Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1929 — Page 7

OCT. 21, 1929

GLORIA BECOMES GRAND PERSON In Her First All-Talker, ‘The Trespasser,’ Miss Swanson Proves She Has Nothing to Fear. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN PROBABLY Gloria Swanson had more to lose on the outcome of her first all-talker than any of the so-called old-timers on the screen It is a fact that Miss Swanson was slipping as a silent movie box office attraction and now the talker comes to her rescue and returns her to the position that may result in years of popularity and profit. It is my opinion that Miss Swanson has nothing to fear because she has a splendid recording voice. Here is a woman who has given flashes in the past of being a really great actress at heart only to lose that impression because the plot caused her to be box office instead of an artist.

In some of the scenes in "The Trespasser,” these flashes of a fine dramatic sense are seen, only to give way to box office requirements. Miss Swanson has made her great-

est appeal in parts which start her out as a poor working girl and ends up with her being the grand person all decked out in society's latest scenery. The same successful box office formula is used in “The Trespasser.” as we first see Gloria as Marion Donnell, stenographer for a rich and powerful Chicago attorney

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bv the name of Hector Ferguson. Gloria i$ madly in love with Jack Merrick, a rather nice son. or was at first, of the richest man in Chicago Gloria and Jack elope and start out their honeymoon in a hotel suite. Gloria thought that her rich husband would go to work, but his papa arrives and breaks up the love nest. Gloria has a tough time, because she becomes a mother about the time that her wedding is annulled. Jack goes to Paris aiv* mar ries the gin that his father had picked out for him. This leaves Gloria and her son in an awful mess, but the rich attorney for whom she works sets her up in a marvelous flat, servants, jewels and the like. Everything looks rosie for Gloria when her rich daddy develops heart failure and passes on to the great beyond, leaving his entire fortune to Gloria. This fact makes Gloria the scandal sensation on every front page in the country. % Then comes the struggle in which she tries to take Jack away from his crippled wife. But Gloria makes the great sacrifice and gives the boy to Jack and his sensible crippled wife, who got that way in an auto accident on her honeymoon. Gloria fades out of their lives only to get back into Jacks’ arms when his wife nicely dies. Rather mushy the story in spots and over sob like in other spots, but Gloria goes through it all in such a satisfying pace that It turns out to be rather magnificent theater with all of the faults in'the story. Gloria’s singing voice is not as good as her talking voice, although hei singing will not wreck your evening. Her costumes sure aral the grand things. I think Wally Albright is Jackie, and what a youngster he is. He sure is going to give Davey Lee a good race for his money. The picture has been well cast SUGAR MAKES FOODS PLEASANT Good Cooks Learn to Use Nature’s Supreme Flavorer No wonder sugar used to be considered a luxury of the rich. No j wonder a noted scientist says that j sugar is the greatest condimental food in the world. Sugar’s supreme importance to health is that it makes foods pleasant. No man, woman or youngster can live on one food alone. To eat a great variety of foods daily the year round is to promote health, and sugar adds flavor and delight to nearly every known food. Asa noted scientist says, to try to eat most foods “straight” would result in a monotonous, unpalatable diet, : and you simply can’t get people to eat things they don’t like. Try a dash of sugar on your favorite cereal. Eat healthful blackberries and other fresh fruits made delicious by a sprinkling of sugar. Profit by the experiments of four well-known women cooking experts in New York who recently rediscovered the old art of using a dash of sugar in vegetables while they are cooking in a small amount of water. Note how the vegetable colors, freshness and flavors improve. This little added sugar makes eating vegetables a joy. Remember the value of custards, milk shakes, ice crearr and other milk desserts in helping your family to eat enough milk. Remember stewed fruits, candy and cookies for the and of the meal. Slimness is no longer stylish. Good food promotes good health. The Sugar Institute. —Advertisement.

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and many of the scenes are magnificent. Now’ on view at the Palace. 000 WILL ROGERS IS JUST WILL ROGERS When I say that Will Rogers is just Will Rogers, I mean that everything is all right. To me Rogers w-as not such a hot shot on the silent screen but on tne talking screen you have the real Will Rogers at his best. Will Rogers just has to talk and when he can’t talk, welt he isn’t Will Rogers then. Although Owen Davis

got out the dialog, I had the feeling all the time that Will was saying just what popped up in h!s mind and w c all know that every pop is a Comedy laugh. Rogers does not try to act. He is Just Will Rogers all the time who acts the part of Pike Peters, a small town Oklahoma garage owner w’ho gets mil-

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lions when oil is found on his land. Then his wife decides that the old town is too small for her and her son and daughter, so she packs off Dad and the kids all to Paris. Mother and daughter become ever so ritzy and mother decides that daughter shaU marry a no-account title. Son goes modern and takes on to himself a nice little feminine edition of the art colony. Dad remains Main Street and wrecks all of his wife’s social plans. So when thev all realize that Dad is right, they sail for home and Main Street. Will Rogers is much funnier as he hands out his dry wit in this talker than he has ever been to me. His remark about a horse doctor being the smartest guy in the world “because a horse can’t tell the doctor where his pain is, the doc just has to know,” about landed me out in the aisle. The funniest scene is where Will remains in his dressing gown while his wife gives a grand reception. All the royalty present, of course, re-1 ceive pay for attending. The scenes showing Will and Grand Duke Makiall getting on a souse togther and then sleeping in the same bed, is a scream.

