Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 161, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1928 — Page 16

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A MAIN STREET DAD STORMS PARK AVE. ‘The Home Towners/ With Richard Bennett and Robert McWade, Is the Best Handled All-Talker. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN A SMALL town Main street dad storms fashionable Park avenue and learns that he isn’t the smartest thing in the world. This Main street dad goes by the name of Bancroft in a play by George M. Cohan, which was more or less successful on the stage. Am trying to tell you about the movie all-talker version of “The Home Towners.” After seeing this all-talker, I am convinced that it is the best of this new type of a movie that I have seen. There are several reasons for that. The first is that the cast is headed by two legitimate actors who know how to talk and act both on the stage and the screen. Robert McWade had the role of Bancroft, the small town guy, in the nrin-mo 1 Mow VovL ■ ■ ——

original New York stage production of this comedy. Another reason is that Richard Bennett is cast as Vic Arnold, a man who graduated from Main

Street to Wall Street. It is when Bancroft in South Bend, Ind., learns that his schoolboy chum, Arnold, is going to marry a New York girl that he decides to take his wife and hurry to New York to prevent Vic from marrying a girl who was marrying Vic only for his

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money. Here you see the clash of Main Street and Park Avenue minds. You learn from the New Yorker “that the most dangerous thing on earth is a small Main Street mind.” Bancroft about wrecks the happiness of three families, but is able to patch up the mess. I am sure that “The Home Towners” would not be nearly as effective as it is now r if it had not been an all-talker. To get the best out of any Cohan play one must hear the spoken word. When the management of the Apollo tells you that this movie is an “all-talking and all-laughing” production, you can take that statement as true. It is filled .with laughs and the talking as done by McWade and Bennett leave nothing to be desired. I think that “The Home Towners” comes nearer to bringing the actor himself to the screen than any other picture of this type. The women in the cast are splendid—Doris Kenyon and Gladys Brockwell. Their voices this time do not get on your nerves. In the past the masculine voice has recorded much better than the female voice. But this one records each equally as good. I recommend this movie to those who have been rather down on the talking movie. It is miles ahead of any other all-talker that I have seen. It is good clean, wholesome fun, and it makes a grand Thanksgiving week attraction. The bill includes Vitaphone acts and Movietone News. Now at the Apollo.

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“HAUNTED HOUSE IS FILLED WITH THRILLS My hardest job is to tell you about a mystery play or movie, because I have a rule that I will not give away the mystery. We now have for consideration today a mystery comedy, “The Haunted House,” which is loaded

down with such a cast of big names as Chester Conklin, Thelma Todd, Montague Love, Barbara Bedford, William V. Mong Flora Finch, who was famous as the ugly funny faced woman in the late John Bunny comedeis, Eve Southern, Edmund Breese and Sidney Bracy. This is not a talker, but a

Sojin sound picture with a musical background. Some of the noise effects used in “The Haunted House,” will make your hair stand right up on end. And right along with the chills and the thrills are many good laughs. About every known thrill to the stage and the screen has been placed into this movie. Individual comedy acting honors go to Conklin and Miss Finch. It is good to see Miss Finch back into a big movie. As with most of the mystery movies, the ending does not hold up with the main part of the stoy. But you will have many a thill and a shock as well as many laughs before you reach a rather unconvincing ending. Os course I still maintain that “The Bat” is the best mystery play the legitimate stage has ever had. But “The Bat” in the movie version was a keen disappointment to me. “The Haunted House” as a movie is better than the movie version of “The Bat.” Please don’t get me wrong in that statement. The bill includes Frank Gabby and his dummy in a clever ventriloquist offering, and Burr Mclntosh, Now at the Circle. a a a SMART DIRECTION FOUND IN GILBERT MOVIE Eugene O’Neil was the first on the American stage to put over the mask, idea to show the real human being in comparison with his fictitious self. Now the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer people have turned out a movie by the name of “The Masks of the

Devil,” and I think the director, in showing the real and the fictitious sides of all the char ac t ers, has done a most masterful thing. For example, when Theodore Roberts as Palester is called upon to act nice to the wealthy weakling character as played by John Gilbert, you see the smiling society face of

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Roberts leave his body and the face showing the real mood of the character takes the place of the lie. Or, in other words, when Roberts is acting a polite lie his real self comes before you on the screen and tells you by subtitles what a liar and a fraud is his wealthy patron. This method is used during the entire picture. It has tremendous dramatic possibilities, and the director as well as the photographer, has been highly successful in getting those conflicting moods before the eye of the camera. Here is new construction for a movie, and one that brings a new day into the screen. This picture has two of the best acting characters of the month. The first credit goes to John Gilbert as the man with the good and bad elements always fighting to get command of the man. Gilbert him self is able to creaote in a most finished and convincing maimer these two different elements in the society man who, would lie and stoop to any trick to get the women he wants if for just a few minutes. Here is intelligent and profound acting. It has legitimate qualities in it and proves that Gilbert has given the character much study. The second acting best triumph to be found in “The Masks of the Devil” is a newcomer by the name of Eva Von Berne. She plays the role of the godS girl who finally chases the Devil out of the character played by Gilbert. Here again is masterful dramatic characterization,

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makeup. Biilie Dove is i cast as a princess, the wife of Prince Orloff, played by J Moreno. Orloff is a Russian army! officer on active duty at the front, and is home on leave when the revolution breaks out and the aristocrats and nobility are given a taste of machine guns and blood. The princess is lucky enough to

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