Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1924)

Photopi u Magazini Advertising Se< noN THE BREATHLESS MOMENT Unix \t sal np\\(> crooks are taken in hand by a kindly A detective, ami sentenced to life in a small town i not Ossining) foi a year, rhey take an Interest, a legitimate one, in a run-down t Upartment store ami, in tin' year's time, put it on a paying ba-is. Then enter tin afore mentioned breathless moment. With the notes due and all sorts of suspicion resting everywhere. A commonplace story for the whole family. WEEK EM) HUSBANDS— film Booking Offices NOTonly the husbands are of the week end variety. The picture is weak at both ends, and it sags in the middle. It i> the W01 Si . by tar, of the marriage ami divorce pictures that seem to have taken po---.es-.ion of the screen. Alma Rubens plays tie part of a young wife who is extravagant ami indiscreet Her foolishness brings her husband perilously near jail and eauses her to attempt suicide. THE DARING YEARS— Equity SO many lovely things have been written in putting forward the "beautiful golden plea" of youth that not much original has remained for Daniel Carson Goodman. This residue of the great is handled in a way to mike a good picture. The story is of a lad's infatuation for a ehorus girl. It is interesting enough in celluloid though it wouldn't win much acclaim in limp leather. ' LET NOT MAN PUT ASUNDER— Vitagraph PROBABLY one of the worst pictures that was ever put together — even though it does bring Pauline Frederick and Lou Tellegen back to the screen. Poor direction, over-acting and an inexcusably bad story. Marriages and divorces follow each other in rapid succession, and even double deaths do not disconcert the continuity writer. When this comes to your local theater spend the evening at home with the radio and the kiddies. The Love Dodger [ CONTINTED FROM PAGE 54 ] upon her chariot wheel. Besides, the time had come when Leda O'Neil needed to seek love. Passion had served its day. It was wearing pitifully thin. Was sinking deeper in the mire. Love might possess no more immortality, but it was new, untarnished. And she had a feeling that this was love, this new, sweet thing that Cleveland Brown brought her, and it refreshed and cleansed her. It trashed away some of the disgust that had become too common in her heart. Xo man for years — not since she was sixteen — had given her just this thing that she saw in Cleveland Brown's eyes. She knew that he could not eat, could not sleep, that his life stood still at her slightest command. It was incense of which she could stand a great deal, especially when it came from a man whose name echoed around the globe. And Cleveland Brown gave it freely. There was no question about the thing that had happened to Cleveland Brown. It was plain enough, even to himself. He was madly, almost insanely in love with Leda O'Xeil. She enslaved him, absorbed him. engulfed every thought and feeling he possessed. His awakening to this force that had swayed thrones and loosed armies, came late. But when it came it was like a cyclone. There was more of the artist in Cleveland Brown than anyone had realized. He wanted to be with her every minute. The picture of her, in a thousand different moods and poses, was always with him. He wanted to talk about her to anyone who would listen, to shout her name from the housetops. But he did not. For he almost hated this love that had come to him. Even when he *r^ > 7 HE HOSTESS' full measure of success comes not only from dainty methods of service but from what is served. For instance, there is nothing more acceptable for a light dessert than Nabisco, the aristocrat of dessert wafers, with its two zephyr-like wafers enclosing a delicious creamy filling. * Then there is Harlequin with its triple layers of golden wafers enclosing delectable creamy fillers ; and Festino, the sugar wafer which looks and tastes like an almond. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY "Uneeda Bakers" When you write lo advertisers please mention PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.