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"Ridgway of Montana" follows along the well-worn path of the average, orthodox Western
picture. It furnishes no suspense or surprise in a story which depends almost entirely upon
incident. Its romance is found in the premise of a spirited girl who is determined to win the
heart of the bashful hero. Jack Hoxie plays Ridgway and is likable
cessful — and Monte Blue might have injected more spark in his study of the fast stepper. No shafts of criticism can be hurled toward this picture. It presents a daring situation directed in daring fashion. No sops are thrown to the conventions— even tho the moralities save it at the finish.
His Forgotten Wife
From the dusty pigeonhole is lugged the hoary lapseof-memory formula to serve as entertainment. As is customary with this type of story, the successful operation is the object striven for and obtained — and when the victim's memory is restored in the climax, there is nothing left but to identify himself and the girl he married. It's all very conventional — very much cut-and-dried from the moment that a French nurse pretends to find a shellshocked soldier's identification card and gives him a "missing" man's name until he is restored to health thru the operation.
Coincidence plays an portant part here. The victim actually proves to be the missing man — and for the purposes of conflict there is a girl back home determined to embarrass him financially and romantically before she is eliminated. There are several touches that are unconvincing. One shows the hero becoming the butler in his own home, while another shows him having no recollection of his wife until she actually confronts him after the operation. It is
rather hastily developed. The acting is satisfactory, Madge Bellamy contributing charm and poise to the role of the wife, and Warner Baxter performing well the part of the shell-shocked veteran.
Sherlock, Jr.
Buster Keaton's deductive powers have been in operation again. He has discovered some brand-new gags and incidents. He has played detective so long in trying to uncover novel tricks that his audience will accept his newest role as something that he has been playing all the time, tho here he acts the detective before our eyes. The story which he fashioned is not so ingenious as "Our Hospitality" in regard to property inventions, but it does suffice in rousing the risibilities because there is a compact line of laughs in the incidents — which are projected without any slackening of pace.
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"Why Men Leave Home" is one of Avery Hopwood's bedroom plays which has managed to get by the censors. It is the story of hubby neglecting his wife for his stenographer ... a divorce follows. It is really worked out in a fairly humorous fashion. Lewis Stone and Helene Chadwick are convincing in their leading roles
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