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)graphs in his review, bestowed well-merited praise for the acting ofHenry Wilcoxon as Richard, Loretta Young as Berengaria, Ian Keith as Se.ladin, C. Aubrey Smith as the monk, C. Henry Gordon as Philip of France, and George Barbier as San-cho of Navarre, in “The Crusades,”CROSSES THE ICE.j; .Vv.;.I :Si# ■ -r. ■ • .* a * * r * *.f* *; *:m . ,v* -r’!I M’ v.v- •V- ■: *, v %■-a■ . f, it - - ,1.-®v*#the famed Lottie Blair Parker story has as many selling points as ever,Anna Moore, you will remember, is the homeless girl who comes to the farm.of Squire Bartlett, sanctimonious New Englander, in search of refuge from a past that includes a faithless lover and a baby that has died. The lover, Lennox Sanderson, happens to own the farm adjoining Bartlett’s and has designs on Kate, the squire’s niece, who has ft fortune in her ownright.Anna is determined that Lennox shall do no more of his dirty work, and David Bartlett, the squire’s son, is determined that he shall marry Anna. When Martha Perkins, the village gossip, exposes Anna's past, there seems nothing for the girl to do but rush from the house, despite the fact that a blinding blizzard is raging outside. The rescue on the ice then comes, and, with it, the end of the story.It never can be said that “Way Down East” has not popular, mass appeal, and the fact probably will be proved again by the crowds that will attend the picture at the Uptown this week. Rochelle Hudson plays the lead in correct, if conventional, style, and Henry Fonda gives one of his excellent “son of the sod” characterizations as the boy who loves her.Russell Simpson is true to type as the squire who isn’t going to have any “fallen wimmen” in his house, Spring Byington (we love that name!) is sympathetic as the squire’s wife, and Margaret Hamilton contributes a great bit as the small town busybody who has to find out everything about everybody.Outstanding portraits of rural life are contributed by Slim Summerville as a storekeeper and constable combined, and by Andy Devine as thatImmortal soul, Hi Holler, who may be old but likes his bitters, “dad gumit!” Edward Trevor seems too shallowly weak as the villain. Astrid Ali-wyn, as Kate, the niece, plays her usual nice girl role in glowing fashion. She must be a swell soul to know off stage and appears headed for deserved success in pictures.Heart-warming scene: The “Happy Birthday to You” chorus that the skaters sing to Fonda as he leadsthem in a procession around the ice.despairing lawyer who tries to get Alexander 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 Gabe 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.11sii(*1!fSi(cfft£(Melodrama Is the Order of the Day in Barbary Coast, the Exciting and Colorful Picture at theMidland.v \ciiV! $1Marv RuU*0ffe,*. Miriam HopkinsLouls Chamaiis... .Edward O. RobinsonJames Carmichael..........Joel McCreaOld Atrocity. *...... Walter BrennanCOl. Marcus Aurelius Cobb.Frank CravenfflIKnuckles ........Brian DonlevvJooktobijptfe #*«•••«••••••••*»••* *ClywBroncho Wl®tt WcHtJp••«•lt;#••••*#•••**Ottc Hoff 111*11aWigh«m ..................Rollo LloydJuoRf Harper. ..........J. _M. Kerrigan!]McTavish ............... Donald MerkCaptain ................Fred VogedJngFirst, Mate........... Dave WegrenMrCready...........Atider* VanPilot ....... Jul«* Cowlc*Hie ward ...............Cyril ThorntonSandy ...............Roger OrayMB*A WELL-FILMED, Interesting,often intensely exciting pic-, ture is “Barbary Coast the ‘ Midland feature this week. Melodrama pervades the atmosphere from first reel to last^-and it really is melodrama, no shilly-shallying abouti1i1. IUtrVIrtrBABRS IISpLaughs Are Plentiful in We’re In the Money,” the Comedy at theTower,[udson have the leads In the sound re Uptown? The famous Lottie Blairshould bring as many tears as ever.Ginger Stewart.........Joan BlondellDixie TIHon............Glenda FarrellHorner Bronaon......... Hugh HerbertC. Richard Courtney Roan AlexanderMax ...............Hobart CavanaughPhil Ryan .................Phil ReganClaire LtClaire....... Anita Kerry8tephen Dinsmore........Henry O'NeillButch .................Lionel SlanderMan Mountain Dean, .HimselfChief Little Wolf.......... ...HlmaetfJevons..,,.......... tC. K. ClivaO'Rourke,..................