Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1924)

OTION PICTURf? MAGAZINE J rushes frantically thru its scenes, paying little heed to sequence, but carrying on its Jbanal story with all the convenient tricks long since discarded by discriminate authors and play-doctors. The young inventor extracts little sympathy in his downward journey. His invention is stolen from him — and he becomes a dreg of society. Then he sees the light in a mission— meets the rich scalawag's two charming daughters, falls in love with one of them, saves the other from the usvial fate — and is helped back to his erstwhile position by a contrite enemy. It tries to strike a note of faith, but the incident is so false, so crudely melodramatic — that the humanities are never expressed. Percy Alarmont struggles bravely to make his role genuine, but his poise and understanding are incapable of overcoming the exaggerations. Three Miles Out The rum fleet — or rather one of its runners, anchored beyond the three-mile limit of the Jersey coast — is on view here, furnishing a background for a crazy yarn of a shanghaied disciple of virtue — and his sweetheart who in an unguarded moment has found herself at sea with as hefty a bunch of cutthroats as ever sailed the deep — and this goes for the Pirates of Penzance as well as for Cap'n Kidd's picturesc|ue crew. This girl, sitting on a jury, had succeeded in winning over the eleven men in acquitting the man under indictment. She lingers in the court-room, ostensibly to powder her face, but in reality to extend sympathy to the man. Result? A romance. What follows is the frenzied action aboard the rum boat. It is a wild, but merry tale— one ridiculous in the extreme, but shot full of brimming comedy. Ivan Linow, heretofore a wrestler who never threw anyone of consequence, easily throws this plot for a count of an hour's continuous laughter. His huge bulk, his grinning countenance which occasionally leers with an expression of wolfish cunning — these marks of his personality make him ideal for the villainous rum-hound. The Emerson Loos team contributes some capital titles. Aladge Kennedy makes a wide-eyed and wistful foil for the leering and ludicrous Linow. A mirthful hour will be enjoyed here. Gentle Julia Booth Tarkington doesn't have any trouble disposing of his stories of adolescence. Every time he dashes off a tale of the "young tcrribles" there is a producer awaiting to capture it for the flickering drama. His "Gentle Julia'' carries on with the same romantic urgings and pretensions — telling a simple little tale of a spirited young charmer whose most faithful admirer is an awkward dolt of seventeen who lives across the way. The usual characters are in their accustomed places — including the childish irrepressible who sticks up for the ardent swain. Her precocious insight into character is valuable in the end. 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