Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1931 — Page 7

JUNE 8, 1931

M'NUTT NOT TO ATTEND LEGION ANNUAL PARLEY Democratic Candidate for Governor Causes Hands Off Policy. Annual state conclave of American Legion, to be held in Anderson, Aug. 22 to 25, is expected to convene without the presence of Paul V. McNutt, dean of Indiana university law school and former state and national commander of the Legion. McNutt has indicated he would nto attend the convention this year owing to his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor. He steadfastly has declined to link the legion in his campaign. A subject of importance to members which will be brought up at the state meet is that of redistricting Legion state divisions. The Legion districts in the past have conformed with the congressional divisions fixed by the state legislature. The recent assembly redistricted the state, bringing the dissension into the Legion. Coinciding districts will give the Legion more political power is the contention of one group. Others believe the present districts are unwieldy and that there should be a new system of districts, smaller and more compact. Several leading legionnaires are understood to entertain aspirations to various organization offices to be i filled at the Anderson conclave. Those reported candidates to< succeed Floyd L. Youth, state commander, whose term expires, are: J. E. White of South Bend and Joseph P. Zimmerman of Indianapolis, former district commanders; and P. T. Haas of Ft. Wayne, present vice-commander of the northern district. All are waging active speaking campaigns before district and post meetings. Zimmerman was runnerup for the post last year. Ollie A. Davis of Tipton, state adjutant, probably will be re-elected to that position. One office of the state on the national executive committee also is to be filled. HOLLIDAY POST WILL HEAR CITY GOLF PRO Harry Schopp to Address Group at Tabernacle Church. Members of John H. Holliday post No. 186 at the Tabernacle Presbyterian church Tuesday night will hear Harry Schopp, golf pro at South Grove municipal course, at the last indoor meeting of the year. Schopp, who has probably taught more people to play golf than any other individual in Indianapolis, will tell all about hooks, slices, stance, follow through and birdies. Special music •#lll complete the pro- ! gram. Plans will be discussed and a committee appointed to arrange for a picnic and golf tournament in July or August. BOX SOCIAL, DANCE SPONSORED BY LODGE Popular Girl Contest, Old Time Dances Are on Program. Golden Rule lodge No. 3, United Order of American Workers, will sponsor a benefit box social and dance in Woodman hall, 1025 Prospect street, Wednesday at 8 p. m. Ladies bringing box lunches will be admitted free. On the program is a popular girl contest, old time and modern dances and musical numbers by the Golden Rule orchestra and the Kentucky Clodhoppers’ string band. Arrangement committee consists of Ruth Magee, M. S. O’Conner, Elsie McClure, H. G. Johnson and William Goode. STATE ENCAMPMENT SLATED JUNE 13-16 Spanish War, Philippine Veterans to Hold Joint Session. State department of the United Spanish War Veterans and the National Society, Army of the Philippines, are planning a joint state encampment June 14, 15 and 16 at Columbus, Ind. Special rates on all state traction lines will be effective from June 13 to 16 for veterans who attend. The Society-Army will have a special Goo-Goo meeting tonight at 8. Wives are invited. U 0. 0. F. DRILL TEAM WILL GIVE EXHIBITION Fifteen Members to Parade at Order’s State Convention. Fifteen members of the drill team of Indianapolis Canton No. 2, Patriarchs Militant, I. O. O. F., will give an exhibition at the state convention of the order in Hammond, June 14, 15 and 16. Charles Schonert, mayor of Hammond, will welcome the visitors at a banquet on the opening night. A military ball the second day and a trip through the largest book bindery in the world the third day will feature the conclave. KNIGHTS TO HOLD FETE Musical Program to Be Given at Sacred Heart Meeting. Special musical program has been arranged for the monthly meeting of the Knights of St. George at the Sacred- Heart school hall, 1502 Union street, at 8 tonight. Children from 8 to 12, composing the C. G. Conn band, will present the program. Herman H. Rinne is the leader. A. G. Wichman will preside at the meeting. Card Party to Be Given Marion council No. 738, Security Benefit Association, will give a euenre and bunco party Wednesday night at 8:30 at -the hall, 116 H East Maryland street.

