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COMUACT BRIDGE at the EXPERTS PLAY IT BY W. E. M’KENNEY Serretsrv American Bridie Ltine OFTEN at contract you will find a hand where game should be bid, but due to very bad breaks, the contract is defeated. Then again, there are hands where a game contract should not be arrived at, although good breaks will allow it to be made. For example, the declarer in the following hand makes four odd, but he must play the hand very well to do so.

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The Bidding South passed, West passed, North bid one heart. East should overcall with one spade. South passes and West passes. A bid of two hearts by North would he satisfactory, but he would be justified in doubling one spade to show more accurately to his pertner the quick trick strength of his hand. If North had bid two hearts, East would be justified in bidding two spades, even though it is only a four-card suit, but when North doubles. East should pass. South, with his trickless hand, simply bids two hearts. This is not showing strength, but as the double was informatory, it tells partner that your hand contains little or nothing. With South's two passes and now his simple bid of two hearts, North should not try for game. The Play The play is very interesting—East swings three rounds of spades, the third round being trumped by the declarer, and he must be careful to trump with the eight of hearts and not the three. The king of trump next is played and won by East with the ace, who swings another spade. The declarer must trump high and take a chance on the hearts breaking—he needs the three of hearts as an entry into dummy. The queen of hearts is played and all outstanding hearts are picked up. Declarer next leads the three of hearts, winning in dummy with the five spot. He then leads the queen of diamonds, West refusing to cover, and now the declarer must play his jack of diamonds on dummy’s queen. He then leads the ten of diamonds and again West refuses to cover. Now the declarer must not play his last diamond, but instead must lead a club and finesse the queen which holds. He then leads his ace of clubs and trumps his losing club in dummy, and the last trick is won with the ace of diamonds. Two successful finesses and a break in trump were necessary to make four odd, which, of course, could not be bid. CITY BUSINESS HOUSES LOOTED BY BURGLARS Varied Booty Obtained at Four Stores, Owners Report. Varied loot was obtained by burglars from four business houses Wednesday night and early today. Fireworks valued at $3.50 were stolen from a shoe repair shop at .1431 Wade street, operated by James Honeycutt. At the Folk grocery next door, at 1433 Wade street, bars inside windows prevented entrance, although screens were removed and glass broken. Charles Morris, merchant policeman, said he saw a boy run from the store. Pharmacy of Arthur Mennier, Prospect and St. Peter streets, yielded loot which included $9/ three cartons of cigarets and thirty packages of razor blades. A door was found open by McKinley Armstrong, 1808 Kelly street, a merchant policeman. Breaking a window in the St. Regis cleaning shop at Fourteenth and Pennsylvania streets, a burglar stole a quantity of clothing. PLAN PICNIC MONDAY Beech Grove Celebration Will Be Community Affair. Joint observance of the Fourth of July and the Washington bicentennial in the form of a community picnic will be held Monday in Sarah T. Bolton park. Beech Grove, under auspices of the Methodist and Christian churches of the community. Program will include speeches, band concerts, a baseball game and a flag raising, the latter in charge of the new Beech Grove Boy Scout troop. The event is being arranged by Carl Koch, Emerson K. Whitaker, C. M. Hamilton and N. I. Bailey. FUNERAL RITES SET City Woman, Killed in Auto Crash, to Be Buried Today. Mrs. Luella Kingsland, 4709 East New York street, who was killed near Berea, Ky., in an automobils accident Tuesday, was to be juried today in Crown Hill cemetery. Funeral services was to be held at 2 this afternoon in the Shirley Brothers' chapel at 946 North Illinois street. The Rev. John B. Ferguson, pastor of the Irvington Presbyterian church, is in charge of the service. The accident occurred when Edward O. Welsh, brother-in-law of Mrs. Kingsland, swerved his car and skidded Into a ditch. Survivors are her •-year-old daughter, Dorothy; three sisters. Miss Norg Bryan, Miss Anna Bryan of Cory, and Mrs. John Redenbargcr of Brazil, and a brother, C. W. Bryan of Brazil.

