Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 259, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1930 — Page 7

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JOHN IS VERY MUCH JOHN AS GENERAL Barrymore Does Some Warm Sheik Loving in an Eighteenth Century Talking Movie Now at the Apollo.

BY WALTER D. HICKMAN WARM sheik loving in an eighteenth century setting is the job that John Bn rr; more ha* to do in General Crack.” T know that it is a hard job to put over these so-called "costume romances” n f <vh'r days, but when John Barrymore has the job you can be assured that you are going to have good acting if nothing else, "General Crack ' belongs to that better class of talking movies. The story is not so loftv. as it concerns a prince who heads an army under

the title of General Crack. The general is quite a ladies’ man and he loves new lemalc faces and

charms. So it is not. surprising that he takes this one and that one on a lark. He specializes In gypsies, the feminine type. And the general is a bad boy. He knows how to make love in the moonlight, and that was dangerous even in the eighteenth century. So the general gets in bah because he allows the Austrian court.

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to whom he sold his army, wait wiiile he takes a holiday with Fidelia, a gypsy, played by Armiria. And this woman is a very interesting article in dance or the moonlight. Quite a personality, I assure you. But she is a terrible rotter. Could not play the game square with Crack. When she met s he king, played magnificently by Lowell Sherman, well. Fidelia became all warm and worried. And so she is sent bark in disgrace to the sound of a cracking whip to her gypsy camp Sounds like "The Squall ’ when Nubi. the gypsy, became too Dad for even polite society. So you see that John Barrymore ha,' a very romantic and interesting time in trying to make Fidelia live up to the meaning of her name. The ladv who finally wins the general’s love is Maria l/ouise, arch duchess of Austria. This role is beautifully played by Marion Nixon. Splendid. Here you have as good a fight tx f ore an ancient castle as the screen has ever recorded. Horses and men fall to death. General Crack, even in the battle scenes, has been wonderfully photographed. On the whole, the Barrymore Voice has been well recorded, although Barrymore has not yet loomed the trick of laughing or storming on the talking screen. Otherwise the recording is splendid. The cast is .so important that I give you the cast of the play proper, as follows: Oi'n , r! Crnrk John Barrvmore Leopold n. Emperor of Austria Xxiwell Sherman A-eh Duchess Maria Louisa.-Marion Nixon Fidelia Armida Count Tfen'-dorf Hobart Bos worth Counteas Carola .Jacqueline Lo^an Colonel Gaber Otto Matieson Colonel Pons Andres de Segurola Captain Sweenev .Douglas Gerrard Captain Brhmldt. Win. Von Brinken Captain Bannlne Theadore Lodt Ovpsy Chieftain Nick Thompson Lieutenant Dennis Curt Rayfieid And you will agree with me that I,owell Sherman as the emperor of Austria just about walks away with this picture. Now at the Apollo. mam "HIT THE DECK” Now IS A MOVIE We all know that “Hit the Deck’’ was mighty good, tuneful fun on the stage. It is blessed with that tune of tunes. ‘'Hallelujah. - ' I was interested in seeing how the movie director would work in this ar h number in the sound movie

version of the play. T must admit that Hit the Deck" as n talking and singing movie is miles and miles more elaborate than the stage version ever dared be. 1 believe that there are more people in the cast of this movie than in any of the sound niovies that have been made from musical comedies. The director had

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go•>: and gobs of dancing people to net as a background. He carries the story to a logical conclusion—the romance of a good little waitress who falls in love with a sailor onh to find that she is just one of the many. Then when she lands a fortune she can't find her man. So she lias a wealthy friend of hers to stace a party on a battleship to whioh all the Smiths in the fleet ar ordered to appear. men the gob turns her down flat. But love is love and we have the happv ending. I believe that if the director had

1 ’erdict of the New Movies INDIANA William Powell gives one of his best performances in Street of Chance.” a picture “hock-full of suspense, and highly dramatic situations. Great entertainment. APOLLO— Corking good romantic and dramatic theater is “General Crack." Will appeal to those who enjoy great acting. John Barrymore and Lowell Sherman do great acting. PALACEI—“Hit the Deck - ' is a most elaborate movie version of a fine stage hit. CIRCLE—Diek Barthelmess ha a good hit in “Son of the Gods." Good theater. OHIO- "Her Unborn Child" is tame and at times silly and sentimental.

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kept to the spiritual idea of “Hallelujah” with its Negro chant and chorus and had stayed away from the “Snake Hips'' number, it would j have been better. But I feel that I am in the minority in this. And yet, “Hit the Deck’’ on the i screen is bigger entertainment than the stage version. It is filled with good tunes and a lot of fine dance formations. Jack Oakie is cast as Bilge, the gob “Smith” who wins a gem of i girl and didn’t have brains enough " j to realize it until the end of the I picture. And he does a good job !of being the independent gob who ! thinks that a kiss is just a kiss. Polly Walker Is the Uooloo. the good little waitress or owner of the doughnut and coffee hangout of the gobs. The work of the singing chorus is splendid. Probably as good a movie version of a stage musical i hit that we have had. It sure is a most elaborate edition. Now at the Palace. a a a BARTHFXMESS HAS ANOTHER REAL HIT Am mighty glad to tell you that Dick Barthelmess has another big sized hit in “Son of the Gods.” a talking movie version of Rex Beach’s “Son of the Gods.” In the first place it is a corking good story about a lad who is

brought up by a fine Chinese man in San Francisco and then New York. The lad, played by Barthelmess, thinks he is Chinese, but be really is white. He falls In love with a dame, played byConstance Bennett. Dick is dressed modern, and she does not know he is rated as “China” When she learns of it, she comes in with

