The Moving picture world (May 1925-June 1925)

The Pep of The Program NEWS AND REVIEWS OF SHORT SUBJECTS AND SERJA.LS "Wild Papa" (Pathe — Comedy — Two Reels) Brothers-in-law as business partners in a cloak and suit establishment with a ravishing model as go-between start off "Wild Papa," a Hal Roach comedy featuring the "Spat Family," with much hilarity. The comedy is just as "meaty" throughout with a great concoction of laugh punch at the end in the guise of a breach of promise suit. The married member of the firm scoffs at his partner's declaration that the beautiful model is in love with him. He proves otherwise when she enters the room. But she entwines her arms about his neck just as his wife appears on the scene. Much amusing slapstick stuff thereafter prevails. In the courtroom the plaintiff's version of the story is introduced on the screen. It shows her as an unsophisticated maiden romping about in the land of cows and grass. The defendant takes the stand and is about to tell the true story when he is instructed to read the defense concocted by his lawyer. In this he is pictured as the possessor of a lap dog and roller skates. The attorney releases a swarm of bees and the defendant is acquitted on the grounds of being "bughouse." — T. W. "Queen of Aces" (Universal — Comedy — Two Reels) Century Comedy officials certainly give the vivacious Wanda Wiley vehicles in which she is kept busy every minute, and this is well, for she is an excellent comedienne with a distinctly pleasing personality. In "Queen of Aces" released through Universal she appears as an athletic young woman whom her prospective father-in-law characterizes as a he-woman and forbids her to come to a party in his home. Wanda puts on male attire even donning a mustache. Father takes a shine to the "boy" when "he" says the party is too tame and they slip away to a poker party. The place is raided but they make a getaway and there is a general mixup when the "boy" is seen slipping into a girl's bedroom. All ends O. K. with father's consent to the marriage when Wanda pantomimes that she was the "boy" and will tell all about the poker party. It is a rapidly moving comedy with plenty of action and incident that keeps to the "plot." There is considerable slapstick including a fall from a high building without injury, and although the idea is not new and the farce comedy situations are familiar, it is amusing. — C. S. S. "Pathe Review No. 20 (Pathe — Magazine — One Reel) In "Pathe Review No. 20" a most unusual and interesting theme is the life of the May-fly, comprising another installment of the "Secrets of Nature" series. This film tidbit is also a rarity, especially for those interested in insect-life. "Black Art" presents lifelike silhouettes by an Italian artist. In the "Visiting Our Own America" series, "Savannah" is the subject. This is done in Pathecolor and presents some of the main sections of that beautiful Southern city. — T. W. "Shorts Reviewed In This Issue" Fares Please (Educational) Fast Worker, A (Pathe) Hair Cartoon (Red' Seal) Luna-cy (Pathe) Only a Country Lass (Educational) Pathe Review No. 19 (Pathe) Pathe Review No. 20 (Pathe) Queen of Aces (Universal) Roaring Waters (Universal) Skinners in Silk (Pathe) Tender Feet (Educational) Wild Papa (Pathe) Wild West Wallop, The (Universal) "Hair Cartoon" (Red Seal— Cartoon— 300 Feet) Cartoonist Marcus, in Hair Cartoon K-K distributed by Red Seal, has fun, for which he apologizes to them, at the expense of his fellow cartoonists, by drawing cartoons which he deftly changes into familiar characters, including Outcault's "Buster Brown," Opper's "Happy Hooligan," Goldberg's "Mike and Ike" and Bud Fisher's "Mutt and Jeff." This should prove one of the most popular of the Hair Cartoons. — C. S. S. U Roaring Waters (Universal — Drama — Two Reels) It is a story of the Northwestern Mounted Police that is unfolded in this Universal picture released under the Mustang brand. The action follows along conventional lines and concerns the daughter of the keeper of a trading post. who is loved by Jerry, a member of the Mounted and also by Roberts who is supposed to be a trader. Roberts lures the girl away with a forged note and Jerry rescues her, at the same time developing the fact that Roberts is the man who has attempted to kill another member of the Mounted. George Larkin is featured in the role of Jerry with Josephine Hill as the girl. It is an average production of its type. — C. S. S. gheKouseMFEATURETTES Hugo Riesenfeld is playing this week at the Rialto Theatre, Broadway, FOUR RED SEAL ANIMATED HAIR CARTOONS specially made for Music Week, May 3, containing Mendelssohn, Wagner, Liszt and Beethoven. 1600 Broadway ^^^^j^tj New York City EDWIN MILES FADMAN, Pre*. "Skinners in Silk" (Pathe — Comedy — Two Reels) "Skinners in Silk" is an A-l slapstick comedy, produced by Mack Sennett, featuring Billy Bevan and introducing Thelma Parr, a very shapely and winsome vamp. Where Sennett's comedies have proven popular this two-reeler should register a decided hit. It is one where the pep is kept up in the superperlative all the way through. One scene in a cabaret where a dancer on a swing falls into a soup "basin" and starts the patrons wallowing around in the pasty mess, is illustrative of some of the established laughgetters used. Another scene depicts a fat woman getting a warm pie smudged %ver her face. The comedy follows the outline of a sketch of two brokers, about to go on the rocks, who are suddenly re-capitalized when stock which they deemed worthless decides to go sky riding in the market. Billy Bevan takes advantage of the numerous opportunities offered him to indulge in hairraising antics. He rides through "brick walls" on a motorcycle and hangs in midair on a clothes line suspended between two high buildings. — T. W. "Tender Feet" (Educational — Comedy — Two Reels) The title of this Walter Heirs comedy distributed through Educational gives a hint as to its nature, for it is a burlesque western with the rotund comedians accidentally finding himself as the hero of a "thrilling" encounter with a band of "bad" bandits who have kidnapped a baby. The start of the comedy gives no hint of this as Walter is shown pushing a flivver through the rain up a long hill to a gas station only to find it has been closed by the sheriff. With his wife, played by Duane Thompson he takes refuge in a cabin and finds a kidnapped baby. The bold bandits return and there follows a "fierce encounter" in which Walter is of course victorious. He finally escapes through the roof and followed by the band he mounts a spirited horse. Riding wildly with the child on his back he leads the gang into a trap and is acclaimed a hero. There is plenty of action and quite a lot of laughs in this comedy which is filled with good-natured banter directed at "western" thrills. It should prove amusing for the average spectator. — C. S. S.. "Pathe Review No. 19" (Pathe — Magazine — One Reel) The fourth chapter of the "Origin of Man" series, concerning Roy Chapman Andrew's expedition into Mongolia heads "Pathe Review No. 19." This is one of the most interesting of these installments. Several splendid "shots" of the Sacred City, showing the natives and one giant over nine feet tall, are included. "The Making of a Man" is a cartoon by Hy Mayer in which that cartoonist uses egg spheres to bear out his version of the human anatomy. The Pathecolor is of Washington, D. C, one of the "Visiting Our Own America" series. — T. W.