Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1947 — Page 11

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HAVE YOU EVER been to the Hemp room? No? Too bad, because it's really an “Interesting place. Of course, you've been to the Sapphire room and the Gazelle room. And yet the Hemp room doesn't sound familiar, Good, it makes things easier for me. You can find a ‘hémp room in any theater that handles stagé productions to any great extent, The ‘English theater has one, Loew's has one and the Murat temple has. a dandy. That's where I spent an evening. It's also the first “room” I've been in where you don't ‘have to spend a nickel to have a good time. The Murat temple hemp room is “gaily” decorated with miles of hanging hemp rope, hence it's name, The name, however, is not exclusive with the Murat, Thirty feet above and to the left of the stage is the place where flyman Mark E. Wisehart earns his bread and butter.’ * Now, a flyman is a person who takes care of the various backdrops and hanging stage settings from the fly floor of a hemp room. Pretty complicated stuff isn't it? But you should see the complicated mess of hemp rigging with which Mr. Wisehart works with on split second cues from either the performers or his cue sheet. Even though the veteran flyman is working the current fast-moving Polack Bros. Shrine Circus he admits it isn't too strenuous a show,

Good Place to See Show

“TAKE A SHOW like ‘Up In Central Park’ where we had nine men workfhg—then you know you've got a job,” Mr, Wisehart said coiling a long length of hemp. ' Down below the clowns were performing their

HEMP ROOM PARTY—Mark E. Wisehart, flyman, knows his ropes at the Murat.

By Ed Sovola

.antics and the orchestra was getling ready for the overture. The hemp Yoom would be an excellent place to see a show if it weren't for the ropes in front, the double pin rails which hold them and the pile of ropes on the floor which makes standing tricky to say the least, A good thing to remember in the hemp room is to stand clear of the vicinity where the flyman is letting down one of the many backdrops. Hemp rope sliding across the ankle and the shin bone can become irritating as" I found out. The band just began to play the lively overture] when over the public address system, stage manager | Charlie Schlegel, called, “Mark—a sandbag is showing: in front of the first border light.” Mr. Wisehart hopped to the rope, and yanked the sandbag out of sight, He couldn't understand how the sandbag could have been hanging where it was because during the afternoon show it was behind the border lights. ; A possible explanation was that the trapeze and high wire artists could have been responsible since they check their rigging befdte every show. Besides that each wire artist hangs his own particular equipment. They like to be sure and after seeing some of their stunts, I too, would make sure—that the wire wasn't higher than two feet off the ground. . Mr. Wisehart doesn't, get to see a lot of the show because he's either coiling rope, pulling up a backdrop, checking sandbags or watching a performer for a “direct” cue to haul a curtain up. | During fntermission I found out that Mr. Wisehart started in the flyman business 50 years ago in Newcastle, Ind., at the old Alcazar theater. He came to Indianapolis 33 years ago and stayed. His hemp room knowledge takes him all over the city and often in neighboring towns when the work | at the English or the Murat slows down. “When I filed my income tax return,” Mr. Wisehart said, “I had 17 different withholding sheets.” *

Line Tests 2800 Pounds |

I WAS SITTING under a nice strong-looking | hempline and I facetiously remarked that it looked | strong enough to hang a man, J Very calmly I was informed that that particular line is tested for 2800 pounds. Quite a clothesline: Most of the backdrops hang from a five-line set which means there's a rope on one end nearest the fly floor, called the short, closer to the center, short: center, center, long center and. the long which hooks | on the extreme end. The long rope measures approximately 200 feet.

Due to the fact that each backdrop is weighted Figs Greek hid | with a sandbag equal its weight, Mr. Wisehart can!

pull it up by himself but he remembers the “good ol} Council Becomes Red i

days” when every available man backstage with a| good back was recruited to haul some of the pieces Front Clearing House By FREDERICK WOLTMAN

via the hempline. { One by one, Mr. Wisehart announced that some | Scipps-Howard Stat Writer | NEW YORK, April 7.—The Na-|

curtain was “dead for the night” which meant it! wouldn't be used anymore. Watching the flyman pull the rough hemp with tional Council of American-Soviet his bare hands throughout the show together with} | Friendship is spearheading a nahe Vindup Ma Miss Malaikova on the high wire, ifonal assault on President Tru‘an e War ell troupe of the flying tra eze left! me “dead for the night.” P jman's, plan to_buolsier. Greece and I can see working 30 feet up on the fly floor | Turkey against communism. | |

SECOND SECT ION.

