Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

Advertising Section crr,MOTioN RCTum gether a fair-to-middlin' yarn which has its hokum — but which manages to entertain with its atmosphere. As is customary with professional baseball there must be gamblers ready to embarrass the players. And so Tom Santschi pitching for the Cubs in the days when all ball tossers sported moustaches punishes a gambler who would bribe him. The gambler gets even by breaking up the pitcher's home. Twenty years later Santschi is manager of the Giants — and his own son, unknown to him, is the rookie pitcher who goes into the game and decides the World Series in favor of the Giants. There is a reconcilation between the manager and his wife whom he thought lost in a steamboat disaster. The best points are the incidents of dress and deportment of the early nineties — and what transpires on the diamond. Mostly stock stuff. Oh, You Tony! T'om Mix comes thru again riding Tony to victory in a back-country steeplechase the stakes of which are the old homestead which the villains are after because of the presence of oil in the adjoining sod. This is the climax. Otherwise Tony hasn't many moments. The prelude to it introduces Mix burlesquing a Westerner acquiring culture in Washington whither he had journeyed to talk politics for the boys back home. But the opposition is out to embarrass him. So they employ one of Pennsylvania Avenue's slickest vamps to take his money away from him. The fun rests in Tom trying to absorb etiquette. Some of it is humorous, but it is dwelt upon too long. However, the piece is pretty good — even if there isn't much story to carry. Mix deserves credit for brushing up his pictures with satire. The City That Never Sleeps T f you can become convinced that the widow of an Irish saloon-keeper would give up her child in order that she may be reared in an atmosphere of culture and refinement, then this picture wont appear so improbable. But Irish temperament isn't built that way. The easier manner would be to surrender the child into the custody of a convent. So eighteen years pass by — and the child grows into maturity — and lives to scorn her own flesh and blood when she accompanies a party of jazzsteppers to the Irish woman's cabaret. The conflict of the plot rests in the (Continued on page 96) Dorothy Mackaill and George O'Brien play the leads in the graphic melodrama, The Painted Lady NEIGHBORS When Ephraim Crosby made a clearing far out on Valley Road and built his house, he had no neighbors. He lived an independent life, producing on the farm practically all that his family ate and wore. 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