Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1949 — Page 9
1, Sept -30 -, 3 * we poly AT THE MOMENT, all bee x big sedan’ observer can say her own coral pink and-rofal purple if she had| : ” a. and . about the coral pink and royal purplgptwo-story a home of her own. How about the apartment FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1949 PAGE. 9 ‘house at 6350 Guilford Ave., is that it's"coral pink building she was. living in? No, the owner might ) 4 blood as and royal purple, not like it. . a w * . : 2 ‘ Tp”. police Pople Who heb ssnsitive Shout color, who have “The painters had a terrible time mixing the : : : ul , yet) streak down their backs, color,” said Mrs. Shouse, tugging at the sleeves F uer, et Should a surety) if they feel an urge coming on of her purple suit, ‘ - 4 : : vs shen see the “purple house.” That's what the neigh- « ! vi fashion by borhood has labeled it. wart the men who mixed the’ paint doing the| : . "a eslauer was Time will tell what the purple house will do “Certainly.” ear seat of to the good people around Broad Ripple. There “ : f the men have been no reports of citizens passing out. Sev- rt Have any of them become violent or hen emained be- eral have tottered, though. When the shock wore ©°'f 'adders: | ; off it is hard to imagine what happened, * “Certainly not,” answered the owner. “I wave - mn, 28, Daly y . i a feeling that you don't like my color scheme” #5 # Ta ™ wi ting only a Attracts Stares—And Compliments “My senses at this moment are blank. Who Is ii : i Breslauer ONE SURE THING, pepple look. People stare, In charge of the painters?” ; ip jut the twe Stare and shake their heads. And there are on Ray Armstrong, partner inthe Renewit Paint-| A w R © % vi. record people who actually have flung compliments ing Co., admitted that his outfit never tackled a ; A against the vivid siding. Of course, we must not job like that one before. * % s overlook the fact that théy might be kidding. “At first 1 wasn’t going to doit.” laughed Mr. sd Mrs, Elinor Shouse, who rules over The Elinor Armstrong. “Sounded kind of screwy to me. (8 Shouse Studios up the street, thinks differently, The men were reacting all right. No, as far as rn She believes those who say they like the color are he knew the job was going along pretty well, The . not fibbing in the least. Incidentally, Mrs. Shouse only thing wrong was that in the process of get- go 1s responsible for the purple house. ting the shade of purple Mrs. Shouse wanted, y “I'm tired of seeing white houses ‘with green they mixed too much purple paihY. " trim,” she explained, while I turned. my back at “We had a couple of pieces of material to "Ne her creation. “I'm tired of seeing gray houses with match, Now we have enough paint to cover an- 8 white trim. My ambition has always been to have Other home. You have a home that needs paint. a a house painted purple.” T ing?” asked Mr. Armstrong. thea ar] 9 “ » um I told him to save fit. ay the dream ¥ Ses Jou iomeining’ 1: think: you've - got the sultry voice and blue eyes I met the other day| ' : ’ and who 1 can see coming up an aisle totin’ a : Mrs. Shouse further explained; after question- .,.. 41a of lilies of the valley dikes purple, ing. that she didn’t intend to live at 6350 Guilford. John Phelps, his son Bill and James Jackson| % 3 J The purple house was simply going to be another swished brushes around merrily. They were purple j Lg studio, She most certainly would paint a home of happy, The color must grow on a person: At or A ; lunchtime all three painted their lunch boxes og purple and pink. * “When we go home tonight. " sald the elder Se. Mr. Phelps, “we're going to throw our boxes in| n the door. If they don't come out we'll walk In. #i
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By Ed Sovola
pw: ’ ts fit eon Dazed . . . Painting a purple house, Theft to
right) John Phelps, Bill Phelps and James Jackson turn: their attention to pape lunch buckets.
Always Right?
