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Rose o' the Sea — Mayer-First National
WE warn you against all films with an "o' " in the title. This is all about a waif o' the sea who becomes a salesgirl o' the city, then the fiancee o' a millionaire's son, and finally the wife o' the millionaire. Anita Stewart and Rudolph Cameron. Thomas Holding, who always looks as if he is doing a slow-motion for the weeklies. Why does he do it? Oh Anita! Oh First National!
South of Suva — Paramount
BY the time Mary Miles Minter is about to become an offering to a heathen god and the natives are making merry, you wish that the South of Suva company, including the original author, were far, far south of Suva. Here is a man whom the tropics "get" in the peculiar way the tropics have; and a man whom the tropics doesn't "get." Guess which one wins Mary! Take this or leave it. We advise the latter course be taken.
False Fronts — Pyramid
HERE is a photo-drama that points a moral. If the moral were put over unobtrusively, there would be no cause for complaint. But it is hammered in incessantly with the persistence of an electric drill, and its repetition becomes terribly monotonous. Edward Earle, Barbara Castleton and Frank Losee are the featured players. We are unable to say why. Perhaps some one will be able to tell us.
His Wife's Husband — Pyramid
ASIDE from the beauty of Betty Blythe, this picture contains little of merit. It is an involved story of a widow who marries a mayor, only to find that her renegade first husband is still alive. This provides very thin material, and there is consequently a dearth of action. This was adapted from "The Mayor's Wife," was later retitled "Should Husbands Know?" and finally has been named "His Wife's Husband."
The Crossroads of New York — Sennett
THIS is one of those wild comedy-melodramas, of the type that is essentially Sennett. It includes about everything in the way of action and rousing farce that is known to mankind, and consequently it is consistently entertaining. We suspect it was done as a serious melodrama and then jazzed with comedy titles. The plot? We give. up. If you see it, you may unravel it — possibly.
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North of the Rio Grande — Paramount
BEBE DANIELS and Jack Holt— who both seem a little out of their element in a straight Western setting. Bebe's paradise plumes and Jack's dinner jacket are sadly missing. The plot never surprises — it runs true to type with a banal result. Shannon Day does her bit well, as do Charles Ogle and Alec B. Francis. But the picture is not worth while — unless you like these stars in anything.