Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1931 — Page 5

MAY 20, 1931.

WIDE VARIETY OF WEATHER IS GIVEN NATION Heats Waves, Snow, Sand Storms, Wind and Rain Throughout U. S. By United Press CHICAGO, May 20.—Snow, rain, wind and sand storms were reported in some sections of North America today at the same time that a blistering heat wave was driving temperatures along the Pacific coast to the highest spring marks in twenty years. Examples of the contrasting extremes which Tuesday presented w?ather bureaus with one of the most puzzling outlooks in years were: California—Temperatures as high as 92. Chicago—2.oß inches of rainfall. Missouri—Floods. Southern California—Sand storms. Winnipeg—Snow. Trinidad, Colo.—Snow. Denver—Snow. Lebanon, Ind.—Windstorms. With the exception of California, indications today were that conditions rapidly were returning to normal. Blizzard at Winnipeg A storm area which for two days had hovered over the great lakes region was traveling eastward, but was believed spending itself as it moved along. At Winnipeg, Tuesday’s snow storm became a blizzard. Most of the snow melted quickly, but high winds tossed it about as it fell and created a typical midwinter scene. The snowfall there, like the rain in mid-western states, was welcome to farmers Whose fields still were lacking in moisture because of last year’s droughts. Denver had its second day of snow. Temperatures were low but not low enough to damage crops and the moisture was considered beneficial. Denver Has Inch of Snow In parts of the city almost an inch of snow completely blotted from sight the green grass and dandelions that had sprung to life during the previous summer-like days. In Los Angeles the heat wave was attributed partly to hot winds which swept off the Mojave desert, bringing showers of sand that halted traffic and damaged citrus crops. A $30,000 tent which was to have housed the orange show at Anaheim was blown down. In the southwest, cooler weather with fair skies prevailed today after a period of excessive heat, thundershowers, wind and hail. Temperatures dropped precipitately. Frost was forecast for parts of Kansas. Hot on Pacific Coast Streams overflowed in Missouri from heavy rains continuing since the week-end. Oklahoma had cloudbursts. Wind and hail swept Texas, followed by thundershowers. In San Francisco, where the mercury reached 90, the excessive heat was blamed for numerous fire 6 both inside and outside the city limits. Eastern states experienced a moderate warm wave, but temperatures fell and skies became cloudy today as the storrxi area moved eastward from the lakes.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen be Albert°Kaplan. 1661 Martindale avenue. Chevrolet sedan. 44-756. from Pennsylvania and Henrv streets. Cozette McCorkhlll. 2306 Fernway street, Chevrolet coupe. 735-659. from Dearborn street and Roosevelt avenue. Frank T. Gray. 921 North Capitol avenue Chrysler coach. 48-142. from 921 North Canltol avenue. . „ _ Clifford Bryant. Plainfield. Nash coupe, M 7. from Senate avenue and Market St (Charles Keedv. 841 North Gladstone avenue, Essex sedan. 40-451. from Meridian and Tenth streets.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police be ßobeit° Bennett. 627 West Twenty-ninth street. Hudson coach, found at 936 West North street. FUGITIVE IS CAPTURED Man Who Sawed Through Leg Irons at Hospital Caught in Stolen Car. Poiice prepared today to return Aaron Frazier, Negro, 221 West Eleventh street, to Indianapolis from Jeffersonville, where he was captured in a stolen car Tuesday night. A week ago Frazier escaped from isolated room in city hospital by sawing through leg irons. Water Supply Increased By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., May 20.—Two new wells, one of which is equipped with a pump to supply 2,000,000 gallons of water daily, have been installed by the local water works in order to supply an adequate amount of water to local consumers under almost any conditions. Officials believe the new wells and pumps will keep the city supplied no matter how hot the summer. Additional fire protection also will be afforded by the pump. Home Sought for Waif ANDERSON, Ind., May 20.—Chief of Police Alvin E. Riggs is seeking a home for a Negro baby which was deserted in a building here. The infant, which was only a few hours old when found, was given medical attention which had been denied at birth. It is at St. John’s hospital none the worse for its experience. Detectives lack evidence sufficient to warrant an arrest. Class to Hear Judge By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., May 20.—Jude G. H. Hoelscher of Wayne circuit court will give the principal address at the Morton high .school graduation exercises, which will be held June 5. Commencement activities will open a week earlier with a concert by the high school symphony orchestra. Cutworms Cause Losses By Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind., May 20.—According to William A. Douglas, Bartholomew county farm agent, gardeners are suffering heavy losses from depredations of cut worms. Douglas says that a garden of several acres owned by Thomas McClure has been half destroyed by the worms.