*d Gargans j Even the mobsters, and there are thousands of them, are convincing.Way Down F.a*t,” a Tear-Jerker of the Years, Is in Its Version at the Uptown.Anna Moore...........Rochelle HudsonDavid Bartlett............Henry FondaSeth Holcomb........Slim SummervilleLennox Sanderson..,.. Idward TrevorMartha Perkins.....Margaret HamiltonHi Holler.................Andy DevineSquire Bartlett........Russell SimpsonMr*. Bartlett,.,...,...Spring ByingtonKate.................... Astrid AUwynCordelia Peabody...,......Sara HadenHank Woolwihe1. A1 Lyde IMr. Peabody......... Harry C. BradleyDoc Wig*in...............Clem B-'ansWf rs* S|6(wB * # # # # • •#*■**♦ * #Magicians........Seymour and CorneobAbner..... ...........Phil La ToskaAmos ........... William BenedictiWELL, sir, you can’t keep a good man down. “Way down East,” after making impressionable theatergoers weep for decades and after having served as a massive silent photoplay to record on celluloid the emotional upheavals of Miss Lillian Gish, has reached Its “talkie” version at last andis at the Uptown theater this week,with Rochelle Hudson in the famedrole of little Anna Moore, cutside of Eliza probably the most famous woman to cross the Ice. Anna doesn’t make the grade this time any more than have the hundreds of Annas who have preceded her. Ice, as you doubtless have discovered, has a most unfortunate habit of cracking at any and ail time* except In those surreptitious moments when you may be trying to cool some ginger pop in an apartment late at night The newest version of “Way Down East” is very much all right, and when you consider that the Lillian Gish picture sold at $2 a copy practicallyeverywhere In the United States, the current attraction is worth five times that sum. figuring the enormous improvement that the addition of sound has made to the cinema. Practically all of the actors in th* new “Way Down East” play their parts well andHOKUM being the saleablearticle it Is in the film worldtoday, “We’re in the Money,”this week’s picture at the Towpr, should have what it takes to please the average movie audience. Laughs tumble over each other fast In the attraction, and action abounds. It is one of those kind of pictures that a house can get noisy watching, and we’ve noticed that the average run of photoplaygoers likes to make itself heard occasionally.That enjoyable nitwit. Hugh Herbert, Is a lawyer in “Were in the Money” who employs Glenda Farrell and Joan Blondell as a pair of hard-boiled process servers. Their particular quarry is Ross Alexander, rich young playboy who is being sued for a fortune by a girl he has Jilted.Alexander is guarded by a night club singer, a gangster, and a professional wrestler, and this unsavory trio must be served with subpoenas, too. The running down of each man is both humorous and exciting, and the authors of the film have used ingenuity in working out these threeangles to the story.Gf course Miss Blondell has to faUin love with Alexander without knowing his identity, and that complicates the plot considerably. Most of the principals have to go to sea to straighten things out and that is where the audience will be heard from, as Herbert and Miss Blondell make a speed-boat do some of the dizziest tricks that we ever have seenon a screen.The Blondell-Farrml-Herbert teaming is an ideal one for any picture, as Hollywood has more than found out by now. Herbert is just silly enough to be a perfect foil for the veneered sophistication of the two leading women and the three provide more or less constant laughs while they are on the screen.Ross Alexander seems to become more of an actor in his every appearance arid is suitable to all needs as the rich young man in the story, while Anita Kerry plays the damsel he passed up in properly stormy style.Henry O’Neill Is outstanding as theCarol Stone, Virginia Weidier atThe scenestory at the Mains treetproceedings.!m-e—.............................. ...............................II1it! “Barbary Coast has some of the f most heroic heroes, the darkest vil- ( lain*, and as fascinating, yet hard,; an adventuress as we have seen since the good old days when “Nellie, the Sewing Machine Girl,” played at the Gillls. You will watch every minute 1 of the action and cavil only once * or twice at improbable characterizations in the plot.“Barbary Coast” tells the story o; the rough and tough town that war San Francisco in the “gold rush J days. M‘ght was right then, thugsinfested the streets, the gamblinggames were crooked, and the swinging of a revolver butt was the best way to settle an argu- j ment, providing you were a thrifty , soul and desired to be saving of your (ammunition. $' • Hr- llt;To that £an Francisco comes Mary ] Rutledge, a pretty woman, who, { nevertheless, manifestly Is no betterthan she should be, In search of oneiI
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Oct 20, 1935
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