The Film Daily (1924)

nday, October 12, 1924 THE -^tlK DAILY 15 )AILY HERALD—* * * It was made ;ly to amuse, and one must admit that accomplislies this laudable purpose very 1 indeed. * * * egend of Hollywood" — Prod. Dist. Corp. California, Los Angeles (Week Ending Oct. 4) DXAMINER— A fragment of life, a poem the everyday • * * rwo or three sets, half a dozen players, nbine with a dramatic theme which makes 1 sit literally on the edge of the big theater if. * * * EXPRESS — * * * It is an ingenious plot, 'ascinating idea full of dramatic content. \ * iERALD — * * * It's a really appealing ry and deserves to be sliown to every [ and boy who holds fanciful hallucinations lUt easy money and a smooth road to le. * * * RECORD — * * * the picture is true to llywood. The truest interpretation Hol'ood has had. There is more drama in igalow courts and boarding houses than re is in stucco oalaces and tiled swimming Is. 'IMES — * * * If you expect to see breastting and eye-rollings, don't go to the ifornia. If you do want to see a bit plaintive life unrolled, you will like the ure. * * * "Lily of the Dust"— F. P.-L. Orpheum, Boston ELEGRAM— * * * The flashing, vibrant, itiful Po!a was never seen to greater kntage than in this most marvelous pic * * Ohio, Indianapolis TAR — Pola Negri admirably sustains her Is as one of the greatest emotional actis of the screen. * * * ttle Robinson Crusoe" — MetroGold. Capitol, Cincinnati )ST— * * * All in all, "Little Robinson oe" is an interesting picture for child • * * MES-STAR — * * • is an excellent eninment for juvenile film patrons. It's 'dy, humorous and fantastic sort of a filled with highly improbable but cx ad^entures. ♦ • * JIBUXE— * ♦ * As Mickey Hogan, the of the tale, Jackie vividly portrays the and sorrows of a typical small boy. ay audiences, especially the children, uded Jackie continuously. * ♦ * e Man Who Came Back"— Fox Cameo, Los Angeles (Week Ending Oct. 4) lAMINER— * * ' It has adventure 1 with emotion and struggle, the latter inating. * * * XESS — By a long, devious path a stumbles down the hill of recklessness. Indulgence and crime. • ♦ * love gives Ithe strength to double back on his I), and after a tortuous ascent he finally |« at the top again, clean of mind and of heart. This soul struggle is gripI' portrayed. * * ♦ IRALD — * * * As if the unusual success red on the legitimate stage were not |:h, "(The Man Who Came Back,'' IJes Eckert Goodman, proceeds to pile l)re honors through its broader and even [beautiful screen version. * • » :ORD— • • * A powerful theme of liore and love, imbued with the langorIweination of the orient, underlies the "My Man"— Vitagraph Victoria, Philadelphia RECORD — * * * There are many good scenes, with much comedy of a high order and a certain timeliness is lent to the production by the fact that much of the political maneuvering concerns the granting of trolley franchises. * ♦ * "The Painted Lady"— Fox Washington, Detroit NEWS — * * * a story of the underworld and all that sort of thing, which whips up to some highly exciting moments. ♦ * ♦ TIMES—* * * The film is full of thrills and action, both of which are furnished particularly in the sinking of a yacht during a crash with a larger ship in a storm. The love scenes need no recommendation with George and Dorothy doing their stuf?. ♦ ♦ * "Poisoned Paradise" — Preferred Imperial, Montreal STAR — * * * The elimination of some fine scenes to make the picture quite innocuors to grown-up folk has somewhat marred its continuity, but what is left is very good, and Raymond Griffith, Carmel Myers, Clara How and Kenneth Harlan are seen to genuine eflfect in an absorbing story. "The Red Lily"— Metro-Gold. The Chicago, Chicago TRIBUNE-* * * The film contains most of the ingredients which go to make fine box office material; in a movie sense it is wliat the dramatic critics call good theater, with some stjirtling glimpses of the l^arisian half world and picturesque bits of character portrayal. * * * Piccadilly, Rochester DEMOCRAT—* * * It is an emotional story, filled to the brim with the realism of what mental suffering can do and has (lone to many a child of the gods. * * * HERALD — * * * It displays some excellent acting by Wallace Beery, not in a villain role hut one more in the comic order; by Ramon Novarro as the hero of the piece .ind by Enid Bennett, that eternally sad star of the silent drama. ♦ ♦ ♦ JOURNAL—* * * The drama becomes elemental at times, and it is always absorbing. Mr. Niblo never loses sight of the old school book laws of tiiiity and coherence, he never wastes any film and he has the ability to suggest much in little space. The photography is admirable. * ♦ • Delmonte, St. Louis GLOBE-DEMOCRAT—* * * A drab portrayal of life in Kritttany and Paris, with a saccharine ending that is not sweet enough to counteract the taste of sordidness left by the telling of Fred Niblo's story. • * * POST-DTSPATCH— Ramon Novarro has a role which fits him much better than his accustomed "sheik" parts • ♦ • Enid Bennett, with h.er wistful beauty, makes a fine foil for the young actor in this drama of life in the Parisian underworld. * * * STAR—* * * Miss Bennett as Marie will be very pleasing to movie fans who have tired of her sweetness. Novarro is splendid as Jean. * ♦ ♦ TIME.S — * ' * It's a dramatic love story in which Enid Bennett does some of the best work of her career, supported by Ramon Novarro, who is splendid throughout. "The Sea Hawk'1st Nat'l Garrick, Minneapolis MORNING TRIBUNE--* * * The production in its