Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 89, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1928 — Page 5

SEPT. 3, 1928.

GINO’S BIG FEET STOOD FOR LOVE ‘Street Angel’ Is a Picture That Makes This Old World a More Sympathetic Place in Which to Live. BY WALTER D. FTPKMAN THE big clump-clump feet of Charlie Farrell as Gino, a vagabond artist in Italy, jus f stood for love, especially when those feet were near Angela. Those feet of Charlie’s play a big part in the love story of Gino and Angela in a movie called "Street Angel.’’ Here is a pic< are that the industry and the movie fan have been raving over for som i time. Am sure that when you see this one that you will he so filled up vlth the love of suffering and all that goes with love that *ou will decide right then and there that this old world is a pretty good place to roost in after all.

It is the human way that Miss Gaynor and Farrell put over this little yarn of human love in Italy. Am sure that all of us, even the most hardboiled, will remember for

a long time how Angela plays with with the toes of her big-footed boy friend. Those big feet will walk right into your heart although even you admit that none of this sentimental stuff ever enters your system. But those big feet of Farrell’s as Gino will give you one big sent imental kick. Here is a story that will

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make you chummy with yourself. It is so humanly and theatrically sad at times that you just become all filled with the milk of human kindness. An'’ it takes mighty effective theater to do this.

Let us get at “Street Angel” in this way. It is a Fox picture and I feel again more kindly to that organization for putting out such corking good theater. It is what is called in the new movie language a sound and musical picture. That is it has a marvelous musical background. The melodies are those haunting love tunes of warm Italy. The music works right up to the great climax of the story. A great job has been done in getting this background. Frank Borzage has directed this picture, and you will agree with me that "Street Angel” is as big as the artistry of this direct r. You may get sick and tired oi me for ever telling you about "good theater,” but that is the supreme test of any actor or director. You vpll remember the name of Borzage right along with the title of the picture. And the photography—a masterpiece; in fact, often real art. Os course, when it is all said and done it will be Charlie Farrell and Janet Gaynor who will linger in your memory. And it will be a very sweet memory. This is the acting couple that made “Seventh Heaven” such a movie wow. Farrell, if he keeps going the way he is, will become the leader on the screen among the new ones. I am not forgetting John Gilbert, but Farrell is going to be the boy that is able to build up the biggest matinee following in this country, and "Street Angel” is helping him several miles ahead in the race. % Os course, the foot stuff is what we call “business,” but the way Janet plays with his big feet and the way Farrell dreams of the future love nest is so honestly done that you will agree ■with me that here is human theater. Farrell is magnificient in the scenes of suffering when he discovers that Angela, the “street angel,” has deserted him. She didn’t tell him why. But long before Gino had met Angela, poor sweet little Angela had become all mixed up the Italian i*w. She was forced by poverty and a sick mather when she attempted to street walk and She attempted both to get money to pay for medicine for her mother. She escaped from the law, and when she was at the greatest moment of her happiness with Gino—the law remembers and she steals away from Gino to serve her sentence in the workhouse. Gino suffers so and becomes a wreck. Down and down he went, not knowing where Angela was. But his painting of Angela, placed over an altar in a church, served to reunite these two human wrecks. The whole town is going to be talking about this grand picture. Don’t dare to miss seeing this one unteks you deliberately want to pass up one of the best pictures ever made. The bill Includes Vitaphone variety acts and Movietone News.Now at the Apollo. n m a SHOULD WALLACE BE A COMEDIAN? As far as we can see there is no reason on earth in giving Wallace Beery a role that calls for straight dramatic acting. Everyone wants to laugh when they see him and “Beggars of Life” is a sad experi-

Many Sketches Since The Times on Saturday published a picture of Johnny Jones Jr., son of the owner of the Jones Shows on the Midway at the Indiana State Pair, many boys and girls of 12 years or younger have sent in their colored sketches. If you want an opportunity to win tickets to the twenty shows on the Midway, send in the sketch of Johnny Jones, Jr. in Saturday’s Times, nicely colored in crayons or water colors to the Johnny Jones Contest Editor of The Times. All sketches must be in the office of The Times no later than 10 a. m. Wednesday. The contest editor will be the Judge. The first best winner will receive five complete free tickets to each of the twenty shows. This means that the winner can take himself or herself and four others to every show on the midway. The second winner will receive three complete free tickets, taking him to every show. Meaning that the winner may take two others along. To the next twent best, one oomplete set of tickets to the twenty shows will be issued.

ence for the person seeking something to laugh about. The picture starts out with a rather sordid murder, such as has

been popularized lately by the most prominent killers, a murder with an equally sordid motive. All through the picture, scene after .scene of dirty m e n, unwholesome life and kindred things are presented. It lever approaches truthfulness that impresses the beholder as such. In our opinion the

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picture Just “isn’t there.” The story opens with Richard Arlen as a tramp in search of his breakfast. Coming to a farmhouse he smells the delicious odor of frying ham and all the things that go with it. He looks through the door, sees the farmer sitting at the table and calls to see if there would be just a little left for a fellow who is hungry and willing to work. No answer and Arlen opens the door. Entering, he finds the farmer dead, shot through the head. Then appears the adopted daughter of the farmer, Louise Brooks, who admits the killing, giving as her reason the nauseating attentions of her foster father. The young girl and the tramp then form a strange partnership and take to the open road. We think this could be made into a great picture, but in this version something is lacking. To others it may be a fine picture, but to me it is not. On the stage Joe Besser indulges in a lot of eccentric comedy that quite often hits the spot. He is about the brightest member of the stage show.

