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January 10, 1925 EXHIBITORSHERALD 9
Facts about the 2nd Famous
Forty Q>araniount Q>ictures
THE TOP OF THE WORLD
by Ethel M. Dell
This picture is finished and ready for prerelease showings. It is a big, gripping drama produced by George Melford from a book that has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Nothing Melford has ever done before approaches the height of entertainment-perfection he has reached in this picture, except “Behold My Wife.” This is the absolute truth.
Anna Q. Nilsson has the role of an English society girl who flees from home to escape marrying a bounder and goes alone to South Africa to seek the man she was engaged to a year previous (James Kirkwood), finds him, but he has become a bum. His cousin (also Kirkwood) and physical double takes her into his house to protect her. They fight scandal and floods successfully, but they cannot fight love.
THE SWAN
New York’s most sensational comedy success of 1923-4, “The Swan,” makes excellent screen entertainment. Buchowetzki has produced this picture from the hit by Ferenc Molnar, and Adolphe Menjou, Ricardo Cortez and Frances Howard (stage star of “The Best People”) play the leading roles. This picture also is finished. We can honestly say that here is not only a dazzlingly beautiful production, but also one that has dynamic audience appeal from the first foot to the last.
“The Swan” is a marriage-comedy of society life, in which an heiress pretends to fall in love with a poor man to make her rich suitor jealous and then finds her pretended love is real. The performances of the three principals are sheer joy.
Other 2nd Famous 40 Pictures for February
Zane Grey’s
THE THUNDERING HERD
with Jack Holt, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery. Directed by William Howard
,\lan Crosland production
CONTRABAND
with Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Raymond Hatton, Raymond McKee
Sidney Olcott production
SALOME OF THE TENEMENTS
with Jetta Goudal, Godfrey Tearle, Jose Ruben
Victor Fleming production
THE DEVIL’S CARGO
with Pauline Starke, Wallace Beery, Claire .Adams, William Collier, Jr,
Iribe-Urson production
FORTY WINKS
with Viola Dana RAYMOND GRIFFITH Theodore Roberts
itembcr Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of .America. Will H. Hays, President.