Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1921 — Page 6

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LOTS OF MAIN STREET STUFF IN HOOSIER’S STORY MacDonald Movie Is a Thriller—Linder Breaks a Mirror—Dalton on View

There Is a whole lot of the atmosphere of Main street j n the movie version of Booth Tarklngton's Indians yarn called ■‘The Conquest of Canaan." Aa a movie, I consider "The Conqust cf Canaan" a '•orking good entertainment and I am telling the world now that 1 will drop In at the Ohio again some time this week to see the picture once more. I read this book years ago and was very fond of It. There bas been some discussion in the “failure" of the rootle director to correctly picture the “small town" of the story. The.trouble with most of ns who write of the movies is that we Judge all Main streets and all small towns by cur own little Main street and our own little burg. A small town Is not a “boob town." It any means, although gome appear to insist that any Main street is a "boob street." 1 am going to take ibe other si.le of the question. In my humble opinion the director of this Tarkington story has done very well in ca'.chiag the spirit of the small town. As the picture stands, It afforded me an hour and halt af genuine entertainment. When a book is turned Into a play or a movie, it is necessary to make changes for the sake of dramatic action. Joa Louden, the small town hero of the story, has always been a favorite of mine and I am glad that Thomas Melghan Is cast as Joe. Meighan generally hss been associated with pictures of extreme action and the first balf of the Tarklngton movie may appear slow but the last half la fast enough for any one. Melghan is able to put over In a convincing fashion certain traits that I have Ibved in'Joe. lie was always for the “underdog" and Melghan has an abundance of natural mannerisms which makes Joe a living character on the screen. Melghan's Joe shoots dice as any HooSier lad would roll the bones. He has an honest coucern for his b ‘St "gal' when she goes to a “swell" par. '7 in the old town and ha sees to it that she is not slighted. Then as the story advances and Joa decides to knock all of the prejudice and hypocrisy out of Main street, you are bound to get the feelln' that Melghan as .Tee is big and strong enough to tackle the Job. Personally X am fond of Melghan's battle with temptation when he debates whether to “kill” a bottle of booze or let someone else do the Job. Melghan does a fine bit of work In this scene and the | struggle is an intense one. There are several other fine “small town" characterisations In this movie uch as Ariel Tabor, the small town heroine; Mrs. Louden, Eskew Arp. Happy Farley. Colonel Flintcroft and others. I will admit that the movie director was too ambitious In the scene showing Arid's return from Paris when she is greeted by her town people. This scene evldentally is too much of tbe movie studio Idea than real life. The mob scenes before the Jail are handled In a satisfactory manner. The entire cast Is worthy of mention as follows: Joe Louden ... Thomas Melghan Ariel Tabor Doris Kenyon j Mamie Pike Diana Allen M-s. Louden 'un Eerlcstoc Chiud-ne Alice Fleming Eskew Arp ..Charles Abbe Jonas Tabor Malcolm Bradley Happv Earley Paul Everton Nashville Cory Macey Hanaro Col. Flintcroft Henry Hallaia Peter Bradbury Charles Hartley Judge Pike Louis Hendricks Norbert Filutcreft Jed Pronty Gene Louden -Cvrll Ring Rnuire Buekelew J. D. \^a.sa Mike Sheehan Riley Hatch I am not saying that this version of Tarklngton's story Is the best that could have been done with It. but I do contend this movie Is corking good entertainment. At the Ohio all week.—W. D. H. -!- -L- -!- 1 “STRANGER THAN* FICTION” ON VIEW AT THE CIRCLE. Beauty plus freckles, plus comedy and seriosianess gives ’J9 a play, “Stranger than Fiction.” which Is being showr. at the Circle this week. Katherine MacDonald supplies the beauty, and We-iiey Barry the freckles. A la-ge c*=t sssists these two to make the comedy and drama. “Stranger Than Fiction" Is out of the usual category of photoplays, and runs In a channel of Its own. Indeed, sometime*. It verges almost too close to the unusual in Its situations. Miss MacDonald has the role of a Miss Drcxel, a member of New York's Four Hundred. She is the leader of a new fad: that of "parlor movies" The first of the play hows the guests at one of the howlnes of her photoplays. A* the story develops, the play <-octlnu“s the plot' of the picture bring shown In Miss Drexel’s drawing room. Some clever work Is done by the produrr In sustaining the interest In the play, and In the transition from the mlnlture screen to the main picture. The plot runs the whole gamut of emotions. and then satisfies by ending very •atlsfiactorlly. We are taken Into the den of "The Black a noted criminal, where some of the most dramatic of the scenes taks place. Then we ere taken to the mansion of the heroine and are entertained by tbe Inimitable "Freckles" who has sn interesting but cot veiry Important part in the story. In this play we see Miss MacDonald with and without her black wig. And. If sre may be allowed to express an opinion here, we hope that the star does not permanently adopt the wig, for we like her best as a blond. We would recommend this picture to that blase person who s?id, “there is nothing new under the sun.” At the Circle ail week. ' ; -!* -I* -ICONCEKNTNO MAX LINDER. When Max Under to our shores from France before the wan It was expected lie would turn the screen world np-slde-down. When war was declar-i, be returned to France and fought like he should. After five years absence, he is back In the film game. His first movies were “Max Cymes Across.’' “Max Plays Detective.” “Max In a Taxi" and numerous others. . IBs latest vehicle Is called “Seven years Bad Luck” and Is the current attraction at Loew’s State. It Is .a difficult task to put Lin ler where iro belongs on the movie screen He generall*' wears a big stiff hat and all the rest that goes with it. Ke probably Is known In France as the Charlie /Chaplin of Paris as he has a funny little walk. In “Steven Tears Bad Luck.” Llndr first Is wen celebrating bis last night as a free n an because on the morrow he !* to be married. Max gets on a peach of a “bun” and on arriving home mistakes a doer leading onto a street as the clothes’ closet door. His clothes land on th" street. Max suffers beantlfully while trying to sober up. His valet and a maid, while playing kiss tag. break a large mirror. The vale' orders a mirror to replaco the broken c ne. It Is necessary to deceive Max *° h "llkeneae'’ to Linder Is plseed behind the frame of the broken mirror to “act” like Max as he shaves. This Is an old stunt bnt is done very well by Under. Then Linder decides to boun~e a shoe over the head of the fellow ia the broken frame. By the time Under burls the shoe, anew mirror has replaced the broken one. The shoe goes through the new mirror and Linder’s seven yeer* of bad luck begtna. His girl tnrna him down because she catches him dotng s hula-fcula dance with an Hawaiian maid. This is the Canniest atunt ia the plctnre to my way of thinking. Linder decide* to shake the Jinx by leaving town. He Is robbed of all bis money. Then his trouble starts. Under nser a moving train aa the scene of some

