Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1940 — Page 13
THE IN SE whi Elbow Room Kick Gon e in His Business, At Premium ‘Mule King Says of Indiana
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James T. Cofer, 79, Got Start as Trader With Kurt Jooss Ouidoss Himself in Devising Charm-
Grandma’s $150. ‘ing "Spring Tale.'
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The British have a big lead in petitions for naturalization filed here in the last two weeks. Of the 123 petitions filed while Ww. A. Kiefer, Cincinnati, assistant district director of immigration and naturalzation, was here, 81. Were British subjects. : Germans were in second place: with 18 and Jugaslavs were third, with 14. Among the British, 12 were from England, an equal number from Canada, three from Scotland, three, from the British West Indies and
one from Newfoundland. There were three from Austria, now“part of Germany, and one from Danzig. Nine of the applicants are - Rumanians, eight Danes, seven Italians six Irish and five Greeks. There were four Dutch, three each: from Bulgaria and Sweden, and two each from Poland and Lithuania. Also petitioning for naturalization were’one Frenchman, one | Slovas,
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The loan:of $150 from his grandmother’s old blue china pitcher started James T. Cofer on a mule| trading business that led him to the title of “Mule King of Indiana. it He celebrated his 79th birthday Saturday at his home at 2127 N. Meridian St. The Spencer Hotel was his headquarters for 18 years during the time he was doing, according to his count, more than $8,000,000 worth of mule business at the Union Stockyards. “I lived at Cecilia, Ky., on my father’s farm,” he recalls. “One day when I was about 17, I. got my eye on four of the prettiest fresh heifers you ever saw.
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“1 saddled up my horse and, rode to Grandma's that night and slept in the barn because I didn’t want ta» wake up the old folks. They lived just outside of Elizabethtown.” He says after he had breakfast the next morning he got around bh talking about those heifers. Hi grandmother went to a secret drawer in her bureau—it’s now about 110 years old and Mr. Cofer has it at his home—and gave him enough money to buy the cows. “I saved all the calves and when grandma got to the farm the calves had had other calves. I paid her back and rented 75 acres of land. I had a good corn crop and traded it with some cash for a half interest in a livery business at Elizabethtown.” From that time on Mr. Cofer was in the horse and mule trading business but his interest Jusg naturally went out to mules.
18135. ‘ Interested in Moles {|| For a little while after the war, “I got so I could tell how a mule business was booming along with was feeling and what he’d do the|everything else. A big mule in next day,” Mr. Cofer .says. “What's | good shape would cost about $300 more important I got to know |or more. ] : what| his owners were thinking| “Then the bottom dropped out of ‘about. That led to some pretty | everything,” Mr. Cofer says. “Farm goad trading.” lands went bad, cotton went down The cotton business was boom- | and tractors started coming in. The] ing thep and Mr. Cofer went to|last deal I made was. in the spring Atlanta, Ga. He bought mules from |of 1922, “I lost about $9000 and the North and sold them in the called it a day. South. : ! “My day was over.” “Those were wonderful days,” he . : says. ‘I've seen a cotton field with sixty plows and a mule on each ploy; That's a ‘mule man’s paras se.” -
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occasions, not only seats but even elbow room was at a - | pretium. For this appearance the European dance troupe offered two new ballets, both conceived and staged by their director, ‘Kurt Jooss. As is Mr. Jooss’ custom, one of these was “|cast in an| objective and somewhat classic mold, while the second was a dramatic creation combining
“message” (with mood. In “A a Tale,” to music by
James T. Cofer . . . “Sixty mules in a cotton field is a mule man’s paradise. id
more than*$17,000 worth of hay and $49,000 worth of other feeds. He was buying mules in and around Indianapolis 4 They came from the states -of / Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana. He shipped them to Louisiana,’ Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, Virginia and Mississippi. “In a typical day I'd drive 150 miles or so,” he says. “In the early days I used the interurban. John Wesley at Plainfield would call me up and say: Jim, I got some mules’.” 3h I'd say: ‘John, I'll be out on the first interurban. . Tell your wife to start making up some hot biscuits.’ His wife could make the best hot bread that was ever made.” During = the Spanish-American War and through the World War prices were good. A 15-hand, cotton mule would bring about $75 and a ig mule would cost from $110 to
PF. A. Cohen, the choreographer has devised .a charming fantasy which is the framework for some agile dancing, delightful humor and a dazzling array of costumes which are a treat to the eye. Mr. Jooss’ greatest success is with the more serious aspects. of the dance. Yet nothing in the traditional vein which he has presented here before has equalled the first item. on last night’s pr gram, , 6d Themes Mixed
