The Film Daily (1924)

Monday, September 15, 1924 Newspaper Opinions "Being Respectable" — Warners Alhambra, Milwaukee SENTINEL—* ♦ * The oulstanding fea[ure is the excellent acting by a competent :ast which numbers several prominent players. If you like them you'll care for the picture, if not the story will carry little weight jr conviction. • » » "Bread"— Metro-Gold. Piccadilly, Rochester DEMOCRAT—* * ♦ Whatever of excelence in entertaining qualities the screen Irania "Bread' has attained — and there is high standard of such excellence — is due the simplicity with which the author, Jharles Norris, represents the facts of luman lite as he views them. * ♦ * HERALD— • * * The working out of all e problems and the ultimate happiness lakes up a very good motion picture. * * • TIMES-UNIONThe play has an obious conventioual touch which robs it of ny particular dramatic force. Hobart Bosrorth does some excellent acting » « ♦ at O'Malley draws a humorous picture of "• good-natured workman * » • "Conductor 1492"— Warners B'way Strand, Detroit NEWS — It is a strange but enjoyable ixture of laughs, romance and melodrama TIMES — While comedy, much of it the ap-stick variety predominates, there are oments of melodramatic tensity. 'The Covered Wagon"— F. P.-L. Ohio, Indianapolis NEWS—* * * one of the finest motion ctures produced since films cam.e into ing, and, assuredly, a feature which will ways have its place among the notable eations of the silent drama. * » » STAR — * * * If the film makers never oduced another worth-while thing, "The Svered Wagon" would be excuse enough the existence of the film industry. • * ♦ Royal, Kansas City TIMES — It is an absorbingly interesting "ittire and merits the praise which it has ipired wherever shown. "Empty Hands"— F. P.-L. McVicker's, Chicago HERALD — It drags just a little in the it reel, but all the rest of the way "Empty "inds" is good picture. The story is aight, simple and dramatic, and its persons " believable. OURNAL — Arthur Stringer supplied the t in a novel * * * The intent has been t somewhere in the celluloid * * * Miss Shearer is one who is tripping up the !der of fame two rounds at a time « ♦ * It's popularity is too well asSured » * * TRIBUNE — The story is pretty well adapI — if you're in a credulous mood. Photo phy, sets and scenery will please the not critical. On the whole, then, "Empty nds" does its stufi in a manner the age movie audience will enjoy. Wisconsin, Milwaukee EADER— Jack Holt and Norma Shearer the leading roles help to make the some^t far-fetched story of "Empty Hands" * fairly plausible. And of coiu-se, with se two players, the picture is thoroughly [ertaining * » • SENTINEL—* • • The theme offers nty of opporunity for the imaginative, but never gets beyond the stage of being iously artificial and "just a story." * » ♦ Tivoli, ^Washington TAR — * * * is another story of the Uty and the beast type, with beautiful iintain scenery and a pretty girl — not much re. * * • IMES — The human « ♦ » who views the k-to-nature sequence • » • without gett considerable kick is either ten years ire adolescence or hopelessly senile. * • • "Flirting with Love" — 1st Nat'l Capitol, Cincinnati OMMERCIAL TRIBUNE— Little Coli Moore and her innocent baby stare ply ran away with the honors * * • a well filled with thrills, action, humor POST — Colleen Moore has undertaken a new characterization, an impulsive, temperamental woman* * * But her work suffers from over acting, same as the flapper roles which she has just deserted. TIMES-STAR— Despite her one big success, in "Flaming Youth," Miss Moore's stellar aspirations have been considerably handicapped by such mediocre vehicles * * * Metropolitan, Washington STAR — Having demonstrated her supremacy as the modern flapper in her last three vehicles, Miss Moore makes clear with equal emphasis in "Flirting With Love" that she is an actress richly endowed with a natural talent for mimetic expression. » » ♦ TIMES — * * * Colleen Moore and Conway Tearle have the stellar roles in this absorbing comedy-drama * ♦ *, "Fools in the Dark"— F. B. O. State-Lake, Chicago NEWS — * * * is a triumph in the combination of a mystery story and a comedy. "Fools in the Dark" is a photoplay they enjoyed making, and it has a lot of fine, deliberate calculation back of it. TRIBUNE — My earnest prayer is that all of you will find "Fools in the Dark" more mystifynig — and funnier than I did. There isn't a doubt but that a lot of good, honest hope went into the making of the picture. "The Galloping Fish"— 1st Nat'l Imperial, Montreal STAR — * * * provides undiluted amusement in the efforts of a group of people to corner a trained