Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1944 — Page 10

| |Bricklaying Canines Score a Hit

In Performan A troupe of four-legged brick{layers, fully dressed for their jobs, put on one of the most remarkable dog acts in Indianapolis on the

DANCE EVERY SATURDAY Zr SKY HARBOR

BILLY EARLE and HERBIE BURKE

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WITH BURLESQUE REVUE AND GLORIFIED AMERICAN GIRLS

\ SATURDAY MATINEE, 2:30—THREE NIGHT SHOWS, 6:00, 7:30 AND 9:00 > CONTINUOUS ON SUNBAY-—SATY RDAY MIDNIGHT SHOW AT 1 :30

€ Gay Nighties Revue,”

ce on Circle Stage

many as four’ instruments at one time.

the show was Chaz Chase, international comedian, who did a striptease act to the tune of “The Strip Polka.” The beauties of the show, “The were 24 of Harry Howard's showgirls. One of their most outstanding numbers was the finale, a salute to the united nations, with each girl wearing the costume of an allied country. On the Circle screen was “The Navy Way,” starring Robert Lowery and Jean Parker. (By Mildred Reimer.)

SCHEDULE RECITAL Rose Cecilia Houk, soprano, will appear in a graduation recital at

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3 p. m. tomorrow in the Odeon. Miss Houk will be presented by Charles Hedley, chairman of the vocal faculty of the Jordan Conservatory of Music.

Every Saturday, Sunday Only

WESTLAKE

SUMMER OPENING TONIGHT

Harry McCrady’s Orch. Admission, 90c¢ Sat.; 60c Sun.

(Including Tax)

QL TTT TNE

EAST SIDE

2116 E. Tenth FREE PARKING Wm. Tracey “YANKS AHOY” Ida Lupine “IN OUR TIME”

And! “MEMPHIS BELLE”

~—SUNDAY Thru WEDNESDAY — Richard Conte “PURPLE HEART” Olson & Johnson “CRAZY HOUSE”

EMERSON, 30c

oa to 6 Olivia Cha Paulette DeHAVILLAND @ BOY} v R ® GODDARD “HOLD BACK THE DAWN"

Fred MacMurray—Albert Dekker “RANGERS OF FORTUNE”

Pat O’Brien “IRON MAJOR” Johnny Weissmuller—Nanecy Kelly “TARZAN'S DESERT MYSTERY” SUN “DESERT SONG” * “MY BEST GAL” Plus! “MEMPHIS BELLE”

BIGGEST BEST

Today & B® Cont, Mat. Tomorrow 12:45 to 6

Thos. Mitchell—Anne Baxter “THE SULLIVANS”

Richard Arlen—Mary Beth Hughes

- “TIMBER QUEEN”

EXTRA! ADDED ATTRACTION!

GALA CARTOON FESTIVAL

4 REVIVAL MINUTES OF FUN for the Entire Family With Donald Duck—Pluto—Goofy Bugs Bunny—Mickey Mouse EXTRA Added to Last Show TONIGHT ONLY!

Ginger Rogers—Cary Grant Once U pon a Honeymoon Box ce Open Till 11 P. M, MON Geo. Raft “SCARFACE” * C. Landis “TOPPER RETURNS" ER

2030 5:45 PARKER 7, |": 20c

Pat O'Brien “IRON MAJOR” Monty Woolley—Gracie Fields “HOLY MATRIMONY" SUN. i Rita Hayworth ‘YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER'

Cary Grant “SUSPICION” FE. Wash. at

PARAMOUN New Jersey

ADULTS, ie (Tax Ine.)—KIDDIES, 14¢

Don Barry—Twinkle Watts “MAN FROM RIO GRANDE” “Strange Death of Adolf Hitler”

SUN. & MON.—2 Big Hits

Walt Disney's Feature Hit

SNOW WHITE & T DWARFS

Soi “TORNADO” MECCA N. dle Kae Nm

“BLACK MARKET RUSTLERS” Richard Dix “GHOST SHIP" St NDAY-— Deanna Durbin—Jos. Cotten “HERS TO HOLD" Ed Buchanan “TOMBSTONE”

ELlilil DEF] Rita Hayworth—Gene Kelly

“COVER GIRL” .n

Richard Arlen—Mary Beth en TIMBER Qu EEN

mt cmtmam——— TUXEDO 4020 FE. New York IR-0022 Johnny Weissmuller—Naney Kelly “TARZAN'S DESERT M) STERY' __"BOMETHING ABOUT A SOLDIER”

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Riehard Dix _ Dennis Morgan * | 00 E. WASHINGTON « GULLIVANS

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CORVETTE K225

CETL Ede NORTH SIDE

“GHOST SHIP” ‘DESERT SONG”

ES oc at Fall Creek Olivia DeHayilland—Sonny Tufts “GOVERNMENT GIRL” ' Maureen Bara john Garfield Ww”

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“JOURNEY FOR MARGARET” GENTLEMAN J

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SUNDAY ..iiiriis seicer BELMONT Belmont y- Ww. W. Wash.

