Exhibitors Herald (Apr-Jun 1922)

SPECIAL CAST IN 00 MUCH BUSINESS (VITAGRAPH) ighly original and extremely funny is this screen adaptation of Earl Derr Biggers' "Saturday Evening Post" story. Crisp, snappy action with humorous character studies put this in a class by itself. Excellent cast, excellent camerawork and excellent direction stamp it a boxoffice attraction of unusual merit. Seven reels. induces her to sign a thirty day option agreeing to marry him if he doubles his salary in that time. That day Canby, who is determined not to lose his efficient secretary, discharges Jackson. One month elapses and Jackson is the proprietor of the "Hotellerie des Enfants," — "a parking place for the children of busy mothers." He is ready to claim Myra. At the same time another iron company offers to consolidate with Canby on the condition that John Henry be made general manager. Canby offers to buy John Henry's hotel but the latter refuses. Canby then sets out to put him out of business. He has an employe hire all of John Henry's nurses and places the hotel under quarantine. Jackson finally fails and comes to Canby raging only to find that he is to be general manager of the consolidation. Myra Dalton then agrees to have the option closed. captured by the soldiers. He secretly plans to give himself up and promises tc pass that way again in three days. On the day he arrives to say farewell to her, a group of Arabs had planned to kidnap Nadine and he arrives in time to rescue her. His true identity, however, as the murderer of her husband is exposed to her at the time and she is about to turn him over to the soldiers, when he tells her the story of her husband's affair with his own sister that prompted the slaying. She implores him that his testimony will free him and confesses that she loves him. The realization, however, that a trial would involve his sister's good name impels him to sacrifice his love by leaving the country and the girl he loved behind him rather than have his sister's connection with the scandal become known. .icon* from "Too Much Business." (Vitagraph) if laughter is contagious "Too Much siness" is going to start an epidemic 'lerever it is played. It is a very skil1ly handled production, full of real puine humor, legitimately arrived at. ] is a comedy of business, love and rol.nce, with a likeable hero, a pretty Iroine and a queer and amusing business in. Sdward Horton very ably plays the l*o, John Henry Jackson, chief salesi n for the Canby Iron Works. Myra 1 lton, a secretary, is pleasingly port yed by Ethel Grey Terry, and Tully -irshall is the crusty old boss, Amos (nby. John Steppling, Carl Gerard, l ien Gilmore, Mack Fenton, Tom Muri ", and Elsa Lorimer round out the sendid cast. Jess Robbins directed it ci it is a first-class production in every i pect. Tully Marshall's performance is unique < i in contrast to his stormy scenes, 1 ward Horton's work, as the quiet. 1-iness-like John Henry Jackson stood c . Here is an exceptionally clever ( nedian and one audiences will want t see more of. The sets are except nally well chosen and the subtitles £ funny and brief. The story was i ipted by Ford I. Beebe. Irving Reese i responsible for the clear photography. ohn Henry Jackson is in love with ra Dalton, the private secretary of 1 employer, Amos Canby. Myra is a jy business-like girl and John Henry JOHN GILBERT IN ARABIAN LOVE (FOX) Picturesque desert story with atmosphere patterned somewhat along the line of "The Sheik." Barbara Bedford plays opposite Gilbert. Embellishments, photography, direction and general trend of theme give it appeal that is well sustained. Directed by Jerome Storm. Five reels. Here is another story of the great desert in which the action centers around incidents following the capture of a young girl by a band of Arabs. It embraces the natural appeal of this type of photoplay with its colorful settings. John Gilbert gives a good portrayal of a white man who has fallen in with a band of Arabs, and Barbara Bedford registers pleasingly as the girl who falls in love with him. Others in the cast are Herschel Mayall, Barbara Le Mar, Robert Kortman and William A. Orlamond. Incidents in the theme, while not necessarily new, hold the attention in the picturesque surroundings in which they artset. Xadine Fortier, immediately following her wedding to an English officer, receives word of the illness of her mother and hastens away. On her return to the colony she is captured in the desert by Arabs. A fight ensues over her and dice are rolled to see which of the band shall take her. A newcomer in the tribe wins, and aids her to escape. On arriving at the colony she learns that her husband has been murdered in her absence. She swears vengeance and offers a big reward for his capture. The description of the assassin fits that of the new man in the tribe and members plan to turn him over to the authorities and collect the reward. When he leads a part-' into the colony to summon a doctor for the sheik's little son, who is ill, he meets the girl he befriended in the desert, who in turn saves him from being SALLY, A HORSE IN A DARK HORSE (UNIVERSAL) You wouldn't think they could build a very funny comedy around the doings of a trick horse, but wait until you have seen Sally, in "A Dark Horse" before you pass judgment. Director Jess Robbins has Sally do about everything but talk and he gives her a few talky subtitles to make up for that. It is good, clean fun with a kick in it, in fact several kicks. Sally is sleeping on the cold, cold ground as the picture opens, with her master nearby. The master wants all the covers but Sally finally gets her share. She wakes her master up by sprinkling water on his face. He is coaxed into a crooked card game and nearly loses all his money, even with Sally's assistance, as she slips him high cards with which to win. Finally Sally cleans out the joint by kicking the crooked gambler and his aids through the window, chasii.g them up a tree and finding a bomb, blows up the tree. "A Dark Horse" is a good bet. John Gilbert in a scene from "Arabian Love." (Fox)