The Moving picture world (July 1925-August 1925)

The Pep of The Program NEWS AND REVIEWS OF SHOPCr SUBJECTS AND SERIALS "Daddy Qoes A Qrunting" (Pa the — Comedy — Two Reels) While Glenn Tryon is the star of this Hal Roach two-reel comedy distributed by Pathe, little "Husky" Hanes, a clever baby about two years old, practically steals the picture. This is a domestic comedy of married life in which hubby, who is a chronic grouch, gets a lot more than he bargained for and learns a valuable lesson when wifey gets tired of his nagging and goes away, leaving him to take care of the baby. He scalds his feet in a tub of hot water, loses his clothes and wrapped only in a towel, falls down the dumbwaiter shaft and shocks the other tenants of the apartment house. Then he rushes out in this garb and climbs the fire escape to rescue baby who keeps dropping flower pots on his head and finally creates a regular bedlam of excitement when he believes he has been poisoned. Everybody gives him a different medicine and he, of course, finally does get sick. Amusing situations filled with good gags follow one another at breakneck speed, so that you are not over one smile or laugh before there is another. Never a letup in the fun from start to finish. There is some slapstick, but it is mostly good gags and situations and should prove above the average as a laugh-getter with most fans. — C. S. S. "Hot and Heavy" (Educational — Comedy — Two Reels) Eddie Nelson has the lead in this Jack WhiteMermaid Comedy directed by Stephen Roberts. His supporters are Otto Fries, Ford West, Phil Dunham and Estelle Bradley. Circumstances lead the hero to be engaged as bouncer in a noisy restaurant, superseding a very husky individual. He also acts as waiter for a party of the select on a slumming trip, and manages, through the use of familiar gags, to keep constantly in hot water. His troubles reach a climax with the return of the original bouncer, and then the real fun begins. Before this bouncer's return, which occurs near the end of the picture, the fun has been rather ordinary and forced. But when Bouncer No. 1 starts chasing Bouncer No. 2, audiences will be treated to a real spectacle. A chase across roofs culminates in the husky being trapped on a long pole stretched between two houses. This is rolled along the roofs until it drops, with the man still clinging to it, to smaller buildings and then to the top of an auto. It's a good stunt and it gives the picture a needed punch. There also are some scenes of very attractive kittens. — S. S. "Pathe ReviewNo.29" (Pathe — Magazine — One Reel) This interesting issue of Pathe Review shows the different animals in the zoo being fed and what appeals to each species ; "Submarine Salvage" pictures the way in which sunken treasures are recovered by the diver using an under-water torch to burn a hole in the hull so that the grappling hooks can be attached. San Francisco is the subject in the series of "Shorts" Reviewed In This Issue Battle of Wits, A (Universal) Dad>dy Goes a Grunting (Pathe) Discord in "A" Flat (Universal) For the Love of a Gal (Pathe) Hot and Heavy (Educational) Pathe Review No. 29 (Pathe) Polo Kid, The (Universal) Sneezing Beezers (Pathe) Travel Treasures (Educational) When Men Were Men (Pathe) American cities presented in Pathecolor. — C. S. S. "Discord in <A' Flat" (Universal — Comedy — One Reel) In the newest of Universal's "Sweet Sixteen" comedies starring Arthur Lake, he is shown as trying to learn how to play the violin. His father keeps him busy by hammering on the floor whenever he stops. Dad goes out and a mischievous little boy comes in and keeps ii [i the hammering, leading Arthur a merry chase. The kid gets a razor and cuts up everything in sight including the telephone wire when Arthur is talking to his sweetheart Marceline. Eddie the rival appears on the scene and finally the kid breaks the violin. Arthur is jubilant until his father appears with a new violin he has won at a raffle. There is not as much "pep" and it does not measure up to the majority of the series. — C. S. S. "EVOLUTION" A Red Seal Special. The most timely film of the decade. Everybody is talking about it. Everybody wants to know about it. Everybody wants to see the film. GET YOUR DATES! HUGO RIESENFELD had booked it for the RIVOLI beginning July 12th. Dramatic! Intriguing! Authentic! Eighteen months in production by the URBAN-KINETO CORP. Edited by MAX FLEISCHER. In five absorbing reels. Get it while "Evolution" is a front-page story. "A good program mart have novtitims" New York City EDWIN MILES FAOMAN. Pres. "Sneezing Beezers" (Pathe — Comedy — Two Reels) A burlesque on the romantic mythical kingdom type of dramas is this two-reel Mack Sennett offering directed by Del Lord. Billy Bcvan is cast as a taxi driver who is engaged to carry the ex-king, now a lunch wagon owner, back to his country in which they kill off the kings every few days. Madeline Hurlock is the king's daughter, and John J. Richardson the chief villain. Bevan. finding the country too exciting, hides under a canvas and finds himself inside the gas bag of a balloon irt which the king and his daughter have taken refuge with the jewels and money. He cuts his way out and the balloon falls. The villain follows in an aeroplane, all land in the snow country among the Eskimos and there is much skiing, etc. These two reels consist of a conglomeration of exceedingly fast-moving situations filled with typical Sennett comedy, a lot of it is novel and there are several situations that are not only amusing slapstick, but very cleverly handled as well. Well up to the Sennett standard, this comedy should prove thoroughly satisfactory for the average patron who likes rough and tumble, fast-moving comedy.— C. S. s. "The Polo Kid" (Universal — Comedy — Two Reels) Eddie Gordon is starred in this comedy and not only is it the best in which he has appeared but one of the most amusing that has been produced by Century in quite some time. The opening gives the impression that Eddie is a polo player but it develops that he is a street cleaner and what seemed to be his mallet is in reality a broom. There are a number of laughs in the scenes where Eddie, utterlv oblivious to the presence of a horse crawls under it, in and out between its legs, in attempting to sweep up waste paper. After this episode the comedy follows familiar slapstick lines with Eddie getting in bad wth a big politican when he jabs his back in attempting to retrieve a piece of paper and knocking him into a lake rescues him with a harpoon. Eddie saves a girl's life and of course it develops she is the politician's daughter and there is considerable "rough-housing" before matters are straightened out. A novel finish shows Eddie being rewarded by the politician tearing up paper for Eddie to sweep up. Most audiences will find this quite an amusing offering.— C. S. S. "Travel Treasures" (Educational — Magazine — One Reel) Lyman H. Howe Hodge-Podge No. 36 takes the spectator all over the earth in the form of a loose-leaf record. The photographs are represented as being on the leaves of an album and the art work, this time without any still-to-action effects, is generally effective. The photographic bits show the United States, England, France, Italy, Japan, China, Russia, Egypt and Australia. Two of the most interesting are those of a mammoth dredger in the Panama Canal and laborers in China. — S. S.