Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 210, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1929 — Page 14

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OLD NAMES AND NEW ONES MAKE GOOD A Picture of Entertaining and Epic Value Is ‘The Trail of ’9B’ Now at Loew’s Palace for Week. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN THERE are some valuable memories, even sweet ones, when you look over the cast of "The Trail of ’98.” • Take back your memory album and open up the pages when the names of Emily Fitzroy, Harry Carey, Russell Simpson and that muchly cherished name, Tully Marshall. Also open up your new name accounts and find Dolores Del Rio, Ralph Forbes and Karl Dane. The combination of the past and the present will give you a mighty happy formula. Let me first get the idea over that here Is a big picture from a scenic standpoint. It required hundreds of people to make it and a change of climate. One change, I un-

derstand, took the principals to Alaska for authentic background, and then California mountains were used for other effects. Here is as big a picture as "The Birth of the Nation" and as much of an epic as "The Covered Wagon.” Here is a story of the gold strike In Alaska years ago when men were men and women were women. The types of these men and women as

they were have been well selected. They may not be present but you feel when you meet Jack Locasto, Salvation Jim, Mrs. Bulkey, Mr. Bulkey, Old Swede and Lars Pete rson that these characters have stepped out of the album of life and history. This story has a broad sweep, a mighty broad one

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and rings true. It is more than just good and spectacular theater, it is a human account of how men and women cheated and earned their gold in Alaska. There is charm and even historical significance to this movie story. It has been produced upon very large lines. The scenery is there.. So is the cast, and above all it is nearly correct except as to the hair cut of Ralph Fobes as Larry and the manicure of Dolores Del Rio as Berna. And so that you will not misunderstand me this Del Rio woman has snapped out of just the mere pose and the pink tea Russian affairs into a character that really is human with the exception of that manicure impression that she has even in Alaska. The characters are not those that you would meet in the Sunday school room. They are from life of a certain period. Del Rio as the girl who goes with her blind uncle, grandpa or whatnot into Alaska for gold, is reasonable in her way of putting over the character. This woman has a fine sense of theater, although it has not always been intelligently directed and controlled. Here (here Is intelligent direction and a good response. I believe that I am ready to say that the story is worthy of a fine effort on the part of the cast as KIDNEY PAINS AND RHEUMATISM-GONE Farmer Is Able to Work Again, After Years of Illness. Trying to work a farm, w r hile j crippled and in constant pain for ! several years, was the hard task faced by Matt Reiland, Route 4, Stockton, 111. He tells of his recovery, in the following letter: “I suffered from kidney trouble and rheumatism for several years. My back ached so I could hardly bend. My head ached, and the pains in my limbs were very severe. I was anemic, my blood was poor, and I was so weak and dizzy that' my farm work was almost impossible. But today, life looks entirely different. My rheumatism is all gone and there are no kinks or pains in my back. My kidney trouble has disappeared, and my sleep is not disturbed. I am eating hearty meals and feel fine in every w r ay. It feels wonderful to have good, rich I blood coursing through my veins. I trace all this change to the day | I started taking Viuna. My wife : and son are both taking it now, i with wonderful results. Viuna has j surely been a God-send to our fam- j ily.” Viuna has worked wonders in thousands of desperate cases of kidney trouble, back-ache, stomach trouble and rheumatism. It may be the making of you. Try one bottle under positive guaranty. $1 at druggists or mailed postpaid by Iceland Medicine Cos., Indianapolis, Ind. VIUNA The Wonder Medicine | SILVER FLASH % l ANTI-KNOCK § • • i £ — non-poisonous. Felt Base Floor Ol Covering, Yard. . . OIC Wanted Pattern* and Color*—ftemnant* Economy Rug Cos. SIS East Washington St. BLUE POINT SERVICE STATION Corner Delaware, Madison and Ray Goodyear Tires and Tubes Our Prices are Lower MONEY TO LOAN —ox— MORTGAGES STATE LIFE Insurance Cos. IMS STATE LIFE BLDG i

well as the guy who put the sound effects and the music to the picture even after it was made. Here is one musical background that does fit the story. The comedy work is done by George Cooper as "the worm” and by Karl Dane. Here Is choice human comedy, well done. I believe that you will remember the comedy work of these two men even when you forget even the name of the picture. The management of the Palace is using two screens in projecting this picture. The regular one ana when the space becomes so large the big screen is used with telling effects. I have not spoken of any length concerning the work of Ralph Forbes as the hero lover in this exciting story. He makes love like a man and fights like one. Sometimes in the scenes showing the rigors and hardships of Alaska, Forbes looks a little too well kept from the barber standpoint, but he corrects this. The result being that Forbes does pleasing and even convincing work. I consider "The Trail of ’9B” a big and an important picture. It will get you acquainted with an interesting day in the history of this country. To others it will bring back the fact—the gold rush. I know this because I sat the other night with Henry Behrens and he told me* that when he was a lad he was ready to go with a crowd of gold seekers to Alaska. His brother made him stay home. Only three returned and none are living today. So I tell you honestly and straight from the shoulder to see “The Trail of ’9B” now at Loew’s Palace. a a a CONSIDERING DEL RIO AGAIN You may see Dolores Del Rio in two different pictures this week in this town. She has the chief role in “The Red Dance,” along with Charles Farrell at the Apollo. And if you have read that I have written about "The Trail of '98,” JBpPjZS at the Palace you know that this W same woman is in BLv JjgScHggft both pictures. At :: the Palace. Del Rio F has an American ■jf^?HIHjPI character, but in Hk 1 "The Red Dance” she is a dancer who gets mixed up siMa with the past royally in Russia. The ItoSipll story just makes an average movie, although the act- Dolores Del Rio ing, the directing and the photography are miles ahead of the story. Here is a regulation Russian movie story, dealing with the days when royalty was rough and in power as well as the days of the revolution. I haven't so mtich fault to find with the acting, but the-story is just a mine rim vashout of this type of affair. There are some old Russian brutal wedding customs shown in “The Red Dance.” Del Rio is. as far as looks is concerned, the Russian peasant girl who will not marry a drunken soldier of the czar. She gets mixed up in a love affair with a member of the proud Russian rul-

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ing family. Ho is a great lover and cast like a gentleman probably when he would have commanded if the censor was not around. Even the red fires of the revolution could not wash out this love or what you call it. The ending being one of those made to ordr happy affairs. Farrell, you will find, is all dolled out like a Russian of high state of the old order. And he does a nice job of it from the theater matinee standpoint. This picture jus- misses being a wow and that is because the story does not hold up. You will find nothing wrong with the cast or the directionSome of the scenes reflect some interesting realism. The acting clicks, but the story don't. Now at the Apollo. a * * ALICE LOOKS LIKE A HIT If Alice White keeps up the rate she is going her name will soon be a household word in speaking of

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F.very one is rounded up and a new man added to the company to

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Sophie Braslau Becomes a Fine Dramatic Artist in Song

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