, BUT STILL ON GO Constable Hunts Aged Man Up at Picnic for Jury Service. Du United Press AURORA, 111., Aug. 30.—W. W. Church is 102 years old, but he doesn’t like to stay home. When a constable called to hand him a summons for jury service, Church was at a picnic.

AMUSEMENTS (cftk'Wkers Its Comfortably COOL I Now Showing tomori ‘ 1 NOVARRO in Hi3 First Singing Romance 1 CALL OFI THE FLESH I with DOROTHY JORDAN § ERNEST TORRENCE |j ALLT£UCIC ff ‘Our Gang’ Comedy ‘Pups Is Pups’ Hearst Metrotone News SILLY SYMPHONY CARTOON niasMnnßnsnMßnMn

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29. Ruth Alexander, young aviatrix, who recently established a world’s altitude record for women, will attempt, a nonstop flight Sunday over the United States, lengthwise, without touching vheels to it at any point. She will fly from Vancouver to Agua Caliente. Ruth Alexander

At English’s

English’s opens this morning with the continuous daily showings of a foreign made picture called “Birth.” It was shown at a private audience last night at English's to which doctors, nurses and others were invited. During the engagement of this picture, the ladies will be seated on the first floor and the men on the second.

MOTION JPICTURES Welcome, Fair Visitors! Three stupendous shows.. .Booked to help make your visit to Indianapolis a glorious one! Charlie Da-vis is anxious to greet you at the great Indiana.. .The state’s finest show in the state's finest theater! immvwSjfx u&LtiEijl H —ml Breaking: AH La AT ; Jg mmu laws?™ ■ I a Lovely! O Anyboays War ' I I cou'dn't (ret away if Paramount Fun-Fcst IS nw THE ST ACE I 1 bo,nbs,lcl, Os mirth! A(I 9 ON IHk 51 Ilf not on the black-face front I IE sjjJZ £ If I Ij^'j' j! ITh" Boop-Boop-a-iDoop i.irl 11 R /tRUmBSLY) *' Unisincr .More Kano fUr BBi i jB mm HIIIN iiANE 4^o®/1 Paramount Comedy Wow w ith // “// B STUART ERWIN—JAMES HALL // hid 11 ■ She's a rootin’, tootin'. buUet-DHoof bsbv 1/ ts,” MI §8 from the wide, laujrbinr spaces—/Did out to Ml jj

If You Are Afraid of Truth, We Advise You Not to See The Sensational, Yet Authentic, Picture STMTWG t WEEK'S ENGAGEMENT TODAY at English’S HOUSE Because—- “ Birth” Was Filmed in a Hospital By and With Reputable Physicians and Surgeons and They Do Not Fake . DOORS OPEN DAILY 10:30 PERFORMANCE CONTINUOUS 11 A. M. TO 11 P. M. LADIES GENTLEMEN ONLY ONLY Lower Floor In the Balcony **True hut Not Indecent” u Facts but Never Filthy” <f Operatons but Never Sickening” “Life’s Inception and Enlightening” YOUNG BOYS AND GIRLS UNDER 16 WILL NOT BE ADMITTED ALL SEATS—EVERY DAY—ALL DAY 50c

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170 ENROLLED IN BOYS’ CAMP Second Day in Session at State Fair. With 170 boys enrolled, the Boys* Club camp began its second day at the Indiana state fair today with a 5:30 a. m. reveille. The first camp meal was served Friday night) W. Robert Amick of Purdue university is director of the camp. Instructors from Purdue university will aid in inspection tours Wednesday and Thursday at the camp. Judging contests, trips over the city, dinners and concerts will feature the camping week. Enrollment eligibility in the camp permits youths with livestock exhibits or entries in judging contests at the fair to become members.

$5,000 LOSS IN FIRE Dinner Bell Barbecue Is Destroyed by Blaze. The Dinner Bell barbecue, east of Indianapolis on the National road, was destroyed by fire Friday afternoon. Loss was estimated at $5,000 by Charles Loenges, owner. The blaze started when Loenges was melting tar in the kitchen and l it boiled over. Spontaneous combustion is said to have started a fire that Friday night caused $25 damage in Charley’s restaurant, 144 East Ohio .street.