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-Soviet agency but on a trapeze or tight wire without a net—no| This foremost prothanks. Pp 2 | has become a clearing house for

| Communist fronts. intent on scut- | tling the plan, In addition, it has

Nickels :

lined up 200 clergymen from 30. states against the proposal which it assails as “the ultimate in hypoc- |

2 By Frederick C. Othman {risy” and a threat of war on Russia) s : | Despite resignation of a dozen}.

WASHINGTON, April rr years ago Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana, the 28th vice’ president of the United States, announced that what this country needs is a good 5-cent cigar. Last year Jim Moran, the perennial candidate for congress from Hollywood, said. that what the naton needs is a good 5 cents, period. 3 The niint continues to produce nickels at a recordWhy? To wear holes in peoples’

pockets? The camppigns of the Messrs. Marshall and Almost the enly thing you can buy .in America today for a nickel or less (adv.) is a hewspaper. Chewing gum is 6 cents. The 5-cent magazines are a dime. The nickel] shoe shine is no more. :

. leading sponsors last October, ‘the per fect a box that eats quarters only, but pays three! council 1s stil] riding on the presrecords for each 25-cent piece. tige and respectability of many The entire coin machine one of the prominent Americans who lent really big businesses, is in ferment. The gadgets their names as backers in. years that disgorge chocolate bars, apples, peanuts, soda! past. Among them as three senpop’ and gum are geared for nickels. Their patent'ators, James E. Murray of Mon-« insides whirr and cough up all othér coins. _ (tana, Elbert E. Thomas of Utah There are millions of dollars invested in .hese and Claude D. Pepper of Florida—/ machines and the trick is to remodel em so they'lliall Democrats. { charge six cents. Or maybe fix 'em so they'll] gulp! Meanwhile, the council's execu-’ dimes and return 4 cents change with each chunkitive director, Richard Morford, has of fudge. been indicted by a Washington|

Industr ial Situation ito disclose the organization's rec-| THE QUESTION then is how to open each candylords to the house of representawrapper and insert’ four pennies. Multiply a thou- tives. sand machines by the hundred chocolate bars each one holds and you've got a sticky industrial situation involving rows of girls, stacks of pennies, piles

industry,

Ickes, Oxnam Resign

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ARMY DAY SLAMOUR = ; Maijorettes lead the Butler university band in a high stepping routing which added color #o the program beginning with the parade at

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10 a: m. - this is morning.

Auto Crash Kills Meat Inspeetor...

Doctor's Companion Taken to Hospital

Dr. Henry R. Schrumpf, 47, of 30 E. Washington st., {early this morning in an automo{bile crash on State Rd. 152 near Lafayette.

was killed

A companion, Charles Bare, 21,

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The first blow-up among its spon- of 332 N. Noble st., was injured and |

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STATE TROOPERS MARCH — A state police formation representing 137. world war Il veterans now in state police service step aly stony N. Pefnsyvena st. in the ii day parade

part of the heavy equipment displayed this morning in two-mile’ long Army day parade.

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For Bribe That Failed NEW YORK, April 7 (U. Po Broadway

Alvin J. Paris,

‘backfield ops, New Yok Claus

‘plonshop game to the Chicago Bears,

versity star.

The bribery plot was unsuccessful, Filchock is a former Indiana unl-

Paris was sentenced b by Judge’ Saul Streit in general sessions court,

> ; = Aided State Probe

Velerans, Soldiers, Marines Move Behind Music of 65-Piece Butler U. Band

Tie annual Army day parade, composed of nearly 3000 veterans, sofiiers, marines and civic groups, moved through downtown diane apolis this morning. At the head of the long column was a police escort and Brig. Gen. i Howard Maxwell, state adjutant general. Overhead flew a group of fighter planes. The reviewing stand, set up on |the west side of the Federal build-|Ind..G. A. R. department com-

mander. ing facing Meridian st., held Gov- Behind the music of the 3-piece

ernor Gates, Mayor Tyndall and|Bytler university band, the parade

were alleged to ig the plot with

Stemmer, David Jerome Zarowitz,

mer and Krakauer

Paris was a small-

The jurist noted that have been given a five-year fen tence, but said the term was ree duced to one year because (had co-operated with the state in [testifying against three others who

'e bem involved

His three accomplices, Harvey

Krakauer and were sentenced

last week to varying terms. Stem-

got five to 10

years each, and Zarowitz was given an indefinite ‘term up to five years.

