Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 126, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1924 — Page 13

rx*IDAY, OCT. 3, 1924

Movie-Struck Merton Spreads Joy All Over Hollywood, Cal., and English’s

By WALTER D. HICKMAN I PILLING the movie beans. I I That’s what Merton does. L I Merton was one of those Main St. dreamers who lived in the movie clouds instead of weighing sugar correctly. Merton Gill was a lad who had the popular conception of movieland. He was such a “dumbdora” that he \hought ' married four times; that is, GLENN HUNTER “since she started counting.” and that husband No. 4 was her own director. Merton also discovered that Beulah was so dumb that she wouldn’t have known that two and two makes four unless she had heard it gossiped about. Merton had highbrow ideas. He hated comedies with cross-eyed comedians. The lad goes Hollywood from a Main street of Illinois town He was so serious :hat everybody thought he was a great comic. They kidded him into believing that he was acting in the highbrow stuff. Horrors! When Mert saw the film it was slapstick comedy with cheese jumping off of the countermand biting a customer on the nose. But—well, see the ending yourself. Have fried in my own way to tell you about “Merton of the Movies.” a comedy made from the story of Harry Leon Wilson and put into stage language by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. “Merton” more than made good on Broadway. It is a hit. That we know. Glenn Hunter was the original Merton and he is still playing that role. You will find him in the flesh at English’s. Glenn Hunter reminds me of a younger edition of Gregory Kelly. Not that Hunter patterns after Kellj, but Glenn has that wonderful something which he and only Kelly possess. Both represent jouth plumsy, awkard, marvelous.

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wonderful, idealistic youth. Hunter is the right man in the Merton role. He knows that Merton is dead in earnest about this movie business and more in earnest is Hunter, the more laughs that flood the theater. You have heard a lot about Hunter and Merton. You can’t separate the two. Both are famous at the same time. Hunter is giving us one of the real corhedy classics that the stage has produced in many a year. The cast is a large one, but standing out with Hunter is the work of Jean Ford, as the Montague Girl, the lassie of the studio lot who kr n w life and who recognized sincerity in real people. Miss Ford has that personality that stamps her as an individual who is bound to create a cheery character. The work of John Webster as Jeff Baird, the custodian of the custard pie comedians, also stood out. I found the entire cast more than satisfactory. “Merton of the Movies” is the fullsized comedy hit that advance reports have caused you to believe. If you have any faith in my opinion, then listen to this: You can place money at the box office and feel sure that you are going to get your money's worth. At English's today and Saturday. -I- -J- -IHERE AND THERE ON NEW PALACE BILL It is mostly here and not there on the new bill at the Palace. Two acts stand out, but the weakness is also prominent, very prominent, in several acts. The good things line up as follows; Bell Montrose and Company in “Her First Stage Appearance.” Miss Montrose works along eccentric lines. She has a good beginning. She walks out upon the stage before the music starts. The conductor orders her back. She starts over again, but in vain. Her attempts to be an actress are really funny. Suddenly the act becomes a dancing affair with several good dancers. Miss Montrose supplies the comedy. The next best is Dashingtnn and his dogs. He has one winning dog—the one that rides on top of a big ball up a winding stairway. All of his dogs have been well trained, although the ending doesn’t have the punch that one expects. Johannes Josrfsson proves that Daniel Boone might have taken lessons from the Japs in the art of self defense. The Tiller Sisters lack material and delivery. At times they

are very sad. Mahon and Cholet engage In a contest to decide who has the most talent. . The movie is “Pagan Passions.” At the Palace today and Saturday. -I-' Other attractions on view today include: Jack Norworth at Keith’s; "Take It Easy” at the Lyric; “Hippity Hop” at the Capitol; “Bread” at the Apollo; “The Alaskan” at the Ohio; “Surprise Week” at the Circle; “The Lost Battalion” at Lincoln Square; “Manhandled” at Mister Smith's, and “Horse Shoe Luck” at the Isis, with J. B. Warner. Great Building Year CHICAGO, Oct. 3.—-Indications are that 1924 will be the greatest

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