Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1947 — Page 25
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ABOUT THE ONLY i 1 asked far it. And
situation any.
What to do? What to do? See Grace Krumm at Tourneur’s, she's a pretty good egg. (to myself as I erow-footed around the Circle getting more wind and snow in my hair) but what if she Go in when there's no one in The first peek through the window sent me on another lap around ‘the Circle. Another lap and the coast was clear. Between gasps, always edging toward the back room, I blurted out my troubles to skin consultants Jean Huff, Helen McQuary and Miss Krumm, man-
thinks I'm a sissy?
the shops Good idea.
ager.
“Someone chase you in here?” asked Miss Krumm, I answered from the “but you know how 1t fs. This is no place for men and if anyone should
*No, no nothing like that,” doorway to the back room,
see me here—well, you know what
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ing that ¢ can be said is that “It” tame about as a direct result of biting wind, rain, snow, crow's-feet and a sudden realization that maybe my youth was fading.
The mirror-mirror on the wall revealed that there was some besis for worry. Recollecting- stories of how people have grown old overnight didn't help the
Yeh, 1
I mean.”
‘Nothing Sissy,’ She Says
“NONSENSE. Pure unadulter
scoffed Miss Krumm. “Plenty of men use lotions, skin There's nothing
bracers and creams on their faces.
ated nonse
sissy about taking care of your skin.”
The three make-up ladies seemed to take my
POWDER BOWL—Grace Krumm smiles at
her subject and mixes a formula.
I ducked in.
Inside Indianapolis
the floor.
. want,
said Jars,
prepared.
“Quit your fidgeting.
over my face.
Quary explained, *
by Ed Sovola
fears lightly. So much so they laughed while I was| pushed down on’ a stool and had a protestive bib] fastened around my neck. If anyone walks through! = that-door I know, I thought, I'l go right through
charts, tissues, squares of cotton and wooden sticks were placed in front of me. Before the analysis my face, they said, would have to be
So, first some three purpose cream was smeared The stuff is supposed to be good for crow's-feet but ‘they make no claim that it willl remove them, “Your face is like a piece of leather,” Miss Mc-| ‘and in order to keep it from drying!
up it has to be cleansed and oiled.”
wasn't and besides,
After I wiped the cream off (how. do women do. it?) a heavier eye cream was dabbed on, frankly, was bit of a mess. Miss Krumm said it| it was excellent for crow's-feet.| With my eyelids stuck together, I was told how
to rub the cream for best results.
“Elbows straight out and with the two middle fingers drawn across the eyes. Don't rub any which way,” instructed Miss Krumm, I chirped after I was able to open my, eyes and saw Miss Huff come at me with a wad of; cotton and a bottle of transparent liquid. out it was lotion and there lotion came the texture cream which especially for enlarged pores and an acne condition. | Go ahead, ladies;"T shall resist no more. if need be.
Skin Naturally Ruddy
IT WAS DECIDED by the experts that my skin little on the dry side and there was some question whether my crow's-feet were, . a product of old age or smiles. head were pronounced but only when I raised” my
nse,” “More?’
eyebrows.
formula,”
spread? Will «+. .
Tourneur's
was naturally ruddy, a
“What's my score?”
WAS more,
“You could tone down the ruddy complexion by! this make-up creme (we leave the realm of cream here-—don't ask me why said Miss Krumm, get the ruddy-dispeller.
it's creme)
“You're score is so good we're all agreed you may live,” laughed Miss Krumm. The snow, wind and smoke on the Circle felt pretty good. Now, wonder if anyone saw me leave
1 it's a skin analysis you, that's’ what you're going to get.” sald Miss Krumm, “and it isn’t going to cost you a penny. This. is a service we offer and a patron doesn't even have to buy our. products.” bottles,
This, |
I found After the is designed
Use shovels
The lines on my fore-
I'm preparing,’ It took three different jars to Gad—what price crow’'s-feet? The formula was written on a card which would go into the files. “If you should go to Florida this. winter and get! darker all we would do is to darken your present advised the head lady of les cremes, That's what I wanted to know. Will the crow's-feet have fallen arches and Will my chin muscles sag over my, tie?
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Statesmen?
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—Do. not be disappointed at the slow beginning of this piece, voters, because the statesmen in a few more paragraphs are going to And also throwing in a few
be booing each other, hi-s-s-s-s-ses.
For three days straight the House of Representatives had been double-crossing the headline wiiters by talking about the $3590 million European relief bill,
instead of passing it, as promised.
the proceedings Rep. Charlie Halleck of Indiana, the up to blame the
Republican floor leader, jumped Democrats for Europe's plight.
