Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1950 — Page 5

. J aioe happy

/ summed up in Edward L. Bernays' \ bér issue of “ Theater Arts.”

Everybody - hows some of the

screen, radio and video or con- °_ tinually mountitg costs and

—not even Mr. Bernays and his staff—knows all the reasons, : a 8 ® OONTRAST the Indianapolis outlook today with the outlool of Jan. 1, 1900. When Rose Coghlan opened at English’'s on New Year's Day, 1900, in “The White - Heather,” the historic theater had eight more plays scheduled for January. In our current season, the total number of legitimate stage shows

not exceed eight. But listen to this: English’s had 32 scheduled between Feb. 1-and the end of the season, May 19, 1900. That list opened with Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in “The Merchant of Venice” and closed : > gi show, “WhirkI-

he -presented headliners Tike Weber and Fields, David a musical Warfield, Lillian Russell and May 5 Robson.

. A local stage favorite about the tun of the century was Rose Mehvill, star of of "Sis Hopkins," | a “swe of the Park Theater's popular offerings. Miss show ba hr 190 Pope-Hartford modal of pra-straamiining days. i 2.

What's in Hye Future for Show Business?

NN. Picture for the New Year Doesn't Theater Productions, Inc. can tell}. \ SN Look Too Cheerful, Says Theater Publication os ty contrasted with 1960

\ Show people are anxious;.and with good re reason, ason, Mr. Beraays Bernays ,. steady and good.

reports. e of t facts ~~ he wpa fi A New Yor “had | At the Grand, on New Year's| English’s total of about 70 a

75 legitimate theaters operating. Day, 1900, the stock company itractions for 1800 is' a ‘good | D.egitimate has dwindled to = was starting “The Two Orphans,” dex of local show business’ 50 today. {after.a week of “the great society years ago. Mr. Burke récall§ that, ; ‘drama, -‘Men and Women," by|the average kept up tot some

reasons, like competition from | Belasco and. DeMille. "

week show, following three days|the thing. Stars woud hit New ‘dwindling revenue, nobody of “the sputacular scenic pro-| York once a seadors But-ghe big

duction, ‘Through the Breakers money was im fouring. I rememi-| by* Owen Davis, ugh was “Fulgera’s ber one weeje’ when we. had. five Stags: Fashionable Vaudevill ¢ stars in po separate shows,” he:

the World,” For. the New Year's ays. { as Matinee, the Park had a “speciat! /atter the Murat oped]

McCoy-Maher fight: All ‘the de-| between & and English’s, |

for Jan. 8 was a three-day rup/intil the 1929 o eh. Since then, |

mer Kids.”

visiting the Murat probably will]

order busi 2 i

Pennsylvania St. asked $15 and sional to semi- ~protessional and]

SYD Do : AS ll 5 ve. 31-{ont he Spat © today{b : . PAPErs predicted unusual progress for aths 8 are hard to beat. “Here's a gem 1950 in the packaged food indus- “The past from Sydney's Sunday A. try and hoped for downward price wide g {major ir

Pork handcuffed prowler ! nly 36 of 900 citi up SR Hand, Ore, shop . grabbed “Recent ‘years, he said, “have| leading : : towns which adopted the They included defective wrament. ToT tANS, “Ball's revolver, -shot brotight many packaging and pro-| naise ng mar § council-manager Plan have aban- depressions which voters blamed Nim. Ball recovered Weapon, shot! cessing jnmmovations which havethese are levelling off and that Tdoned ft. on the city government and “nelf- prisoner, Both died.’ enabled ' American consumer tol Ameriéa will dine better than ever ales Arthur Bromage, who | ish politieal interests.” SETH Sha) 1. hr Shot BL buy better quality foods mareland less expensively In 1950."

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PARKING

slowness. In the old programs

% \ = < \ ~ 8 THE FORTS UFLERYS- « ! stored in the Indiana Room of the % : hf \ ATS of thea 4 State Library, youll find Mr. ; og \ That A big ‘question at the century's half-way mark. Burke lsted as “messenger” atiR v. wri \ The a gv a¢ shown business gives it 15 not cheerful. It's English's, as of egy By! Tn - a 4 vend

“ A Theater Survey” in the Decem March, he’s risen to “assistant|

treasurer.” Business at Buglis's s|

years thereafter. The Park Theater's New Year's| “In those days, tio road was]

wire. into the theater for the and eg touring shows. were di-| tails of the big battle.” Booked qe bof to remained high.

