Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 229, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1932 — Page 5

FEB. 2, 1932.

GREAT POWERS BROKE, BOT CAN BUILDDEFENSES Armies Swallow Finances: Forces Larger Than in 1914. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrlppf-Howard Foreign Editor At back-breaking cost, thirteen years after the war that was to end war, there are more men under arms than there was in 1914—this In a world wherein nations are defaulting on their last war debts on a plea of poverty. Such is the amazingly unbusinesslike situation today among the fifty-odd countries meeting in Geneva in the forlorn hope that maybe they can work a miracle and disarm. The war department, at Washington, estimates that there are now approximately 6,000,000 effectives in the various land, sea and air services of the world and another 27,000,000 in reserve. Defense Cost Is Up Thus a total of 33,000,000 men, at a cost of $5,000,000,000 a year, now are mobilized or within easy call, ready for war at a drop of the hat—4 per cent of the earth’s entire male population. The seven leading military powers alone—Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Germany and the United States —are spending $3,000,000,003 a year, or 37 per cent more than in 1913. Omitting Germany—Disarmed by the Treaty of Versailles—the remaining six powers are spending $2,800,000,000 annually on their war budgets, an increase of approximately 65 per cent above pre-war expenditures. Making allowances for the rise In price levels, the increase would still be in the neighborhood of 40 per cent. All this Is happening among nations not one of which is able to make ends meet. All are living on borrowed money, in some instances without much chance of ever paying it back. None Can Pay Debts Russia, of course, long since has repudiated her war debts, and Britain, France, Italy and others are said to be contemplating similar steps. Market quotations listing foreign government bonds show prices ranging as low as from 7 to 30 cents on the dollar. Great Britain is spending $600,000,000 annually on armaments—--42 per cent more than when she declared war on Germany—but she can not pay the United States the $160,000,000 a year due on her war debt. France is spending $547,000,000 annually on armaments—3o per cent more than at the commenceent of the war—and yet she says she can not pay the United States tile $50,000,000 due on hers. U. S. Needs Money Italy last year spent $330,000,000 I on armaments, but the $15,000,000 due the United States on money borrowed to run her last war remains unpaid. And so it goes. Altogether the allies this year failed to pay $244,000,000 borrowed j during the World war. But they raised and spent close to $2,000,000,000 in preparation for the next. The United States is hard put to pay its bills. It is living beyond its j means to the tunc of $1,500,000,000 j a year. It is talking of slashing | wages; and heavy tax increases are as certain as tomorrow’s sun. Still It finds it necessary to spend about $700,000,000 a year on national defense because the world has become more than ever an armed camp. Defense Needs Relative Beyond question the feeling of a majority of the delegates at Geneva is that national defense is one of the most legitimate of all public expenses, when kept within bounds. The official position of the United States is that all armament needs are relative. If other powers agree to reduce their armaments, our needs will diminish, too. \ But the blind fear of invasion, which is the bugaboo of some nations, and the unsatisfied longing for a place in the sun of others, may throw a monkeywrcnch into the disarmament works at Geneva and prevent anything more than a facesaving outcome—if that. THIEVES GET SSO LOOT Ransack Two Homes and a Store to Get Small Amount of Jewelry, Thieves broke into two homes and a store Monday night, carrying away loot worth more than SSO, police said today. J. C. Boyle, 1015 Bradbury street, said a prowler broke a glass in a kitchen window and ransacked the house, but apparently took nothing. Jewelry valued at SSO was taken from the home of John Soland, 410 East Raymond street, by a thief who climed through a second floor window'. A thief ransacked the store of John Vanstan, 942 South Missouri street, but took nothing, detectives were told.

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ANGELS HAVE FISH FRIES IN HEAVEN Richard B. Harrison Is Tremendous as the Lawd in ‘The Green Pastures,’ Now at English’s. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN THE angels in heaven in “The Green Pastures’’ not only have wings and use ointment upon them, but they have fish fries which the Lawd attends. This heaven has its advantages, as one stout angel remarks, because the women up there can take their constitutional walk without getting insulted. Maybe that is not the right mood for me to approach Marc Connelly’s "The Green Pastures,” a fable, which opened last night for a capacity week’s business at English's, because the play is a serious attempt to present certain aspects of a living religion in the terms of its believers.

