Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-16
CURWOODS HEROINE IS A NORTHERN PEG OF NY HEART
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They seem TO grow a peg Of My
Heart" in the cold Klondike.
That's the feeling you get in watching
the heroine of James Oliver Curwoods
THE Girl From porcupine,'
The title might impress one that it is
rough and full of sharp points but not
the case. The story starts out in the
gold mining region of the Yukon and
then shifts to a fashionable girls school
on the Hudson. Some jump for our lit
tie heroine to make bue she jumps
with several bags of gold. Any fashion
able boarding school will turn any girl
into a lady for $1,000 a month, referring
Of course to the boarding and finishing
schools in the movies.
Curwood's heroine is true blue, a sort
of a Klondike Peg of My Heart She mas
her troubles just as the beloved Peg did
in the Manners play which made
Lauretta Taylor what she is today. There
is nothing in common. in the two stories
except that the heroines of both stories
absorb only that amount of education
which they desire to absorb. Both Of
EN- will fight for their rights.
In watching Mr.. Curwood develop his
heroine and hero, you rather get the
impression that the author is not just
sure of himself all of the time He has
created at least four lovabIe characters
the hero, the heroine and the two old
gold miners who mother" and father"
the hero and the heroine, who are two
waits of the gold country. Mr.. Curwo0d
gets an excellent start by introducing
you to these four real characters. And
l guess you will rather resent it when
he ships our sweet heroine to a girls
school on the Hudson. We were rather
fond of our Nell when she was in the
gold country. In the end she returns
north just in time to rescue the hero
from jail. Rather a novel idea Ell?
Faire Bi1ney is cast as the heroine
and William Collier, Jr., "a chap with q
natural smile and naturally curly hair)
is the hero. You viii like this pair Of
lovers. The rest of the cast takes good
care Of themselves.
Also on the bin at the Alhambra this
week is a new Larry Semon farce, called
THE Saw Mil" This movie is the last
word in jazzing up movie farce Trees,
big ones, fall all over Semon, a saw cuts
out the seat Of his pants, tons Of falling
dirt is spilled all over some OF the comic
actors and about everything else known
under the sun which viii make people
laugh is used. II is all very mechanical,
but it will make you laugh
At the Alahmbra all week-W. D. II.
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'THUNDERCLAP CARRIES you
BACK To THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
Have you longed for the return Of the
good old days when villains kidnapped
the pretty heroine: when bridges were
blown up by the same villains Just as
the hero was passing on a lonely road
with his beloved race horse; when the
hero did everything but mount the
golden stairs TO Paradise to win the hand
Of his lady fair?
OF course you have longed for the good
old days when dappers were not known
and cabarets were unheard Of and VII
liam Fox, the wise old fox that he s.
knew that you and 7 were longing for
the return OF the old melodrama.
50 Mr Fox gathered around him Paul
a. Sloane and Richard Stanton. The re-
suit Is that 'Thunderclap" was created
by these three gentlemen. Mr.. Fox was
not stingy With his cast as he chose
Mary Carr, the woman who made herself
the most talked Of movie person last
year by her work In "Over tho HIM"
to head the cast Of "Thnnderclap"
here is the entire cast you win see
when you visit Loew's this week to
witness "Thunderclap:
Mrs. Jameson -................Ma Mary Carr
Lionel Jameson Barney Sherry
onmy NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Paul Wills
Petty The Baby ............ Carol Chase
Betty The Girl Violet Nersereau
Wah Leong ...-....John Daily Murphy
Foster ....-.......--...N alter MCEwau
Marion audrey ............. Maud Hi
Gunga Din ..........-.T Thomas Mccain
Cooper ...................H Hal Clarendon
lily watts ...................J Burke
want to make a few observations
why ! think that this new Fox movie
payes the lead for the return Of the
lurid melodrama to the screen The
stage. II all the learned dispatches from
New York are correct. by the medium
Of melodrama and mystery plays Of the
''meIer" type, such as The Bat" and
"The Bad Man" are again filing the
galleries Of the theater The "ro0st"
as Il Is known in the theater Of the
spoken word has been nearly deserted
for several years Now the people are
returning to the roost through the lure
Of the melodrama
Mr.. Fox, who is generally a half year
ahead OF most producers, has sensed this
growing demand on the part Of the great
paving public So he threw rhyme and
reason to the wiRds and turned out
lDQUueItiHDs
To me "Thunderclap" ia the opiate of
screen entertainment, II robs one Of MI
reasoning power - auickenlng your
pulse until you get that gallery feel
ing and want to Yell out, Pipe that
villain!" That's the secret Of Thunder
clap" as 1t paralyzes you with one
grand rush Of thrills Then he follows
that up with the exquisite homespun
hokum OF Mary Carr as the paralytic
mother who Sits IN a wheel chair as a
hopeless invalid. unable to move, walk
or talk until the very end Of the pic
ture.
Mr. Fox has mixed the thrill and the
sol, the heartache and the gigggle in
splendid fashion in "Thunderclap You
wait for nearly an hour for the great
horse race scene and when the hero Is
on the way to the race with Thunderclap,
his racing horse on whom he relies to
win him fortune and fame, you get the
feeling that all villains should 90 to the
hot climate
Then when the villains blow up the
bridge, throwing the hero and the moving
van into river, you hold your breath.
Even If yon think you are very, very
wise and blase, you will whisper to
yourself. "Oh, that couldn't happen" but
before the whisper becomes a thought It
turns into a dim memory as you again
become lost In the melOdramatic magic
Of Mr. Foxs movie
The hero battles with the current and
the angry rapids Fox has created as
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