Greatest Stars in U. S. Drama Early Day Friends of Belasco

Early in his career, David Belasco became associated with the greatest galaxy of stars ever to light the American theater. Above (at left)—Adelaide Neilson, whose Juliet drew adoration from the young Belasco. Below—Charles Frohman, an early picture frcm

is one of a series of articles relating in dramatic fashion the drama that was the life of David Belasco. BY GILBERT SWAN NEA Service Writer A GLAMOROUS lifetime, packed into a few brief years! .. . Lumber camps with the crudest of stages, and even cruder audiences ... a dizzy repertoire of plays and roles . . . experiences that would crowd a sheft with fat volumes . . . stage managerships, star roles and small roles . . . barnstorming trips into the highways and byways .. . rises and falls . . . And then, a list of great names, headed by the Frohmans, Adelaide Neilson and Leslie Carter! ... A jumble of ambitious, youthful gropings, successes and failures . . . Into Nevada City had come “the greatest Juliet the stage ever has known"—Adelaide Neilson. " The youthful genius, Belasco, had seen and adored. Then Belasco found himself stage director of the Baldwin theater in San Francisco. The lovely Adelaide announced her “farewell performance.” He must appear! The company already was organized. He cast himself in the lowly role of a super in a ballroom stage scene, so that he could share, even in the most modest way, a place on the same platform with Adelaide Neilson. That night the curtain rang down on the last 'performance of a great actress. She never returned to the stage and, dying, she sent Belasco a gorgeous black pearl from her collection—one of his most prized gifts. antt THEN, from New York, came Gustav Frohman, who had been in San Francisco but a brief time before the young stage director completely had sold himself to the big town producers. Together they put on “The Octoroon,” and with great success. Frohman turned two more plays over to Belasco for revision, one of them “American Bom,” which brought Charles Frohman hurriedly to the coast. New York began to hear of the coast prodigy. And the Mallory Brothers, operating the Madison Square theater, urged him to rush east on a "fat” contract. He was to get $35 a week, and $lO per night as royalties on any of his own plays. David Belasco came to the metropolis as a real theater factor! His first effort was Bronson Howard’s “Young Mrs. Winthrop.” Broadway was just coming on the map. The theater had moved slowly up from the Bowery into lower Broadway. The inventive young Belasco began to “‘knock the town cold.” nan BELASCO was a “one-man” showman. The western fighting spirit was too strong for him. He split with the Mallorys and he split with the Frohmans, and sooner or later he quarreled with almost every one he had loved. Before the breaks, however, his trail had crossed those of the famous Lotta Crabtree, sensation of the time; of H. C. De Mille, father of Cecil B. De Mille, with whom he wrote “The Charity Ball.” of Blanche Walsh, then a theater school student, of William Gillette, a coming playwright—and a score of other great figures of the theater. Out in Chicago, Leslie Carter had upset the conventions by daring to get a divorce. She had been a fascinating daughter of Kentucky, born Caroline Louise Dud-

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the first days of their association. Center —Mrs. Leslie Carter, whose career w-as linked with Belasco’s, and whose estrangement from him was mended just before his death. Above (at right) Rose Coghlan as she appeared in “La Belle Russe,” one of Belasco’s earliest plays.