~time Broadway

many other state, city and military | moved from the ‘war memorial playboy, who gang. to impress the

officials. south on Pennsylvania st., west on

An honored guest in the stand Market st, and north on Meridian foo Players

was John C. Adams,

entertaining

them at cocktial parties attended

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Jonesboro, | st.,, past the reviewers;

Give Up Smoking FIVE-CENT cigars from 8 to 11 cents and my guess is that if Vice President Marshall were around now, three and a half decades after his wise-crack ‘made him famous. he'd give up smoking. No béanery sells coffee and a sinker for 5 cents. An ice cream cone’ll cost you 10. So does a short beer—and I knew that eventually I'd get around to the point of this dispatch: The one thing that still be can bought in a salgon for 5 cents is three minutes of hill-billy music. But not for long, musi¢ lovers. Enjoy the nickel symphonjes while you can, because the iuke box boys are working on the problem. Some are building machines that'll charge 10 cents a listen. Others are rushing against time to

by showgirls. % The Chicago Bears won the championship game Dec. 15. Hapes was not allowed fto- play in it after the bribery plot came to light when police tapped Paris’ pho

of chocolate-covered nougats — and the health de- SOrs -came after the New York, was taken to the partment. Or so says the unhappiest industrialist World. -Telegram, a Scripps- -Howard Home hospital know, the proprietor of a chain of vending machines. DeWspaper, revealed the councils suffering from Long ago he junked his penny machines. He has Officers were using their nationwide shock. better than $20,000 invested in nickel automatons and | Propaganda machinery to- discredit| State police did if something doesn’t happen soon, they also become the Baruch plan for world atomic not know how the scrap iron. Mostly they're empty now, or peddling control. accident hapautomatically a grade of candy that takes the fillings. Harold L. Ickes resigned. Among pened. Their car JE from the customers’ teeth. He never eats the stuff, others Who pulled out were Sena- pverturned sev - [ES himself. (tors Leverett Saltonstall (R. Mass.) eral times. Police i

erator was George Coleman of] i Mooresville, | Trustees Vote Down

Aubrey Bridges, 45, of 221 E. 19th! Unit School Plan st., died at City hospital last night | Times State Service of injuries suffered in an auto-| GREENFIELD, Ind, April 7. — wires, but Pllichock played and mobile accident April 3. {Hancock county's nine township [threw two touchdown passes in the Four Others Killed | trustees voted unanimously today | Giants’ losing cause. _Four other persons were killed in against adoption of the county unit Both Hapes and Filchock have He has heard of a St. Louis inventor who has per- and Arthur Capper (R. Kas.) Meth- did not know who laccidents in the state yesterday, [School plan. The unit system was | been suspended indefinitely by Bert. fected an automatic change maker, but he doubts if odist Bishop G. Broxley Oxnam, was driving. } Harold Lane, 16, of Franklin, died made optional by the 1947 general | Bell, commissioner of the National it will be much help to him. His only hope—and William L. Batt, U. 8. Circuit Court| Dr. Schrumpf,a ssembly. | professional league, and it was benow we're getting back to the fundamentals of Vice Judge Learned Hand and Dr. Karl veterinarian, was {when his motorcycle collided with |" Although the meeting for consid- (lieved that neither would play pro=

