Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Jun 1929)

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Can you picture grandfather's face.** . . . "Gone to the country club. Look in the ice-box." Through advertising, science is giving us more and more time to play. Advertising is knocking minutes off every phase of household work from cooking to shopping, to give us leisure hours. . . . and we're just using them as grandmother would have if she'd had the chance. A * * Read the advertising in Motion Picture Classic It will bring you more time lo play FORM DEVELOPED My Big Three Part Treatment is the ONLY ONE that Rives FULli UKVKLOPMENT without bathing, exercises, pump3 or other dangerous absurdities. I send you a GUARANTEED TWO DOLLAR^ 14-DAY FREE TREATMENT If you send a DIME toward expenses. (A Large Aluminum Box of my Wonder Oeam included.) Plain wrapper. I.S IT WOKTli 10c TO YOU? If not. your dime back by first mail. Address NOW. with ten centa only Madame K. D. Williams, Buffalo, N. Y. A Love song, indeed; although Bessie's posture indicates a trace of whoopee in the melody. Her admirer and accompanist is Gus Edwards, of vaudeville fame and talkie aspirations The Celluloid Critic {Continued from page jj) a here's how! Then you can forget it. It isn't substantial enough to intoxicate one with emotional flights, as it's frivolous in design. Would the title indicate something rich and racy? Don't be sil. It has been toned up to appeal to the inhibitionist in your family, though the way it started off I looked for the kick to stay in the concoction. The central figure is a giddy father with a heavy sugar complex. His life in Paris is one prolonged happy fling until the pretty daughter arrives from America. And she doesn't waste any time in proving herself a regular. She likes to play. So does her old man. Indeed, she kicks up so many capers of her own that dad has to rescue her. The love note is struck off by the appearance of an -A.merican youth who had journeyed to Paris to forget. There are some convenient situations but the incident is fairly hot considering the fact that the element of sophistication is not allowed to come out in the open to give it the tint of truth. But it can be chalked up as moderately amusing, principally because of the gusty acting by .A.lbert Gran as the father. Mary Astor is easy to look at and her acting is easy, too. Negri in a Heavy One THEY'VE dragged out and dusted off a heavy one for Pola Negri. It is Sardou's "Fedora," which once served Sarah Bernhardt, but which has been doctored for the screen under its new title of "The Woman From Moscow." Everything has been done to make this an outstanding picture. Pictorially, it is something to use superlatives over. But the drama of a Russian princess involved with court plottings and tragic romances seems old-fashioned and out of date now. The effort to modernize it hasn't been very successful. The central figure is the type that made actresses exceptionally famous back in the days when dad rode a high bicycle. It looks so artificial now to see one of these characters go through emotional flurries over tragic love affairs. So the story naturally proves weary notwithstanding it carries one of the best productions ever shot. Negri is as good as anyone else would be in it. Her costumes are gorgeous. Norma Needs Better Ones BETTER stories are needed for Norma Talmadge than the one selected for her in "The Woman Disputed." Having demonstrated over a long period on the screen that she is one of our few emotional actresses, she should be entitled to interpret the best. The story here is — well — just a story which could have been portrayed just as colorfully by two dozen stars. The central character is a daughter of the city streets who eventually rises from her environment under the influence of romance. It is worked out melodramatically with emphasis placed upon the inherent goodness of the girl which manifests itself for the welfare of all concerned. It has to do with the woman's seduction by an Austrian army officer. The picture is competently acted by the supporting cast — and is well staged. The direction is good. 80