Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1929 — Page 8

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GOSH, OH, GOSH THIS ONE IS A HUMDINGER ‘The Cock-Eyed World’ Is the Best He-Man Movie That the Industry Has Turned Out Even Before the Advanced Days of the All-Talker. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN BUTTON up your overcoat, get out your comedy shock absorbers, carry a couple of extra handkerchiefs to take care of tears caused by laughing too much and then hasten over to see “The Cock-Eyed World." I am tolling you that this is a humdinger of a movie. It bristles with he-man fun, not the cream puff variety but the good old dyed in the wool type. Some of the comedy may smell of the stables but it is the real heman variety. It may shock a too sensitive soul but it sure is the cat’s

whiskers when it comes down to a certain grade of human and real life comedy. Some men are Just naturally skirt chasers and you know by meeting Flagg and Quirt in "What Price Glory" that these two fighting bud-

dies were just natural born chasers. This time while they are chasing they talk right out in meetin’. If you didn’t pass out at Some of the talk in “The Front Page” then you will live through "The Cock - Eyed World” if you don’t strain a blood vessel by laughing too much. I can

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honestly tell you that this is the funniest movie I have ever seen in my life whether it was dumb or talking. Let me tell you right at the start, if you don't like plain talk and funny situations that attend a chase when men get hot after fun, then stay away from it. But if you laugh at ttffc sight of two men fighting each other and trying to beat each other’s time with the girls, then you will have the howl of your life. I can’t, see how this movie will harm anybody’s morals. To me it is the biggest laughing wow that the screen has ever had. There may be a difference of opinion regarding the nicety of this one, but New York went wild over this one and Grover Whalen did not have to state that the crime wave mounted. Take it as entertainment. As such it is the grandest, funniest and wildest theater I have ever witnessed in my life. As an example of recording sound, as a study in what may be accomplished by a director in coupling action with the spoken word on the screen, as an example of skidding over thin ice as to the spoken word as well as the action, then ‘The Cock-Eyed World” has it on anything that I have ever seen and heard. Let me impress the point that this is adult entertainment. That and nothing more. It will appeal mostly to the men, out - I have noticed many women about to fall out of their seats because they were laughing so loudly. And a thousand laughs in one picture is an accomplishment Men who have been in the marines or any branch of service will go wild over the latest adventures of Sergeant Flagg and Sergeant Vuirt in love and war. We first see them in Russia with the marines at the close of the war. The marines are hot on the job, although the weather man says that It is below freezing. Here we see Flagg’s and Quirt’s first encounter to land the same dame. Quirt wins, but he makes a sudden exit when the strong daddy of Madame's returns. The two are always razzing each other in terms that carries no mystery. And yet all of these scenes, as well as those in which the girls figure, have been handled with such cleverness that the effect is more or less harmless. There is no doubt but that Victor McLaglen as Flagg and Edmund Love as Quirt have made themselves the most talked of hardboiled comedy team on the talking screen. Both are immense. They are splendid. This picture has made them. They can be content to rest upon the fame as well as the fortune they will get out of this picture. Lily Damita is cast as one of the girls, a tropical one at that, who gets in the path of the emotional love heat wave of the two marines. Her work is fiery, rapid, smart, if rather warm. I make no apology -for raving over "The Cock-Eyed World.” It sure is the comedy cream of the movies. It will be the talk of the town. The number of people who see it will be governed only on how many seats there are in the theater and how many shows are given daily. Now at the Apollo and how, a a tt CONCERNING A PIANIST AND A GOOD MOVIE Any program having the services of Zelaya is an interesting one, whetli-r it be vaudeville or the modern stage show that goes along with movie feature. Zelaya has that spark of genius which was so apparent in De Pachmann. This man talked all the time that he played the piano. Zelaya talks too but mostly after a number. He knows above anything else how to sell good music, the classics in the terms of today. This man is able to get the un-

