Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 295, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1931 — Page 11

'APRIL 20, 1931

Babe Ruth . Says a a * New Rookie Crop in Majors Brings Lots of Color.

BY BABE RUTH NEW YORK, April 20— Another season has opened and it strikes me that the new crop of players will bring a lot of color into the game. The fans always get a kick out of players who do something unusual and I guess they always will. Take this Dizzy Dean who has been added to the pitching staff of the Cardinals. I saw him pitch this spring and he has great speed, a good curve and all the natural stuff any pitcher needs. But he has even more than that. He has confidence in himself and a willingness to say unusual things. I think you will hear a lot about him this summer, even if he should have a poor season. Dizzy tells you what he Is likely to do to this club, or to that one. He for instance, that Babe Herman will be lucky to get a hit off him. He means it, too. It is not conceit so much- as it is selfconfidence. When the Cardinal meet the Robins all the fans will follow the battles of Dean in the box and Herman at the plate. That adds new interest and all because Dean is willing to say what he thinks about his own pitching. Brooklyn has a pitcher who is interesting, whether he wins or loses. That is Pea Ridge Day, who has been called the champion hog caller of Arkansas. All our players had heard about it and we were anxious to hear him, as well as see him. He faced us in a game at Ebbets field three days before the season opened and in one of the innings, after he had retired the last man, he cut loose with that peculiar hog call. Down in his country I suppose they pay no attention to It, but here were 20,000 fans watching the game and perhaps no more than two or three hundred ever heard a real hog caller. They went wild about it, and a lot of them tried to imitate it. Tiie Yankees have a player with t.he smallest feet in baseball. Myril Hoag, who came to the Yanks this spring from the Coast League, wears a No. 4 baseball shoe on one foot and a No. 4Vi on the other. He has special shoes made for baseball. He sure can step around on those little feet, too. The Boston Braves have another outfielder from the Coast League, and he is something more than a good ball player. He is quite a wrestler, as well. His name is Wesley Schulmerich and they tell me he can take the average professional wrestler and toss him around There probably are other youngsters who will interest the fans, apart from their baseball ability. But these will be enough to prove that the new crop is a bit unusual. I have always believed that the American League made a mistake in letting Art Shires get away. He had something to interest the fans, an unusual personality. Furthermore, he wasn’t such a bad ball player. I expect to see him come back any day and stay for a long time. fCocvrlcht. 1931. bv the Christy Walsh Syndicate and The Times)

Local Five Is Junior Champ By Times Special ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 20. Indianapolis Flashes today wore the crown of midwestem 125-pound basketball champions, following their 16 to 6 triumph over Catholic Central high school of Detroit here Saturday in the finals of the annual tourney at Michigan university gym. Flashes led throughout, with Smith topping the scorers with 5 points. The losers were unable to penetrate the Hoosier defense and failed to tally from the field during the contest.

Semi-Pro and Amateur Baseball Gossip

Oriental Bulldogs defeated Western Union. 22 to 5. Sunday In a practice game. J. Crist led the victors at the plate, with B. Owens starring in the field. Orientals will meet Tuesday night at 7:30 at 1109 East Michigan street. All players notice. Baker Brothers Furniture nine will enter a team In Sunday afternoon competition. Tryouts arc invited to attend practice. A good left-handed pitcher is needed. Communicate with R A. Johnson. 431 North Colorado street, for further information. St. Fhtiip Bovs’ Club indoor team defeated Spiv Ball's Maties Sunday at Westlnghouse. 11 to 10 Flanningam was on the mound for Maties. but Icheman’s homer in the ninth tied the score and Shaubhut scored from third with the winning run on a wild, pitch.- O'Connor was the winning pitcher. With the best material they ever have had. U. S. Radio Athletic Club will complete their practice games this week, preparatory to playing their opening game on Anrt! 26. Anv fast state team desiring games, write Om.’r Collins, care of U. S. Radio and Television Corporation. Marion. CAREY RACE VICTOR George Carey copped top honors in the twenty-five-mile feature race at Dandy Trails motor speedway Sunday, with Buck Jones, second, and Clarence Highham, third. Carey also won the ten-mile special for the Dandy Trails trophy, with Oldham, second and Hoi back, third. Ted Everroad was sightly injured in a smashup after taking an early lead. AMUSEMENTS COLONIAL THE BIGGEST AND BEST BURLESQUE II a.m. to 1 p.m. l p.m. to 6 p.m. 10c AXT ‘2a/ any SEAT 9EAT MOTION PICTURES if'ii a— Don't Miss This One' 9 anN HARD lNG jl ! I |