This, it | goes ‘without saying, is ronly one spectator’s opinion. Yet Mr. Jooss| obviously has outdone “A Spring Tale.” It isa work crammed with exuberant invention. in the case of the individual dancers’ technique, their director builds his choreography upon an old and steady foundation, then departs upon an excursion of charming (originality. Following intermission came the evening’s | serious offering, called ica,” with a score by Berthold Goldschmidt. Here again is a commentary upon the world’s foibles and evils. But unlike “The Green Table” and the other most famous ballets of the Jooss repertory, this| is an allegory in motion, rather ‘than something contemporary and realistic. . “Chronica” tells the story of the stranger who comes to a medieval "Italian town, offers to rescue the grumbling citizenry from its aristocratic rulers and then, -having won over the ruling family, sets himselt up as dictator. He imposes a puri‘tanical code and crushes liberty beneath’ the weight of his cruel 1idealism. Eventually there comes a revolt. Clarissa, the ruling nobleman’s sister whe loves the dictator, pleads with him to avoid bloodshed and. retused, goes mad. The shocked| and shastened dictator tries to end the violence he has loosed. But only by throwing himself upon his own soldiers’ .spears does he bring the people to their ‘senses. and free the city. Ranks High Dramatically
Once again Mr. Jooss has given rein to his power to convince and
| Can it be that the disheveled, cosmetics lady is Joan Crawrord, and the bewhiskered contirinen are Ian Hunter and Clark Gable? Right! The trio has gane in for acting without benefit ‘of glamor in the film which opens Friday at Loew's. It's aptly titled © [Srange Cargo.”
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played a brief shot in which: they admired their two tiny shilfrgn, Then they moved to an adjoining set and were married. Strains of the wedding march subsided as the Ho Yous bride | and groom faced a movie minister. He ] 1 began to intone: Pray beloved, | rj, the technical expert, told them we are gathered—" it ‘was wrong. In a banana port, “Wahh-h-h!” howled a: baby. | he explained, all fruit that’s just = offstage. = “Yee-oW-w-w!" || ripe to stand the boat trip to his chimed the second iffant. Cast'| pnited States is dumped in a pile and crew whooped with laughter. | where anybody can help himself. Miss Johnson blushed. Nurses be- Pat O’Brien, the plantation gan soothing the youngsters. owner, was sitting in his_ office Presently the set was more tran- | when Andy Devine, his overseer, quil, but not still enough. Work- | came (in, “Sit ‘down,” said the men shuffled their feet; extras | poss, “I want to talk to you. I've whispered among themselves. Red | peen thinking—" Golden, an assistant director with | peyine flopped “into a chair, one | the voice and manner of a drill. arm of which broke off and fell sergeant, grew ‘impatient. | {5 the floor.“QUIET!” he yelled. The babies “I've. been thinking,” sald woke up and began to cry again. | o'Brien earnestly, without crack-: . 2 2B ing a smile, “that we'll either have “TORRID ZONE” is a story of | to get a larger chair or .a smaller
a banana plantation in Central | actor.” | America, and Warners’ Stage 6 for weeks has resembled a banana warehouse, Everybody's sick of ‘the taste, sight and smell of bananas, which are brought in by the truckJoad. There's a stalk of ’em in al-
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He came to Indianapolis in 1898. From that time untfl 1918 he did the business that accounted for his roval title. His books show $7,875,1000 paid out for ‘mules and 'horses. . He had a barn -that accommodated 400 mules at the, Stockvards. t Before he'd built! that, he'd already. paid out more than $15.000 for barn rental. In the 20 years he bought
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the telling use of mass movement, it .equals or even excels the more hjghly. dramatic creations: All this is saying nothing about Mr. Jooss’ gifted company. \They may, in “all truth, be called\ the Abbey. Players of the dance. Here, as in the Dublin players’ produc tions, one finds a total absence of | the “star system,” with every part a gem of perfection. Given only motion as a medium of expression, it verges on the miraculous that these dancers are never once “out of character.” However humble the individual tole. there was never a movement in “Chronica” which, one felt, did not proceed outward from a poised and deeply felt emotional conception.
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It is impossible to imagine any temperamental tantrums .within the Jooss ranks, when one has once watched the company at work. For|/ .| the dancer who is the star. of one number may give his efforts to a minor place in the f‘corps de ballet” of the next offering, without . the slightest letdown in the intensity ot the projestion. For instance, Ulla Soederbaum, the charming and ingenuous Princess of “A Spring Tale,’ strove equally in an anonymous / bit in “Chronica.” Hans Zullig proceeded from the handsome and/ romantic. Prince to his later role of the crabbed and contemptuous Town { Clerk, Elsa Kahl, who has proved [himself a truly magnificent tragic ~— mime g¢n previous appearances, brought all of her talent to relatively meager parts. last night.
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