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VETERANS MAY BANWKETS' Encampment to Act Against Promotion Schemes. Efforts to block activities of racketeer promoters who stage benefit stunts under sponsorship of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Indiana department, will be made at the state encampment of th£ organization at Connersville Thursday. Commander Edward G. Schaub is supporting a resolution amending the state by-laws of the organization which gives the commander power to cancel promotion contracts that may have taint of racketeering. Schaub said the promoters have been preying on the veterans’ organizations and “fleecing the public out'of hundreds of dollars.” Under the provisions of the proposed amendment the ruling would be in effect five years from the date of the convention, advertising could be banned in a similar manner and other contracts for inter-post functions would be submitted to.state officers for approval. Schaub, a member of the Frapk T. Strayer post, will complete his second term at the convention.

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Grace Davis Capital City Council, No. 53, Daughters of America, will celebrate their fourth anniversary Tuesday night with a special program of music and dancing in Buschmann’s hall, Eleventh street and College avenue. State officers and members of Capital City No. 68, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and their families will be guests of the lodge. Miss Grace Davis and Marvin Hamm will entertain with novelty tap dancing and Miss Davis will lead a group of twelve youngsters in a ballet. The program is under direction of Mrs. Ruth Ann Kersting.

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Drill team of Indianapolis Eagles’ auxiliary and cup won in a contest at Dayton, 0., May 17. Front Row (left to right)—Dorothy Seim, Letha Peet, Elsie Yates, Bertha C. Sturgeon, drill mistress; Mary Lie, Lillie Peet and Frances Pfarr. Back Row—Gertrude Eversole, Ruth Jordan, Dorothy Amick, Mary Williams, Edith' Amick, Ruth Currens and Vera Beswick. Drill Team, Quartet Will Go With Delegation to Convention. Representation of Indianapolis Eagles aerie at the state convention to be held in Peru Wednesday and Thursday will be headed by Otto P. Deluse, past national president. Official delegates will be: Joseph P. Beatty, past local president; J. Pierce Cummings, president'; Ernest J. Fuerst. vice-president, and ofTicers-elect. Robert Amick. president: James J. Ross Jr., vice-president: Wilbur H. Miller, secretary; Jacob L. Smith, treasurer: Edward Kecerls. conductor; IJohn P. Pfarr, trustee, and members A. J. Voight. Frank H. Rhees. Bert Duke. R. P. Berry, Enos Cassidy and Charles C. Stone. The drill team and official quartet, the latter composed of Carlos Jones, J. C. Sortwell, R. W. Allred, and Dale Smith also will attend. The auxiliary drill team headed by Mrs. Bertha Sturgeon will enter a contest at the state meeting. MASONS TO FROLIC I Four Lodges to Hold Picnic at Northern Beach. Northern Beach will be the scene of the annual picnic of Calvin W. Prather Masonic lodge, No. 717; Prather chapter, No. 157; Prather council, No. 100, and Nettie Ransford chapter, No. 464, June 20. Stunts, games and other activities are planned. Those desiring trans-. portation to and from the picnic grounds are asked to arrange with any member of the entertainment committee. Entered apprentice degree; will be conferred on candidates June 12.* On June 16, beginning at 6 p. m., Master Mason degree will be conferred on two candidates, and on June 19, beginning at 4 p. m., three more candidates will receive the Master Mason degree. Dinner will be served at 6:30, and Inglewood lodge, No. 715, will confer the degree after dinner. After June 26, when the Fellowcraft degree will be conferred, there will be no degree work until September. Stated meetings will continue the first Friday of every month and social rooms of the lodge at Forty-second street and College avenue will be open every night except Sunday during the summer. Benefit Group Plans Luncheon Women’s Benefit Association, No. 140, will give a luncheon Wednesday noon at their hall, 230 East Ohio street. Mrs. Josephine Coibion will have charge, assisted by Mrs. Minnie Blume, Mrs. Ella Morgan, Mrs. A. J. Brown and Mrs. Nettie Lotz. A benefit card party will ' follow at 2:30.

One of the outstanding funmakers with the Robbins circus is little George Harmon, world’s smallest clown. Asa knight-errant of fun, he observes no distinction of class or age during the performances. He will break through the gravity of a judge, sometime po discover an * expression of glee that never was known to exist there before. Little George heads a troupe of thirty-eight funmakers with the Robbins circus, which will play twice daily on the Keystone circus grounds, beginning with a matinee today and lasting until Wednesday night.

