Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1936 — Page 9

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JY ASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Present New Deal strategy is to undermine the prestige of the United States Supreme Court, to prepare the public mind for whatever Roosevelt decides to do about curbing the

court—if and when he decides to do anything at all, The court, not for the first time, has helped the Administration by a performance at which its critics

point a finger of scorn. Just before the political conventions, when it appeared that Republicans would make preservation of the court's powers a campaign issue, the justices handed down a 5-to-4 decision against the New York minimum wage law, a ruling so unpopular that the Republican “candidate thereafter publicly suggested a possible constitutional amendment. Court and Constitution faded away as big political issues. - Now the court is on the pan again because it split even, four justices against four, on the New York unemployment insurance act, approving as if by default a favorable decision of the lower court. If the lower court had held the act invalid, the Supreme Court deadlock would have had the effect of denying states the right to provide for unemployment insurance, tearing away a New Deal corner stone. And the fact that no opinion was written on either side gave the critics additional opportunity for ridicule. Chief Justice Hughes once said: “The Constitution is what the judges say it'is.” Thus, when the

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judges of the highest bench fail to say anything at.

all on a vitally important constitutional issue, New Dealers are given a chance to say that the court's procedure in the unemployment insurance case marks the ultimate in absurdity.

” » " Stone’s Illness F course it is assumed that if Justice Harlan F. Stone hadn’t been ill, the decision would have been 5 to 4 in favor of the New York law. General supposition is that Justices Hughes and . Roberts moved over from the conservative side to join the two other liberals, Brandeis and Cardozo. ‘ There is no assurance at all in this decision—as some writers seem to think—that the court will uphold the Federal Socidl Security’ Act. The HughesRoberts shift came in the easiest possible kind of a case for a justice who wanted to be temporarily liberal. * 2 2 = ‘No-Decision Decision’

T= “no-decision decision” proved that there are . still four die-hard justices—VanDevanter, McReynolds, Sutherland, and Butler—who not only refuse to “follow the election returns,” but flout them. The attitude of this quartet! is in interesting contrast with the recent conciliatory attitude of Big Business, which heretofore has regarded the court as its bulwark against social-economic change.

Mtrs.Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

ASHINGTON, Friday.—As I haven't time to ride I am trying|to train Jack, my setter dog, to walk -in the streets. | I came down Connecticut-av yesterday at a pace which I certainly would not have held had I been entirely on my own steam, but with a large red setter dog at the end of the leash I made very good time. | It was gray and looked like snow. all day Thursday, but Friday was a gorgeous day. Blue sky and fot too cold. I drove down to a place about 15 miles this side of Richmond to visit two friends of mine, an American and a Russian, who is now an American citizen. The American has order to get 'a degree

en studying in Richmond in hich will enable her to teach some of the social sciences. She has had all the practical experience necessary, for she worked in Russia eight years for the Quakers, came back for a holiday, found conditions in this country very inter-

esting and settled down to work for the Quakers again in the mining regions of West Virginia. Later she was made welfare commissioner for the county and headed most of the emergency relief work. — This is where I firsti knew her and I think I was attracted to her primarily because of the fact that, even though she was| a Quaker, she could show righteous - indignation. | Some very charming ladies who had spent a short time in Russia were telling her the virtues of the Russian system one day, and, 40 my Keen tically to she completely lost her tem.per and practically told them they knew nothing about it. | She finally resigned her job because of political pressure but I think of no one I would rather have young people study with, for she could illustrate from ‘personal experience many of the theories which mean so little when taught from books. There was very little traffic on the road and we made good time. Our directions were so good we found the house without any difficulty. Lunch was ready on our arrival and we had Russian tea, which always seems to me like my own special brand, and those very delicious rolls filled, this time, with ham and cabbage, though they can be filled with anything you desire. They had another Russian friend staying with them who took out her guitar and sang one or two Russian songs which had been favorites of Count Tolstoy. Then we walked along the banks of a charming little river and it was time to start back for Washington. Here we are again after a really delightful day.

