Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 246, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1929 — Page 8

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DICK NOW POUNDS IVORIES REAL WELL Barthelmess Takes Role of New York Gangster Who Becomes a Radio Sensation While in Prison. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN DID anybody ever tell you that Dick Barthelmess plays the piano divinely and that he sings the same way? , Well, you probably wil hear of it many times this week while “Weary River” is showing in town. In this movie, Barthelmess becomes an Emil Seidel at the piano, and while singing he puts into his voice that mammy quality that has made A1 Jolson happy and wealthy. In this story. Barthelmess appears as one of those tuxedo-clad gangsters. We see him do not of the rough stuff. Just hear about it when his gang reports that there is trouble ahead because Dick’s gang and his rivals killed an innocent bystander while the

fun was going on. The police take off Dick’s tuxedo and put a prison suit on him after the judge told Dick how many years he would summer and winter there. Dick tries to pull some of the rough stuff when he got into prison, but the warden gave him a good talking and told the gang leader that the warden was boss in prison

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-md that if Dick was not a good little boy in prison that the warden would spank So Dick, instead of sprouting wings, organizes a prison band and the prison broadcasts the programs. But the big hit on the programs was when Barthelmess as the gangster sang his own composition “Weary River.” In real life there was a man who made himself fftmous on the air while in prison. So the air audience made it possible for our hero to get out of prison and on the vaudeville stage. He found out that people did not forget that he was a former convict and this made him hardbeiled, so much so that the soul quality left his voice. He was about to return to his old gang racket when his gal of other days, also doing a little reforming of herself upon her own hook, tells him that he is just a piker if he goes back to the racket. Jus; when he is waiting in the racket shop for the rival gang leader to come in and stage a gun battle, the prison warden arrives and invites him to broadcast with the band again. The shooting comes off per schedule but our popular singer of “Weary River" takes narry a hand in the battle. He Is able to sing the song again over the air and as a million listeners can not be wrong, it was decided that Dick had the it again in his voice. Realizing that he runs down the street to call on his best girl, determined to stay on the straight and narrow, both on the air and in* real life. It seems to me that Barthelmess repeats the song about once too often. The song, of course, is about the whole works in this movie. Barthelmess is far from being another Jolson, but I think that the public will go strong for this type of a Barthelmess movie. The modern slang put over by Betty Compson as the gang leader’s sweetie is quite the berries. Good for many laughs. Here is just a polite gang story with the rough stuff missing. And it Is filled with the sentimental stuff, even the warden helping to pile it up as well as the chaplain of the prison. And the song as a song is a peach. Now the chief event on this week’s bill at the Circle.

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HERE IS A GOOD WESTERN STORY You know they do not call western movies under that title any more. It just isn’t fashionable to have a western in a million dollar movie palace. So they call ’em epics. And that is what “Tide of Empire,” a movie made from a story

by Peter B. Kyne. Renee Adoree is cast as the proud daughter of a wealthy Spanish landowner in old California before the gold rush. Renee and her papa lived in a grand old place, but papa could not refrain from gambling on a horse race. And by a funny turn of fate the ranch goes to our hero, played

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by George Duryea, a good-looking chap who is strong on his love scenes. The story is chiefly conconcerned with the efforts of George to make Renee his bride and to save her brother from going to the dogs. The big scene of the movies is when Renee’s brother is forced to become a member of a bandit gang. The gang raids a town and a big battle is staged. The bandits get theirs in the neck, but the bad brother escapes by the aid of George. Then a happy ending for George and Renee. “Tide of Empire” is just good western entertainment written by a man who knows his west. It has been splendidly acted, wisely directed and beautifully photographed. Now just how .much more do you want out of a movie? This type of a story has its place in omr literature of today and it just as surely has its place on the screen. Such a picture rather takes away that fed up feeling of having j to see so many smart sex plays. It is good to get bsck to the west in the days when men were contend to tote a gun and knew nothing of machine guns. “Tide of Empire” is the chief offering on the anniversary week show at Loew’s Palace. ,*a a a “DOCTOR’S SECRET” NOW AT THE OHIO H. B. Warner and Ruth Chatterton are appearing in the all-talker, “The Doctor's Secret,” which has been discussed at length in this department. Ar. attempt, has been made to turn out a smart satire upon the family fight—the battle between a jealous husband and a good looking wife. The result has been a little too smart. This picture certainly piled up

