Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1933 — Page 8

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Ricca Scott Titus; Figure on Stage Since Childhood, to Open Dramatic School Actress Prominent in Civic Dramas, Road Productions to Succeed A. J. Beriault; Recalls Thirty Years of Career. BY BEATRICE BURG AX, Times Homan's Pa*e Editor "T NEVER had a chance to be stage-struck/’ paradoxically hints the X early life of Ricca Scott Titus, who will open a dramatic school Oct 1 to succeed the late Arthur Beriault's School of Drama. But she adds. I never can remember the time when the theater did not come first in mv life—from the time I was carried on in a play at the eee of 6 months—to the time I wa carried off as Fanny Cavendish in *The Royal Family.’ ” Mrs Titus played with the Rankins. Drews and Barrymores since she

was 3. Her parlor trick at 2 was doing the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet” over the back of a chair. She remembers once flatly refusing to perform, and the penalty of her doting parents was "early to bed.” The Civic theater presented Mrs. Titus to Indianapolis audiences nine years ago after years of professional work, and she became the “star” of local productions Inevitably she w r as praised by critics and held her audiences breathless with her subtle interpretations. She made a gesture significant, and her voice, successfullv tuned to the characterization. Mrs. Titus’ recollections make her one of the “old guard. She can look back over thirty years of experience. when she acted with famous performers of the old school When she was 7, playing "Oliver Twist,” and sat beside McKee Rankin directing Nance O'Neill, he called her 'Madame Sarah Bernhardt.” “I’ve been told I slept in my father's trunk, until one time the lid fell down during a performance—and

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the people on the stage heard strange noises coming from the dressing room.” she recalled. "I understand it was I playing my first emotional part After that I slept on a shelf.” Known on English Stage

Her father, Julius Scott, was a Bhakesperian actor, her mother one of the five Allen sisters, and Louise Allen her aunt, married William Collier, the stage comedian The Allens came from a line of English actors—both her grandmother and grandfather were known on the English and Australian stage over half a century. “For hours and hours I’ve sat at rehearsals —one of the vivid impressions being, when I was a little girl in the Charles Frohman productions. Our director held up the rehearsal several hours while he had Dick Bennett, now’ the famous Richard Bennett, walk across the stage to close a door,” she said. “It was his first engagement, and every one thought he was a poor actor. Twelve years ago I played with him In New York in The Unknown Purple' and he gave one of the most beautiful performances I've ever seen on the stage ” Mrs. Titus studied mostly with her mother in dressing rooms and during the summer with a governess, who insisted on her taking French. Cast in Guild Play “I didn't care or know one gender from the other, and the extent of my knowledge seemed to be ‘to please pass me the salt.’ I never felt the need of knowing any language until I was cast for the New York Theater Guild play, 'At Mrs. Beams.' presented by the Civic theater,” she said. “In reading the part over. I found a whole page of French. It simply staggered me because it is one of the traditions of the theater that >ou must do everything given to you. Lack of knowledge is no excuse. “I phoned Rosamond Van Camp, who speaks French beautifully, explained my trouble and that all I knew of French was to ask for salt. Would she please come down to decipher it for me? We met at a drug store near the theater, and for an hour and a half, I studied French. ’ When we came to the scene. George Somnes. director, stopped me in the middle of a sentence, which was almost fatal for me. because when I started. I dare not stop; I could go forward, but I could not go backward. “He told me I would have to give It a much flatter accent; that I was not supposed to know or understand

