Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 188, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1930 — Page 8

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LARGE SALE OF TOTS EXPECTED THIS CHRISTMAS Parents to Sacrifice for Children Despite Hard Times. BY CECIL OWEN l nite<l Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—Santa Claus will distribute almost as many Christmas toys this holiday season as in any past year, despite the business depression, the commerce department estimated today. Rather than deprive their children of any Yuletide Joys, the department said, parents will sacrifice other things to buy toys. Gifts for srownups this year are expected to be mostly of a utilitarian nature. "If the 1929 census of manufacifers is to be taken as an indiation.” the department said, "the ■nes which will be most popular are :->lls, wheel goods and metal toys, -"'•emes are popular, too, especially iniaturc replicas of adult a muse--icnt?.'* $88,000,000 Worth Produced More than $88,000,000 worth of toys was produced in 1929 of which dolls, doll parts, and doll clothes represented more than $16,200,000 it added. About the same amount were believed to have been produced this year. Wheel goods, tricycles, sidewalk bikes, automobiles, wagons, etc., ranked next to dolls and accounted for $16,000,000 of all toys manufactured. Next in popularity are wooden toys, of which $6,568,000 worth were produced. Toy trains accounted for $4,260,000; mechanical toys, $3,848,000; play furniture, $3,111,000; rubber toys. $2,655,000; stuffed toys, $1,886,000. The balance being miscellaneous toys. More than 500 factories are producing toys and 23,000 workers are helping Santa Claus fill his reindeer sled, the figures showed. Germany Biggest Seller More stores are selling toys this Christmas than at any previous time, the department said. Toy shops abound, and in addition drug stores, tobacco shops, gift shops, newsdealers and roadside stands ail vie for the consumer’s dollar. Germany still ships more toys to the United States than any other nation, furnishing more than half the toy imports this year. Japanese toys' also are popular and rapidly are coming into demand. Canada is the best customer for toys made in the United States. Toy exports totaled nearly $2,000,000 in 1930. while imports were $3,405,000, imports exceeding exports by about $1,400.00. DRY CLAMP IS URGED Texan Would Unseat Any Tublic Official Who Drinks. Bn Bcrinns-Ifntcnrd Newspaper Allianre WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.—While Senator Sheppard <Dem„ Tex.) bides the time until he considers it opportune to again push his bill that w'ould make the purchaser of liquor equally guilty with the seller, another Texan has moved in the house to tighten up the prohibition laws. Representative Tom Blanton of Texas wants, in the first place, to fire any federal employe, impeach any federal judge or attorney, and dishonorably discharge any soldier or sailor who buys liquor. In the second place, he wants those little oases—the foreign embassies—dried up like the surrounding country is alleged to be dry.

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SPOOKS TRAVEL AT RAPID PACE HERE Cecil Spooner Puts Tons of Hokum, Thrills and Many Laughs in “The House of Fear,” at English’s. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN SPOOKS must be using airplanes this season because they travel at a fast pace.

Os course I am speaking of the brand of theatrical spooks that Cecil Spo<mer uses in her mystery play, “The House of Fear.” I found a little bit of every mystery play that I have seen in “The House of Fear,” but it has been treated in a comedy way this time. When the spooks appear in the second and third acts, they are handled in modem fashion with a pretty live ghost floating over the "heads of the audience. But even in the most tense scenes, Miss Spooner is heard wise cracking. She knows her theater, so does this woman. She knows

that audiences like laughs and thrills and she hands ’em out in ton load lots. That she is correct is proven by her long run record in New York, her staying ability for months in Chicago and now she

treads where even angels fear to tr e a d—the road just before Christmas. I am about ready to remark that Miss Spooner knows her theatrical onions. The minute she lands on the stage, she turns o:i her personal electricity and the sparks start to fly. The credit for keeping the show going at a

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rapid fun pace is due to the energy of Miss Spooner and the splendid work of Edna May as Madame Zita, who seems to have a monopoly over the spooks. It does not as a play approach “The Bat.” It is always theatrical and often overstrained. Every device known to magic seems to be employed to get thrills and creeps. The only fair way to consider “The House of Fear” is to answer this question—Does it cause one to be entertained? And my answer to that—lt certainly does. No great acting is present. No great play has been WTitten in this case. But hundreds of people all over the country have been entertained. And when “The House of Fear’’ can do that—well, something has been accomplished. I never give the plots of mystery plays. The less you know, the more

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Georce M. Rubin. 2437 College avenue. Buick sedan, found at St. Clair and New Jersey streets. Lee Clayton. 2435 Jackson street. Whippet coupe, found at White River boulevard, north of Tenth street. Pilsudski to Take Rest Cure By United Press WARSAW. Dec. 16.—Marshal Pilsudski. Polish dictator, was en route today to Madeira in the Canary islands for a month’s rest cure. ,

