Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1928 — Page 5

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“BIG PARADE’ PAIR HIT SUCCESS AGAIN pod La Rocque Now Blossoms Out as a New Type of , Football Player in ‘Hold ’Em Yale,’ Which Is Featured Film Offering at the Circle. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN IT can be safely said that John Gilbert and Renee Adoree, known as the pair who became famous by their work in ‘‘The Big Parade/’ have hit Success again. Meaning that “The Cossacks,” this pair's latest, is jolly, good, dashing theater. It hasn’t the universal appeal of the “parade,” but it is bully .theater. Seems to me that “The Cossacks” is sure fire from the box office standpoint. I think that the women will talk about this one as much as the men. Gilbert has jumped into that class of actors which attracts the women and girls into a theater because it is John Gilbert.

This time again as he did in “The Big Parade,” Gilbert turns out to be a real he-man. This time he does some mighty daring stunts on horseback. He seems to me in “The Cossacks” to be a Doug Fairbanks

daredevil dressed up in Russian attire. Os course, Gilbert has his love scenes with Miss Adoree, and he plays ’em wild. Miss Adoree hasn't the all human role as she did in “The Big Parade,” but she does turn out to be a dashing wild daughter of a Cossack woman. And she plays the role in the right tempo—wild and then some. And

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■when it comes to that caveman stuff, John just spills it all-over the Jot. Really, I believe that you will go to the theater to see Gilbert and jpot just to see “The Cossack” because this Russian stuff lately hasn’t had much appeal. But the director, with the aid of Miss Adoree and Gilbert, has been able to turn out a picture that looks both good and big. This picture is the nearest approach to being a landslide success to “The Big Parade” that Gilbert has had since his big success. Ernest Torrence is cast as the father of the hero of the story. Papa Cossack Torrence wasn’t so proud of his son at first because said son was a dreamer and a “nice boy.’* Papa Torrence wanted son to ’be rough and ready to fight. Dear eon didn’t like the smell of blood, put when he was forced to smell it, the son of Cossack leader became a devil on wheels, or, rather, cn horseback. There is one scene, realistic and cruel—that showing the enemy torturing the Cossack leader and his son to death or nearly so. Here is realism, cruel and a little unpleasant, but it is powerful thater as acted by Torrence and Gilbert. You Will remember this scene when you have forgotten the title of the movie. Torrence is as wonderful as GilJjert, and when it comes to makeup, this man Torrence is a wonder. These two names will be heard often around town this weeek and they both deserve it. Do not consider “The Cossacks” an historical document. It is not that. It is just a story with a mighty strong dash of commanding theater. Torrence has never done more powerful work. The stage show this week is called ."Spices of 1928,” and it serves to givd Harry Fox his second week at toew’s Palace. Those assisting Fox besides Emil Seidel and his orchestra are Fuzzy Knight, Lillian Morton, the Berry Brothers, the Ponce Sisters and the dancing chorus. I Now at Loew’s Palace. non StOD IS NEW TYPE <DF FOOTBALL PLAYER Recently we have had all kinds of movie dealing with college life, esspecially when it comes to lessons in qfjove and football games. | And now comes Rod La Rocque ifclong in much the same thing Sunder the title of “Hold ’Em Yale.” Sit differs from all the others bellrause La Rocque plays it more as a Isarce than a comedy. T He makes his hero anew type Ros football player. Rod gets his

training with the strong men in Argentine. This Is something new, overdrawn, yes, but it has that element of being new and that quality makes it interesting. The picture is strong on comedy because the story has a cotaedy detective and a good one; then there is the valet of Rod while at

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techool and Rod has a trained monkey. A cute little animal at that. jp.od is one of those good looking jchaps who can wear fancy clothes find yet look like the real article in football attire. He does well in .these scenes and he surely gets a jcomedy punch when he attempts to be the champion prize fighter of the

