Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1931 — Page 23

MARCH 20, 1931_

SOVIET COMEDY PANICS VILLAGE; ONLY 10 DEATHS Cheerful Little Importation From Russia Feast for Intellectual. By United Prats NEW YORK. March 20.—'‘The Bed Bug,” a Soviet comedy which is reported to have had the Moscow proletariat roaring for two years and which bears the indorsement of Dictator Josef Stalin himself, found a warm welcome in Greenwich village today and settled down to what the comrades there hoped would be a long stay. The Bed Bug” was pronounced a brillian success at its American debut Thursday night by an audience of four-score village intellectuals and a scattering of lean Slavs, vho added their O. K.s to that of Stalin and agreed that Comrade Mayakovski, author of the opus, had put the capitalists and bourgeosie completely to rout. Tlie comedy of Mayakovski, which satirically depicts the mechanistic millennium, tells the tale of ten bold bourgeosie who attend a capitalistic wedding feast. All Ten Are Killed Its high spot, done in the best Hussian humorous manner, is where nine of the bourgeosie are burned to death and the tenth falls into a cellar, where he is frozen solidly into a block of ice, there to remain until the year 1979 A. D. It is that date, it seems, which Mayakovsky hass et for the mechanistic millennium. The five-year plan has become history, albeit triumphant history. In 1979, then, the villain who fell into the cellar emerges from his ice cake, shakes off a cataleptic spell and joins the highly industrialized society of the age. Rip Gels No Credit But like Rip Van Winkle, whom | Comrade Mavakovsky neglects to credit with so much as a footnote, he feel3 out of place and is unhappy. He takes to drink, smokes, plays the guitar and disgraces himself in the eyes of tho super-men among whom he has been thrown. Finally, he declares desperately: ‘‘To hell with you and your society. Freeze me up again!” The unhappy fate to which he thus passes is not unlike that of the heroes of Eugene O’Neill, who had his start in the same village playhouse and before the same kind of audience that applauded the new Soviet importation Thursday night. Mayakovsky himself committed suicide two years ago. PIONEER SCOUT TROOP TO HOLD CELEBRATION Twentieth Anniversary to Be Observed With Church Dinner. Twentieth anniversary of Boy Scout Troop 9, pioneer Indianapolis unit, will be observed with a dinner at the Irvington Methodist Episcopal church tonight. Troop 9 was started in 1910 under the leadership of F. O. Belzer, present scout executive of Indianapolis and central Indiana local council. Carl C. Osborne, now of Tennessee Ridge, Tenn., was assistant. Both are expected to attend. S. C. Ging is scoutmaster of the troop now, assisted by G. H. Winchell and M. R. Edwards. At present the troop has a membership of nearly ninety. More than 300 scouts, parents and others are expected to attend the dinner. |,009 New Bills Congress Total By United Press WASHINGTON, March 20.—The last congress passed 1,009 new laws, according to a tabulation by William Tyler Page, clerk of the house of representatives. Altogether, 18.356 bills and resolutions were introduced in the house and 7,080 in the senate.

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JIMMY WALKER IS STILL THE JESTER

(Continued from Page Jnei i for Florida in the private car of T ANARUS?. F. Kenny, wealthy friend of A1 nith. He left three knotty problems bei hind—important transit, tunnel and bridge legislation, a pending report on a costly bus franchise, and the hot litigation over the 7-cent fare, which had reached the United States supreme court. n a o NOT many months after the beginning of his second term, when Tammany was believed to be tightening its grip on City Hall, Mayor Walker took a vacation in ' Bermuda. In 1930, when there were increased rumblings of civic corruption, he went to Florida again. A few months previously there j had been handed to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt the first dei finite demand for the removal from office of Mayor Walker. | A director of the Institute for Public Service, claiming to represent 6,000,000 “injured” citizens, | charged that during the first three i and a half years of office he had been guilty of “prodigiously wasteful neglect, inefficiency, broken pledges, false official publicity, pre- | ventable delays, misspending,- over- | taxing, unfair assessing and the encouragement of graft and violation of law.” There were twenty-six specific charges. Jimmy Walker has said that | “there is nothing so disarming to a critic as to be ignored.” Any- , way, he did just that, and the criti ics were disarmed. He remained the Jazz Mayor, 1 Jimmy the Jester, New York’s Ambassador to the World, Mayor-at-Large, Lord Mayor of Gotham, and, to most of those 6,000,000 “injured citizens, “good old Jimmy,” a u a NEVER has he permitted disapprobation to interfere with his I peculiar routine. He has continued to prowl the bright spots at night, ; to go late to his office, and to dash j hurriedly through transactions of | city business of such moment that Ia wrong decision would mean the loss of millions of dollars. He is conscientious about presiding at important board meetings, where his wit and authority are given full play. But he usually is willing to leave an important conference to greet some bedraggled youth who has pushed a peanut across the continent to the steps of city hall. If Jimmy Walker chose to answer his critics he could, no doubt, point out that nearly all his vacations have been taken at the same time each year, and that his present one was delayed for some time against his doctors’ orders. He also could challenge his enemies to name any period duringhis two terms of office when a vacation would not have provided escape from some sort of scandal. His administration has been expensive beyond any other on record, costing some $570,000,000 annually. Yet the mayor has made no particular pretense of economy. “If we’re going to improve this city,” he said, “we’ve got to pay for it.” With no definite idea of how they were to be financed, he has Initiated vast projects, such as $300,000,000 for schools, $600,000,000 for subways. MUM WITH the apparent snap Judgment that characterizes everything he does, he one day visited one ward of one hospital, found it “unfit for dogs,” and forced an appropriation of $16,000,000 for the rehabilitation of all city hospitals. He took a ride through Central park, went back to city hall and sandbagged the board of estimate with a $1,000,000 appropriation to improve it. All this is good “theater,” and Jimmy Walker, frustrated in an early ambition to be an actor, is playing the leading role. More than once he officially has been reprimanded for his flagrant tardiness, and his happy-go-lucky attitude in general is conceded to have been