seal. The seal itself is one of the best actors in the picture, though the antics of Louise Fazenda and Sydney Chaplin alone would be enough to make an ordinary individual helpless with laughter. "Secrets"— 1st Nat'l Walnut, Cincinnati COMMERCIAL TRIBUNE— It is a delightful picture full of unexpected turns and very well done. POST^And the film demonstrates that the subject of love ♦ * * still has a good story left in it if someone would stop to think about it. * * • We'll say that while the picture is full of sentimentality, the restraint of O'Brien and Miss Talmadge " * * keeps it from being unbearably sweet. TIMES-STAR — It is not only one of the best dramatic pictures of the season, but also one of Norma Talmadge's finest achievements. Eastman, Rochester DEMOCRAT—*' * * Lines of poetry corne easily to mind in remembering the varied images of Norma growing old gracefully, for in "Secrets'" Norma is a poem herself — a poem we recummend you to read. * » » HERALD-—* * * Norma Talmadge, playing the difficult role of herself when a grandmother, when at middle age and when a debutante, gives a delightful story, supported by Eugene O'Brien. * * » JOURNAL—* * * Miss Talmadge does not have any great opportunity in "Secrets" to display her talent. However, she is vivacious in the crinoline scenes, determined in the American scenes, "weepy" in the F.nglish scenes, and a young looking old lady in the latter scenes. * »• * TIMES-UNION—* * * oflers Norma Talmadge a role worthy of her talents and surrounds her witli a most capable cast. » » * Grand Central, Lyric Sky dome* West End Lyric and Capitol, St. Louis GLOBE-DEMOCRAT— Amusing, entertaining, with a thought for a tear or two. Also with Norma Talmadge, radiantly beautiful, who quite overshadows the acting of O'Brien with her own genius. POST-DISPATCH — Norma Talmadge shows her versatility as a makeup artist * * * The picture has great feminine interest in the many fine scenes in which the characters appear in elaborate costumes * * * STAR — Miss Talmadge grasps each opportunity for emotional acting, and they are many and varied. * * • This is a costume picture that does not drag. It is humor a>id pathos, not just pretty pictures. The picture abounds in action. "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" Metropolitan, Baltimore AMERICAN— In the new version * • • which has been made • » » and the box office in mind, the original scenario has been considerably changed. Even Mr. McGrew lias been sheiked up for the occasion. "The Signal Tower" — Universal Colonial, Indianapolis NEWS—* * * Hearty, frank, adventure and comedy such a welcome diversion. All the spectator has to do is to let himself go and enjoy the excitements to the full. * * • STAR — One of the most dramatic pictures ever made showing a man's struggle between his sworn duty and his desire to save his wife from the clutches of only such a villain as Wallace Beery can portray. * * • Victoria, Philadelphia BULLETIN—* * * a sensational railroad romance, as full of thrills as a melon is of seeds ♦ * ♦ PUBLIC LEDGER (EVENING)—* * * It is one of the most thrilling raihoad pictures made in a long time. There is as much action in one reel of "The Signal Tower" as there is in some ten-reel serials. * * * "The Thief of Bagdad"— United Art. Lyceum, Rochester JOURNAL—* * * it will afford you two and a half hours of the most exquisite pleasure ♦ * * TIMES-UNION—* * * fantastic happenings, fanciful scenes and extraordinary effects, that are baffling in the impression they make, but are in no sense suggestive of mechanical trickery, since they harmonize so smoothly with the action of the story. * * * "Three Women" — Warners Liberty, Kansas City TIMES — * * * is not in the same class with his recent "Marriage Circle," but will entertain picture audiences not too critical. HARRY CAREY IN "ROARING RAILS" ACCLAIMED SUPER-PRODUCTION AT PRE-VIEW, ROOSEVELT THEATRE, LOS ANGELES Paul C. Mooney, Vice President, Sept. 9, 1924 Producers Distributing Corporation, 469— 5th Ave., New York " 'ROARING RAILS' given biggest ovation of any previe-w in Roosevelt Theatre this season. Hunt Stromberg stormed by audience leaving theatre. Picture has unlimited action. Continuity flawless. Finish well covered up to very climax making suspense intense. Frankie Darro absolutely the wonder child to date and took audience off their feet. 'ROARING RAILS' should give HARRY CAREY entry to highest class houses throughout entire country." /. S. Stout NOW BOOKING Released by \ PRODUCERS DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION Foreign Distributor: Wm. Vogel Distributing Corp. SEASON 1924-1925~THIRTY FIRST-RUN PICTURES I