magnitude and scope, is most unusual. Its many spectacular scenes include a battle between four huge ships, the capture of the Spanish galleon by Moorish pirates and picturesque scenes in the Moorish slave market. Joyce Wins Class C James J. Joyce of the Evans Laboratory is the winner of the Class C Cup, donated by Watterson R. Rothacker to the Fall Golf Tournament. Joyce, Claude Culmer of First National, Richard Brady of Eastman Kodak and James A. Fitz Patrick of Fitz Patrick Pictures were tied for the cup. The deciding match of nine holes was played at Sound View on Thursday and was wen by Joyce with an unusual stroke on the last green. To make the day more perfect, Joyce, Brady and Fitz Patrick played eighteen holes over the same course in the afternoon. Culmer came back to town because he had some business to attend to. "Sinners in Heaven"— F. P.-L. Rialto, Omaha BEE — An anforgettable story * * * WORLD-HERALD—* * * is a romantic drama of a couple adrift on a cannibal isle. There are a number of novel twists that set it apart from the usual South Sea island plots. * ♦ * California, San Francisco (Week Ending Oct. 4) CALL AND POST—* * * It's an old theme but very well told and well filmed. The cast is excellent. Bebe Daniels as Barbara Stockley, the girl, makes an excellent heroine, while Richard Dix as Captain Alan Croft is all that could be asked of a hero. * * » CHRONICLE—* * * The picture is beautifully made and well acted, especially by Miss Daniels and Dix. Miss Daniels grows prettier all the time and a better actress. # * • EXAMINER—* * * the plot thickens so slowly it coa..?ulates in lumps and there are no thrilling and oflf-setting comparative complications. The stars don't do anything but sit around the "desert isle" at a safe distance from each other, • • * "Sinners .m Silk"— Metro-Gold. Rivoli, Baltimore SUN — * * * It is an interesting picture. * * * Sun, Omaha NEWS — * * * It's as good a piece of acting as has been on the screen in a long tille. And nearly the entire play revolving around the sinners-in-silk of the present generation is up to this same quality. WORLD-HERALD—* * * Hobart Henley, who directed the production, has caught a naturalness that places this picture above the average of its type. * • * "The Siren of Seville"— Prod. Dist. Corp. Kings, St. Louis GLOBEDEMOCRAT— * * * If you are in the mood to see two silken clad women indulge in a hair pulling and kicking match, too, "The Siren of Seville" is the film to see. It is rich in atmospheric settings, however, and the spirited acting of Priscilla 'Dean as Dolores is all that can be expected. • * * POST-DISPATCH—* * * A colorful story of Spain and its national sport, the bull fight. • ♦ » A large portion of the dramatic content is supplied by Priscilla Dean in the role of the girl who loves a matador. ♦ * • A beautiful love siory, beautifully told. "The Spitfire"— Asso. Exhibitors World, Omaha WORLD-HERALD— William Christy Calianne, the director * • ♦ has put a punch in every reel of this Murray W. Garsson production. He has kept things moving along in a logical sequence with no annoying digressions from the main theme. ♦ * * "The Story Without A Name"F. P.-L. McVickers, Chicago AMERICAN— of its kind. * * a very good thing POST—* * * This untitled story is an adventure tale, distinguished from all other adventure stories only in that its equipment is ultra-modern. A death-ray machine is the cause of the trouble and the radio is the salvation. In fact, the radio is almost the star performer in the plot. * * * "The Ten Commandments" — F. P.-L. Columbia, San Francisco CALL AND POST— If the present writer were to attempt to lay down a series of ten commandments to govern San Francisco for the next few weeks, nine of them would proba 3ly be : "In justice to your fellow man, see De Mille's version of "The Ten Commandments'." # * » CHRONICLE—* * * is magnificent in every way, an honest, sincere, believeable story, a great spectacle, a might achievement in direction, a splendidly acted drama. In fact, it lives up to everything that was promised for it, and goes beyond expectation. ♦ ♦ * EXAMINER — * * * The ancient story of the DeMille drama or inceptional introductory, showing the children of Israel in bondage, and their freedom and exodus into the wilderness, is short — ^but it is the greatest spectacle that has been shown on the screen. Not a detail is missing. ♦ * * "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" — MetroGold. Allen, Cumberland NEWS ♦ * * with the sugar-coated ending, made against Neilan's wishes to satisfy the move-going public, it is little more than just a motion picture. * * * PLAIN DEALER— * * * For those who are unacquainted with "Tess," praises for the picture do not come easy. "The picture builds constantly toward its tragic climax and giving it the "happy-ending" makes it seem as if Messrs. Hardy and Neilan are a little cracked. * * * Regent, Rochester HERALD—* * * All very beautiful, all very false, and not "Tess of the D'Urbervilles." The picture is entertaining up to the altar scene. We advise that one leave the theater at just this point. * • • JOURNAL — * * * What ever else it may be, the film is another triumph for Miss Sweet since her return to the screen a year or so ago. * * * "Three Women" — Warners State, Minneapolis TRIBUNE—* * * Ernest Lubitsch discards the "eternal triangle" for the quadrangle, and places Marie Prevost, May McAvoy, Pauline Frederick and Lew Cody at the respective angles. The result is highly entertaining. * * *