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MOVING PICTURE WORLD
November 24, 1923
New “Snapshots”
Issues number four and five of Screen Snapshots, C. B. C. Film Sales Corporation's popular single reel “fan magazine of the screen,’’ are ready for release, each containing a number of interesting scenes of popular stars.
One of the bright spots in issue number four is a scene of George Crane. Claude Gillingwater and Alec Francis, "the grand old men of the screen,” practicing some new dance steps with King Vidor.
Issue number five shows bright scenes of Bryant Washburn, Lionel Belmore, Billie Dove, Edward Everett Horton, Jackie Coogan, Mary Pickford and others.
“Save the Ship”
(Pathe — Comedy — One Reel)
Life on a raft is made exciting for Stan Laurel by the combined attacks of his mother-in-law and the swordfish. He catches fish only to find that they have wings. As one is flying away he shoots at it and blows up the ship. It has a good number of laughs and should prove satisfactory. — M. K.
“Memories”
(Educational — Songs — One Reel)
Three old favorites, "Darling, We Are Growing Old,” "Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer, Do,” and “Where Dear Old Shannon’s Flowing,” are pleasingly illustrated in this number of the Sing Them Again series. Sentiment, a bit of comedy and pretty scenery are the attractions.— M. K.
“The Payroll Thief”
(Universal — Western — Two Reels)
The melodrama and action are well handled in this snappy number which features Jack Mower and Elinor Field. After the hero has secured the money from the bank to pay the ranchers, he is attacked and robbed. The situations carry good suspense and Elinor Field adds to the appeal. — • M. K.
SHORT SUBJECTS REVIEWED IN THIS ISSUE
Cloister in the Clouds (Fox) Dare Devil, The (Pathe) Dance or Die (Fox)
Go West (Pathe) Happy-Go-Luckies (Pathe) Hot Sparks (Educational) Memories (Educational)
No Loafing (Educational)
No Parking Aloud (Universal) Pathe Review 47 (Pathe) Payroll Thief, The (Universal)
Save the Ship (Pathe)
She’s a He (Universal) Soilers, The (Pathe)
‘The Dare-Devil” “Pathe Review 47”
(Pathe — Comedy — Two Reels)
This Alack Sennett comedy, starring Ben Turpin, is a travesty on the making of serials and presents the star as a cowboy who gets a job of doubling for the hero in the thrill and “unpleasant” situations. It is treated in a farcical way, poking fun at the most serious situations. The hero gets into all sorts of scrapes and messes things up generally. There is a lot of amusing nonsense, especially the scene where the movie company gets the firemen away from a fire until they can grab some scenes. While not up to the best of the Sennett offerings. it contains several humorous situations and should prove satisfactory for the average audience. — C. S. S.
(Pathe — Magazine — One Reel)
Up to the standard of entertainment of the previous issues in this series is this Pathe Review, which in an entertaining fashion presents a pictorial section visualizing the Longfellow poem, “The Four Lakes of Madison,” a section dealing with the strange customs of the Indians in Guatemala, a novel set of views of a “mountain” in the Milwaukee zoo which is the home of hundreds of monkeys and a color section of a city in France in which there are several indications of the presence of pre-historic man. — C. S. S.
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Go West”
“No Parking Aloud”
(Universal — Comedy — One Reel)
Parking babies while the mothers shop brings great cares upon the shoulders of Nervy Ned (Nealy Edwards) this time. The mothers decide to stay all night in the store so as to be on hand for the sale, and Ned takes the babies home with him. This has an original idea to work with and should be unusually entertaining. — M. K.
(Pathe — Comedy — One Reel)
The large number of spectators who have delighted in the previous issues of the “Dippy-Do-Dad” series, enacted by Hal Roach’s clever all animal casts, will be pleased with this one. The storylias a real plot regarding a shiftless chap whose father sends him out west. There is some typical “western” stuff in which the cast, composed almost entirely of monkeys, does some clever work. A big dog and some goats also figure in minor roles. — C. S. S.
“The Soilers”
(Pathe — Comedy — Two Reels)
Stan Laurel’s newest burlesque of successful features is “The Soilers” which is a travesty on “The Spoilers.” Several of the high spots in the original have been caricatured in a broad and effectively humorous way, such as the blowing up of the mine and the celebrated fight. In this latter scene the hero and the villain start in the office, then go into a bedroom and fight with pillows, making the feathers fly, fall out of a window and tumble into a dance hall where the crowd pays absolutely no attention to them. It will afford a great deal of amusement to the majority of patrons, especially those who have seen “The Spoilers.” — C. S. S.
