Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 152, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1932 — Page 4

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SPANKING FIRST LITERARY PRIZE, SAYS AUTHOR Vicki Baum Tells Story of Her Life in Address at Town Hall. Her first award for writing; stories when she was a girl in pigtails in Germany was a good spanking from her father* Vicki Baum, author of ‘ Grand Hotel,” told a Town Hall audience at English's at noon today, discussing her career. *‘My parents were quite sure that I was a black sheep and I was spanked three times when my dark secret of writing was discovered,” said Mrs. Baum. To escape and to- be allowed to Write she said, she married a young wlrtcr and “scon discovered after the first month there was no money In the household.” ■ “My husband did not have the endurance to fulfill his contract for short stories,” she said, “and I wrote the stories and he sold them under his name. “From the money obtained from my stories, we started a magazine. My husband was the editor. He loafed on a lounge, smoked cigarets and tried to snatch ideas. I wrote the stories.” The magazine and her married life both were failures, and at the age of 19 she was divorced. Shcremarried. In speaking of successful people, she said the danger was that they lost their proportions and couldn't see that they were funny. She apologized for her ‘ bad English" and declared that she was told that it didn’t matter so much what she said,, but that ‘people were curious to see the woman who wrote ‘Grand Hotel'.”

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MRS. JANE BOULDEN IS TAKEN BY DEATH Native of Canada Lived Here for 38 Years; Funeral Rites Saturday. Mrs. Jane Boulden, 65, died Thursday in her home, 1236 North Oakland avenue, - following five years of ill health. Mrs. Boulden was born In St. Catherines, Ontario. She came to Indianapolis thirty-eight years ago, and married Fred Boulden, also a native of St. Catherines. He died seven years ago. She was a member of Second Presbyterian church. The Rev. Jean S. Milner, pastor of Second church, will conduct funeral services at 2 Saturday in the home. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. The Soviet union, which has the largest Arctic frontier of any country, has twenty expedition of various kinds organized this year.

LEISURE HOUR GROUPS READY FORUMELIGHT Forget Your Vote Worries, and Join in Fun Next Week. If you are tired of listening to political addresses then just jot down in your date book that next week when the balloting is over, there will be' a number of programs of Leisure Hour clubs in Indianapolis. The Hawthorne social service center, District 2 of the Leisure Hour movement, announced today a program scheduled for next Friday night at 7:30 at the Hawthorne center. The program will be in charge of the Washington high school faculty with the Washington high school band furnishing the musical entertainment. Other features of the program will be a talk, “Other Worlds,” telling of astronomy and the planets, by W. G. Gingery, Washington

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Politely Shot Bv United Pres* UNION, S. C., Nov. 4.—City authorities practically were saved all effort when Ed Peake shot Bud Martin. Peake-was very courteous about the business. After shooting Martin, Peake: 1. Put the injured man in his car and hurried him to the hospital. 2. At the hospital he agreed to pay all expenses. " He then surrendered to police. an's condition is reported serious.

principal; community singing led by A. R. Stacy; readings by Miss Bess Wright, and novelty songs by Estil V. Van Dorn. On Armistice day there will be another program at School 34 at 7:30 featuring Johnny Reading and his Silver Night Hawks orchestra and the Golden Four quartet of spiritual singers. The committee in charge of the school’s program is composed of Charles P. Lehr, chairman; W. T. Elasengym, John Redding, Mrs. C. Pearcy, Mrs. Florence McShane and Mrs. T. Denney. At a meeting Thursday night the club of Central Christian church formulated plans for a program to

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