of Blondell and Fennessy's myu- the annual averageseldom- has

“The Kat ore 20, with the '49.'50 seasical comedy The {son one of the bleakest. |

me SCANNING 5-year ald pro- GEORGE ‘A. FLORIDA, press

se of the! | | Stam Ziv a me recall. |agent for magician Harry Black- |

E ES Opening Et the 3 Murat next’ BT =

|show business experience when he, wa am a ; : : 1 - : om : : - a’ “oo % He How wd 200 A Fda) ) NS

(LY 1440 N MERIDIAN §

to 330 su LL what's coming.”

rorsets—" There's One| Mr. Florida says Blackstone's very iady” — priced $1, touring overhead has gone up . $1.75 and $2. Candy was/ore than $1000 a week in thei: cents a pound at the New York 12st few years, what with fare,|. “andy Kitchen, 45 W. Washing. Ve&¢ and other cost hikes. 1 to nSt. . { Nobody's building new legiti-| C. G. Fisher & Co. (premoni- mate houses. Stage activity is tions of Speedway), at 112 N. swinging from strictly profes-|

$20 for boys’ and girls’ bicycles.) |amateur ventures. An illustration shows Dr. Cald-| Maybe there's the future. Maybe well's Electro-Hydropathic Insti-| the indirect subsidy of work by tute, corner of Ohio and Capitol, |unpaid actors and technicians or later the recently razed Roose- the diréct subsidy of support by velt Hotel. |collegés and universities will keep One of the most peraiitent ads|the stage going through its presin those programs sounds. like ent crisis. more recent material: “The Kiss| py; one prediction is as good as of Love can be turned to disgust’ {another. If Mr. Bernays oi his if the breath is bad. Bad breath(y, ic relations associates, after| comes from poor, imperfect di- exnaystive research, come up!

|gestion, and the results are wip on arded optimism, who known to all” To cure the con- y.. (phe ¥ suai: P !

Ww VN. dition, thie Sloan Drug Co., 22 One thing is certain: The 1900

The following fall, patrons Jook_Jmore. English's had 31 stage Attracts Alexander. to choose from between Sept. 17 rtship, they and Dec. 29. Walker side , “happiness Joseph Jefferson, Mme. Modjeska, e died two Anna Held, Otis Skifiner. and .¥ Julia Marlowe were among the al assistant a ane Matiows In rwhen 3 3a ihe adapted from Hoosier Charies f her aging Majors fame : novel. J her-mother : ied John B. GLISH'S wh only one her father of threg’ houses steadily operat-| ing e. at the turn of the cen-! orrow. But . tury/leaving out the old Empire| awn before, with its burleycue. The Grand ck. Today - toon House had a stock comreeting for pany grinding out weekly shows t smile. / and the Park presented the old-| 3 about the / time scenic melodramas that were| : / fmmensely popular .before movies| u make a / did the same things better, 7,” she said. ‘ :

~wars/ Hoosier Senators Rated English Teaching |

; people:

Times Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—8en.| Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.),| who is “seeking re-election this} yéar, rates twice as good on the C10 listing released today as does his junior colleague, Sen, William, E. Jenner (R. Ind.) Out of 16 key votes in the first session of the 81st Congress, 8én. Capehart voted “right” twice} according to this CIO rating and| Ben. Jenner only once. The 16 Senate votes "selected for this rating were the Lucas anti-injunction amendment to the | Taft-Hartley law; the Taft in-{ junction amendment to Taft. ous Hartley; the Taft rewrite of Taft-| jou Hartley; the Ellender “flexible! 85-cent” minimum wage amendt ment to the Fair Labor Stand1 TO ards Act; the proposat to cut Interior Department funds for public power transmission lines; conome - firmdtion of Leland Olds as a . - Federal Power Commission member; the Fulbright “local option” We" © amendment to rent control; Bricker anti-public housing amendment to the housing bill; : Taft amendment to bar rural four . / )ow-rent housing projects; MecCtellen proposal to "have President cut expenditures 10 per cent; ° . + the vote to over-rule Vice President Barkley on filibusters;

RS Dental Society ; To Meet Jan.

A new method of cavity prepJS aration will be shown here Jan.

