Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 73, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1929 — Page 5
AUG. 5, 1929.
OUR HERO IS CLOSE TO DEATH ALL TIME ‘Bulldog Drummond,’ With Ronald Colman in Title Role, Is a Melodramatic Movie Thriller. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN. With sure death always around the corner where a mad genius of medicine is present. Bulldog Drummond, the hero in a picture bearing the character's name, is always able to defeat the grim reaper. Am sure that you will agree with me that “Bulldog Drummon,” with Ronald Colman as the hero, comes mighty close to nelng one of the best all-talking mystery melodramas we have had in many moons. If you were thrilled on the stage with “The Cat and the Canary," “The Bat,” “Whispering Wires” and the rest of that crowd of thrillers, I am sure that “Bulldog Drummond” will keep you on the edge of your
seat all the time. In this picture you will find masterful mystery direction which results in thrills and suspense Our he ro is a self-made
one. He Is an exarmy officer, and goes back into his highpla ce in bored society. He advertises in the newspapers for a thrill and the adds certainly hand him a bunch of ’em. Death is always around the corner when he attempts to rescue the uncle of the heroine from the clutches of a band of crooks. The
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chief menace is a mad doctor who has weird instruments of death and a system of torture that always gets results. Am sure that you do not want the mad doctor to get his clutches upon the hero, the heroine and uncle. Nearly every scene is chucked full of suspense and thrills. Colman fits into the talkin era in the movies. He appears at ease, talks well and you know as well as I do that this man can really act. Drummond gives Colman his best part in the last two years. There is no doubt about it. Joan Bennett is the sweet little heroine. She does nice work. Lilyan Tashman makes a fat role out of the tough blonde dame who is one of the crooks. She drinks her whisky double and straight. When she gets one of these in her she is wild as a lion in the jungle. Here is a corking fine performance. The silly English ass character is delightfully played. Your neighbors are going to tell you to see “Bulldog Drummond.” And I will tell you to do the same thing. From a scenic and a lighting standpoint this picture takes first prize. This one can be rated as corking good thrilling theater. Now the chief event at Loew’s Palace.
ANOTHER FINE MYSTERY TALKING MOVIE We might call this week “Good Mystery Week” in the Indianapolis movie houses. The Indiana this week has one of the best of this talking mystery crop. It is “The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu” with an all-talking cast of great merit and ability. It seems to me that it takes the edge off of the fun and the suspense which has been masterfully built up, to tell you of the plot. It is sufficient to know that you are concerned with the fiendish methods of Dr. Fu to avenge his noble house upon the English officers who killed his wife and child in his own peaceful home during the Box rebellion in China. You see cruel and murder done in many style by L)r. Fu who paints another scale on his dragon as each new victim falls. There are more deaths in this mystery movie than in any I have seen for a long time. The director has used many a strange and unsuspected twist to get his hero and his chief characters, some of them, out of the power of Dr. Fu. When I was at the Indiana to see “The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu” the audience was worked up to such a high pitch that many people cried out when the death-dealing power of Dr. Fu descended upon some of the chief characters. This movie is as rich in suspense as it is in fine names in the cast. Look over these names of the players and judge for yourself: Dr. Fu Manchu Warner Oland Lia Elthara -Jean Ar '£ ur Dr Petrie . Neil Hamilton Naviand Smith -O. P.Hewie Pvlvester Wadsworth William Austin Sir John Petrie Claude King General Petrie Charles Stevenson Li pn Noble Johnson Fai Lu". . Evelyn Selbie Wevmouth Charles Giblvn Trent Donald MacKenzie Clarkson Lawrence Davidson Fu Mela Lask Winter Singh Charles Stevens The Rev. Eltham Chappel Dosset Chinese Ambassador Tully Marshall Warner Oland, as Dr. Fu. is the only one in the business who can make an Oriental appear realistic upon the screen. He has the voice, the looks and the way about him which gives to the character great power. You will be interested in the splendidly restrained work of O. P. Heggie as Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard. He never overacts, but does the character as a natural. Neil Hamilton and Jean Arthur in the love roles do nice work. Miss Arthur is splendid when she is under the hypnotic spell of Dr. Fu. She even will do murder when she is that way. A sort of a modern Lady Macbeth. If you go in for thrills in the theater, then “The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu” will more than fill the bill. It is exciting fun, intelligently directed and acted. It is an all-talker and another step forward in this method of modern movie entertainment. The stage show. “Seashore Follies” is mighty weak in spots. The outstanding features is when Charlie Davis turns his orchestra into a glee club and when the boys and the girls of the chorus do a stairstep dance. The rest of the revue is mighty tame. One of the real hits is the way Ed Resener conducts the orchestra in the pit through “Slavonic Rhapsody." Now at the Indiana until Friday. m m a THE APOLLO HAS ITS OWN MYSTERY MOVIE “Pleasure Crazed" is what might be called a polite mystery crook
drama comedy with tragedy just around the corner. This light little story is far from being anything like a hit. It is just another movie, rather nicely acted in spots, but nothing to make you rave. You get acquainted with a bunch of society crooks who have a girl,
