Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 174, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1931 — Page 15
NOV. 30, 1931
BETTER TIMES ON WAY, VIEW AFTER SURVEY General Sentiment Is That 1932 Will Usher In Improvement. Thr hirirst auction in America oI*, “ha* the untwine started? What condition* are nere*arv to return cro*heritt? What is the sienifleanre ot >he recent Increase* in price of wheat, cotton and oil? These are the Question* Raymond Clapner. head of the ’nited Press • Washlnrtnn staff, has been asking during a tour of a dozen important centers. He ha* set forth the answers, generalized from dozens of conversations and analysis of condition* in the various aections. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER I nited Press staff Correspondent fCoDvridht. 1931 bv United Press* WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Feeling that 1932 will bring some business recovery is prevalent among leaders in various sections. Business throughout the country appears to be convalescent. It apparently is gaining. But it still is weak and requires time. Everywhere, in a tour of a number of important centers as far west as Kansas City, business men almost without exception were encouraged, ana confident of a better year ahead. They expect better times, but not a boom. And most of them hope there will be no such boom as 1929 again. As Henry Ford expressed it ] to this correspondent, the country will enter a decade of prosperity— j not speculative—but a sounder prosperity that will make past prosperity seem small by comparison. A patient does not come out of the hospital and start turning | handsprings. Still he may be able j to go back to work and earn—if not his top price—at least a reasonable i living out of which he can build a sounder future. Two Things Guide Two things, on close examina- ! (ion, appear likely to control the recovery. One is foreign trade, which affords, not only in cotton and wheat, but in some industries, the margin between good times and bad, the indispensable outlet for the surplus and coverts red ink into black for American business and agriculture. The other thing, pratially dependent on this foreign trade, is the price of raw commodities. Real prosperity rests partly upon raising wheat and cotton at a profit, for * on those two things vast areas in | the United States depend for liveli- | hood. It rests also on a profitable | condition in oil, copper, coal and \ lumber, for each of these determine : the economic fate of large groups i and many communities. Primary Wealth Sources
These are America’s primary sources of new wealth—the things that are taken out of mother earth, 'll other business is built upon them, upon the transportation of ; Ihem, sale to those who need them, conversion of them by factories into flour, bread, cloth, gasoline. The millions of persons who buy the products of America’s factories are all dependent on them in the final analysis. This is elementary economics, but it was forgotten two years ago by a nation which had its eyes glued on stocktickers which were grinding out in their inflated quotations more fiction than all of the printing presses of the nation combined. America has learned —temporarily at leasts—that the stock market can be a cruel deceiver, and that it registered its highest prices at the very moment the whole world had already started over the precipice. That wild downward ride began some months before, when commodity prices began to drop, unnoticed in the frenzy of a climbing stock market. Trading on I. O. U’s This is the biggest change that has come over the thinking of America in these two years of depression—the realization that wheat, cotton, oil and other raw materials are the real pace setters and that when other business goes off on its own, it is trading on I. O. U’s for which an accounting can be delayed j only temporarily. In the light of this, the whole story of what is going on today and the future, as best it can for foreseen. is told in the fact that wheat, cotton and oil prices have risen somewhat.. They have not gone up nearly enough. They are better only by comparison with prices at their worst. Foreign buying, equally important, shows some improvement according to the department of commerce. But the major expansion there must await, as the experts see it, adjustment of Europe’s financial troubles and an improvement in the price of silver which has reduced the buying power of a fourth of the world’s population in China and India.