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BY WESTON BARCLAY Times Special Writer

HEN Maria Jeritza was asked last year to go to Hollywood for a screen test she was buxom, blithe and debohair, with

the accent on the buxom. She had dcted for the movies in Europe. She knew that a woman who is pleasingly plump photographs fat as butter on the screen. She took off 35 pounds and arrived in California’ even more blithe and debonair than usual but far less buxom. She met Winfield Sheehan, for years the right-hand man of Wwilliam Fox, ata screen writer's party, As she puts it, their romance “just

galloped along.” Instead of -acting for the movies she was married to Mr. Sheehan in the Franciscan Mission at Santa Barbara. To date they have lived happily ever after. . The ages of opera stars are not as firmly fixed in the public mind as their other attributes, but Maria Jeritza is at least 42 now, perhaps older. Like Mrs. Simpson, she is lovely to men who could attract the interest of women much younger. How do they keep their charms so long, these women who find rcmance after 40? What keeps their skin fresh, their eyes sparkling and their hair lustrous? Maria Jeritza eats like a horse, loves to sleep and has a rare quality of repose. She is still a glamorous lady. She was a bride at an age when many women sigh over the lost past, as they darn socks. But her formula for life might prove disastrous to imitators. Sometimes it causes trouble to Maria Jeritza. She would rather .sieep than anything else, Eating is a close second.

Left, Maria Jeritza, coming from the : old mission in Santa Barbara on ‘the arm .. of her new : ‘husband, Winfield Sheehan, one’ of Hollywood’s most eligible men.

Upper left, Jeritza as Salome 15 years ago.

L TOODLES,” she says, “oh, how I love noodles. I like them in many ways, noodles. I like

them very much in soup. Whipped |

cream: I am. very fond of, and chocolate. I eat:mountains of pastry. Yes, I like very much to eat.” For her ove of noodles she pays the usual penalty. Now and then she has to take off 30 or 35 pounds.

Her quality of répose may have done more than anything else: to keep her young. . “I am quiet—that is why I can sing for some one else at the last moment,” she explained when she was the leading star at the Metropolitan, | “I am ‘sure.’ I get excited just one minute before the performnce begins. That is terrible. I m sorry. But when I begin to sing it is all over. I am the person I am singing and inside I am quiet and far away.” One day she was at a doctor’s office, she related, asking him why she had a fever. Before he made. his diagnosis Emilio Gatti-Casaz-za, then director of the opera, was on the ‘phone. Marie Miller, cast for Octavien in “Rosenkavalier,” had been taken ill with a fever, at’ should he do, ‘what should he do?

U.S. Press, Warts and All, Is Still Best, Clapper Says

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

ASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Al-

most any one can—and nearly every one does—draw up his own indictment of the American press. American newspaper men can—as

many of them do—plead guilty to a substantial part of such indictments. But take the American press as it is, warts and all. If any other country has developed a press which works better in the long run for the public interest than ours, it has Deen kept a deep <international se-

Ouro is the censored, gagged and shackled press of the dictators? Oh yes, they permit “constructive criticism.” You know what “constructive criticism” is, the kind you don’t mind. The kind that gets under your skin. is destructive criticism. Dictators think that is bad.

life becomes a constitutional issue in black headlines. The public, which depends upon its . newspapers for information about important matters — this one happened to be interesting as well— suddenly discovers that. a situation which threatens the Crown itself has been concealed from it, except in {such word-of-mouth Bssip# as it could pick up. J 2 ” VER here we have been through a little press trouble also. It is .no secret that readers of some newspapers were not given a fair and. accurate picture during the 1e-

“Stop crying,” said Jeritza, “r ing.

“But ‘madam, what about your fever?” asked the physician, as she hurried out. - “That doctor,” she said, hasn’t found out yet what about my fever.”

“I do not like very much to sing

‘Rosenkavalier.” I do not like to be a boy.. I do not like to wear pants. My ankles get cold. But what can I do? Somebody must sing: The ‘audience can not listeh to nobody. And Mr. Gatti, he is ‘so nice a ‘man. He has great troubles. What can I say?”

” 2 s . ARIA JERITZA is of Czech origin. She was born. in poverty in the Moravian village of ‘Brun. = She sang first in Almitz and went to the Vienna Volksoper in 1912, She graduated into the state opera, not so much because of her voice; which was later to be acclaimed by critics throughout Europe and America, but. because of her beauty and youth. Old Emperor Francis Joseph was responsible’ for . her going to the state opera..- He heard her sing at his country seat at Ischl. He. asked, querulously, of whoever was in charge of his majesty’s opera at the time: “Why must I always look at

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cent presidential campaign. They were victimized by distortion, misrepresentation. Often the picture of the relative strength of Roosevelt and Landon was the opposite of that

Jhich the working newspaper men

who put the paper to press knew to

be the case. Reporters call that

lousy journalism. And the newspapers have been busy. ever since election trying to square themselves.