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French as well as I seemed to. I could not resist the temptation, when I thought of that hour and a half in the drug store, to tell him I was so sorry—but I only spoke perfect French and it would be difficult to slaughter the language. So you see the pretense isn’t always on the stage; much of it is behind the scanes.” Mrs. Titus enjoyed playing Fanny Cavendish, because she played with all the Barrymores about whom “The Royal Family” supposedly was written. “I have lived in real life many of the things we talked about in the play,” she explained. Smoke Fills Theater “One such incident was recalled to mind when Julie Cavendish said, ‘Cyclone or earthquake, fire or flood, but somehow you still give the play.’ 1 once played in a theater in New York, which slowly was filling with smoke. A house next door was on fire, but we didn't know that, and kept right on with the show to the end. By keeping on we did much to avert a panic.” Mrs. Titus played with Stuart Walker stock companies at Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Huntington. W. Va., and other road productions and vaudeville skits. For several seasons she has directed plays of the dramatic club, a private organization of social leaders. Mrs. Titus knows much about technique to teach her pupils; she's learned from directors like David Belasco, McKee Rankin, Charles Frohman, George Somnes, Stuart Walker. Knows Trouper's Spirit She knows the spirit of the trouper. She advises. "Never try to make a personal achievement. Nothing in the drama is personal Trust the director to know more about a play and players than you think you do. The responsibility is his and you only can make a personal success in a play by the characterization you produce." Ricca Scott Titus will be devoting most of her time to her school and the dramatic club: Civic theater followers will miss her portrayals, the brilliance and finesse of her characterizations. P.-T. A. to Give Tea An informal tea will be held from 2 to 2:30 Tuesday by the P.-T. A. of School 33 in the school library. New mothers of the school will be special guests and will be addressed by William A. Hacker, assistant superintendent of schools. Mrs. Lang fritz Hostess Mrs. Fred Langfritz was hostess for a luncheon tdday with the Park Avenue Neighborly Club members as guests.

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Mrs. Harold B. Tharp heads a team in the annual membership drive of the Civic theater, which opened Monday and will continue through the week. Mrs. Oscar Baur is general chairman of the campaign.

Manners and Morals BY JANE JORDAN'

Tell your troubles to Jane Jordan who wil help you solve them by her answers in this column. The more prob:ems we have, the more interesting the column. Make your contribution today! Dear Jane Jordan—l have been married fifteen years. A few years ago my husband started an affair with another woman in the business where he is employed. I have tried never to let him know that I knew about it, but sometimes it is very hard. I could expose him and the woman, but it only would mean that he would lose his job, and she, too. That wouldn’t separate them. It probably would make them think more of each other. I want to give them all the rope they need and I think they will hang themselves. I married my husband for love and I will not divorce him or give him grounds for divorce. But if any of your readers have had this same experience and have won their husbands back. I would like to hear how they did it. I am not so bad to look at, nor am I dumb. FAITH. Answer—Very few women have your common sense. When their husbands fall in love w’ith another woman they insist on making a bad matter worse by staging constant scenes. They can not see that all

the recriminations in the world will not restore one jot of the lost affection. On the contrary. it widens the breech so that it never can be bridged. A woman in the off-corner of the triangle never has anything to gain by being nasty. She can not know whether divorce or reconciliation is in the offing. Either

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way she should keep her poise and handle the situation with tact and dignity. If reconciliation is desired ardently, she should guard her tongue with the utmost care for fear of hopeless estranging the already alienated husband. I beiieve that the vast majority of philandering husbands would get over their fancies if their foolish wives would refrain from providing the powerful stimulus of opposition to their affairs. If only they could remember that very wise saying that diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your own way! You instinctively grasp this fact when you state that exposure only would make your husband and his inamorata think more of each other. When an illicit pair is put hopelessly in the wrong by an overwrought wife, they become totally dependent upon each other for the only sympathy they receive, and this is fatal! No smart wife would allow it to happen! There follows a letter from a woman who worked out the same problem, successfully. If others have a passage in their experience to help you. I shall be glad to publish their letters. a s u Dear Jane Jordan—l had my husband tell me at one time that he loved another woman and myself. also. I knew that was impossible, but I just told him that as long as he kept on loving me that was all I cared about. The affair didn’t last long after that. I have him back now, all to myself. I'm sure of that. He treats me like a queen. He never leaves the house without me. He waits on me hand and foot when I'm the least bit under the weather. I'm the happiest woman alive today. We have four children, with the fifth one on the way. but even that can't dampen our spirits. We have peace, contentment, love

