Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 61, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1929 — Page 12

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thi“ im HAPPtvin MOLLY BiT.'.ilAM rrporter. liar conic eJT Lie rr>hrfr; BARROWS trial. Barrows. wealth - and oclliv prominent. •> A triad lot tl. murder of BERNICE BRADFORD. rattier famous uoman. Eeat.Mnl and • denlablv immoral To ever-od* i : irpri e he >r • acquitted. Moil*' the 'rial in brilliant fashion and as rr-’ard of meri ? has boon Chen a bonus and ;. ’seek oft Mollv happens to be ' err murh In lot e iifh a poor vounjr man named JACK WF.I.LB. but she F.a decided to postpone her marriae" until such time ■ A r. ha sated a little ir.onc Mearibe;.dine all her efforts to tie . o. ■> fling somethin* really ror i • hi!'- She is a rle-.er IfHle girl, and • probab • sucreed One r.iciit a* she is re- oh ine in her Mind t; e j.iot of a store, her bell ring' If RFD FLYNN, police court reporter, mth •'Uriah:: g .;e-- of th Bradford murder Fed av* tha - he has just left e bo- named PERRY INOERKOLT . vho fa- enifaxed to Bernice Bradford. He declares ',ia' Perrv and Rerni'c ner< about to be married And Red admits that he doesn't know exactly *-hat he Js xoirx to no > ith the bo-. Meant.me, Per- l eepin* in Red s bri NOW C.O ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XI ONCE a reporter, they. say. always a reporter. And to a good newspaper woman everything is copy. Life, and death, and love, and hate. Obviously, then, this Ingersoll boy was copy. Rattling good copy. too. Molly leaned forward eagerly. “And what." she demanded, “are you coing to do with him. Red?" Red shrugged narrow shoulders eloquently. "Darned if I know." he admitted. "There he lies—Gods little gift to newspaper men. But you know, Molly, it seem a shame to tell the world • I don’t know why." she retorted. "If he’s spilled a solution of the Bradford murder. Red. it’s your rivic duty to ‘tell the world.’ ” “Maybe." he admitted. “But to fell the truth, dear. I haven't any of that stuff railed civic pride.” “You're just soft-hearted." she accused " “Soft-hearted nothing!" he rejoined indignantly. “I'm practical, that's all. And, just now. T'vc got an idea. Molly. A great big idea.’’ Molly sighed. “Go on," she urged. Tell me about the Ingersoll kid. and never mind your beautiful idea.” Red lighted another rigaret.. “Molly, darling." he informed her. "T love you and all that, but can't you sep there's a plot for a play, or a novel, in this Ingersoll kid?" “But tell me!" she besought. “Red. you're simply talking your head ofT. I don't know what it's all about." • \o? Listen, then." Solemnly Red began. “Perry Ingersoll fell in love with Bernice Bradford.” a tt tt **w/-ES. yes." Molly nodded. “And X because she was gay and charming, and very, very wise, this young Ingersoll found her captivating. She was different from all the nice little girls he'd known. The good girls, who smoke a lot and drink a little, and pretend to be very, very bad. Bernice didn’t have to pretend. She was just herself. Beautiful, and loving, and sinning. So Ingersoll fell in love with her, did he?" "Well, lie thought he did.” amended Red. "and that's pretty much the same thing, as near as I can make out. She was just the glitteringesf thing that had ever come into his life. And. when she gave him a little attention, he fell like a load of bricks. Did I tell vou be wrote poetry to her? Called her his golden eirl. and all that trash. His clamorous. Golden Girl. Doesn't it give you a pain. Molly?” “No.” she said. “I think it was rather sweet of him. Red. and awfully pathetic." Red chuckled. Must a born little romanticist." he chided. "And you ft newspaper woman. Molly!" "Go on!" she pleaded. • Well, as I was saying, young Perry Ingesoll got a poetitc passion for this woman, and pretty roon he started glorifying her. Warned to marry her. But Bernice knew how to play her cards better than that. An adoring kid might become use to a girl in her profession, but what the heck could she do with a sophomore husband?" “You say he knew about Barrows?" questioned Molly. “Oh. Barrows darn near broke the poor sap's heart." rejoined Red. ‘The kid was so jealous he couldn't see straight. That's why he was ready to swallow Bernice's proposition. hook, line and sinker." “What proposition?" “Don't be in such a hurry.” he Instructed. “Ain't I trying to tell you? First, you see. the kid was imploring Bernice to marry him, and she was laughing at him. Then, when he'd given up hope, and made up his mind she meant it. she suddenly turned the tables. One night she asked Pern* to marry her! I can imagine the poor boob's heart busting with joy. when Bernice promptly took all the joy out of life. “ 'For a consideration.' she says. And then she outlined her scheme. "Now. IngersolFs the sort ot chap that would cry. and carry on like a woman. But he's a welcher at heart. It he wasn't he'd never hat e consented to her proposal. And consent he did. "Bernice knew he was infatuated with her. and that she could twist him right around her bejeweled little finger. She knew. too. that he was broke and desperately in need of money. There seems to have been something about gambling debts at the university, and the kid was afraid of an expose. "Well. Bernice said she'd marry him and give him a few thousand besides, if he'd be a good little boy. ana uo exactly as she told him. And then she - confessed that Barrows wa' begining to tire ot her Not that she gave a hoot whether he loved her or not. Oh. no. Bernice wasn't one of your sentimental models. I don't suppose she'd ever given a snap of her fingers for a man in her life. But there was a lot of money in the Barrows outfit. “You remember Barrows’ aunt was supposed to have provided the defense fund. Well, that wasn't his own aunt. She his wife's aunt And for Mrs. Barrows' sake, the old lady would go through anything. Barrows' wife's people wouldn't stand for any scandal. And Bernice knew the game from \ to Z. “But this was to be high-class blackmail. Nothing small-time about Bernice. Bp r* as too welllknown to h?i ~ h hit - hi' concealed from anybody. It wouldn't

