Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 187, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1929 — Page 8

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KLEIN’S ‘GAMBLERS’ SHOWS ITS REAL AGE A Well-Known Stage Play of Years Ago Has Been Given the Movie Talk Treatment With Only Fair Results. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN YEARS ago the name of Charles Klein as a writer of plays for the stage carried much weight with it. When “The Gamblers” was done on the stage years ago, it created a lot of talk because it was then considered a rather honest expose of gambling on Wall Street. We all know what has been going on lately In the real Wall Street and so the movie lords dug up the play and gave it the modem movietalk treatment with little less than fair results. The picture has been given a lavish background and it is this too extravagant background which helps to rob the story of realism.

I was not convinced at any time that we were having an expose of

Wall Street gambling. The sight of a federal prosecutor dropping a case against a young banker who had misused funds of the depositors is not a pretty sight. No realism there, that is the way and reasons for which it was done. The prosecutor’s wife said if you send up my wealthy friend and former

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sweetheart, then mamma will go “by-by.” Or words to that effect. In other words the expected dramatic kick is not there because the director failed *to make his climax real. H. B. Warner as the prosecutor does good work and attempts to create realism, but the story will not permit it. Jason Robards at no time convinced me that he had any idea that he would go to prison. Lois Wilson wears some lovely gowns. The cast is a large one. I think this picture has too much lavish scenery. The home of the millionaire looks more like a night club than a home. “The Gamblers” stacks up less than a fair picture due to the story not ringing true. Now at the Apollo. a a u ROD LA ROCQUE AS A WRECKER OF HOMES You ,know. one man can wreck a lot of homes, when he has no conscience to brother him. And this is what Rod La Roque seems to get most pleasure from, in the all-talking picture “The Locked Door.” Jolly, pleasing personality

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and always agreeable. as long as he has his way. that’s him all over. But if things do not break right for him. well a jealous husband means nothing in his young life, until he meets the w rong one. The wrong one. played by William Boyd (this is not ihe William Boyd we are familiar

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with of the screen, but another William Boyd, imported to the talkies, from the stage) is happily married to Barbara Stanwyck, also of the stage. "William has a sister, played by Betty Bronson, who falls under Rod’s spell. When Barbara discovers the affair, she immediately began to intervene. You see she had known Rod before her marriage, and had been arrested along with him. when the police raided a saloon ship, which they had boarded. Since that time Rod had broken up a happy home, and to escape a jealous husband, he was sailing for Havana, and wanted Miss Bronson to go along. As It would happen Barbara goes to his apartment to stop them, and on the same evening William goes there to get Rod out of the way of the jealous husband, who was a very good friend of his. There is some argument and when Rod brings William's wife into liis affairs, there is some gun play. William leaves Rod apparently dead upon the floor. Barbara, who had arrived earlier. Is hidden in a room upstairs. After her husband leaves, she comes down and finds Rod. Knowing her husband had fired the shot, she confesses she killed the man herself. Later, after the police have arrived and put Barbara through the usual questioning, her husband is called on the scene. Os course he is very much surprised to find her in the apartment, and immediately takes the blame. The situation looks bad for both of them, when the doctor announces that Rod is breathing and has a few minutes to live. On his dying bed, looking at Barbara and William and their love for each other, Rod declares the shooting purely an accident and saves the day. ‘•The Locked Door” has been well cast and directed. Comedy relief is furnished by Zasu Pitts, very good, and Mack Swain Good entertainment, with thrilling suspense, and a relief from the many pictures flooding the screen dealing with show life and show business. Other features include Charlie Chase in "Stepping Out” and newsieel. At the Palace until Saturday. By Connel Turpin.) tt a b BILLIE DOVE AS A NIGHT CLUB HOSTESS Hostess and owner of an expensive night club. That is Billie Dove in

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her latest picture “The Painted Angel.” From previous night club

pictures we all have the impression, at least I have, that the hostess is more or I less a hardboiled person to deal with. Is Miss j Dove hardboiled? j She tries to be, | but she could never convince me of it. But, of course, it is box office to make a beautiful star a hardboiled little

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girl once in a while, even if they are miscast. The elaborate revues staged in the I night club, are on a big scale, and have been well photographed. This i picture is chuck full of dancing and j singing. So much so, that the story |is pushed somewhat in the back- | ground. Miss Dove has her share of dancj ing and singing, and perhaps many j of you will like her in this capacity. ! For myself I would prefer to see i Miss Dove purely as a showgirl | when it comes to this type of eni tertainment. Asa show girl, she is my ideal. She knows how to walk, dress and look beautiful. Is not that enough?