WARN CITY OF PHOTO FIRM'S COUPON DEALS Better Business Bureau Hits Canvassing Methods by City Salesmen. BY JAMES A. CARVIN' Warning against the purchase from canvassers of coupons entitling the bearer to photographic service has been issued by T. M. Overley, manager of the Better Business Bureau. The bureau's warning is issued following investigation by The Times of a large number of comnlaints from purchasers of the cou- j pout* Misrepresentation by the; salesmen xs charged by the com- i plainants, who have found the cou- j pons are not redeemable in the ; manner explained by the sellers. Bearing the name of the New j Stewart Studios, Inc., 33 Monument Circle, the coupons call for one 8 by 10 plain or tinted photograph, said to be a $3.50 value. The price on the coupon is given at 50 cents. A number of purchasers interviewed by The Times told of purchasing the coupons for 25 cents, three for 50 cents, and other cut-rate prices. During the solicitation, the salesman is reported to show an imitation leather mounting for the photograph, but at the studio the purchasers learn the folder is supplied only at extra charge. Sold Only by Salesman A Times representative called at the studio and asked to purchase one of the coupons, but was informed they were sold only by salesman. It was explained that the purchaser of the coupon was not permitted to see proofs of the two poses called for, but must accept the studio’s selection. Stating that “no one would want to have a photograph they didn’t like,” a young woman in the studio offered a single photograph with proofs for sl, “only 50 cents more and you get to see the proofs.” The next day The Times’ representative returned, armed with a coupon. The waiting room was crowded with women and children. For an hour and a half, ho member of the studio staff so much as spoke to The Times’ man. Finally, his name was entered on a card with the remark “We’ll take care of you in just a minute.” Minutes Go—And Go Another fifteen minutes and the card was picked from the file by the manager. “I’ll be with you in just a minute.” Five minutes later The Times representative was ushered into one of two small offices separated from the main waiting room. The other office was occupied by a member of the studio staff and another customer. “Now you understand that our coupon offer is only for advertising purposes,” the manager began. “We can not afford to continue this plan unless we can sell additional orders. We can give you the one photograph named on the coupon and six additional for $5.” “But I want only one photograph, the one on the coupon,” The Times man objected. “We’ll be glad to take it for you, but at that price we can’t show you proofs. We have so many orders ahead that we could not promise delivery before Aug. 1.” Five Weeks For Photo? “Five weeks for one photograph?” “Oh, yes. But if you want some additional pictures, I can give you much better service. I could show you the proofs Thursday and we could have the finished photos in a week or ten days.” “How many photographers do you have?” “Right now we just have one, but if you want some extra pictures we could rush your order through.” The Times’ man remembered the mothers and fretting children waiting in the crowded reception room. Some had been there as long as he had. “When could I have the sitting?” “Right now. There is no one ahead of you. Now, how many photos do you want?” “No Connection With Us” The Times representative countered with a question regarding the coupon salesman. “Oh, they have no connection with us. They buy the <joupons fifteen for a dollar and they make what they can from them.” Experience of complainants was* practically the same as that of The Times’ man. One woman told The Times she had called the studio be- j fore buying the coupon and had j been told that the man w’as a oona! fide representative and that the I coupon would be honored. A woman accompanied by two small children and her mother | of purchasing three coupons for 50 cents. She was told at the studio that only one coupon would be honored. Another woman who was In the studio when The Times representative arrived and was still there when he left, told of calling four times to get her pictures after buying a coupon and then ordering additional pictures. Photographs Are “Lost” “I paid 50 cents for the coupon, 50 cents more to see the proofs, $1 when I returned my selected proof, $1.50 for additional photos and 50 cents for a mounting,” she said. “I started in to get one 50-cent picture and it cost me s4,’’ she explained ruefully. Her pictures had been promised that day and she had waited more than two hours while the studio located them. Files of the Better Business Bureu yielded other similar stories of purchasing coupons, selling tactics, lost pictures, and delay. Several complaints are listed from persons who had sold the studios coupons, and had reported to the bureau when the studio refused to honor the coupon for personal use of the salesman. A “Good" Photograph j One woman reported to the bu- | reau that when she objected to the picture which had been taken, a member of the staff replied that “considering the subject, she considered it a good picture.” The New Stewart Studios. Inc., was incorporated Feb. 11, 1932, with Sol B. Friedland and Mildred Mae Dwyer of Indianapolis, and Hugo W. Gotham of Cleveland, listed as incorporators. At the same address

