Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1925)

T ^MOTION PICTllRf & I MAGAZINE L. in Advertising Section I i'Ttto ••• Startling in its Frankness • •• Intimate Inside Secrets of Moviedom exposed • • • Signed by the Stars • • • "Vbull find every thing you want to know about o7 filmdom iti^^> TRUTH ABOUT THE MOVIES WHAT becomes of the movie-mad girls who throng to Hollywood? What price must they pay for success ? If you are not afraid to face the facts — read "The Truth About the Movies." The most sensational, amazing revelations— intimate stories — and all told by the stars themselves/ Learn what goes on behind the scenes in Movie-land. Nothing is hidden — no one spared. This remarkable book bares all. Your Favorite Star Has a Message Here for You No longer shall lurid lies and exaggerated rumors <Oiii Who Dared Write this Book? Over 240 leading stars contributed signed articles! There are 250 intimate photos — some startling poses never before published. Over 500 pages of daring truths — more thrilling than the wildest fiction. 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You are apt to be thrilled even when you consider it as so much hokum. Teeth T'om Mix's "toot ensemble" has been augmented by Duke, a dog. With Tony, the cowboy star's horse, the animals carry the burden of this Western melodrama, built around the hero unjustly accused of murder and his faithful hound getting the goods on the real culprit. Every situation features the dog. Still i.t seems as if he knew a little too much even for a dog. He can spot a hub cap on an automobile and lift keys from a jailer's pockets. Eventually, he helps the hero to rescue the girl from a forest fire — a scene effectively thrilling. Not much hard ridin' here. Mix does away with his usual exploits to give the dog a chance. And Duke can make a big bark over his performance. Dangerous Money TThe difficult task of making a trite story passably interesting has fallen to Frank Tuttle— and this director, appreciating that lifelike situations can overcome dramatic pyrotechnics that have little meaning, has done a first-rate job. There isn't much to the plot — which is of the Cinderella pattern dressed up with the moral. And this moral is that money is dangerous when its possessor loses his or her sense of proportion. Bebe Daniels is the star, but we think her performance is overshadowed by Tom Moore's. Worldly Goods A ny picture that can take a crack at the large and ever-growing army of "showoffs" — who "bull" their way into everything — deserves commendation. Which makes this an especially fine treat for America's matrons, young and old. And it will doubtless hit home with many — oh, so many married couples. Paul Bern has filled the picture with many human touches, flashes of comedy — and appropriate atmosphere. And Pat O'Malley in the unpleasant role of the husband gives an adroit study. Agnes Ayres is more adaptable for the role of the wife than anything we have seen her in of late. Darwin Was Right ("•harles the Darwin said it some time ago — that we were descendants of apes. And the author and director of this pic 124 Buck Jones does good work in a new type of Western called, Winner Take All Every advertlsemen aranteed.