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RANSOM PAID, U, S. MINISTER FREEDINCHINA Bandits Release One of Two Missionaries; Paper Slaps Government. By United Press SHANGHAI, April 20.—The release today of the Rev. K. N. Tvedt of St. Paul, Minn., by Chinese bandit safter payment of ransom, brought repercussions in diplomatic circles for the failure of government agencies to obtain his freedom. * The Shanghai Evening Post, outspoken in its condemnation of past failures to releave Mr. Tvedt and the Rev. Bert Nelson of Minneapolis. who was captured with him last October, addressed an open letter to Nelson T. Johnson, American minister, demanding that all SinoAmerican negotiations toward abolishing or modifying extra territoriality cease until Mr. Nelson is released. More Than SIO,OOO Paid Mr. Nelson Is reported held for further ransom at the bandit headquarters in Hupeh province. The Lutheran mission here pro- : vided more than SIO,OOO for Mr. | Tvedt’s release and the bandit leaders demanded an equal sum for Mr. Nelson. Mr. Tvedt, interviewed by the : United Press at Hankow, said he j had been tortured several times durj ing his captivity. Although reluci tant to discuss his treatment, the j missionary indicated conditions at ! the camp were terrible. He said I prisoners were dying daily. Not Allowed to Bathe His first request was for a bath and clean clothing. He said he had not been allowed to bathe during his entire captivity. He was weak and tired from the ordeal. His meeting with his wife and six children at Hankow was described as touching. Mr. Tvedt never had seen his youngest child, a daughter bom two months ago. MURDER TAKEN TO JURY Story of Wife’s Cham Slaying to Be Told Cleveland Probers. By United Press CLEVELAND, 0., April 20.—A grand jury here today was to hear the confession of Aaron Harry Gordon, 28, who told detectives that he strangled his wife’s chum, Mrs. Rose Becker, 22, to death April 1, when she surprised him stealing $2,500 in jewels from her apartment.

AMUSEMENTS ij1 IVJ \ jm Ytyfinaj Tonight B:3o—Ladies’ gjtfjBARGAIN NIGHT ® ys “The COMMAND TO LOVE” i Scintillating, semi - naughty suc- | cess—acted with verve and relish ' and always In ,','God taste! \ Sun. “Death Takes a Holiday” 4 BIGGEST SHOW IN TOWN^ msm A Riot of Roaring Laughs JOE MARKS & CO.; in “Then the Fun Began” ZELDA GEO. I jSANTLEY LIBBY ; L“t> Miss Everybody Revue 6 Ago VAUDEVILLE On thd Scrcfn—Real Life Romance “3 GIRLS LOST” with LORETTA YOUNG—JOAN MARSH JOYCE COMPTON LEW CODY dSnCE—LYRIC BALLROOM j| Ci— —— -*J Jbtkry foot'4 l^Oh'so |omj) ; i Tailored to Toor Individual Meas- V/I" CREDIT EON’S 254 Mass. Avt. > —— r

WOMEN MAY KISS, GO ON THEIR WAY Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery Give Smart and Highly Polished Performances in New Movie, ‘Strangers May Kiss/ at the Palace. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN MUST tell you that I think that Norma Shearer has never appeared to betters advantage than she does in "Strangers May Kiss." Also in the same breath must tell you that Robert Montgomery about makes himself a star in this movie. The truth is that 'Montgomery at times about walks away with the picture. Women and girls around where I sat openly declared that he “was the cutest thing ever.” Well, anyway, must admit that Montgomery certainly gives a swell performance of one of the boy friends of Lisbeth (Miss Shearer), a girl who decides to live her own life with a newspaper reporter (Neil Hamilton) without walking to the altar. The reporter had good reason, because he had another wife in Paris, so he told her after having a merry time with Lisbeth in Mexico. It seems that the movies are

rather tough on the newsprper fraternity this week. Oh. hum. Montgomery has a bunch of wise and

funny remarks. He tells Lisbeth when Alan, the reporter, gets morals that “men Tike their drinks mixed but their women straight.” Logic there, I assure you. Miss Shearer by her work 'in “Strangers May Kiss” has the right to be considered the “smartest looking and talking , woman on the screen.”

