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By Elizabeth
FORGOTTEN FACES
A VERY happily cast picture, with the suave and graceful Mr. Give Brook in his element as a gentleman crook. He is also a passionately devoted father, a role, which is equally becoming. And Olga Baclanova (now known simply as Baclanova, just to be different) and William Powell make it a 'grand cast. This is really not a very deserving picture, beingcrammed full of all the old tricks and devices known to melodrama, but it's smoothly done. A life-termer at Sing Sing is finally pardoned, so he may save his daughter from the preying hands of a disreputable mother. But he must first promise not to kill his wife. How he contrives her death and yet keeps his promise to the warden is the spooky and exciting climax.
LADIES OF THE MOB
J^N OWING nothing about crime, as I do, it seems to me this is the best and truest of the underworld pictures. It ought to be real, anyway, because the story was written by a convict, who probably had a colorful past to draw on. Clara Bow is a beautiful young yegg whose great concern in life is to keep her boy friend out of the electric chair in spite of his best efforts to get there. How she accomplishes this is the ingenious and touching plot. There is the usual popping of bullets necessary to any underworld drama, but the human interest story of the boy and girl is more thrilling than the gun battles. Clara Bow and Richard Arlen are simply great. This is the sort of thing Clara should do.
THE RACKET
yHIS is a faithful reproduction of the stage play, and proves again that what makes a thrilling play doesn't necessarily make a knockout movie. That is partly due to the casting. Louis Wolheim, for instance, plays the gang leader with comedy instead of the necessary menace. Even so, it's a pretty good picture. Skeets Gallagher is fine as the reporter who says "Horses" and other things. And Marie Prevost in a blonde wig gives a faithful imitation of Phyllis Haver. It's the story of a police captain (Thomas Meighan) who, with the whole police department and all the political leaders against him, sets out to get one of Chicago's most respected crooks. A lot of" dirt about the inside workings of politics in Chicago is revealed.
WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEAS
A PICTURE ravishing to the eye and appealing to the heart has been -made in the South Seas. The theme is the destructive civilization that Avhite men bring into the lives of the natives — destructive to happiness, and even to life. Almost all the actors are natives, with the exception of Monte Blue and Raquel Torres, who have the leading roles. Monte is excellent as the vagabond doctor who tries to save one tribe of natives from the white shadows. And Raquel Torres, as the island girl, is so good and so sincere that I couldn't believe she was an actress. See this by all means. It's an absorbing story played against beautiful backgrounds. And it starts off with some pearl-diving scenes you can't afford to miss.
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