The Moving picture world (March 1925-April 1925)

678 MOVING PICTURE WORLD April 18, 1925 love with Mariposa. She accepts Sprotti's offer to come to America and makes a big hit, being known as The Charmer. Ralph and Dan continue their attentions, but Dan does not make much headway against Ralph's wealth. Mrs. Sedgwick Who loves Ralph arranges a dinner so as to make Mariposa and her peasant mother appear ridiculous to the guests and Ralph. Ralph however apologizes to Mariposa and invites her to his apartment and she accepts. Mrs. Sedgwick also comes to the apartment and her husband follows. Mariposa, because Sedgwick has been kind to her, saves the situation but is disillusioned regarding Ralph. Dan demands to know Ralph's intentions and seeks to force him to marry Mariposa at the point of a pistol. He accepts but Mariposa takes a hand and saying she will pick her own husband, chooses Dan by the same method. He is willing but tells .her the pistol was not loaded. 'That Devil Quemado" Fred Thomson Scores Heavily in Picturesque Dashing and Romantic Role in New F. B. O. Film Reviewed by C. S. Sewell Dashing adventures and picturesque romance are the highlights of "That Devil Quemado, *' Fred Thomson's new starring vehicle for F. B. O. Its snap and fast movement together with the glamour and mystery that surrounds a picturesque daredevil of the Robin Hood type should delight the Fred Thomson .fans and make it register as thoroughly pleasing entertainment for the average theatregoer. In the title role, the star appears as a college bred youth who, through love of adventure, returns to the land of his Spanish ancestors in the hills of Mexico and causes a mixture of admiration among the innocent and consternation to evil-doers by his sudden and daring sallies from the mountains to aid those in distress or right a wrong. On one of these expeditions he sees a proud Eastern girl who taunts him and sets out to sweep her off her feet and change her hate to love. Obviously he succeeds; she finally is glad to be kidnapped from her father and fiance and they are married while galloping away on horseback at full speed. Thomson's role here belongs to the type that Douglas Fairbanks made popular and in fact in many respects it resembles the latter's "Mark of Zorro." With its snap and opportunities for athletic stunts and daredevil escapades it suits the star to perfection and he gives a thoroughly likable performance. The other players give satisfactory support. Gloria Hope appears as the girl with Alan Roscoc as the other fellow, and Del Andrews has given the story good direction. Whether "Quemado" dashes on his fast horse right into a crowd of his enemies or whether he is suddenly found hidden among them, he spreads consternation to them, and even if some of the situations are quite implausible you are willing to overlook this because of their undoubted punch. In our opinion "That Devil Quemado" is Fred Thomson's best picture. Cast ({uemado Fred Thornton Jose Rnmerlz Vlbert Priscoe < onchita Itamerit Nola Luxford John Thatcher Byron Douslas Ved Thatcher Joseph Bell Joanna Thatcher Gloria Hope Gretorix Alan Roscoe Joan Go Male* Robert Cnntlero Story by Marvin Wilhitc. Directed by Del Andrews. Length, 4,720 feet. Story A bolder town in Sonora, Mexico is agitated by the unexpected sallies of a picturesque character Quemado, a descendent of the Spanish dons, who like Robin Hood, swoops clown and right wrongs. On the occasion where he dashes in and kidnaps a bride during the wedding ceremony, Joanna Thatcher from the Ka.st sees him and is disgusted with his high-handed methods. With characteristic daring, he tells her that he is going eventually to make her love him and will kidnap her willingly when the time comeS. Quemado is recognized by Joanna's fiance Gretorix as a former college companion and Joanna makes herself believe that she hates him, though really admiring him. She hastens her wedding to Gretorix. Quemado appears and through a ruse gets her away past the guards, procures a minister and literally sweeps her off her feet and in the end she admits she has been won and they are married while galloping away on horseback. "Qetting Trimmed" (Universal — Comedy — Two Reels) Here is one of the fastest and most amusing of the Century Comedies distributed through Universal in recent months. Wanda Wiley, the talented comedienne is the featured player and carries practically the entire comedy. Starting off as the whole works in a barber shop in which she is barber, bootblack and manicurist, she is kept busy every second. She breaks the nails and mashes the thumbs of would-be-flirts who want to be manicured, shines white shoes black and black ones white, has trouble with a trick barber