Portrait of Maria Jeritza

cugly:old. ‘Women when I go to the opera?” j “When the director of the theater protested that great singers were Hos b, young girls the Emperor re-

te is a beautiful young .blond creature in the people's opera. Bring her to my opera.” Thereafter she sang in the state opera and every summer she ‘sang at Ischl. Good training im‘proved her voice and it was not long before she was known as:the sweetheart of Vienna. That was more than 20 years ago. Last year when she went to Austria on her honeymoon she was still the principal lady of the country. Her marriage was discussed with as much interest as if she were a reigning monarch. Viennese were disturbed by’ her Arkansas divorce from Baron Leopold von Popper and her marriage to Mr. Sheehan.. Headlines in newspapers denounced her as. a bigamist under ecclesiastical law. She explained that she had left the Catholic Church to marry the ‘baron and returned to ‘it before she married Mr. Sheehan and that after study of the case by authorities of the church she was per-

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HE . threatened: not to sing. oo :

versy quickly: died down and she sang, receiving a tumultuous ovation.. She was awarded a medal by the government. All this so many, many years after she first

- went to Vienna.

All this because she is a fine artist? Not all of it. Part of it because she still looks like a burst of sunlight. If one inspects her carefully and critically her skin is not exceptionally good. She has a broad face, which betrays her Slavic origin. Her cheek bones are high. But her full mouth still is allur- - ing ‘as it always has ‘been. She has fine dark blue eyes under dark lashes. Her mass of golden hair

- is still gorgeous.

She is amazingly strong physically. She can tumble down stairs

working, it will have no effect whatever on her benefits. She will begin receiving at age 65 monthly benefits to which she is entitled provided her wages equal $2000 between Jan. 1, 1937, and her sixty-fifth birthday and she has been employed in five different calendar years during this period in some covered employment. For example, suppose a girl works in a shoe store and earns $75 a

month for 10 years, beginning. in

1937, and then marries. Her total

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in “Cavalleria,” jump off the parapet in “Tosca” (one of her greatest operas) or fall in “Thais” without fear that she is too fragile to take a few bumps. Even with the 35 pounds lost: she is not thin and critics speak of her charms as both generous and alluring. She believes that she is: so vigorous because she has lived simply and quietly. “Too much excitement,” she says, “too many parties, are bad. For a singer they dare bad. Friends

I have who come to see me, of -

course. But glamour? Off the stage? There is no glamour in my life off the stage. # #2 : AM not in sympathy with life in cabarets and cafes. The atmosphere is smoky. I do not like to dance. I am not much given to frivolity.” She left the Metropolitan in 1932 after 11 years of sensational success. She had been a favorite of New York siricé she made her

debut in Korngold’s “Dead City”

in November, 1921. That coincided * with Geraldine Farrar’s farewell. year and she soon took some of Farrar’s cherished roles, including. that ‘in Tosca. ‘Opera audiences remember. her not only for her voice and her “ Junoesque - beauty but her ‘acro~batics. Her singing of “Vissi - d’arte” in “Tosca” while flat‘ on her face, her table jumping in ihe “Dead City,” her voluptuous interpretation of “Carmen.” There is little doubt that if she stepped on the stgae of the Metropolitan again tomorrow she would fill the house. When Winfield Sheehan met her last year he found her as delightful as Vienna and New York have always found her. And so she dressed in a gown of peach lace, trimmed with blue satin, put on a big hat bearing pink . and blue flower feathers, picked up a bouquet of lilies of the: valley. and Tailsman roses, and went to the old mission in Santa Barbara to be married,

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Our Town

BY ANTON SCHERRER

OME stern disciplinarians, who have ous ‘welfare very much at heart, have dis= covered that Modern Art has been well served, if not positively benefited, by the res cent depression. I was disappointed not to

see the matter mentioned in the President’s Thanksgiving proclamation, but for some reason, he

