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despairing lawyer who tries to getAlexander out of all of his jams, only to have his client find new troubles as fast as the old ones are settled up.Man Mountain Dean and Chief Little Wolf, two grapplers whom Gabo Kaufman is going to present on a wrestling card this week, give a mauling exhibition In We’re in the Money” that is a classic. The fans by the ringside get as uproarious as the average wrestling fans do, too. Mr. Kaufman and Barney Joffee, Tower manager, couldn’t be conniving to give each other's attractions a little boost these days, could they?Good line: Glenda Farrell (introducing herself to Henry O’Neill) — I'm Rowena Twickenham of the Junior League.Mr. O’Neill (dazedly)—-The Junior League?Miss Farrell—Yes, we're the daughters of the National League.IMelodrama Is the Order of the Bay in “Barlmry Const,** the Knellingand Colorful Picture at theMidland. vMarv RutlffJsf* Miriam HopkinsLouur Chamalia... .Edward O. RobinsonJames Carmichael.........Joel McCreaOld Atrocity......... Walter Brennan061, Marcus Aurelius Cobb.Frank CravenKnuckles ...............Brian DonlevvOakle ......a,.,...Clyde CookSlocum ..................Harry CareBroncho ................Matt McHtigP*eb!e..................Otto HoffmanWigham ..................Rollo LloydJudge Harper...........J. M. KerriganMcTavlsh ............... Donald MeekCaptain ................Fred VogedlngFirst, Mate...............Dave WegrenMrCready...........Ander* Van HndenPilot ....................Jule* CowlesSteward ...............Cyril ThorntonSandy ................ Roger OrayA WELL-FILMED. interesting,often intensely exciting pic-(ture is Barbary Coast, the ' Midland feature this week.Melodrama pervades the atmospherefrom first reel to last—and it really ismelodrama, no shilly-shallying aboutiDan Morgan, a rich prospector who has promised to marry her. Dan, it seems, has been robbed of his fortune and his life by Louis Chamalis, gangster-gambler boss of the town.Very well!” says Miss Rutledge coolly. Take me to Chamalis!” And she proceeds to become the dealer ofhis crooked roulette game.All goes fairly well—outside of n few killings and other gentle exhibi-sions of skullduggery—until Mary takes a horseback ride in the rain and receives shelter in the mountain cabin of James Carmichael, a young gold seeker, who, of all things, reads Shelley in his leisure moments. James thinks Mary Is quite the girl and she likes him, too—well enough to cheat him out of his fortune at her roulette table.James sticks around as a dishwasher in the chamalis joint, and theVigilantes organize to rid Ban Francisco of its undesirable citizens. There is as stirring a hanging as you ever would want to see, there are more shcotlngs, and finally Mary and James sail back to civilization together, leaving Chamalis to be slain as a final gesture towards cleaning up the town. It is a completely rational gesture, too, incidentally.The unreal part of the plot of Barbary Coast” is the painting of the pure and simple—oh, so simple!—soul that is James Carmichael. If you believe that there could have been such a perfectly darling, ingenuous man roughing it out in Frisco in the Gold Rush,” times, Jimmy is undoubtedly your lad, but the thought would be, and is, terrifically hard to believe. The sight of a man meeting the first beautiful woman who has come across his path in months and immediately spouting nothing but stilted, poetical phrases to her is definitely upsetting to this reviewer. We know what such an individual would be called in this so-as the weak judge of the town who i«the pawn of the gangster and hi* mob. Oh, yes- Joel McCrea is Jame*; Carmichael.Lying line: Newspaper men ar*either drunkards or idealists.”|lA Gene Stratton Porter Novel Is In Its Kiln* Vcr*l«fh at the Maln-street.Freckles ...............Tom BrownLaurie Lou ...........Virginia WeldlerMarv Arden ........Carol StoneMcLean ...............Lumxden HareRalph Bailon .............Jamea BushMrs, Duncan ........Dorothy PersonJack Carter .........Addison RlchBTdaWrsanrr ............Richard AlexanderA! Water* ...............CJeonre LloydLeflv ..............Loula NatheauxButch ...................Wade BotelerTHE Limberlost, those Indian*woods that Gene Stratton-Porter made famous in several novels when her voguewas at its height, are pictured again in Kansas City at the Mainstrect theater this week, where Freckles'* is the screen attraction that accompanies the Major Bowes Amateursstage show.Freckles” is an average programattraction, with nothing particular to bfe said in its favor and little to detract. It has its moments of excitement, occasional comic scenes, and its times when you can relax and catch a catnap or more if you desire. The latter isn’t a bad habit for any of us, or are you one of those fortunate souls who unfailingly get eight hours of sleep each night? We wish we were.Freckles, the leading character of the story, i.s an orphan who tramp* to a lumber camp to look for a job. On his way there, he meets Mary Arden, a school teacher, and Laurie Lou Duncan, daughter of a harassed keeper of a country store.Freckles falls for Mary, as doe* Ralph Barton, a lumber company cm-BABES IN THE WOODS, ALL OF THEM!Virginia Weldler and Tom Brown«*PorterIMainstrect. The scene is laid in the Limberlostproceedings.- « luiuWifi-ia»■«!« i t.»*m I na»i nMiEven theRobinson plays ChaIt! Barbary Coast” has some of the phisticated generation, most heroic heroes, the darkest vil- Greeks had a word for it! lain*, and as fascinating, yet hard, an adventuress as we have seen since majjs jn “Barbary the good old days when ‘‘NejHc. the or ig he tough! | | His charac-5E 'ssa * £ w srjsof the action and cavd °™y- plays b,st And has he a convincingor twice at improbable characteriza- Brian Donlevy as KnucklesHorn in the plot. Jacoby, his chief thug assistant! Don-Barbary Coast tells th6 story though ho would shootrough and tough to Francisco in theys...ithoughyou for a dime, and proves the fact, fu constantly in the picture.M'ght was right then, thug* Miriam Hopkins is attractive andinfested the streets, the gambling suffjcicntiy hard as Mary Rutledge, games were crooked, and the swinging thc girj in the case amj excellentsupporting performances are turned in by Walter Brennan cs Old Atrocity, h harbor rascal; Frank Craven as soul and desired to be saving of your ooi, Marcus Aurelius Cobb, publisher ammunition. of San Francisco’s first newspaper;To that San Francisco comes Mary Donald Meek as a trouble-crazed Rutledge, a pretty woman, who, Scotchman who is robbed of his sav-nevertheless, manifestly is no better ings in Chamalis's saloon, and thatthan she should be, in search of one grand old veteran, J. M. Kerrigan,is the best way to settle an argu-L*nt, providing you were a thriftyployee who assigns his rival th* j thankless task of guarding a prize lot of trees from some timber thieve*. The latter immediately proceed to get into action in number, and the arrival of a gang of bandits fleeing from a big city robbery does not make things any easier for the new hand.Of course, Laurie Lou has to wander into the gangsters' lair and. equally, of course. Freckles has to get her out.That is when the picture becomes exciting, and there is a lot of shooting before the rescue is effected- If you like to have your photoplavs end on a melodramatic note, Freckles” is your dish.Virginia Weidler. a really cute lltll* girl, steals the acting honors in th* film by playing a country child in the manner in which the part should be played. She recites her lines inrote-like fashion only one© «r twfcw{Continued on Pttgt W )
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Oct 20, 1935
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