played by Dorothy Burgess, in their power. These crooks go in for rich society victims. Those who have costly jewels. To land their victims, the crooks take a lease upon a fashionable California home. They are interested only in rich people as tenants, those who have jewels. When the net is set a rich man and his wife, with many jewels, move in. The two
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crook gentlemen move out, leaving their female confederate as the bogus housekeeper. The wife of the rich husband is a rotter because she is playing around with worthies society snakes dolled up in fashionable male attire. Hubby falls in a decent way for the sad little housekeeper, but his love chills when he sees her trying to open the safe with the jewels. He didn't know 7 , of course, that she was double-crossing the crooks. Finally when he discovers his wife in a mad and a wild act of loving with another man, he gets the lowdown upon his own household. The housekeeper prevents him from drinking poisoned whisky and then you have the happy ending The wife goes to the bowwows, but the housekeeper and the troubled head of the house pledge their love. So you see that here is sentimental melodrama better acted and spoken than the story deserves. Marguerite Churchill, Kenneth McKenna and Dorothy Burgess i
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Verdict of the New Movies INDIANA—“The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu" is a knockout. This one will keep you on tine edge of your seat all the time. LOEWS PALACE—“Bulldog Drummond" is one of the best alltalking mystery melodramas that the screen has ever had. Perfectly acted. See this one. APOLLO—“Pleasure Crazed” is a very tame story. Better acted than the story deserves. Mild entertainment. CIRCLE—The Four Marx Brothers seem to repeat their stage success in the movie-talking version of “The Cocoanuts.”
'nave the chief roles. Nice work in rather far-fetched situations. Now the chief event at the Apollo a a a THE COCOANUTS GOOD FOR MANY LAUGHS If you should happen to go to the Circle this week, let me give you a tip. Enter into the spirit of the thing and I will venture to say yeu will enjoy yourself immensely. “The Coccanuts” is for the most part pure comedy and sometimes very silly, but once you catch the tempo, you will praise the four brothers in this riot of silliness and good fun. The four brothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo made “The Cocoanuts” a comedy hit on Broadway, and now they are making it a similar hit on the screen. Also the cast includes Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw, both known for their musical comedy fame. “When My Dreams Come True” composed by Irving Berlin especially for this screen version, is sung several times with much success by Miss Eaton and Mr. Shaw.
Os the Marx brothers, Harpo is the funniest and appealed to me the most. And he does not say a word during the whole performance, except by actions and an automobile horn, which he carries for the most part in his pants. They must starve the poor boy, for to my astonishment, h e not only ate the flowers and drank
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the ink that was on the hotel counter, but took several bites from the telephone. Groucho Marx, who is more clever in speech than the rest, should make a good auctioneer. His attempts to try and sell some Florida real estate, only to be defeated through Chico’s dumbness, is a riot. Dumbness seems to come easy to Chico. Nothing could be explained to him too clearly and then he could not. grasp what it was all about. Zeppo seems to have left all the comedy to his brothers and only appears as one of the hotel clerks. Not only are Harpo and Chico well trained as comedians, but both can play a musical instrument with an originality which is refreshing and entertaining. One regrets that Chico can not be called back, when ie finishes playing the piano, and
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that Harpo does not play some more on the harp. This all talking, all singing and all dancing treat, also boasts of a large chorus of fast steppers. Although the thrill and excitement of a large chorus, loses much of its charm and appeal on the screen, these girls, lead by Miss Eaton, can surely step high. Asa whole “The Cocoanuts” is fine entertainment and good for many a laugh, to those who enjoy laughing and cheer. Included on the program are Walter Huston in “Two Americas' and Dessa Byrd at the organ. All this week at the Circle—(By Connell Turpen.) Other theaters today offer: “Drag" with Richard Barthelmess at the Ohio: “Kitty” at the Colonial and Pepito at the Lyric. METHYL CHLORIDE NOT MENACE IN MACHINES Federal Bureaus Hold Iceless Refrigerators not Dangerous. H a Science Service WASHINGTON, Aug. s.—Despite the deaths from methyl chloride leaking from automatic refrigerators in various parts of the country, these iceless cooling machines do not form a very serious menace to life and health. This is the substance of a joint report just issued here by the United States public health service, the bureau of standards and the bureau of mines. In fact, the great majority of the electric and gasfired refrigerators in the homes make use of ammonia or sulphur dioxide in the coils of the machine. “None of the three refrigerants mentioned, ammonia, sulphur dioxide or methyl chloride, can be breathed with impunity, but none are violent poisons when breathed for a short time in low concentrations,” says the report. “If the same amount of the three substances is considered, methyl chloride is the last poisonous of the three.” New German Coins. Bn L'nited Press BERLIN, Aug. s.—Three and five mark coins bearing the head of President Hindenburg will be issueby the German mint to commemc rate the tenth anniversary of tl signing of the republican constiti tion on Aug. 11, 1919.
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