Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

118 yillllllllH l How Old | S Are You? | | Good stories ap | | peal to eVen? one. | | No matter \tfhat | | Jour age, you'll | | enjoy | 1 Top-Notch j | Magazine ( I On the Nextfs Stands | | 1st and 15th of Ever? | I Month | Good Stories \ ( Always ( On iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Advertising Section A Confidential Guide to Current Releases Continued from page 96 good, the picture is entertaining without being anything to rave over. Pauline Frederick, in subordinate role, Bert Lytell, Lois Wilson, Jason Robards, Richard Tucker, Johnny Arthur, and an appealing child, Vondell Darr. "Terror, The" — Warner Brothers. A mystery movie, entirely in dialogue. Is too slow to make the most of thrilling situations and a murder plot. Louise Fazenda has an unusual role. The rest, all of whom have lots to talk about, are: May McAvoy, Edward Everett Horton, Alec Francis, Mathew Betz, Holmes Herbert, John Miljan, Otto Hoffman, Joseph Girard, and Frank Austin. "Lilac Time"— First National. A little bit of everything you've seen in all the other war pictures, but done on a big scale, with sound effects and an effective airplane sequence. Colleen Moore's capers dominate the first part and her emotional acting the second, so you can take your choice. Gary Cooper. RECOMMENDED— WITH RESERVATIONS "Redeeming Sin, The" — Warner. Sonorously tragic talk and overdone horrors turn out to be a farce. An underworld girl, played by Dolores Costello, captivates a doctor for revenge to satisfy an unreasonable grudge, and the "fun" starts. Conrad Nagel is the doctor. Warner Richard and George Stone. "Naughty Baby"— First National. Alice White shows hotel-check girls their romantic potentialities, if they have good figures. The man is ensnared, complications set in, but in the well-known nick of time all is saved. Jack Mulhall is the man. "Show Folks" — Pathe. Backstage vaudeville life a la mode, reminiscent of "Excess Baggage" and similar pictures. A hoofer trains girl to team with him, but when she succeeds he becomes jealous and fires her. His Broadway debut a failure, she leaves her rehearsal and join3 him to make his act a success. Mildly interesting, with little suspense and poor dialogue sequences. Eddie Quillan, Lina Basquette, and Robert Armstrong. "Manhattan Cocktail" — Paramount. This is warranted nonalcoholic. There isn't a kick in it, but it is pleasant to take because of Richard Arlen, Nancy Carroll, Paul Lukas and Lilyan Tash man. The machinations of a hateful theatrical producer to get a young fellow out of the way, so that producer may have a free rein with young fellow's girl, a chorine. "Napoleon's Barber" — Fox. A solemn talking picture, mercifully short. A proroyalist barber vows he would slit Napoleon's throat if he were shaving him. Napoleon, on one of his marches, pauses for a shave and confesses his identity, whereupon the barber is transformed into a cringing coward. Much, much talk. Otto Matiesen, Frank Reicher, Helen Ware, Philippe de Lacey. "Power"— Pathe. William Boyd in another roughneck role, this time working on the construction of a dam. He and his pal are fleeced by an adventuress, but show lively interest in the next girl who comes along. A feeble excuse for wise-cracking. Alan Hale is, as usual, Boyd's partner in ineptitude. "Caught in the Fog" — Warner. Snatches of dialogue help this mediocre picture not at all. A girl crook and her pal invade a houseboat and are apprehended by a young man, who is the son of the owners. He falls in love with the girl, who promises to reform. Conrad Nagel, May McAvoy, and Charles Gerard will blush for this a year hence. They may do so now. "Outcast"— First National. Brightly done story of streetwalker befriended by whimsical society man, whose sweetheart has jilted him for a richer catch. When married sweetheart tries to resume liaison, the ex-streetwalker shows her where she gets off and grabs the man for herself. Shallow, but not annoying. Corinne Griffith, Edmund Lowe, and Kathryn Carver. "Viking, The"— Metro-Goldwyn. Ponderous, prolonged pageant in what is called natural color, showing discovery of America by Leif Ericson, with trimmings of typical Hollywood sentimentality. Every one terribly in earnest, and rather tiresome. Pauline Starke, LeRoy Mason, Anders Randolf, and Donald Crisp. "Revenge" — United Artists. Florid, unconvincing tale of a Rumanian beartamer's daughter, tempestuous, untrammeled, who is abducted by a gypsy brigand and tamed to melting sweetness by hard-boiled tactics. Beautiful backgrounds and indifferent acting by Dolores del Rio, LeRoy Mason, Rita Carewe, and Jose Crespo. PUNCTURE! By L. B. Birdsall 'Twas at a small-town movie show, Where the lights burn low, And sentimental lovers go ; A hush hung o'er the audience — The scene was gripping, vital, tense. Each breath was held in grave suspense. A fat man wabbled down the aisle And filled a seat in ponderous style, Intent a leisure hour to while. There came a sound like a squashed-out blister, Then a plaintive cry of "Mister, mister! You're sittin' on my little sister!"