Film Follies (Jun 1922 - Jan 1924)

Page Fifteen WHAT THEY S AY -Continued “BUCKING BROADWAY” The fun carries on without a let-up. Good, clean, honest-to-goodness comedy. The introduction of the dancing chorus gives this comedy some claim to pretentiousness. Neal Burns is a genuine light-comedy artist; his comedy always appears to be spontaneous and free from forced effort. Miss Steadman makes an excellent second. I should call “Bucking Broadway" another 100 per cent Christie Comedy. You can’t go wrong with this one. — Canadian Moving Picture Digest. "’TIS THE BULL” One of the rarest of all films, a short comedy with a plot. Bobby Vernon featured. — M in n capolis News. “COLD FEET” Hats off, Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton and the rest of you celebrities of screen comedy! The center of the comedy stage has for the moment been usurped by another — a director this time— A1 Christie, of the Christie Comedies, having just produced a two-reel laughmaker which has set the whole motion picture industry talking. — Jackson, Mich., News. " SAVING SISTER SUSIE” Has the merit of being clever, amusing and well acted — London Cinema. “OH, BUDDY” From start to finish excitement is kept at a very high pitch. “Oh, Buddy” is certain to please. As a chauffeur and butler Neal Burns is screamingly funny. — London Cinema. "NO PARKING” A Christie Comedy, "No Parking,” had the crowd howling throughout its entire length. — Jonesboro Sun. “A HICKORY HICK” Bobby Vernon in the Christie Comedy, "A Hickory Hick,” keeps everybody on the edge of their seats. — Los Angeles Herald. "BUCKING BROADWAY” Rounded up a record of laughs at Grauman’s million-dollar theatre last week. A good sample of the last word Here are the famous Christie ducks who reappear In “Ocean. Swells,” and their trainer, Mike Cavanaugh. in comedy production. It was filmed with as much spectacle and lavishness as is given to five or six-reel features labeled "specials.” — New York Morning Telegraph. “COLD FEET” An A1 Christie satire on the wellknown Northwest Mounted Police and the Frozen North, presented by Educational Films, is truly “the spice of the program.” "THAT SON OF A SHEIK” An extremely amusing and well-filmed burlesque on otic of the most-popular masculine stars of the screen and a recent production in which he was featured. At least half the merit in these two reels goes to the designer of the art titles. They arc original, pointed and sparkling. — New York Telegraph. “PARDON MY GLOVE” From a box-office standpoint this comedy is surefire. Bobby Vernon puts plenty of action and speed into each foot of the film. Every laugh in the ringside scenes is a knockout. Vera Steadman makes Kitty, the heroine, a straightfrom-thc-shoulder winner. Zack Wil liams, acting as trainer, contributes a number of excellent comedy touches. — New York Telegraph. "THAT SON OF A SHEIK” The Christie Film Company, justifiably noted producers of comedies, starts off its 1922-23 season with a bang. The initial releases arc sure-fire laugh manufacturers. They arc “wows,” and the comedy is cleverly derived and zippy. Needless to mention, they hold high promise for what is to follow. The first two of a scries of twenty two-reel Christie productions to be distributed through Educational during the amusement year just commenced were shown for review and displayed a standard in laugh promotion that if adhered to will result in a succession of comedy productions that exhibitors will find extremely valuable in augmenting programs. Those viewed were “That Son of a Sheik” and "Pardon My Glove,” the former, which is concerned in this comment, featuring Neal Burns and Viora Daniel. “That Son of a Sheik” is a clever satire burlesquing that currently large class of feature productions known as “Sheik pictures,” and pokes fun at the female clement that flock to them in well-known droves. It starts off with these two ideas and sticks to them to the finish, and consistently furnishes screen material that will tickle the risibilities of any class of patronage. Also, there is a story value in the plot that embraces the love affair of a young lady who is a constant attendant at sheik pictures and her financcc who won’t make love to her with the ardor she witnesses in the Arabian stuff. He isn’t very sheik. But he is clever enough to stage a sham sheik episode that teaches her the hot stuff over the burning sands is better on the screen than in real life. She’s cured, marries him, and settles down to love in a cottage instead of the tent she thought she desired. The director has staged a succession of comedy situations so that their many possibilities arc realized to the full. And the title writer has supplied reading matter that furnishes a great many of the laughs. The cast works hard and successfully.— Moving Picture World. BOOK NEW CHRISTIE COMEDIES THROUGH EDUCATIONAL FILM EXCHANGES ALBANY ATLANTA BOSTON BUFFALO CHARLOTTE CHICAGO CINCINNATI DETROIT CLEVELAND INDIANAPOLIS CALGARY, ALTA. KANSAS CITY DALLAS LOS ANGELES DENVER LOUISVILLE DES MOINES MILWAUKEE MINNEAPOLIS OKLAHOMA CITY ST. LOUIS MONTREAL, QUE. PHILADELPHIA ST. JOHN, N. B. NEW HAVEN PITTSBURGH TORONTO, ONT. NEW ORLEANS SAN FRANCISCO VANCOUVER. B. C. NEW YORK SEATTLE WASHINGTON OMAHA * SALT LAKE CITY WINNIPEG, MAN. FOREIGN OFFICE — CHRISTIE FILM SALES, LTD., 52 WARDOUR ST„ LONDON, W. I„ ENGLAND REGINALD WARDE, 729 7th AVE., NEW YORK CITY Producing Studios and General Offices— CHRISTIE FILM CO., INC., SUNSEF AND GOWER, LOS ANGELES, CALIF.