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STRAIFORD lath and Colleee. "NOVELTY” JAMES DI'NN and SALLY EII.ERS in "BAD GIRL” Noble at Mass. HIV AYRES in “SPIRIT OF NOTRE DAME” TALBOTT Talbott at Slid "THE LAST FLIGHT" and “ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS” EEX23X9 '1331 Station GRETA GARBO and CLARK GABLE in "SUSAN LENOX” SOUTH SIDE ItrSTER KEATON "SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK" “ Fnu ‘" *• I.EON JANNEY in •TENROD AND SAM” Bt Booth Tarklngton. _ ujnson s - GI OR IA SWAN SON in "INDISCREET” GARFIELD 1203 Shelby LEON JANNEY in “PENROD AND SAM" Bv Booth Tarkineton
‘OVER THE HILL’ IS BETTER THAN EVER Mae Marsh, as the Mother Who Sacrifices Everything for Her Children, Gives a Marvelous Performance. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN D EMEMBER way back when Ma -y Carr flashed to dizzy heights of IV popularity in the silent version of “Over the Hill”? Well, the talkng version of this handkerchief drama brings back to fame a woman we have not seen on the screen for many years. Meaning that Mae Marsh, after years of retirement from the screen, eturns in a blaze of glory as the mother who sacrifices everything for ner children. Watch the makeup of this woman as she ages and suffers Maybe this picture is a little too
i sad f° r these days of worry, but I ! had a grand time taking out my : handkerchief. I admit I cried and I am not ashamed. The director
has permitted Miss Marsh to run every emotion known to men and women who act. Sometimes I wanted to cry out when this poor little mother was carrying her cross of burdens that would have crippled an elephant. But such emotions or reactions make effective theater. Am going to put the performance of Mae Marsh as one of the ten best of the
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year. Here is a lovable woman in a most lovable role. Never was I so happy as when James Dunn (the only son who stood by his mother and who was misunderstood by all) ran into the poorhouse, kicked over the scrubbing pail and rescued his mother. Here is a performance that has life and feeling. Dunn is so much better this time than he was in his preceding picture, “Bad Girl.” And Sally Eilers? Just a sweet girl in a mighty sweet role. The rest of the cast is just as satisfactory. Direction, photography and sound are all right. The result is a mighty swell picture. Now at the Apollo. a a HERE IS ONE OF THE VERY’ BEST Here is my verdict of Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper in “The Champ”—one of the very best. Don’t care if you never shed a a tear in your life in a movie theater, but you are going to when Wallace Beery, as a has-been prize
fight - champion, | stages a comeback and then dies as soon as he gets his | mitts (literally speaking) on the j money which was : to give him and his son (Jackie Cooper) ! a lot of happiness. | Please do not mis- j understand me, this is not a sob sister drama. The tears come at the very end of the picture. It is a sad ending and a most logical
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one. When you see Cooper do the emotional stuff as well as the natural child work in “The Champ,” you will then realize why this youngster has been placed under a long term contract. “The Champ” is an honest as well as an intelligent effort to show the attempts of a former champion to come back. His constant companion is his son. and this youngster is as much at home sleeping on pool tables when his old man loses all of his money as in the bed of i the rich. I am not going to tell you the j story, but will let Wallace Beery ! and Cooper develop it for you. Here I is a picture that rings true. Even j the prize fight scene at the end of the picture has a knockout realism, j Put “The Champ” on your must ! shopping list this ■week. Now at the Palace. U a * CHARLIE DAVIS HAS FINE RETURN The fact is that Charlie Davis’ experience in New York and Brooklyn theaters as well as in the studios has had its effect. And that effect is a complete rounding out of some of the rough spots in his showmanship. Never have I seen Davis in better form j than he is this week at the Indiana, j Davis and the band come into i COLMT f Use This i Aspirin Prescript ion\ § The first dose of Laxa-Pirin ■ f brings real relief. It’s the way I doctors give aspirin for colds, I I complete with everythin); needed, I m phenacetin, caffeine, laxatives, M \ etc. Quick, sure relief. 25c. m cGvxarJ&wtv Pleasant--No Quinine
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|*l T /*l E| II 3135 E. 10th WINNIE LIGHTNER in “SIDE SHOW” _ Oklahoma Cowboys in Person T TUXEDO 1020 E. New York >1 EDWARD G. ROBINSON In t, "FIVE STAR FINAL” R TACOMA E. Wash. LEW AYRES In S "SPIRIT OF NOTRE DAME” UiUUI E *” WILLIAM HAINES in “GET RICH QUICK WALLINGFORD” Missa 3116 E. 16th BUSTER KEATON in "SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK” EMERSON GRETA GARBO and CLARK GABLE in “SUSAN LENOX” WEST SIDE 2.V40 W. Mich. JACK HOLT in ■ ■rnerv FATHOMS DEEP” cmzmad " •*' " NETGAVNOR.nri CHARLES FABRELI. ' in "MERELY MARY ANN”
their own when Ruth Roland, the star of this Fanchon & Marco unit,
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asks him to bring j out his little stools i and let the boys put on a stunt I that she saw: Charlie and his men do in the east. It is here ! that Davis shows his best showmanship, and what his experiences have given i him. The men; get “hot” and the audience goes wild. Wh e n I saw' this show, never has an I audience been so i