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Norma seems secure because the theater was packed when I saw “Strangers May Kiss” late Sunday afternoon. And the way that audience reacted toward this picture, I know that it is a gigantic box office and it pleases every second. Miss Shearer wears some of the smartest gowns I have seen in many a day. And this woman knows how to act in those gowns. The work of the entire cast is about the last word, but you will love the wisecracking role of Marjorie Rambeau. I hope this fine actress has found an everlasting home in the movies. And some terrible things happen to the lovely Irene Rich. She hurls herself out of a window. Lot of liberties have been taken by the director with the original novel.

THE FINGER ! POINTS JACK CRAWFORD ~St'AGE SHOW with KEZXETZOEF-XICOLIXA Look What’s Coming Friday! CLIVE BHGOK and Miss Tallulah BANKHEAD in “Ta*wls2set Lady” rrrTTnrrfTfi" 2PSEES THE BG ON£S PLAY SS& I A fast and uproarious farce I iJHA J with the Swedish boy’s night! out— EL BREMDEL mi mrsay Mrjemon of Orange ~ NEXT LAT~ ——, GEORGE AE.LISS in •‘THE >ni. LION AIRE ’ | |M I ' Strangers May Kiss" §ROBERT MONTGOMERY Vg NEIL HAMILTON MARJORIE RAMBEAU Jg Metro-Gold's yn-Mayer Picture I STARTS SATURDAY il THE THRILL OF TWO r LIFETIMES! S§H tep mr¥4 WOM

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You will enjoy and probably rave over “Strangers May Kiss ’’ Now at the Palace. a a u NEW POLICY STARTS AT THE CIRCLE THEATER A two-featured movie bill is the new order of things at the Circle. Just how it will turn out from a box office standpoint only the future can tell. From the standpoint of product, the new policy gets a good and an interesting start. The first item is Irene Dunn, Lowell Sherman and Mae Murray in a smart, clever comedy, “Bachelor Apartment.”. It is distinguished by the smart and clever acting of Sherman as a man who certainly has his troubles with women. He is a clever pickerup of a certain type of the petticoat kind. Irene Dunne is interesting and clever as the good and careful girl ; who becomes the secretary of the rich man, played by Sherman in his most polished and eye-brow lifting manner. Interest centers in the smart sex

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situations as developed by Miss Dunne, Sherman and several others. The sets are in excellent taste. Here is what I call dashing entertainment, even above the aver-; age comedy of this nature. It is smart. The other feature is the late Louis Wolheim in “The Sin Ship” j with Mary Astor and lan Keith. Here is a corking good story about a bad bandit and his girl friend who poses as a minister, and wife. Wolheim is the captain of a freighter, a tough captain and a tough crew. The bogus wife of the bogus minister so impresses her purity upon Wolheim as the captain that he gives up his evil ways. • There is plenty of trouble when the captain discovers the fraud. Wolheim will be sadly missed from the screen because he knew how to play these hardboiled roles. Splendidly acted, directed and photographed. It looks like bargain week at the Circle with two features like this. a a a HERE IS NOT A TOO FUNNY COMEDY If you like “Mr. Lemon of Orange,” it will depend upon how much you can stand of El Brendel. If ycu like his methods, then you will be delighted to hear that he plays two roles this time. Well, if

you are on the other side of the fence—well, it is too much. “Mr. Lemon of Orange,” to my way of thinking, is really a satire upon the racket and crook business movies that we had so many lately. Br e n del first appears as a Swede who sells trick toys in a shop. Because he is the dead ringer for a notorious

