Movie Age (1927)

The PICTURE GUIDE Little Tips on New Pictures •>t « w V. w M ■ M Streets of Shanghai Distributed by Tiffany. STAR: Pauline Starke. SUPPORT: Kenneth Harlan. TYPE : Adventure romance. TIME : Present. LOCALE: Shanghai. LENGTH: 7 reels. SYNOPSIS: Mary Sanger, who works in a Shanghai mission, goes to The House of the Cage to get back a little Chinese girl who was stolen from the mission. She runs into difficulty until Lee and Swede, two Marines, come to her rescue. While searching for the girl »Lee comes on to Sadie, a street walker, who thinks Lee is a customer. She makes up to him at once but he scorns her, despite the fact that she saves him from a knife which was hurled at him. Owing to troubles Lee sends the two girls to the Consulate. Sadie makes Mary believe that Lee is in love with her and gets him into a com¬ promising situation. Mary, heart¬ broken, leaves. Not until a Chinese up¬ rising puts them all at the point of death does Mary realize that Lee has been true to her. A terriffic battle takes place in which the Marines are victorious, and Mary and Lee are re¬ united. HIGHLIGHTS: The uprising, the bat¬ tle, the romance. The Cohens and Kellys in Paris Distributed by Universal. ETAR: George Sidney, J. Farrel Mc¬ Donald. SUPPORT: Vera Gordon, Kate Price, Sue Carol, Charles Delaney, Gertrude Astor. TYPE: Farce comedy. TIME: Present. LOCALE: Paris. LENGTH: 7 reels. SYNOPSIS: Cohen and Kelly have a partnership fight in which the wives join to please their husbands. And the feud becomes more intense when Sayde Coh¬ en and Patrick Kelly, the children of the two families, get married in Paris. The families believe they are only en¬ gaged and in order to stop the wedding the Cohens and Kellys decide to leave for Paris. Pat Kelly is an artist and his wife disapproves of her husband’s habit of painting women in the nude. As a result the pair have a near falling out. The two families get into all kinds of comical situations in the cabarets and restaurants. A Frenchman chal¬ lenges Cohen to a duel and the climax is reached when the men come together with dueling pistols. HIGHLIGHTS: The duel, ship scenes, the cabarets. Get Your Man Distributed by Paramount. STAR: Clara Bow. SUPPORT : Charles Rogers. TYPE: Comedy-drama. TIME : Present. LOCALE: France. LENGTH: 6 reels. SYNOPSIS: Nancy, an American girl traveling in France, meets Robert, the son of a French nobleman, several times during a day. Finally they get to chat in a museum and are so absorbed that they fail to hear the doorman announce that the building is being closed. As a result the two are locked in all night. When morning comes, they are very much in love, but Robert is forced to tell Nancy that he is betrothed to Simone, the daughter of a neighboring family — the betrothal having taken place when the two were infants. Nancy is heart¬ broken and leaves. She manages to get herself invited to Robert’s estate, and she nearly wins Robert’s father. If she should marry him, Robert would be her step-son. Nancy uses all her influence to have the ancient betrothal broken, but does not succeed. At last she gets into Robert’s room and pretends to be struggling. The families enter and tell Robert he must marry Nancy to protect the family name. So all ends to every¬ one’s satisfaction as Simone is in love with her father’s secretary. HIGHLIGHTS: The mock struggle, the night in the museum. The Power of the Weak Distributed by First Division. STAR: Alice Calhoun. SUPPORT : Arnold Gregg. TYPE: Timberland romance. TIME: Present. LOCALE: Big trees region. LENGTH: 6 reels. SYNOPSIS: Myra Benedict goes to her timber tract to make the last few weeks of control on the property pay. The foreman proves to be traitor and in a fight with Bradford, a young timber worker, is thoroughly whipped. Myra makes Bradford her foreman and under his leadership the work progresses. The ex-foreman returns on the final day and causes a train of logs to go down a grade to a bridge which he has ordered blown up. Bradford jumps on to an¬ other car and a fight takes place on top of the cars. Myra also gets aboard so she can stop the engine, but it is too late as the train goes over an em¬ bankment. But Bradford and Myra are safe. They discover they are in love with each other and the senior Bradford sends blessings for he realizes that his son ,has proved himself a man. HIGHLIGHTS: The runaway train, the fight on the car. The Shepherd of the Hills Distributed by First National. STAR: Alec B. Francis. SUPPORT: Molly O’Day. TYPE: Romance of the Ozarks. TIME: Present. LOCALE: The Ozarks. LENGTH: 6 reels. SYNOPSIS: Young Mathews is se¬ cretly in love with “Sammy” Lane. But Sammy loves another. Old Mathews keeps a young boy who is the son of his daughter who was led astray by a visiting artist. Mathews has sworn he will kill the artist or the artist’s father is he finds either. A stranger comes to the community and lives with the Mat¬ hews. He is David Howitt, the father of the artist, but he keeps his identity a secret. He helps the Mathews with the flocks and becomes known as The Shepherd. Wash Gibbs, a bully, has been trying to cause Mathew a great deal of trouble. The lack of rain causes a great drouth and the community faces starvation. A wagon train bringing food is wrecked by Gibbs. Matt beats up Gibbs when he hears that Sammy is not in love with the supposed person. The Shepherd confesses his identity and is forgiven. Rain comes and the com¬ munity is saved. HIGHLIGHTS: The rural scenes, the fight, destruction of the wagon.