Charlie Davis and the band offer some musical selections that go over big; in fact, at the show we witnessed, the band had to repeat several times before the audience would let them stop. The mixed chorus of boys and girls have several smart dance and song offerings this week and hold up many weak members of the’cast. Arthur Campbell, Ruth Witmer, Dixie Nightingale, Barnett and Clark; Calm, Gale and company, and Burday and Noway make up the rest of the bill. Included is Fox Movietone News and Dale Young at the Indiana organ. On view at the Indiana.—(By John T. Hawkins). nun A PRINCESS COMES BACK TO MAIN STREET Maybe or maybe not the visit of Queen Marie was the inspiration for the story of “Heart to Heart.” Most of us just love to get a look at. royalty and most of us (at least in the story books) make just chumps of ourselves in doing it. That is the idea back of "Heart to Heart. A small town girl leaves her Main Street and marries a young Italian Prince who

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dies and the American Princess puts on a show for American tourists in the old castle. That is she makes the tourists pay for meeting "royalty” in order to keep a roof over the old palace. After getting enough money from the tourists to keep the palace rocf from leaking, she decides to sail

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back to her home town in America. And she does and her dear old relatives have a grand time preparing the old homestead just off of Main Street for the Princess. Oh, it was going to be some homecoming. The Princess, of course, arrives on an early train and she is dressed like a well bred stenographer, no flowing train, crown or anything. She enters the home of her relatives and they mistake her for the sewing lady, who was to make a grand dress for Ma, (played so humanly delightful by Louise Fazenda), and the Princess decided to keep up the fun. She finds out that life and gossip on Main Street is not only just roses, but often flavored with lemon. Pa, played by Lucien Littlefield in a funny hokum way, gets wise and helps out with the deception. So he gets the Princess to make her entrance into town in a great auto while wearing her state gown and all of her jewels. She does and teaches some of the old dames a lesson. Nearly forgot to tell you that the main reason for the Princess coming home was to see her former sweetheart, a small tswn boy, who instead of becoming a famous inventor turned out to be a window washer and a good one at that. This little part is played by Lloyd Hughes. Oh, I forget to tell you that the role of the Princess is played by Mary Astor. But the picture gets its charm and its comedy by the work of Miss Fazenda, who has combined realism with plain hokum. Here is one of the most natural funny women we have on the screen. “Heart to Heart” is good hokum and has a lot of every day fun in it. The Circle this week is observing its twelfth anniversary and the stage show is called “12th Anniversary Revue.” Dick Powell presides and he has a good song number with Hawaiian background and a bunch of shredded wheat clothed dancers. The Circle this

Verdict of the Movies INDIANA—WaIIace Beery in “Beggars of Life,” a tramp picture, and Joe Besser, a clever comedian, on the stage, round out the bill here. APOLLO—“Street Angel” is gorgeeous, beautiful, sympathetic entertainment. One of the very best of this type of a picture. It makes Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor two fsvorites who will live long in the memory of movie goers. Don’t dare to miss this one. LOEW’S PALACE—Although “Tempest” is the conventional story of Russia just before and during the revolution, it is a good picture because of the acting of John Barrymore. This picture cost a fortune to produce. CIRCLE—“Heart to Heart” is a light little hokum story with Louise Fazenda doing splendid work. Just pleasant, light entertainment.

week is introducing the "blackout,” a form of clever fooling recently so successful in the high priced revues. There are numerous entertainers. The stage setting is not as elaborate as many that this house has revealed. Eddie Resener conducts the orchestra through an overture. Now at the Circle/ nan BARRYMORE HAS A RUSSIAN STORY Any member of the royal house of Barrymore attracts attention and this time we are interested in John of that family and the way he acs in “Tempest.” This movie is good because of excellent acting of John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim and

every other member of the cast. The production cost a lot of money because some of the scenes, in fact many, are peopled with many men and horses. The story is one of those yarns that recites the story of a peasant youth who broke all tradition 0 f Czar Russia by becoming an officer. He was not of blue blood, but

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he fell in love with a haughty princess whose dad was the general or something like that of the Russian ary. Barrymore is cast as the young Russian peasant who staked all for the love of the princess. Our hero runs into bad luck all the time. Once, she slaps him in the face when he returned her clothing after it was stolen while she was bathing in a creek. In this scene Barrymore wears only trousers and one, to speak modernly, sees more of Barrymore than usual. On the night that he makes his first social appearance at a ball given by the princess, he gets in so bad that on the following day he is reduced and thrown in prison. The reason beng, that our hero peasant got plastered and entered the bed room of the princess and went to sleep on her bed. When the princess discovered him, she summoned her papa and the man to whom she was engaged and there was a hot time in the old palace that night. While oui hero is in prison, the revolution breaks out and the nobles are overthrown. We get a story book idea probably how the new peasant government dealt out “justice” to the nobles. Every noble could expect nothing but death and our hero was the grand high judge or something of these goings on. But you can guess what happens when the princess appears and is about to be sentenced to death. The two discover that they have always loved each other and they make their escape into Austria. The musical background during the dramat’c action has been marvelously handled by Hugo Reisenfeld. This is the first sound picture with musical background to be presented at Loew’s Palace. This is not a talking picture, but a soundmusical picture. This musical background aids Barrymore in putting over a mad scene in prison. Here is big acting. The comedy In this dramatic melodramie story of the Russian revolution is furnished by Louis Wolheim. Good work. You will be

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