Motion Picture Classic (1923, 1924, 1926)

PREFERRED PICTURES UJVew factor in (Motion ^pictures Preferred Pictures, in one short year, has become an outstanding factor in the production and presentation of successful motion pictures. PREFERRED PICTURES was organized and developed by men, young in years, but veterans in experience, whose recognized ability was such as to attract directors, writers and stars of the first magnitude. Directing Preferred Pictures are GASNIER TOM FORMAN and VICTOR L. SCHERTZINGER These men have risen to the top because they know how to put entertainment on tbe screen. Contributing their talents are stars who have brought pleasure to millions. Preferred stars are used to translate each story in its finest form; every Preferred Picture is perfectly cast. The casts of Preferred Pictures include such names as Kenneth Harlan Gaston Glass Ethel Shannon Barbara La Marr Colleen Moore Lon Chaney Madge Bellamy Miriam Cooper Claire Windsor House Peters Ruth Clifford Josef Swickard Joseph Dowling Myrtle Stedman Florence Vidor Edith Yorke Raymond Hatton David Butler Stuart Holmes Rosemary Thehy Walter Long Edith Roberts Truly Shattuck Harrison Ford Estelle Taylor Miss du Pont Lloyd Hughes Frankie Lee Zasu Pitts Russell Simpson Tom Santschi Marguerite de la Motte In developing its program for the coming year, Preferred Pictures has searched literature, the stage and all other sources available to maintain its high standards and to present photoplays of unquestioned merit. PREFERRED PICTURES are sho<wn in your city. Call up your Favorite Theatre and ask "WHEN?" Distributed by PREFERRED PICTURES CORP. AL LICHTMAN, President 1650 Broadway, New York 9 PREFERRED PICTURES Produced by B. P. SCHULBERG Coming "The Broken Wing" by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. "Mothers-in-Law" by Frank Dazey and Ag-nes Christine Johnston. "The Virginian" by Owen Wister. "April Showers" by Hope'Loring: and Louis D. Lighton. "Maytime" by Rida Johnson Young-. "The Boomerang" by Winchell Smith and Victor Mapes. "White Man" by George Agnew Chamberlain. "Poisoned Paradise" by Robert W. Service. "When a Woman Reaches Forty" by Royal A. Baker. "The Mansion of Aching Hearts" by Harry Von Tilzer ami Arthur J . Lamb. "The Breath of Scandal" by Edwin Balmer "The First Year" (of married life) by Frank Craven. "The Trlflers" by Frederick Orin Bartleit. "Faint Perfume" by 2ona Gale. "My Lady's Lips" '^Ipw Showing "Daughters of the Rich" "The GirlWhoCameBack " "Are You a Failure?" "Poor Men's Wives" *"The Hero" "Thorns and Orange Blossoms" x"Shadows" "Rich Men's Wives" * Placed by Robert E. Sherwood, critic of LIFE, on bis list nt th, fifteen best pictures of the year. The Celluloid Critic {Continued from page 90) people in their efforts to peddle the stuff and the consequences of their acts show that they are not far overdrawn. There are five or six deaths — some of which are violent — which make the majority of scenes harrowing indeed. But one is not looking at sweetness and light in an expose of the drug evil. Many will profit by the picture and naturally will watch their steps. The peddlers and addicts will on the other hand not be attracted to it, for its evils are too sharply emphasized. A word for James Kirkwood. As the attorney he gives a highly effective study of human suffering when he becomes an addict. And George Hackathorne as a character in the clutches of "coke" brings a sharp touch of realism to the role. Mrs. Wallace Reid is sincere and earnest in her portrayal of the wife. Having dedicated her life to save others from this terrible affliction, she succeeds in bringing value to the picture. BAYARD VEILLER'S crook melodrama, "The Woman with Four Faces," (Paramount) carries a teaser title which will attract curiosity. The curious, however, once they are in their seats, will sec a likely story which has been competently executed by Herbert Brenon, the director, even, tho the author (he should have known better) has allowed an array of inconsistent episodes to mar his work. Imagine a quartette of crooks putting the papers in a safe instead of destroying them ; imagine a district attorney using a personable girl, gifted at disguise and masquerade (hence the title), to gather the evidence ; imagine this same prosecutor employing an airplane to lift a convict from a prison yard so that he might crack the safe in which the papers are hidden. The improbabilities may furnish novelty, but they also give it a pictury character. Directed with speed and acted with an assortment of expressions by Betty Compson, who is at her best in crook roles. A XOTHER Paramount, "The Law of the Lawless," is an old friend in a new disguise. The girl who sells herself on the auction block to wipe out her father's debts has been treated upon the screen for years. Here it serves in bringing out a gypsy background, the locale being somewhere along the lower Danube. But all the picturesque costuming in the world cannot make Dorothv Dalton other than a enmic (Kinety-four)