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President Marshall—is for something good to eat T. Compton. a U. S. government meat inspector | lan automobile near Franklin. |eration of the proposal | was fessional football again. that his machinery can sell for a nickel. Dr. Compton said the council “is and worked at Kingan & Co. His! Miss Anna Josephine Reust, 17, advertised and open to the public,| Sentence of Paris wound up oh# : becoming a political pressure group, wife, Mrs. Mary Schrumpf, was of Huntington, was killed when her | DO school patrons other than the of the most sensational gambling . " ————————— ———— D011 national ‘and international.” notified of his death at Stret, Mo. car and a truck collided: |trustees attended. inquiries in’ sports in many years. : oe | i La Guardia on List [where she was visiting relatives. James Clifford Beadle, 18, of Hy- | br ye | However, other prominent Amer-| Other survivors are his mother, mera, a pedestrian, died after eink} GG S Wi | Pp il 2 Tem peramental ‘ jcans left their names on the list| Mrs: Ida Schrumpf. and Wo istruck by an automobile as rammar C 00 up! S | f sponsors. They !uciude Ray- jSanghiets Ms Charles Shepherd [wakes on .the highway near his, ; ; == mond Massey, Fiorello La Guardia, ®! rs. Wilburn Russell, all of mhoge. i 2 S lid T ht oi HOLLYWOOD, April 7—Rosenrary de Camp needs Now that “The Hucksters' is completed, it's safe Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont, Gerard ee a ylaken EH n pel Owns onigl r. Anthony, to say that Clark Gable is still the biggest drawing Swope, Charles Chaplin, Albert ‘© e ua : The question is: “Shall T get temperamental?” card in Hollywood, on or off the screen. He played Einstein, Thomas Mann, - Norman Genevieve Collin, 29, of 1438 n: Newspaperman Dies By ART WRIGHT Su Rosemary is the youhg lady who has played every’ to a full house of visitors every day. Everybody from | Corwin, Joseph E. Davies, Helen Pennsylvania st, was struck by a| LOS ANGELES, April 7 (U. P.).— The Emerson Avenue Baptist church and the Garfield Park coitie type of role from young girls to gray-haired mothers. office boy to star dropped in to see him work. Maybe | | Keller, Episcopal Bishop Henry. K. streetcar in the 800 block of E.[Services will be conducted today for munity center hold the spotlight in The ‘Times’ Spelling Bee tonights You never hear of. basuthrowing.herself. around &-sot..shey re trying-40- find-out whet Gables 50h and-they Lherrith-and oiherss {Washington st. lae.Jast..night. and Harry. G.. Miller, assistant. a. -Bres=. -.- -@rammar- school “pupils Be! RM, 8 i-8 fury bocsuse-somc ine MOP, piease ter: BE WISH EY FR — rg 115 Tatest nove, the eounsil Tast {seriously injured. ident Norman Chandler of the Los|iz..." 3 7:30 o'clock ES 3 % doesn't’ have feuds with her fellow workers. month organized a United C Re Police said she was dragged 150| Angeles Times. Mr. Miller, a resi-|;1o semi-finals. A winner and runnerup from each center will com Ty Refused to D H ’ OM feet. Sh taken to City hos-|dent of Glendale, died Saturday at a She plays many roles. But never: big roles. And y Refused fo Dye air | mittee Against Infervention in| ce e .was taken y t b pete against other district winners and igwnship champions on April i there's never any mention of stardom. She's Holly- ASIDE to Governor Warren of California: Your | Greece and Turkey.” pital where her condition was se-| Sunland ‘sanitarium from a heart|; "40" rndiana World War Me- ; wood’s sweetness and light girl. daughter, Dorothy, just wrote a fan letter to Cornel| This included such well-known rious. Police said We Swefiear op! attac morial auditorium. : fo dha St. Johwy: Betty Jo “Maybe,” Rosemary sighed, “it doesn't pay to be Wilde. She wants an autographed picture of him | communist fronts as the Ameri- | The public will be admitted to Weber, oa, normal “in Hollywood. Maybe 1 should be a little which she says she will hang in the main hallway |can-Slav congress, Council on Carnival — By Dick Turner the second preliminary rounds each 135 Shurey Hares 12, temperamental.” of the governor's mansion “if father will let me. | African Affairs, Congress of Amer-| night this week at 20 centers.. There Smock 12, Rachel yp She had just shown a little temperament, as a Vince Barnett will play a heavy for the first time... women, Veterans of the Abra-| =I - will be no, admission charges or 12 y Ka 13. Schoal ; : matter of fact, she said. Warner Brothers wanted in “Gas House Kids Go West’ (and what a title , Lincoln Brigade and American] - % : . : collection of any kind. Falamate 11, Patricia her to. play another mother role in “Wallflower.” that is). Vince, a comedian, turned sympathetic in Council' for ‘a -Democratic Greece. | d ; “ | Entries have closed. Competing Joan Pons, 13, Joan “The Killers.” eve bia] / will be those who survived the first |Punterell. i3, snd” Antoinette Rosemary refused. i The Killer | The council-inspired committee also : DRA ¥y v “It's like this,” she says. “I don't wantito’ be a Ty Power refused to dye his hair red, 4 la the| | claimed. to: represent. some 50 C. I.| | preliminary. star or a glamor girl. I wast some action instead of | book's description, for “Captain From Castile.” Lee 10: and A. ¥. of L. Yabor. unions ask . rh : g { Contestants Listed y+» reaction in my roles. I'm ured of being just a pweet Cobb plays his pal in the film. The studio turned! well as the American Labor party | 0 ; } % i Contestants tonight will be: spectator.” Cobb into a readhead instead. wy ’ oe : . . At Emerson Avenue Baptist church, E. 3 An economy wave of head- lopping is hitting all George Sanders says there's no one to blame but Clergymen Pro‘,st | and snsten Sybil the major studios. Lina Romay, overhaerd this:con-- himself for his wife's divorcing him, She lived with, Then last week, the Rev. William I 8chool 57; Marilyn Loomis, 13 Schoo ool a versation. A writer, saying goodighight to his secre- me for so long because she dreamed that I would Howard Melish, the council's chairs) Jerty. Hunter, 13 Martha Baker, a lar, tary said: “I'll see you tomorrow mogning.”’ The sec- become :a considerate person. I tried to be and up | man, made publig—the clergymen’s 13. School ": Baibars Caulking, 13, Schoo retary replied: “You wanna bet??. «+ until the dast few weeks 1 still had hopes of her not | protest against any did to Greece| 1 4 | Cynthia Hatfleld, 12, Barbara Gerrard, 13, \ $0 going through with the-divorce. ‘But her dream be- or Turkey. Among the signers were | 3 ; ve Virginia Cady, 12, Janet Packer, 2 Gloria Wanted: 1. Dream Man : camp. aireplity too late for it to make any difference.” | the Rev. Ralph W. Sockman, Dr. | ‘ ia a iE Commuily amar Saeed IDA LUPINO is still searching for her !dream man. That's.a new wrinkle in an old cloth. | Gy Emery Shipler, editor of “The pacha a Sica 8 "AN romantic rumors to the contrary. She-told me: = The; fancy tail ‘waves you'll sec on “thie Horses ti yCHurehnian; the Rev. “Stephen HH. I 12, Helen Te “I want a man who doesn’t stop in front of mirrors “Forever Amber” were put there by the 20th, Century- | Fritchman; editor of “The Unitar- . scr EE and shop windows to admire his reflection.” Guess Fox Studio makeup department. Reluctantly, we | [ian Cy isTian ste » and Bist Chtnerines 22 Fy i » add. . lo Ss war arsons, . rll rac e, 9, that means she has eliminated all Hollywoodsmen Might add. A ee ni Or TE Seton aT 3 Hh | Moore Walker and W. J. Walls. -Roell, 13, The. council's publicity ‘releases denouncing the Truman . proposal ruth a close parallel to the attacks {by the Communist party.