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a riding whip in a public tea house and whips the living tar out of Barthelmess. This scene has quite a dramatic kick as the sound movie registers the siap-slap of the whip. For the rest of the picture we see the battle of the girl to make up to Dick, and the struggle of Dick to be ‘‘China” instead of white. Os course, love wins and Dick and Constance have a good time of it after a lot of suffering. From a recording standpoint, “Son of the Gods” is splendid. The cast is excellent and Barthlemess of t,he same quality. He appears in dress suit or tuxedo most of the time when he isn't, wearing Chinese garb. Here is mighty interesting entertainment. In other words mighty effective theater. See it for an unusual thrill. Corking good theater. Now at the Circle. U B * WILLIAM POWELL AT HIS REST Folks, I want to tell you right in the beginning, you do not want to miss seeing William Powell in ‘Street of Chance." now showing at the Indiana. You will love this character, that Powell portrays, a gambler, yes, but you will love him just the same. Powell gives to this gambler one of the best characterizations of his

career. Known to the world, as a bondsman, but to the underworld as ‘‘Natural,” a big gambler, he wins your heart by proving he is also a man. A man unafraid of life and death, because he always played the game straight, except once. And that once, though he knew hfs life was a stake, was one

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of the most beautiful sacrifices, any one could make. And talk about suspense. This picture is full of it. I was sitting on the edge of my seat half of the time. Here is a man. willing to give up everything that he liked in life, because he happened to love his wife. And then when

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the dangers and hardships of a gambler’s life threatened, his brother, who was more like a .son to him. he unflinchingly gave up his wife, pnd also his life, to save his brother from a life of suffering and hell. The climax, centered around a poker table, is one of the finest, as to structure and direction, of the year. In fact here is a picture that truly holds your interest. Everything is to the point, with no surplus conversation, or action to detract your attention. None is needed. Much is left to your imagination, but nothing is left unclear, and I think that is an accomplishment on the part, of the director. Kay Francis as the wife contributes some very good acting. She proves that she does not always have to be a, vamp, as she has heretofore been cast, to win favor. Others that, help to make this picture well worth while are Regis Toomey, as Powell’s brother, and Jean Arthur, as Toomey’s wife. Very fine entertainment. The stage show this week presents Charlie Davis in “Now and Then,” featuring “Withers’ Op’ry House.” We have a glimpse of how shows are put on today, and how they were several years ago, in the old opera house. Charlie and his orchestra get hot, on an old tune that has withstood the age of years, and is still among the most popular dance times. “Some of These Days.” Asa. whole the presentation is nothing out of ordinary, but just entertaining enough to get by. Other features are selections from Newsreel. “The Vagabond King” as an overture, conducted by Ed Resener, and Now at the Indiana. (By Connell Turpen), n n • CONCERNING “HER UNBORN CHILD” Their is no reason in the world for it ; being announced that “No one under 16 admitted.” 1 know that there is tons of plainer talk and more sexey sex

situations in some of the best sellers of the day than this movie has. Am talking about the talking movie, “Her Unborn Child” now it the Ohio. I for one do not fall for his sort, of uplift stuff. A movie is public entertainment, or in other words theater, or it is nothing. If you expect plain talk, you will not

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find it here. The truth is that some of Clara Bow's goings-on. in the movies have been a dam sight hotter than anything you see or hear in “Her Unborn Child.” Here is just box office bait. It is the old play similar to that done by 10. 20 and 30-eent. stock companies in days gone forever. There is nothing exciting in hearing the story of a nice girl who is to be a mother before she is married. If that is daring, then Eugene o’Neill’s “Desire Under the Elms” is the ABC of .-rage plays. No great names in the cast although Elisha Cook and Frances Underwood do rather pleasing work. Mighty tame entertainment. Be your own judge as usual. This is the first of the alleged sex talkers. Now at the Ohio. "Journey's End” with the Chicago cast, opens tonight for the week at English's. Other theaters today offer: Arthur Corey at the Lyric: “Follies of the Day” at the Mutual; “Step Lively” at the Rialto; George Fares at the Colonial, and. movies at the Granada. Daughter of Editor Dies Ry Vnited Press LONDON. March 10.—Miss Marion Bronner. 22, daughter of Milton Bronner, European manager for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, died here Sunday of pneumonia.

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By United Press BOSTON, March 10.—For three weeks the Tremont temple has been showing a film called “Jango.” It was billed as having been made in the African jungle by an intrepid explorer, Dr. Daniel Davenport, who brought back not. only motion pictures, but a group of cannibals. Now, if the charges of one Firpo Jacko are to be believed, the billing was somewhat exaggerated. Jacko claims: 1. That the film was not produced in the dark continent, but in the wilds of the Bronx, New York. 2. That Dr. Davenport never has been in Africa. 3. That the “cannibals” were pretty good janitors before they left Harlem and went into the show business.

Jacko, who speaks English, although the posters said he knew only a French dialect, made his charges before Michael Heaphy, Boston attorney, who obtained an attachment on box office receipts for S7OO back wages. Jacko said ne was discharged when he asked for the money. # * * MRS. J. Z. MONTGOMERY. . landlady of a south end boarding house where Davenport’s “cannibals” 'have been rooming, told an interviewer “they are no more cannibals than you are. They are perfect gentlemen and go to church every Sunday.” Jacko said that, the film was

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