Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 258, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1931 — Page 12

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OIL PRODUCTION CURB FOUGHT IN OKLAHOMA RILL Battle May Determine Future of Proration in All States. By United Preen OKLAHOMA CITY, March 9. A proration battle that may determine the future of the oil curb in *ll principal oil producing states is being waged in Oklahoma. Investigations into the motives and methods of proration supplement the fight on the Jones bill, introduced in the legislature, which would virtually strip the corporation commission of its authority to regulate crude production. Opponents of the Jones bill claim that its passage would ultimately result in the breakdown of proration in all other states. Such a condition, they have told a legislative committee, would ruin the oil industry. Called Price Fixing Proponents contend that the bill’s passage is imperative to save the small independent producer from bankruptcy, claiming the oil proration regulations amount to a “price fixing” scheme, instead of a conservation program. Those who claim proration should be lifted have made unsuccessful fights before the corporation commission, the state supreme court and the federal district court. They then turned their attention to boosting for the Jones bill. The Oklahoma Oil Association was formed to fight the curb. It is headed by E. B. Howard, former congressman, who believes an oil tariff and not proration is the solution to oil problems. Sinclair Against Bill Harry Sinclair, chairman of the board of directors of the Sinclair Oil Corporation, has announced his opposition to the Oklahoma proration law. An investigation was ordered into allegations certain companies are allowed to flow their wells open in the large Oklahoma City field. The legislative committee reported proration regulations were being violated and that some royalty owners were not receiving the proper amount of money. A request has been made that if proration is to be continued Governor W, H. Murray be allowed to name proration umpires. Present umpires are named by the corporation commission on the recommendation of oil companies that petition for the oil curb regulations. Governor Murray has remained silent in the controversy except to say he believes if there is to be an oil curb principal oil producing states should adopt a uniform proration plan. ,

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OLD-FASHIONED HIT TRIES TO COME BACK A Modern Cast, and a Strong One, Struggles With a Mighty Tough Dramatic Situation in ‘East Lynne/ BY WALTER D. HICKMAN WHEN the producer and director took the mothballs out of “East Lynne” and dusted it off as a 1931 melodramatic dish, they handed a tough job to the cast. The fact is that probably nobody could have done a better job in bringing this old-fashioned play back to life on the talking screen than lAnnI Ann Harding, Clive Brook as the alleged understanding friend and Conrad Nagel, a regular mess of a husband. Many times I thought that I heard the bones of this ancient play creak and even moan as a modern cast tried to put life and color in this melodramatic corpse.

The fact is this cast of good actors in the talking screen version would hot dare to attempt to revive this old play in the flesh on Broadway. Where angels would fear to tread on the legitimate

stage, a e r n actors seem to have no fear on the talking screen. I would expect to see “East Lynne” in a one night stand in the legitimate theater in the sticks or under a tent in the summer time but not in the big time. “East Lynne” even as a talker still smacks of being ten, twenty and thirty-cent entertainment, and* a capable cast can’t make th's leopard

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change its spots. The story today appealed to me as being silly and terribly overdrawn. I would never expect a modern wife to take the insults of. her husband’s sister as the poor wife does in “East Lynne.” And the good acting of Conrad Nagel as the impossible husband could get no sympathy from me. The character is impossible and the situations he creates axe impossible. And does our villain (he starts out to be an understanding one and turns out to be a snake in the grass) .treat our Nell nicely. He does not. He is about as much a rotter as the husband. Clive Brook makes the unconventional lover a very dashing person as long as he has money. The fact is that Miss Harding gives a splendid performance cl the weeping heroine who picked only lemons for her companions. And does she suffer? She does and how. When I was present I noticed that many women in the audience were using their handkerchiefs while others were very frankly laughing at all the suffering. It will be interesting to see if the old-fashioned melodramatic' plays can stage a comeback on the modem talking screen. I for one doubt It. Now at the Apollo. a a a LAURA MURDOCK SUFFERS SOME MORE Poor old Laura Murdock is being made to suffer again for her indiscretion in love and for her lies. Laura, you recall, was the suffering sob sister in “The Easiest

Way,” which was a best seller on the stage many years ago. Lama is a youngster compared to the longsuffering wife in “East Lynne,” but Laura is brought up to date in “The Easiest Way,” and I fear that she should have kept her years and not become quite so modern. The bones in this old play creak at times' under modern treat-

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ment. Personally I liked to hear Lama weep, lie and carry l ' on on the stage more than I did in the talking screen version. “The Easiest Way” on the stage was an intimate drama, while on the screen it becomes rather too grand. Os course I suppose kept women demand more nowdays than they did, well, say back in 1910. Laura dates back to the days when girls worked in stores and dreamed of an easy life. Laura hated poverty and she sure did have an awful lazy dad. Her poverty was terrible, but when she made her escape by becoming the mistress of a rich man (splendidly played by Adolphe Menjou in his most polished manner), Lama got no applause from me. She really expected too much of the situation, and yet Menjou was more than white to her. I really felt just a little sorry for Menjou when Lama (played by Constance Bennett) threw him down to marry a poor but honest newspaper man (played by Robert Montgomery.) Robert knew Laura’s past life, but he insisted that she leave her rich

sugar daddy and support herself for six months. Laura attempted it, but she went back to her rich man again. I lost all sympathy for Laura when she lied both to Menjou and to Robert. Laura is one gold digger who jusc couldn’t play square. And I think that the movie director gave this play a much too happy ending. “The Eastiest Way” is just jblain melodrama at times. It has been beautifully produced, bat it didn’t get into one like the stage version did years ago. I do think that this movie is box office. Now at the Palace. a a a INDIANA ORCHESTRA PROVES ITS WORTH I predicted last week in this de- . partment 'that some interesting ; things were going to happen in the ; Indiana concert orchestra in the pit

since Ed Resener and Leonid Leonardi, guest conductor and pianist, are getting their heads together. This week Leonardi is conducting the orchestra through an overture called “Light Opera Gems,” selections belonging to “The Firefly” a nd “Chocolate So 1 - dier” school. Leon-