do Bernice any good to say she knew- he had a wife. “That being that, our heroine reckoned a husband would be a good bet. And this night I'm telling you about how she laid her cards on the table. “We ll get married.' she told young Ingersoll. ‘and then you'll I *hrpaten to sue Barrows for alienation of my affections.’ “At first the kid didn't get it. And then she tells him she meaps to i continue to play Barrows, berry'll; have to come home some night, and j catch Barrows there. He's just to be the boob, that's all. "Perry and have to make a scheme, she said, and make off he wanted to kill Barrows. Then Bernice was l to interfere and try’ to patch things j up. And in the end they’d have Barrows promising them anything I they wanted. He could get money, : you see. from his wife's aunt. There were two reasons why the old lady would give it to him. and Bernice knew them both. “First, there was the way she loved her niece. Then there was i the scandal end of it. If the thing J threatened to become a court case, | the old lady’d peel off a hundred j thou to save the family honor.” b a b MOLLY gasped. “You don’t mean to tell me.” she cried, “that Ingersoll agreed to it?" Red nodded contemptuously. “He did." he affirmed, “just that, j "But don't forget. Molly, that the j kid was absolutely infatuated with j her—and after all he is a kid. And j anyhow, he swears he had no intention of complying with her schemes. After they were married, he never meant to leave her. The poor sap j was going to make her love him. ■ That was what he thought.” ‘Do you believe it?” “Oh, I don't know. The kid’s no I Galahad. The point is, he prom- I ised he'd go through.

CORKING, FINE FUN IS ‘MRS. CHEYNEY’ Smartest of All the Talkers So Far Has the Services of Norma Shearer and Basil Rathbone. BY WALTER TL HICKMAN. SMART, my dear; it is ripping. Simply gorgeous when it becomes shocking. What arc you raving about now. you* ask. I will tell you at once, because I want you to know the reason. I am raving about the smartest talker that has hit this town since we have had that sort of a thing. And the reason for it is because I have just seen the talking-movie version of The Last of Mrs. Cheyney." and it. is a wow. It is as legitimate as the stage version, and that is saying something that I NEVER HAVE said about any movie, whether it talks or just gestures.

Here is a rattling smart and clever play, probably not the kind you would exhibit at Sunday school picnic but its smartness is cleverness itself and yet there is nothing really downright dirty about it. It is needless for me to go into detail regarding the nature of the play because you recall that Stuart Walker

did it at Keith's some seasons ago. The movie version of “Mrs. Cheyney” is the best acted, the best spoken, the most intelligently directed and produced of any movie that first got its start as a stage play. And I say that I have said everything. When I left the Palace yesterday afternoon, a group of women

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leaving the theater were expressing this opinion: “Never have we seen such movie entertainment before that made us feel that we were in the legitimate theater.” And as one of the group remarked. “This talker sells them to me in the future.” And I subscribe to the statements of that group on leaving the Palace. It goes without saying that Norma Shearer has established herself on the screen as a talking actress, who is as smart and as clever with tantalising situations as Ina Claire is upon the stage. And that is some statement. I did not care for Miss Shearer's work in the movie talking version of “The Trial of Mary Dugan.” I cared for about nothing in that version but "Mrs. Cheyney" is different. The work of Miss Shearer as Mrs. Cheyney, the clever thing who works the society racket at housebreaking. reveals comedy, dramatic and facial power that she was never suspected of having. And Basil Rathbone in one leap from the legitimate stage has placed himself mighty close to the throne of John Gilbert. No kidding. Rathbone can act and how he can talk in character. And just as fine in its way as the work of the two stars is that of Herbert Bunston as Lord Elton. The lord in this case is quite an ass. And he acts it that way. Jolly fun. Must also place importance upon the clever work of George Barraud as Charles, the gentleman bujer who trained pretty ladies and clever gents to be crooks. Quite a Fagan is he. The photography is excellent, the recording and sound reproduction is as good as we have had. If vou desire the smartest evening of fun that you have had in the theater this summer, then go tc Loews Palace this week and see “The Last of Mrs. Cheyney.” BBS MEET A REAL MYSTERY PHOTOPLAY When a movie now days desm es flov.ers to represent success I am glad to give 'em. even including the fio-r. hop And that is the way I feel about the wry the director hr rntd ou- the movie version ot a " ho: detective at cry by 'he r.me cf “F'-hh'd That Curtrin." Here is me her talker that the

