Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1948 — Page 19

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By-Ed Sovola

EVER SINCE it has become a definite. fact that the English Hotel is going to be slightly pulverized, tongues have been wagging. There are probably as mapy opinions about the stone pile that occupies a quarter of the Circle as there are pigeon tracks on its venerable facade, . I've heard sentimental old ladies say in trembling voices, “Ill. die, just die, I know it, when they begin doing those ‘awful ‘things to the English.” . Then there are those who take a slightly different view of the impending brick-bust. “It's about time they pulled that monstrosity down. It's a disgrace to Indianapolis.”

A Rare Type of Ghost ’

YOU COULD go on from here until the fists began to fly. But, what's the use? A new J, C. Penney store is going in.: or The English is coming down and the pigeons around the Circle are going to lose one of their favorite nightspots, Personally, my thoughts today of necessity have to do with a genial ghost with whom I spent the greater part of an afternoon. A dark, cold, rainy afternoon. Come, come, you just have to believe this ghost talk because it concerns the English Theater. Besides, my ghost is a fine fellow. He’s old, sure, but what's a ghost. He’s a combination of these types: Frank Morgan, Wallace Beery, Monte Woolley, Al Jolson, and he claims to have been a good friend of W. C. Fields, at the time the late Mr. Fields appeared on the stage of the English as a juggler. There’s nothing morbid about my friend of the past. He remembers the “good old days” not with a lump in his throat or a tear in his eye.

ETE A

The English Theater stands in the twilight of its long history. The "great" are gone but not forgotten, and their glitter still shines brightly in the memory of a few "ghosts" around town.

_ usual to have people wait all night at the box

He remembers the '80’s, the '90’s and through the

years when Hollywood waved its magic wand of gold and something happened to the theatah. “Those were the days, boy,” he said wrapping his sheet tighter about himself. The. day was cold and even a ghost can get the chills, you know. “Nothing like what we have these days, is it?” I ventured knowing full well what the answer ‘would be, p “BAAAHHH—double features, an occasional good show, a mediocre actor and mediocre reception,” rasped my friend. “Do you know when Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett, the grrreat tragedians, came to town, ticket lines would be two blocks long on the Circle and it wasn't un-

office?” That was news to me. “We often have long lines for a good double feature,” I said, throwing a few more pounds of steam under Ghosty’s sheet in the cold wind.

Booth in ‘Yorick’s Love’

“HOW CAN you talk of vile double features when I'm talking about Booth or Barrett, boy? Shame on you. Ah... how well I rémember the night a fair young lady and I went to see Mr. Edwin Booth in ‘Yorick’s Love’.” “Great stuff, eh?” . “Oh, she was beautiful, boy. I remember the thrill I received when I escorted her down the aisle and my guiding hand felt the corset through her dress. It was a genuine Ball corset, boy, boned with Kabo. Almost dropped my silk hat I bought from Kelleher on W. Washington St.” “How was Booth in ‘Yorick’s Love'?” “Incomparable. Magnificent, just as I was saying.” He talked of the carriage trade, Capt. William E. English, Nicoll the Tailor, the Waverly electric automobile, the splendor of the opening nights that were epening nights. “Everybody was there.” There were familiar and unfamiliar names. All the entertainment great had looked over the footlights at the English. Otis Skinner won Indianapolis with his performance in “The Honor of the Family;” Sarah Bernhardt was magnificent in “Camille;” of course, you can't overlook Bert Williams, William Gillette, Joe Jefferson, Richard Mansfield, John Drew, Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, Fanny Brice, Marilyn Miller, William Farnum, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson—and the list goes to the hundreds. The oldtimer wasn’t sad. He had taken all the “good ol’ days” had to offer. Yesterday was gone and when those who still remember forget, who will know the difference? “You plan to be around these parts long?” I asked. : “Until about the first of the year. Then I'M find me some new happy haunting grounds,” he answered. “If you excuse me I think I'll go in and see Mansfield play ‘Cyrano’.” - I didn’t have a ticket, darn it. They were all sold out for: the afternoon, :

Duck Fever

BAYOU PHILIBERT, BURAS, La. Nov. 18— A wild duck is « disagreeable fowl, who keeps lousy hours and never is happy without frosted feathers. He lives in dismal swamps, miles from civilization, and unless he is specially cooked, tastes like a slab of fishmonger’s boot.

