Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1932 — Page 5

MARCH 21.1032.

■ NEED OF STATE MINIMUM WA6E LAW OUTLINED Plight of Indiana Women in Industry Is Depicted by State Official. During the depression women are working in Indiana for 55 per cent less pay than men, and outside of factories there arc no laws regulating their employment. After a girl is 18 she can work twenty-four hours a day for any sort of wages and the state will not interfere, except in a factory, where she can not work after 10 p. m. nor before 6 a. m. Despite these possibilities for exploitation, however, machines rapidly are replacing women in industry, and they are the victims of technological as well as periodical unemployment. These are some of the facts regarding employment of women in industry which were laid before 1 the women’s party at a meeting this afternoon at the home of Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson, 1035 North Pennsylvania street. Remedial Laws Blocked The speaker was not a party j member, but a Republican state of- , , flclal—Mrs. Jessie Gremelspacher, j director of the department of women and rhildren of the state industrial board. "Os course, I feel we all will agree that eight or nine hours a day is long enough for any woman to work,” Mrs. Gremelspacher asserted. “But Indiana never has been able to pass any laws limiting a woman’s hours of employment, except the one which prohibits her employment at manufacturing between the hours of 10 p, m. and 6 a. m. Girls urtder 18 are limited to eight hours a day and are not permitted „ lo work after 7 p. m., but that is part of the child labor law. After 18 she may be employed twentyfour hours of the day if she has the endurance. "As to pay women receive, her earnings are low as compared with mm. In fact statistics show women's weekly wages are only about 55 per cent as much as men’s weekly *iVoges.'' Problem Seen Acute The speaker then pictured the mass of women displaced by machinery in all fields and pointed out that since two out of nine jobs in normal times are done by women, the problem is acute for them. Making a plea for just wages for women, comparable with men for | the same work, Mrs. Gremelspacher concluded: "Women who are at work are not merely seeking to make a little extra money, most of them must bear their whole expense and many must support others. On the whole, they are steady workers, often highly skilled and necessary to industry. "Any wage that does not take these factors into account constitutes inadequate payment for the services given and inadequate income for the needs to be met.” CHARGES ‘GYPPING’ BY WIFE AND HER FRIEND Aged Lawrence Township Farmer Seeks to Recover Bonds. John C. Smith, aged Lawrence township farmer, renewed his efforts j today to recover $2,500 worth of I Liberty bonds, which he charges he lost through connivance of his girl v wife, Mrs. Leona M. Smith, and her friend, Louis Schutts. The husband filed a motion for new trial of a conversion suit in superior court two, where he lost re(cntly when Judge Joseph R. Williams ruled that evidence presented was insufficient to support the suit. In an affidavit supporting the new v ;iial motion, Smith alleges the bonds were removed from hay in a barn on his farm, and were sold by Schutts. It is alleged Mrs. Smith disclosed the hiding place of the bonds to Schutts. TOW-IN VICTIM WILL FIGHT POLICE TACTICS Motorist Refuses Fee; Alleges Car of Constable Was Unmolested. ” Another aggrieved motorist today i took up the fight against the tow-in law. He Is W. H. Davis of 6010 Bellefontaine street, who this morning chose to be arrrested rather pay $3 to have his car released from a garage by police. He was slated for parking illegally j after he told officers in charge of the traffic fee department that his car had been towed in, although the constable nearby had been "passed ip by police. Davis' car was hauled to q garage from its park- ♦ ing place near Court and Pennsylvania streets. He will be tried Tuesday before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron. LONG LANCE KILLS~SELF Former Carlisle Grid Star. Wild West Player Is Suicide. *• Bp United Press LOS ANGELES. March 21.—Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, once a trick rider in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, and in recent years an author, a full-blooded Blackfoot Indian, killed himself Sunday. Long Lance was a member of Jim Thorpe's great. Carlisle football team.

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CONSTANCE MAKES A PAST FOR HERSELF There Is Nothing Highbrow About Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in ‘The Passionate Plumber.’ BY WALTER D. HICKMAN TT seems to me that "Lady With a Past'' is more of a triumph for the A dressmaker who made the star's gowns than a triumph for Constance Bennett. Probably no star in recent pictures, with the possible exception of Gloria Swanson, has been as well and ar, smartly dressed as Miss Bennett in this one. Miss Bennett plays the role of a very sweet society girl who seems to possess everything but sufficient amount of that "it” stuff to make the boys wild over her. She i$ just a wealthy wallflower until she hires a young chap 'Ben Lyon) to give her the necessary past. Thus “past” makes her a positive sensation to the men and one even ; attorney and nanrlv emttino amv

kills himself when she turns him down as a perfectly good husband. Ben gives Constance such a past that poor sweet Constance has one terrible time living up to it. The picture is at its best when Miss Bennett and Lyon are handing out some j smart comedy as ■ Constance starts tc • live up to her past. | Os course Constance j is wild over David j Manners, but he j

