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CLASS 8— Dramas 185
unthinkable to the Duchess, Menjou's love-making finally sweeps away all barriers, and he takes her into his arms — just as the court members enter the room! The Duchess, though realizing she is in love with the waiter, is forced to repulse him out of mortified pride.
The humorous and exciting events that bring the story to a stirring climax and eventually lead to a happy ending, furnish delightful entertainment.
As the wealthy boulevardier, who masquerades as a waiter, Menjou is his own suave, sophisticated self. It is for him a perfect role and he plays it with the smoothness and the subtlety that stamps the finished actor.
1984 feet— on 5 reels Rental $3.75
8151 Code SEKE Behind the Front Paramount
Featuring Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton and Mary Brian
Mary Brian gets Detective Riff Swonson and Shorty McGee, a burglar, to enlist in the army during the hectic days of 1917. And she does it by vamping each of them, unknown to the other, just in order to fill a quota of 25 men. For her father has promised her that if she enlists 25 men, she can go to France as a war worker.
Beery and Hatton, enemies in civil life, are buddies in the great A. E. F. in France, They are in a company commanded by Mary's brother. Each secretly believes himself engaged to Mary.
Of course it doesn't take very long for them to get thrown into the guardhouse. Each appeals to Mary's brother on the ground that he's a prospective brother-in-law. The captain goes right to Mary and tells her to set them right. But meanwhile Hatton's old profession comes in handy. He picks the lock, they outwit the M. P.'s and take refuge in a French wine shop, presided over by a pretty barmaid. When they stagger out, they seek a convenient place to sleep — and find it is an army provision truck.
And the truck goes to the front!
Beery and Hatton don't look like "chow" to a bunch of hungry doughboys in the front-line trenches and the pair make their get-away, only to find that, instead of running to the rear, they are out in No Man's Land.
The ensuing scenes are a "wow." The air raid, inspection, and especially the scenes with the tank in No Man's Land, are among the funniest ever filmed. The picture starts with a chuckle and works into laughter that continues right through to the end. It is remarkable in that almost every scene of the picture contains a laugh.
As a pair of dumb doughboys, who get into all the trouble possible in the army, Beery and Hatton win first honors. If it hurts you to laugh, don't expose yourself to the mercies of this picture. "Behind the Front" will chase the gloom off the face of the most confirmed pessimist.
1966 feet — on 5 reels Rental $6.25
8152 Code SEKI Grass Paramount
"Grass" is the story of an exodus into a promised land.
It is the actual picturization of the semi-annual migration of the Baktyari tribe in Persia, going through unbelievable hardships in their combat with nature to obtain grass for their flocks.
These wanderers depend on their cattle for existence. The herds need grass,
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