Movie Age (1927)

PAGE 22 MOVIE AGE =3C SC . te — iC — . it iC =5€ =Sg= The PICTURE GUIDE Little Tips on N ew Pictures 2 1C SC 3C . . 3C -*t X ■ Of Modern Daughters. Distributed by Rayart. STAR: Edna Murphy. SUPPORT: Bryant Washburn. TYPE: Story of the modern age. TIME : Present. LOCALE: A Western city. LENGTH: 6 reels. SYNOPSIS: Patsy Weaver, irre¬ sponsible daughter of John Weaver, at¬ torney, has two suitors, Connor, a publisher, and Hawks, whose character is not known. Hawks secretely owns a road house, and appeals to Weaver to stop a raid. Weaver, however, writes a note to him, telling him that he is no longer wanted around his house. Con¬ nor learns that Patsy has gone to Hawks’ apartment, and goes there and tajces her from a wild party. Hawks be¬ comes furious and swears revenge. Patsy induces Connor to take her to the road house. A raid takes place, and Hawks shoots at Connor but kills Weaver. Connor is arrested for the crime, convicted and sentenced to die. At the last minute Adele, a rejected sweetheart of Hawks, learns that Hawks shot Weaver, and in a thrilling race gets the governor’s pardon. During the chase Hawks is killed. Connor is saved and Patsy is willing to calm down to a quiet life with him. HIGHLIGHTS: The chase after the governor, the raid, death of Hawks on a drawbridge. The Magic Flame. Distributed by United Artists. STAR: Vilma Banky and Ronald Colman. SUPPORT: Star Cast. TYPE : Romance of royalty and circus. TIME: Present. LOCALE: A Mediterranean country. LENGTH: 8 reels. SYNOPSIS: The Crown Prince of Illyria seeks romance and adventure away from his royal palace and seeks to win the favor of Bianca, a circus performer. A clown, Tito, is in love with Bianca and tries to break up the affair. Bianca really loves Tito, but hates the Prince. Tito comes to the Prince’s room at the hotel and in a fight, the Prince is killed. Tito then sees the Prince looks exactly like the clown. Tito dresses as the Prince and is met by the embassy of his country and told to return to the throne. Afraid to deny that he is the Prince, he goes. Bianca, believing that the Prince had killed Tito, goes to the palace to kill him, not knowing that Tito is on the throne. As she is about to stab him, she recognizes Tito. The clown ex¬ plains and the two go away together, leaving the throne to the Chancellor’s son. HIGHLIGHTS: Fight between Tito and Prince, Bianca’s escape from the Prince, the circus. (Note: Ronald Col¬ man plays the part of the Prince and Tito.) Beau Geste. Distributed by Paramount. STAR: Ronald Colman. SUPPORT: Alice Joyce, Mary Brian. TYPE: Story of the French Foreign Legion. TIME : Present. LOCALE: Arabian desert and France. LENGTH: 8 reels. SYNOPSIS: A company of Legionaires go to the relief of a desert fort and find that the entire body of soldiers at the fort are killed. With this event as a prologue the story swings back to the boyhood days of the three Geste brothers, their young manhood days and romances, and the final disappearance of a valuable jewel belonging to an aunt who had raised the boys. Each of the three boys confess to the crime, and then join the Legion. They go into the desert where mutiny breaks out in the garrison, but an attack by the Arabs breaks it up. The youngest of the Geste boys survives and returns to tell of the heroism of Beau and his part in the disappearance of the jewel. HIGHLIGHTS: The fight at the fort, disappearance of the jewel, treatment of the story. Barbed Wire. Distributed by Paramount. STAR: Pola Negri. SUPPORT: Clive Brook. TYPE: War story from a new angle. TIME: During the World War. LOCALE: France. LENGTH: 8 reels. SYNOPSIS: Mona, a French girl, lives in a rural section of France. The peace of the countryside is broken by the war, and the scarcity of men to work the fields makes it necessary for her father to obtain German prisoners. One of the prisoners, Oscar, falls in love with Mona, and Mona returns his love. When Oscar resuces her from the advances of a French soldier, he is court martialed and Mona comes to his rescue, gaining the enmity of her neighbors. Mona’s brother is reported killed and the father dies from shock. After the Armistic Oscar and Mona are driven from home, but the brother, alive but blind, returns and preaches a new doctrine of tolerance. HIGHLIGHTS: War scenes, the court martial, the ending. Smile, Brother, Smile. Distributed by First National. STAR: Jack Mulhall. SUPPORT: Dorothy Mackaill. TYPE : Comedy. TIME : Present. LOCALE: A salesman’s territory. LENGTH: 7 reels. SYNOPSIS: Jack Lowery, a shipping clerk in the Bonfillia Cosmetic Com¬ pany, is promoted to the position of salesman. When he and his sweetheart, Mildred, go to a cafe to celebrate Jack’s promotion, she overhears Renrod, sales manager for Bonfillia, talking to the manager of a rival concern and dis¬ covers that he is secretly being paid by the competitor. Renrod sends Jack in¬ structions that will prevent him from making a creditable showing. Mildred, however, intercepts the messages, and tells Jack to have a demonstration in which an apparently homely girl is made beautiful with Bonfillia products. The girl is really Mildred. Jack gets the order and is promoted to Renrod’s po¬ sition. HIGHLIGHTS: Comedy situations, getting the order. The Garden of Allah. Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. STAR: Alice Terry. SUPPORT : Ivan Petrovich. TYPE : Arabian romance. TIME: Present. LOCALE: The Sahara Desert. SYNOPSIS: A handsome young monk forgets his vows, escapes the monastery, and goes out into the world. He meets a beautiful girl, who is warned against him by an Arab soothsayer, but the two are married. She does not under¬ stand why her husband is constantly sad. When the two are caught in a terrific sandstorm the story is brought to an emotional climax. HIGHLIGHTS: The sandstorm, col¬ orful Arabian scenes.