Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 159, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1928 — Page 12

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MEET THE GANG IN THE BIG MOMENTS Ben Hecht and Other Members of the Bunch Catch Laughs and Drama of the Real News Thing. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN SPREAD your skirts over this piece of dirt about the way the newspaper gang “gathers” more dirt for your breakfast table, at the club at noon or at the Greasy Spoon. There is a bunch of that individual stuff in that pie-eyed drama of the newspaper gang that will make you howl with delight or yell out loud in protest. • Here is a strange language play that hits the bullseye on the mission of dishing out the hot language stuff along with character. Had a man who calls himself a most representative citizen in this town because he is on a swell corporation that swells out loud with that

money racket. This representative of the corporation came up to me bettween acts and asked me if I didn’t think that if the “dams” and the preceding adjectives, if eliminated, would help the play. That guy is all wrong in his realism of the newspaper work and what makes hot (should have a different spelling) theater. On leaving the theater and walking with Henry Behrens, we heard a loud protest i'roma man and a woman who yelled out loud that there was no reason for ever writing such a play because the language was so hot that it would make his wife’s fur coat sound like cat. Get yourself wise about “The Front Page,” as written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. These guys know their newspaper gang, and they also know the doses bf melodrama and kick to give a play the kick./ It’s strong language and all of that mental sex fun that newspaper men throw at themselves, but never print. Ths “Front Page” yarn is no Indictment against the newspaper

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racket or the guys who dish up t.he dirt nor against those who read the “dirt.” In “Front Page” you will observe a wisely and a marvellously constructed thing known as “entertainment.” It is loud, profane, honest and dishonest; it screams from the housetops in laughs and moans the laughs and the tragedy that surround the guy who turns out your yarns on the sheet you read. You will meet all kinds of “tarts” —mental and physical in this play.. You will hear languages and laughs at and with life that will make you want to read the ten commandments all over again. So take off your mental red underwear and give it a toss in the furnace, not to get rid of any lofty love affair and the like, but to get hip to a lot of fun and fact in “The Front Page.” The last talk of the play will probably put a lily on that fine mental chest box that you own—but you will love it whether you admit it or not. It was so d— fine that Volney Fowler of my own sheet, told me

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in the lobby of English’s hotel that this play was “great.” And I will take his word for that. And he manages many men on the city job. So you will encounter today and tomorrow a lot of different opinions about this wow of a dirty scream for and with the newspaper game. But don’t miss this masterpiece of entertainment both on the part of the writers as well as the cast. The cast is so much to the good that I want to give you every name as listed: Wilson, American Jules Cern Endlcott, Post :..Millard Mitchell Murphy, Journal Robert Pitkin McCue, City Press John Carmody Schwartz. Daily News Jack Campbell Kruger. Journal of Commerce. Lloyd Nolan Bensinger. Tribune John P. Lewis Mrs. Schlosser Olive Reeves-Smith “Woodenshoes" Eichorn James Kearney Diamond Louis Henry Sherwood Hildy Johnson, Herald-Examiner Roger Pryor Jennie Zyllah Inez Shannon Molly Malloy Antoinette Crawford Sheriff Hartman Harlan Briggs Peggy Grant Wilva Davis Mrs. Grant Mabel Wright The Mayor Willard Dashiell Mr. Pincus Harold Grau Earl •Williams Earl Ford Walter Burns Fuller Mellish, Jr. Carl, a Deputy... Jack A. Clifford Frank, a Deputy Larry Light A Policeman Harry Wallace A Policeman Allan Fagan And I will get to the cast this way. It is the best all rounded type cast play that has visited Indianapolis since I 'have been telling you about play. And that has been a bunch of years. Maybe more than a bunch. First—Take the type work of Harlan Briggs as Sheriff Hartman. That little squirt of a political accident who didn’t have the “guts” to tell the mayor of that great city on the lakes to taste his own gravy. Here is type work of the theater that is a masterpiece. Probably one of the truest type things I have ever seen on the stage. First—The newspaper hero who tells his managing editor to go to that hot place where they don’t take newspaper subscriptions because the paper would burn up in the hand of the subscriber. Am telling you of the gorgeous work of Roger Pryor as Hildy Johnson.

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This newspaper man found out that he was just a fire horse that would go out to any fire even if “retired.” Here is a sympathetically raw characterization. Here is a gem. Done by an artist, a real one. First—Fuller Mellish Jr., as the managing ed who told the world, a mayor and a sheriff to find the happy hunting ground and love it. Here is the real article in delivering a climax to that second curtain and giving a most ungloriously indecent ending to the entire works. Real acting. First—Everybody in the entire darn cast. The set is right. Direction what it should be. Have been trying to tell you to put the baby to bed early and put out the cat and take a pike at “The Front Page.” Don’t dare to miss this play just because of the play and the cast. At English’s today and Saturday. John Philip Sousa and his band in two concerts today at the Cadle Tabernacle. You have anew movie opening today at the Circle. It is “The Haunted House.” I saw it last night at a pre-review. It will give you a thrill. Other theaters today offer: Scotch Highlander Band at the Lyric; Collegiate Fashion Revue at the Indiana Roof; “Show People” at the Palace: Movies at the Granada; Charlie Davis at the Indiana; “Plastered in Paris” at the Apollo; Movies and Girl Revue at the Colonial, and, burlesque at the Mutual.

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