The religion is that of thousands l of Negroes in the deep south. It is this gigantic accomplishment of the author which makes it necessary for you to be in your seat when the curtain goes up, Mr. Deshee

teaching his Sunday school class. To miss Mr. Deshee’s humble opinion that the angels have fish frys in heaven and “good 10-cent cigars for adults” is to miss the key to the enfire play. The second scene is the fish fry in heaven, with the angels with their wings having a grand time gossiping, and

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with some of the men smoking a good 10-cent cigar. [ There are sevefal tremendous acj complishments in “The Green Pas- : tures,” but the outstanding one is i the Lawd of Richard B. Harrison, ! a 66-year-old player. Here is more than acting. Here is more than a characterization but a tremendous and overwhelming power. In all of my years of play going never have I seen such a gigantic accomplishment as Harrison achieves in this play. One does not laugh at his ‘‘the Lawd,” but you study this man who orders Gabriel (strongly and dumbly played by Samuel Davis) to order the Lawd’s thunderbolts to be put away, because they were not effective in frightening mortals on earth. And Gab replies to the Lawd —“OK.” Harrison is the light and the power that makes this play the marvelous study oi a living conception of the Lawd and characters in the Old Testament. Here is one of the grandest achievements upon the American stage because the artistry and sincerity of Harrison never offends. I actually felt the soul sickness of the Lawd as played by Harrison when he reckoned that he had done a bumb job making earth and man. I felt that even the Lawd was a little at sea when he ordered good old preacher Noah (so beautifully and effectively played by Tutt Whitney) to build an ark and take his good wife with him along with the animals. A scene of irony is when Noah argues with the Lawd that he should be allowed to put two large kegs of whisky on the ark. Noah is just naturally afraid of snakes and he argues that two kegs were necessary but the Lawd is the law. Before I forget it, I want to call attention to the work of George Randol as Pharaoh; the Moses of | Alonzo Fenderson and the Hezdrel of Daniel L. Hayns, tremendous in his scene with the Lawd as he is defending the temple. To get the right picture of the method of presentation one must know certain facts. A treadmill makes possible some startling effects, especially when the Lawd starts his journey on foot to see how man is getting along and more so i when Moses leads his people out of j Egypt. Then there is the heavenly choir, i directed by Hall Johnson and j Ulysses Chambre, which is on the i stage part of the time and then ! singing those marvelous old and new Negro spirituals in the orchestra pit. No orchestra is..used nor is one needed. Here is singing that gives a great atmospheric background to this play. It requires two acts and eighteen scenes to present “The Green Pastures” and a cast of more than a hundred. Here is the outstanding achievement of the dramatic stage in the last twenty years. Now at English’s. a a a LOOKING OVER THE LYRIC BILL I like the bill this week at the Lyric, because it hands out several suprises and gives one the feeling that he has had a good tinfe. Have always had a weakness for PLEASANT RELIEF FROM CONSTIPATION Shoulders droop under weight of years. Young, yet beauty has fled. Cheeks are sallow and drawn. Unsightly pimples. Keep your system clean and you keep the beauty of youth. Its energy. Its irresistible charm. Then life is not a failure. Clogged bowels and inactive liver cause poisons to seep through the system. Health vanished and with it beauty and energy. Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets will help save you from this dark hour. For 20 years they have been prescribed in place of calomel to men and women seeking health and freedom from constipation. They act easily and smoothly. No dangerous griping. Take nightly before retiring. Results will amaze you. Thousands of men and women would never be without Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets, a vegetable compound. Know them by their olive color. 15e, 30e tud 60c. All druggists.—Advertisement.

the comedy antics of Don Santo. He has Exie with him this seasoa as his foil. Santo works a good deal by audience reaction, because he

just doesn’t do the same thing twice in the same way. He is a good s h o wman and k nows when to soft pedal his eccentric stuff. Frank Swanee is tenor and a very good pne. He knows how to select a program that has charm and melody. Good voice and fine stage pr e sence. Stopped the show when I was there.

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Should have given more when the audience insisted. Meyers-Ludlow and Rice has, worked out a fine dance routine that actually has something new in it. Mighty good work. Otto Gray and his cowboys are back in about the same routine as last season. They still win with their quaint tunes. The movie is Bill Boyd and Janies Gleason in ‘“Suicide Fleet.” Just misses being a big picture, but it entertains. It will hold your interest. Now at the Lyric. BERKELL PLAYERS GO IN FOR MUSICAL COMEDY The most difficult thing in the world to my way 0 f thinking theatrically is for a dramatic stock company to suddenly give birth to a musical comedy or farce. It is to be admitted that the regular members of the company

are not strong on voice, but the regulars sure do surprisingly well. It must be recorded that “Little Jessie J a m e s,” this week’s offering of the Berkell Players at Keith's, permits William Pollard to steal the show. When he got over his fright after the first words of his first song “Quiet Afternoon,” were