ley, and had married into the rich and prominent “Carter’s Little Liver Pill” family. Divorce just wasn’t being done and she was a pariah in social circles. * The scorching thus received echoed against her stage career. Time and again she came to Eelasco, urging him to direct her and train her. She sold her jewelry to get along while waiting for the “big chance.” Belasco gave he* this opportunity in “The Ugly Duckling,” and she was hailed as the greatest actress of hr time. n n n IT was the struggle to transform Mrs. Carter into an actress, Belasco had often stated, that forced him from the role of an employe of others into the status of a producer in his own right. He quit the Frohmans flat when theater stockholders denied Mrs. Carter the use of a stage for rehearsals. From that moment began his quick rise to fame. Not without a struggle, however. He had taken Mrs. Carter to Washington for an appearance in “Adrea” only to be blocked by a the-ater-owning syndicate. So he leased a convention hali, and brought in mechanics to build a stage and proscenium arch. The news leaked out. Just as he was about to open, the

DR, HARTER ELECTED Dentists Choose Kokomo Man President-Elect. Dr. A. L. Harter of Kokomo was named president-elect of the Indiana State Dental Association at a meeting Tuesday night. The election of Dr. Harter advances Dr. W. I. McCullough of Indianapolis to the presidency of the association from the post of president-elect. Dr. McCullough succeeds Dr. F. R. Henshaw, Indianapolis, as head of the dental organization. Four members of the body were elected as delegates to the American Dental Association. They are: Drs. A. R. Ross of Lafayette, R. R. Gillis of Hammond, V. H. Knapp of Evansville, and Wade La Rue, Indianapolis. The three-day convention of the state dental body will close tonight. HIGH COURT WILL RULE Justices to Decide May 26 on Publication of 1931 Acts. Hearing on the writ of prohibition petition, which would dissolve the Marion circuit court restraining order and permit publication of the 1931 acts, has been set by the supreme court for May 26. The petition was filed by Attor-ney-General James M. Ogden on behalf of Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr. Publication was restrained by Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin pending final ruling in the House Bill 6 injunction suit. SENTENCED TO SCRUB Woman Convicted as Drunk Pleads She Doesn’t Know How. By United Press CHICAGO, May 20.—Sentenced by Judge Leon Edelman to scrub the floors in his office, Mrs. Mary Ferguson, 35, who was found guilty of being drunk, pleaded tearfully that she didn’t know how to scrub. Edelman then ordered her to dust the benches in the courtroom. She said she could do that and did.

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fire department walked in to condemn the electric wiring. The young producer was desperate. His investment had taken most of his money. Where to turn? Ah, his friend Thomas Edison, the expert on electfcal matters, who had helped him *• much in gaining knowledge of the new lighting gadgets! “It’ll be all right,” said Edison briefly, “don’t worry!” That night a crew of Edison’s men arrived and rewired the hall. The play opened, and ran a week. Belasco lost S4O, but chuckled—almost to his dying day—over the “moral victory.” (To Be Continued)

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BRITAIN DUILDS NEW GIANT FOR HONORSAT SEA River Clyde Must Be Made Wider Before Cunarder Can Be Launched. By KEITH JONES I'nitvd Pres* Staff Correspondent LONDON, May 20.—50 huge is the new 73,000-ton liner the Cunard company Is building to recapture for Great Britain the trans-Atlantic speed honors now held by the Europa, that the river Clyde will have to be widened before it is launched. This widening will be necessary to enable other vessels to pass up and down the Clyde during the year the new giant will lie in the Clyde between the time of its launching and its first trip to sea. Secrets Jealously Guarded ' Known now as merely “No. 534” it is destined when she makes her maiden voyage in October, 1933, to be the pride of Great Britain’s merchantile fleets. Although certain features of No. 534 still are jealously-guarded secrets, some general details are gradually being revealed. It will be: More than 1,000 feet long. Cost $30,000,000. Carry 5,000 passengers. Have nine decks above the water-line. Be stream-lined above as well as below the water-line. Have swimming tanks, palm courts and lounge gardens. One of the features of construction is that each of the steamer’s three funnels will be of different height. The designers say that this will overcome the tendency of the modem squat funnels to throw smoke over the decks, inconveniencing the passengers. Smoke Evil Is Solved By making the forward of the funnels the tallest of the three, it is claimed that this objectionable feature of many modern ships will be remedied. Some idea of the size of the funnels can be gained from the fact that they are so wide a double track railroad could be laid in them and the biggest engines pass through them with plenty room to spare. Four commercial air services are maintained in Japan by private companies.

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