Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1930 — Page 12

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SPANISH JAILS CROWDED WITH THRONE'S FOES Republic Plot Leaders Are Well Treated in Their Cells. BY WILLIAM H. LANDER t’nit.d Prm Staff Correspondent MADRID, Dec. 22.—The government found Itself with an unexpectedly large number of political prisoners today, only a week after arrests began among republican and extremist leaders in connection with the recent attempted revolution. Military and judicial machinery worked at full force trying to clear the cases as speedily as possible. Many of the men in jail made voluntary confessions of their complicity in the rebel movement. Students planned to petition the government to release all professors and students held, and favored calling a student strike if the government did not meet their request. According to tentative plans, the strike would begin Jan. 10, when the Christmas vacation ends. Visitors to the political prisoners numbered thousands. Republican leaders were well treated in the jails. There was no indication that summary court-martial, such as that administered when two captains were sentenced to execution and five others to life imprisonment for their parts in the Jaca revolt, would be held in any of the other cases pending. Chief interest centered in Alcola Zamora’s case, as he is a former cabinet minister and most prominent of the men under arrest. Zamora was taken from his home here at the time the rebels hoped that their nation-wide movement wduld begin. Angel Assorio Gallarza, dean of Madrid lawyers who remains a monarchist although he has publicly asked the abdication of King Alfonso, will defend Zamora. Republicans hoped that the speeches of lawyer and defendant in court would convert Zamora’s trial before a bar of military justice into a trial of King Alfonso before a bar of public opinion.

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TWO OF TEN BEST NOW ON VIEW HERE Walter Huston in ‘Abraham Lincoln’ and Leslie Howard in ‘Outward Bound’ Deserve High Praise. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN AT least two of the ten best pictures cf the year are being shown in the city at the saiAe time. I am speaking of Walter Huston in “Abraham Lincoln’’ and Leslie Howard in Outward Bound.” Here are two talkers which reflect some mighty character acting and at the same time glorify the director. I will first tell you about "Abraham Lincoln” as acted by Walter Huston and directed by D. W. Griffith. This is the picture which brought back Griffith as one of the leading directors.

“The Birth of a Nation” made the name of Griffith as a leader. Directors are like actors, they can slip. And Griffith was slipping until he made “Abraham Lincoln.” I have seen a number of men play

Lincoln both on the stage and the screen. I believe Huston is the best, both in appearance and voice, because he is able to play Lincoln as a young man making love to Ann Rutledge as effectively as the Lincoln in the White House battling the nation as well as his cabinet. lam willing to place Huston in my own hall of

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fame as giving one cf the ten best performances of the year. It seems to me that both the actor and the director know their Lincoln. There might be some room for argument on the way Huston gives Lincoln certain mannerisms which have surrounded the character in the popular mind. Here is one Lincoln that completely convinces me could have acted, talked and lived as the real Lincoln did. Because of the very nature of Lincoln's life, the movie is really Just one episode after another. The sweetest love scene I have ever seen on the talking screen is done by Huston as the young Lincoln and by Una Merkel as Ann Rutledge. There is no doubt but that Lincoln suffered terribly when Ann died. Griffith has reflected that great suffering and has been able to make Ann’s influence felt during the entire career of Lincoln. At times maybe Griffith was too realistic in permitting Kay Hammond to be rather unpleasant and overambitious at times as Mary Todd Lincoln. All historians have

found her to be a rather difficult subject to handle. Miss Hammond and Griffth have been brave and I believe honest in painting Mary Todd as they did. Even in the war scenes, I believe that Griffith has been fair to the North as well as the South. The work of E. Alyn Warren as* Stephen A. Douglas; Fred Warren as General Grant; Hobart Bosworth as General Lee and James Bradbury Sr., as General Scott deserve only the highest praise. Here is gigantic entertainment, human and powerful in its appeal. Here is great theater done in a great way. If you fail to see “ABraham Lincoln,” you will miss seeing one of the very great pictures of all time. Now at Loew’s Palace. a a a CONCERNING ANOTHER VERY GREAT PICTURE This statement may seem strange —"Outward Bound” is a movie that you may not like, because it shows up we humans just as we really are. I know that it slapped me right in the face many times, but I took my medicince and w r ent back to see

it a second time. Let me suggest that you see “Outward Bound” at the beginning. To go into this picture after it has started will leave one hopelessly confused. Even when you start at the beginning, it is confusing, because all the characters are dead, all bound to heaven or hell, both being the same place in this