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Freshman class. The director and the camera man have done wonders with this scene. The, story gets a novel start with Rod turning comedy bandit in Argentine and stealing a kiss from the daughter of one of the professors at Yala. He makes up his mind then and there that the pretty daughter of the prof will be his wile. And you know the story writer and the director can not get in bad with the public, and so our hero gets the girl he wants. “Hold ’Em Yale,” to me is a snappy farce comedy with some nice comedy laughs present. It is what I call mighty comfortable entertainment. There is much to interest you in thd* stage show at the Circle this week. There is a trio of Japs in this show that really tie up the show for applause. It isn’t so much what they do, because it is regulation, but rather how they do the old stuff. And they get away with it. Right along with ’em in interest are two roller skaters by the name of Fink and Ayres (I hope I have the name right), who do a lot of daring things. About as good as I have seen in many a day. Then there is a woman tap dancer, May Wynne. She dances well. There are few women tap dancers in the business. Lang and Voelk are eccentric singers and they get lot of syncopated effects out of their work. Dick Powell and the band are putting over anew melody. The overture is made up of new melodies from recent Broadway shows. Pleasing to the ear. Well worked up by Ed Resener. Now at the Circle. nun STARS DO GOOD WORK IN THIS MOVIE A great deal has been said both pro and con on the subject of companionate marriage. Whether it is the same thing as trial marriage I don’t know. Esther Ralston agrees on a trial marriage in “Half a Bride,” then has the other side of the problem forced on her. “Half a Bride” intimates that there are two sides to the marriage question. One side is purgly a sex question. The other has nothing of the kind in it. The picture does not take a stand either way, and evades the sex question cleverly. Patricia Winslow, known as Pat, is one of the very wild younger generation that enters into an agreement of trial marriage with a passing friend. To help the girl’s father take some of the wildness out of her, Capt. Jim Edmunds takes her on a yacht and they are cast on a desert island during a storm and live together for some months, as enemies. Jim finally loves the girl and'she professes to love him. He is beginning to weaken and fall for her when they are saved and taken back to civilization. As he starts to sail away on the rescue ship she comes to him and tells him that he is the one she loves. Pat thinks the idea of being castaway is great sport and says that it is different from being a wife, that any woman should envy her, while Jim insists that she does in their house what every other woman does in hers. The work of Miss Ralstoh in the part of Pat is well done. She has the mad-cap girl character to perfection here. At flrSt on the island she is a very silly creature, thinking only in the terms of what she has been used to. Later she changes and becomes a more primitive type. The change is evident in the characterization. Gary Cooper is Captain Edmunds. He is supposed to be one of those strong salient creatures that can steel themselves to resist anything that they make up their minds to resist. The part calls for that kind of acting and Cooper gives it. The part of the father is taken by William Worthington. He is seen but little, but is good. Several other minor parts are in the picture. The majority of the plot is carried by Cooper and Miss Ralston, and the deserted island is the locale for most of the picture. Several very good storm scenes are to be seen. This is mostly just picture, trying to give a slant on the marriage problem. It is well acted and a fair story for this sort of thing, but re-

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B. Howard Caughran, 525 Indiana Trust Bldg., Democratic candidate for State Representative, who is slated for appointment as city health board attorney. C'lughran is expected to be given the health post this week, when the board will hold its annual reorganization meeting. He will succeed Charles Mendenhall, Republican. quires no really deep thought when seeing it. On the stage is the “Kat Kabaret.” The opening scene is worthy of note. On a high wall are two “kats” who have a few spats. Very cleverly done. Bert Nagle and Omar Hassen are the two “kats.” One of them is a good eccentric dancer. The other dashes around the stage on his hands and feet very much like a cat. The Hearst Brothers, one a “shine boy” and the other a “newsie,” sing what they would do if they were millionaires. They have another number that is of the jazzy sort. It is good. The Patterson Twins are eccentric dancers and very good ones at that. They have several numbers. The Albertine Rasch Girls dance a cat number—a toe dance, with black and white cats. Kerenoff and Malree do several semi-classical numbers. The girl is a canary in a cage and the man some kind of a bird. They are very good. Roy Walm was billed, but I did not hear him when I was at the theater. Charlie Davis and his band played “Suffering Cats.” in which the meow of a cat is the predominating note. It is a hot tune. They also played “Driftwood ” and the banjo player sang it. “A Concert in Colors” is the name of the organ solo, and the final number is "Waiting for the Rainbow,” in which all the colors are cast. At the Indiana. (By- the Ob server.) “LION AND MOUSE” REMAINS AT APOLLO Last Monday I told you at length the various things that you would find in the Vitaphone version of “The Lion and the Mouse,” with Lionel Barrymore in th chief role. At that time I maintained that Barrymore was given a great chance to live up to his iitage reputation, and that he did it in splendid fashion. Here is a picture that will make film history. Os course, these talking dramas will be improved as time goes on. It has already revolutionized the movie business. “The Lion and the Mouse” is one picture that you should see if for no other reason than to become acquainted with the progress being made in the takies. Bill includes Vitaphone vaudeville and Movietone news. Now in its final week at the Apollo. Other theaters today offer “The Seventh Guest,” at English’s; Raymond Hitchcock, at the Lyric; "The Baby Cyclone.” at Keith’s, and Pat Lane, at the Fountain Square.

SCOUT ORGANIZATION PLANS ARE DISCUSSED Work in Smaller Towns to Be Affiliated With City Group. Further plans for community Boy Scout committees at Lebanon, Franklin, Edinburg and Greenwood will be outlined at a meeting at 8 p. m. Friday in the headquarters in the Chamber of Commerce Bldg. The last meeting was held Saturday at the Scout reservation, when committees were guests of the Indianapolis Council at a picnic ad outing. C. M. Finnell of Chicago, associate regional executive, outlined a national program for the development of community committees in smaller towns. The community expansion program will be carried into Boone, Hamilton, Hendricks, Marion, Hancock, Morgan and Johnson Counties through the affliation of the smaller councils with the Indianpolis council. CORNER STONE IS LAID Services Held for New $150,000 Irvington Church. Cornerstone of the new $150,000 Irvington Presbyterian Church was laid Sunday at the site on Johnson and Julian Aves. The Rev. John S. Martin, Greenwood, Ind., former pastor of the church, pronounced the invocation. Elder Herbert Griswold conducted the stone laying services and the Rev. John Nicely, pastor of Munciq Presbyterian Church, delivered the dedicatory address. The Rev. George W. Allison, pastor, led the responsive reading. More than 300 attended. Franklin Dean’s Wife Dies Bn Timex Special FRANKLIN, Ind., July 16.—Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Mrs. Bertha Powell, 54, wife of Dr. Pleasont L. Powell, Franklin College dean, who died Sunday of pneumonia.

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