The Moving picture world (November 1925-December 1925)

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144 MOVING PICTURE WORLD November 14, 1925 ANOTHER CHARMING O. HENRY STORY SCREENED In "Shoes," one of William Sidney Porter's most delightful little tales, Marion Harlan is again seen as "the O. Henry Girl." Daniel Keefe directed this tworeel feature for IVilliam Fox. New York Daily Gives Space to "Felix the Cat" Caricatures "Hot Feet" (Educational — Comedy — One Reel) At least four different comedy devices have been employed in this single reel distributed through Educational. First a cheap sport gives a girl an engagement ring and his dog continues to embarrass him by retrieving the box showing it was bought at a five and ten cent store. Next, an old negro mammy, a colored butler and a pickaninny are shown, being afflicted with the Charleston dance craze Then when the character woman says she cannot eat any cake but chocolate a white cake is covered with shoe blacking and the guests of course get all smeared up. Finally, a little hooch in the punch causes the staid old lady from the country to put on kid clothes and with her boob nephew to '"show up the crowd" as dancers. While much of the humor is forced the abundance of material offers such a variety that it is bound to get laughs from the average slapstick fans. Cliff Bowes is featured; cast as the old lady is one of the best known comedienne and soubrettes of several years ago, Elfie Fay, well known to the older generation. She does good work. — C. S. S. "A Speedy Marriage" (Universal — Comedy — Two Reels) Fast-moving slapstick in which Wanda Wiley is called upon to do some strenuous stunts, characterizes this Century Comedy distributed through Universal. While enjoying enormous wealth and luxury, Wanda suddenly learns she must be married within a few minutes in order to retain the money. There is a mad rush to reach her lover, during which she is chased by a horde of traffic cops and escapes by invading a toy store and bombarding them with toys and also by diving into an open man-hole. After various other mishaps she picks up her lover and they collide with another car. Both cars are wrecked, then Wanda discovers the other car was driven by a minister who marries them on the fatal minute. There are some clever and amusing lightning effects in the first reel where the lightning goes in the mouth and out of the ears of the butlers and through their clothing causing them to act as if they had fits. There is certainly no dearth of action here and it should please the Wanda Wiley fans.— C. S. S. "Hot Doggie" (Educational — Comedy — Two Reels) Although Walter Hiers is the star of this two-reel comedy distributed through Educational, the little dog Buddy gives the picture its title and comes very near stealing the laurels away from Walter. As is usual with comedies made by Christie, there is a definite idea running all through the picture. This time, Walter is an unwelcome suitor and his dog delivers messages for him. Finally he gets a letter from a rich uncle who is coming and will give him a million if he is married. Walter meets with all sorts of trouble, forgets the license, burns it up, forgets the ring, is robbed of his clothes and to cap the climax has a run-in with a stranger who proves to be the rich uncle. The girl, however, uses her wiles on "uncie" and all turns Cut O. K. Buddy, the dog, is certainly a remarkable animal and does a lot of stunts that are both clever and amusing. The action is fast, with a laugh every minute. It is one of the best of the recent Christies.— C. S. S. MORE persons than usual, 330,000 more in fact, had an opportunity to laugh at the antics of "Felix the Cat," the comical feline star appearing in Educational Pictures, when the rotogravure section of the New York Herald-Tribune on Sunday, October 25, featured a series of "Felix" photo caricatures. Felix "crashed" his way into the picture pages of this metropolitan Sunday newspaper in the manner that would do justice to Temmany Young himself. Not only did Felix "crash in," but he also "strutted in," in his own inimitable feline way — via "'The Charleston." On the Sunday afore-nientioned, the famous Pat Sullivan character dominated one of the picture pages with four views of his version of the dance as taught him by Virginia CHARLIE CHAPLIN / in A Dog's Life Released Nov, 22 Pafhepicture Vance, leading lady of Educational-Mermaid Comedies. Not to be outdone by the "thousand and one" celebrities who have been breaking into print these days, by shovv-ing pictorially the "fad fond" multitudes how they do the "Charleston" and having himself a few new ones up his pelt, Felix decides to broadcast evidence of his skill to the world. That he does this satisfactorily is borne out by the fact that following the use of this pictorial feature by the Sunday HeraldTribune, another great news organization, King Features Syndicates, requested the use of the pictures for distribution to about fifty of the principal newspapers throughout the country subscribing to this Hearst feature service — a most decided publicity "beat" for Felix. This and many other Felix publicity ideas may be useil to advantage by exhibitors who have booked the Felix cartoon series. For instance, the photo of a pretty local girl could have a small cut-out of the cat pasted on her check — call it a new beauty spot fad or what you will. A prominent boxer could be posed boxing and Felix afterwards inserted as a sparring partner. Felix directing traffic could be inserted in place of the regular officer over a photo of the busiest corner in your town. Think up a few of these trick photographic stunts yourself, Mr. Exhibitor. Send any print you desire Felix inserted into, to the exploitation editor of this publication and they will be returned promptly with a quaint figure 01 the cat carefully inked in. This is the sort of picture material that your local newspaper is usually willing to print — it has humor and local interest, a most ideal combination.