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booze racket leader, Brendel gets into all sorts of tight places. Brendel is at his best when he is the

Swede and not wise to the racket. He is so dumb that it is strange that the gang should mistake him for their leader. It must be recorded that the picture has its funny moments. There are several good comedy scenes and several that may get you excited for his safety. The story has one or two new twists which gives it a touch of novelty. Brendel as a gang leader was somewhat out of his element. Rest of the cast ranges from good to fair. Be your Judge on this one. I have my opinion—just fair on the whole. Now at the Apollo. a a a HERE IS ANOTHER GANG MURDER MOVIE It does not take a blind man to see the the chief points in “The Finger Points” are based upon the Lingle case. Richard Barthelmess takes the role of a reporter who sells out his trusts and becomes the power which gets millions from the crime and vice gangs for newspaper protection. There is nothing noble In the character played by Barthelmess.

When members of the gang upon whom he had grafted fortunes turned their machine guns on him I had the pleasure of feeling that justice was served a little bi. at least. The newspaper types in “The Finger Points” are sadly overdrawn. It in no way compares to the types of newspaper men

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seen in the movie version of “The Front Page.” The editor is true to type in “The Finger Points,” but the managing editor certainly does not ring true. I have never seen a managing editor in real life .act like this one

does in this movie. In other words, “The' Finger Point" is exaggerated melodrama played in that key. Barthelmess dees the best he can with a most unsympathetic and unpleasant role. The gangster types have been well chosen, but not the newspaper crew. The picture has been splendidly mounted, photographed and at times well directed, but that does not make the story ring true. But this melodrama does not interest. The stage show is called "The Rushin’ Revue,” which features Jack Crawford, the KuznetzoffNicolina trio (splendid) and others. Now at the Indiana. Other theaters today offer: "The Command to Love," at English’s: “East Lynne,” at the Ohio; “Three Girls Lost,” at the Lyric; “Eve,” at the Colonial; “The Rumba Girls,” at the Mutual, and “Ned McCobb’s Daughter,” at the Civic. JOBLESS. ENDS HIS LIFE Henry E. Boardman, <2, Slashes Throat at Home. Slashing his throat with a knife. Henry E. Boardman, 72, of 1206 Cruft street, committed suicide late Sunday at his home. Police were told he had been despondent over his inability to obtain employment. Coroner Fred W. Vehling investigated and sent the body to the Wald undertaking establishment, 1200 Union street. WINS ORATORICAL MEET Mortland Jones of South Bend Victor in Presbyterians’ Contest. First place in the state oratorical contest conducted by the Presbyterian church was won Sunday afternoon by Mortland Jones, South Bend. The contest was held in the Second Presbyterian church. Gas Used in Saicide By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., April 20. Oscar Shaul, 56, was found dead of asphyxiation at his home here. He i inhaled illuminating gas.

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FATHER KILLS 3 CHILDREN; THEN ENDS HIS LIFE Poisons Clubs and Hangs Two Girls and Boy; Leaves Notes. By United Press SYRACUSE, N.- Y , April 20 —A triple slaying and a suicide were discovered here today when police investigated a tip that “something was wrong” in a local home The body of Wexter L. Wainwright, 64. was found hanging in a hallway. The bodies of his three children, Rosalind, 11; Richard. 9. and Jacqueline, 4, were found in a nearby room. They had been poisoned. clubbed and hanged. Letters found in the house indicated Wainwright had killed his children and then committed suicide. The letters were addressed to Wainwrights wife, the police, the pess and the public. In the one to Mrs. Wainwright, the aged man said. “You are to blame for it.” Mrs. Wainwright was taken into custody shortly after. With her, police held Harry Blanchard, alias Donohue, of Chicago. “He did it,” Mrs. Wainwright told police/ She lit a cigaret, and talked calmly at first. “He did it, but he saved me $200.” she said. “I was going to get a divorce.” Afte she. had answered a few questions, Mrs. Wainwright fainted. Disease Closes Schools MONON, Ind., April 20. Fear that a scarlet fever epidemic might develop caused closing of schools here a week earlier than had been planned. High school commencement exercises were postponed.