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wild over Davis and his men. The fact is that this Fanchon & i Marco unit, is a good one. Miss j Roland clicks in het song routine j and gets over handsomely as a | dancer and a mistress of ceremonies. The Four Lamonts, Rector & Doreen, the Three Jays and Frank Rogers help in putting over this! unit. Td my way of thinking, this j is by far the best stage show that this theater has had since resuming the presentation policy. The movie is “Consolation Marriage’’ with Irene Dunne, Pat O'Brien and Myrna Loy. Now' at the Indiana. n u THERE IS A LOT OF FOOTBALL HERE Must admit there is a lot of football in “Touchdown,” the latest of ' this type of movie. The story is different from the j others as we are concerned only in the making of a football coach. We see Richard Arlen graduate as the favorite player on a small college team, and then we watch
his struggles to become a big shot in the coach ing game. His going isn’t so straight, because he convls mighty near slaughtering his own men in his desire to always win every game. This side of the story may not ring true to Eddie Ash and the others who know their sport business. On the screen it is rather an interesting experiment
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to study this side of a coach. The character may never exist in real life, I don’t know, but it is a rather odd one on the screen. Arlen has a difficult role, but because it is unsympathetic until he makes his great decision—he will
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
TELETYPE MAY BRING MERGER OF WIRE FIRMS Western Union, Postal Now Joined in Battle Against A. T. & T. B)f United Pre s# NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Keen competition in teletype telegraph service was foreseen today on the eve of the opening of service in that field by the combined facilities of Western Union Telegraph Company and Postal Telegraph and Cable Company. These two companies, united in this branch of telegraphy, will operate in direct competition with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which now' is operating a service almost identical. This is the first working agreement between the two telegraph companies. In some quarters it was believed it eventually w'ould lead to not murder his own men in his lust to win at any cost. Regis Toomey gives a fine restrained performance of the man who understands Arlen’s methods as a coach. Jack Oakie is splendid in a comedy role. Did not care for the work of Peggy Shannon. There is going to be a w'ide difference of opinion on this one. As far as I am concerned the jury is still out. Now at the Circle. “The Beggar’s Opera” is at English's for one performance tonight. Other theaters today offer: Larry Rich at the Lyric and “The Ruling Voice” at the Ohio.
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a merger. Two strong forces prevent actual consolidation now. First, the White act prevents the merger of a telegraph and radio company. International Telephone, which controls Postal Telegraph, also has on its list of subsidiaries Mackay Radio. This would stand in the way of unification. Second, it was believed the Sherman antitrust act also would stand in the way of merger. In some quarters, it was believed the latter barrier would be obliterated if American Telephone presented sufficient competition in the telegraph business. In that case, some observers believed Mackay Radio will be segregated to permit merger of the telegraph companies. Officials would not comment on this phase, but one did indicate that present methods of operation of the tw'o companies resulted in overlapping of facilities which could be saved by unification. One official of International Telephone estimated that duplicate rentals throughout the country for Western Union and Postal amount to $16,000,000 annually, while in New' York City they amount to $1,000,000. Whenever Western Union opens anew office, Postal immediately opens one next door, this official said, while if Postal starts in anew location it finds a Western Union neighbor there next morning. Each company must rent space w'hich would be large enough to accommodate tw'o such offices. An English chemist has developed a paint for outdoor use that is so affected by the sun’s rays that it appears black in daytime and white at night.
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f 100 years ago, in Philadelphia, a lowly lamp lighter illuminated the path which a whole, happy and home-loving nation was seeking. He received the first loan from the nation’s first building and loan association. e So sincere was the friendly and helpful spirit behind this first association, and so carefully and soundly were its laws drawn for the safety and protection of its members, that there has been practically no change since in the laws governing the successful operation of these associations. Improved real estate was at that time . . . as it is now . . . and as it will be always . . . the best possible security. The building and loan associations of Marion County make conservative loans only upon improved real estate . . . and these loans, as soon as made, are reduced month by month. This steadily increasing margin of safety is only one of the many factors responsible for the remarkable record of safety established by these institutions. This century of experience is yours for the asking. Money invested in Marion County building and loan associations not only earns for you but for others here at home. Marion County building and loan money works in Marion County. Hoarded money gives employment to no . one. Put your none, back ,o work!
dead of heart disease. Hardenbrook was an author, editor, and publisher, serving at one time as business manager of Texas Siftings,
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founded by O. Henry He was formerly editor of the Houston Post and a member of the staff of the Boston Globe.