Yet ordinarily sane men fly hundreds of miles on the slim chance of getting close enough to one of the critters to slay him, at the approximate cost of $75 per duck. They tumble out of boats, drown, catch pneumonia, freeze to death, become mired in bogs, suffer mosquitoes, slave like chaingang laborers, and all for two pounds of feathers encrusted with No. 6 shot.

These mordant reflections occur as your hero sits on a tussock of Lousiana mara gay and debonair with a crowd of mosgliitoes wreathlike around the head. The seat of his pants is wet, and cold ooze has seeped inside in his hip-boots. He has been up since 3:30 a. m., a horrid section of the day devoted chiefly to death and duckhunting. Son He has pushed a dugout through a few thousand yards of ooze, sinking Up to his hips in a gumbo that smells like a paper-mill. The biceps of his stout right arm is a futuristic painting in purple, yellow and angry red, induced by the mulish kick of a 12-gauge shotgun with delusions of heavy artillery.

Our Hero Is Hungry, Sleepy I QUR HERO is hungry, he is sleepy. His bites itch. His nose is sunburned. But our hero is happy. . Why he is happy no sane man would be able to explain. But no duck-hunter is sane. He smokes an opium all his own. He is happy because, in the muck at the bottom of the pirogue sprawl four defunct ducks. The nearest glares malevolently with a dead eye, and indignation is in his ruffled feathers. He has croaked with a crawful of shot to please a silly fellow called man, who would rather eat

a steak, and who lacks the intelligence to come

in out of the rain. ,

A Speedy Shave

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18—Rep. W. Kingsland Macy, who shaves himself with soap and a straight blade in his own bathroom, was fascinated with the 1949 model, streamlined, perambulating barber shops 6f the Hudson Motor Car Co. “Is it true,” he asked, “that your car comes equipped with one of these electric razor businesses as an accessory?” N. K. Vanderzee, sales manager of the Hudson Co., of Detroit, who steps down into his sedan every morning and shaves himself with one hand while he steers with the other, said his firm had marketed some of these dewhiskering devices. “And has a razor been found to be a useful accessory on an automobile?” insisted the amazed gentleman from New York, who has been investigating rackets in the sale of new automobiles. “Oh, yes,” said Mr. Vanderzee, rubbing his close-shaven jowls. “I think so.”

Is It a Safety Hazard?

“H-M-M-M-M-M,” said the Congressman. He changed the subject here and I had to go out and do a little reporting on the subject of shaving and safe driving. The accessory which plugs into the dash, and turns any Hudson into a traveling tonsorial parlor, costs $28.50. And there by the door was George E. Adlung, thé salesman of the New York Avenue

Motors Co., who had spent the day squirming on the Congressman’s hot seat. He had told how he sold Hudson sedans, equipped with a variety of accessories (including razors), to those citizens who chose to slip him a bonus above list price of around $400. They got immediate delivery, though one disgruntled customer said he paid for his car and his acces-

The Quiz Master

Does the Constitution state that only a citizen of the United States may vote? There is no such provision in the Constitution but all the states have passed laws making U. S. citizenship a requirement for eligibility to

vote. So 5 What is the greatest number of sheep sheared in a day?

The world’s shearing record is held by a New Zealander, who sheared 423 sheep in an eight-hour ‘working day. ‘ * & ¢

Did Michelangelo prefer sculpture to painting? This artist is equally famous Tor sculpture and painting, although Michelangelo considered himsell chiefly a sculptor.

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By Robert C. Ruark

I have been a sucker for this kind of thing ever since I assassinated my first English sparrow with a slingshot. Let the phone buzz with some project to fly to Kamchatka, over the weekgud, to shoot tufted titmouse, a I am your oy. \ Job goes out the window. Wife goes home to mother. Normal routine goes haywire. Likewise bank account. But Daddy goes a-hunting, to bag Baby Bunting’s little rabbit skin. Better he should buy baby a sable stole. ; In my pocket is a special permit, granted through the courtesy of Mr. E. B. Clements, the Commissioner of Wildlife and Fisheries. It describes me as a special agent, with special powers. But if I shoot more than four ducks, commission or no commission, they will fling me in the jail house forever, impound my decoys, and read me out of the Liars’ Club.

Even Ducks Have More Sense I FLY all the way from New York to New| Orleans to shoot four lousy little ducks ‘today, and four lousy little ducks tomorrow, and then I fly back again. Even the ducks are smarter. They only fly one way at this time of the year. I worry about ducks. I worry about the fact that the oil companies, in the marshes, are spoiling duck-food and fresh water ponds.