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and happiness. Who could ask for more? ONE WHO WON. Answer —It is too bad that many another wife will not take a leaf from your book! # u tt Dear Jane Jordan—l am going with a boy 19. I am 21. We are very much in love with each other. He often talks of marriage,, but I don’t know how we would get along as man and wife since I am two years older than he is. It seems like the man should be older than the woman. Do you think it makes anv difference? MARGE. Answer—l do not think that two years difference in ages makes any difference one wa3’ or another, but I can not look upon a 19-year-old boy as good husband materal for any one! If I were you I'd let him grow up before I thought about marrying him! tt tt tt Dear Jane Jordan—l have been going with a boy 20. I am 21. We cared for each other a lot. Then we fell out. He was going out with a girl who had a very bad reputation. He begged me ■ not to quit him, saying he had let his desires get the best of him. When I quit him he went around for weeks looking like he didn't have a friend in the world. Now the girl has quit him. He has told some of my friends that he’d take me back any day I'd come. What would you do? LONESOME. Answer—l think the conciliatory measure are decidedly up the young man. He probably isn’t any different from hundreds of others except that he wasn’t clever enough not to get caught! MISS KINGHAM TO BE HONOR GUEST Miss Maxine Quinn will entertain at her home, 3616 Salem street, tonight in honor of Miss Helen Lucille Kingham, whose marriage to Frank J. Miller, son of George S. Miller of Niagara Falls, N. Y., will take place next month. The brideelect is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Kingham, 1540 Barth avenue. Guests will be Mrs. Kingham, Mesdames Robert B. Berner, Noble Hiatt, Wilbur E. Smith, B. A. Sunderland and Paul D. Whittemore, Misses Mary K. Campbell, Mary Carriger, Dorothy Duesenberg, Ruth Emigholz, Louese Headrick, Pauline Howard. Harriet Kistner, Helen Miller, Nellie Modin, Katherine Rubush, Louise Rundell, Eldena Stamm, Betty Stone and Frances Westcott.

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Patrons for I;A.C: Dance Are Chosen Opening Social Event to Be Held Saturday Night. Patrons and patronesses of the Indianapolis Athletic club, which will hold its opening social celebration Saturday night with a dance at the clubhouse, have been named. The following will assist at the dance: Messrs, and Mesdames Joseph Stickney, Bowman Elder, W. Ray Adams. Arch V. Grossman. T. Lorin Driscoll, William J. Mooney Jr., George S. Olive, Wilbur Shook, E. S. Retter, Ralph Reahard, Russell Willson. Richard Shirley, John E. Speigel, J. V. Stout, R. C. Fox, Frank Woolling. C. M. Bryan. Henry E. Todd, A. R. Jones, Raiph Knode, Otto Eisenlohr, Marcus Warrender, William Wemmer, W. I. Longsworth, Joe Rand Beckett. Remster A. Bingham. Ralph Ittenbach. Walter I. Hess, George Steinmetz, W. B. Williams. Henry C. Churchman and John Keough. Others assisting with hospitalities include Messrs and Mesdames William V. Ascher, E. O. Marquette, Clyde Bowers, A. E. Baker, Henry G. Dollman. C. F. Barney. W. H. Jarrett, E. B Oscars. D. D. Cutright, C. L. York, Leonard G. Simmons, Joe Cain, Leroj’ Sanders, Fred R. Clarke, Harold Ames, J. W. Carmack. Fred Shumaker, John A. Welch, George Abbott, Harry Herff, T. H. Bedell, M. S. McComas Jr., G. B. Supple, John A. MacLeod, Norris Shelby, Dudley R. Gallahue, Frederic Hadley, George F. Hilgemeier, Thomas Madden, Charles A. Greathouse, Blaine Miller Jr. and Sam Allen. Messrs. Edward Harter, John K. Parry, Lyman S. Ayres, James R. Chase, George A. Reilly, William B. Ansted Jr„ Charles Rauh. Oscar Kaelin, Ben Domont, Howard Intermill, R. L. Gehrt, James S. Watson, Don Kaga, Francis E. Fitzgerald and Hobson Wilson. NORA M. BRYANT WEDS C. F. BOOZE • Mr. and Mrs. William Bryant. 1034 Euclid avenue, have announced the marriage of their daughter, Miss Nora Bryant, to Clarence F. Booze, son of Mrs. Flora E. Booze. The ceremony took place Sunday at the Memorial Presbyterian church, with the Rev. William H. Kendall reading the service. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Mary Lou Bryant, and John T. Andrews was best man. The couple left for Chicago and will be at home in Indianapolis after Oct. 1. Mrs. Rose Zeyen of Richmond, is visiting her son, Herman A. Zeyen, and Mrs. Zeyen, 2602 Graceland j avenue.

