The Film Daily (1922)

THE j2^ DAILY Wednesday, September Newspaper Opinions "Grandma's Boy" — Asso. Exhibitors Strand TIMES — Amusing nearly always and hilarious a good part of the time. It carries its hero through a series of familiar adventures, but they are tricked out, as Mr. Chaplin tricks out his comedies, with enough amusing incident to provide good entertainment. TRIBUNE — If Fred Newmeyer is responsible for the delightful bits of business with which "Grandma's Boy" is replete then he deserves to share the honors with Harold I.loyd. ♦ * * Entirely free from vulgarity and it is filled with surprises. Although it is difficult to believe that a five-reel slapstick comedy could be concocted without the former ingredient and with the latter, Lloyd and his director have managed it somehow. DAILY NEWS— Lloyd's first five-reeler one of year's best films. » • ♦ This is the kind of picture where you laugh yourself i weak, but when you come out you know why. It is a picture that you remember. TELEGRAPH — When you say that "Grandma's Boy" is Harold Lloyd at his best there isn't much more to be said. This young actor has made a great many two-reel comedies — good ones, too, but never anything better than this, his first five-part production. It is, therefore, not only his finest work, but his most ambitious, as well. WORLD — The funniest screen comedy which we have seen this year. The really humorous situations in it are wholesome and original and seem to have a reason for being there. ♦ * • Go and see "Grandma's Roy." It is impossible even to suggest the brightness of much of it in a review. A public that already admires him will now be all the more enthusiastic about Mr. Lloyd and his work. AMERICAN— Harold Lloyd's first fivereel film so good it is too short. HERALD — Makes his biggest imprint on the screen. ♦ * * There are other very ludicrous moments and they serve to make this picture one of the loud gufifaws of the new season. SUN — This first five reel picture hy Lloyd has a plausible plot, skillfully managed, swiftness of movement, freedom from vulgar slapstick and many of those novel touches which so often in a Lloyd picture touch ofl the laughs with the unexpected abruptness of explosions. EVE. TELEGRAM— Lloyd is the star and he is a real star, too, for he twinkles all the way through "Erandma's Boy." His past comedies have been as good as they have been fast and furious. Now, after a little more than usual deliberation, he shines out with a "magnum opus," The merry little play is filled with philosophy, romance, exciting clashes, satire on human weaknesses, pathos and optimism. EVE. WORLD— Other films at other houses would ordinarily be outstanding ones, but they are but tallow dips alongside a lighthouse compared with "Grandma's Boy." EVE. JOLTRNAL— Lloyil was never before so entertaining because he never before had so entertaining a picture. MAIL — It would be difficult to conceive getting too much of Harold Lloyd when he maintains his high standard as he has done in "Grandma's Boy." M.\IL — One would have to go far and wait long before witnessing a picture which provides more genuine entertainment and wholesome, whole-souled amusement as that sui)plied by "Grandma's Boy." HER.\LD — .Ml. things considered, it is the Iiest molded picture in which Mrs. Castle has ever had a chance to display all the changes of fetching gowns she can make. .SI'^X — .ludging by "Slim .Shoulders" there isn't a thing which Mrs. Irene Castle can't do and still retain her good looks and the curl in Iier hair — except possibly rescue a drowning man. EVE. TELEGRAM— Miss Castle, slim and .graceful, dominates the screen offerings in "Slim Shoulders." EVE. JOURNAL— The settings of the production are elaborate, and the acting well done. There are a number of clever complications, and, while the situations are rather overdrawn, in spite of the fact — or, more 'probably, because of it — the story is very entertaining. AMERICAN— Resembles the kind of fashionable fiction that is avidly devoured by our manicure. The locale is Miami — the "playground of fortune's favored few" — and one is shown shots of the surf, horseback riding, golf, motor boats, beautiful homes and a lawn party. "Slim Shoulders"— W. W, Hodkinson Capitol TIMES — It is a ttiorou.ghly conve:iiional film tale in which Miss Castle poses this time, but interesting for all that. TELEGRAPH — The photography by George l-'alsey is exceptionally fine. The cast is excellently picked and the whole