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the main reason for his break with Alfred E. Smith. Newspaper men know that Smith has cooled his heels for hour? in his honor’s office while Jimmy himself caught up on the sleep lost during a round of dinners and parties the night before. “Let ’em wait,” said Mayor Walker—though he could not have been thinking of Smith—“and they’ll like you better when you get there.” Again: “It isn’t the one who always gets there on time; it’s the boy who fixes things up right when he does arrive.” MUM HE never has tried to make a secret of the fact that he leans heavily on his friends and subordinates and Tammany hall. John F. Curry, Tammany chieftain, sent his trusted friend and adviser to city hall to be the mayor’s private secretary. Charles F. Kerrigan, one-time newspaper man who now bears the title of “Assistant to the Mayor," shoulders masses of detail. On their advice are based many of his decisions. Another thing that irked A1 Smith was this blind trust, particularly in the matter of appointments, such as magistrates, without personal investigation. When the legislature began considering a sweeping investigation of the city government, and the district attorney was cited for trial, and a woman witness in the vice inquiry defiantly was murdered, the city’s chief executive left for Palm Springs, Cal., where he is within easy motoring distance of the bright lights of Hollywood and the race tracks of Agua Caliente. But not even Jimmy Walker’s enemies consider this an act of moral cowardice. Political expediency it may be, or colossal indifference. But they know too much of the mayor’s career to lack respect for his sagacity and nerve. NEXT: The rise of Jimmy Walker. Longworth Sells Estate By United Press WASHINGTON, March 20. Speaker Nicholas Longworth today confirmed reports that he had sold “Skerrymore,” his five-acre estate on the exclusive Boston north Shore, to John B. Ryan, son of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan.

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JANITOR STOPS LAW SESSION TO ADMITMURDER Caretaker Calmly Reports Stabbing Employer With Screwdriver. By United Press NEW YORK, March 20.—A caretaker who walked calmly into an assembly of lawyers in the Bar Association building and announced that his wealthy employer, for whom they were waiting to begin arbitration proceedings over some property, would not be In “because I’ve just killed him,” was to be arraigned today on a charge of homicide. He was Mario Moramarco, 40. Joseph M. Proskauer, former supreme court justice, and several lawyers were waiting in a hearing room for

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GANDHI FACES DOM6THREATS Fresh Violence Outbreaks Flare on India Frontier. ! By United Press i NEW DELHI, India. March 20. ! Threats of violence against Mai hatma M. K. Gandhi; fresh outbreaks of warfare in the northwest-

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j | with a “bomb raid on the Nationalist congress at Karachi,” if Bhagat ern frontier provinces, and delays in release of political prisoners under terms of the civil disobedience peace truce arose today to darken the path of India toward co-operative solution of her governmental problems. The mahatma, who said ‘.‘things are not going well," was threatened by revolutionary elements and Nationalist extremists who have been demanding amnesty for the prisoners, including Bhagat Singh, held in connection with the Lahore revolt conspiracy. Posters which threatened Gandhi

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Singh and other prisoners are executed were scattered throughout New Delhi Thursday night. The extremists, many of whom have denounced Gandhi’s peace agreement with the viceroy. Lord Irwin, reiterated their demands for release of all political prisoners. Gandhi conferred with Lord Irwin and Home Secretary Evans in connection with the delay in release of prisoners, concerning which he already had telegraphed the viceroy from Bombay. All wines do not improve with age; a wine which is indifferent at the start usually will get worse as it gets older.