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the Vice Trust,” a purported | expose of white slave opera-| tions, as the feature picture. | It is released here through Capital Films, and has no

local sponsorship.

The film is one of a series ‘produced under auspices of Mrs. Wallace Reid’s antivice crusade, and is intended to disseminate information about underworld activities. Earlier films dealt with th® narcotic racket and similar vices. “Smashing the Vice Trust,” according to its distributors, draws its story from evidence presented in the trial of Charles (Lucky) Luciano, New York racketeer who is serving a 90syear sentence in Sing Sing after conviction on a white slave charge. Recruiting Is Shown Lombardo, the picture’s vice chief, opens the story with instruction to his henchmen to recruits more women for his brothels. These hench-

‘men are shown at work in night

clubs, high schools and even in the deep South, where a woman was sent to bring back daughters of her friends. The racket operates successfully because the victims fear death if they talk, and a city-wide good morals campaign instituted by Lombardo’s lawyer is a blind to hide the vicious enterprise.

Then comes a police expose, and |

|CONVENTION CLOSES WITH MERIT "OF U.S. COMPOSERS WELL DEFINED

the district attorney sums up in three minutes or less the story already told in 60, further emphasizing the racket’s shocking ramifications.

Sensation seekers will be disap- | pointed and moralists will not be

shocked by “Smashing the Vice Trust.” With exception ‘of one or two scenes which may be eliminated —and should be—before its public showing, the picture is no more “immoral” than the everyday movie run. : No Outstanding Actors Warner Brothers filmed a similar story, incidentally, in “Marked Wo‘man,” with Bette Davis in the leading role. The cast of “Smashing the Vice Trust” boasts no names that will interest you, and photography, direction and dialog are amateurish in comparison to Hollywood standards. Casting obviously was for character, with no regard for screen ability. : To the credit of the distributors, though, they claim no cinematic honors for their production. They say it emphasizes an unpleasant and

deplorable truth which has existed | and which | (By |

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Film Scheduled

Spanish Here May 8.

“Spain in Flames,” depicting the struggle of Spanish Government forces against General Franco's armies and other aspects of the Spanish Civil War, is to be shown in Indianapolis on May 8.

Sponsored by the Indiana Friends |

of Spanish Democracy, the documentary film will be presented in Amalgamated Hall, 168 West 9th St. “Spain in Flames” is said to have been photographed almost entirely in Spain, and shows not only fighting, but traces background of the revolt. Spanish Ambassador Fernando de los Rios introduces the picture, relating Spanish governmental developments from 1932 to 1937.

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

“Wake Up and Live,” wie Walter Winchell. Ben Bernie, ice Faye, Patsy Kelly. at 11:29. 1:29, 3:29, 5:29,

7:29 and 9:29. CIRCLE “The Woman I Love. with Paul * Muni and Miriam Hopkins. at 12:40, :50, 7 and 10:15. Also “Her Hus- * with Ricardo Cortez, at

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INDIANA “Smashing the Vice Trust.” based on Charles (Lucky) Luciano's trial. Also ‘High School Girl” LOEW'S “The Good Old Soak,” with Wallace Beery. at 11, 1:49, 4:33, 7:27 and 10: Also “Elephant Boy,” with Sabu. at 12:24, 3:13. 6:02 and 8:15. LYRIC

“Night Key,” with Boris Karloff, at. 11:42, 2:30. 5:18, 8:06 and 10:25. Fats Waller and troupe on stage, at 1:06, 3:54, 6:42 and 9:30. OH1

“The Great O'Malley,” with Pat O’Brien. iso “Racing Lady,” with Ann Dvorak. AMBASSADOR NB eady, Willing and Able.” with uby eeler. Also ‘John Meade’'s oman,’”’ with Edward Arnold. ALAMO

“Girl Overboard,” with Gloria Stuart. Also to the Races,” with Slim Summerville.

stars in “Elephant Boy,” to pose with Iravatha, his elephant. Iravatha became a movie star and was donated to the Royal Zoological Society of London he belonged fo an Indian maharajah, and is said to

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Beery in “The Good Old Soak.”

Rudyard Kipling's “Toomai Elephants,” opens today at Loew's. The second picture stars Wallace

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By JAMES THRASHER

The National Federation of Music Clubs convention, now departed from the city, has left us numerous happy memories. Significant among these is the pleasant thought that i there is a good bit of worthwhile | music being produced by presentday American composers. !

