Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 173, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1928 — Page 11

DEC. 10,1928.

BANKY TURNS ON TRAGIC FIREWORKS Foreign Player in First Vehicle as Star Makes a Sincere Bid for Favor as a Dramatic Performer. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN WHEN Vilma Banky desires to turn on the emotional fireworks, it is evident, after seeing her in “The Awakening,” that the lady in question has a large supply of the emotional gunpowder. Miss Banky was ordered to be a star after being associated successfully from a box office standpoint in pictures with Ronald Colman. So it was decided by the powers that be in the movie world that this team should be separated because both players had star qualities. And now comes Miss Banky in her first production as a star in her own right.

This picture is interesting in a f least two other respects. It introduces us for the first time to a young English actor by the name ox Walter Byron. He has the lookc and the fire needed to put on the

rather warm and not too innocent love scenes with Miss Banky. Th<; other item of interest is that Louis Wolheim is cast as one of the sweethearts o f Miss Banky in this story. Os course Louis is cruel and ug 1 Y and has a grand time giving Mis' Banky a goes whipping with < horsewhip when he discovers her

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in a hotel room with his rival, an army officer, played by Byron Wolheim has never given us a weal: characterization. He is an intelligent legitimate actor and gives us commanding and complete characterizations in every production. And his work in this movie is no exception to the rule. You will notice that although Miss Banky turns on the emotional fireworks a great deal that she has brought to the role a sincerity of purpose that has oeen missing in her previous work with Coleman In other words. Miss Banty is tak ing seriously her position as a star. “The Awakening” is a big picture from a production standpoint and it has been intelligently directed. Os course the story is what I called one of those made to order stones for a star. It is the regulation foreign story of a good peasant girl, who turns down her commonplace ; v hometown boy friend for a dashing army officer. The hometown boy puts up a fignt while the army officer plays with the girl for his own selfish amusement. He does wake up to the fact when it is nearly too late that the girl is true gold and not a sex toy. To get a happy ending we have some World war scenes and the army officer and the girl are reunited, but not after Wolheim has kissed the daisies. A theme song; called ‘Marie, runs through the musical background of “The Awakening.” It is ' sweet melody. Bill includes Metro Movietone Revue and Lester Huff at the Pipe -organ. Now at Loew’s Palace. tt tt THINKING OF A UNPLEASANT STAGE PLAY When Anne. Nichols first wrote “Just Married” for the stage she was not then noted as the author and producer of that gold mine known as “Abie’s Irish Rose.” And so it was not surprising that the movie producers made a bid for

“Just Married” which had a mighty" long and prosperous run in Chicago and other places. If I remember correctly, the Berkell Players gave us this light, merry little farce at English's a season or two ago. The two chief players in the movie version are Ruth Taylor, a blonde who became famous in

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“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and James Hall, who will be remembered for his work in “Four Sons.” I do not think it necessary at this time to go into the story as most theatergoers know the story about the male souse in Paris who woke up in the wrong cabin on a big ocean going boat. And to make the story even more pajama like, the other bed is occupied by Miss Taylor. Hall puts up a corking good souse who has an awful head the next morning. The - ocean liner scenes have been well handled. The movie producer has followed the stage text closely, the result being that we have Anne Nichols’ story without the director rewriting it. It seems to me that Miss Taylor is growing rapidly in the art of farce. Just good looks will not make a competent movie actress these days. She must know the technique of acting, and Miss Taylor appears to be mastering the art. very rapidly. I really think that we need more light entertainment such as “Just Married.” It is smart entertainment. The stage show this week is called “Artists’ Frolic,” and Charlie Davis and his men run away with the entire works. They make a corking big hit with “Old Man Sunshine.” Davis is getting some marvelous arrangements on popular tunes lately, and he is developing these tunes in a grand manner. I am all mixed up over the names of the assisting artists in this revue. I call attention to the work of the two boy dancers who are announced as Indianapolis boys by -•Davis. Smart, fast dancing, but ... their comedy attempt is sad. Also ... notice the work of the man and the two girl dancers who come on at the close of the revue. I have only oraise for the Pathe talking news. The shots showing President-Elect Hoover going aboard the Maryland for his trip is most interesting and the scenes in a toy nursery are mighty interesting. , Now at the Indiana. tt n MELODRAMA IS WITH US AGAIN A certain man who reads this department has invited me to tell him when there is a “real melodrama” in town. He writes me to the effect that

he reads mystery stories for recreation and goes to the movies for the same purpose when a melodrama is on view. And so I now call his attention to “The Midnight Taxi,” a part-

talking War ner Brothers production, which is on view this week at the Apollo. Here is what I call real melodrama. I enjoyed the days when the “metiers” were so popular on the stage. Now days, a melodrama such as “The Midnight Taxi” commands service of a fast train as well as an airplane. Don’t

