The Film Daily (1924)

THE Monday, September 22, 1924 Newspaper Opinions "Abraham Lincoln"— 1st Nafl Stillman, Cleveland NEWS—* * * It is a dignified and impressive piece of work — a photoplay which humanizes the life of a great man and achieves the first film biography. * • * PLAIN DEALER—* * * The story is simply and pretty directly told. Dramatically, it builds from the outset because it stresses the minor and major sorrows in Lincoln's early life, piling them to an emotional height during the Civil War days — and ending with course of the story to the climax. • • • PRESS — * * * the Lincoln of grammar school days. Every story which teacher told about Lincoln on Feb. 12 or in history class is faithfully recorded in this picture. • » • "Bread"— Metro-Gold. Loew's State, St. Louis POST-DISPATCH• * * the first few slices of the loaf remain heavy but into the rest they worked a pleasant lightness and then inserted a few sugar-plums. The picture tastes much better than the book. * * * STAR — * * * nice, homey picture. Babies replace the usual quota of chorus girls, dishwashers, etc. • • * TIMES — * • • is bound to appeal to the najority of normal persons because it deals brcefully with some of the common problems hat confront the business woman. • • * "Captain Blood"— Vitagraph Orpheum, Chicago AMERICAN — Adventure beckons at the Drpheum. As a matter of fact, it does more han that ; it reaches out a bronzed, hairy .rm and takes you in tow. In short order lo you find yourself accepting this leadership mresistingly. JOURNAL—* ♦ * sends one reeling into he street, mind agog with splendor, crowds nd godly gentlemen with long curled hair. "The City That Never Sleeps"— f. P. L. — Metropolitan, Los Angeles (Week Ending Sept. 13) EXPRESS— • ♦• The picture, although ot one of the best Mr. Cruze has done, lows the same fine attention to details that take all this director's efforts so interiting. • • • HERALD—* • • leaves a feeling of glowig satisfaction. It has all the sure-fire icks of the game and runs along with the noothness of continuity so characteristic of I director. • * • RECORD—* • • It Is just a picture with ily the work of Louise Dresser as the Oman saloon keeper who made a million make it memorable. » * • TIMES— * * * This Is a regular picture. id if you feel the urge to be entertained, id to behold the unfoldment of a story at is bright with interest at all times, you 't want to be absent. * • *^ "The Cyclone Rider"— Fox Tivoli, San Francisco (Week Ending Sept. 13) BULLETIN—* * • The story starts off th a bang, the crack of a revolver, and d» with wedding bells. There's action, ■•ift love, intricate intrigue, hair-breadth :apes by the score, heart throbs and romce. * * * CHRONICLE—* * * warranted to give a genuine thrill for every foot of film, and there are several thousand. * • ♦ DAILY NEWS—* * * A hair-raising, blood chilling, heart-stopping melodrama with evil something terrible and good prefectly lovely and evil getting its deserts at last, with good properly rewarded * * • EXAMINER— All the world is 'seeking thrills and no one is acquainted with this fact better than Lincoln Carter, author of "The Cyclone Rider." ♦ * * "Daughters of Pleasure" — Principal Neighborhood Houses, Chicago DAILY NEWS—* * * It is a good type of the movies that shows us good acting, players well handled at moments, and then slipping back into the lah-de-dah most of the time, and finishing with a regular happy ending, a forced and arbitary happy ending. * » • Fay's, Rochester DEMOCRAT—* * * It tells a story of interest to many film followers and that has some strongly dramatic scenes. An automobile wreck is an exciting feature. Marie Prevost and Monte Blue are in the leading roles and their work is pleasing. ♦ ♦ * "The Girl in the Limousine"— 1st Natl Miller's, Los Angeles (Week Ending Sept. 13) EXAMINER — * * * is as fine a mingling of situation comedy and gag comedy as you could wish for. * * * EXPRESS—* * * it is just the sort of farce to make theatergoers forget the discomforts of the warmer days. ♦ * • HERALD — * * * represents an excellent combination of really funny situations and screen title page that draw laughs. • ♦ * RECORD — * * * Larry Semon has taken the bed-room idea and combined it with his own inimitable method of catch-as-catch-can comedy, making a picture enjoyable as slapstick farce because it doesn't pretend to be anything else. * ♦ * TIMES — * * * Larry has done so well with his first translation of stage farce to picture form, that we wish he would do a lot of them. * * » "Lily of the Dust"— F. P.-L. Century, Baltimore AMERICAN—* * * If you go to "Lily of the Dust" with the hope -of seeing a screen version of Sudermann's "Song of Songs" you may be disappointed. But if you go with the hope of seeing Pola Negri, you won't be. Pola's all there, eyes and everything ! Orpheum, Detroit TIMES—* * * The role allotted Miss Negri is one of the best of her career, and brings her to the screen again more nearly the splendid actress she was in "Passion." * • * "Sinners in Silk"— Metro-Gold. Warfield, San Francisco (Week Ending Sept. 13) BULLETIN — * * * Very jazzy, entertaining stuff, even if at times a little hazy. * # » CALL AND POST—* * * The picture has plenty of action. There are scenes on shipboard, scenes covering the life of the idle rich, that are well set and well cast. • * * jSne but the best on CHRONICLE — A picture that reveals two players as much greater actors than they had been thought. • » • Nothing better than Miss Boardman's scene with Menjou in his bungalow on top of a New York skyscraper has been done on the screen. * • ♦ DAILY NEWS—* * * Menjou does make of his Arthur Merrill a genuine and interesting character, at times moving, and, in the early scenes, extraordinarily illusive. Eleanor Boardman reveals undreamed-of capacities as the girl * * * EXAMINER—* * * It isn't a story that provides the complications; its the superb acting of Menjou. Any other actor in the same role would have made the Warfield attraction poor entertainment indeed. » * • "The Theif of Bagdad"— Unjjted Art. Lyceum, Rochester TIMES-UNION—* * * supreme achievement of the motion picture • * • has set a new standard of magnitude, fascination, imagination and beauty. * ♦ » "Three Women"— Warners Metropolitan, Baltimore SUN—* * * A rather ticklish theme is trotted out in this story, apparently from the pen of Lubitsch. Much of it is directed with the German's genius in fine working order. There are any number of novel touches that are going to be imitated by the rank and file or we lose our guess. Imagine Him In Camillel When we was talking about writing some movies aroun(J Benny Leonard a young blah-brain who was watching a parade outta the window when they was passing the gray, says to us : "Why don't you star him in Camille?" "Says which?" we retorts. "Don't you think he'd make a good Camille?" he goes on. "No," says we. "Do you?" "I should say not," he comes back. "Camille calls for a man weighing three hundred pounds with a squint in his eyes and who can wiggle his ears." "Do you know what Camille's about?" we asks. "No," says he, "but what difference does that make?" It was on account of this talk that we decided to write some light comedies with a boxing back-ground for Leonard and, ma cherries, they're the wow's whams. How do you know? You never wrote no movies before. I never laid no eggs neither but I know a good one when I see it. You do, do you? y^^£l,M^ Ask Henry Ginsberg, 1540 Broadway about the Leonard Series.