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SEVEN DAYS— Producers Distributing
NOT by Elinor Glyn. Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote it and it's one of the funniest plots in the world; it tells of an ill-assorted group of people who are quarantined for seven days. Christie made it a riotous farce, with Lillian Rich, Creighton Hale and LUyan Tashman being as funny as possible and Eddie Gribbon being impossibly funny. Plenty of laughs.— A. S.
THE MYSTIC— Metro-Goldwyn
TOD BROWNING, famous director of crook stories, cannot come within sight of "The Unholy Three" with this, his recent offering. He endeavors to expose fake clairvoyants and mediums who separate the grief-stricken public from their bankrolls. The characters are splendidly enacted by Aileen Pringle, Conway Tearle and Mitchell Lewis. If you like spooky thrills — go — but not the children. — M. B.
HAVOC -Fox
ONE of those war plays showing London society in a shell-shocked condition. A faithless flirt wrecks the lives of two soldiers. If soldiers in the trenches were really so concerned with love affairs, it's a wonder they got any fighting done. The war scenes are long and gloomy and onl>' illuminated by the smile of George O'Brien. Artificial treatment spoils a well-meaning story. — A. S.
HELL'S HIGHROAD— Producers Distributing
CECIL B. DE jNIILLE'S first comedy as an independent. It's best described by the advertising catch-hne: "A drama of love that was sold with a check book and bought back with a pistol." Leatrice Joy and Julia Faye contribute two pairs of pretty ankles to the uplift and Edmund Burns is the cause of the war. The picture is for the childish but not for the children. — A. S.
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HIS MAJESTY BUNKER BEAN— Warner Brothers
MATT MOORE has failed this time in his interpretation of a sap. Taken from the story by Harry ^Leon Wilson this supposed-to-be comedy falls fiat. There are some very funny situations and had they been handled properly, this would have been a dandy picture. At times the comedy borders on the slapstick style. It is irritating to watch Dorothy Devore with her kittenish pranks. — M. B.
RED HOT TIRES— Warner Brothers
AFTER you're out of the theater ten minutes, you'll forget what it was all about. Let me see: There's Monte Blue as a man who is afraid of automobiles, and Patsy Ruth Miller as a girl speed demon. And there's sorne crooks and a lot of running around all for nothing. Still everyone tries to be funny, if that is anything to recommend a corned)'. — A. S. [ contused on page 124 ]
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