# at the ansual midwinter clinie of the Indianapolis Dental BSoclety, Dr. Drexell Boyd of the Indiana University: School ot Dentistry will discuss new operative procedures at the 4ny-long meeting at the school. oe He will explain: the air abrasiya method of cavity prepara tion. By “this method, the tooth surface Is cut. out with a Yelocity stream of gas.

i BE ~ Low on Listing by CIO

{Minn.), Murray (D. Fla.), Gra- School System and Butler Univer-

Washington St., offered Sloan's ; A level of local stage liveliness is Digestive Tonle... ‘ no more likely to return than! \ V4 a 4 4 VINCENT BURKE, now book- that $20 business suit of the 1900 4 Vi//4 ing manager for the Murat's program ads. [AS ; / p

ALL NEW MODELS NOW ON DISPLAY . AT RIDDICK'S bom 7 and. at the SAME USUAL LOW ano RR NR Ee pee ® Soreciall EASY TERMS . . Nothing | Changed But Qui Location!

do ee =e UNTETENCE SE

rules; Millikin “peril point”|

|amendment to reciprocal trade;| Dy, Dora Smith Taft-Russell ECA authorization d amendment; Military -Aid Pro- To Act as Leader

gram, and the Cain-Eastland| Dr. Dora V. Smith, professor!

Hoosiers. was on housing and the mentary and {additioiid]l one for Sen. Capehart Seco n dary {was when he voted against Taft Schools”, to be

{Hartley injunctions. Later he held here Jan. 9 A Very Special Group

Sutse for the sewrilien Taft bil ond 30. nler of fine Now displayéd under one. oof, Baldwin Grand Three Senators listed ‘as not ence is the sec /_ Pianos, Acrosonics, Hamilton and Howard Pianos, the casting a single “right” vote were ond of three / Baldwin Electronic Organ, Lester. Grands &: ‘Betsy Willams (R. Del), Butler (R. Mid-Winter Con-| Ross S Y 3 =~ ferences to be oss Spinets. Your comparison invi Fed. Xe

Neb.) and Bricker (R. 0.). Cast- f ing all “right” et were Mc- held here under Mahon (D.- Conn.); Anderson —_ the sponsorship (D. N. M.), Pepper (D. Fla.),| , DriSmith of the IndianLucas (D. IIL), Humphrey (D. apolis Publie

All you need is a good credit standing, down. payment ond monthly terms con

ham (D."N. C.), Morse (R. Ore.), 8ity. Myers (D. Pa.), Green (D. R. 1), Dr. Smith, author ef several |

be cut to fit your income (D. W. Va.);, Thomas (D. Utah), books on English teaching meth-

... But we can’t mention th BE HERE EARLY TUESDAY | because this pions onthe rome Magnuson (D: Wash.) and Kil- ods, will lead discussion in meet-

gore 5 WwW. Va). ings Jan. 9 in Caleb Mills Hall MORNING IF YOU WANT T0 J] cuts’ prices . But, you'll recognize ; eT

the name the minut One hundred and eleven Repre- and at Butler. She will also lead “ inute you see them. sentatives were listed as voting! meetings Jan. 10 at Butler, SAVE ON A FINE SPINET! It's your chance to save like you perfectly on 13 issues selected Dr. C. Ross Dean, of the Butier [| Yes our buyer had his ’ ‘eagle eye” on never thought possible.

for measurement by the CIO, college of education faculty, and results of which were published Mrs, Grace Granger, ‘director of heré in a special supplement of teacher "education and in-service the CIO News. Four from Indiaha training, Indianapolis Public listed as 100 per cent are Reps. Schools, will preside. Ray Madden, Gary; Winfield Ki — Denton, Evansville; John Walsh, Anderson, and Arman Insurance Firm C. Crook, South Bend. The 13 issues selected for the Pays Off on CIO test were the Wood Bill substitute for Tatt-Hartley; w Exploding Egg stitute. w of that bill; Lucas sub-wage-hour. bill; Williams “local option” rent control amend- MEMPHIS, Tenn. Deo. 31 (UP)—Bernard Woolner: has an ment; Rees anti-public housingl; nsursnce ley ‘that him| amendment to the housing DAL to Jo ya a yen recolnmital . of social ty| e, tornado and explosion pro-| bill; Celler anti-trust bill; Natural CON eXCept jg the case of ex-| ploding : stea pipes, Dbollers,! Gas Act ‘amendment barring turbines and fly wheel {government regulation of gas nal a sales In interstate pipelines; anti-| A Pot of eggs was boiling on poll tax bill; change of rules to/the ‘stove at the Woolner home curb powers of House Rules Com When one of the eggs blew up. It mittee; recommital of the re- fPlattered on. the celling and! . ciprocal trade agreements bill; {kicked the boiling water on the i approval of conference’ report floor. The, ceiling was discolored A funds, and Military mata tha hte scalded :

i : insurance adjuster could The CIO News called its sup-ifind in: the policy to ex-

these Spinets and made J an at- : tract i : a : ; facture tht rig uding IMPORTANT substantial savings on to you! $ REDUCTIONS

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