EVEN A DOG LOVES A LITTLE LOVIN’

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THOMAS MEIGHAN AND “SPEC”

This plctnre seems to show that even a dog likes a little affection and love now and then. In Booth Tarklngton’s "The Canquest of Canaan,” Joe Louden and of his antics. In the end the Jinx Is broken and Max marples his best glrL Personally, 1 find Linder's movies too mecaanieal. He possesses no gentle comedy touches. lie must have moving trains, wild chases, closing and opening doors and similar mechanical devices. The entire bill at Loew’s this week is a comedy affair. The news weekly contained A funeral scene and Manager David "cut that out” becuse he adverLscd a comedy week. A funeral -.s not comedy, you know.— W. D. H. -J- -!- -IOH, TOC babe: TOC ARE SOME ACTOR. Babe Euth’s “mug” never will win the first prize at a beauty show, but It Is the most human face I ever have seen on the screen. Babe Is at home on the diamond and he earries that 6sme “at home” feeling with him to the movie screen. His face Just radiates that good old-fashioned small town feeling, and before long you actually are ‘Tooting” for Babe when he in doing some home-run stuff on the screen. Yesterday I dropped Into the Isis, as Is my regular weekly duty, to look over Babe's actin’ In "Headin' Home ” The movie producer who had this picture in hrnd must have been a wise old owl because the story used Is based on Babe's early life in his home town. Babe does no acting in this movie—he Just Is natural and allows that ugly, but wholesome ‘mug" of his to do the rest. When I trotted Into the Isis 1 thought I was at a ball park. The fans yelled and screamed, poked each other in the ribs, and one patron of the drama, thinking rile was at a park, became so excited that he knocked my cap out of my lap three times. As baseball ethics prohibits the other feller plcklug up the hat or cap he knocks to the floor, I found it necessary to go “fishing” for my headgear three times. There Is a streak of home and the small town In every fellow and this movie causes one to love Ms old home town and to think of hit mother and her home-made pios. G>sh, Isn't that a gTeat thought. Oh, Boy! I enjoyed most the first part of rije movie which is devoted to Babe's attempts to get ahead In his home town. The small town busy bodies thought he whs good for nothing Poor Babe left the town In disgrace but the old burg was glad to welcome Babe back home after he was famous The sub-titles are snappy, bright and funny as “diamond" slang Is used. I am not going to ruin this movie for you by telling you In advance all of the fun you will have in seeing this movie. If you have faith In my opinion. It will

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“Spec" are both unpopular on Main street of the town of Canaan. Thomas Melghan is the hero In a movie version of Tarklngton's story, which is on view all week at the Ohio. only be necessary for me to whisper; “Gosh, this Is a peach of a movie.” At the Isis all week.—W. D. H. -I* -I* -I* DOROTHY DALTON AGAIN ON TIEW. A pair of gamblers with aa English gentleman a9 their tool, serve aa a background for Dorothy Dalton in her latest picture, “Behind Masks, ’ which was taken from a story by E. Phillips Oppenhetm. Miss Dalton Is a young French orphan whose guardian Is an unscrupulous woman who makes a living at bridge. Miss Dalton has appeared in many plays In which she has had French roles, r.nd with good reason. She seems to fit our idea of a French girl. Her associations with her guardian and another villainous character only serve to display her own worth. On the verge of being forced into a loveless marriage by her guardian, the girl falls In love with the brother of tbn Englishman with whom her party Is staying. Then complication* ensue. In the form of suspicions on the methods cf the gamblers The action of “Behind Masks" takes place In an old English setting, and supplies a background of romance and adventure. The cast Is good, with the exception of the loading man, who has no attribute that make* him worthy to appear opposite Miss Dalton. May be seen at the Alhambra the first part of this week.' -!- -!- -!* AT THE COLONIAL. The week's feature attraction at the Colonial Is Bert Lytell in a movie version

