Moving Picture World (Mar-Apr 1926)

March 27, 1926 Moving Picture World 275 IlllliHIIIIIIII Ill Illllllllllllllllllll llllllllXllllllllllllll 111! nilllllllllllllllllllllll Illllllllllll Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 1 1 Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllll lilllillBlIllllllllllUIIM All You Want to Know In Picking Winners iiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiii«iiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiipiiiiH^ “One Wild Time” (Universal — Comedy — Two Reels) HERE is another of Universal’s Mustang Comedies featuring Ben Corbett and Pee Wee Holmes. As usual, it is a burlesque western, the locale being the town of Pipe Rock. There is less of the typical western material than usual, but the film is amusing. The story concerns the decision of Pee Wee to get married, frle answers ads in matrimonial journals and a flock of women of all types appear. He manages to get rid of them by doing a Paul Revere and rounding up the eligible bachelors. Both boys fall in love with a vamp, but are left in the lurch when she runs away with another chap. There are a number of laughs in this comedy and even though the plot is not new it is one of the best of this series. — C. S. Sewell. “Yearning for Love” (Universal — Comedy — Two Reels) THIS Century Comedy starring Wanda Wiley shows her in the familiar situation of a girl who is besieged by suitors and whose relatives want her to marry a sissy fellow while she naturally prefers a more manly chap. In the end, the right one wins out by impersonating a minister, knocking out his rival and rushing off with Wanda to a real minister. While most of the situations are of the kind of slapstick that have seen considerable service, Miss Wiley’s personality and cleverness adds additional value and the comedy as a whole should prove amusing. — C. S. Sewell. “Felix Laughs It Off” (Educational — Cartoon — One Reel) BESIDES being one of the most amusing of the recent Felix cartoons, this one is a good lesson in optimism, for it shows the value of a laugh. Felix worries and grows thin. Hit by a book he reads “Laugh and Grow Fat” and gains his former avoirdupois. He then starts out to spread sunshine and the gospel of laughter. There are a lot of exceptionally amusing bits in this issue. — C. S. Sewell. “Up in the Air” (Pathe — Cartoon — One Reel) IN this Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoonist Paul Terry shows a bit of spiteful work on the part of his roguish mice. The farmer is mending the roof and the mice are interfering with bricks and paint. It’s full of hearty laughs. — Sumner Smith. “The Fire Fighter” (Pathe — Cartoon — One Reel) THIS Paul Terry Aesop’s Film Fable discloses the cat and mice brigade as firefighters. The workings of the animals’ own fire department is a riot of fun. The subject will unquestionably please. — Sumner Smith. “The Perfect Lie” (Universal — Comedy — One Reel) A BURLESQUE golf game furnishes the fun in this Blue Bird Comedy featuring Neely Edwards. Neely and his rival play a round for which the hand of Betty is to be the prize. Neely makes some strange and remarkable trick shots that are amusing and manages to hit various objects and do funny stunts in his zeal to win the game. At the last hole, the girl saves the day by placing a hair net over the hole when the rival putts, and Neely wins. An amusing slapstick offering.— C. S. Sewell. MABEL NORM AND This queen of the screen has closed her stage work, and signed to make a two-reel comedy for Hal Roach, for Pathe release. | Your “fans’ have been waiting for this news! “Quick Service” (Educational-Comedy-One Reel) ALL of the action in this comedy takes place in a country store, with Cliff Bowes as a clerk, the material being furnished by his dealings with an intoxicated man who wrecks the place trying to buy a cigar, and a negro who buys a killed chicken and gets a live one instead. There are a number of gags but most of them are familiar. It is an average number of this series. — C. S. Sewell. Pathe Review No* 12 (Pathe — Magazine — One Reel) HOUDINI as a master manipulator of playing cards is the chief feature of this subject in a novelty called “Velvet Fingers.’’ He makes the pasteboards seem almost human. “Crossing Arctic America” pictures Knud Rasmussen’s three-year pilgrimage through Esquimo Land. The manufacture of toys in Nuremburg, Germany, is shown in “The Toy Town of Bavaria.” — Sumner Smith. “The Menace of the Alps” (Universal-Special-One Reel) THERE are many interesting and thrilling shots of the difficulties which the adventurous mountain climbers encounter in attempting to scale the Alps and some excellent shots of the big chances that the cameramen take in filming these stunts. This latter angle is an unusual one in a picture of this kind as are the final scenes which pack a real punch, where one of the climbers is seen missing his footing and dragging his companion down with him, as they are of course tied together. One lands in a crevasse and is injured and the manner in which he is rescued by his comrades, placed on an improvised stretcher and carried to safety, is shown in detail. — C. S. Sewell. “Dizzy Daddies” (Pathe — Comedy — Two Reels) THIS Hal Roach comedy deals with the dilemma that father gets into when he attempts to alibi his son-in-law with his daughter, another woman having shown up. The net result of father’s good intentions is a whole flock of trouble for himself, as the scheming woman makes him an auxiliary target for his affectionate nature. This is a good subject, with plenty of pep and action and an excellent cast, including Jimmy Finlayson, Tyler Brooke, Gertrude Astor, Sue O’Neil, Mildred June, Charlotte Mineau and “Spec” O’Donnell. Richard Wallace directed. It will be welcomed! by theatre owners and audiences alike as a subject provocative of much mirth. — Sumner Smith. “Flying Wheels” (Universal-Comedy-Two Reels) A BURLESQUE golf game and the winning of a cross-country auto race furnish the laughs in this Century Comedy featuring Wanda Wiley. Several novel gags have been introduced into the golf game, including quite a number of new ones. The stunts include the attempts of Wanda to hit the ball when it lands on the jet of a fountain, an encounter with a fish when the ball lands in water, the substitution of a toy balloon for the ball, etc. In the auto race she uses a tiny car, and during a series of exciting adventures outdistances the others and wins the race. Much of this is of a familiar nature. It is fast-moving slapstick up to the Wanda Wiley standard.— C. S. Sewell. “Dixie Doodle” (Pathe — Sportlight — One Reel) DIXIE stands for Dixie and Doodle for Yankeeland. Grantland Rice takes his audience to both sections of America in one reel and shows contrasting sports. Up at Lake Placid they’re skijoring, at the same time other fun-loving folk are log-rolling in Florida. Rice has filled his reel with human interest rather than thrills, this time, by showing amateurs insteal of professionals in the different outdoor sports. It’s most interesting— every foot of it. — Sumner Smith.