Rogers’ remarks on awakening from his champagne drunk that “one thing about these sprees in Paris is that you do wake up.” You will find the cast Just, right, which is as follows: Pike Peters Will Rogers Mrs. Peters, his wife Irene Rich Opal Peters, the daughter Marguerite Churchill Ross Peters, the son Owen Davis. Jr. Claudine Fill Dorsav Marauis De Brissac Ivan Lebedeff Marautse de Brissac Marcelle Cordav Grand Duke Makiall Theodore Lodi Clark McCurdv Rex Bell Fleurie Christiane Yves Fd Betters Edgar Kennedy Topper Bob Kerr Miss Mason Marcia Manon | valet Andre Cheron Prtlice Ordinskv Gregory Gay I am sure that you will agree with me that Rogers is at his best in “They Had to See Paris.” Now at the Apollo. 000 “SOPHOMORE” OVERFLOWS W ITH A LOT OF FUN Smash! A window is broken, and Eddie Quillam yells out to his employer. who has just fired him. “And how do you like that.” But smashing a window does not get your job back, and it looked very much like Eddie would have to leave college, because of financial embarrassment. He does not leave of course, be- ; cause little Sally O’Neil who is em- i ployed at the confectionary where , he had been working, borrows two | hundred from the boss, and pays j his tuition, letting him think his i mother had sent the money. Eddie as a wise-cracking sopho- j more is right there with the goods. ! His naturalness of expression and j art of clowning are impressive. You ; do not have the feeling that he is j just acting, nor is his style of de- j liven’ tiresome. Sally O’Neil as his girl is proving ; her worth in each picture she is i

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cast. Asa waitress she appears as Ia shy little girl, when It comes to | fraternity dances and such, but on [ the other hand she can be hardboiled, and perfectly capable of keeping care of herself. “The Sophomore” takes you into the intimate life of a fraternity boy, who seems to have about all the bad breaks. First he loses what money he has in a little game, then his job, and last of all is asked by his brothers to return his pin. He takes everything goodnaturedly and has a lot of fun, until he faces the boys at a hurriedly called meeting, and removes pin from his shirt. It seems that every picture, must have its serious moments, and to him this was really tragedy. But tragedy was not made for him, for the next day everything is cleared, he helps to win the football game, is asked back into the frat, and introduces Sally to his mother. The local revue which the college boys produce is a riot of comedy and burlesque. Eddie takes the feminine lead, and what he can do with a dumbell is shocking to say the least. “The Sophomore” is chuck full of fun and clean comedy. On the stage this week Bobby Jackson appears in "Pirates of Melody.” Asa band leader Bobby is full of pep and energy. He seems to get as much enjoyment out of directing the band as the audience does listening to it. “Piccolo Pete” and a rhythmic arrangement of “Who,” are featured by Charlie Davis’ orchestra. Anew singer of the band also is Introduced, who sings a medley of favorite tunes with a smoothness end easiness that is very pleasing to the ear. The tw’o eccentric dancers are w r ell worth seeing, and Jimmy Dunn is funny with his jokes and comedy songs. Joe Fong has a pleasing voice and the chorus performs a charming ballet. Good entertainment. Ail tnls w’eek at the Indiana, until Friday. (By Connell Turpin.) Balieff and his Chauve Souris opens a weeks engagement at English’s tonight. I saw this in New York last February and I know that here is splendid entertainment. Other theaters today offer: Tom Brown and the Six Brown Brothers at the Lyric; “Broadw’ay Scandals” at the Mutual: “Hot Stuff” at, the Colonial, and “The Lady Lies” at the Ohio. Moran and Mack in “Why Bring That Up?” is in its second and final week at the Circle. 3.000 at Church Session By Vnitcd Press GARY, Ind., Oct. 21.—Dr. W. H. T. Dau, president emeritus of Valparaiso university, was the principal speaker at a celebration attended by more than 3,000 members of the Calumet district Lutheran churches here yesterday The program was held in Memorial auditorium in honor of the 400th anniversarv of Martin Luther’s “small catechism.”

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Verdict of the New Movies LOWE'S PALACE —Gloria Swanson has nothing to fear of the talkers, as “The Trespasser” proves that she can act and talk at the same time. INDlANA—"Sophomore” is a lot of fun. A clean comedy. The stage show is good, with the orchestra and Bobby Jackson making the hits. APOLLO—WiII Rogers is at his best in “They Had to See Paris.” Don’t miss this one.

SIXTH TICKET MAY 8E FILED FOR ELECTION Deadline for Candidates in Nov. 5 Voting Comes Late Today. With five tickets already filed for the municipal election Tuesday, Nov. 5, the deadline for filing was to fall at 5 this afternoon with the closing of the city clerk’s office. Albert Neuerburg, president of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs, was to meet with a group representing civic organizations late today to decide whether an independent nonpartisan ticket would be filed. Neuerburg has been boomed to head the slate as candidate for mayor. Slates have been filed by the Republican, Democratice, National, Socialist and Prohibition parties. Armed with hammers and tacks, police today scurried throughout the city posting the 225 voting places approved this morning by city election commissioners, William A. Boyce Jr., city clerk, and Russell J. Ryan. Ira L. Holmes, Republican member of the board, was out of the city. , Police had to work fast in posting the voting places, in compliance with ah act requiring their designation within two weeks of the election. Today was the deadline. Ten voting machines were placed for practice purposes by the election board. One has been set up in the Woman’s Department Club, 1702 North Meridian street, with Mrs. William H. Hart demonstrating the device. The others are located' at the citizens’ school committee headquarters, 532 Illinois building; the Fountain Square theater, the Negro Y. W. C. A., Vermont and West streets; the city hall, and at fire houses at 445 Indiana avenue; Kentucky avenue and Maryland street;

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