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of the stage play, “A Message from Mars." The story naturally lends Itself to movie use as the stage version could not contain some of the spectacular S'-ooes which the movie contains. Tho movie has found It an easy matter to use the big fire scene, which of course was Impossible in the stage version. One of the big scenes of the movie version is the fire scene in which a block of h 'sn in a tenement -district is destroyed. The movie director bas boon able to use a big festival scene with a large ballet. Th* story centers abound Horace Parker, a young Englishman of wealth, and j who Is a snob. Ho thinks that the world : would stop revolving If he should give i the order. A messenger from Mars take* all of the egotism out of Horace and | In the end he is a human being. Lytell is cast as Parker. Leonard Maudle plays the chief feminine role There are numerous others In the cast. -I- -I- -I----AT THE REGENT.... Neal Ilart In "Black Sheep," a western story, Is the chief offering on the Vtegont screen this week. The movie 19 based on a <tbry by YV. C. Tuttle. The contending factions In this yestern story are a band of cattlemen and a flock of sbnepherders who fight for control of the land.

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AT MR SMITH'S. The week's offering at Mr. Smith** ts "The Devil’s Garden,” In which Lionel Barrymore la starred. He la supported by Doris Rankin, who Is his wife In private life; 11. Cooper Cliffe and May MacAvoy. The biU Includes the usual comedy films. -I- -]. ON THE STAGE. The Stuart Walker players at the Murat will present “Trilby" as the bill for the week. Popular vaudeville continues at t’ae Lyric with satisfying attendance during tbe hot spell. Priest Honored by Pope; Robed Aug. 115 Special to The Times. < RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. I.—Tbe Rev. Roell, pastor of St. Andrew's Catholic church In this city, who recently received the title of monsignor from Pope Benedict, making him a member of the papal household end the recipient of other charob prerogatives, will be Invested with the honors Aug. 15, by Bishop Cbartrand of the Indianapolis diocese, according to announcement made here. Only a few Indiana priests have been grunted this honor.

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TAKE WIRELESS TO NORTH POLE; 2 YEARS IN ICE Amundsen to Keep in Touch With World on Next Trip to Arctic. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. I.—From the remotest, most In accessible spot on earth —tne north pole—a wireless message will be flashed to the civilized world, If the plans of Capt. Roald Amundsend, discovers*, of the south pole and famous Arctic explorer, are carried out. Captain Amundsen's schooner Maud, on which he hoped to drift past the pole with the tee floes, was disabled by a broken propeller off Cape Berthe, Siberia, after he had passed two years In pushing around the eastward Arctic passage from Norway. The explorer left his vessel and hsr crew to await a break , In tbe toe and proceeded to Nome, later coming to Saattla on a reoont ship, j The Maud has no wireless apparatus. ' but Captain Amundson expects to Install I one when the craft Is brought here this

summer, to be repaired and refitted. Captain Amundsen explained that his party I had been cut off from communication j wltn other human beings for two years with but one break—tls trip out to Nome last year—two years of Ice-bound hortsons, of bitter cold, of almost endless nights. “The war was raging In Us most critical period when we left the world, most of yon know," he recalled, "and for many months we speculated on the course of events. It was In December, lUlk, more than a year /after the signing of the armistice, that we finally met a Russian trader who told us what had happened. Then I determined we would carry wireless.” Captain Amundsen said he would pass the next year In the United States, probably most of it around Beattie, and would sail from this port next summer. He will strike back for Cape Sard**, he said, trusting to meet with better luck than the furious Arctic storm which last yet, hurled the Maud Into a nice bank on the Siberian coast. The explorer affirmed that his voyage had tended only to confirm bis previous theories about magnetic properties of the j Polar basin. He expressed faith In Ms i belief that an ocean current running

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northwesterly from Cape Serdie would carry him past-, the pole and eventually Into the Atlantic Ocean. “When we reached Nome a year ago and started back," he said, “the trouble was that an unprecedented jam of ice prevented us pushing far enough norfh. We drifted too much to the east—and the currents eastward from Siberia are extraordinary—lt Is a sort of whirlpool, where one wanders around In circles Instead of following any course.” “It will take three years—perhaps longer,” he predicted. Captain Axnundsend said that an Important part of his equipment consisted of books, hundreds of them. “I read mostly fiction," he said. “Under such circumstances a man's mind needs diversion. 1 want something light —but not too light; It must be plausible." ENGINEER DIES AFTER WRECK. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. I.—Engineer D. L. Flynn, who was Injured Thursday when a New York Central train was derailed at New Carlisle, Is dead at St. Joseph hospital. His body will be taken to Elkhart for burial. It Is reported A. F. Johnson, fireman, who was injured at the same time, will recover.