Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1923)

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LITTLE CHURCH AROUND THE CORNER, THE — Warner Brothers. — -A situation after the manner of "The Miracle Man," with a wealthy mine owner, a mine disaster and a minister. (June.) LOST AND FOUND — Goldwyn. — Hollywood hokum dropped in the South Seas. A beautiful background and good players wasted. (June.) LOVEBOUND— Fox.— A well-knit, consistent story, with strong climaxes, of a district attorney who falls in love with his secretary. The girl's father is a jewel thief, and the conflict between her loyalty to father and love for prosecutor is well-developed. Shirley Mason draws sympathy. (July.) MAD LOVE — Goldwyn. — Pola Negri's last picture in Germany. They have changed her many lovers to husbands in the American titles. (May.) MADNESS OF YOUTH— Fox.— An engaging crook enters a home to rob a safe, meets the daughter of his victim, etc. Marriage and honor in the end. John Gilbert is sincere and with Billie Dove makes the affair almost plausible. (July.) MAIN "TREET— Warner Brothers.— A difficult story to screen and, therefore, not an entirely satisfactory picture. Starts off well, but slumps at the end. Florence Vidor the great redeeming feature. (A ugust.) MAN FROM GLENGARRY, THE— Hodkinson. — Ralph Connor's erstwhile best-seller has suffered in the screening, but the logging scenes are fine and t lie Canadian landscapes impressive. (June.) MAN NEXT DOOR, THE— Vitagraph.— Not good. Story is illogical, and acting and direction both below standard. A dog wins the honors. (August.) MAN OF ACTION, A— First National.— Likable Douglas MacLean as a society man playing a crook. Interesting, but incongruous. Perhaps, some day, MacLean will get a real story. Then, look out. (August.) MARK OF THE BEAST, THE— Dixon — Thomas Dixon wrote, cast and directed this as a challenge to "machine-made pictures." The machine wins. (August.) MARY OF THE MOVIES— F. B. O— Again the Hollywood stars trailing by in a story of a screenstruck girl. That is the only interest. The story is weak. (August.) MASTERS OF MEN— Vitagraph.— Well-done story of the Spanish-American war. Cullen Landis fine. Earle Williams, Alice Calhoun and Wanda Hawley in the cast. (June.) M ICHAEL O'HALLORAN — Hodkinson. — The too-sweet story of a Chesterfieldian street urchin, who shows a lot of rich folk how to behave. (August.) MIDNIGHT GUEST, THE — Universal. — A young lady thief who reforms. Not quite for children. (May.) MR. BILLINGS SPENDS HIS DIME— Paramount.— Is bullet-proof farce and one of the best things of its kind in a long time. (May.) ■r MODERN MARRIAGE — American Releasing Corporation. — The team of Beverly Bayne and Francis X. Bushman return in a commonplace story smoothly screened. (June.) NE'ER-DO-WELL, THE— Paramount. — Not altogether successful, nor altogether uninteresting, for Thomas Meighan is in it. Old-fashioned. (July.) NOBODY'S BRIDE— Universal.— A runaway bride, a down-and-out suitor of other days, a bag of jewels, a band of crooks, etc., etc. (June.) NOISE IN NEWBORO. A— Metro.— Cinderella of the small town goes to the city and comes home rich. Viola Dana gingers up this weak concoction. (July.) NTH COMMANDMENT, THE — ParamountCosmopolitan. — The brave little girl struggles to maintain her home when her husband falls desperately ill. The human note is missing. (July.) OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE. AN— Metro.— J, Whitcomb Riley's poem screened with considerable charm and touches of melodrama. (July. ) ONLY 38 — Paramount. — A delightful handling by William de Mille of a most appealing story. Lois Wilson's role fits her admirably, and May McAvoy is a great help. (August.) OTHELLO— Ben Blumenthal.— A German adaptation of the tragedy directed by a Russian, in. which Emil Tannings, is a German Moor. ( Way I OUR GANG COMEDIES— Pathe — One hundred it kid stuff — for the whole family. Don't miss Little Farina, age two, colored. (June.) PENROD AND SAM— First National.— One of the entertainment m-m^ of the month. Real boys with a story bandied by William Baudine, whoremembers that he was once a boy. Don't miss it it you enjoy kids. {August.) POP TUTTLE'S POLECAT PLOT— F. B. O — Fashioned after the Fontaine Fox-Toonerville Trolley type of cartoon humor. (May.) PRISONER, THE— