Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1933 — Page 7

FEB. 13, 1933.

iClass of 1897 Members Are Guests of Club Members of the Butler university class of 1897 were special guests at the February meeting of the Butler Luncheon Club this noon at the Columbia Club. Mrs. Demarchus Brown, who was the principal speaker at the meeting, is a member of the class, and it was in her honor that the group was invited. Around the World With Butler” was the topic of Mrs. Brown's lecture. Lawrence Vollrath, '27, announced plans for the March meeting of the luncheon club. Mrs. Frank H. StreightofT, 'O7. presided. •Special guests were Miss Emma Colbert. Mrs. Alice Bidwell Wesenberg and Miss Martha Bebinger, members of the university administrative staff, and Mrs. Walter Scott Athearn, wife of the president of the university. G. 0. P. GROUP IN SUSS lON TODAY The monthly meeting of Perry township Council of Republican women was held this afternoon at the home of Mrs. Charles Schanke. 3621 Bluff road. Miss Genevieve Brown was the speaker. Mrs. Robert McKay is chairman of the group; Mrs. Charles Mann, first vice-chairman; Mrs. Fred Wag"her, second vice-chairman; Mrs. E. A. Clark, corresponding, secetary; Mrs. Ralph Vawter, recording secretary, and Mrs. George Pickhardt, treasurer. Board members are Mrs. Sam Jordan, speakers bureau: Mrs. Harlan Sweet, membership; Mrs. Rita Boyer, finance; Mrs. Herbert Spencer, advisory; Mrs. Newton Wright, organization, and Mrs. Jack Tilson, publicity. ENTRE NOUS CLUR WILL HOLD PARTY The Entre Nous Club, composed of ■members of Blue Triangle hall of the Y. W. C. A., will hold a bridgebunco party tonight under the direction of Mrs. Mary Cutler, residence director. Miss Betty Hoffman is general director. Committee chairmen for the affair include Misses Harriet Brenneman, decorations; Lois Mitten, refreshments; Madge Caldwell and Jeannette Seaman, table arrangements; Neva Wiggerly, prizes; Lena Yancey, Bertha Sceger, bunco; Mary Brown, Esther Deckard, Clara Burns and Helen Gwinner, invitations. STUDENTS TO GIVE VALENTINE PARTY A business meeting and Valentine party will be given Tuesday night by the student industrial group of Central Y. W. C. A. Members of the group from the Butler university division arc Misses Louise Haworth, Doris Menser, Frances Stalker, Julia Stevenson and Phillips Schreiber. Others are Misses Beulah Lee, Marie Boles, Jane Lee, Mina Jackson, Mary Wade and Mary Ellen Smith. PARTY IS GIVEN AT JOHNSON HOME Mrs. Paul Johnson entertained Sunday afternoon at her home in honor of Mrs. Kenneth James. The hostess was assisted by Miss Frances Murphy. Other guests were Mesdames C. J. Kelsey. Roy Sticker, Gilbert Buckley, Herbert Broeking, Margaret Cenkner and Misses Helen Tucker, Thelma Cook, Ann McGoran. Kay Murphy and Rosemary Murphy. Chapters to Frolic A mid-season frolic will be given by the Alpha Nu and Alpha Upsilon chapters of Alpha Zeta Beta sorority Saturday night in the Travertine room of the Lincoln. Mrs. James M. Benton and Miss Louise Engelking are co-chairman in charge of th arrangements. Assistants are Misses Evelyn Nordloh, May Stuckmeyer, Genevieve Crawford and Mrs. E. Thompson Abbett. Dance to Be Given Miss Murle Hozey and Miss Ella Hansen are chairmen of a dance to be given Tuesday night at the Wayside Inn. Jimmy Wellingham and his Rythm King orchestra will play. The program will be provided by Miss Rosemary Davidson and Miss Louise Moorehead.

Contract Bridge

BY VV. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge League MANY bridge games are sacrificed annually by players who are in the habit of continually taking too many finesses. The fact that a finesse will work does not necessarily prove that it is the proper play. For example, in the following hand. If Mrs. Sadie Bennett, the runner-up in the national amateur pivot and progressive tournament at St. Petersburg, had taken the club finesse —which will work—she would have failed to make her contract of three no trump.

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The Ridding Mrs. Bennett was sitting in the North. Her partner in the South opened the contracting with one heart. West passed and Mrs. Bennett in the Nv. th overcalled with one spade. South then showed the second suit by bidding two diamonds. This was the thitd constructive bid and requests another bid from partner. Mrs. Bennett had a second fivecard suit and the question was: Should she show this second suit 9 If siie did. she knew that her partner either would go to no trump or re-bid one of Ins suits.

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| If the hand was to be played at i no t rump, she decided that it \Vould be better for her to play the hand, due to her ten-ace holdings in spades and clubs. Therefore, she bid two no trump. Her partner responded with three diamonds to show two five-card holdings. Mrs. Bennett decided to try for the nine tricks at no trump rather than ten of a suit, and bid , three no trump. The Play ? East's opening lead was the six of diamonds. Dummy's eight held the trick. The ace and then a small spade were led from dummy and the jack finesse taken, which was won by East with the queen. East made a very, fine play by returning the queen of hearts, which dummy won with the king. Mrs. Bennett then led the queen of clubs from dummy and West refused to cover, playing the six spot. Supposing that West had showed you his hand and you knew that ] the queen of clubs would hold if you took the finesse, would you take the play? If so. your contract would be defeated. because on the next p 1 y you must lead a diamond, whim East will win. and put you right back in the dummy with a diamond, and West will eventually win three heart tricks. However, Mrs. Bennett was not to be tricked, and she went right up with her ace of clubs. She then ] casher her three good spade tricks. East discarding a club. Two hearts and a diamond were discarded from dummy. Mrs. Benn.tt then led a heart and won in dummy with the ace. She cashed the good ace of diamonds for her ninth trick, and by refusing to take a finesse—even though it : was a winner—she had found the [only way to make her contract. lCou\ right. 1933. bv NEA Service. Xcc.)

Hollywood Did Nobly in Handling ‘State Fair’ De Mille Uses Earl Carroll Touch in Using Flesh in His Latest Spectacle. The Sign of the Cross.' BY WALTER D. HICKMAN MIGHT as well call your attention to the fact that Phil Stong's ‘ State Fair" was my favorite novel of last year. When Hollywood got hold of Margy Frake: her dad. Abel, and her : mother, Melissa, as well as ' Blue Boy,” I was scared to death because I feared they would butcher this really fine, big human story of American life. j _ Am wild to confess that Hollywood followed the word and the spirit of the author more closely than they have ever done in bringing a great hook to the talking screen The fact is—here is one of the most human documents of American life that the screen has ever captured. It rings

t rue from the grunt of the prize boar, “Blue Boy,” to the great understanding of Will Rogers. Janet Gaynor, Louise Dresser, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers and Norman Foster for the parts they play. Here is not just mere play acting but the actual heartthrobs, hopes, despairs, joys and experiences of people who could live on the next farm to you. The spirit, the atmosphere and the background

of the life on the state fair track, the midway, the hog peas and even the pickle and mincemeat exhibits, have all been caught by the cast and the director. I have told you the story of “State Fair” so often. Here it is in a nutshell Farmer Frake wins first prize with “Blue Boy;” mother gets first on her pickles

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and her mince-meat (it did contain nearly a quart of beautiful apple brandy); Margy won a first prize in the experiences of life as did her brother, Wayne, but the youngsters could not wear their blue ribbons. They just locked them up in their hearts and memories. You are going to agree with me that Will Rogers as Farmer Frake has given us this time the most sincere and beautiful character work of his career. He is not just Will Rogers again but really Farmer Frake. And what a farmer's wife Louise Dresser makes of Melissa Frakes. Gosh, how I would like to eat her mince-meat. (Yea, verily, if she always uses the same stuff.) Here is a mother role that comes from the home and soil, not the studio. Janet Gaynor is ideal as the farmer's daughter, who mixed a little too much moonlight with her rides on the roller coaster with a newspaper reporter as played by Lew Ayres (When do reporters in movie stories ever work? I don't know.) Norman Foster is just right as Wayne Frake. Sally Eilers is just j the right one to be Wayne's first I “it” girl. Os course. Hollywood altered the | ending a little bit from the novel, : as well as changed the visibile occupation of Emily. But no serious harm has been done. What about “Blue Boy?” A grand hog and a grand actor. I am wild about “State Fair.” Hope you are, really. Now at the Apollo. a a tt HEY, SLAVE, BRING ON NERO’S MIRROR And did you know that Nero who burned Rome and played during the big blaze used a mirror, sweet smelling perlumes and even a vanity case if they called those things by that name in these days? Well Nero, according to Charles Laughton’s conception, was just a big sissy, drunk with power, beautiful dames, and made lazy with wine

and rich food, and, henpecked by his vampire queen, Poppaea, played in a decidedly Theda Bara manner by Claudette Colbert. But it isn’t the cast that really counts in this' Cecil B. De Mille lavish spectacle. It is the gigantic and marvelous sets; the gorgeous handling of the bodies of hundreds of beautiful girls and

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women: the scent of debauchery at the parties of Nero and his nousehold; the Earl Carroll touch of lavishness and splendor of which De Mille was the daddy years ago. and, the horror of the big picnic that Nero gives when he tosses Christians to the lions in the great arena while male slaves and wicked women lounge about while Nero sups and eats as the lions eat humans. Asa spectacle, “The Sign of the Cross” is what you would expect from De Mille, the first man to glorify the bathtub and what a bathtub there be in this movie. Wow, wow and splash many times. But the story is just a mere frame on which the atrocities of a feminine Nero are flaunted. Here is no Sunday school picnic. This movie is not an historical document, but a gigantic and a stupendous Hollywood spectacle, employing thousands of people, beasts, horses, acres and acres of ground, great palaces, pageants of death, even a flaming city—in fact gutter Rome is present. The sincerity of the Christans have been faithfully retained, but they are just interludes used as the great dramatic smash as Marcus Superbus (Fredric Marchl and ! Mercia, the Christian girl as played by Elissa Landi, march out to be ground into hamburger by the lions. lan Keith does splendid cruel acting as Nero's spying and ruthless ; captain of the guards. Vivian Tobin makes a dashing courtesan. The costumes are beautiful and colorful. At times I though we were have a Ziegfeld beauty parade. There is tons of sex in this story. I must consider “The Sign of the Cross” as an over-perfumed and costly spectacle, gorgeous in its raiment, but of no historical value. It is a Hollywood spectacle. You will be undisturbed if you apply that test to it only. Now at the Indiana. a a a THIS PICTURE BELONGS TO IRENE DI'NNE Here is my verdict—“ The Secret of Madame Blanche” belongs only to Irene Dunne because of her dramatic, melodramatic and sobsister acting. It certainly does not belong to the director. Miss Dunne's performance as the long suffering heroine will be remembered as a splendid achievement in a story

that has been done many, many times in different ways upon the stage and screen. Irene is first seen

as a virtuous chorus girl in London. She meets a weak j son of a rich man ! (the son played , by Phillips Holmes) and she finally j marries him secretly. The lad's father j cuts off his allow - | ance and finally ! forces him to leave ! his wife flat. The son picks up a revolver, blows out his brains (never did have too many), leaving his wife to have her child

alone in Paris. Stern father (played by Aubrey St. John in a most melodramatic fashion), kidnaps his dead son's baby (a cute youngster when a baby but a rotter when older), thus leaving poor Sally (Irene Dunne), to run a questionable resort in her lonely years, i Tne night during the war, a \ soldier gets drunk and wants to ! fight. The bouncers use a wine I bottle most effectively. Then Sally discovers that this soldier is her own son. The peasant girl's father arrives and demands his pound of flesh. Bang—said father is dead. Sally will save her son (he doesn’t know j that she is his mother) from death. Then the trial scene. The son is | yellow and a coward until the prosei cutor detects Sally’s lie and her ; purpose of shielding the boy. Son becomes most mother conscious. Sobs. Son goes to prison for two years and Sally promises to wait for him. Take your handkerchief (maybe two of them) because it is that kind of a story and that sort of acting on the part of Miss Dunne. I will not remember the story, but I wlil remember the work of Miss Dunne. Now at the Palace. DEPARTMENT STORE MOVIE AT THE CIRCLE Alice White brings comic relief to “Employees’ Entrance,” an otherwise hazy picture. The vents of the story just don’t seem to click and form themselves into an orderly sequence. Miss White displays anew type of her hard-boiled acting in the role of the model who does everything but model. She is ordered to play chess with the fussy vice-president at S7O dollars a week. She is offered the job of being mistress to the store manager with the prospects of getting all the little things her heart desires. She gives her consent with the understanding that she may be fired and paid off at any time. Miss White portrays this type with a dash of satire which is most entertaining. Warren William, as the dynamic and unsentimental store manager, i handles his part well. He fires employes right and life, kills small businesses and proceeds to take his pleasures where he finds them. William’s commanding personality is well suited to such a role and if it were not for the lack of continuity in the story, the part would have been greater yet. Loretta Young, the traditional girl-out-of-a-job, has a hard time being consistent. She loves consistent. She loves Martin West (Wallace Ford) enough to secretly marry him. but she accepts the manager’s invitation to spend the night in his room. The part itself is unusual and whatever acting Miss Young may display doesn’t take effect. Wallace Ford, as Martin West, the manager’s protege, is fair. He marries in spite of the advice his boss has given him. Later he sees | that the type of life which he is heading for is not conducive to marital happiness, and quits. I think this picture could have been much better if the story had been given better continui v y, more pep. and speed. All of the action of the story takes place beneath the roof of a department store. Now at the Circle. (By the Ob|server). The Lyric today offers Raynor Lehr on the stage and “The Unwritten Law” on the screen. At the Belmont, “Washington Merry-Go-Round” and “The Devil Is Driving.” At the Talbott, “Night After Night” and “American Madness.” MISSION SOCIETY TO MEET TUESDAY Women's Missionary society of Fairview Presbyterian church wiil meet at 2 Tuesday at the home of Mrs. H. F. Hubbard, 140 West Fortythird street. The hostess will be assisted by Mesdames Charles Fay, W. D. Hough Fred Davis and J. D. Stilwell. Tfte program will consist of music by Mrs. Wilson D. Parker; devo- • tions by Mrs. E. H. K. McComb; I current events, Mrs. L. W. Holdaway and a book review of "The Church ; and the Indian” by Mrs. B. A. Grove. Election of officers will be held. Board Will Meet Board of directors of the Woman's Athletic Club will meet at 8:30 tonight at the Hoosier Athletic Club instead of Tuesday night as scheduled.

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PILGRIMS JOIN IN TRIBUTE AT LINCOLN'S TOMB Nation Pauses to Revere Memory of Civil War President. BY DON E. CHAMBERLAIN United Press Staff Correspondent SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 13. The abiding, immutable spirit of Abraham Lincoln lived again today in the old haunts of his boyhood as a distressed nation paused to revere the One hundred twentyfourth anniversary of his birth. Statesmen, jurists, the clergy and commoners joined here in paying tribute to the Civil war President. Two Governors, a celebrated judge, an Italian prince and an Episcopal minister assembled at the Great emancipator's tomb in profound respect. Pilgrims from surrounding states came to Oak Ridge cemetery and to visit other historic spots here closely associated with Lincoln's youth and the days when he was a struggling attorney. Special Services Held In Sangamon circuit court room a small group of the Abraham Lincoln Association met today to hear 'Dr. James Fort Newton of St. James church, Philadelphia, extol the “Civil was President as a "high priest of humanity.” Sunday night, Governor Clyde L. Herring of lowa, Governor Henry Horner of Illinois, Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson of Chicago and Prince Spada Potenziana, member of the Italian senate, were principal figures at a Lincoln memorial meeting. Special servives were held Sunday at Lincoln's tomb. A floral wreath from President Hoover was laid beside the sarcophagus. It bore a card simply marked “The President.” Marble Bust Unveiled At Petersburg, where Lincoln clerked in a grocery store, a marble bust by the late Madeline Masters Stone was unveiled. In Logan county, where Lincoln was county surveyor, all religious denominations joined in a memorial service. Governor Herring, in his address, likened unrest of present times to that which Lincoln faced during the Civil war. He called upon the nation to retrive Lincoln's courage and indomitable spirit in supremacy of the United States government. “More than anything else,” Herring said, “the nation needs a return to the plain and homely living that marked an earlier age.” Pleas for New Courage Governor Horner read Lincoln's farewell address to Springfield as he departed to assume the presidency, and pleaded with the nation “in Its present adversity to find new courage in the wisdom, faith and ideals of Abraham Lincoln. “From his sacrifices let us take inspiration to meet the grave and stupendous problems that confront our state and nation.” As he presented Prince Potenziana, Horner recalled that a stone from the wall of the city of Rome was sent Lincoln in 1865. The prince viewed the stone when he visited to tomb.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Artnur J. Halton. Mooresville. Ind., Willys coach. 250-891, from Illinois and Wasnington streets. Richard Nash, 429 North Delaware street, apartment 12. Buick sedan, 41-136. from in front of 1428 North New Jersey street. Tony Reno, 2417 Central avenue, Chevrolet sedan. 117-071. from New York street and Capitol avenue.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Lincoln Cab Company. 1424 North Illinois street, Cab 43, found at Twenty-fifth and Delaware streets. C. A. Ferguson, 2356 North New Jersey street. Oldsmobile coach, found near Baxter Automobile Company. Robert Hall. 2224 Bellefontaine street. Ford roadster, found at Twelfth and Illinois streets. Claude Bale. 2042 Dexter avenue. Hupmobile coupe, found in front of 217 McLean place. United Cab Company, 23 West Henry street, Plymouth sedan, found at 700 Roanoke street. Ford coupe. 15-158, found at 1100 Southeastern avenue, automobile stripped of battery. Boyd Duncan. 351 Hansen avenue, Ford coupe, found in front of 1014 West Michigan street. Charles H. Eno. 3710 North Pennsylvania street. Cadillac coupe, found in garage at 3710 North Pennsylvania street. Herman Wertz, 522 Sanders street. Chevrolet coupe, found in front of 110 West Fifteenth street. Walter Ward, 405 South Harris street, Dodge sedan, found at St. Clair and Illinois streets. V. M. Concannon. 4612 East Michigan street, Ford coupe, found one mile west of Bridgeport on National road.

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Last Picture in Group Is Presented: First Prize Is $lO. Here is the fourth and final group of pieces necessary to assemble the Jigsaw puzzle, sponsored by The Indianapolis Times in conjunction with the Apollo theater. For the benefit of those newcomers interested in the contest, three distinct groups of pieces have appeared in The Times, and each group is vital in working the puzzle. Heads of four stars appearing in the new photoplay. “State Fair,” now showing at the Apollo have

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HUTESON FILES APPEAL: Real Estate Promoter Fights Mail Fraud Charge Conviction. Circuit court of appeals, Chicago, today has on file appeal of James F. Huteson, real estate promoter, from his conviction and sentence of seven years on a mail fraud charge, in federal court here, according to wire dispatches. Arguments have been set for Feb. 23. Huteson was convicted by a jury in November. Two other defendants in the case. Mel J. O Keefe ai\d William N. Dozier, who operated the "lunch and lecture" system of selling real estate lots here, also were convicted and given four year terms, which they are serving. A news story from Chicago a week ago erroneously stated the circuit court had refused to receive the appeal.

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