Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 65, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1931 — Page 9

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Tt Seems to Me m m m A Little Dissertation on Young Critics Who Rush In to Voice Their Views.

Ideal* and opinion* exareafed In thJ column are the** of one of America’* mo*t interrttlnc writer* and are vreoented without recard to their arrrement or dliarreement with the editorial attitude of thl* paper.— The Editor. BY HEY WOOD BROUN IT was a child in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale who Anally told the truth by crying out, “He hasn't got anything on!" as the king marched through the streets clad only in the magic cloth woven and cut by the swindling tailor. You may remember that everybody else kept silent because the tailor had given out that the cloth was visible only to such as were worthy of their position in life. The child knew nothing of this, and, anyway, he didn’t have any position in life, so he piped up and cried. "He hasn’t got anything on!” u k n Father to Son AND. although he was but a child, others took up the cry, and Anally even the king was convinced and ran to get his bathrobe. The tailor, as we remember the story, was executed. In course of time that child grew up and married and died, leaving heirs behind him. And they, in turn, were not so barren, so that today vast numbers of his descendants arc in the world. Nearly all of them are critics of one sort or another, but mostly young critics. They seldom hesitate to rush in. It is rather useful that every now and then one of them should point a Anger of scorn at some fasely great Agure in the arts and cry out his nakedness at top voice. It has happened not infrequently that worthy and respectable artists and authors in great coats, close-Atting sack suits and heavy woolen underwear have been greeted by some member of the clan with the traditional cry, “He hasn’t got anything on!” tt u m Doubtful Heritage THIS may be embarrassing as well as unfair. Ever since the child scored his sensational critical success so many years ago all his sons have been eager to do likewise. They have inherited extraordinary suspicion regarding the raiment of all great men. Even when they are forced to admit that some particular king is actually clad in substantial achievement of one sort or another. they are still apt to carp about the At and cut of his clothing. Almost always they contend that he borrowed his shoes from someone else and that he can not All them. In regard to humbler citizens, they are apt to carry charity to great lengths. In addition to the incident recorded by Andersen, they cherish another legend about the child. According to the tradition, he wrote a will Just before he died in which he said: “Thank heaven, I leave not a single adjective to any of my descendants. I have spent them all.” nun Wasted Words THE clan is notoriously extravagant. They live for all the world like Bedouins of the Sahara, without thought of the possibility of a rainy day. Their gaudiest years come early in life. Almost nothing in the experience of mankind is quite so heartrending as the spectacle of one of these young critics, grown gray, coming face to face in his declining years with a masterpiece. At such times he is apt to be seized with a tremor and stricken dumb. Undoubtedly he is tormented with the memory of all the adjectives which he Aung away in his youth. The best he can do is to Aing out a “highly creditable piece of work” and go on his way. Still he has had fun for his adjectives, for all that. There is a compensating glow in the heart of the young critic when he remembers the day an obscure author came to him asking bread, although rather expecting a stone, and he, with a flourish, reached down into the bread box and gave the poor man layer cake. "After all,” one of the young critics told me in justifying his mode of life, “it may be just as tragic as you say to be caught late in life with a masterpiece in front of you and not a single adequate adjective left in your purse. But there's still another contingency which I mean to avoid. Wouldn’t it be rotten to die with your adjectives still unused? You know you can’t take them with you to heaven. “Think of being blessed with milk and honey for the Arst time and trying to express your gratitude and wonder with ‘The best I ever tasted.’ “No, sir. I'm going to get ready for the new eternal words by using up all the old ones before I die.” (Copyright. 1931. by The Times)

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Mary Nolan Will Fight New Comeback Battle