big box office figures on Broadway when I was in New York. Now at the Ohio. a a a RICHARD IS AN INDIAN JUST NOW Richard Dix has gone back to a type of a role that the public likes. That of being an Indian. He was first a successful Indian in “The

Vanishing Americans” and now he is the modern Indian in “Redskin.” “Redskin” deals with the sad plight of a modern Indian who takes on the white man’s education, only to learn that his own Indian tribes would have nothing to do with him because in that state of education he was neither red nor white. But some-

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times even nature and the movie director are good to Indians and when this Redskin strikes oil and gets rich—well, then his people just think he is the salt of the earth. But many things happen before this Redskin becomes so salty. Having acquired the name of “the whipped one” when a child in common school because of a whipping tended him by a school official because he would not salute the American flag made life rather miserable for Wing Foot. It was while still a child that his romance with Corn Blossom began. Corn Blossom was of the Pueblo tribe while Wing Foot was a Navajo. At the medical college, Wing Foot attended, Corn Blossom was employed as a stenographer but is called home because of her supposed mother’s illness. Wing Foot soon leaves the college when he discovers they only want him because of his athletic ability. Going home, his own people will not accept him because he Refuses to be their medicine man in the Indian fashion. After roaming the mountains for several months, Wing Foot receives a message from Corn Blossom through an old trader played by Tully Marshall. Her mother’s* illness was only a trick to separate them. Wing Foot then trys to kid-

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nap her from under the very eyes of the Pueble Indians but is lucky in getting away with his own life. Once more in the mountains, he discovers oil. Some other men try to jump his claim but with the old trader he fights them off. Then begins the race to record the claim. The men by auto and Wing Foot by foot. In the meantime Com Blossom escapes from her people as well as from the man she is supposed to marry. They all meet in the small trading town. There is some shooting. The old medicine man of the Navajo's is killed and one of the Pueblo men. Then Wing Foot tells them of his oil discovery’, gives each tribe half interest and that makes all the Indians fall down and go boom. Everybody is happy when the story ends. A good movie. The stage show features anew novelty number written by Charlie Davis. The band and Charlie have another hit when they present “I Faw Down anc’. Go Boom.” Well done. At the Indiana all week. <By Observer.) OUTDOOR MOVIE NOW IN ITS SECVIND WEEK “In Old Arizona, the first of the all out-of-door movie with sound effects and talking, is now in its second week at the Apollo. Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter and Dorothy Burgess play the leads. I told you about it in detail last week. Last week for it at the Apollo. REMEMBERING # VERY REAL GRAND OPERA Only the most highly satisfactory memory lingers regarding the German Grand Opera Company, which Ona B. Talbot presented at the Murat last Friday and Saturday. The two operas given . Saturday, “Tristan and Isolde” with Juliette Lippe as Isolde and “Gotterdammerung” with the great Johanna Gadski as the Brunennhilde, turned out +.> be the best grand opera presentations ever given in the city. That was the verdict of all those present. Madame Gadski is still in marvelous voice and she is still the great actress. What a treat it was to see this great artist. Miss Lippe was a triumph in the afternoon opera. I

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Electricity Kills Horses tty Times Special ANDERSON. Ind.. March 4.—John Jones, driving a team of horses, escaped injury when a 2,300 volt shock of electricity killed the animals They stepped on a hig‘h tension wire, which fell to the ground after a pole had been broken when struck by an automobile driven by Henry La swell. Versaillese.