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I ardi has a lot of fire and showman- : ship in his method of directing and j he is getting good response from the men in the orchestra. Resener plays a violin solo and he does it splendidly. Let us have more of this combination. It is excellent. It really,is worth while to go to the Indiana this week to hear this overture. Also Dessa Byrd helps to get the musical effect by playing the pipe organ with the orchestra. Resener and Leonard;, have an excellent chance to make these overtures the talk of the town. Keep on. Please. The outstanding number of the stage show is the acrobatic and strong man work of the Les Gheggis, two remarkable men in a most remarkable demonstration. They deserve to stop the show and they do. James Hall aids in putting some i comedy in the rather serious efforts j of the Hill Billy Kid, who plays and ! sings old-fashioned Hill Billy mus.c. On the screen is “Finn and Hat- • tie,” a comedy that is clean. Mitzi Green, a wise-cracking child; Leon Erroll as the muchly married husband, and Zasu Pitts as the wife of Erroll. This trio goes to Europe and two gyp artists nearly make a bum out of Erroll. Erroll is about the whole show. Miss Pitts seems to have trouble in being funny. She shines only once and that is in a souse I scene. Story is not new, nor is it star- ! tling. There are some laughs presI ent with Erroll handing out most of them. Now at the Indiana. o u a “DRACULA” BECOMES A TALKING MOVIE In bringing ‘Dracula” from the legitimate stage to the talking screen, the director has been much more successful than either the di-

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GAMPAI6N FUND CURB EXPECTED Congress to Consider Nye Bill at Next Session, By Scrippe-Haward Sewspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, March 9. —A definite attempt to curb the use of ( money in election campaigns will W made at the next session of congress. senators predicted today. Bills embodying the lessons learned in the senate’s investigation of campaigns in Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Tennessee, North Carolina, New Jersey, Delaware, Alabama, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, Massachusetts and Oklahoma will be introduced by Senators Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota and Bronson Cutting of New Mexico. rector of “East Lynne” or “The Easiest Way.” ' Tod Browning, the director, did splendidly with “Dracula,” making

it .more interesting than even the stage version. The fact is that this movie will keep you awake at nights. It took me several hours to g e t calmed down after I saw this movie. The director certainly has caught the thrill spirit of the author and probably has added a thrill or two. The director has been most successful in catching the

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atmosphere of the playwright from the very start. Castle Dracula is a work of art, that of a ruined art. This castle as created for the movie certainly gives one the creeps and is just the right setting for Count Dracula, who was “undead” for 500 years before the play gets started. The director, has been fortunate in having Bela Lugosi, the man who created the role of Count Dracula on the stage, to play his original role. Here is the creepiest acting I have seen on the screen and his makeup is really marvelous. I wouldn’t want to meet this Count Dracula on a country road at night. Nobody can play this terribly creepy role as this man. He is the last word in horror. Helen Chandler is the sweet heroine who is about to be carried to her casket by Dracula. She does fins work. David Manners does a good job as the sweetheart of Miss Chandler. He aids the scientist in “killing” Dracula and forcing him to stay put in his grave. I have forgotten the name of the man who plays the bug and spider eating Renfield. Here is good work in a most terrible role. “Dracula” is entertainment for those who do not suffer with heart trouble. It has been marvelously directed, photographed and acted Now at the Circle. Other theaters today offer: “The Criminal Code” at the Ohio, “Hollywood Scandals” at the Mutual, Smilin’ Ed McConnell at the Lyric’ Hot Babies” at the. Rialto, and Bubbles” at the Colonial.

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’Concerning a Great Recital

BY WALTER D. HICKMAN BY presenting Harald Rreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi in a dance recital at English’s, Mrs. Nancy i Martens brought her first season of 1 fine concerts to a close Sunday afternoon. * In fact, the house could be called capacity, because there were only a

few vacant seats, and 'most of those were sold on the season basis. The patronage given these Sunday afternoon concerts of Mrs. Martens guarantees the future for this woman, who is doing great work in bringing the most renowned artists to this city. I was glad to see English’s about filled yesterday, in spite of the terrible weather. It proves that we will

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support fine things, even in bad weather and in a depression. Again I can safely say that Kreutzberg and Georgi make the best dancing team on the recital stage today. They need only a black drop, a piano and a pianist and some costumes to interpret every mood of the dance. Kreutzberg today is even a finer and a more sensitive creative artist than he was last year. His technique seems to be more definite. His greatest individual triumph yesterday was anew dance “King’s Dance.” His costume and makeup were perfect. He developed a majestic and even savage tempo to this dance. The audience liked the dancers beet in “Persian Song,” one of the prettiest dance pictures I ever have seen on the stage. Kreutzberg and Georgi danced it beautifully. So much so that the ovation was so great that they had to repeat the dance. Their “Pavane” dance to Ravel’s music was another artistic triumph. Their fine sense of comedy was well demonstrated in “Rural Dance,” which opened the second group. These dancers seem to be at the height of their talent and still growing. Yesterday was one of the most charming afternoons I have ever spent in the theater.

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