IT Piesidents Roosevelt and Truman hadn't made go many blunders around the world, the curly-haired Rep. Halleck cried into the microphones, we wouldn't need to be sprinkling our millions abroad. And so
on, with gestures and at length.
———
In the mids
‘Deacon’ McCormack Speaks Up
THEN THE TALL, gray Rep. mack of Massachusetts,
to the microphone.
Rep. Halleck's words, he said. were a rehash of a rehash of all the Republican political speeches of the Why not, he asked his fellow lawmakers, try to
year. act like statesmen for a change?
“We are supposed to be thinking about something more import nt than the next election,” he shouted. roared the Republicans. Their rherated ‘from every temporary-per-manent steel ra ‘er in the chamber; , ad acted as a spur to Rep. Clare He tried to interrupt the gen-
“Haw-haw “aw,”
horse-laugh re
every bald head! Hoffman (R. Mich, . tleman from Massa. \usetts. “You keep out of his”
John
bounced f
Rep. McCormack snapped. Then he said that Pi sident Truman had developed
into one of the world's greatest statesmen. As
W. McCorthe Democratic chief who could pass for a deacon in the movies, strode solemnly
By Frederick C. Othman
HO NO
t of
the bass turned on full:
this house,
Rep. purple,
Pete
tion,
speech.”
ago?
rom
“What Mr.
Prolonged applause.
Rep. Jarman said he was not, either. about the Republicans scuttling price control a year More boos indicated the Republicans felt they had done no such thing. no actual blood let, back to relief of the hungry. The next amendment came from Rep. Earl Lewis] of Ohio, who said the Chinese government was run
Halleck said was the God's truth us| sure as truth ever has been told from the well of 1 congratulate him.” Prolonged boos. The face of] Jarman (D. Ala) turned from crimson to| He tried to denounce Rep. Brown, but he'd hardly waved an arm before there was an interrup-|
What, Politics in the House?
“A POINT OF ORDER “This gentleman (I wish ink and paper could reproduce his inflection of those words)—this gentleman is not speaking on the bill.
He's making a political
And there we were, with
by crooks and hence China should get no more than
for
$100--a single C-note—in relief. voted him down. nubbin by the excitement, I got out of there.
The other statesmen Worn down,
| — Rep. Halleck's speech, he'd been a congressman or 20 years and never heard a worse one. He sat down to Republican boos and hisses; cratic cheers and applause. While Messrs. mack and Halleck glared at each other, ence Brown of Ohio, another Republican chieftain, ! strode into the fray. He said Rep. Halleck was (cheers and boos in reverse order), too many rubber sta
Demo-| | McCor-| Rep. Clar-|
a great American, that there were p gents in and out of Congress and—he made this sound like a console radio with]
cried Rep. Hoffman.
And what |
like my pencil, to a
Peace PF-F-FTS!
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 12—The § Susan tHyward Jers ‘Barker reconciliation isn't taking, and Susan soon
will head for Las Vegas to establish
Yvonne de Carlo and Hurd Hatfield are having
secret (up until now) dates.
The Lana Turner-Tyrone Power romance is defi-
nitely off. Marriage and Divorce JOHN ROOSEVELT
elubbing.
Prediction: Robert Stack will marry socialite Irene
lowa Farm Gi
residence.
says he’s met RKO starlet Betty Alexander, but denies he's ever taken her night
rl's
1s final.
Sight of sights: a scene in “A Connecticut Yankee.” was out of the country.
Hedy to Go in for Comedy
A ——
Bing Crosby in medieval tights: for
Hollywood to be called, of course, Duffy's Tavern.
Hedy
play her first 100 per cent
Dream of Crashing
Movies Bursts When Scheme Backfires
Faces Prison Term for
Abducting Benefactor
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 12 (UP) - An Iowa girl's dreams of movie stardom blew up today with ner conviction for the kidnap-beating of the man who discovered her selling pickles. |
Madge Meredith, 26, Iowa alls,
Ia, was found guilty yesterday of.