chair, pours cement on a cop's face instead of soap in shaving him. This leads to the inevitable chase which includes a lunch stand which is picked up by a truck, a wild ride on a moving derrick and other vehicles and finally ends with her being dropped into a fire engine and crawling out very much blackened. The comedy is full of situations that will get the laughs and please the slapstick fans, a lot of the stunts have been used before, but there are so many of them and they are handled at such a rapidfire rate that they all get over. This tworecler should please the majority of any type of audience. — C. S. S. "Shakespeare" (Red Seal— Special — One Reel) In memoriam of the anniversary of Shakespeare's birthday, Red Seal is offering a special reel dealing entirely with scenes associated with his life. Most of the shots are of Stratford-on-Avon, England where he was born but there are scenes of other places hallowed by his memory. In addition to being interesting many of these scenes are strikingly beautiful. A good double printing effect shows the shadowy forms cf his most noted characters such as Shylock, Romeo and Juliet and others, above his grave in a churchyard. This reel should please all who revere the memory of this great poet and dramatist and prove interesting to the average spectator. — C. S. S. "Pathe Review No. 16" (Pathe — Magazine — One Reel) Earl Carroll picks what in his estimation are the best types of show girls in this instalment of the "Prettiest Girl I Know'' series which heads Pathe Review No. 16 The next in this one-reeler are transcription; of some of the Babylonic inscriptions by the Yale University Press. The Pathecolor is of New York's waterfront, one of the "Visiting Our Own America" series. — T. W. "The Lion's Whiskers" (Pathe — Comedy — Two Reels) There are several very thrilling situations in Mack Sennett's "The Lion's Whiskers," the cast of which includes Madeline Hurlock, Sunshine Hart, Jack Richardson and Andy Clyde. One of these is when a comedian chauffeur with a company on "location" on the top of a skyscraper falls oft the coping, crashes through an awning, unravels a fire hose and finally lands safely on the back of a fat-andrforty type of woman. The skyscraper and the street cars far below are also brought into play when the director and camera man are nearly precipitated into space by the ungainly movements of the chauffeur. The whole thing is quite funny since the mechanic, unknown to the company, is the wife of the female star. Her role calls for her to be "lieaten up" by a screei. villain and the husbandly instincts of the chauffeur so revolt at these situations that he forgets it is only for the ."movies" and starts a real brawl. 1 his is the type of comedy generally liked by all classes of picturegoers. — T. W. "Raisin Cain" (Universal — Comedy — Two Reels) Beth Darlington, an attractive blonde is given the leading role in this Century Comedy distributed through Universal. She is cast in the congenial role of a modern flapper with a highpowered auto, who does not care how she ignores traffic laws or smashes things or bowls over pedestrians, knowing that her good natured and wealthy father will straighten matters out. The worm turns, however, and papa sends Beth to a fashionable boarding school, where she is hazed by the other girls. Finally her sweetheart "kidnaps" her and they elope and win father's forgiveness. The humor follows along familiar lines, and the situations while not novel are of average amusement value. — C. S. S. Alice Solves the Puzzle (Winkler— Cartoon— One Reel) A combination of cartoon and living characters involving the use of double photography which has been very well done; more than half the length showing a real child working with the familiar cartoon cat, introducing a cross-word bootlegger, a rum-running pelican and a number of other bits of clever invention. A bright little cartoon idea to which the use of the child gives a novel and appreciated touch. It is a decided improvement over the original cartoon idea. This is the first of a new series and about the best of the "Alice" comedies so far. — E. W. S. "Ship Shape" (Educational — Comedy — One Reel) In this single reel Educational cpmedy hubby, Cliff Bowes, sees another man kissing wife, Virginia Vance, and joins the navy. Of course he finds out the other fellow was his wife's brother and he tries to "resign" from the navy but is arrested and taken aboard ship. Wifie to be near him disguises as a sailor and come aboard. They meet with a lot of mishaps of the slap-stick variety and altogether, most of the situations are familiar, they move at a snappy pace and this reel is up to the standard of the series as a laugh-getter. — C. S. S.