BY GENE COHN NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, July 25.—Mary Nolan, whose mercurial career resembles a cross section of several business charts, is going to take another chance with the films. She’s going to head back to Hollywood soon, so she says, and face the folk who literally chattered her out of town. But marriage has made things seem much different to her, for she has been Mrs. Wallace McCreery these several months. Miss Nolan, who has seemed fated for accumulative misfortune, despite her blonde beauty, was promising to be one of Hollywood’s valuable young stars —when something happened! This something spread a trail of scandal; tales of narcotic slavery went around. And after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Mary Nolan lost her hold on the heights and slid but of Hollywood. She had slid thus out of New York once, to land in Berlin under a different name and, unknown, to win such high favor that Hollywood went bidding for her. Then, little known to America save as a chorine, she drew r the attention of the most calloused critics to her talents. She made a film with an independent company and has had to

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———* Just Every Day Sense

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON A MERICANS are extremists. All our ideas run immoderately to exaggerations. And nothing so exemplifies this attitude as the current behavior regarding social drinking. Men and women, boys and girls by the score, are explaining constantly that they must imbibe whether they like it or not, in order not to “throw cold water on the party” as they express it. Yet a good many parties would be all the better for a little cold water, if you see what I mean. Cocktails are not only presented to guests these days, but pressed upon them. Hosts are extremely sensitive about their copcotions, awful as most of them are. They c£#i make you feel that you are not at all a polite person and that you flout hospitality if you refuse to absorb gin. And nobody can be so importunate as a gentleman or lady who has one too many drinks. u a a NOW, based upon a certain kind of commonsense—which, alas, seems singularly lacking on both of the liquor question—it looks as if each individual should be allowed the privilege of exercising personal judgment on this matter. The right to refuse a drink should be as precious as the right to take one. Coercion in any guise is hateful to the intelligent individual and it so happens that there are certain persons still who do not like to fill themselves up with the rotten booze that is so often dispensed at social functions. For this idiosyncrasy they suffer. They are scoffed at and pointed out as pikers. Those who adopt this attitude of reproof occupy a position as untenable as the fanatics on prohibition who profess to believe that the taking of a cocktail constitutes a mortal sin. We have xvaged a long, bitter battle on the individual right to get tight, but surely the right to remain sober is just as worthy of defense.

Avoid Exercise! It’s Fatal to Your Beauty

NEW YORK, July 25.—1f you want to be beautiful, gals and ladies, go lightly on your exercise. For sports, we are now to understand, are the deadly enemy of beauty. None other than America’s premiere masseuse, Sylvia of Hollywood, says so; the noted Sylvia daily pounds, beats, and curses the movie stars into shape. Says Sylvia, interviewed in the current issue of Photoplay Magazine: “Don’t over-exercise. No woman athlete is beautiful. Muscles are horrid things that must be pounded off. I allow the stars under my care to take no violent exercise in any form.” Constance

Keep That Thumb Out a a Baby's Bad Habit May Lead to Trouble With Tonsils and Adenoids Later in Life.

BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTOI ON my travels the mother of an 8-year-old girl has asked me how to cure thumb-sucking. I told her what I have said. here many times—that I do not know how to do so. This little girl already showed signs of a receding lower jaw. Without any doubt her teeth were not articulating properly; surfaces were rubbing against surfaces not intended for friction; they will wear out. At her age this is especially serious, because her second teeth are coming in, the last she ever will have. Moreover, wrong jaw conformation has a lot to do with the general health and occasionally with mental vigor. Otherwise, bright and pretty, she w r as one of the most promising of failures. tt u m Now I said that I did not know what to do for such an unfortunate habit, but there is one thing I should do. I should stop it. I should have stopped it when she was a year old, I should have liked to say to her mother. • I may have put mittens on her, or I might have had the doctor recommend some distasteful preparation (harmless of course) to put on the maltreated member. Perhaps I couldn’t have cured her in a month, two months, or six. But by the time she was 2 years old she would not have been making a perpetual meal of her thumb, I am sure of that. I forgot to ask this unhappy lady whether her daughter ever had been stuffed with a “paciAer” or a “comforter” when she was a baby; if she ever had that habit there was only one think left for her to turn to when she had outgrown her baby ways—her thumb. m * tt Both thumbs and paciAers, by constant pulling, increase the size of the adenoid cells at the back of the nasal passage. “Adenoids” or spongy growths cause illness, ear and throat trouble, loss of appetite and stupidity. Since there has been less popularity of the pacifier, once so übiquitous, there have been fewer cases of adenoid operation. Tonsils, too, become swollen and irritated from thumb sucking. In fact, everything about the mouth, throat and nose will suffer if the habit is not stopped. I never heard of eyes being affected, but it just happens when I think of it that this same mother asked me about the little girl’s eyes. They watered a good bit and she squinted just a little. Os course, I suggested examination and glasses, but it seemed that had been tried; the doctor merely, had prescribed a lotion instead of glasses. There was no evidence of strain. a tt There was a lot of sun where we were, and water, too. A thought struck me. "Why don’t you get her a pair of dark glasses while you are here; children’s eyes need protection as well as those of older people.” She approved the idea and said she would, but we left next day and I do not know whether my inspiration materialized or not. I pass it on, however, for what it is worth. Why not dark glasses for children who suffer from the summer sun?