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V. OF F. ts, TO HOLD SESSION Annual State Encampment to Be in June. Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Ladies’ Auxiliary will meet in Connersville June 11 ,12 and 13 for the annual state encampment. In addition to business sessions there will be frolics, smokers, card parties, banquets and free swimming at all times in the Whitewater swimming pool. About twenty resolutions to be discussed will be brought before the group by various posts. Senior vice national commander-in-chief Darold D. DeCoe of Sacramento, Cal., and James E. Vanzandt, national chief of staff from Washington, will be guests of honor at the conclave. All congressmen from Indiana also have been invited. Edwar .1 G. Schaub, commander of the Indiana department will be honored with a banquet, and presented with a gift in recognition of his service in the state. Fifteen new posts have been established in the state in the last year increasing total membership 68 per cent. FIVE TO BE DELEGATES Anderson Eagles Will Go to Peru State Convention. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., June B.—Five delegates will represent Anderson Eagles aerie at the state convention to be held at Peru Wednesday and Thursday. The delegates are Wesley Browning, Frank Collins, William Onstoo, Von Ballew and R. M. Vasbinder. Hyde, Leslie, Ludlow Speakers Speakers at the annual dinner of the state board of agriculture with county agents and the Purdue university staff at the state fairp~ nd, June 25, will be Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture; Governor Harry G. Leslie and Louis Ludlow.

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UPSTATE TEAM WILL DRILL AT K.OFP. RITES Rensselaer Meeting Will Feature Degree Work for Candidates. A drill team of Knights from the Northern Indiana Past Chancellors’ Association will be the feature of the Fifth district meeting of the Knights of Pythias at Rensselear Tuesday. L. E. Gardner and Joe W. Todd of Hammond, the latter grand outer guard of the grand lodge, will be in charge of the team. Lodges from northern Indiana cities toll attend and bfring candidates for degree ceremones. Guests will be C. V. Dunbar, state grand chancellor, and Carl Mitchell, grand keeper of records and seal. H. C. Constable, deputy grand chancellor for the Fifth district, will preside over the meeting Dunbar will attend a business meeting of lodge No. 235 at Nashville, Friday. Lafayette lodge No. 51 will hold its annual memorial service Sunday on the grounds of the Pythian home. The service will be in charge of Walter H. Brown, chancellor commander of the Lafayette lodge, and William B. Grey, superintendent of the home. Members of the Boys’ and Girls’ band of thirty-five pieces of the Pythian home Tuesday will participate in the parade of the G. A. R. state convention. Annual meeting of the first district of Pythian Sisters will be held Thursday at Michigan City.

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Miss Ruth Meadows Official part in the seventeenth national convention of the Woodmen Circle, which opens in Buffalo, N. Y., June 24, will be taken by Miss Ruth Meadows, Severin hotel, member of the national advisory committee. Miss Meadows is assistant supervisor of Indiana and prominent in Woodmen activities in Indianapolis. SIX TO GREET BANKERS City Bank Officials Named to Give Convention Welcome. Delegates at the thirty-fifth annual convention of the Indiana Bankers Association at the Claypool Wednesday and Thursday will be greeted by six Indianapolis financial leaders. They are: C. N. Fultz, trust officer of the Union Trust Company: Raymond Jackson, vicepresident of the Peoples State bank; C. E. Robinson, vice-president of the Marion County State bank; E. W. Rogers. Bankers Trust Company secretary; Timothy P. Sexton, county treasurer-elect and vicepresident of the Fidelity Trust Company, and Ross H. Wallace, Aetna Trust Company president. ADOPTS NEW DISTRICTS Legion Group Puts O. K. on Congressional Remapping. Decision to follow the new congressional districts created by the last legislature in its internal organization ha§ been reached by the state executive committee of the American Legion of Indiana. * The committee recommends that the legion at its state convention in Anderson in August take conclusive action on the political redistricting in the state. 200 Miners Ready to Strike STEUBENVILLE, 0., June 8 Authorities today took steps to prevent violet.ce as. 2GC. miners employed by the Hanna Coal Company prepared to strike, demanding enforcement of an eignt-nour day agreement, reinstatement of discharged union miners and the employment of check-weigh^nen.