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ORIENTAL

TALBOTT T0433 Open 1 P. M. Cont, Showing a Lupine “IN OUR TIME” Wm, Bendix “I “LIFEBOAT”

UPTOWN

Rita Hayworth—Gene Kelly

“COVER GIRL”

Color

Donald Woods—Elyse Knox “80'S YOUR NCL

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In Person

MURAT SAT. JUNE 3 THEATER SUN. JUNE 4

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Vic Hyde and his one-man band did numerous imitations of popular| Tuesday band leaders while he played on as

Purnishing the slap-stick part of |p.

Rita Hayworth—Gene Kelly

“COVER GIRL” ...

Color

| Henry Fonda “OX-BOW INCIDENT”

lly Brown “ROOKIES i BURMA” Wally Br OKIE ir

T NIGHTS

Opening Wed,, May 24 Nightly at 8:30 P. M.

UN. “TARZAN'S DESERT MYSTERY”

nl 1502 Roosevelt | ‘Hollywood 1 Merle Oberon “THE LODGER™ “FUGITIVE FROM SONORA" SUN “IN OUR TIME” * “OLD BARN DANCE”

rie ESQUIRE:

Tonite Thru Suite

roller skating

Tuesday 5:45 to 6

30c Rita *; Fred Hayworth Astaire

“YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH” Jean Robt.

Arthur x Cummings Chas. Coburn—Spring Byington “THE DEVIL & MISS JONES”

"16th and Open Daily | Delaware 1:30 P. M. | Ida Lupine “IN OUR TIME” { Merle Oberon “THE LODGER” | Sunday Thru Wednesday

Loretta Young—Fredrie March

“BEDTIME STORY” |

Henry Fonda—Don Ameche “MAGNIFICENT DOPE”

(ETE) ILLINOIS

Randolph Seott—J. Carroll Naish “GUNG HO” Joe E. Brown ‘“‘Casanova in Burlesque” Color Cartoon Riot—Late News

SUBURBAN

Edw. G.

¥ Robinson “DESTROYER” 4 Andrews Sisters—Harriett Hilliard Rd & a 'SWINGTIME JOHNNY”

2 i PENDLETON PIKE Opp Fort Harrison

WEST SIDE _ STATE 2702 W. Wm. Boyd

Tenth {Hopalons Cassidy) “SECRETS OF THE WASTELAND” Mary Carlisle “BABYFACE MORGAN” SUN.—0 DeHavilland—Robt.

Cummings “PRINCESS O'ROURKE” “GHOST SHIP”

Richard Dix

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Fddie Bracken—Betty Hutton “MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK” Ann Savage * oe ONDIRE KATE”

| THE MOST BEAUTIFUL

THE MOST FASCINATING THE MOST THRILLING SHOW OF THEM ALL!

CINEMA — “In Our Time” and “The » Tomorrow through Tuesday: time . Story” and ‘Magnificent

DAISY—“Chance of s Lifetime” and “Empty Holsters.” Tomotrow Monday: “Cover Girl” arid “Memphis Belle.”

RIVE-IN—‘“Destroyer” and “Swing Time b Tomorrow through Wednesday: “Ghost Ship” and “Higher and Higher.” EMERSON—"Hold Back the Dawn” and “Rangers of

and “Prisco Kid."

ESQUIRE — Through Tuesday:

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CURRENT FEATURES

CIRCLE n St “The Gay Nighties Rewer at 102, 3:57, 6:52, 9:47 and 12:42. Navy Way,” with Robert and sens Parker, at 11:20, 2:18, 5:10, 8:05, 11 and 1: EB : Sith]. 3b show, at 13:47, 3:02, 517 grt and 9:4 Wo. oy" at 1:45, 4, 6:15, ow and 1

LOEW'S “See Here, Private Hargtoves » with Robert Walker and

Reed, at 11, 11:06 and 1:33. Sunday — “Private Hargrove,” at 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 and 10:10. KEITH'S , “Monkeyshines of 1944,” * at 1:51, 4:22, 6:53, 9:14 and 11:45. with Warren William , at 12:15, 2:46, 5:17, 7:48, 10:09 and 12:40. Sunday—Stage show, at 2:06, 4:27,

1:24, 3:48, 6:13, EO

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6:58 and 9:19. “Passport,” at 12:30, 3:01, 5:22, 7:53 and 10:14, INDIANA

“Lady In the Dark,” with Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland, at 11:12, 1:22, 3:32, 5:42, 8:55 and 10:05. Sunday—“Lady,” at 12:27, 2:48, 5:09, 7:30 and 9:48. LYRIO “Women In Bondage,” with Gail Patrick and Nancy Kelly, at 12, 2:40, 5:20, 8 and 10:40. “The Sultan’ s Daughter,” with Ann Corio, at 1}, 1:40, 4:20, 7 a d 9:40. Sunday—"Women, at 2, : 3, 7:20 and 10:10. “Sultgh’s Daughter,” at 12:58, 3:30, 6:15 and 9:10.