THOSE WERE THE NAUGHTIEST DAYS

Nethersole’s Torrid Kisses Shocked Throngs—and Packed ’Em In

Harold Seton is hailed as the champion first-nighter of the American stage. More than twenty-five years of attendance at premieres have given him an almost Snexhaustable well at memories. This Is first of a series of interviews with Joseph Mitchell. Times staff writer. BY JOSEPH MITCHELL Times Staff Writer ICopy right. 1932. bv the New York WorldTelegram Corporation.) NEW YORK, June 30.—1 t was the flamboyant, sturdy era, when the champagne in the gilded restaurants of Broadway was known, elaborately, as “the concentrated laughter of the peasant girls of France.” Small portaits of stout actresses were given away with packages of cigarets. Shocked ladies discussed the passionate antics of the sloe-eyed British siren, Olga Nethersole, able inventor of what the reformers called “the Nethersole kiss.” The swift answer and the wisecrack had their origin on the rowdy stage of Tony Pastor's and not in the mind of the mayor. It was the time when the pert remarks of theatrical people became the threadbare idioms of citizens in small towns from cne coast to the other. The arrogant anecdotes of the green room were imbedded in the consciousness of the people. An auctioneer in Indiana, dissatisfied with the outcome of his oratory, would shout, “What did Patti say?” A contractor, turning down a low bid, would ask “What did Adelina tell the minstrel man?” And any adult would know that a reference expressed by Adelina Patti, the singer, when J. H. Haverly, the minstrel czar, asked her terms for a series of concerts. “Two hundred thousand!” said the singer. “Why, my dear lady,” said the shocked gentleman, “that is more than we pay the President for a year’s work.” “Well,” said Patti, “why the hell don’t you get the President to sing for you?” tt B B IT was the era of the very fashionable first night. Broadway was lined with carriages at each premiere. Footmen jumped to the curb to fling open the crested doors of the polished carriage of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. On opening nights famous persons, well garmented and jeweled, arrived at the pretentious entrance of the Empire, the playhouse which got most of the carriage trade, at Broadway and Fortieth street. Between acts men went hastily to the Knickerbocker for a jigger of whisky. and after the performance, with their fair and fullbosomed companions, the same gentlemen hurried to Rector's os to the Case Martin for champagne and lobsters. The theater was a tinseled, but a heavily respected institution. And at this time Harold Seton, a young man of leisure, already was a veteran first-nighter. At the age when most young men still were asking their parents for permission to go out at night. Seton was acknowledged as

a Stewart Studio operated for more than a year, but the present management disclaims connection with the predecessor. Coupons similar to those used at present were issued by the former studio, and reports have been received that these coupons will be honored if addditional photographs are purchased. HONOR Mi” DEWEY Named Honorary Chief by Education Association. Bii United Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 30. —Dr. John Dewey, veteran New York educator and philosopher, has been elected honorary president for life of the National Education Association, the first to hold the new office. The election of Dewey to the honorary post left Joseph Rosier of Fairmount State Teachers college, Fairmount, W. Va., the only nominee in the field for the active presidency of the association. Dewey also had been nominated for the presidency after a convention fight Wednesday. The convention also bestowed an honorary life presidency upon Albert E. Winship, octogenarian editor of the Journal of Education. Delegates to the convention held a teachers’ bathing beauty contest Wednesday night, but the judges were unable to agree on a winner. Three teachers tied for the beauty honors. They were Ruth M. Henckler, University City. Mo.; Emily A. lampieri, Philadelphia, and Irene M. Moffatt, Los Angeles. Illinois Warden Is Promoted Bn United Press JOLIET, 111., June 30.—Warden Hem-y C. Hill of Joliet and Stateville penitentiaries left here today to prepare to assume his new post as director of the new federal prison at Lewisburg, Pa. Hill will go to Washington to study federal prison problems and will take up his duties at Lewisburg Sept. 1.