There is, to be sure, a great welter of mediocre stuff being put on the market, and convention audiences heard plenty of that. But such things as R. Dean Shure’s “Circles of Washington” and Edgar Stillman Kelley's “Pit and the Pendulum,” played at last night's closing concert, and the Leroy Robertson Piano Quintet and Quincy ! Porter's String Quartet No. 3, heard | previously. give cause for rejoicing. | Hans Kindler and the National Symphony Orchestra rang down the convention curtain last night | with a. splendid program, liberally | sprinkled with new American works, land capitally played.

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In four movements, it subtitled Logan Circle, Dupont | Circle, - Observatory Circle and { Thomas Circle. Program: notes | would have been a boon as regards | the work's descriptive content. Most j of us are not too familiar with the {sort of people and traffic that fre[quent these various intersections {and their environs. The composition, however, can stand on its own merits as “absolute” music. Mr. Shure is a master of structure and orchestration. Like the late { Ottorino Respighi, he has glorified | his national capital in a brilliant | and colorful score. There is shim- | mering impressionism, a sturdy | chorale and fugue in the last "“Cir- | cle.” variety and virility throughout. | It is sane, healthy music by a man {who seems to know as much about | clear orchestral color as any American writing today. Both Mr. Shure and Dr. Stillman Kelley were present to receive the jpralonsed applause of a good-sized audience. The latter's “Pit and the | Pendulum” is excellent descriptive music with much of the eerie, shud- | dering quality of Poe's story. It is | pleasant to hear music by one who | does not teel it necessary to turn | his back upon the practicgs of yes- | terday’s composers. Yet’ there is

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velous and youthful old gentleman who, like Verdi, seems at the peak of his power though he has passed his 80th birthday. Other American works on the program were Mabel Daniels’ “Deep Forest,” an orchestral pastel less pretentious, but thoroughly enjoyable, and Harl McDonald's “Rhumba,” an exciting and tropical movement from a symphony of the same title, and distinguished by an overpowering volume of orchestral tone. Besides these there ‘was the gay, Mozartean Overture to Glinka's “Russlan and Ludmila,” the “Unfinished” Symphony in B Minor of Schubert, a lovely setting of Wagner’s equally lovely song, “Traeume” and, in conclusion, the stirring “Russian Sailors’ Dance” from Gliere's ballet, “The Red Poppy.”

Opinions Vary

As on Wednesday night, the sensitive, musicianly and authoritative |

Mr. Kindler and his men delighted | their listeners with performance of |

It might not be {ape propriate to mention here that some | differences of opinion on the or-| chestra’s merits resulted from ex-| traneous causes. Having listened to | the performances from both the or- | chestra and balcony, it seems only

fair to tell those who sat on the lower floor that they heard the musicians at a distinct disadvantage. The theater has many acoustical shortcomings which tend to deaden both torie quantity and quality. To hear the orchestra from the higher level was quite a different story.

The orchestra also gave a children’s concert yesterday afternoon. There was a varied and enjoyable program consisting of the Prelude to Act III of Wagner's “Lohengrin;” the Sarabande from Bach's Suite in B Minor for orchestra; the celebrated Boccherini Minuet; the first movement of the “Unfinished” Symphony; Jarnefelt’s Praeludium; the “Old Trysting Place” by MacDowell; Charles S. Skilton’s “Indian War Dance” and Chabrier’'s “Espana.” There also was a demonstration of the orchestral instruments, in which the players seemed to have even more fun than the youthful auditors. C. C. Chappel, the orchestra’s manager, offered explana-

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and music, and the performance | was conducted by Mr. Kindler’s able assistant, Francis Garzia. Other closing day events was a | discussion of music in religious edu{cation and a.concert of choral and organ music. Both sessions were held in the Roberts Park Church. Cook Praws on Bach The organ soloist was the accomplished W. Lawrence Cook of Louisville, who has appeared here in recital previously - this season, and whose musicianship and technical finish are well known. He drew upon Bach’s music to open his group, playing the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and two chorale preludes, “Alle Menschen muessen sterben” and “In Dir ist Freude.” Also heard were the Aria from Handel's Organ Concerto No. 10, a Sketch in F Minor by Schumann, the Franck Prelude, Fugue and Variations and Leo Sowerby's “Comes Autumn Time.” . The participating choruses were the First Presbyterian Choir of Charleston, W. Va., and the State Teachers Vesper Choir from Hat-

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Large Crowds Expected At Butler Fieldhouse For Performances.

