The Film Daily (1921)

2 Some Short Reels "On Account" — Century-Universal Type of production 2 red comedy This one may not be thought to be very funny — for slapstick stuff. It features a small baby girl. A landlord who is making beer in his apartment attempts several times to collect a bill owed by the infant's parents. Each time the baby pussyfoots down stairs and steals a bottle of beer for the mother to use in appeasing the landlord's anger and in securing a stay. The landlord sets a trap and gets a private detective to catch the thief. A patrol full of policemen with drawn revolvers lie in wait and apprehend the baby, who turns the tables by capturing three crooks who have been in an adjoining room. The father is outside on a scaffold painting the house most of the time. Of course there is some paint slinging. There is some new stuff in this, that will get a laugh, but the comedy is not up to standard. that held the escaped one. lie lands on the operating table, but an orderly breaks a tube of laughing gas and the operation has to be called off. Chester Screenic — Educational Type of production 1 reel scenic This one consists of two parts; "The Phillipine Futurity" and "An Angle in Idaho." In the first the water buffalo is shown at work in the tobacco fields and rice terraces of the islands and in a sort of steeplechase race through village streets between thatched huts and across a stream, the beasts being ridden by native boys. A few rare shots of fish swimming in the shallow of a mountain torrent in water so clear that pebbles can be seen beside the shadows on the bottom leads the second part. The remainder is a succession of beautiful and well chosen views of distant mountains, miles-wide valleys, ravines, gorges, cataracts in the woods and foaming brooks swirling through gnarled tree roots. Screen Snapshots No. 24 — C. B. C— State Rights Type of production 1 reel magazine Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and Jack Dempsey appear in an interesting number of this reel. It starts with a studio shot of Hank Maun buying the drinks for a crowd of extras in an old fashioned wild west dance hall. Marie Prevost and her pets — a cockatoo, several turtles and a parrot, are the next bit. Fans are given some inside information on slow motion photography and are shown the workings of a speed camera. Naomi Childers then reads the palm of Gloria Hope and of Ray Howard. Hugo Ballin directs his wife Mabel Ballin in a love scene with Edward Earle. The juvenile. Miriam Battista, who was in "Humoresque," is shown studying a part and rehearsing it — footage that is particularly good. David Butler then is shown being directed by his father Fred J. Butler in a melodramatic Russian picture. The final number shows the Chaplin-Fairbanks-Dempsey trio, in mufti, performing amusing antics with a number of Marines. Kid McCoy and Jim Corbett are also in this. "Take Your Time"— Vanity Comedy Type of production 1 reel comedy This is a quickly-moving, coherent story that is free of any noticeable vulgarity and funny. You can't go wrong in booking it for it is sure to amuse almost any kind of a crowd with the possible exception of those who crave stuff that has less story and more of the absurd. This one is fairly believable. The newlyweds, Irene Dalton and Earl Rodney, plan a month's vacation. The}' leave for the boat in a wild dash, and when they get there they find they have left baby home. Hubby makes a useless trip back in a speeding taxi to find he has forgotten his latch key. Several other trips are made, for things forgotten and mislaid. There is a brief police court scene where the judge quickly dismisses all parties. At last they are all set to walk up over the gang plank when they learn they are two days ahead of time. So they camp on the dock until the boat leaves. "His Meal Ticket"— Sunshine Fox Type of production 2 reel comedyBobby Dunn is very funny in this racy comedy that is full of laughs and not at all dull until the end. There is a lot of new stuff in it. Bobby hires himself out as a pet monkey to an organ grinder who has an attractive dancing girl for an assistant. A monkey of about Bobby's size and build escapes from a cage in the city hospital, where it was being held for an experimental operation. Bobby is taken for the escaped monkey and instead of giving him pennies everyone runs away from him. Finally Bobby hides in the cage in the hospital Pathe Review No. 102 Type of production 1 reel magazine This one starts with tinted photography of two small Japanese women in holiday dress wandering in a staid maimer through a tea garden. They are waited upon with ceremony by a little yellow servant. The gathering and manufacture of false hair is next. Factory employes are shown handling long heavy hanks of peasant women's hair, washing it in various ways, combing it on an interesting kind of fixed comb and then sewing it hair by hair to a mesh of cloth used as a basis for a wig. Some slow motion photography follows; sea lions diving and swimming after theuj; food.