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out of his system, Pollard snapped into the fun and gave a corking good performance. This man is showing more showmanship and ability each week. And he carries the farce tempo through at the right place during the entire action of the play. The regular cast is increased by eight dancing girls, who sing and dance in a rather pleasing manner. There is also a saxophone quartet, which rather slows up the action. In the second act, Pollard and the girls score with “Jessie James.” The role of Jessie Jamieson is not the best for Margery Williams. She has to act wise and cute. That’s all. Others in the cast are Virginia Stevens, Beatrice Leiblee, Janice Sherley, Philip Brandon, Bob Fay, Wililam Maloney, James Leroy and Milton Byron. Now at Keith’s. Sill RILIEVtS mailß ■me ECZEMA Soothing, cooling ZEMO brings prompt relief to itching, burning skin; even in severe cases relief comes as soon as ZEMO touches the tortured skin. Eczema, Ringworm, Rashes, Pimples, Dandruff and other annoying skin or scalp troubles generally yield to this soothing, antiseptic lotion. ZEMO is safe and dependable. All Druggists. 35c, 60c, SI.OO. Extra Strength ZEMO best for chronic cases—sl.2s. —Advertisement.

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horse system betting on weather predictions, based on past performances of the good nag “Weather.” For. using the first two months of official winter as an index. February should be warmer and perhaps aid in breaking the all-time winter average when the mercury averaged 40.8 in 1890. December had temperatures which averaged nine degrees above normal. Despite jow temperatures last week-end, January was clocked for its thirty-one laps at 10.4 degrees above normal. But the bureau says the groundhog and past performances have nothing to do with the future. With a shrug, attaches of the bureau will say February will continue warm—“maybe.” That winters are getting warmer also is a fallacy, the bureau points out. In eighteen years, the average winter temperatures have varied only .4 of a degree. Here are the winters and average temperatures on which computation is based: 1913, 32.4; 1914, 31.2; 1915. 29.9; 1916, 30.9; 1917, 28.4; 1918, 23.1; 1919, 35.8; 1920, 25.8; 1921, 34.6; 1922, 31.8; 1923, 31.3; 1924, 32.1; 1925, 31.7; 1926, 30.6;’ 1927, 32.3; 1928, 34.6; 1929, 28.7. and 1930, 32.7. So, while you’re confident the groundhog can’t be wrong and past performances solve the weather riddle. remember two things. One is that the weather bureau doesn't agree with you, and the heaviest snow ever recorded in liv dianapolis fell in March. That was in 1906, when sixteen inches of it pelted Indianapolis overnight. CAN FALLS ON SLEEPER Clearing a space in which to sleep, Charles Baker, 30, hitchhiker, bn route to his home at Nashville, Tenn., balanced a ten-gallon milk can on the window sill of a Monon railroad shack north of Broad Ripple today. The can fell, knocking Boker unconscious. He was treated at city hospital.

P.-T. I. LEADER WILL BE HEARD BY GITYGROUPS Miss Alice Sowers to Make Address at Claypool Today. Members of Indianapolis ParentTeacher Associations will attend a meeting at 2 today at the Claypool, when Miss Alice Sowers, associate chairman of the National Committee on Parent Education, will speak. Other P.-T, A. activities during the week. Meetina: of Washington high school Thursday at 8. will be in charge of the Quest Club” of that school, and will be in the nature of a Washington bicentennial celebration. Music will be furnished by the Girls Glee Club. Founders’ day will be celebrated by the association of School No. I Wednesday at , ri ‘ • Cl&vton Ridge will sDeak on The Meaning of P.-T. A.” Music will, be furnished bv the mothers’ chorus, tnd Miss Dorothy Olsen, violinist, accotnoanied by Mrs. Carl Miller. °t ? ch0 P, l , No. 8. the Calvin ,f, c PO°L 0 °L will give a play entitled Calvin Fletcher. Wednesday at 3. Mrs. David Ross will speak on The Movie of Yesterday and Today” at school N°- i°', at ?:15 Wednesday. Piano music will be furnished bv Mrs. J. D. Irwin School No. 12 will meet at 3:15 WednesSr v ' JF.be urogram will be in charge of the children and will be based on the following themes: “Our Mothers.” “Our Civics Club” and ‘‘What the Word Opportunity Means to Us.” School No 14 will meet at 3:15 Wednesday- There will be a business meeting, followed bv a health talk, and music bv the mothers’ chorus and the school orchestra. Albert Stumn will speak on ‘‘George Washington” at school No. 21 Wednesday at 2:30. Patriotic songs bv pupils will complete the program. The Sherman Plavers. a dramatic c'ub composed of the mothers of school No IS will give a comedv entitled "Clubbing a Husband.” at 8 Thursday and Friday There also will be a matinee performance at 3 Thursday. Specialty numbers v.ill be furnished by Music Masters School of Music. Patriotic program directed bv Mrs. Mayfair Boyd will be given at school No. 46. at 2:30 Wednesday. Program at the meeting at school No. 61. at 2:30 Thursday, will be given bv

dramatic student* of Mrs. Helen Morton. School No. 73 will meet at 3:30 Wednesday. Professor Paul Hayworth, head of the history deDartment of Butler university.

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