The Moving picture world (February 1920)

962 MOVING PICTURE WORLD February 19. 1921 Short Subjects of Importance Screen Snapshots No. 18 Number Eighteen of "Screen Snapshots," distributed by C. B. C. Film Sales Corporation, is one of the best of this popular series. Of particular interest are the views of Florence Lawrence, the first "Queen of the Movies," who recently returned to the screen. The titles for this issue are particularly good. This reel contains a variety of subjects that will appeal to movie fans, including views of Tyrone Power's home life, Peggy Cartright, the seven-yearold film favorite, together with views of Lloyd Hughes, and several others. "Golf" Interesting exposition of the different shots in the game of golf, illustrated first by the regulation motion picture camera and then by slow motion, showing clearly and distinctly each motion required to accomplish the shots in the most effective manner. Shots illustrated are : drive, iron shot, mashie approach, bunker shot, approach put, short put, rimming the cup and ball into the cup. This game was played by an expert in the game. Cinal SlowSpeed. Half Reel. Educational Film Corporation. "Her Circus Man" A couple of humorous flashes in the opening scenes of this two-reel UniversalCentury comic put the spectator in an expectant frame of mind. The rest is not so laughable, but the circus features are pleasing. They include Turkish harem dancing scenes, a lion-taming act, and the rube hero of the story ride a trick mule successfully. The number as a whole offers nothing exceptional, yet is pleasantly amusing throughout. "Cold Tea" Another variation of the "hootch" comic is found in this Mutt and Jeff subject. In this animated the pair get hold of a large quantity of cold tea, which they work off on the unsuspecting. All goes merrily until Mutt is forced to drink some of his own concoction and Jeff kicks a bottle of nitroglycerine in a man's hip pocket, thinking it is tea. The animated is typical of its kind and has a good climax. "Visit to a Birds hop" For want of a better, these shops are given !the name of birdshops, although many more creatures than birds are kept and sold as this issue of the Kineto Review demonstrates. The spectator sees the graceful movements of some of the feathered inmates, the solemnity of owls, the antics of monkeys and many others. Various kinds of fish are shown in their tanks, and one fish that leaps from the tank and runs over the grass sounds decidedly "fishy," but it's shown on the screen and there is no faking either. Water bugs and the larvae of different flies are shown in stages of development and close the reel. Photographed by Prof. F. P. Smith. Would be amusing entertainment with music arranged to synchronize with the different bird and animal sounds as the pictures are shown on the screen. "Babyhood" A reel of cuddlesome adorableness is contained in this issue of the Kineto Review. Babies of all kinds; a few black ones and brown ones, but mostly white ones. They're all very small, just a few have reached the stage of standing on their own two small feet. These very young, small ones are picturized in all sorts of baby activities, thirty seven subtitles describing them. This single reel feature was used as companion piece to "Godless Men" at the huge Capitol theatre, New York City and was received by the spectators with unbounded delight. "Spiders and Their Victims" Besides the wealth of biological material contained in this issue of the Kineto Review, the photography is remarkably beautiful. Against a dead black background, the webs and insects glistens like living silver, making exquisite studies in black and white. Some of the wonders and tragedies of the insect world are here set forth. The victories are not all to the spiders, however, as a beetle and the Egyptian scorpion gave battles royal with disastrous results to the spiders. Many habits of the spiders are also picturized. Recorded by Prof. F. P. Smith and Charles D. Head. Entertainment as well as educational value. Movie Chat No. 7 Its rough crossing from Dublin to Holyhead and the cargo ship pitching, with decks awash with the heavy seas, is almost enough to make a susceptible person sea-sick. These pictures open this number of the Movie Chats. Irish cloth is world-renowned and the primitive methods of shearing, washing and dying the wool are quite a contrast to the up-to-date cloth mills in Galway with the wonderful and complicated machinery which weaves the finished product. A pretty picture is that of a mother goldfinch feeding her young through the bars of a cage. Next the formation of chemical crystals show the weirdly beautiful forms discovered through the microscope. Nine demonstrations are recorded. An otter hunt in the Midlands of England, which is another name for a diy's walk of fifteen to twenty miles through the lovely English countryside, closes the reel. Green fields, lanes, hedges and shrubbery with stately castles and picturesque cottages form a most pleasing background. Usual excellent photography. "Paths of Glory" An interesting travel picture of unusual Chinese places and relics of by-gone emperors, attractively photographed, arranged and sub-titled. The picture opens with dromedaries slowly coming into Peking loaded with the wool which they have carried from the plains of Mongolia. Different shots about town show how the ninety-nine per cent of the the Chinese live. The streets are mere alleyways and teem with packed masses of humanity. The President of New China, who is changing the old empire into a modern republic lives in the palace of the former emperors, a magnificent building set in a park of six hundred acres, surrounded by walls twenty feet hieh. The President is a most intelligent looking man who appears fully equal to his job. The "Paths of Glory are the road leading from Peking to the Valley of Tombs where lie the bodies of the Emperors of the Ming and Manchu dynasties. The road is lined with statues of animals carved according to the Chinese conception of art. Each tomb stands in its group of cedars and one dead emperor seems to need much more room than all the coolies in the city of Peking. A one reel of China that would go well with an Oriental feature. ChesterOuting. Educational Film Corporation. Pathe Review, No. 91 Hy Mayer opens this number with a series of animated drawings and views taken at a typical county fair, with tents, a band, a freak show and a merry-go-round in evidence. A topic of more than usual interest is found in the evolution of paint brushes, made from the bristles of Chinese pigs. The slow camera process pictures a drum major twirling his baton. A tinted scenic, taken in France, picturesqu* scenes along the valley of the river Allier. "No Monkey Business" Joe Martin, the intelligent chimpanzee, appears in this one-reel Universal subject. He and another of his kind appear as man and wife. Joe comes home, attired in i dress suit, with a jag on, and the situation is on the whole quite amusing, though there is not much action or plot interest. The number should appeal to children. "Bride and Gloom" Here is a short comedy that is good, clean fun and at the same time a riot. Monty Banks is the featured player and he has the true comedy sense, being just about the whole thing. He is shrouded with gloom when unable to wed the lady of his heart as he does not possess the $5,000 demanded by father. Being a resourceful young man, he sets out to get it. The advertisement of an insurance company gives him the "idea." So he takes out an accident policy and then proceeds to get the needed damages. The risks he takes would kill half a dozen men. Even when he falls off a skyscraper he lands on a pile of mattresses passing on a dray. In deeper gloom he tears up the policy and is promptly run over by father's car. Father's conscience troubles him and he slips into the hospital and leaves a check in the swathed invalid's hands. One glimpse at the figure is enough for Monty and he beats it. How he gets to the lady's house, marries her and hands father's own check over to father is a further riot. Went big at the Strand Theatre. New York City. Warner Brothers. "Burglars Bold" Eddie Boland and the Vanity Fair girls appear in this two-reel comedy, directed by Nick Barrows and released by Pathe. It is typical of the series, being lightly amusing and attractive to the eye. The plot, like its predecessors, is built mainly to allow the cast of girls full play in displaying their charms. Eddie plays burglar in this and the situations are complicated by the presence of a real thief and one of the girls dressed as a crook. As a whole this is an amusing romedv of slight plot, attractively oresent«a.