Exhibitors Herald (1927)

April 23, 1927 EXHIBITORS HERALD 11 What Could Be Sweeter? C Columbia Pictures are accorded an enthusiastic reception by fans and critics . wherever they are shown. /. Shoivmanship Brains and BoX' ' / Office Acumen have established / i Columbia indisputably among the recognized leaders in the industry* “ / Big Circuits and leading / First^Run houses buy and / ^ play Columbia Pictures / i _ because^ / I r They know Columbia can be relied upon to deliver a Dependable, High-Quality BoxOffice Product at all WeiD jlidrh" American I1U1IIL.II ■lUllllli lyuHiii You Might Have IXtUlU J^UUIIV ± Ills imaiKm Like Life. “STOLEN PLEASURES” Produced by Columbia. Directed by Harry Cohn. Presented at the Admiral and Bandolph theaters. THE CAST. Doris Mannlnir.... Heler Chadwick Mrs. Bradley ..«Dorothy Reyier Jobn Manning. Gayne Whitman Herbert Bradley Harlan Tucker Guy Summers Ramon Ripley By Mae Tin^. Good morning! Jealousy is the whip that makes the mare go In this picture. Two husbands entertain the greeneyed monster and let it roar. As a result much happens to teach the boys a needed lesson. “ Stolen Pleasures " Is sensational but reasonable. The jams the characters find themselves In are just the sort you read about in the papers every day or so. Primitive passions unleashed make an exhibition of themselves. It’s all most exciting and comvmclD^, reany* The picture Is well produced. The cast is splendid. It seemed SO nice to see Helene Chadwick again! I can't understand why she doesn’t appear more often, for besides being an able actress she has a most delightful and appealing personality. times. They know they don’t have to wait for Real pictures \from Columbia-^ They Qet Them'^ CONSISTENTLY! Exchanges Everywhere B. S. MOSS’ BROADWAY— “The Anthony FielUiiig. . , .Maricolm McGregor Daniel B. Hoyt .William V. Mong Peter FieldUig. . .Gustav Von SeyllerULz By REGINA CANNON. 44 Prince of Honor,” accord J. ing to the picture unreeling at ■ B. S. Moss’ Broadway this week, is twenty years in prison or death. The story by Dorothy Howell is an intriguing murder yarn which reveals In detail the havoc circumstantial evidence can wreak on an innocent person. The heroine’s father has been convicted of murder and sentenced by the hero’s father, who is a judge, to twenty years in the penitentiary. The old man is paroled because of good conduct and bad health, and comes home to die. He finds his daughter engaged to the son of the man who sent him up. and then the same judge turns vindictive and. will not allow his son to marry the daughter of a murderer, the girl’s father determines it is time to act. I Lays Trap for Hero \ Since he cannot live long, anyway. he decides to pull the big selfsacrifice stunt and commit suicide after arranging a series of incidents that will convict the judge’s son of slaying him. However, that the boy may be vmdicated before he suffers too much, the older man leaves a note to be delivered to the father, confessing that his death has been self-inflicted. Still, the best-laid plans of mice and men often go astray, and so the fateful note becomes lost in the rubbish heap and the young man is brought to trial. He is convicted on circumstantial evidence. It is Indeed thrilling to see that by asking the wrong or the right (whichever the case may be) questions, a man is forced to answer in *SL way that will put him in bad with a jury Fate intervenes, however, foe it is, after all, a movie, and so the boy is saved at the eleventh hour. I Convincing Story | Columbia Pictures, an indepehdent concern, made this film. It is the fourth good production this company has turned out in succession. Independent companies usually have little money to spend on high-priced stories, directors and talent. Yet often they get results that put the big organizations with plenty of wealth at their command to shame. There is nothing cheap about “The Price of Honor” except its title. The story is well thought out. interesting and convincing. The direction is good, the continuity smooth and the camera work Columbia^ Bi^^er Than Erer in 1927-1928 with ^^THE PERFECT THIRTY