The Moving picture world (July 1925-August 1925)

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The Pep of The Program News and Reviews of Short Subjects and Serials "Isn't Life Terrible (Pathe — Comedy — Two Reels) Vacation subjects are now popular and this one shows Charley Chase, {Catherine Grant and Babe Hardy off on an ocean voyage. Lon Poff is an excellent type as the ship's carpenter who mends the leaks. Investigation discloses that the boat is about ready to fall apart. The best gags in the picture have to do with this. Charley leans against a railing and it breaks, he closes a bureau drawer in his room and a section of the hull falls into the ocean. Then there are laughable moments when, in the excitement of boarding the vessel, Charley and {Catherine leave their daughter behind and take a little colored girl by the hand. She is a good little comedian and might have been used more. The subject measures up well to the Charley Chase standard and ought to please almost all audiences. — S. S. i i Ko'Ko Celebrates the Fourth" (Red Seal — Cartoon — One Reel) As a special for Independence Day, Red Seal is offering an Out-of-the-Inkwell Cartoon, "Ko-Ko Celebrates the Fourth." The clever little clown gets a note that the boss will be away and finding some fireworks he places them all over the office and starts to set them off. One big rocket carries them to a cannibal island where Ko-Ko is to be the chief article in a stew. His dog conies to the rescue and feeds the fireworks to the natives and soon they get sick, the powder explodes and they give imitations of roman candles, sky rockets, pin wheels, etc. Fleischer returns in time to get in the midst of it and comes near being wrecked himself. Besides being especially timely, this is one of the cleverest and most amusing of the "Inkwell" cartoons. — C. S. S. Pathe Review No. 27 (Pathe — Magazine — One Reel) This reel is featured by exceedingly beautiful views of the mists of the morning over a lake. These cannot be too highly recommended. Then there are views of "St. Louis, the Mound City," and a chapter in the Roy Chapman Andrews Mongolian expedition called "The Fossil Fields." This deals principally with a Mongol pony market and is very interesting. — S. S. "Never Tear (Educational — Comedy — One Reel) The familiar topic of a pipe bursting in a bathroom, the plumber making matters worse, and the guests being deluged below is presented by Educational under the title of "Never Fear." House wrecking, floating bath tubs, and drenched evening clothes get the laughs in many houses and this picture should prove to be no exception in such respect. Cliff Bowes and Virginia Vance are featured. — T. W. "Shorts" Reviewed In This Issue Beauty and the Bandit (Universal) Bobby Bumps and Co. (Educational) Chasing the Chaser (Pathe) Hair Cartoon (Red Seal) Isn't Life Terrible (Pathe) Ko-Ko Celebrates the Fourth (Red Seal) Married Neighbors (Universal) Never Fear (Educational) Pathe Review No. 27 (Pathe) Plenty of Nerve (Universal) Lewis-Munn Wrestling Bout (Educational) "Wine, Women and Song" (Pathe— Cartoon— One Reel) This latest issue of Paul Terry's "Aesop's Film Fables" has for its chief scene a novel method of catching mice. The cheese is tied to one end of a board that lies across a log, and the cat on a roof drops bricks, catapulting the mice into his hat. But since this is humor and not tragedy, they all eventually escape. The subject is of the Terry standard.—S. S. A MILESTONE IN FILM HISTORY Three New York first runs playing a short subject day and date! MARK STRAND. RIVOLI and RIALTO Of course it's a Red Seal Featurette, KO-KO CELEBRATES THE FOURTH — a hand-colored novelty made up expressly for first run houses for Fourth of July week. And among the other eighty-four first run houses playing it the same week thru the country are Balaban and Katz Wisconsin, Kunsky, Shea's Hipp, Newman, Rialto Loew's State Loew's Aldene Circle Chicago Milwaukee Detroit Buffalo Kansas City Washington, D. St. Louis Pittsburgh Indianapolis 'A good program mart have ntn)clti*t" 1600 Broadway New York City EDWIN MILES FADMAN. Pres. t i Lewis-Munn Bout (Educational — Magazine — Two Reeli) Fitzpatrick and McElroy arc releasing through Educational official pictures of the recent wrestling bout between Ed "Strangler" Lewis and Wayne "Big" Munn. The film is one of the most complete of its kind. It! shows the two men in training for the con-J test performing feats testing to the limit their J great strength. The highlights of the bout are also depicted with admirable clarity. Al-j though the affair was staged in Michigan City on May 30 it should prove real entertainment to wrestling fans at almost any time. Lewis winning the encounter with his j dreaded head-lock, thus retaining for the time the diamond belt and the world's championship, thev will find is a most interesting sight. — T. W. "Plenty of Nerve" (Universa' — Comedy — Two Reels) The newest Century Comedy for release through Universal has Edna Marian as the star, and the action concerns her romance with a would-be sheik. Considerable of the humor in this two-reeler is based on the superstition of the hero. For instance in attempting to walk around a black cat he knocks a vase off a shelf which lands on his head. Attempting to feed this cat a horde of black cats appear on the scene and he acts like he is crazy. The girl's mother inherits an asylum and the manager, who had hoped to own the place, locks the girl and her mother in a cell but the sheik manages to get them out. There is considerable slapstick and a fair amount of humor, but this offering is not up to the Century average as a laugh-getter. — C. S. S. > » "Chasing the Chaser (Pathe— Comedy— One Reel) In this subject Jimmy Finlayson appears as the husband who has never gone wrong but who is constantly skidding. His suspicious wife engages a female impersonator to get the goods on him, and James promptly falls into the trap, dancing with the supposed siren in his home and before his wife's eyes. She confronts him, whereupon James draws a gun and shoots up the landscape, without, however, scoring a single hit. Man and wife are balmy with love again as the detective flies. The comedy has a very slight story and very few incidents even for a single reeler. — S. S. a Bobby Bumps & Co. (Educational — Cartoon — One Reel) Earl Hurd sketches a vaudeville house with an overture by the orchestra and the regular line of performers. This onc-reeler is like a vaudeville bill on the screen, only Hurd's pen can make his actors do things which could never be realized on the legitimate stage. The cartoon contains the average amount of entertainment,— T. W. (Additional Short Subjects on page 67)