Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1929)

Photoplay Magazine— Advertising Section 1 21 THREE RING MARRIAGE— First National.— Heart interest and comedy in an original story of circus life. (September.) THROUGH THE BREAKERS— Gotham.— Soutfi Sea Island storyand a really good one. (Dec.) THUNDERCLOUD, THE— Anchor.— A good scenic, but shy on drama. (Od.) TIDE OF EMPIRE — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.— Standard pattern story of Gold Rush but acted and directed with a verve that puts it over. (Dec.) TIMES SQUARE— Gotham.— Arthur Lubin imitates Al Jolson and so invites the inevitable odious comparisons. (November.) TOP SERGEANT MULLIGAN— Anchor.— Fair enough war burlesque but enough's enough. (Sept.) TRAIL OF COURAGE, THE — FBC— Cactus epic and simply terrible. (September.) UNCLE TOM'S CABIN— Universal.— Originally reviewed in January. Sound effects have increased its box-office value. (Oct.) UNDRESSED— Sterling.— Teaching us not to be mean to our children and also not to pose for strange artists. An odd plate of hash. (September.) UNITED STATES SMITH — Gotham. — Eddie Gribbon and Mickey Bennett in a roughneck but funny comedy. (August.) VANISHING PIONEER, THE— Paramount.-The return of Jack Holt to the Paramount ranch. And the result is a Grade A Western. (August.) VARSITY— Paramount. — The more sentimental side of life at Princeton. Charies Rogers and Mary Brian will make it popular with the young folks. (Oc/.) VIKING, THE — Technic0l9r-M.-G.-M. — How Lief the Lucky discovered America, told in color and with plenty of whiskers. (Jan.) VIRGIN LIPS — Columbia. — Respectable, in spite of the title and some dangerous costumes worn by Olive Borden. (November.) *WATERFR0NT— First National. — Jack Mulhall proves that he can be attractive even with a dirty face And he is again aided by Dorothy Mackaill. A comedy with originality. (November.) WATER HOLE, THE— Paramount.— De Luxe Zane Gray Western that marks the return of Jack Holt. (November.) WEDDING MARCH, THE— Paramount.— Von Stroheim's romance of old Vienna, messed up with some repellant scenes and characters. Some good moments, but, as a whole, a waste of time, money and talent. (November.) WEST OF ZANZIBAR— Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. — Lon Chaney goes cripple again. So does the plot. (November.) ♦WHEEL OF CHANCE— First National.— Richard Barthelmess does some good acting in a dual r61e. You forget the improbabilities of the story in your interest in the star's acting and the dramatic situations. (A ugusl.) WHEN THE LAW RIDES— FBO.— Something better than the conventional Western plot. With Tom Tyler and Frankie Darrow. (August.) WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS— Metro-GoldwynMayer.— Lon Chaney au naturel. Swell crook story. (September.) WHIP, THE — First National. — Dorothy Mackaill in an English sporting melodrama that just misses being thrilling. (September.) WHITE SHADOWS OF THE SOUTH SEAS— Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.— Just misses being a remarkable picture. Its weakness of story is atoned for by some of the most beautiful tropical pictures ever filmed. (August.) WIFE'S RELATIONS, THE— Columbia.— Naive romance of an heiress who finds a job and a husband in a department store. (August.) WILD WEST ROMANCE— Fox.— Some thrills in this Western but Rex Bell, the newcomer, will never fill the Stetson of Tom Mix. (August.) WIN THAT GIRL— Fox.— With Sue Carol and Dave Rollins. Otherwise nothing to recommend it. (November.) *WOMAN DISPUTED, THE— United Artists.— Norma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland are excellent in a stirring drama of Central Europe during the war. (September.) WOMAN FROM MOSCOW, THE— Paramount. — Pola Negri's swan song for Paramount. (Ocl.) *WOMAN OF AFFAIRS, A— Metro-GoldwynMayer —Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in what is none other than Michael Arien's "The Gieen Hat. Why waste space urging you to drop everything and see this one? (Jaw.) WOMAN'S WAY, A— Columbia.This time the diamond necklace is lost in the Latin Quarter of Pans. (August.) WOMEN THEY TALK ABOUT— Warners.Charming Vitaphone comedy. (Od.) WOMEN WHO DARED— Excellent.— Slumming party to tlie lower East Side, as the movies picture it. (August.) WRIGHT IDEA, THE— First National.— But gone wrong. (Oct.) YELLOW CONTRABAND — Pathe.— Dope smuggling and other cute modern occuparions. (Dec.) YOUNG WHIRLWIND, THE— FBO.— Kid entertainment, with Buzz Barton. (Dec.) kij ijou skould iake a LiNiT /?eautij i>atri before rGtirlng at nigkt EVERY woman who desires a soft, smooth skin should take the marvelous Linit Beauty Bath before retiring at night. It is sensational in immediate results— no discomfort —no waiting — and trifling expense ! Merely dissolve half a package of Linit inyour bath -bathe in the usual way, using your favorite soap — and then feel your skin! In texture it is soft and smooth as velvet— as well as perfect in elasticity and suppleness. Linit gives the skin just the right amount of lubrication. 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