Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1928 — Page 5

JULY 23, 1928.

BANCROFT GETS HIS MAN IN ‘DRAG NET’

This New Underworld Picture Stacks Up in Pretty Good Shape With 'Chicago/ Which Was a 'Whale’ of a Good Photoplay. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN AFTER you see George Bancroft as the head of the cleanup detective force in “The Dragnet,” you will say that I am right when I tell you that George is about the most hard-boiled individual in the business. My favorite so far in the so-called underworld stories is “Underworld,” because of his pointed fun. And right next to this favorite of mine is "The Dragnet.” There is a bunch of novelty to the story, especially the way that the chief ganster has cobwebs made to order over a secret doorway and this secret doorway and its disguise affords the climax of the story. I am sure that I am so fond of "The Dragnet” most because George Bancroft is cast as the detective who gave gunfire for gunfire of the gangsters.

There is nobody in the business who can come nearer doing this sort of a bardboiled role so well as Bancroft. He looks the part and he •mows how to put it over. Then there is another man in the cast and I think he is the best dress-suit

nllain in the busiless. I am speakng of William Powell. Here is a juy who always ;eems to have the /illain look. He is i good showman. Ct is Powell that Bancroft is after .luring the entire story. And Bancroft gets his man. He doesn’t do the actual shooting but iie is the cause of it. Evelyn Brent is cast as one of

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.those hardboiled dames of easy virtue who associates with gang leaders when they have enough money to buy diamonds, motor cars and the like. But Evelyn gets religion or only human and she fall in love with our hero detective. But I must tell you that our hero tective hero getting well from his we get through with him. He resigns from the force when one of his men is killed, the chief defective thiinking wrongly that he shot him. Then our hero drunken tramp and is put on exhibit by the gang leader. This doesn’t ring true as realism, but it is rather farfetched theater. And the ending is one of those happy ones—our detective hero geting well from his wounds and ready to marry the former plaything of the gang leader. • The photography is splendid and the direction most wise. I still think “Underworld” the best of the movies of this type, and I like “The Dragnet” just as well. It is powerful theater. The stage show at the Indiana j this week is called “Bowery Days.” j It is not as strong a unit as many j others seen this season at this theater. The outstanding event is the acrobatic work of two little men and an older one. I have misplaced the name of this team. It deserves to be named because it is a corking good one. The next best event is the playing of the orchestra and Charlie Davis of the music of one of their new records. The introduction to this revue is well done as movies are shown to get the right atmosphere. Now at the Indiana. tt a a TAKING A LOOK AT KEATON S LATEST Buster Keaton’s latest, “Steamboat Bill, Jr.,” is miles behind the best that this comedian has turned out. Here is a weak story, probably made because of its title and then strengthened by having Ernest Torrence in the cast and a trick wind storm. Keaton is known as the “frozen face comedian,” and he is still in the frost season this time. Keaton

is restoring to many old stunts in the business to laughs, especially the hat scene when “Pap a” Torrence is buying his boy Buster anew hat. This Scene has been well done and gets more laughs than other alleged comedy scenes In this movie. Torrence fights bravely to

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lo something Ruster Keaton with a role in which his talents are mostly wasted. Personally, I do nor consider Keaton either a great comedian. He may be unique but I do not believe that greatness is his quality. It may be because of the weak story. The comedy attempts of Keaton are scattered over too much space. He does a bunch of trick stuff in the storm scenes but this is old business. It really can not register as a novelty ! any more. It seems to me that if Keaton is | going to grow and Improve his unique comedy art (?) then his stories must be entirely different than any other comedian and they must fit his personality and methods. The more I think about this one, I believe that Torrence gave me more laughs than Keaton. It is a sham to compare Torrence this week in “Steamboat Bill, Jr.,” with his magnificent work in “The Cossacks.” He was marvelous last week you know in a real story. As usual, be your own judge of this movie. Personally I think it is one of Keaton’s poorer pictures, i may be wrong. Have your own idea The stage show is called “Harry’s Revels” because Harry Fox is master of ceremonies. Emil Seidel and his orchestra, Dusty Rhoades, Dixie

Verdict of the Movies

INDIANA—“The Dragnet,” with George Bancroft, is about as grea* a movie as “Underworld,” and that is saying a whole lot. Ban croft’s latest is a sensation. LOEW’S PALACE—“Steamboat Bill Jr.” is one of Buster Keaton’s weaker pictures. CIRCLE—“Hot News” is anew departure in comedy situations and gives Bebe Daniels a chance to do some good work. Neil Hamilton plays opposite her. APOLLO —Thomas Meighan is the captain of a police district and finally gets his man, a beer runner, in "The Racket.” Louis Wolheim and Marie Prevost are in the cast of this underworld picture. I -MU- 4Wi.Wijaw.WHAl.Allt , j. 1 1 "

Four, Joseph Regan, Jimmy Ray and others are in the cast. Now at Loew’s Palace. tt tt tt LATEST DANIELS MOVIE AT CIRCLE “All is fair in love and war.” After seeing “Hot News” I rather think that the saying should be expanded to take in getting the news. “Scoop” Morgan is the best, news reel camera man in the business, and admits it. But he will not admit the fact that a woman can do

anything in the game. So he is fired from the “Sun News” and steps into a place with the “Mercury News.” And there he runs against Patricia Clancy, known as Pat. Pat is the daughter of the head of the Sun News, and also begins by scooping and keeping it up. Everywhere he

