Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1931 — Page 12

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DRUNKEN RIDE ENDS IN DEATH; YEAR TOLL 36 Father of Three Is Killed as Climax to Beer Party With Girls. Piafflc toll on Indianapolis streets today stood at thirty-six since Jan. l with addition of two victims of heavy week-end traffic, and a third who died of injuries suffered several days ago. Speeding over suburban boulo'ards late Sunday after a home brew’ party, Luther ■ Harris drove his sedan I £ into a utilities pole at Emerson avenue and V-l V/ Thirtieth street and was killed. ————— Felix Bean. 30, Negro, 2229 Yandes street, died from injuries suffered Sunday when struck by an alleged drunken hit-and-run driver at Cornell avenue rnd Tenth street. With Harris in the auto were Rav Downs, 2527 Wood street, who was injured seriously, and Mrs. Evelyn Woods. 30, of 1045 Eugene street, and Miss Velma Hall, 20. of 566'£ West Washington street, Apartment 2i, who escaped with minor cuts and bruises. "Picked lip” by Men Because of Downs’ condition, deputy sheriffs were unable to obtain statements from him. but from the '•.omen, learned that they had been picked up by the two men downtown Sunday to ‘‘go out for a good time.” At a house, whose location neither could describe, they all became intoxicated on home brew, they told 'he deputies. Harris had been driving wildly before the accident, they declared. Harris was the father of three, but separated from his wife. Police later searched Downs’ home -md say they found a quantity of beer. He is charged with drunken- ? -Kss and blind tiger. Bean was standing in a safety zone w'hen the speeding car hit and oragged him almost a block. Leroy Carney, 27, of 2034 Caroline street, was arrested following the accident, and charged with manslaughter, failure to stop after an accident and drunken driving. He was trailed by a leak in the radiator. John Schopp, 67, who escaped from Julietta asylum and was struck by an automobile driven by James Collins. Franklin, on State Road 52, March 19, succumbed to injuries early today in city hospital. Held As Hit-Run Driver Adolph Fischer, 25, of 1502 Spruce street, was held today as the hit-and-run driver whose auto struck four persons in a safety zone at Holmes avenue and Washington street, Saturday night, hurling Miss Vivian Quar. 2708 West Washington street, fifty feet. She escaped without serious injury. Other persons injured in week-end crashes included: Mr. and Mrs Chsrles Frye and their Rrandoon. Junior Swindler. 2. all of Bloomlnrton. 1n collision on Bluff road, two miles south of city. Sunday night. Mrs. Bertha Shields. Shelburn; G, C. Shields, her father-in-law. and Asa Oder. 41. of 1933 North Keystone avenue, in collision. College avenue and Thirteenth street. Sunday. Lewis Cox. 19. of 317 North Wallace street, collision Sunday night Gray and Michigan streets. Oran Thomas. 18. of Richmond: Maholrn Harding and William Bales, Richmond: Miss Alice Horton. 18. of 966 West Thirtysecond street: Miss Ruth Leonard of Clarendon. and Miss Thea Horton, of the Thirty-second street address. In collision Saturday night. Thirty-first street and Boulevard Place. Omer Fellnev. 49. Foresman, cut and bruised, when struckk by auto at Bradley avenue and Washington street, Saturday night. General Pickett's Widow Dies By United Prces WASHINGTON. March 23.—Mrs. Lasalle Corbell Pickett, kidow of the gallant Confederate general of Gettysburg fame, is dead. The woman, whose husband led the charge of Cemetery Ridge that has been looked upon as the turning point of the Civil war, expired Sunday in Rock- \ ille, Md. Dyaßc women urge their husbands, sons and lovers to join in headhunting expeditions to prove that they are really men of valor.

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COMEDIANS BETTER ON VARIETYJ3TAGE Olsen and Johnson Fail to Ring the Comedy Bell in 'Fifty Million Frenchmen’ on the Talking Screen. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN AT this time I can not say whether it is the fault of the director that Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson do not register on the screen as they do on the stage. " When the boys were in person they told me that they really thought , they were ‘funny and good in ‘Fifty Million Frenchmen.’ ” I can not agree with their personal verdict. The truth is I can not make heads or tail of this movie. It is all mixed up.