CIVIC

Today Only—‘Here Comes Mr. Jordan,” with Sidney Mason and Rone

Yee Ook Bis 10a “Dev ant Ys ae ding al het —“Cover Girl” and “So's Your | FOUNTAIN SQUARE Tuesday: | Uncle.” Tomorrow rough Tuesday: | “The Sullivans” and Queen” | “The gullivans: and ‘Him Good | % ana "Romane Hy in Flatbush" Ai : “Romance Tomor- | YOGUE—*Jane Eyre’ : row through Tuesday: Bea- Letter Darlin i 0 bees” and “Prisco Kid.” | Te Tuesday: Purple Heart" How hott GRANADA—Through Wednesday: “Cover| * Gay

Girl” and “Submarine HAMILTON —Yanks Be ha and “In Our Tomorrow

Lodger” and Sonora.” Tomorrow through : "In Our Time” and “The Barn Dance.” . ‘Through tomorrow: “The Sullivans” and “Corvette K-225." MECCA “Black Market Rustlers” and ‘Ghost Ship.” Tomorrow through Tuesday: “Hers to Hold” and “Tomb-~

olin, ; LD TRAIL—“Wagon Tracks West” and’ "Rey Best Gal.” oRENTAL "Ne of Morgan's Creek.” BAL None S\all Escape” and O'Rourke.” Tomorrow and “A Guy Named Joe” and "Cast bays in Burlesgue.” ARAMOUNT—"Strange Death of Adolf Hitler” and “Man From Rio Grande.” Tomorrow and Monday: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and ‘‘Tornado.” PARKER— “Tron Majo!” and “Holy Matrimony.” Tomorrow through Wednesday: “You Were Never Lovelier” and Sus-

piston.” "“Ox-Bow Incident” and “Rookies in Burma.” Tomorrow through TuesLifeboat” tery.”

TZ—* ‘Gung Ho” and “Casanova in Burlesque.” Tomorrow through Tuesday: “Jane Eyre” and “Prisco Kid.” RIVOLI—Through tomorrow: ‘The Sul-

and ‘“Tarzan's Desert

livans” and “Timber Queen.” Last show tonight only: “Once Upon a Hopeymoon.”

ST. CLAIR—‘‘Cover - Girl” and “Timber Que een.” Tomorrow through Tuesday: “The Sullivans’ and “Hi, Good Lookin’. ug SANDERS—“Girls in Chains” and “The Kid Rigee Again.” Tomorrow and .. Desert Song” and “Rookies

SHERIDAN... “Tron Major” and “Tarzan's Desert Mystery.” Tomorrow through Wednesday: “Desert Song” anc “My Best Gal.”

ZARING— “Government Girl” and “Fallen a row through Tues“Journey Margstef” and tleman Jim.” <

day: “Gen

SPEEDWAY" Miracle of Morgan's Creek” |

and “Klondike Kate.” Tomorrow and Monday: iy Girl” and “Doughboys in Irelan STATE—' a ‘of the Wasteland” and “Baby Face Morga an.’ through Tuesday: “Princess O'Rourke” and ‘Ghost Ship.” Girl” and “Timber Queen. Tomorrow through Tuesday: “The Sullivans’ and “Hi, Good Lookin’ STRATFORD ‘The Lone Prairie” and “Ghost Ship.” Tomorrow through Tuesday: “In Old Oklahoma” and “Submarine Alert.” TACOM A—' ‘Ghost Ship” and Song.” Tomorrow through Tuesday:

ald Skyrme, at 8:30.

Our © Time."

‘‘Tarzan's Desert Mystery” and

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BALANCE—Following a conservative policy. for each dollar paid out in dividends, the Company retained mere than twice that much in the business.

INTEREST AND RENTALSThis represents amount paid for use of bondholders’ money to provide our service.

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DEPRECIATION — If good service and equipment are to be maintained, adequate amounts must be provided to day. replace our facilities as they wear out. :

Transit Service is Vital

The war has demonstrated how essential public transit service is to the welfare of this community. To keep war workers flowing to war plants, to

for necessary civilian pursuits such as schools, shopping and recreation—all of this is our wartime responsibility which we have readily and

Wo artime Burdens are Great

Service has been strained and our vehicles have been greatly overloaded, there has been a shortage of operators and mechanics to run the system, but

Three times during 1943 Indianapolis Railways attempted to obtain new vehicles without success.

capital already has more transit service than many other cities of similar population density.