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goes she is there before him, and anything is fair in keeping the opposition from getting the picture. When an Indian potentate that has never been photographed is at a social affair Pat and Scoop manage to get in to get pictures. And Pat is the only one that gets anything. But it is the robbing of the Indian. After adventures of several kinds they are rescued from the crook’s yacht and even then Pat gets the scoop on the capture. Bebe Daniels is here in a different role. It is worthy of note in that “Hot News” offers a unique kind of comedy situation and it is taken advantage of fully. While she is cast in a role that might make her lose feminism, she retains it. In one spot there is a bit of burlesque. Scoop and Pat take the places of the dancers for the social function, and in the they have for a camera crank appears the unnaturalness. This is the only spot that does not ring true. The great “Scoop” Morgan is played by Neil Hamilton. He is good in the part of the very conceited cameraman who “knew” that no wonrin *n the world could evei beat him out. Spec O’Donald and Paul Lukes are in the cast. On the stage is Linden and Farnum. They are two eccentric dancers who have a burlesque on an apache dance that is good. It is entended for burlesque and there is no mistaking it. They are good. * Doyle and Schirmer have a cowboy act. That is, they are dressed as cowboys might be dressed, but th'jy sing. One of them plays the “uke,” and the other a mouth organ at times. Their songs are of the comedy variety and are catchy. They have some good harmony, and some jazz. Helen Kennedy rushes out and interupts Dick Powell and then starts into her act. She is a good “kidder” and all through her song tells Dick that she wonders where he has been all her life. It is a good comedy act. Here is a man that has danced in vaudeville houses in the city before. He is a tap dancer and all the time he dances he talks, and runs in dance after dance, each with a different kind of step. He has some stories that are good, and his name is Dotson. The orchestra plays several chorus of “When” and Powell sings one of them. It is a good number giving a solo to the trumpet and 1 trombone. Powell does some nice work with the song. The chorus has a special number that is a “Tiller routine.” They do very well with it. The overture is called ‘'Souvenir," and is played with a picture that depicts the souvenirs of an old seaman and his memories. It is good. The organ solo is “Music Hath Charms” and is another of Desa Byrd’s “sing songs." At the Circle (By the Observer). u tt a UNDERWORLD FILM NOW AT THE APOLLO Here is a picture that has little of women and sex in it. The story is of the lords of the underworld and their arch enemy, the law. “The Racket” depicts the workings of the machinery of the law and of this peculiar tribe of people that have come to the fore through the prohibition enactments. How far reached and sullied the arms of this government of criminals is shown tn | “The Racket.” The story is built around Nickolas Scarsi, the head of a band of beer runners, and Captain James McQuigg of the police force. McQuigg seemingly spends a great deal of time trying to send Scarsi to the penitentiary and he always squirms

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out, due to the workings of his men. Scarsi is afraid of women; he says they are poison to him, yet his brother, who is not in the racket, gets mixed up with a caberet dancer who finally lands Scarsi for the police. He is shot and killed by a man from the district attorney’s office. The part of the police captain is played by Thomas Meighan. It is of an officer who, due to his efforts to land a criminal, is sent to “the sticks” by his office, and then lures the criminal to him. Meighan has made McQuigg a strong character. To land his man he disregards the law, corrupt as it had become, and wins. A part nearly as strong was that of Scarsi, the beer baron. Louis Wolheim played this part and played it well. The smirks and sneers that one would expect from a man of this type were there, and at the right time. The girl who finally landed Searsi was played by Marie Prevost. She was the girl who got the little brother in her grip and made Scarsi bring himself to justice. The brother, Joe, was played by George Stone. Joe was not in the racket, or the game. Two reporters in quest of news figured in the story. They were Pratt and Miller. Lee Moran was Pratt and Richard Gallagher, Miller. The cub reporter, who was the only witness to the shooting of an officer by Scarsi, was played by Sam De Grasse. Beer rumyng, machine gun warfare. and elaborate funerals, as well as the workings of the organization, all figure strongly in the plot. The story is strong, well acted and directed. “The Racket” has no Vitaphone accompaniment. The police quartet, from Hollywood, sing a number of songs over Vitaphone. and among them is one that has four different melodies and four different sets of words. It is composed of nursery rhymes. They sing with no accompaniment. “The Bookworm” is a comedy number that is the dream of a man who goes to deliver a book to a woman, and being sentimental through reading the book, dreams what she says to him. Harry J. Conley and Ethel De Voe are the main character in this Vitaphone ! skit. Ben Bernie and his orchestra play i several numbers, which includes a duet of a comedy nature. Bernie is also seen and heard playing a solo part to one of the numbers. This in addition to the sound news reel of events. At the Apollo (By the Observer.) it a t> YOUNG LAWYERS NIGHT TUESDAY AT ENGLISH’S Because the court room scene In “Madam X” appeals to attorneys, Manager Charles Berkell has invited all young attorneys of Indianapolis to be his guests at the Tuesday night performance of “Madame X” at English’s “All young lawyers presenting themselves at the box office any time Tuesday will receive two tickets for the Tuesday night performance,” Mr. Berkell said today.” All the young attorney has to do is to identify himself at the box office by card or some other means. This also applies to young men who are taking courses in law.” Other theaters today offer: “The Nightstick,” at Keith’s; “Madame X,” at English’s, and Hyams and Mclntyre at the Lyric. Bolt Tears Out Horse’s Eye. I}]! Times Special WASHINGTON, Ind.. July 23. Lightning tore out one eye of a horse on the farm of James Baker, west of here, but did not injure the animal otherwise. Baker was standing near the horse when the boll; struck.

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