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~The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1948 PAGE 19

Glimpses Of Sonja Henie’s Latest Ice Revue At The Coliseum Rink

Ne : Dominating the 1949 Hollywood Ice Revue is Sonja Henie

herself, wearing an on-and-off costume of feathers and spangles in‘one of her brilliant solo numbers.

Jean Sturgeon (left) and Mickey Michaels in their startling routine of skating on stilts are another feature of the Ice Revue caught in this series of candid, unposed shots by Times Photographer John Spicklemire.

he revue's finale:

et \ i Henie and Michael Kirby, her principal partner in the show and her co-star in "The Countess of Monte Cristo," here do a

Frisco a spectacular Gay 90's deal. The show had its premiere last night at the

A group of the men skaters here zoom along the ice in the prelude to t Jenny Comes to Town,"

I sit here and curse the law which allows hunters to shoot in the evening, scaring the curl off the drake’s tail and driving the geese out of] the county. I agitate for legislation allowing the destruc-| tion of the Blue Wing teal, in a split season, for| as the situation stands they come in, eat up all| the legitimate duck food, and then fly gaily off] to Mexico before the season opens. The Mexicanz| catch them in nets, after they have fattened off our grub. | I haven't thought about the atom for a couple of days. The royal birth abroad left me cold.! High cost of living? Never heard of it. Let| Harry worry about the world. I got my duche| to keep me busy. 2 And, you know, there are moments when 1| could swear I never had more fun in my life, er — |

By Frederick C. Othman

sories, handed George his $400 extra tip, and never did\get his cigarilighter. | But that's beside the whiskers. Salesman! Adlung was talking over the auto business with| his attorney, Charles E. Ford, a large citizen who, | like Congressman Macy, shaves only when stand-| ing still. | “How about these razors as Hudson accessories?”’ I began. | Young Mr. Adlung smiled nervously. On ad-| vice of counsel, he said, he wasn’t talking about em. He said he’d already talked under oath more| than he had preferred. “But I will say,” said he, “that a Hudson razor is a very fine little gadget. Say you're late to

work and you rush out of the house with a hang-|.

over. So you get in your car and on your way down town you shave yourself, snick, snick. It is a great little time-saver.”

One Thing at a Time, Says Lawyer = |

| HE ALMOST SOLD ME. I was thinking about | buying one of his $28.50 Hudson razors and jack-| ing up a $2790.52 sedan beneath it, when Coun-! selor Ford gave me pause. He said that when he drove a car he drove it.| When he shaved, he concentrated on whiskers. | I got the idea, though I hesitate to quote him] on so tender a subject, that he considers the] 40-mile-per-hour shave a dangerous luxury, despite, safety-seal Hudson bodies and self-washing wind-| shields. i One: other thing: Anybody who wants to buy, a Hudson is well-advised to see the fast-moving, shaver, Mr. Adlung. From now on, and he swears| it, he’s nicking no more customers an extra $400, for the privilege of buying a Hudson. He won't! evén make ’em buy a razor.

??? Test Your Skill ???

+ How long has The Star-Spangled Banner been the official national anthem of the United States? Since 1931, when the President approved an act of Congress designating the song as the official national anthem. Francis Scott Key wrote the words to the song in 1814. i > | What was the first book in which the character Sherlock Holmes appeared? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes in “A Study in Scarlet,” published in 1887. ® 4 ¢ Si Is there any direct reference to religious liberty in the Constitution of the United States? There are two: In Article 6, Clause 3, and in the First Amendment. ’

o | ments within the 51-man exec- By Ibe why a few specialty numbers skating on stilts. . ere in c boy BY 2 ray anplause|. But the most riotous an pro-|he was surprised in the act of|ytive board, however, made HULU Ee

Burglar Receives Expect CIO Right Wingers To Fight Leftists in Open

Murray and Reuther Reported Scoring

Red Faction in Oregon Session PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 18 (UP)—The right wing of the CIO

Coliseum, where it will play 17 more performances.

