Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 236, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1931 — Page 5

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WROWN HALED BEFORE STATE ROAD PROBERS Director Will Be Asked to Explain Failure to Get U. S. Aid. Director John J. Brown of the state highway commission has been summoned to appear before the senate highway investigation committee this afternoon to explain failure to collect $3,500,000 in federal aid while the department went into debt some $2,500,000, In addition to this the senators are planning to quiz Brown regarding the policies surrounding his appointment as state highway director and the part Governor Harry G. T.eslie played in it. Protest Over Opponent Brown was put into the position after the ousting of former Director John D. Williams. He had been chairman of the Indiana state tax board, but at the time of his appointment was acting as secretary to Leslie. When the appointment was made a storm of protest arose regarding Brown’s alleged lack of qualifications for the position. Long brewring, this storm broke with the introduction in the senate of the resolution by Senator Charles L. Strey (Rep., Kosciusko and Wabash) to investigate the department. Predict Bill’s Passage This has been followed by a bill, introduced jointly by Senators Strey and Anderson Ketchum (Dem., Bartholomew, Decatur, Union and Franklin), chief inquisitor of the senate probe committee, to abolish the Brown directorship and the present commission and substitute a bipartisan, four-man, full time commission, appointed by the Governor with senate approval. Authors of the bill confidently predict its passage. Impetus will be given the measure by testimony before the committee showing the federal aid collection failure at a time when the funds were needed sorely for drought and unemployment relief, they declare. popels~backS¥T NEW CODE IN ITALY State’s Power Thrown Behind Church on Marriage, Sex Questions. By United Press ROME, Feb. 10.—The new Italian penal code, which goes into force next July, will support with the power of the state many of the pronouncements on matrimonial and sex questions made by Pope Pius in the recent encyclical on marriage. Birth control propaganda, whether in the form of books, pamphlets or lectures, is prohibited under the new code. The sale of contraceptives technically is forbidden. The punishments against marital not only are maintained, but increased in rigor. Mrs. McCormick Given Divorce By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 10—A divorce on grounds of cruelty was granted Monday to Mrs. Dorothy Linn McCormick from Cyrus McCormick Tr., vice-president of the International Harvester Company.

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THURSTON NOW HAS 'HIS BIGGEST SHOW His Daughter Jane Proves That Her Father Must Have Shown Her Many Tricks of Magic. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN IHAVE seen Howard Thurston and his tricks for many years and I know that I am safe in telling you that he has his biggest and best show this season.* There seems to be more color, action and novelty mixed up with the standard part of his program. You don’t expect Thurston to have all new tricks and illusions, but one does expect him to be a little more clever each season. In other words, he develops each old act to as near perfection as any living man can do. He has a number of new major Illusions and has developed his famous water fountain trick into a gorgeous finale.

Thurston has for years been recognized as the leader when it comes to causing youngsters to help him put over his fun and his tricks. Probably nobody on the stage un-

derstand children any better than Thurston. His egg comedy stunt on the stage with four youngsters is one of the funniest bits of human comedy that I have seen on the stage. He simply takes out dozens of eggs from a hat hat, causing the children to become so overloaded that the eggs, some of them, just had to fall.

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I still think that his magic crystal, the floating of a ball In air, is one of the finest managed bits to be seen on the stage today. Roltare Eggleston, although manager of English’s, is a real magician himself, and he told me that the prettiest trick is when Thurston causes a box four times as long as another box to enter another. Thurston found time last night from the stage to compliment the new management on the beautiful way the theater has been redecorated. “I have always loved this theater because It was so intimate,” Thurston said. “It makes one feel that he is just in a parlor having his magic at home.” He spoke of the days in 1804 when he and Eggleston were doing tricks in the south. “We had a trunk and one duck then,” Thurston said. Thurston’s program is a long one this time. It is conveniently divided in three parts, with his daughter Jane, having about fifty times more to do this year than last. She does a bunch of tricks this season and she is doing them well. The entire act is dressed better than ever and I think his assistants on the stage are better tlian usual. It certainly was a great sight to see English’s crowded to absolute capacity last night. And it remained for Thurston to do it. Because crippled children will be his special guests Wednesday matinee and because seats are selling in such large numbers for the rest of the week, a special matinee will be given Thursday afternoon, Lincoln’s birthday. Thurston Is at English's all week. a a a MORE PROOF OF SOME REAL ABILITY We have on the stage at the Lyric this week a fine example of what good singing voices can do in the four a day. I am speaking of Yorke and John-

son, two women who appear in costumes that remind one a little of Jenny Lind. They first tell you in song that they are just two prima donnas trying to get along. They promise you not to stay too long. They sing beautifully, songs like those from "Rose Marie,” and other favorites. They conclude with their impression

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of how two night club singers would “render” a grand opera number. This is a classic. I liked the entire act. It has class and merit. Joyner and Foster are two Negroes who recently were with Lew Leslie’s “Blackbirds.” Here are two men who are real comedians. Maybe it is the way they do a thing but all of their material sounds new. They have their individual way of

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CHAIR ROCKING HAILED AS NEXT NATIONALSPORT Human Metronome Visions Heroic Struggles of College Swayers. BY H. ALLEN SMITH United Press Staff Correa nondent NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Dr. Alexander Meyer, the rockless chair rocking champion of the world, sometimes called the rocker of ages, undulated on a davenport in his Bronx apartment today and unleashed an impassioned plea for official recognition of his pastime, which he says is destined to unhorse baseball as our national sport. The day Is not far off, said the inventor of the Meyer reversible jiffy bow tie, when Yale rockers will pit their rhythm against the rockers from Harvard, when people at parties will sit and sway rather than gulp cocktails. He brought out his exhibits to prove that rockless chair rocking Is the greatest boon to humanity since

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the invention of the opposable thumb. First came his wife. “She can whip any man I ever saw,” beamed the human metronome." “As strong as I am. She can throw me. Rocking did it.” Invents Swayoscope Mrs. Meyer, a woman of about fifteen stone, smiled affably and took up a wrestling stance in the middle of the floor, inviting your correspondent to a friendly grapple, which he declined modestly. Then Dr. Meyer brought out his rockometer —swayoscope, an invention which counts rocks for rocking champions. Next came the Meyer four-in-two vitamin suit of clothes. It weighs, altogether, eighteen ounces. It consists of a coat and a pair of trcAisers, but the coat, when buttoned, has enough shirt and enough vest attached to make the garment complete. The pants have ventilators down the sides. “Dr. Meyer next fetched out his Meyer combination banjo-saxo-phone. He played a tune on it, rocking back and forth as he blew and strummed. Even Dog Is Rocker Out came the famous blue snooper, the doctor’s dog. The blue snooper sat down and started rocking. “All these things,” said the doc-

tor, “came out of my head while I was rocking. It stimulates the brain as well as the backbone. I was sitting here before you came in when I saw a bird hop on the Are escape. I was rocking. I thought that the bird meant an early spring. So I wrote a poem. I’ll probably win

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parties.’’ Dr. Meyer said. “We sit around and rock and talk and have a swell time. And won’t you stay for supper with us? We’re having Mexican jumping beans.”

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