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E V I E W S
—a tour of today's talkies
SECRETS (United Artists)
HERE'S that picture you have been waiting for: Mary Pickford in "Secrets"! And you haven't waited in vain! If you ever liked Mary, you will love her in this. Moreover :
No matter how much you've liked Leslie Howard, you'll be a still greater fan after you watch him pack this little epic neatly in his kit bag and practically walk away with the show !
Of course you remember the story? All about the bank clerk who elopes with the daughter of the bank president (back in the good old days) and they trek west for gold and adventure! He warns her that there will be trials, and the picture then proceeds to prove he was right !
They reclaim a ranch from the desert, have a baby, lose all their cattle to the rustlers, string up the most of them, thereby incurring the anger of the escaped chief of the gang who returns to set fire to their ranch house and shoot their baby !
There is just a chance, however, that you saw Norma Talmadge in the silent version. If you did, you may find the memory a bit too vivid and beautiful to forget !
THE GREAT JASPER (Radio)
We didn't believe Richard Dix could ever approach his work in "Cimarron," and here we are, tossing a coin to decide if he is not actually better in this swell picture !
Dix starts out as a fun-loving, devil-may-care young fellow in the horse-and-buggy days — with a cold, unsympathetic wife (Florence Eldridge) who shuns his caresses, disapproves of his philandering and finally leaves him flat !
Nothing daunted, Richard goes to the Big City where he meets Edna Mae Oliver, falls {Continued on page 8)
(Above) Mary Pickford in "Secrets." (Right) Richard Dix and Wera Engels in "The Great Jasper." Both of these films are well worth seeing.
. . .You'd better read these reviews carefully unless you don't mind wasting money on a picture which might not be the sort of thing you care for