“And Bernice went and bought a wedding dress. That girl sure had a sense of humor. A white satin dress and a flock of tulle.” “I know,” murmured Molly, “and a duchess cap of seed pearls, with orange blossoms tucked in her veil. It wasn't a sense of humor, though, Red. Women don't joke about things like that. Poor soul—she was buried in it.” Red nodded unfeelingly. “Swell looking corpse, wasn't she?” “I didn't sec her.” admitted Molly, "but I had a good line about the wav she looked. I said hers was ‘a beauty made death amorous.’ ” ■ “Good!" approved Red. “You car| sure turn a pretty phrase, old dear. “I did write some good stuff on that case," confessed Molly de- [ lightediv. “Emotional writing is I what I like." “And heres ’your chance,” cut in Red excitedly. “Don't you begin to see the thing, Molly? Say, this has all those crime and sex plays beat a miie. Why. honey, you can give the best of them a run for their money. Here you've got all the ingredients for the best damn plot in history. Beautiful woman. Quivering passion. The calf love of Ingersoll. Play Ingersoll alongside Barrows. And Bernice alongside Mrs. Barrows, sin versus respectability, with sin all glamorous and seductive. And respectability so damn proper that sin calls the tricks. And there's your moral. Every play has to have a moral." “And mystery!” cried Molly. “Why, Red, it's the most mysterious thing that ever was! Here's a woman, preparing for her wedding day. All set to blackmail a wealthy lover, and marry a boy who adored her. Everything rosy. Why—why would she kill herself?" “That's just it!” announced Red triumphantly. “And the answer is —she didn't!” “But who —?" began Molly. (To Be Continued)

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to be proud. Here is mystery entertainment done in talk and sound that gives one new faith in the tomorrow of the talkers. To those who are wild over the stories of Earl Derr Biggers let me reassure them that no damage, has been done ini bringing this brilliant. clever andi unusual story to the talking screen.

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In the book we meet Charlie Chan near the beginning of the story. In the movie version we see and hear him near the end, although his influence is felt during the entire movie version. And that is good direction. That method, of course, can not be used when they film Biggers' latest story of Charlie Chan, ■The Black Camel.” -And it should make, as good mystery entertainment as "Behind That Curtain if intelligently directed. You know that a director in the talking movies must at least kfiow what the author means. In other words, both should at least be intelligent in their own way. You will have no fault to find with "Behind That Curtain.” One of the things I like about it is that the director has permitted the natural sound about location to take care of the background. In other words, an orchestra is not thrown into your face when the principals are in the middle of a desert. The sounds of the desert are theie and that is enough. Perfect. And intelligent on the part of the director. The two leads have been well chosen, meaning Warner Baxter and Lois Moran. Here is nice, clever work. As usual. I refuse to give you the solution of any murder mystery. It would ruin your fun. Gilbert Emery is splendid in action and talk. Fine performance. True to type. -Behind That Curtain” is right. See it. At the Apollo this week. sc* THF. IDEA IS OLD AND SO JS THE TALK "Twin Beds" in the talking-movie version is not so hot. The stage play caught on because the title implied something naughty. The idea of twin beds may be funny, that is years ago. before "The Wei; of Loneliness" was written. The idea of a drunk male getting into the wrong twin bed in the

bridal suite of a couple just on the bridal night—well, it has its possibilities but . Draw your own conclusion. So not to make it too naughty and to keep you away from that bedroom cone, the producer had to change ris original farce into a musical comedy. Presto. He docs it. And it doesn't help the

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This talking picture must be judged by the man who is starred. It is his type of entertainment. The director has been wise in reproducing the theater of flying. And he has a story that will permi' him to do that. B<jyd is cast as one of those men who did real flyirg for ills country in France. Even during war time Boyd had a way witl the ladies. After the war is over Boyd becomes a commercial aviator. But the thing he loves most in his life is his brother, just a kid who feels that he has a right to spread that sex stuff in a juvenile way, nigh and handsome. But brother Bill knows the triKc.

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or thinks he does, that his kid brother is playing around with. Bill thinks it is his duty to find out what sort of a gal his brother is playing around with. And would you believe it—Bill finds her just the girl he wants. And then . Yes. and then. This picture might be called “Foolish in Love" or “When Two Brothers Fall in Love With the Same Gal." And in all talking pictures it goes cabaret or something with song by somebody. This picture has an audience appeal. Chilton and Thomas win the honors this week in the Indiana stage

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you will enjoy tihs bill. An the Indiana until Friday. 'B“ Oberver). S tt a Other theaters today offer: Alice White in “Broadway Babies" at the Ohio. “My Lady's Past” at the Colonial and Chase Boy Singers a' the Lyric.

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