MOTION PICTURES

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF ONCE AGAIN ‘Daddy Long Legs, a Pollyana Play, Is as Safe on the Screen as It Was on the Stage Many Years Ago. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN JOHN GOLDEN years ago contended that clean plays will live longer than the dirt and sensational plays.. I believe that statement more than ever after seeing the way Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter put new life and charm in the talking version of “Daddy Long Legs.” Here is a clean Pollyanna type of a play that made good on the stage, and yesterday I studied carefully the reaction of the audience to the charm of the little orphan who escapes by the means of love from an orphanage and finally marries her Santa Claus. She didn't call him Santa, but her Daddy Long Legs.

Miss Gaynor is at her best in these charming little roles of an orphanage drudge whose wit, independence and love brings sunshine into the dreary institution presided over by none other than Elizabeth Patterson. And knowing Miss Patterson,

it is needless to say that she does wonders with an unsyrnp a t h e t i c role. Warner Baxter as the Daddy Long Legs fits nicely into the picture. But it is all Janet Gaynor’s picture. I must not forget the wonderful bunch of children in the first half of the picture. Here is natural child acti n g, splendidly and intelligently

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directed. “Daddy Long Legs” is not too soft soapy. It’s romantic background is a natural. It really makes one feel good to experience a trip to the land of dreams and make believe after seeing so much triangle and gangster stuff. Janet and “Daddy Long Legs” will get into your hearts, very much I think. I loved it because it made me dream. And that is one function as well as a duty cf the theater. Now at the Apollo. Oh, forgot to tell you that Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” is highly interesting this week. Especially the walking lamp post. BUB AND HERE IS WELCOMED RELIEF I hope that I nevur get so hard boiled and on the “war path” to the extent that I fail to react toward good theater whether it be Alger melodrama or the Pollyanna stuff when wen done. Had that feeling while seeing Richard Dix and Jackie Cooper in

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“Young Donavan’s Kid” made from the novel, “Big Brother,” by Rex Beach. I did not read the novel, but it seemed to me that the director has put the Alger touch, that hero worship attitude always to be found in an Alger story. I admit frankly that the Alger books were bright spots of my literary activities when a

you .gster years ago. And I don’t blush or apologize for telling you that. This Alger touch in “Young Donavan’s Kid” held my interest at the Circle. Ol course the hero (Richard Dix) is a crook of the old school but he loved that boy (Jackie Cooper). Oh, you might say that it is over sob stuff and too sentimental, the court room stuff when the law steps in and takes away the kid from his pal. That I will grant,* but it is corking good cry theater to me. Dix plays and overplays the role, but he keeps the Alger touch there. The fact is, the laurels go to this Cooper youngster. When he smiled, I smiled, and when he cried, well, I got wet around the eyes. You might accuse me of being oversentimental. Put yourself up against the Cooper boy and see what he does to your heart. I am willing to witness the experiment. Approach this picture in the Alger spirit and I believe that you will vote with me. Now at the Circle. B B B THIS LAWYER DID HAVE A SECRET The lawyer as played by Clive Brook in “The Lawyer’s Secret” did have a real secret and it was a vital one. He was calling on his fiancee when her brother returned home late one night in a nervous state. The lawyer senses something wrong and tells the lad that as his lawyer he could tell him anything and the lawyer could not betray him. The lad tells him that he helped to hold

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up the cwner of a gambling heuse where he lost money on crooked dice. His companion, a man unknown to him, fired a revolver that the lad had purchased for ten bucks from a sailor in the dive. Now that places the lawyer in a bad position. The sailor is arrested, convicted on circumstantial evidence and ordered to the gallows. I will not try to give you the outcome of the story. At times “The Lawyer’s Secret” has a lot of suspense. Many of the scenes are overtheatrical, but Clive Brook does some sincere acting. Some of the sequences are bad and a little confusing. Here is not a great movie by any means, but it does have its moments when you will be sitting on the edge of your seats. Charles Rogers does some good work. Some will think it a bad picture. I found it less than fair at times and good at others. A rather mixed up verdict. What do you think? Brooke Johns is featuring Willie, West and McGinty as the carnenters. The act has been here before, but it remains one of the five best hokum acts on the stage. That is the reason it lives. And they do it splendidly. I missed part of the stage show, but they tell me that Eddie Resener and Dessa Byrd are doing a tap dance. I must drop over and see that. Now at the Indiana. “THE TORCH SONG” HAS ANOTHER NAME Many of us can recall when Kenyon Nicholson was a press agent for Stuart Walker at the Murat years ago. Since those days he has become a recognized playwright and his