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Acrobatics Out-Dazzle Dazzling Costumes at Show 9.5 Year Term

10,000 View Opening of Extravaganza’s | ete 18-Day Run Here Last Night | Enters Guilty Plea |

By HENRY BUTLER To Charge Here ‘applied heavy pressure today to force the left wing into line with If you can judge from last night's audience response, daring| After entering a guilty plea to ire CIO majority.

acrobaties go over bigger than fabulous costumes in this year's gecond degree burglary, Joseph | The two factions were divided by the Communist issue which

Sons Henie show. | Melvin, 31, of 940 Daly St., today me an almost unsolvable problem for the CIO within the The 1949 Hollywood Ice Revue, which opened its run of 18 per-|was sentenced from two to five N28 Deco P

| t two years. formances in the Coliseum last night before 10,000 spectators,|years in‘the Indiana State Prison. | @8t two ¥

| Heretofore the CIO has been 1.1: I i aaa aw Lax: jp Spectal Judge Floyd Mammon. able to prevent» puntic aipiay [IIE OWI] a J in Criminal Court 2; ac-|of differences between the left an { ot in|Presiding 0 a at Or eH end rn of cepted Melvin's plea. Melvin was|right wings. Yesterday's argulookers to appraise. And that may |arrested on Dec. 11. 1947, when

2 ; : _|burglarizin A & P_store inimore likely, that their fight would than some of the Tantascram, - 9 applause went tO the Mc: |PUrg a Sa ol = Ue y

F “Foot- 155 ; brought to the floor of the CIO i tines. {Kellen Brothers for their “FootSOFLngS SpspiiDie routines ball Foolery” a slapstick-acro-| The prisoner, who has a record convention next week.

\ .|crimes, was out on bond at the, have delivered his/ness index of the Indianapolis [ins the center of the show. Co re nat or ane a me of his arrest. rami A a. yet heard|Chamber of Commerce showed Rightly so, since she has Deren- | row. : Caught in Trap against the CIO left wing. Wal-|today. nial charm and grace. And ough, The revue will continue nightly| On Apr. 23, 1948, Melvin and ter Reuther, president of the “, .., . 14100 permits fell £ her routines remain rely MUCh | cept next Monday for another|another man fell into a, carefully| United Automobile Workers, larg-| om oth 8 Frou” ag9 Yn what they ve been in pas canal performances, Monday will be(laid police trap near the stock-|est CIO affiliate, was said to have October of this year, and value Jol as built a tremendous fol- a well-earned day off for the cast. yard branch of the Union Trust|/supported Mr. Murray's attack of the permits dropped from

A woman spectator nearby re- Company. + |with even stronger language. $6,103,004 a year ago to $2,285

ble inform- , Ir, = | Acting on a tip that there would| According to relia 430. Building and industrial Tpaked Of oa Rigor Cite Bondsw {be an attempt to hold up a mes- ants, Mr. Murray made it plain building rose but residential pers come to see this show every vear.” This year’s hula, incidentally,

|senger of a check cashing firm, that he was referring to Com-| its dropped in number from 160 police made elaborate plans aq ERuNist I ea, to 74 in the year with rgsidential {And one Tr w 698,900, gets 3 laxneping worthy Of the For Contem t Sangh) Se pu A 29 Wes ound it was Er that he believed Re Te SOR 900. lien im edie Deputy Prosecutor Julian Page Anal the Pym fos power and gas consumption rose : {between : ently self-navigating, Dluespan Mrs. Clara Blomberg, bonds: tole Ul et to the Ro . ig of the Soviet in ntober oper & Yea? age wile led swan boat, if you can imag- woman, yesterday was cited for bos \ Br that, while a concealed Po lt of fn by Criminal against the prisoner. junion. Indianapolis dropped, the index jector gives rippling-water effect/Court Judge Saul I. Rabb for al- Additional Charges {AFL Drafts Program showed. to the ice. That's certainly a won-|legedly making bond by proxy| The additional charges include p to C ross = derful beginning for Miss Henie's after she had been barred from carrying a pistol without a license, | 10 ut to Cong Loses Two Rings neat combination of Hawaiian|doing business in the court. altering the serial number and| EINCINNATI, O., Nov. 18 (UP) / . Islands and Lake Placid outdoor| She will appear Saturday to/name plate of a gun, and perjury. | ne AFL's 67th convention to- Finds Money Order sports. \ {show cause why she should not| These charges grew out of Mel- 4, drafted the legislative proIn other specialties, such as the be held in contempt of court. The|vin’s arrest near the bank branch “Salute to the Countess of Monte citation came after a hearing in|last April. Cristo,” a delicate plug for Miss Criminal Court when Josebn Wil eee b————————— Henie’'s forthcomin film, she/liam Cross, 25, of . Noble ‘ skates chiefly with Michael Kirby, St., testified that his mother, UT ge Canners to Give her screen partner. Mr. Kirby last Mrs. Emma Adams, 3018 S. Ro-|Label Information

night momentarily slid and sat in wena St., and his. sister, Mrs. the “Satute” without, however, Mary Hutson, 3106 S. Rowena St.,|