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Old Guard of Politics Blindly Ignores Women: but Danger Lurks Ahead Remember the History, of the Downtrodden Classes, Says Gretta Palmer; Our Statesmen Have Slipped, She Thinks. BY GRETTA PALMER Timr* Special Editor NEW YORK. Sept. 27.—There was talk of a few decades ago of the value of “the women's vote"—and it would be interesting to discover just what has happened to this mysterious and almost occult element in the franchise. For certainly no one nowadays mentions the women's votes as if they formed a single, dependable bloc. Have the ladies, then, split up? . There are women's Democratic clubs and women's Republican clubs listed in the telephone books of every important city in the country. These might prove to the simple mind that the women have been bid for by enthusiastic lobbyists of the old party affiliations and that they have finallv been brought into line. But is it true? Are these women who take the soapbox so cheerfully at the request

of the cigar-chewing district boss really party members or are they still loyal to the party of feminists, longing for a break for their ignored and trampled sex? The second possibility seems far more likely. The orthodox parties have not treated women with any great consideration—they have curiously ignored the potential value which might- so easily have been reaped from a stalwart defense of the women's cause. And there is a great deal of unattached and unclaimed loyalty floating about the country in the breasts of the women voters, about whom no political person seems to care. a st tt The New Trend of Polities THE Old Guard, it seems, have slipped up on a piece of political strategy’ so simple that it was beyond their subtle wits: They have failed to notice

that a different complexion crept over the political scene as soon as fifty million women were allowed the ballot. And that it was the newer parties —the dangerously radical ones, from their point of view—which welcomed a feminine vote as being as good as a man’s There are 50.000.000 liberals in America, and all of them can vote, as women. There are 50,000,000 women who are equipped to take advantage of the fact of the feminist equality—so.ooo.ooo women who are prepared to use their power to assist the groups which have suffered for such irrevelant reasons as women used to suffer. Fifty million women who are forced to be liberals because it was only the liberals, once, who gave them any sign of sympathy. And that, it seems, is an element which the political wiseacres have failed to understand—it is a single consideration they have most blindly ignored. For women, when once they had been given the vote, were in honor bound to be something other than the rubber stamp copies of their husbands’ preferences which they w’ere politically expected to become a o tt a a a A Dangerous Element THAT they may turn out to'be a dangerous and radical element in the voting set-up hardly can amaze any one who knows the history of the enfranchised and formerly ignored classes. Women, while they still looked upon the vote as a curious toy, were fairly obedient about casting it in any way which seemed to please their husbands. They w’ere cheerful about turning it to the uses of the domestic scene. But now. we believe, they have arrived at the stage where they understand its power—now they have accomplished the memorable feat of seeing just how important women may become in a state where half of the citizens are women and all of the citizens can vote. And they never may be politically tractable again Lebanon Pair Is Wed an d in the chapel of the Central .... * i Avenue M. E. church, with the Rev. The marriage of Miss Va oia D skinner officiating. AtMiller, daughter of Mrs. Minnie tendants were Mrs. John Hedrick Miller of Lebanon, to Gerald Miller and Mrs. Ernest Einhiple, both of of Lebanon, took place at 4:30 Mon- Indianapolis.

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