With scarcely a breathing spell, Indianapolis and vicinity will plunge into another week of musical activity following the National Federation of Music Clubs convention, which closed here yes-

terday.

National Music Week opens Sunday, and will be ushered in locally by the second annual 125 Grand Piano Festival. The event has outgrown its title, for there will be 150 pianos on the floor of Butler Fieldhouse. One of the largest crowds in the building's history is expected, with advance seat sales already past the 20,000 mark for afternoon and evening performances. Cincinnati will claim national attention next week with its 32d annual May Festival, opening for five days on Tuesday. A great cast of artists will assist the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Goossens, in a gala occasion of new and - seldom-heard choral works. In addition the closing night will offer Wagnerian excerpts from “Parsifal,” “Goetterdaemmerung” and “Lohengrin.”

Wagnerian Stars Booked

Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior, greatest of present-day Wagnerian singers, will head the list of guests. Other Metropolitan stars engaged are Kathryn Meisle,

Frederick Jagel, Elisabeth Rethberg, Ezio Pinza and Julius Huehn. Many other noted singers will be heard, including Elizabeth Wysor, Agatha Lewis, Theodore Webb, Keith Falkner, Edward Molitore and Alexander Kisselburgh. The opening presentation will be Elgar's oratorio, “The Apostles.” On Wednesday night Mme. Plagstad will make her first appearance in Beethoven’s “Missa Solennis,” and later in the scene, “Ah, Perfido,” from the same composer's “Fidelio.” The Bruckner “Te Deum” will conclude the evening's program. A concert version of Mr. Goossens’ one-act opera, “Judith,” is to open the Thursday night program, with Mme. Rethberg in the title

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By United Press « HOLLYWOOD, April 30.—Lionel Barrymore, the crusty veteran of the screen, is 59 years old. In Hollywood, this meant he got a kiss and hug from Jean Harlow. ~ Barrymore's birthday was also the anniversary of his 54th year as an actor and his 27th in the movies. The studio held a surprise party. Besides the hug-kiss from Miss Har= low, he received a watch from Louis B. Mayer. Lionel, eldest of the “Royal Fam= ily” that includes Ethel and John Barrymore, made his stage debut in a crying-baby role at the age of five

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The St. Mary-of-the-Woods College will present Miss Berenice Brennan, harpist, in recital at 8 p. m. Saturday -in the college's Cecilian Auditorium at Terre Haute. Miss Brennan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Brennan, Indianapolis, will be assisted by Miss Martha Louise Smith, organist; Miss Marion Sherman, reader, and the college harp ensemble.

part. The program also will include the overture to Weber's “Oberon” and the aria, “Ocean, Thou Mighty Monster,” sung by Mme. Rethberg. Following this, D’Indy’s cantata, “St. Mary Magdalen” will be sung by Miss Wysor and a children's chorus.

“Requiem” te Be Flayed Friday night the colossal and cen-

tury-old Berloiz “Requiem” will be!

heard. In addition to a large chorus and orchestra, the work calls for four additional brass bands, 10 pairs of cymbals ana 16. kettle drums. These demands make performance extremely difficult, and the work has.not been heard at the Cincinnati Festival since 1912. The second half of Friday night's program will present the world premiere of an oratorio, “The Ordering of Moses,” by the eminent Negro composer, R. Nathaniel Dett. The closing night of Wagnerian excerpts will find Messrs. Huehn and Webb in the “Parsifal” Grail Scene; Mr. Melchior and Mme. Flagstad as the Siegfricd Bruennhilde of the “Gotterdaemmerung” scenes ,and the same two singers with Mme. Meisle and

rymore. He started in two-reel films in 1910. Lionel is four years older thin John, who was divorced again last week, and he still refers to the brother affectionately as “the boy.”

PURVIS RETICENT ON ROMANCE END

By United Press = LOS ANGELES. April 30.—Melvin: Purvis today declined to discuss the: breaking off of his romance with: Janice Jarratt, film actress, as they were about to be married. : The former Federal agent, credite ed with the capture and slaying of John Dillinger, was here long enough to dash from one train te another on his journey back to San Francisco, :

Messrs. Huehn, Pinza and Webb iny Act II of “Lohengrin.” :

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