plays have been hits on Broadway. Broadway for months enjoyed “The Torch Song,” and now we have the talking version at the Palace under the title of “Laughing Sinners.” I see no reason for the change of titles. Joan Crawford is cast as Ivy, a not too particular cabaret entertainer in a city some place in Ohio, who joins the Sal-

vation Army when her boy friend, a traveling salesman, deserts her apartment and marries a girl with money. The boy friend is well played by Neil Hamilton. Clark Gable is Carl, the upright boy in the Salvation Army, who brought Ivy honestly into the army of real service. Ivy has a lapse from virtue in a small-town hotel with Howard, her former boy friend, but the honest hold of the army upon Ivy is too strong and she returns to the fold after one night not properly spent. The subject matter is dynamite, but the director has not been too direct. The types of traveling salesmen have been humanly and realistically chosen. There are many laughs, some of them rather broda. “Laughing Sinners” has been well acted and well directed after a slow start. The hotel scenes with its types are the best. t Now at the Palace.

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AMUSEMENTS -60-1 TONITE— B:3O Ladies’ Bargain Nite “STRICTLY DISHONORABLE” Dashingly Played by Frances Dale . . . Love Curious Dixie Miss Donald Woods . .. Romantic, Vesuvian Don Juan ENGLISH 1 11 II I ■ ■J

K. OF C. GOUNSIL TO HEAR JUDGE DISCUSHRIME Law Enforcement Also Is Subject of City Court Jurist. Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer will speak tonight before Indianapolis council No. 437. Knights of Columbus. His address, it was announced by lecturer. William E. Moran, probably will be in connection with crime and law enforcement. Indirnapolis council, Fourth degree assembly, will hold one of their big events of the summer season, an outing. Saturday, June 13, at Horse Shoe ledge. A large attendance is expected. Reservations for the outing should be made immediately by telephone. Installation of new officers of the Indianapolis council, who were elected last Monday, took plaoe Saturday. Most of the official nominees in the election were unopposed and were unanimously chosen. Officers installed are: George Hoffman, grand knight: Ray Geogh. deputy grand knight: John Mlnta, chancellor: Clarence Beldleman. warden; Leroy Kavanaugh. treasurer: Fred Strack. recording secretary; Peter Hickey. Inside guard: Edward Holloran and Walter Buchman. outside guards: Albert Lamb, advocate, and Dr. Claude Hadden, trustee Mere than 5,000,000,000 cigarets. equal to 5,000 for every man, woman and child of the population, were consumed in Canada during 1930.

AMUSEMENTS PSITH Comfortably COOL One of the most exciting mystery romances you’ve ever seen /j—Ufcg -vy / with BE3E DANIELS , Ricardo Cortez—Lna Merkel \On the Stage—Great Fun Show / 808 MURPHY / Prince of Humor and i RKO VAUDEVILLE / Sat. BELLE BENNETT (in Person) I 250 FREE AUTO | , PAHKIHG 3SC June 8,9, 10th Keystone Ave. Showgrounds B. P. O. Elks Present ROBBINS The Old Reliable 3-Ring CIRCUS Less Than Pre-War Price* Children Adults 2§c soc Performances, 3 and 8 P. MI DON’T FORGET THE f MOTION PICTURES 25(633401 } until-iftM. -s NilL n4 7. iimtu-cem. [ Always—Ccblest Spot In Town! | LAST U FIVE fl S it:. & 1 CLIVE W/ ’&■ BROOK £|ww r l ROGERS 9 Richard 1 ARLEN JOWS | ™j e 'vkay SPL-K?"*! ARTHUR merry with I m 111 iinii.ija** WILLIE, ■ Friday! WEST K . __ McGINrT R HORACE CRAWLkV mm HE IDT ARNOLD ■ Sugar ■ MAKCELU3 9 “ Fer,on | You Simply MUST See— l RICHARD DfrU ■ with ' IN I I .ackie mfrn | COOPER Friday: ■ “i p pops [the nrrn - ■MU *ijM Li.,l;(i H —a—wi mi iih——6— kiletro-Goldvcyn-Mayer Picture Starts Saturday Peter B. Kyne’s Story “NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET” ■IJJ| iH '"Lmno BENNETT .“Born to Love” | Tooiim to

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