Pretty, aren’t they?” Ugh. A' neighbor, Mrs, Frances Roberts, 6463 Gai ford Ave., said it was shocking to her when the painters first started. Later, on the second trip past, she couldn't make up. hef mind. You're not -alone, Mrs. Roberts, 5
Fireplug Ruins Color Scheme
A YEL LOW fireplug and a yellow parking s'gn in front“ of thé house bother Mrs. Shouse: She intends to ask the proper authorities about ‘making some changes. ! That brought up the question of the Indian-| apolis'- Water Co. canal right alongside. Mrs. | Shouse sees the possibility of dyeing the yellow water a brilliant blugy,’ ‘Just like the Mediterran-| eari Sea.” She has nerve, this Mrs, Shouse with the purple house, That's all I have to say. What | would { do if my dream girl liked purple houses? » &¢ 2 “Here are five requests for ‘You, Too. rm sure if your first attempt at writing a book is as successful as that first hair cut you gave me, I| wouldn't .rpiss it for the world.” Carl Haywood, 622 E. Maple Rd., signed up every barber in his shop. He's referring to a hair cut I gave him in| the line of duty. Twelve today boosts the total to 2209. |
By, Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Sept. 30—We challenge a great many things via the medium ¢f the upreme Court—such ‘as if is these days-—and I ami.wondering why no’¢ager legal hawk has fafle?d so far to test the validity of umpirical decisions in those august halls, .. So far as I can establish, through untiring research, an umpire is born of woman, even as thee and me, pays taxés of a sort, snarls when he is tickled and beats his wi’e in about the same ratio as practiced by an apprentice mfielder. What, under the democratic way of life, makes him always right? The world has see; ‘during the past few’ dave, a piece of dogmatic decisich, laid down by an umpire, one Will Grieve, that may have influenced the finantial-destinies and happy: home life of more than a score of young men, and I do mean the Yankees. We have observed the abject apologles of Messrs. Casey Stengel, Ralph Houk and Cliff Mapes, by order of League President William Harridge, said apology to be accompanied by fines.
Pesky Slides Into Rhubarb
THIS RUCKUS was raised by a play at the plate, in Yankee Stadium, when the Red Sox and Yanks comprised a dead heat for the league lead. Boston's Mr. Pesky slud ito the plate. New York's Mr. Henrich's.throw beat him amply. New York's Mr. Houk, representing the bottom of their catching barrel, aught said throw and slapped it onto Mr. Pesky. Umpire Grieve pronounced the operation safe, on the grounds Mr. Pesky slad —as opposed to slud-—under the tag. It represented the winning run, and the possible difference between an American keague pennant for the Yanks or
of the Supreme Court have siown a famed fond-| ness for burlesque shows. Athletes of soaring amperage have been bribed. Statesmen have stum-| bled over the obvious curbstones of amour, Gen-| erals miscalculate; admirals foul up. Just for| laughs’ why is not Umpire Grieve paying a fine— which he can ill afford—to make up the money the Yankees may lose as a result of his decision on Pesky’s slide? I have known a muckle of umpires, and have found them stanch citizens, but no stancher than ballplayers or cab drivers, and no less susceptible to a fot of the craytur on a dank evening. Who can say, my masters all, that an umpire may not dip $00 deeply intd the horn, on a night that his " bunions bother him, and go forth to the field with a misted and ill-adjusted eye? This is not to quarrel with Mr. Grieve's decision, except that there is no cast-iron evidence he was right. The facts speak. He was challenged hotly by the aggrieved. The challenge, which certainly logical, was not taken to a higher court. The beef was settled immediately in favor of the umpire, and hostages-—at least fiscally—were shot, as a result of the temerity involved in the challenge.
This smells more of fascism than democracy, : in which a free man is supposed to be able to spout |: ‘his piece without penalty. It reeks of reactionary, /
dogmatism. Are baseball play8rs “slaves? (Don't answer that, men, I may be right.) But is an eventual four grand to depend on whether one umpire has a hangover, or a mouse on, or gnat in his eve? No, 1 say, in a voice of thunder, (Ed. Note: The author is.a Yankee fan.)
Baseball Needs Magic Eye
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“Base libel" . . . William Merritt Chase's portrait of James McNeill Whistler i in 1885 was called a “base libel’ by the other artist and ended their friendship.”