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ivor of twenty summers in New’- i •* Si Ag )' ular^ people. But these were th< ontinent for openings in Paris |gf tfi; f ||||_ ' “And the mast glamorous even! nd London, Seton no longer goes Ljj I * ill j: the one that was th He considers the. fashionable m ost sermons, was the preoyment to plays exposing muni- 1 j first night I ever saw’. ipal misbehavior. This season, L'MulW lf £f '1 \f( If 1 fpQM| was ada Pted by Clyde Fitch the or he cared most for £ apper American. from the angled memories of the sinful d-MM: \ : a “There was a young fellow from 4rs. Patrick Campbell being asked I „ . she provinces named Jean, played o check out of the Plaza because llA Hamilton Revelle, and a nohe smoked a cigaret in the lobby, torious cocotte, Olga! Nethersole nd Marie Dressier managing a i '• attracts him. After the muni,

—Prom the Harold Seton Collection. Olga Nethersole, above, as Carmen and in centerpiece as the shocking Sapho. a compeer by Mrs. Aimee CrockerAshe - Gillig - Gouraud - MiskinoffGalatzine and Diamond Jim Brady, other famous premiere attendants. Seton went to first nights for twenty-six years. B B tt THE “champion first-nighter of the American stage,” the owner of a collection of 10,000 theatrical photographs, the survivor of twenty summers in Newport and of eighteen trips to the continent for openings in Paris and London, Seton no longer goes regularly to first nights. He considers the fashionable opening a thing of the past. How’ever, he is still a reasonably enthusiastic devotee of the stage. He goes with most enjoyment to plajis exposing municipal misbehavior. This season, for example, he cared most for “Merry-Go-Round.” He admits that ue becomes a little sad when he discusses his tangled memories of the sinful Mrs. Patrick Campbell being asked to check out of the Plaza because she smoked a cigaret in the lobby, and Marie Dressier managing a concession at Coney Island and Mrs. Leslie Carter on the opening night of “Zaza.” Packed aw’ay in colonial desks and cabinets in his apartment, Seton’s 10,000 photographs are a pictorial record of the rise and decline of the major players of the last three generations. Lately he has exhibited them privately as historical curiosities in the fashionable American colonies in London, Paris Monte Carlo, and Rome. B B B “ A S a boy in short trousers I began going to first nights,” said Mr. Seton, recalling - his experiences, “and that w ? as during the brazen nineties. I kept it up for a quarter century. “I often visited Tony Pastor’s in Fourteenth street, next door to old Tammy Hall, and I remember the song and dance of the famous Tony. “I visited Koster & Bial’s mu-

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CHICAGO. June 30.—The convention has gotten down to politics at last. The preliminary events were only scuffles and entertainment, but finally we begin to have the real, old, dyed in the wool politics. And, without dissenting vote from leaders of other states, it is agreed that the smartest example of this type of strategy is being played by Indiana under the real leadership of Paul V. McNutt, Governor nominee; Frederick Van Nuys, senator nominee; Frank McHale, McNutt manager and delegation chairman, and Thomas Taggart, national committeeman. Members of the delegation themselves do not seem to grasp the play that was made by the casting of the solid bloc of thirty votes against Huey Long and the Minnesotapledged delegations, and for Jouett Shouse for permanent chairman. In the first place this group of leaders, now known as the McNutt high command, is looking forward, if not to 1936. then to 1940, when they believe Indiana will have a presidential candidate to offer the nation. U B tt On one side of the fence is Franklin D. Roosevelt, to all purposes all alone. It is true that he has a majority of the delegates pledged to his cause, but it must be remembered that, in the greater majority of states he was unopposed in the primary, because the others were sleeping at the switch. None of these pledged delegations really believe that Roosevelt is the long-awaited Moses to lead them out of the wilderness. On the other side of the fence, fighting Roosevelt, are the real powers of the party. They include A1 Smith, Gover--1 nor Ritchie, Jack Garner, Gover-

—From the Harold Seton Collection. Mrs. Patrick Campbell sic hall in Thirty-fourth street, which was modeled on continental lines. The proprietors, two former saloon keepers, scandalized the town when they imported Charmion, a trapeze artist, who stripped to her tights in mid-air and tossed her red garters to the gentlemen in the boxes. “There never was a more scandalous performance. And I remember the five Barrison sisters, a group of very fat girls, singing an amazing song, ‘And Then the Lights Went Out.’ They were shameless women for those innocent days. “But these were mild experiences. The sensational days still were to come, the years at the end of the century. Times Square was new. Where the Hotel Astor now stands there was a line of brownstone houses

