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The Bellamy Trial
Lilac Time
The Mysterious Lady
Excess Baggage The Perfect Crime Forgotten Faces
is capitally acted with genuine grasp of the emotional stuff. Haines Cuts More Didoes
SINCE the excursion on the stage of the plays approaching big doings a la footlights, it was only natural that most of
rhem would take on a celluloid design. The first of this type of play to be converted into screen drama is "Excess Baggage
-which sings a swan song of a vaudevillian's ups and downs. He has a stanch girl friend, but she is pursued by a movie ham who strings her along with talks of contracts and stardom. Mind you, she's no skitty creature ready to give the boy friend the air. On the contrary, she wants to help him all she can.
And so it develops that he gets down and out and can't stage a come-back until he is assured that the girl still loves him. There's not so much to it. Indeed, it lacks punch and feeling in its most vital parts. The biggest scene is when the l?ig Single Act does a warfield in telling his rival where to
At top, right William Haines is about to execute his famous slide for life in "Excess Baggage," a picture of a vaudevillian's ups and downs. At right are Colleen Moore and Gary Cooper, who furnish romance and sentiment for "Lilac Time," an adaptation of a love story of the late war. Below are Irene Rich and Clive Brook, who play the central figures in "The Perfect Crime"
get off — which is O. K. The first part goes a trifle slapstick, but it improves and reveals an interesting account of vaudeville come-backs and throw-backs and making romantic whoopee generally. Josephine Dunn, as the girl, misses many emotional opportunities, but William Haines sees to it that it is acted with creditable gusto on his part.
Crime De Luxe
NE of the neatest crook
melodramas to bob up
in some time goes under the name
of "Forgotten Faces." It has real
motivation, its characters are sharply
defined — and it builds an unusual line of suspense which keeps the
spectator on the continual anxious seat. A crook gives himself up and
is railroaded for a lengthy term. But before he checks out civilization
he entrusts a pal witn the job of seeing that his child is watched over
carefully. He is distrustful of a girl friend who is as responsible for his
being a crook as she is for being the mother of the babe. Well, this
evil temptress bobs up to taunt him. So he attempts a jail-break to
exact vengeance. This is but one of the highly suspensive scenes
which hold you in a tight embrace.
The convict eventually wins a parole and pays back his paramour through a series of annoying experiences — experiences engineered
tto break her morale. And sure enough, she breaks down and is caught — but not before she takes the crook to eternity with her. (Continued on page 80)
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