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Set Centennial Opening Nov. 1
By HENRY BUTLER TOPS ON the Herron Art Museum fall schedule will be thé exhibit of work by the greatest of Hoosier painters, William Merritt Chase, openiig Nov. 1. Wilbur D. Peat, Herron direc-, tor, has assembled 55 -representative Chase paintings from leading American museums for the show, which will honor the centennial of the artist's birth. Born in Nineveh, south of Franklin, the great contemporary and friend of Sargent and Whistler lived in Indianapolis from age 12 until he was a young man and able to continue art study in New York: He later went to Europe and studied six years with’ Alexander Wagner and Karl von Plloty at
his! Bosox. r i PLS Only God knows, momentarily, whether Mr. WE OWN, today, magnificently complicated The Soyll Alptcmy 18 Munien, od Pesky was out or safe. Mr. Grieve thinks he technical machinery, such as magic eyes, televi- studying’ the technique wn; i knows, Mr. Houk, and the other finees, are solid sion, photo-finish cameras, automatic pitching ma- masters in the art galleries .of
certain they know, because they attempted to dismember Mr. Grieve upon the scene. For this they have been punished by Happy Chandler's early emissary, Mr. Harridge. My only query is: By what singular dispensation is an umpire always right? What sets him apart from other men? “What franchise does he carry to lend him infallibility, like a wife? Is there any legal guarantee, any posted bond, .that an umpire is exempt from error? The President of the United States, as time has amply shown, may be proven wrong. Justices
TV Made Simple
chines for batting practice, and robots which can do: algebra and speak basque at the push of a button, I would say that we might set up a few photoeyes at all strategic points in baseball, and allow them, oc¢asionally, to overrule the umpire's decisions which are open to quarrel. Everyone at a race track accepts the judge's ruling on an easy win,. and quarrels not with the magic eye on a picture finish. When did baseball get nobler than the sport of ki ings or less susceptible to the margin for error?
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By Frederick C. Othman
. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30—All this hocus- -pocus about television, future of, before the ‘Federal Communications Commission was getting me down. Commissioners were snarling at radio moguls, and vice versa, about the chances of pictures in color. Everybody seemed to be sore at everybody else. Nine different fellows had nine different systems of bringing technicolor to the living room. _ Each one said his was better than the next. While a tenth said none of their sets was worth taking Bor And so much yammering in scientific double-talk you never did hear. So I grabbed off the chief engineer of one of the biggest television.outfits in the world, sneaked him into a sanctum where there was no TV set, or microphones, either, and told him hie was among friends. Namely, me. This was his chance to tell me honestly, without fear of Senators or favor of the FCC, what was cooking.
as of today. It will have instead three Ijttle ones about the size of pint milk bottles, One of these will take care of the color red. One will handle green and one blue. When the beams from these three tubes are focused on a ground-glass screen, they'll make moving pictures in full color. “The undersized tubes themselves are not much more complicated to make than the sealed beam headlights now in use on automobiles. These auto
ists figure that when the small tubes get into mass production they couldn't cost much more.
What-About Present Sets
THE RECEIVERS themselves should be con-|
siderably smaller than the oversized boxes on the| market today, But what's worrying the radio moguls “are these vety sets, of which 2 million now are in use and at léast 1 million more are in
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Harriet Hubbard Ayer, pioneer American cosmetician and lamps now sell for less than §2 each; the special-| g, nder of the firm that still bears her name, sat for a Chase portrait i in 1878 80.
Soldier on Leave Is Badly Burned
yayp Worker Killed When Fan Is Turned On
EAST CHICAGO, (UP)~One man was killed and killed when an Air Force C-82 Mountains. anoles injured when a hugelugyine boxcar”
Venice, where he was especially influenced by Velasquez and Tintoretto,
» ~ n CHASE was offered a professorship in Muniéh in 1875, but refused it in favor of a post in the newly founded Art- Students’ League in New York He explained the choice in the words; “I loved Europe, but I was young. American art was young; I had faith In it.” Widely influential both as artist and teacher, Chase latef founded his own school, which attracted talented students from all over the country to his New York studio. A prodigious worker; Chase painted a possible 1500 or more “canvases before his death in 19186. _Some 850 of his works have been catalogued and described in a brochure by Mr. Peat, which the Art Association of Indianapolis will publish coincidentally with the exhibit, Closing Dec. 11, the exhibit will be open daily except Monday from 9 to 5, and from 1 to 6 p. m. Sundays.
McCLEARY, Wash.,, Sept. 30|(UP)-=At least two men were
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Carmencita, famed Spanish daear of the 1890s, was a ah arfists. Chase's portrait of her is one of his most
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Artist's daughter . . . "Dorothy" is the tifle of this portrait of Chase's daughter wearing a Mexican hat. Some of the great
Hoosier artist’ s best paintings were of children.
