Motion Picture News (Jul - Sep 1926)

ibrk dailies and trade critics ap Johnny Hines in "The Brown Derby" Prod. : C. C. Burr Dist.: First National COMBINES A QUANTITY OF NEW AND AMUSING GAGS IN A STORY THAT HAS MORE PLOT THAN IS USUALLY FOUND IN A COMEDY OF THIS TYPE. Star Lands his laughs in good style. Certainly works diligently to keep his audience amused and usually manages to do it. Cast Hines doesn't have any outstanding comedy assistant in his pictures. He is the whole, show. Diana Kane is the girl and a pleasing one while Flora Finch is her aunt. Flora doesn't get many chances for laughs. Ruth Dwy"er Edmund Breese, J. Barney Sherry and Bradley Barker are in the cast Type of Story Comedy. Johnny is presented with a charmed brown derby and with it sets out to conquer the world. Being a plumber Johnny already had a head start. They get the picture right off with a laughing start by parading Johnny down the main street of a town in a motorcycle with a bath tub for a side car. It bears a police department sign and wher Johnny gets the high sign from cops along the beat he credits it all to the magic of the brown derby He doesn't know about the sign In the course of his adventure he meets an heiress who is expecting her uncle, A. Plummer, from Australia. The butler announces Johnny accordingly when he says he is "a plumber." Johnny gets the bright idea of impersonating the uncle and enjoys the affection which the niece lavishes upon him. The plot gets under way with a lot of hilarity and the laughs afforded through Johnny's mistaken identity and the efforts of the girl's suitor to prove that Johnny isn't the uncle at all, are all good comedy. The picture runs a little too long and the climax where the bedroom angle comes in, with a lot of in and out business taking up considerable footage, could be shortened The rest of the picture is lively and the laughs keep coming. It should amuse. The Strand audience appeared to enjoy ;t thoroughly. „ ™LB*ow* DERCy H">w liei?,. faction. .,,.-, Ed He Her t> W, , 'orthin, Aunt 1 *ler A us* m **i H°r Fa.h er'. T?° p'oom. »« Heavy...; John -Ton nn.'e Hine "p,lana King ■•■Ruih r>, * •E'Jmun.l n, yer ^■»RsS3?sr '.!%?&&»■ ease has That is kitohen pnee rhaf ,„ evle* be for* •>. ' " [h°»S* about a ?*£ritZ l"^lt: nj members of an al <ork to see ,erB is an abui and titles -"Vii^i or c°medy ii? =a/arc'=ai corking '■ handled Well k th<?se can k* "tUe at "t. but od « PJumbe™ ?'Umber about StrandTh ?/.9 Jfc ores treve eek , ">">oy ,,fi''OM and efore es We Hill Jb;y b •"AHe fter a« ele! **>" J,e*. *n<* be. c°ftjp;e-" ^ '"■itv We*. ''eg) hta, w°u1(1 he „ ,er eiv °''el'r. ae "da e,yth rrK° a" H m ^ oo J /«-otfeQ0t'^g-er BV °V^;^ sue *a"o it ^n^ " ">ero, *«* PeCf t* to e "'"ber. ., ' h s With fh„J°ofe " e-eh. and fat If hfs 7 /• fia ejJj Wa «s ^:*4*; USiy.", 0eaut,r^f, J'ej-; "e caSf er,.y -f'/or °°ast<ra I, ^^ee.f ro, *°& L1Cl,*» r0/p pc.rf ^ec,-'"^ <3 Box Office An maker. Wher • moving story ; ?ion of good Brown Derby" Exploitation 1 ties for stunt title will fit in number of ad will take care tion about the folks like Job assure them one of the bes Direction good. \uthors I Marlowe scenario Cameraman . . Photography . „ocalc ...... length Kb C,r\rt(\ lailfrh ^* »:,?•«» 3 ore NEW YORK TIME 1HE FROWN DERBY, w.'h Jonnny !l i. lana Kane. Ruth Dwyer, Flora l''i Edmund Breege, J. Barney Sherry. B ley Barker. Herbert Standing. Itob Slal and others, written by Bert Wheeler, i rected by Charles Hines: overture. "B. bette''; Ted Lewis and his meiiy must.. clowns; Miss Bobby Arnst. At tho Marl\ Strand. A slapdash farce In which the actlvaV Johnny Hines Is featured amused Jargc audience !n the Mark Strand yesterday afternoon. It bears the sulta ble title of "The Brown Derby," arid ,' on the whole is one of those subjects j which might have been produced with ! less bustle and more genuine humor. The brown derby chances to be a ! legacy from a wealthy individual t Tommy Burke and is spoken of as the ! testator's most cherished possession, j The inheritance of this hat puts an entirely different complexion on Mr. Burke's existence, for prior to receiving it ha was quite content with his mi •.-• plumbing establishment ani • s t:?>tktub attached to an ordinary c!ft He hsdn't even thought of a }Aac Observe 1A*ES — »*■ J ..The zVung al •The (r0m ^coVv. itetes' ,ted .■way. s.wcswgs^'s* gY\s' C.CBURR prejenh JOHNNY UINES •\ou can in out As cces* i>v ^s3^ ^ndy "•'c0medy -GWe you . „n, v.i,n I A.nd . ^. ,v,at ^1 ,he < not cVianc the the roar' p\ay 3l \aUi? ht«r gW »t house The atve at p.y ;ieV ,dtca ted othel sue cess iul P": tore. Th'y iflj thai it "ft are* iiy da" .i J ,/inny [ht other hier lUi' they tag K>UJ da a °n dei nia" come to J Jy ./.u 01.V th' II iht h " FirJ" fly Cha* .aii lit k«r I. or -ninJ No'/ jffi>° ofc Brown from the musical comedy bu F.S. MERLIN and BRIAN MARLOWE Uoru bu . . . . BERT WHEELER Directed .... CHARLES HINES bin; >{-■ se Mr. yy