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try to reason this yarn out, but just let the melodramatic thrills soak in and you will have a pretty good time. The cast is blessed with the services of two old-timers—Antonio Moreno and William Russell. Moreno is the taxi driver who falls into the evil power of William Russell. The two chief women in the cast are Helene Costello and Myrna Loy. So you can justly arrive at the conclusion that the actors are all right. Moreno and Russell fit in mighty well in a melodrama. Both are

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fighters and they know how to use their fists when necessary. I recommend “The Midnight Taxi” for those who like melodrama with all of its thrills regardless of whether the situations are reasonable or not. That’s the beauty of melodrama, it just doesn’t have to possess any reason. The bill includes three Vitaphone Acts. Now at the Apollo. # GOOD FEATURE ON VIEW AT CIRCLE Corinne Griffith and an excellent supporting cast unite to make “Outcast” one of the most entertaining pictures seen for several weeks. Miriam, the outcast, played by Corinne Griffith takes a street-

walker characterization and tones it down enough to make any one change his opinions of this social order immediately. In fact, the beholder soon loses track of Miriam’s past as the story unfolds and by the time the picture ends, Miriam is about the only one left with ideals and honesty. San Francisco is the

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scene and Miriam is just getting thrown out of a house, presumably a rooming house, when the story opens. In an aimless fashion she strolls down the street and, passing a couple of shops, she has to arrive at a momentus decision. She has to decide whether to buy anew hat in order to make her work a little easier or buy a good breakfast. The hat wins, and that hat is important. So down the street again with the feathers of anew bonnet all new and bright. But while under a certain gentleman’s window she is unfortunate enough to come under the stream of a bottle of seltzer water that the said gentleman had directed through the window. And Miriam’s new hat was ruined. Now anyone who ruins a lady’s

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hat should take the consequences, and in this instance the seltzerwater artist, played by Edmund Lowe, takes his. He invites her into his apartment and tries to remedy the damage by a good breakfast and the promise of anew chapeaux. Then Geoffrey, the new found friend, makes Miriam promise him something. Os course Miriam promises without knowing in the least what it is. But holding to the promise brings out the fact that there is yet plenty of honesty and the love of right in Miriam’s soul, and it also starts off a friendship between this illassorted pair that works wonders in straightening the two of them. Things arc pleasant enough until the other woman epters and then the big thing fn Miriam’s life. She gives up the man she loves, and without a whimper. Miss Griffith, despite the things she has had to do to the character of Miriam, is most convincing and capable in this story. It is artificial, out of an artificiality that is its own antidote. It pleases, and is entertaining, and that is what the customer wants. “Outcast” is done as a “sound picture,” that is, with synchronized musical accompaniment. Vitaphone short subjects, Fox News and Dessa Byrd at the Circle organ complete the bill. At the Circle—(By J. T. H.). Tonight at English’s, the long awaited engagement of "The Desert Song” begins. Alexander Gray, Bernard Granville and Bernice Claire are the feature players in a large cast. Other theaters • today offer: Katherine Boyle and boys, at the Lyric; “Women They Talk About,” at the Granada; Buddy Kane, at the Colonial, and “Social Maids,” at the Mutual. Co-Eds Will Go “Dateless” Bu United. Press URBANA, 111., Dec. 10.—Thirtytwo co-eds of the Phi Sigma sorority will go “dateless” for a week or two. Ruth Backrach of Chicago has scarlet fever and her sisters are quarantined.

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Kreisler Again Proves That He Is Great Master of the Violin

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gave a program that will please lovers of these instruments wherever presented. First was given Glazounow’s Quartet in D major, Op. 1, in four movements As an opening number this is most excellently chosen, giving as it does, an opportunity to hear these artists as they swing from widely different tempos, and a chance to observe the perfect technique and coordination with which they work. Schuberts Andante Con vanazioni, “Death and the Maiden,” was the second number, and was perhaps the favorite of the program Schubert was justly loved for his compositions for strings and the interpretation of this number of his by the quartet leaves nothing to be desired. It is exquisite music done as probably the composer would have loved to heard. The last number played, Beethoven’s Quartet in B Flat Maior, Op. 18, No. 6, included "La Malinconia,” a beautiful movement in a slow, heavy tempo that seemed to

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