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story. Bear in mind that when Henry (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and

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Ann (Helen Chandler) first appear they are alive. They are really in love, but they can not marry, because Henry is married to a loveless woman. Ann and Henry decide thaUin death they never will be separated, and so they turn on the gas in their apartment in London slums. Then their gass-filled souls (if I can use such an expression) begin the trip to heaven or hell on the boat “peopled” by men and women who died natural deaths. Bear in mind that Ann and Henry are halfways because they are in the act of committing suicide, not yet entirely dead. Henry’s love for a pet dog saves their lives as the dog (you don't see him do it) breaks the window and gives the alarm which resulted in aid and rescue from death. You have the feeling that Ann and Henry realize that suicide for lovers the business of a coward and that it is all wrong. If you will keep the above key in mind, I believe that “Outward Bound” will be less confusing. I considered “Outward Bound” a big and a powerful play on the stage. On the talking screen, made so by masterful direction and wonderful photography and great acting, it is even a greater and a bigger play. This is probably the first movie made from a play which is greater in film form than it was on the stage. To many, Leslie Howard is not known but “Outward Bound” proves that he is a great sympathetic actor. He is cast as Tom Prior who drank and played himself to death. It is Tom in a frantic and a powerful realistic scene who first discovers that ail on board are dead. Here is acting that you will remember for many months. / Beryl Mercer does wonders with Mrs. Midget, a scrub woman of the slums who has more faith and love than the haughty and selfish Mrs. Cleveden-Banks. Well, Mrs. Banks gets her just punishment when the Examiner (Dudly Digges) arrives on board to give out “punishment.” Travesty at times, yes, but powerful in its meaning and effect. Alec B. Francis is lovely as Scrubby. Will say that here is a perfect cast if one ever existed. I recommend “Outward Bound” as grim, honefet, powerful and intelligent drama. Supremely acted and directed. One of the dramatic treats of the year. Now at the Apollo. a a a KAY FRANCIS REVEALS GOOD ACTING ABILITY “The Virtuous Sin” gives Kay Francis a chance to show us what she can do with a big role. And she does. I mean by that, she

reveals a greater acting ability than I have ever before noticed in her previous roles. With the right parts Miss Francis should climb far up the ladder of success. As the wife of a Russian officer, attempting to save her husband's life, she takes the acting honors away from Walter Huston, who as a general has condemned her husband to death. That is giving her quite a break, but it is a fact. Walter Huston, who is showing this same week in “Abraham Lincoln” in another theater of this city, proves himself therein a great and

powerful actor But parts suet the portraya of Lincoln are not to be had every day. And so it is, thaf although Huston gives us a very convincing character -of the cruel general, who by falling in love changes into a hero of kindness, you will long remember the charming acting by

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Kay Francis as the most outstanding thing in this picture. The trend of the plot is rather inconsistent, changing from drama to comedy, and back again, but the action moves along nicely, and the cast being excellent, as a whole it is very pleasant entertainment. Now showing at the Circle. (By Connell Turpen.) a a a ART OF THROWING PIES HAS REACHED THE TALkERS Every art and gag that had reached perfection in the silent days of the movies, have crept and is creeping into the sound pictures. In “Sea Legs” an art that was so popular in the old Mack Sennett bathing beauty comedies, has been brought to our attention with a gusto and generousness that is at least perfection. And it is nothing else but the old slapstick art* of throwing pies, it starts with one or two pies flying

through the air. but, oh, before It ends, there are several dozen pies meeting with somebody’s face. Perhaps it is bad taste to bring this old form of getting laughs

jack again, but it certainly added *>me extra laughs to this one, anJ every laugh is needed. There is not much of a plot and the picture depends almost entirely on it's comedy gags, and the cast to put them over. Jack O a k i e romps through the scenes as a sailor millionaire, when in fact he does not even

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have a dollar, but you can bet he plays the part of millions just the same. No doubt Oakie will help the box office Tor this picture, as will the names of Harry Green, Eugene Pallette, and Lillian Roth. A comedy that has its moments and a cast that makes it laughable and pleasing entertainment. On the stage the presentation, “Jewels,” features Ross and Edwards, comedians, who have a line of their own and know how to put it over. Jerry Coe, dancing accordion player, does a dance that would tnake the dancers from a burlesque revue green with envy. No need to say it looks rather indecent, but I do not think there was any harm done. The Roma Brothers, acrobats, are among the best of their type. The entire stage show is good entertainment. In addition to the regular show Louise Powell’s kiddies are featured

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