five felony counts for mastermind-| ing the abduction and beating of Nick Gianaclis, her manager, after they parted in an argument over! money. ! She and three men accused of helping her in the plot will be sentenced Monday. All were free on £7300 bond each. + The convictions make it aimost mandatory that Miss Meredith spend 10 years in prison before she can eyen apply for parole. The actress shook out her thick red hair and smiled pleasantly when the verdict was read, “It's all a mistake, but the jury didn't see it my way” she said lightly. “Whatever sentence I get, I will be no worse off than pefore under that dominating Greek.” During the trial she insisted that Mr. Gianaclis arranged his. own abduction and beating to ruin her film career because she had hroken with him > Mr. Gianaclis said Miss Meredith lured him and an associate to a
fr I
PLAY IS ENDED — Madge
Meredith,
farm girl who went to Holly-\| wood three years ago, today
faced the prospect of spending Little the next 10 years in prison for the abduction - beating of her
former ma
waiting for
scized, beaten and lonely cabin,
an. .lowa Falls,
nager, them. They he said, and
| through his connections he..
were In advance, taken to a
later £52.24 from Pinland,
as Miss Meredith's boy friend, also was convicted of the five kidnaping and assault charges. Damon Klinkenburg, 32, was found guilty of assault, conspiracy, and of carrying .a blackjack. The
third man, James Hatfield, 33, was convicted only of possessing a blackjack.
Miss Meredith came to Hollywood about three years ago and got a job in a delicatessen. Gianaclis discovered her when she sold him some pickles. He sold kitchen equipment to movie studio commissaries and ma: neuvered her into a coffee shop cashier's job. He had her coached in acting, paid for a plastic operation on her nose and boosted
her until she was signed to an acting contract. They bought a Laurel Canyon
home together and Gianaclis testi-| fled he wanted to marry her. Then!
+. |a studio dropped her contract and| cli Meredith dropped Mr. Giana-| C
Finland Pays Debt, 3 Days Ahead of Time
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (UP) — Pinland is still paying hey debts, | too. The Treasury has received $260,representing
escaped by overpowering a guard. payments on three separate finan-
One of
the men,
.
Luckily, Bob Hope
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In fact, might say,
Rimsky - Korsakov, Rachmaninoff,
scene Except: for the recorded music the entire dramatization of: the famed Russian Pirebird legend is the work of students in the [school
Dog Killers Get Sentences Today
Judge Louis Weiland of Municipal Court 1 was to pass sentence this! {morning on tvo dog-killers- »0 never had much of a chance after six Drexel Garden school children took the witness stand to tell of their pets. The jury, which included 11 women, returned a guilty verdict against the defendants, Harold Wyant, 25, of 5203 Melrose St., and James Barnett, 27, of 5205 Melrose St,
Ju‘urs fixed the penalty at $120 | fine or Barnett and $100 for Wyant on { cruelty to animals charge. An add tiona) * charge of allowing a female dog to run at large against Wyant drew a $20 fine, Testimony was that the two men |brutally beat and shot to death at least four dogs, which were buried in Barnett's yard. Three of the dogs belonged to the chil- | dren, Deputy - Sheriff Otto Ray, Vio) unearthed the missing canines, said | {he was informed a total of 10 or| 11 dogs were buried iin the yard. | Barnett and Wyant admitted kill{ing dogs, but said the dogs mo- | lested them and their families. | | They escaped jail sentences at the hands of the jury because of | having small children at home.
ENVOY RETURNING TO U. BOMBAY, Dee. 12 oe
Albert ‘W. cial agreements. The payments were States Ambassador Henry P. Grady ~ meeting and had - three - gunmen ' Tucker, identified during the trial’ due Dec. 18.
+ left by plane today for Washington.
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m= Classic fo Be Given at Herron Sunday; By Erskine Johnson All but Music Is Work of Pupils
By HENRY BUTLER The puppet show which students of Whittier School 33 will present Wrightman when her divorce from Preddie McAvoy in Herron Art Museum at 4 p. m. next Sunday is no trivial matter. the Whittier youngsters’ version of “The Firebird” a small-scale Broadway production. It has 16 scene changes, elaborate costumes, sound effects and a lot of incidental music by such composers as Fifth — classes wrote the script. Art classes did settings, shop classes built the ED GARDNER is negotiating for a restaurant’ in | 2KOVEky and Stravinsky. It has of the modern co-operative method stage, art pupils carved the wooden such novelties: as a ballet of deep- in education |
IT'S A REMARKABLE example
contribute to a project, anybody who actually started the “Firebird”
Ask School
{that it
project, developed
imes
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12,
AUDIENCE-EYE VIbVy —Fere's how the puppeis in the VYhithigr vchool 33 production ot (left to right) are: The Archer, the Tzar, the Princess and the Cossack. Originally produced in Whittier School last May, the elaborate puppet | show will have a special holiday revival performance for young people at 4 p. m. . Sunday i in Herron Art Museum.