\posals which will serve as a test| For Carl Matters, 1649 N. Ala|for Congressmen who will get hama St., yesterday turned out to {labor's support in the 1950 elec-|, a lost-and-found proposition,

ition. | . The legislative committee was| While visiting General Hospital

ready to make recommendations yesterday anrueon Ms. Satter Indiana canners were told on minimum wage, social security, be in ol ool Bam one {paid Mrs. Blomberg a $50 fee for|they should give their labels foreign aid and other matters to as material value to him. He losing dignity. signing a $1000 surety bond. more thorough study in the in-/come before the new 81s . on 2 i ewer the Bole in his Slapstick AAvplauded Judge Rabb had previously|terests of information to the(gress in which the AFL claims A word or so abou s year’s

cket until the rings had been: t A f expensi e yard barred her from doing business housewife at their convention|172 Fouse and 38 Senate Poe costumes. Acres of expensiv | : 2 goods and whole poultry farms of | With the court. The Cross bond hets today. ers were urged to| The AFL political league last Later in the afternoon, as he

was signed by Angelo Gravos, ked along New York St near feathers have been stitched and 37" SPECT ‘G18 0) “lICCUd 1abel mot only brand name, [night authorized the Sonvention HE OE ae hemmed and hawed into fascinat- |... y "tor Mrs, Blomberg style of pack and sweetness of to raise $750.00 by levying 100) wo 0 sol of ‘the sidewalk, ingly impractical garb for skat- a CL a |syrup, with the quantity ex-|cents per capita assessment onjloney bo Eriabeth ers. In the “Chopiniana,” follow- > pressed in terms of cupfuls, but union members to publish the VoL Eo (ie mone order ing intermission, a whole slew of St. Anthony 3 Church | 2180 number of pleces per serv. ing records of the 81st Congress or al a, ri a girl skaters appear in 40-pound g.Lodles Bazaar ing and carry on other political edu- Nas a fomied : hoopskirt creations studded with i a a |catioh until Feb. 1, 1950. al 3 5 to Der thousands of mirrors. With spot-| Parishioners: of St. Anthony's : : : eee of a purse Ruging De aor lights playing on them, the gals Catholic Church will hold a fail Hunt Hit-Run Driver lUnderwriters Meet Va sig en Jesterday Is fill the entire cavernous Coliseum bazaar Friday and Saturday eve- Who Struck Man 72 t 0! Bee x ad a ding. : : i with dots of moving brilliance. nings in the hall at 353 N. War-| 1, | H. Peter Gravengaard, editor) r ail Ee found 3 : Of all the costume parades in the man Ave. Proceeds from the Police today sought a hit and|of the Diamond Life Bulletins and|his rings, "but . looking. es show, this one last night got the bazaar will go into a building run driver in a blue sedan who vice president of the National : 4 ; biggest response. {fund for a new school building!struck down a 72-year-old pedes- Underwriter Publishing Co., Cin- Club Speaker Named og Even eclipsing Freddie. Trenk- which is now under construction.|trian at Delaware and St. Clair|cinnati, addressed the luncheon ho oh will ade. ler, the ace comedian, who con-| Members of the bazaar execu- Sts. this morning. meeting of the Indianapolis Asso-| Mrs. John 1 rabulgh vs oy tinues marvelous, were such spe- tive committee include George] The pedestrian, June Roberts of|ciation of Life Underwriters. in/dress members LE oan cialties as those involving Gretle Usher, James Mahoney, Michael|220 E., St. Clair St., received a/the Lincoln Hotel today on “To-/Chapter, Retne tional Trav el: a and Robert sila or Mickey Healey, Mrs. Gerald Burns, Mrs. broken left leg and cuts on his|day’s Market.” Association Pres- Study Club, at their meeting the Michaels, James Trelo#r and Jean Carl Bernhardt and Mrs, Michael hands. ‘He was taken to General|ident Easley R. Blackwood, pe a a m. WI Sturgeoh. Mr. Michaels snd Miss Healy. | Hospital. v sided. al YWCA.

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