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Being a Review of Current Photoplay Releases
other worthy expressions. The effort fairly scintillates when he gets down to the business of being Harold Lloyd. His boldest act, according to a caption is “to sing out loud in church.’’ That’s meekness for you ! Space forbids enumerating the array of high jinks. Compressed into three reels, the picture would top anything of its kind ever presented. And that’s where Lloyd is at his best— -in the three reeler.
However, you are in for a merry time and your sides will ache with the amusement that the star gets out of the shrinking suit episode — just after he has been given a ducking. What of that other hilarious moment, when in donning grandpa’s 1861 model he discovers the pockets loaded with camphor balls ? And the following incident, no matter how fleeting, is rich enough to warrant the production of the story. Lloyd places a few of these moth balls in a candy box and then munches one by mistake. A true touch and spontaneously achieved. You have another laugh when grandma polishes his shoes with goose grease, which attracts a convention of cats who begin to lick it off as he tries to woo the girl.
The fun goes on apace and the theme — character development — has its inning. Then forward to the chase — a faithful and sure device in all comedies.
You are bound to like “Grandma’s Boy” immensely. But the star’s not being endowed with a tragic countenance never penetrates into the psychology of» the coward.
Otherwise, he stands on his own feet in able fashion asking no quarter from anyone, but being flattered by a host of imitators. Stick to your last, Harold. You can no more be Chaplin, than Chaplin can be you.
Turning from Lloyd and facing a different kind of comedian — one who belongs to the lightly satirical school, we state emphatically, that Wallace Reid has in “The Dictator” (Paramount) a semi-humorous effort that does not suffer by comparison with the stage version in which Willie Collier starred so successfully. Comicopera warfare has been done since the nickelodion days, but here it is treated with just the right proportion of absurdities— as to make it delightfully interesting. Wally Reid is in an actorproof role. Make no mistake about that. A dashing American being pursued to ‘South America by an tinpaid chauffeur and running afoul of revolution always finds a response.
But in paying homage to Wally’s nonchalance expressed so carelessly by his famous lifted eyebrow, we ( Continued from page 82)
Above, Claire Windsor and Richard Dix in a crook melodrama, “Fools First.” Oval, Wally Reid and Lila Lee in “The Dictator”
Below, Thomas Meighan in “If You Believe It, It’s So.” Do you recognize the old man? It is Theodore Roberts!