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fun you will have. The one set is more than satisfactory. The story centers around the efforts of Miss Spooner and Miss May to force a man to confess a murder done years before the play opens. If you go in for mystery plays all dolled up in the most modern theatrical fashion, then “The House of Fear” should fill the bill. At English’s all week. a a a MOSTLY CHILD APPEAL ON THIS BILL When four acts out of six appeal mostly to children, it may be correctly stated that it is a show for children. That's the truth about the vaudeville bill now at the Lyric. My adult verdict is that it is very tiresome at

times. The show opens with a lair contortionist act. Revel Brothers and Red is the outstanding act on the bill. The men are splendid tap dancers and do the stair dance in good style. The Three Flaming Arrows, headed by Chief Red Fox, his wife and papoose, will appeal to the children. It is the singing and dancing of the papoose who

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saves the act from ruin. Pickard’s Chinese Syncopators have a fair musical offering. Kirby and Duvall go in for eccentric fun with the man cashing in for laughs on his height. Peggy Eames when she was younger and much littlier was a member of Our Gang comedies. She is growing up now and finds herself in the position of being too old to play with mud pies. I think that her material is too adult and that when she attempts to impersonate stars much older than she, she is getting out of her element. The children in the audience, I am sure, would love to see her makeup and acting as she did in the comedies months ago. She should be pc--nutted to tell youngsters how it feels to make pictures. I had quite a chat with her the other day and her conversation with me was miles ahead of 1 r vaudeville routine. The movie feature Is Grant Mitchell in “Man to Man.” Now at the Lyric. B B B Other theaters today offer: “Hell's Angels” at the Palace, “Life of the Party” at the Ohio, “Oh, For a Man” at the Apollo, “Derelict” at the Circle, Brooks and Ross at the Indiana, movies at the Colonial, and burlesque at the Mutual.

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DEL RIO IN LINE FOR HARD LUCK TITLEJNRLMS Bad Publicity Breaks and Illness Mar Standing of Mexican Star. * By United Press HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 16.—Dolores del Rio, the Mexican star, seems in line to capture all hard luck titles for Hollywood. Scarcely two years ago she was at the very top of the film scramble, but a series of bad publicity breaks hurt her tremendously and then came her present illness. Her first hard luck followed closely on her divorce from Jaime del Rio and was rumored at the time to have been promoted by her failure to submit to certain advertising hook-ups. Notices Were Unkind She received many unkind notices and these became worse when Jaime died in Berlin : hortly after the divorce. * Her last picture, made under the direction of Eddie Carewe, "Evangeline,” was not so successful as earlier ones under his direction. Then Dolores went to the United Arists lot She to be in the midst of a come-back when she made “Tfye Bad One,” but immediavely on top of that success her former attorney, Gunther Lessing, brought suit against her. Her marriage to Cedric Gibbons, the art director, helped to silence the rumors that followed Lessing’s suit. Failed to Improve She started rehearsing for “The Dove,” but the day before United Artists was to begin shooting it, she became ill. The cast was held together for a month, hoping for the Mexican star's early recovery, but finally it

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String Quartet Well Received

BY CONNELL TURPIN TWO violins, a viola and a cello make a nice blend of musical instruments, as the Gordon String quartet proved last night in a concert at Caleb Mills hall. Their program was heavy, consisting of selections from Haydn, Beethoven and Schumann. The quartet consisted of Jacques Gordon, first violin; Edwin Ideler, second violin; Josef Vie land, viola, and Naohum Benditzky, cello. These four men play with a sureness that makes their music at once convincing and thoroughly enjoyable. They create the atmosphere of great artistry about them, and they are fine artists. Their andante o piu tosto allegretto from Opus 76, No. 2, in D minor, from Haydn, was beautiful with its sweetness of tone and color. In the last group from Schumann the quartet was enlarged to a quintet with Rudolph Reuter, pianist. His playing with the four string instruments was very well done. The Gordon string quartet was brought to Indianapolis by the Civic Music Association. Youtjis Held as Thieves Carl Edwards, alias Shields, alias Bcckey, 17, of 1670 Park avenue, and a 15-year-old youth were held on vagrancy charges by police today in connection with the theft of merchandise from the Hoosier Coffee Company. Police also arrested William Philpott, 1227 East Market street, poolroom operator, on a charge of receiving stolen goods. was disbanded when her condition did not improve. Two weeks ago she was removed to the hospital and now after treatments she has been released and physicians predict a return to health soon. As soon as she feels well again she will once again attempt to climb back to her place among the greatest of Hollywood’s box office attractions.

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