“Dance or Die”
(Fox — Comedy — Two Reels)
Marathon dancing fails to yield a fortune to the hero in this Sunshine comedy although his partner and he resort to trickery and use dummies as partners some of the time. Luck is against him in other money-making schemes as well — such as knocking off pedestrian’s hats by attempting to make them walk under a rope and then collecting a tip for picking up the hats. Some of the stunts are hilariously amusing. A good number on the whole. — M. K.
“Cloisters in the Clouds”
(Fox — Educational — One Reel)
This spectacular abode of some of the old Grecian monks offers some interesting scenes here. The locale, the shots and the general atmosphere have a decidedly unusual note. — M. K.
“Hot Sparks”
( Educational — Comedy — One Reel)
Once more the fire department is a subject for comedy. Cliff Bowes plays the chief fire-fighter in a force which is notorious for not interfering with fires. It is a Cameo comedy with considerable action and two or three good laughs. — M. K.
“No Loafing”
( Educational — Comedy — T wo Reels)
Most of the amusement in this Tuxedo comedy lies in a familiar stunt — suspending the hero at a precarious height where thrills are combined with the laughter. "Poodles” Hannaford does most of his performing on a grand piano which his comrade and he are attempting to hoist into the top room in a high building. It is effectively done, although the idea will not be new to the average patron. At times it gets very exciting. The star is a good comedian and an expert tumbler. — M. K.
Bruce Editing Eight Novel Films for Release Through Educational
Robert C. Bruce, producer of the Wilderness Tales distributed by Educational, has returned to New York after a summer spent in production activities in the Pacific Northwest, carrying him over Washington, Oregon and British Columbia during which he filmed eight single-reel scenic dramas. Five have already been titled — “Jean of Hecata Head,” “The Ex-Bartender Retires,” “The Trader Keeps Moving,” “Just Waiting” and “Fear.” He will remain in New York until he has finished editing and titling the entire eight.
Mr. Bruce made pictures at Newport and Hecata Head, Mt. Rainier, on Williamette River and Vancouver Island, and at locations said to have
never before been filmed in Sand Creek Canyon and Crater National Park. The one filmed in Sand Creek Canyon, titled “Fear,” has an unusually novel setting, with natural spires of solidified sand and clay that rise sixty to a hundred feet like pillars of a ruined Roman temple. They form a weird background.
In fact, all these pictures are said to be novel in location and treatment. Those on the Williamette River were made on a floating studio built in the form of a cabin on an eightyfoot flatboat. The sides could be dropped for interiors and the cabin used for exteriors.
David W. Gobbet, who was a cameraman in the Boer war, and also in the same capacity with the
Duke of Connaught’s expedition to Africa, and the Buffalo Jones expedition to that continent, accompanied Air. Bruce as cameraman. Irene Hall, prominent in theatrical stock companies on the Coast, appears as leading woman in several of the films. The first one “Jean of Hecata Head,” according to Air. Bruce’s belief, will surpass the enviable reputation made by his “And Women Must Weep.”
The remainder of the cast that accompanied Air. Bruce consists of Anne Lockhart, now appearing in “The Gold Diggers” (stage production) ; Selmer Jackson jvho plays leads, Alyrtle Forbes, an ingenue, Joames Gordon as a juvenile, Gurnie Havs as the heavv, and William Dills.
“She’s a He”
(Universal — Comedy — Two Reels)
Buddy Alessinger’s latest shows him adopting a girl’s disguise so as to please his rich aunt, who has been told that her sister’s child is a girl. Fair curls and a dainty dress fail as a deception, as the boy’s table manners arouse suspicion and lead to some roughhousing that makes the aunt exclaim “She’s a He.” It is a fairly amusing number. — AI. K.
“Happy-Go-Luckies”
(Pathe — Cartoon — One Reel)
In this issue of Aesop’s Film Fables, Cartoonist Paul Terry has introduced considerable amusing and clever stuff as usual and it will delight the average patron : those, however, who have followed this series for a long time will recognize considerable familiar material in the handling of the dog show with its “freak" animals which forms the greater part of the comedv. — C. S. S.