Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1938 — Page 6

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Gary Cooper, Miss Gurie

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‘Marco Polo,

Goldwyn Film at Loew's

Straight-From-the-Shoulder Action Picture Based on Life of Famous Italian Explorer Sacrifices Historical gl Acguracy, but Packs the Thrills.

Sv By JAMES THRASHER A look at Loew’s film this week should prove both surprising and

exciting. The picture is “The Adve

ntures of Marco Polo,” the surprise

is that the traditionally Latin practice of spaghetti eating originated in China, and the excitement comes from a straight- from-the-shoulder action picture which makes no pretense of being accurate history.

Gary Cooper has the title part®—

and Samuel Goldwyn’s Brooklynborn Norwegian discovery, Sigrid Gurie, is the heroine. Mr. Cooper succeeds in being a Montana Yankee in Kublai Khan's court, but that’s no discredit. For he plays + Marco Polo according to the script’s demands. Marco Polo, in real life, was among the first Europeans to visit China. During: a subsequent.imprisonmens, at the close of the 13th Century, he set down a very fantastic history of the East. It took a few hundred years for later travelers to discover that most of his stories were true. _ Mr. Goldwyn’s Marco Polo had some rdther faniiliar cinematic adventures in’ ancient Cathay.. But

their “recording is so direct and]

sumpuous that it all turns out to be Whopping ‘good fun, ‘no matter if

the real Marco’s memoirs are forgotten. In the film, the Polo Brothers of Venice (Jewels, Furs, Knick-Knacks, Notions & Sundries) send their son and nephew Marco, on a hazardous trip to the Orient—object, trade agreements. With him goes Binguccio (Ernest Truex), one of the firm's bookkeepers, afflicted with faint heart and sore feet. The Seven Seas, sand storms and a few snowslides overcome, they turn up in Pekin. Their first encounter is with Chen Tsu, who introduces them to the snaky native dish of spag-het and to gunpowder; two things, the reader needs not be reminded, that have made history. t Eventually the visiting Italians reach Kublai Khan's court. In history, the: Khan was a mighty war-

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rior who conquered all of China. In the picture, as played by George Barbier, he is a roly-poly and: essentially’ harmless little ‘man. Kublai Khan has a beautiful daughter and a scheming minister named Ahmed (Basil Rathbone). Marco’s :shrewdness and winning

ways make a hit with the Khan and the Princess, who is betrothed,

sight unseen, to the King of Persia. So the wary Ahmed arranges to have Marco and Binguccio sent fo spy on the enemy Tartar general, Kaidu. Marco Saves Neck

Marco’s quick wit saves him from Kaidu’s executioners, and later he contrives to save the general's life and win his favor. So when a messenger bird brings news that Kublai Khan has gone to make war on Japan and Ahmed is causing trouble at home, Marco and the whole Tartar force set out. Marco, disguised as a peasant, reaches the Princess just as she is preparing for an unwilling marriage to Ahmed. Kaidu arrives later. When things look worst, Marco hunts up Chen Tsu, takes: all his

available “fire powder” and, with |

great intuition, uses it to blow down the city gate and let the Tartars in. Then. there is a hand-to-hand

battle with Ahmed. It ends when|

Ahmed gets thrown through his own trap door to his own hungry

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HOLLYWOOD, April 15 (U. P). —Hollywood motion picture stars

racing to bullfighting. > Tito Guizar, Mexican : operatic star now in the movies, contracted to buy two bulls used in a Hollywood film, and with a group of other actors is negotiating to build: a bull ring across the border in Mexico, he announced. The ring, he said, will be: at either Agus; Caliente, once the gambling

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or Mexicali, the territorial capital of Lower California. Either: is ‘within short driving distance of Hollywood. Gilbert Roland, actor whose father was a Spanish matador, has been planning such a project for a year,

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Beulah Bondi played 250 roles in stock companies before going to

New York, where she achieved noteworthy success prior to entering

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Princess to Persia—"a trip,” he tells her, years.” ‘Marco Polo,” In fact, is a, sort of glorified Western. But; to me, an honest Western is one of the noblest works of Hollywood. This

has speed, directness, plenty of ac-

tion and commendable: acting. In addition, it is done against a lavish background and projected on a | soothing and handsome sepia film.

and most pretentious seasons. Mr. Cooper is his old reliable self, and

‘Miss Gurie turns out to be an exceedjngly attractive’ young lady,

whether she was: born in Bengal or the Bronx.

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‘today to begin its third downtown week. The film, “which offers a thrilling recreation of * the Chicago fire as its ‘climax, features Tyrone ‘Power; Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady and Andy Devine.

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which has been closed during Lent, ‘will reopen tonight with a double

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