The plot really covers up the individual comedy methods of these two men. On the vaudeville stage they give the biggest laughs. On the talking screen they have been a pain to me. On the stage they

have a definite tech nique which reaps the laughs. The two comedians on the screen fail to develop a technique which gets the laughs. In this case it might be th story. They try to be as "nutty” on the screen as on the stage, but somehow it never rrrives. The greatest handicap that the boys had to meet in "Fifty

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Million Frenchmen” was that the picture is entirely in color. It is my contention that comedians should never appear in color films. Everything depends on the way the boys photograph in a comedy situation. Colored photography gives an entirely different look to the thing. Even the loud and silly laugh oi Chic Johnson on the stage doesn’t get across on the screen. Its repetition does not get over. I believe that if Olsen and Johnson would ‘‘think up” their movie plots as they do their stage material. they will get some place on the screen. To me “Fifty Million Frenchmen” is a terrible disappointment. Have your own idea as usual, but I think it is a poor picture. Now at the Apollo. WELL, WELL. WELL. AND A FEW MORE WELLS After seeing "Today,” I breathed a sigh of relief that the ordeal w T as over. This picture is “distinguished” for

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I ever have seen on the talking screen And her voice records as colorless aj some of her acting Some of the direction looks like the work of a rank amateur who does not know what it ij all about. And the ending well oi all things. You actually discover that the murder of the cheating wife bj her husband w r asn’l real at all. just e bad dream that the wife had after re-

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ceiving the bad news that her husband had lost everything on the market. About the only redeeming thing in the picture is the work of Conrad Nagel as the husband.. He at least seems to be consistent. The story is nothing to rave about. It shows a mighty unpleasant side of married life in some cases. In fact. I consider “Today” a terrible mess. Butr—the business. It seems enormous. Especially w-hen you recall the mighty poor business that "Rango,” a picture with merit, did in this city and at the same theater. “Today” is now at the Circle. n a a A GOOD CAST MAKES THIS ONE INTERESTING If ever a cast made a picture, the one assembled for “Honor Among Lovers” hits the nail on the head. They all work together smoothly and beautifully, meaning those in the cast, and make a rather far fetched and overdrawn story mighty interesting entertainment. Frederic March as a rich finan-

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cier on Wall Street is at his best. His restrained acting while at the -n -"Zjzm fop. point of a gun is as good as 1 JfiSwgjjMßp' : : have seen for some tunc. You will hold your JpfS breath. It is such > ftp. people as March Sir '* ' that makes a picK ture a treat, ft i Claudette Colft J bm is the woman A ui the picture, n and such a. wornIff II an She knows H how to talk, act and wear clothes. As March's secC. Colbert retary. who thinks she is a good judge of character and finds out that she is not so expert after aJI by marrying the wrong man, she gives a truly pleasing performance. Os course she finally gets the right man. She would. Monroe Owsley plays the role of the bad, bad husband in a very convincing way. You hate him. For comedy relief Charlie Ruggles and Ginger Rogers are right there with the goods. Besides the cast, another thing that makes this picture enjoyable, is the smart and clever direction of Dorothy Arzner. She is to be complimented. Mighty interesting entertainment. On the stage this week I want to mention the Three Jacks who know how to tap dance with a vigor and spirit that is catching. Also Julia Curtis, ventriloquist, who uses two live dummies with good effects. The two live dummies are . ! and Ernie Station, who head the precitation with their comedy jokes and blackouts. In the pit Ed Resener conducts the concert orchestra in “Overture Operatic” that is a real treat. Now at the Indiana. (By Connell Turpen), The Indianapolis matinee musicale tonight will present its choral section in concert at Caleb Mills hall. Barre-Hill, baritone, is the guest artist. Charlie Chaplin in “City Lights” is now in its second week at the Palsice. Other theaters today offer: Miss Frances White at the Lyric; “The Conquering Horde” at the Ohio; “Holiday” at the Civic: burlesque at the Mutual; “Sit Tight” at the Terminal, and movies at the Colonial.

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