And now the story. Miss Dove is in love with a young man, played by Edmund Lowe. She does not know she loves him, but she does nevertheless. By some clever flashbacks we learn that he once saved her life, by stepping in front of a speeding bullet. Loosing the use of his arm, with which he played violin. Miss Dove gives him the job as business manager and headwaiter in her night club. It takes the appearance of the man who fired the bullet and Edmund’s insistence that she marry him, when he proposes to make Billie realize her love for Edmund. You see Edmund has nothing to offer accept his love and business ability, while the other man twentytwo million grand. But there is nothing that will stop a- woman (sd I have been told' when she once discovers she is in love. So you might guess the ending. Throughout the picture we get glimpses of Billie’s family. And what a family. They all like Billie, but they love her pocketbook. "The Painted Angel” is purely box office, and devoted for the most part to night club entertainment. The stage show presents Charlie Davis in “Jazz; Clock Store.” Although something of a novelty and cleverly staged, it does not rank above the average stage presentation. Charlie’s orchestra plays a medley of popular tunes, and Charlie asks the audience to write in and tell him what they like best. "Well. I am going to tell him right now. I liked all of the numbers played, and hope you arrange for another medley in the near future. Other features include news reel. At the Indiana until Friday. tßy Connell Turpin.)

“FOOTLIGHTS AND FOOLS” AND A NEW COLLEEN MOORE Well, folks. I was sure fooled on this one. I went to the theater expecting to be disappointed. But I

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was disappointed in not being disappointed. But it was a pleasant disappointment and a surprise. Talkies

has a way with some of these “once upon a time” silent screen stars. I think you are going to like Colleen Moore in her new role. Shi is not only pretty and entertaining, but she is convincing. She is very well cast, and here is hoping she will continue to be well cast in the future. , In private life

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j she is only Miss Murphy, but to the J public she is very much the French Madame. In love with a young boy who proves himself very much of a rotter, she positively refuses the attention of a Wall Street man, who falls for her, sinker and all. Although we know her boy friend is a gambler and undependable, he appears to be rather a good sport. It is not until it is too late that Colleen discovers he is also a thief. She marries him, so he can hide in her apartment, never thinking that he was really guilty of taking part in a robbery. Perhaps you will not like the ending, when Colleen sends him away, after Mr. Pine the Wall Street man saves him from arrest, but I did. It ends quick and leaves something to your Imagination. Something to think about after you leave the theater. Miss Moore does her best acting, when she meets Mr. Pine, in a restaurant. The meeting had been planned before hand by her girl friend and Mr. Pine himself, who really thinks she a French woman. Colleen sensing she has been framed into the meeting, does not give her girl friend a chance to introduce her, but introduces herself as Miss Murphy. Pine does not recognize the darkhaired little girl, as the blonde headed French actress, and the fun began. Miss Moore becomes loud and boisterous, and it really was rather embar-

rasslng to poor Mr. Pine. Colleen Moore is surprising in this new type of role, and more convincing than she has ever been. Good entertainment. Other features Include Ruth Etting. an artist of Columbia records, in a short; Jars and Whalen, in a comedy act and news reel. This week until Saturday at the Circle. (By Observer.) Other theaters today offer; “Welcome Danger,” at the Ohio; “Social Maids,” at the Mutual; “Flyin’ High,” at the Colonial, and “A Song of Kentucky,” at the Lyric.

Long Divorce Fight Ends Bn United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind„ Dec. 16. Malcolm Shipp, recently branch manager here for the J. E. Patterson Lumber Company of Mobile, Ala., and his young wife, Sudie May, have been divorced after carrying on a bitter, quarrel in courts here two years. Shipp won the divorce on a compromise settlement. His wife received $1,500 alimony.

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OFFICIAL PROBE OF RIOT BEGUN AT AUBURN JAIL Personal Representative Hints Fault Lies With Guard System. Bv United Press AUBURN, N. Y.. Dec. 16.—Colonel George Fletcher Chandler, Governor Roosevelt’s commissioner, set to work today to apply to the guard forces at Auburn prison some of the disciplinary measures he used in organizing the New York state police twelve years ago. Conflicting reports met Colonel Chandler when he began his investigation. He had to contend with the Mutual Welfare League, which I was put forward as the bone of contention in his preliminary survey. Colonel Chandler is acting as the Governor’s personal representative, under a provision of the state law, seldom invoked. In an interview’, Colonel Chandler outlined the scope of his investigation of a situation which has developed with two disastrous convict revolts in the last five months. “I want to know,” he said, “who sent armed guards into the prison where convicts were able to get their weapons away from them. “I never have believed strongly in civil service as the best way to select policemen or prison guards. I opposed having the state troopers picked by civil service because I think there is too much chance of selecting men through political influence.” Bullet marked walls were about all that remained as evidence of last Wednesday’s riots in which eight convicts were killed and the principal keeper, George Durnford, lost his life, when Colonel Chandler visited the prison Sunday night.