southern fringe of the Olympic
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2 Killed in Crash Of Air Force Plane Pendleton Trusty Leaps
Sept. 30 densely wooded area on the Into Wife's Car; Flees
PENDLETON, Sept. 30 (UP)~ Police searched today for Robert Scott, 20, Roachdale, a trusty at
-the works. . The gentlemen in the business are ectric fan on which they were hurned four miles northeast of (by flaming gasoline, but the” Indiana State Reformatory, What It's All About insisting that the government approve no color| A soldier home on furlough rd was accidentally turned pore officers said today. {vented un a Bs who escaped yesterday Shari "avs, Ubless bd uns to work on present com Ft. S111, Okla., was in Long jon, police said today. Two bodies were recovered jor forest fire. ing into his wie's auto as she HE WAS x good Jos. He was delighted. "And sels in black andswhite Hospital today undergoing treat. Edward Paulson, 25 East Chi-trom the wretkage. A third man - One of the plane's motors drove by the area where he was
with no further preamble, here's the first understandable explanation -of the biggest television fight I've hedrd so far: The public (he said) is demanding tinted television. As sooni as the FCC makes-up .its mind as’ to which system is best (and this shouldn't be
' Tae. boys doh't ut much stick In converters) ~~." arst degree burns about cago, wag killed and Michael pejjeved aboard the plans was “conked out” while flying over Working. 0 make current sets.into color jobs. Such items |Bilo,” 26, East Chicago, suffered misqing. {this town ‘of 1200. The pilot ap-| ¥F. A. Hyatt, assistant superinwill work, but they doubt if anybody'll want to his legs. a broken.leg when they fen rom The plane, based at McChord, parently attempted to bring the tendent at the reformatory, said buy another box to attach to its present one. Some! Richard (Jack) Bly, 21, son of a water cooling tower to a con- wash, seared off treetops for craft in for a landing on an un- two other prisoners and a nearby of the manufacturers had. their: fingers burned arr and Mrs. Willard Bly. 517 8. crete floor at the Sinclair -Refin-|1000 feet before it crashed in the lighted emergency airstrip, «resident identified Mrs. Scott as badly when they tried to sell converters to make ._ 0. oi 141d his family that he ing Co. here. The company said i ar ear ol shioned radios int rec ivers. Nobody . . doug ds uch Things go) the Bors will get Diay oi ed o FX Feceiver; was going to heat some water. ‘fan by mistake. turned on Says She Killed Man Because of Death Hex ET Tn 8 . CY This thinking would seem to put the kibosh! The next thing the family knew, ———— KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Sept. 30 Lee Roberts down a flight of Unco-operative. |(UP)—A woman on trial for the stairs and shooting him fatally. | DETROIT, - Sept, 30 (UP)—
ready nowy. : : on ‘the color deal which uses a whirling disc to Mr. Bly was running out the back Ga o Some- of the other equipment is little mOr® aye the tints in the tue. ‘Tt works fine, but no door with his clothes afire. He John rhield i “wood »| Since Roddie's death, she sald, Mrs. Rleanore Croze, 31 i HOLLYWOOD, Sept, 30 (UP). murder of a “voodoo doctor been bedridden with i: Xieasory © a : . ; she has n dd high granted a divorce today after :
than a dream in an engineer's eye, while the re- ordinar y television set ck up the Images it's fell into a ditch and neighbors| 7 Clo OT day forced testified yesterday that her vietim niood pressure, a bad heart and testified that her husband,
ceiving sets have got to be built from the ground go to have, exce ca : e pt in quadrupli te, 0 ] : up. Inside of two years Olsen and Jahnpon, should And that’s that. [film actor John Garfield to take cursed her with a “death hex" a stiff neck. ert, refused to let her kiss hi ause. ol
théred the flames with a Now the. boys can talk all [smothers
be. available in full color, along with™ their col-- p, i y want in their formal hearings about dot-dash-| Members of the * family were a three-week rest, halting produc. jand sald she is still under its! The woman that Roddie afraid ... 1 lapsfble ducks. on TV screens across the land. interlace systems and pulse-modulation loads. Tra to say how fe had been tion on his current picture: Thé s (had a small Dia book con Wik a not permit vor. to sit wie i The system most preferred Nay ihe radio industry won't have to listen to ‘em and ty to figure out burned. The kerosene stove ad Lk fiovie star collapsed on a tennis ‘Alberta Jefferson, 32, is chisrged ing ' “death and | on his lap because it would spoil will not lise one gigantic and picture tube, . what they're talking about, ,. _ not exploded. ut Sunday, ith knocking 20-year-old hexes: ©. [the crease tn'his pants, | a" I z wn te : : 2 y « : rs ot ron 2 os . : : 3 wo . ? : Vo. { v « : ad ¢ : » « £r > s © . \ . » » - i “ - Wx * ; ~ 2 : “ a 5 > v