Golfing

BY ART KRENZ How can one play a intentional hook? tt tt a An intentional hooked ball is the mark of a good player. Such a shot is often needed to avoid trouble. It will benefit an habitual slicer to learn how to hook a ball, for

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it can often be used as a remedy for a bad slice. In hooking, the right hand should be under the shaft and the left well over. It is necessary to draw the right foot back to enable the golfer to hit out and across the line of flight. If the hook is too sharp, advance the right foot a bit.

Bennett, for one, she says, takes no exercise. Proceeding further to shake the joy out of life for you, Sylvia argues: “Too much swimming develops chest, shoulders and thighs to an alarming degree. Horseback riding works as a hip spreader, tennis makes one arm larger than the other, golf brings an ungainly stride—l can spot a golfer like a beacon light—and professional dancing ruins the legs. Only walk on level ground and not too much, don't climb hills, ladders or stairs.” Sylvia gives her approval to miniature golf and ping pong, and to strictly limited doses of outdoor exercise.

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i Doubling of Rival’s Suit j Often Is ‘Tip’ to Him j

BY W. E. MTSENNEY Seeratary. American Bridire Learue IT very often happens that the doubling of an opponent’s suit will give him the needed information to locate missing high cards. The following hand shows the bidding of four-card suits first and also employs the use of One over One;

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The Bidding South, the dealer, lacking the required two and one-half quick tricks for an opening bid, passes. West holds two and one-half tricks and a biddable four and a five-card suit, and starts the contracting with one diamond. North passes and East, although he holds a four-card biddable suit and a five-card suit, shows the four-card suit first, bidding one spade. This is a One over One bid and partner is required to keep the bidding open once. South passes and West now shows his five-card suit and bids two clubs. East goes to six clubs, which South doubles. The Play North has the opening lead and selects the spade suit, as he will lead through strength. The ace of spades is played from dummy, South plays the nine showing his desire to have the spade suit continued. West, the declarer, discards the six of hearts and leads the eight of diamonds in dummy, winning in his own hand with the ace.

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The king of diamonds is then played and the five of hearts discarded from dummy. The nine of diamonds is led and ruffed in dummy with the ten of clubs. The deuce of clubs is led from dummy, declarer winning with the queen. A small diamond is played next and trumped in dummy with the ace of clubs. Declarer leads the four of spades from dummy and trups with the seven of clubs. The seven of hearts then is played, dummy playing the king, and South winning the trick with the ace. South leads the king of spades which West, the declarer, trumps with eight of clubs. The nine of clubs is led by the declarer, North discards a spade, dummy plays the three of clubs and South the six of clubs. The jack of clubs is then led, North discards a spade, East wins the trick with the king and South must discard. He can not discard the queen of spades or the jack will be good in dummy, therefore the nine of hearts is discarded. The eight of hearts is lead from dummy, South must play the jack, and declarer wins the trick with the queen, and his ten qf hearts is now good and he has made his contract of six clubs doubled. When South won the kin of hearts with his ace, if he had returned a heart, the declarer should take the heart finesse, as due to South’s double, he is pretty well marked with the ace and Jack of hearts. New Earthenware When “breaking in” anew earthen or glass casserole, temper it by pouring cold water into it, and gradually bringing it to the boiling point. Rich Dessert A rich, but thoroughly satisfying pie is made by filling a pie shell with chopped dates and a meringue made of two egg whites and tw r o tablespoons of powdered sugar, and browning it in a slow oven.