New Peaks of Riding

Wartime restrictions on automobiles, plus incteased employment, caused riding on the system to skyrocket to 118,907,327 riders during 1943 compared with 95, 835,224 passengers in 1942. This was a 24% increase in riding, but had to be accommodated with a fleet of 420 heavily burdened vehicles which we could neither replace not

What About Our Earnings?

Even though we had a 24% increase in riding during 1943, the net earnings of the Company slumped to $155,875 during the year, compared 1943 werehigher thanin 1942 butincreased wages; )

essential employees in supply needed service

with what we have.

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earnings for costs of materials and :

Here's What Happened to the di

and dollars you spent for our service during 1943 + « +

How Each Dime We Received Was Spent

TAXES — During 1943 our taxes amounted to about $2,900 daily. or the equivalent of 29,000 ten-cent fares each

supplies, and additional depreciation needed because of unprecedented wear and tear on our equipment completely offset this gain in revenue. Operating costs rose to $4,830,827 in 1943, the highest in the history of the Company, compared with $3,682,784 during 1942. The seriousness of mounting operating costs is best demonstrated by the fact that the Company obtained from all sources a gross revenue of $4,228,412 in 1938, the last strictly pre-war year, which would not have been enough to pay our operating costs alone for 1943, to say nothing of taxes, depreciation, interest, etc.

Manpower Problems Mount

Transit service is provided twenty-four hours a day. It requites competent workers. Employees, on the job, worked harder in 1943 to maintain our heavily burdened schedules. During the year we had 1,336 employees and this was far from being an adequate number. But it was a 10% increase over the 1,209 employees we had in 1942. A total of 173 had left us by the end of 1943 for patriotic duty in the military services, and many more had gone to other employment.

Wages Go Up-Up-Up During 1943 we paid out a total of $3,069,664 in wages (including an estimated $250,000 in retroactive wages) which was a 31.69% increase over 1942. Right now the bulk of our employees make 90c per hour straight time and $1.35 for overtime, plus other benefits such as vacations with pay, group insutance and special awards for safety and suggestions: Overtime begins after 44 hours =

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W Because Indianapolis Railways is striving earnestly to provide adequate and reliable public service under the most difficult burdens of wartime, this outline of facts from our 1943 Annual Report is published so that the public

may know how well we are meeting that great responsibility —and something of the problems we face in the future.

Taxes Mount Upward

Taxes for 1943 reached a total of $1,056,177, or approximately $2,900 per day. This amounted to 14% of our gross revenue and was an increase of 60% over our taxes in 1942 which were $659,026.

= v_, -_ = -r WAGES—0ur employees receive good wages. it takes almost half of every fare

we receive to pay them.

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MATERIALS—In serving the public during 1943, our vehicles operated » mileage equivalent to 710 trips around

Materials and Supplies

To meet the upward trend in riding, the-veaicle miles operated by the system rose to 17,757,045 miles in 1943, compared with 15,915,778 in 1942. The 1943 mileage was equivalent to 710 trips asound the world. This upward trend in service required additional

~ APG gallons of gasoline. POWER AND GASOLINE — This large item of expense mounted upward during the year as our service requirements increased and our burdened vehicles operated with reduced efficiency.

Plans for the Future

Everyone who uses our service knows our vehicles are rapidly wearing out. Because of this, substantial replacements should be made after the war when new equipment is obtainable. Due to the hard usage our equipment is experiencing, our depreciation requirements were $1,021,178 in 1943, which was an amount necessarily higher than the $941,759 set up for this purpose in 1942. While our earnings are inadequate to cover all post-war contingencies, reserve funds are being set up, to the extent possible, to keep our service modern and up to date when the time comes that we may be able to make these improvements.

Will the Riding **Boom* Continue?

We definitely feel that when the war is ended, and restrictions on the use of private autos are lifted, there will be a sharp curtailment in the use of our service. Wartime use has demonstrated the economy and convenience of transit service, and ~ .i0pe to retain many of these new riders by keeping our service attractive in postwar years. But there will be a definite slump. Unless we cai: greatly reduce our operating costs, or obtain a fare increase, or both, our ability to maintain ade-

endangered.

Grateful to the Public The Company and its employees have been stimulated throughout these trying war years by the co-operative and understanding attitude of the people we serve, and the public in general. Without this co-operation and sense of understanding the gigantic job that has been performed “would have been impossible. Likewise, our confi-

dence in being able to perform the even harder saskrof ihe fue would have boey shaken:

the world. ae materials and supplies, a great deal of which was’ difficult to obtain and most of it at a higher cost. - 2 We required 48,698,000 K.W. hours of electric = —~ power to operate the system in 1943 and 1,356,869

quate and modern public service will be grady, i

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