picture delightfully entertaining. It is directed by Alan Crosland. WORLD — Not at all a bad picture play, contains several extremely well directed, mounted and costumed scenes, and leads us further to believe that Mrs, Castle has as much right to claim she is an actress as a great many others we see in the films each week. "Burning Sands" — Famous Players Rivoli TRIBUNE — There is a good enough story here, but it is utterly lacking in any human touches by the director, the title writer or the actors. HERALD — "Burning Sands," as reply to "Sheik," is a weak negative. Has a mechanical and obvious plot. SUN — Should you ask us. it isn't worth very much, being throughout its length extremely dull. "The title "Burning Sands," moreover, is misleading, because there is nothing burning or even warm about the thing — it's stupid enough to need a title like "Burning Sands" to lure people into the theater. EVE. TELEGRAM— "Burning Sands" has been called a man's answ-er to Edith M. Hall's "The Sheik," and depicts the figure that stands in strong contrast with the title role in Melford's previous hig screen production. EVE. WORLD— The cast would make any picture worth while, numbering among its members such film folk as Milton Sills, .lacqucline Logan, Wanda Hawley, Winter Hall, Louis Dresser and Robert Cain. If you crave desert scenes and hectic love-making, by all means take a squint at "Burning Sands." EVE. JOURNAL— Though it bears the title "Burning .Sands" that qualifying prefix does not entirely describe the activity of the desert grit. M.AIL — "Burning Sands" has all the earmarks of a huge box office success. It is replete with the kind of things that the romance loving and imaginative public likes to see on the screen, but, better than that, it is staged magnificently and well acted. Whatever may be said of the story, which has its weak moments, the settings which Melford has given the film are ultra superb. TELEGR.^PH — The story proves to be rather tedious, the conversations of the people are dull, and the players are much more dramatic than their parts. You find the picture hard to believe in. AMERICAN — "Burning Sands" was tremendously futile. After you had viewed the "scenery" — and I think I saw a pyramid in the distance — there was nothing left. HERAT, D — The picture is just about as wild as its predecessor in the Moore series and just about as fatal to gloom. SUN — Owen Moore is very entertaining in the mob of complications which compose "Love Is An Awful Thing." EVE. TELEGRAM— There is a riot of wholesome fun and laughter throughout the si-x-reel cinema which is starring the inimitable Owen Moore, supported by most of the actors and actresses who appeared in "Reported Missing." EVE. WORLD— As far as I can see, love isn't the only "Awful Thing" at the Criterion this week. Not by a long, long way. "Love Is An Awful Thing"— Selznick-Select — Criterion TELEGRAPH— "Love Is An Awful Thing." but it isn't at all. It's just one round of good fun. Owen Moore stars and puts over a performance that is a guaranteed cure for the blues. WORLD — One looking for escape from the florid and maudlin stuff of recent flamboyant films will find an opening at the Criterion. "Love Is An Aw-ful Thing" should be a w'elcome diversion from bravado and bunk. "A Little Child Shall Lead Them"— Fox — Lyric TIMES — Those who know anything about movies and are attracted to this picture by its title will find about what they are looking for and be satisfied. They may find its sentimentality spread a little thicker than even they could expect, even they may find it too far-fetched in some places and too cut-anddried in others for their taste, but the chances are that they will sob a little and smile a little at the obvious plays for their easy emotions, and so, in the main, they will get what they are looking for. .AMERICAN — Everything in this picture seems to be adopted — from the title to the characters. One is shown orphans of every sort and description, and all kinds of people coming around to adopt them. The trend of the story starts to prove that motherhood is the noblest career of any woman, and ends up by pleading that one should adopt orphans until it hurts. Coast Brevitieii (Special to THE FILM DAIll Hollywood — Titling and edil "Omar the Tentmaker" has! completed. FALSE PRIDE IS FOOLISH It's no shame for a business man to be financially embarrassed. Very often it is a sign of his progressiveness. 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