Old Resident Dies B>/ Times p NOBLESVILIE, Ind„ Dec. 16. Joshua Carson, 87, one of the oldest men in Hamilton county is dead at his home northwest of this city. Several years ago he served as a member of the board of county commissioners. This leaves the following: Mrs. Marl Horton, Westfield; Mrs. Warren Mills, Baker's Corner, and J. H. Evan and Raymond Carson. He was the last of four children born to the Rev. Jacob Carson and the Rev. Esther Carson, pioneer ministers in the Friends church in this locality. Dog Saves Master I3v United Press • NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Dec. 16.—A pet dog of Walter Trietsche, 45, saved his life when a cow attacked him in the bam at his home near here. The dog clung to the cow’s nose after her first assault on Trietsche, until he had time to crawl to safety.

Recitals Attract Many Music Lovers to Hear Their Favorites

BY WALTER D. HICKMAN I With Christmas just before us,| many concerts are being given in the city. Over this week-end we had two public concerts, which included the I Edward La Shelle recital at the John Herron Art Institute and the oil melodies concert given by the Indianapolis council of Knights of Columbus, No. 437, for the benefit of the Christmas charity fund. One of the interesting recitals of the week-end was the pipe organ recital given by Arthur Dunham, splendid organist of Chicago, at a private musicale at the home of Mrs. Jack Goodman. There was a splendid spirit at the old melodies concert Sunday night at the Knights of Columbus auditorium. It got a splendid start, with everybody standing and singing “The Sidewalks of New York.” And then the atmosphere became musically hot when Jackson’s orchestra, a colored organization, began to play camp meeting songs and some of the hotter tunes of the day. Between the musical numbers, dancers from the Jack Broderick dancing school appeared. Among the soloists were Victor J. Dannisher„ Loretta Sheridan Ritter, T. E. Poggiani, violinist; James P. Sheehy singing Irish numbers; Frances Batt Wallace singing such a favorite as “Last Rose of Summer,” and a quartet composed of Fred M. Morris, Elmer A. Steffen, Harry E. Calland and Perry M. Rush. The Broderick dance ensemble was composed of Ernestine E. Walker, Mary Jane Foran and Rosemary Kruger. An enjoyable evening of songs that we. all know so well and for a fine cause.

THE LA SHELLE SONG RECITAL That there is a definite and a large public for the Indianapolis singer was proven Sunday afternoon at the Herron Art Institute when Edward La Shelle, bass baritone, presented himself and his choral club in a song cycle. La Shelle has long been identified with the musical life of this city and it seemed to me that both La Shelle and his male choral club scored a definite triumph yesterday afternoon. La Shelle is a mighty good singer and he brings a clear interpretation to each number. In other words he is a singer that tells a story in song and is able to create the proper dramatic or comedy background. His voice is powerful and when the grand broad sweep of tone is required La Shelle is ably fitted for the task. To me his Russian group was done in splendid spirit both in fun and in drama. “The Roustabout,” in which the complaint of a freightboat roustabout is voiced, was a real novelty splendidly done. The choral club gave two different groups registering their best in “Invictus,” “The Seligh,” a charm-

ing novelty, and “The Musical Trust,” one of the musical comic things that causes one to leave a recital in a pleasant mood. La Shelle as well as members of the choral club have every reason to be proud of this concert. MUM THE PIPE ORGAN AND ITS MEANING So few of us can afford a pipe organ in our homes. The nearest that I can get pipe organ music in my home is on the radio. Most of us must rely upon the pipe organ In the churches or in the larger movie theaters. The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Goodman In Crow’s Nest •has a splendid pipe organ. And such and instrument demands a gifted player. And that player was found Saturday afternoon when Mrs. Goodman gave a musical tea for her guests and introduced Arthur Dunham, noted organist of Chicago. Dunham brought an intimate musical touch to his hour recital. He gave us many side lights upon the composers and in all cases discussed why he played each number. In that way he had us interested in both the composer and the composition even before he played the number. Os special Interest was his playing of Bach’s “Andante in B Minor” from “The Fourth Trio Sonata,” which is seldom played. Dunham brought us face to face with several of the modernists, including Cesar Franck. Franck was represented with his “Chorale in A Minor, No. 3,” a beautiful thing, although modern. Interesting was “Fauns at Play ” by d’Antalffy and Weaver’s “The Squirrel.” Dunham remarked that some of the modern composers were

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quite wonderful in getting strange names for compositions such as Clokey’s “Jagged Peaks in the Starlight" and “Wind in the Pine Trees.” I am sure that Dunham knows his Bach as well as the modernists.

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Here Is a really gifted and an Intelligent artist who really glorifies the pipe organ. I can tell you that there was a lot of musical charm present at the Goodman home Saturday.