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We, the Women .

WE TRY so hard to find what is wrong with marriages that we sometimes forget to notice what, is right about thiem, Thirteen men huddled together waiting for death in the Centralia mine in-which 111 men recently lost their lives scrawled notes to their wives. soon” Then on the rock face above they wrote, “Look and the boys.”

in everybody's pockets. - We all have notes, Give : them to our wives.” . 0 “God bless you and two boys . . . please do | ANDERSON, Ind., April Aude nim il yout father has told you and lissen to Mom." - erson’s new Sears-Roebuck and Co. 320 Wives Cour. age 2 & ee ‘notes have a message for all of us. It store, covering ‘three-fourths of a THESE NOTES tell heautifully. what ls stil right proves that there is still much. that is right with city block, will be opened: in ap-| American ‘marriages. American marriages—much that is right and good proximately a a week, of the|

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i Spi ie 19 und gh An ‘Bach: 13, Bt: The Rev. Mr. Melish, the coun- Competing tomorrow night wilh be

cil's sparkplug, long has been a fort Kis wite, Bie Her éourage to go° on and, do hartley admirer of the Soviet sys-

“best, for ‘the chifdren.’, ‘Here ‘e sofne of ‘the messages: } tems and a defender ard associate “I. Jove you, honéy,' more than life itself, u Tot American Communists. He has:

“don't make it, please do ¢ best you can.” | taught at the Communist party's ‘Lissen to Mo Ho | Jefterson school in New York.

“IF X don't make it sell the house and go live with ar 1 your folks. Your mom and dad will take care of you,

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