” — — |Last spring, while classes
lof dramatizing the “Firebird” {caught on. everybody could work on, And nearly everybody In school did have a hand ‘Firebird,” one way or Classes in literature and studies did background and sixth grade
is, you
dialog, lighting and §
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, whereby students in puppets, home economics
education classes contributed
ballet creations,
out at Whittier
definitely
spontaneously. tel) you
Carnival—By Dick Turner
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JZ £908. 1547 wy wea semvicn, mec. YW. nao.
Here was something
the in the another social research. English’
pupils Bob Carroll, the new singer at the Band Box Cafe, sea creatures in the next-to-final nearly all departments of the school S¢Wed the costumes—even physical is testing for a big role at 20th Century-Fox. Lamarr will comedy role opposite Bob Cummings in his own pro- used, duction, “Let's Live a Little.”
the
THE TEACHERS who helped and you'll learn guide all this concerted work can't how many
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"Do you suppose there's anything in this talk about wages being
too high? I'm making so much now that | can't afford to taka a day #1"
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Whittier School Goes Big Time ° With ‘Firebird’ Puppet Show
lhe Firebird" look
Photos by John
BACKSTAGE—Industriously manipulating puppets in one of the "Firebird" court scenes are (left to right): Darrell Phelps, the Archer; Morris Wray, the horse: Freddie Forbes, the Tzar; Dorothy Renfro, the Princess, and Richard Anderson, the Cossack. The Tzar's palace background, one of 16 scenes in the production, was inspired by the famous palace i in Yalta which housed the wartime Big Three conference.
were | youngsters ‘participated. Some of | Darrell studying Russian legends, the idea the students, naturally, have more Morris Wray, the Magie Horse:
important roles than others—the ones who speak and manipulate | the puppets, for example, But even a brief talk with members of the “Firebird” troupe convinces you that there are no stars, no prima donnas.. Nobody seems to want to hog the limelight, On the contrary, the youngsters will take pains to name all those who deserve a shate ” Hie credit,
SUNDAY'S PERFORMANCE at Herron Museum, a special holiday program for young people, will be the first “road show” for the “Firebird” troupe. The cast of 60, including 30 singers, first presented the colorful spectacle last May 16, 19 and 20 in Whittier School, Speaking parts wil be taken by
2 Children Drown Under Lake Ice
{Textile Union announced today it
Times HBiale Service LA PORTE, Dec. 13-—-Funeral
| services were being arranged oday "
for the two small children - yesterday lost their lives in the icecovered waters of Stone Lake vor] here, i The bodies of Sharon Ann Hop-| per, 4, and her playmate, Norman Gaul, 3, were found last night Yoat-| ling under the ice following a ciiy-| | wide search for the children. The children who had been piay|ing. with their sleds on a big hill, [near their home did not come home {for lunch. Their parents were not immediately worried, thinking they {might have poné to a pre-Christmas |program in the downtown area. | A little later their mothers went
to the hill and found the sleds. |Searchers at first discounted a theory that the two had fallen
[throughly the ice on a small lake] at the bottom of the hill. The ice was not disturbed. ¥ But the worried fathers, Scott Hopper and Harold Gaul, continued | ‘to search around the edge of the lake. Just before dark, they saw the body of Norman under the ice. Police later recovered the bodies. They sald the children apparently ihad wandered out on the lake and [slipped through a hole in the center without breaking the ice around the (edges. oid Mr. Hopper fa.an ofl desler me
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from out tront. Characters
Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer,
the Tar; Dorothy Renfro, the | Princess; Dorothy Humbarger, Tzar's Messenger, and Roberta
| rector of educational work at Her-
| bandits who robbed the local bank
Phelps as the Archer;
Freddie Forbes and Jimmy Abbott,
Wallace and Darrell Adams, Peasants,
Miss Marie Stewart, supervisor |of art in the Indianapolis schools, and Miss Anna Hasselman, di-
ron Art Museum, will be hostesses at Sunday's performance,
NOVA SCOTIA BANK ROBBED NEW WESTMINSTER, B. OC, Dec. 12 (UP)—Police blockaded all roads in a search for two masked
of Nova Scotia of $4000 yesterday.
president of the La Porte Lions {Club. Mr. Gaul is office manager for a department store.
CIO Gets Textile Hike
BOSTON, Dec. 12 (UP)—The CIO
had signed a new contract providing a 10 per cent wage increase with the all River and New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers’ Assn,
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