Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1928 — Page 5
SEPT. 24,1928
JANNINGS TOPS ’EM ALL IN ‘PATRIOT’ This Foreign Star is Undisputed Leader in Dramatic Characterization on Screen Today. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN AFTER seeing ErrJannings in “The Patriot’ I am convinced that he is the leading dramatic character actor that the screen has today. “The Patriot” is fortunate in many things. First that Ernst Lubitscn directed it. Second, that the cast is headed by Jannings and Lewis Stone. Jannings is particularly at home in “mad” roles. I mean those parts which enable him to produce ravings of the mind. In this yarn of Russia of the story time of Paul I, Czar of all the Russians, Jannings is called upon to register the cruelty, the weakness and the brain-fog of a mad czar. i
He is always mad. He is always crying out for* everything from a wonCa with a pretty face to the general slaughter of his people. Jannings does not ask you to throw him one crumb of sympathy. He has given you the most powerfully terrible characterization he has ever photographed
upon the screen. It is his most gigantic conception, although his character talents are heaped upon a madman. He has caught the mental fear and the physical weakness of this mad czar. You seem to feel and think along with this raving man. You will laught at him, but Jannings. the actor, will force you
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Jo be interested in his just fate the ery second that he appears on the creen. That is one -of the tests of ’•'cat and effective character acting. Atiy one could make you like and admire upstanding character, but it fakes a genius to make you interested in the destiny of a mad czar of the Russians. Here is fascinating “mental” acting. Powerful and resourceful is this man Jannings in creating a character. Jannings seems to have himself reborn into every character that he has given the screen. Jannings probably goes stronger in. registering the lust, the savage end mad appetite of this ruler, than any actor would dare to do. He does that with the understanding that he is giving a complete characterization of a mad and depraved man,. Weakness along that line must be registered, and he does it powerfully by both the direct and indirect method. Jannings today stands on the screen in about the same position that David Warfield stood on the legitimate stage at the height of his career. Both were great artists in giving a complete characterization. Warfield had the sad-happy, healthy and normal men to play. Jannings has the dark heart and the weak mind to register. Please consider the work of Jannings as a study in great acting. I do not consider history but just a study in dramatic characterization. "The Patriot” is one of the best examples of what I call marvelous dramatic theater that I have ever seen.
As we study the history of the screen up to this time, there will be many of us who will declare that the Czar Paul of Jannings is the most conmplete dramatic characterization that the screen has yet produced. I am willing to stand upon that statement. And I am willing to tell you that Lewis Stone as the man who loved the people of Russia and who in the capacity as the closest friend that the Czar had is doing the best work of his career. Both the Czar and his “friend” are dead before the story ends but Russia has been saved from a mad Czar if that means anything today. “The Patriot” has two marvelous characterizations and Jannings and Stone are responsible for that. Here is perfect dramatic acting if it ever existed. And all through the story you feci the magic of the direction of Lubitsch. You see examples, many of them, of the greatness of this director. This picture is what is known as a sound picture with a musical background. In several of his mad scenes one hears the mad yells of the Czar but those yells did not strike me as coming from Jannings. Some of the sound effects were good, especially the religious scenes and those devoted to the singing of the Russian people during their sufferings. “The Patriot” is not a lily white story. It is for the adult audience. Now on view at the Circle. “THE TERROR” IS THE BEST MOVIE THRILLER I am not unmindful of “The Bat” and “The Cat and the Canary,” that
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is the movie versions, when I tell you that "The Terror” is the most thrilling crime melodrama that the screen has had in recent years. It is seldom that I get so worked up that I feel uncomfortable when the lights art out in my own bed-
room after seeing a movie, but I am confessing that this story surely got under my skin. Os course, such a reaction is mighty good fun in a theater. This thriller has able direction, splendid actors who know how to say every word along with the action. It is possessed with some of the wildest scenes that
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one will ever hope to see. The photography is marvelous. The story is filled with tricks and business, and it is so cleverly worked out that I did not know just who "The Terror” really was until his mask was torn off. I admit it freely when a movie gets me all excited and worked up. It’s jolly good fun, even if it is thrilling. It’s good every once in a while to go to a theater and get scared out of half your wits. It all comes under the head of amusement, you know. You know it is not my policy to ruin any fun for you in a mystery play by telling you the story or the solution. And I am not going to tell -you the plot of “The Terror,” because that will fake away lot of the fun, the thrills and the suspense. But I can tell you that Alec Francis and Louise Fazenda, two favorites of mine (I admit it) are simply cleaning up in this picture. Francis is giving a powerful characterization of a man loaded down with fear. Miss Fazenda has a dramatic role, but she plays it with many dashes of comedy that keeps one yelling and howling. Then you have May McAvoy in the role of the heroine, who does much screaming when that thing known as “The Terror” comes near her. And she does some screaming and it is splendidly recorded. All that I can tell you about Edward Everet Horton is that he plays a “goofey” role and plays it with tons of that quality. Great fun. You will have a circus seeing this one and getting scared half out of your better senses. Lots of fun. Want to call your attention to at least one Vitaphone subject—that of Daphne Pollard, English comedienne. Splendid. Now at the Apollo. tt a a KEATON HANDS OUT THE LAUGHS Buster Keaton is still good for laughs. "The Camera Man,” at Loews Palace this week, is far from being the best thing Keaton has done, but in spots it is hilariously funny. There are three high spots in the film—when Keaton and a man
about twice his size undertake to undress and put on swimming suits in the same little two-by-four dressing room; when a tong war breaks out in Chinatown and Keaton films it, and another with Keaton in a swimming pool when he discovers he has lost his s wimm ing suit some where in the water.
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Verdict of the Screen
CIRCLE—EmiI Jannings may be seen in his greatest dramatic characterization, "The Patriot.” Really the most gigantic characterization that this actor has given the screen. A great study for the adult who wants the best acting. PALACE—“The Cameraman” is not Buster Keaton’s best, but it has a lot of good laughs in it. INDIANA—Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mackaill have a clever picture in “Waterfront.” APOLLO—“The Terror’ is the most thrilling murder melodrama that the screen has had in “ages.” Great fun to be thrilled like this picture does it.
photographer who falls in love with a girl employed in one of the famous news reel offices, Marceline Day. Keaton the photographer decides to try his luck at taking news reel films in order to impress the girl and invests his last cent in an ot vorm camera. He also acquires a monkey by accident that almost cheats him of his ambition—a job for the news reel company. Os course his first pictures are terrible, and then the girl gets a tip on a Tong war in Chinatown and gives it to him. He makes good here, but the monkey plays a trick on him and he does not know it until almost too late. Anyway in the end he gets the job as you know he will. To repeat, it’s not his best, but it’s real good fun in spots. “Our Gang” in a timely comedy of school days in an extra good offering of this amusing group of kids. The first day of school is, for them, started out right by having a holiday. A pair of seals from a circus gets loose and invades the schoolhouse, thereby ruining the morale of both teacher and pupils, result a holiday. A Harry Langdon comedy, said to be his last three reeler, is what one would expect from a film as old as this. It is not what people expect to see done by Langdon this day and age. Lester Huff at the Palace organ has worked out a clever musical program this week and with the Fox Movietone News, completes the bill. * * * “WATERFRONT” IS A CLEVER PICTURE Jack Mulhall, as a sailor man who, likes his women the same as
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his steaks, tough and raw, and Dorothy Mackaill, have a clever picture in "Waterfront,” at the Indiana. Dorothy is the daughter of a tugboat captain, who has decreed that
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