nor Byrd, Jouett Shouse, John Raskob, “Alfalfa Bill” Murray, Jim Reed, William Gibbs McAdoo, John W. Davis, James E. Cox and others of like caliber. If you were planning strategy w’ith an eye to the future, wouldn’t you rather tie to the latter group? Sure you would. f The only reason for some rabid Roosevelt talk in the Indiana delegation is because some are afraid of losing Indiana if Smith is nominated. They need not worry about that. Smith will not be nominated. He has no more chance for the presidency that Garner or Murray. a b b But if the real undercurrent choice would permit his name to be entered, the fight would be over. And although this column does not set up to be an authority on national politics, it does know, after discussing the matter with the real leaders of the Democratic party, that this man is Newton D. Baker. How to get him to make the bid is the real worry; and if Indiana, by splitting its delegation, is in position on the second or third ballot to start a mounting vote for whoever the successful choice will

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Marie Dressier, formerly of Coney Island. editor at that time of the Leslie publications, who divorced Willie Wilde, brother of Oscar, and died as the Baroness de Bazus, although she never married a baron, and we never could find out how she came by the title; and Aimee Crocker, a close friend of mine, who recently divorced her fifth husband, Prince Galatzine. She lives in Paris and maintains a salon frequented by visiting American Bohemians. “There w’ere scores of spectacular people. But these were the regulars. “And the most glamorous event of the period, the one that was the basis for the most table talk and the most sermons, w’as the premiere of the London vampire, Olga Nethersole, in ‘Sapho’ at Wallaces theater on Feb. 16, 1900. “It was the most sensational first night I ever saw. The play was adapted by Clyde Fitch, the very dapper American, from the French of Daudet. It opened with a soene showing an art students’ ball in Paris. “There was a young fellow from the provinces named Jean, played by Hamilton Revelle, and a notorious cocotte, Olga Nethersole attracts him. After the mildly frenzied ball Jean asks Olga to allow’ him to take her to her apartment. B B tt “TN the next scene the startled A audience saw Jean and Olga standing at the foot of an amazing spiral staircase. (This scene was soon to be known all over the nation as the spiral stairs scene.) Olga sighed and said. ‘I am so tired. Won’t you carry me upstairs?’ So the man, slowly kissing Olga, carried her up the red stairs in his arms. Olga was a big woman, too. When he got to the second floor, Jean said, ‘ls this the floor?’ and Nethersole sighed and murmured, ‘One flight more.’ “It was the most daring scene we ever had witnessed in the United States. The curtain slowly descended. Then the applause began. It lasted for a long time. “But Olga Nethersole, the shocking woman, made the scene even more scandalous by not coming out to take a bow. “Shocked ladies whispered, “That woman is still up in her boudoir with Jean.’ Well, the theater was closed by the police, of course, and Fitch departed hastily to Europe. “But the ban soon was removed and the wicked people of Manhattan flocked to Wallack's to hear the shameless Olga whisper, ‘I am so tired.’ ”

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SCHOOL CITY'S DEBT SLASHED ‘ TO $111762.000 Bond Obligations deduced $429,000 in Stood Administrati i. Bonded indebtedness f the Indianapolis school city h s been re- , duced to the lowest sure since ’ July 1, 1925, it was an junceti today by A. B. Good, s<± ol business director. The school city's bor ed debt today is *10.762.000. Goc said, a reduction of $429,000 si e the present administration w : into office Jan. 1, 1930. Hit Peak ir 1929 The debt o n Julj 1, 1925. was only $10,046,480. but 1.050.000 was added the following October for Crispus Attucks anc Washington high schools, and 1< n than two years later. March 10. 927. another $1,200,000 was added f Shortridge* high school, bringing Tic total t* $11,590,660. The peak was r< a .ed July 1, j 1929, when the ndebted!ness > mounted to $12,124,0 0 The $429,000 reduc in two and one-half years was t mplished by the school board, de; issuance of new bonds totaling >,OOO in the period for new built {8 and additions. Good said the nev* w figure was reached by purchas jf $97,000 in outstanding bonds tt week. Borrowing P< it Cut With the 20 per ent horizontal assessed valuation :eduction, announced by John C McCloskey, Center township -ssor, impending, borrowing po l of the school city, under the 2 r cent constitutional limit, wil i decreased to about $1,000,000. Asa result of his, every effort will be madt o increase the bonded debt mart l by buying In outstanding bonds om the sinking fund in order tc leave sufficient margin for temp< .ry loans next year. Good said. j

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