Motion Picture Classic (May 1921 - Dec 1927)

One Beauty Prettier teeth — easily attained Just combat the film The rest of the picture is devoted to the customary slant on the evils of the famous playground. There is an elderly professor who evolves a system for breaking the bank. Unscrupulous gamblers, desirous of learning his secret, kill him and attempt to wrest the knowledge from the hero who had befriended him. It’s a fair story — and fairly well executed. It would carry more interest if the director had not concentrated so long upon trivial incident. The best features are Clara Row’s vital portrayal of a French girl. She is vibrant and thoroly in character. And the settings are atmospheric — altho suggestive of Stroheim’s shots in “Foolish Wives.” THE Yukon formula involving the search for the muck called gold has been changed into the Texas formula — with oil furnishing the bulwark of the plot. “Flowing Gold” (First National) is old stuff in so far as theme is concerned. Rex Reach, the author, has not written so vigorously as “The Spoilers” here. On the contrary, he employs a familiar line of ingredients and it is fashioned in a crude manner — with hokum ever on display. The characters and events develop too suddenly to appear convincing. We are shown a family of nesters who are up against it financially — even tho a well has been sunk by the pater familias. Then out of a clear sky shoots the oil — and with it comes an adventurer determined to mulct them of their resources. The hero arrives from nowhere — a “down-and-outer” — yet lie wins their confidence and aids them in gaining a fabulous fortune. The characters are of the movies — and the hokum has its innings in the exaggerated incident pertaining to making over the crude nesters. They adopt fine feathers in the usual movieish manner. Other scenes are developed off screen so that one has to guess what it’s all about. The action is abrupt and closes with an unconvincing climax showing lightning and flood destroying the derricks and the waters engulfing the unfortunate lovers. They emerge unscathed after a baptism of oil, fire and water. A talky plot, uneven in its development— and poorly interpreted. Alice Calhoun and Anna 0. Nilsson are far more natural than Milton Sills, Craufurd Kent and John Roche. The Tea Pot Dome scandal is vastly more interesting. THE anticipation of something vital and stirring — of something akin to the previous documents which came out of Sweden in point Thereisaway toprettier teeth. Many of your friends employ it. You see the results wherever you look today. Dentists everywhere advise it. Careful people of some 50 nations use it now. A ten-day test to show you what it does is offered for the asking. Don’t you think that you and yours should learn what millions now know? That cloud is film Your teeth are coated with a viscous film. You can feel it with your tongue. Despite all brushing, much of it clings and stays. Soon it becomes discolored, forming dingy coats. Then teeth lose their luster. Film also causes most tooth troubles. It holds food substance which ferments and forms acid. It holds the acid in contact with the teeth to cause decay. It breeds millions of germs. They, with tartar, are the chief cause of pyorrhea. No ordinary tooth paste effectively combats film. So coated teeth and tooth troubles became almost universal. Protect the Enamel IVpsodent disintegrates the film, then removes it with an ag:ent far softer than enamel. Never use a film eoinbatunt which contains harsh grit. The New-Day Dentifrice A scientific tooth paste based on modern research, now advised by leading dentists the world over. Better methods now Dental science has now found two ways to fight that film. One acts to disintegrate the film, the other to remove it without harmful scouring. Able authorities proved these methods effective. Then a new-type tooth paste was created to apply them daily. The name is Pepsodent. The use has now spread the world over, largely by dental advice. To people of every clime itisbringing whiter, cleaner, safer teeth. Pepsodent does other things essential. It multiplies the alkalinity of the saliva, there to neutralize mouth acids. It multiplies the starch digestant in the saliva. That digests the starch deposits which may otherwise form acids. Thus every use gives manifold power to these great natural toothprotecting agents. This test will tell You can prove these things by a simple test, and that test will delight you. Send the coupon for a 10-Day Tube. Note how clean the teeth feel after using. Mark the absence of the viscous film. See how teeth become whiter as the film-coats disappear. You will want these results when you know them. Cut out coupon now. 10-Day Tube Free1 THE PEPSODENT COMPANY, Dept. 890, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. Mail 10-Day Tube of Pepsodent to Only one tube to a family. ( Ninety-three )