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can’t see her for dust until she gets a past and all the men in Europe go wild over her. You can see that the story is a mild sort of an affair, but it has been smartly acted by Miss Bennett, Lyon, Manners and the others. From the standpoint of gowns Miss Bennett has never looked more beautiful. I admit that I am somewhat lost to explain the big salary and the big box office draw of this star. The director has spent a lot of money in sets. In other words this picture not only cost a lot of money but looks like in the money from a box office standpoint. It will probably develop into a pretty hot matinee idol draw because of Miss Bennett and her gowns. Now at the Indiana. nun KEATON IS A DRESS SUIT PLUMBER Nearly fell out of my chair when the movie producers decided to cast Buster Keaton in "The Cardboard Lover,” which is the last word in sophisticated farce and comedy. Then the producer changed the name to "The Passionate Plumber” and added Jimmy Durante and Polly Moran for more hokum laughs. Here is a lot of rowdy hokum corn-

edy scattered over too much film space. There is no doubt that ‘‘The Passionate Plumber' has its moments, but it takes the trio too long a time in reaching those moments. The original story centered about a beautiful woman who hires a man to impersonate a lover so that the lady in question could have gay times

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with her regular Clover, who happened to be (she thought) a married man. In this version, it turns out that the lover was not only married but was carrying on two affairs at the same time. The ending is just plain burlesque hokum, and that scene in which the lover is used as a target for dishes, vases and furniture is also too overdrawn. To me the funniest man in the picture is Durante, with the big ncse. He is the pal of Keaton who gets the plumber into all kinds of trouble. x Keaton is at his best while presenting his boss, the lady who hires him, from meeting her sweetie. The picture has many sets and Keaton, Durante and Polly Moran keep running on and off the sets all the time. I am not so keen over this one, but you and everybody else may laugh your head off at this one. Be your own judge. Now at the Palace. nun HERE IS A VERY FINE CAST The fact is that the cast of "The Wiser Sex” is a fine one. The telling effect of this story of a gangster’s framing a young district Ears Ring With Head Noises? Try This If you are growing hard of boaring. and soar catarrhal deafness, or if yon have roaring, rumbling, hissing noises in your ears, go to Hook's or your druggist and get 1 oz. of Parmint (double strength) and add so it Y* pint of hot wafer ami a little sugar. Take l tablespoonful four times a day. This will often bring quick relief from the distressing head noises. Clogged nostrils should open, and breathing become easier. It is pleasant to take. Anyone who is threatened with catarrhal deafness or head noises due to catarrh should give this prescription 'a trial. —Advertisement.

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attorney and nearly getting away with it, until Claudette Colbert gets busy and forces the gangster and ; his pal, played Lilyan Tashman, to

I produce evidence which clears the dis trict attorney (Melvin Douglas) from the charge ot murder. To get this I ;videnve Miss Coloert had to become i scarlet looking j woman of sufficient ! coloring to interest j the chief gangster, William Boyd. And boy, certainly he is I I hardboiled villain, j 3o you will see that ! he acting of Miss

I Colbert, Douglas, Miss Tashman and | Boyd really makes “The Wiser Sex” j a good picture. The acting at times is vastly superior to the direction. It seems to me that the director is in error when he failed to get more suspense and realism out of the courtroom scene. But the acting is there and the four chief characters do splendid acting. Here is a different sort of a gangster story and one that will hold your interest from beginning to end. Will not tell you more of the story because the less you know the better you are going to be entertained. But the four principals in the cast are really there. Now at the Circle. nun JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF WINNIE It seems to me that most of the trouble of the past Winnie Lightner films is that there has been too much Winnie. The director and the playwright has corrected that mistake in "Play

Girl,” because Loretta Young more to do than Winnie. There is no comedienne on the screen that wears me out any more than Miss Lightner, because she tries to be too muchly present. It seems to me that in the past she has tried to grab the picture. This time she is truely funny to me as a depart-

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ment store girl. Her companion is Miss Young, who plays Buster, a girl who for a time didn't seem to be keen on getting married because she believed in the complete independence of young women. But Buster mqets a wild, good-looking, young man and she says yes before she knows it. And that little word “yes” made her lot of trouble because her hubby played the horses and lost a lot of money, including his own as well as Busters. Hubby wanted to go straight, but the race track fever was in his blood and so he splits with Buster. And our heroine starts to suffer and play her money on a horse called "Baby Mine.” You can easily guess where Buster got her idea to bet on that horse, which generally turned out to be a winner paying big money. Well, Loretta finally finds happiness in the arms of her hubby and Winnie finds romance herself in being married. Now at the Apollo.

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