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Stepping Round N.Y. m m South Sea Islanders Now 4 Go Broadway,' Instead of Gay Gothamites Going Native.

BY GILERT SWAN NEW YORK. July 25. The spinners of South Sea tales have used, time and again, the

plot about the white man who drifts out to “t h e islands’’ and goes native. Or becames a beach comber and plies himself with native rum. But there’s a new variation to the standard formulas. In fact, the situation is completely reversed.

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and the South Sea maiden “goes metropolitan.” a a a NOT so long ago I wrote a piece about the coming to New York of Reri, half-native, half-French daughter of Tahiti. She had appeared in a picture titled “Tabu.” in which- she was a joyous, childlike, half-clad girl pursued by a promise made to native gods. It so happened that Mona. Flo Ziegfeld, who reviews scores of pictures in an old barn on his country place, took a squint at this film. Thus it xame about that Reri was brought some 7,000 miles from her home to Broadway, flanked by press agents and camera men, and fairly dazed with the attentions she received. Although urged to appear as much like a native girl as possible, Reri had a considerable wardrobe of Frenchy dresses. Also she had a very nice husband, who came along. Soon she was dwelling in a Fifth avenue hotel; was being taken to Coney Island and the night resorts and w r as experiencing one thrill after another. The show business is funny—in more ways than one. Once Reri was en route and the press clippings were coming in, Mons. Ziegfeld found himself up to his wilting collar in this task of getting a production together. This star was hired and that one considered; this sketch was cut and that one thrown out; routines were changed; new song writers called in to bolster up the show— And when it was all over, Reri had come 7,000 miles to appear for about five minutes; she danced, to be sure, but the act written around her was nothing to cable back to Tahiti about. Variety, the theater paper, commented tersely that it was hard to figure out just why all the trouble had been taken. Others said something about Reri being lost in the shuffle. Some reviewers failed to notice her at all. Burns Mantle, the critic and play selector, had a few- paragraphs some clays later in w-hich he declared that of all the beauties of the show, he found Reri most refreshing. Thus it went for a week or so. And the production still needed chopping. It was running too long. Just the other day I was glancing over some items of stage gossip. One paragraph carried the brief information: "The Reri number has been cut out of the show.” a it MEANWHILE, one hears, the South Sea maiden has “gone native” in reverse. She has been

seen in the gay company of young Manhattan couples. There's little doubt t h at, sooner or later, she will be able to get other theater engagements and she should be valuable to the movies. I have a notion that some time will

elapse before the 7,000 miles are retraced. Still, this version of the South Sea stories is so different that I keep wondering w r hat will happen next. When it does. I’ll let you know. (CoDvrißht. 1931. by NEA Service. Inc.)

Quotations

MOST Americans are born drunk and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. —G. K. Chesterton. a a a THE advantages of an education are that it gives one power to enjoy his own mind and to do the things in life that he could not do without it. —Dr. Richard E. Dykes, president of St. Lawrence university. a a a IN these days damsels don’t get into distress, and if they do. they are quite capable of getting out without our assistance. —Sir Gerald Wollaston. a a a MOST schools in America today are simply places for parroting facts. —John Gould Fletcher. a a a THE people of the United States live under an overwhelming flood of legislation, most of which is inconsequent, and not a little of which is distinctly mischievous. —Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. a a a 1 NEVER knew a golfer who had a bad character. —John D. Rockefeller. a a a IT takes intelligence, courage and good will to make a prosper ou* world. —Pm &