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didn’t get around to it. He got awfully. close to 18

when he noted the general improvement in our health, -but ‘that’s as far as he got. Pi Maybe, it's just as well that the President stopped where he did, because as matters stand, it gives me a chance to say something about the amazing collection of prints, called “America Today,” now on view at the John Herrcn Art Institute. The prints were selected from all parts of the country, and show what American artists are up to today. Apparently, they are up to a Jot. Instead of fooling with a lot of static street scenes and pretty apples and flowers, which took up most of thetip time before the depression, American artists are now concerned with steel - mills, coal mines, dust storms, back yards, prize fights and the hundred and one other vital things that go to make up the , American scene and the New Deal, including the Supreme Court, which appears as exhibit No. 29, labeled “The Baseball Nine.” More and more, it appears that artists are finding it worthwhile to record the things outside their studios. Indeed, they go beyond mere recording, bee aus, if the present show is any criterion, our artists are just dying to tell us what is on their minds. Which is another way of saying that their pictures are filled with their reactions to and to life itself.

“Mr. Scherrer

” ”. ” “Socially Conscious’

T= is what is known in high circles as being “soe cially conscious,” and it’s probably what the stern

disciplinarians had in mind when they discovered the improvement in Modern Art.

It’s a good sign on the whole, because the closer

to ‘humanity

the artist can come to the Man-in-the-Street, the bet=

ter it will be for everybody concerned. It's a good

sign, too, because when you look back, some of our best etchers were socially conscious. Rembrandt, who lived 300 years ago, certainly was. And so were Goys, Daumier, Steinlen, Degas, Munch, Lautrec and Forain,

To come a bit closer home, SO was our own George :

Bellows. . Indeed, the more I think about the show at the Herron, the more it seems to me that it isn’t the re= sult of the depression at all, It's the influence of George Bellows, because embedded in the prints of* “America Today,” are ‘all the factors that made Bel lows one of the world’s giants in art. Here are to be seen his startling sense of the dramatic, his great love for .the “average” man—even the “forgotten” man—e his hatred of the mode and the status quo, his ine sistent Americanism, his sense of social conscience, and that little note of bravado that crops out in most, of Bellows’ work. » ” ”

Debt to Bellows : JERE, too, one senses the influence of Bellows’ draughtsmanship, the skill of his hand and the * keenmness of his eye. II the show at fhe. ‘Herron proves ‘anything at all, it proves the enormous debt our are tists owe George: Bellows. At any rate, the dépres=

sion hasn’t got.as much to do with it as the stern disciplinarians seem to think. All of which doesn’t-:mean, of course, that the Bel« lows’ point of view will guarantee a good picture, Neither does it mean that the choice of subject has anything to do with it. The sculptor Emile Gaudise sard summed up the opinion of us en the sidelines when he said: “There are no good:and bad stibjecte-w only good and bad artists.”

Hoosier Yesterdays

DECEMBER 5 A SALLES fortunes ‘were low, The Griffon, in which he had sailed from te.

Niagara frontier to Green Bay on Lake Michigan, had

been given up for lost while returning with a valuable

cargo of furs to satisfy the explorer’s creditors in i

France. His small band, while awaiting the Griffon’s arrival, was reduced by desertions. Skirmishes with Indians were frequent. With the arrival of winter, La Salle thought it une wise to remain on the frozen shores of Lake Michigan; On Dec. 3, 1679, he and his 32 men embarked in eight clumsy canoes on the St. Joseph River to find the portage which joins Mississippi Valley waters with those of the lakes.

Two days of paddling and poling brought the party

to what was thought the portage, and on Dec. 5, a landing ‘was made, supposedly where South Bend’s Miami-st meets the river. Here La Salle left the band, intending to look for the Kankakee from a hill top. lost, he spent the night alone, but found his way back the next day, and with the aid of an Indian guide, the party found the trail. On Dec. 7 the .canoes were launched again and the voyagers were on their way toward the Father of Waters.—By H. L.

Your Health

BY. DR. MORRIS -FISHBEIN Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal R all the wear and tear that it undergoes, the nose nevertheless is a delicate instrument. For that reason it should be handled with a. little more care than is ordinarily given it. Do not, therefore, submit it to unnecessary insults . and damage. If you must blow your nose when you have a cold, be careful not to blow it in such manner as to force the infected material from the nose through the eustachian tubes into the ears. " The small eustachian. tubes run from the back