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divided attention of those who go only in for Jazz and rag music. He has the classical touch in his fingers but the jazz talk and the modem salesmanship lingo. And how this man can play and how he can "sell” good music. He is stopping the show this week at the Indiana. He is the feature in the stage show called "The Surprise Pthy,' having the services of Charlie Davis and many others. Long before "Street Girl” landed in town, the fame of this Radio picture had reached here. This is the first all-talker that this firm has put out and a mighty high mark has been established. The story of “Street Girl” reminds me of the sweet theme used in “Daddies” as well as “Three Wise Fools.” We are concerned with a girl of the streets played by Betty Compson, who is picked up, as it seems, by the members of a quartet known as “The Four Seasons.” Jack Oakie, John Harron, Nen Sparks and Joseph Cawthorn play the members of the jazz four entertainers. We see the girl getting more and more into the hearts and the lives of the four men. Through her influences the four men become famous. Os course, the sailing is not smooth sailing. The story is sweet, smart and interesting Here is fine and smart entertainment, splendidly acted, recorded and directed. u a a SMART MOVIE AT CIRCLE THIS WEEK Smart and sophisticated dialogue feature "The Lady Lies,” the new picture at the Circle theater this week. Walter Huston, who will be remembered as the leading man in “Gentlemen of the Press,” plays the leading part in this all-talking film.

Claudette Colbert has the leading feminine role. Charles Ruggles, who appeared with Huston in “Gentlemen of the Press,” also is featured in “The Lady Lies,” in a part very similar to the one he played in the former picture. The picture is made from the stage play of the same name, and demonstrated the

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possibilities under intelligent direction of putting a dramatic piece into the talkies without losing the zest and cleverness of the original and at the same time adding the background and movement of the picture that is impossible on the stage. The thing that impresses one immediately with this picture is that the lines are well written. This, however, is no insinuation against the acting, which is in keeping with the excellence of the conversaton. Added to all this is the personal beauty of Miss Colbert, who has been called, and perhaps accurately, the best looking woman in pictures. The story has to do with a compartively young widower who is the father of two rather precocious children, a girl of about 14 and a boy of 16. The father is still plenty young to appreciate a woman of the heroine's personal charm and he forms an alliance with her, said alliance including an elaborate apartment and constant attention. Finally on their return from school and coincident with the visit of the father's Plymouth Rock relatives. the children learn of their father's affair. Things immediately begin to happen. The children feel that their father is compromised and they insist that he must choose between them and his love. Besides, the charming brunet has no social standing. Neither has the gentleman with alcoholic tendencies as played by Ruggles. and his blond paramour. The children, with the assistance and interference of nearly everyone succeed in gumming things up rather badly, and, of course, are responsible for the final understanding. A 16-year-old boy in a dinner coat threatening to knock the head off an elderly uncle is a rather startling situation, but children are different nowadays, it is explained. These are decidedly different, but nevertheless nice kids. The lines are exceptionally well written, the acting is good and the direction is good. In fact, it is one of the best of the sophisticated dramatic talkies. At the Circle this week. <By observer.) BUM SERIOUS EFFORT MADE TO FILM LONGFELLOW A most serious effort has been

made by United Artists to film Longfellow's “Evangeline.” I know that it is a most difficult problem to film a poem of this nature because of the romantic as well as the drab background which moves like a death warrant toward the end of the narrative. If “Evangeline” T as written today I doubt very much if it would be

a best seller. Not that I am throwing any brickbats at the poet or his: poem, but in this modern day we seem to demand more of j “it” and less of romantic beauty. Boiled down in the language of the day, Evangeline is a girl who chased over thousands of weary miles in a wild country searching for her man.

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When she finds him, he is a wreck and ready to pass on. And to get away from the modern viewpoint, the director and the actors have all tried to follow the word of the

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Verdict of the New Movies APOLLO—“The Cock-Eyed World" is a humdinger. It is the funnest, movie the screen has ever reflected. It is wild, funny, crazy, naughty, but it Is gorgeous entertainment. LOEW'S PALACE —A serious effort has been made by United Artists \ to produce an art picture for art's sake. “Evangeline is such a picture. INDIANA—“Street Girl” is splendid entertainment. Sweet Cinderella story 1 , humanly acted and talked. CIRCLE —“The Lady Lies” is smart and sophisticated dialog entertainment.

poet as well as history. Thousands of dollars were spent in the serious effort to do justice with a great poem by a beloved poet. And the actors, the director and everybody concerned need make no apology. In spirit, it belongs to the better movies. It is not a talker, but Del Rio sings. Miss Del Rio is called upon to first show Evangeline as the sweet and beautiful girl in Acadia before the days the British Governor-Gen-eral issued the walking papers to the splendid people who lived in that peace loving country. Then we see the smile of Evangeline turned into a worried frown, i then ghastly fear, then sorrow and j

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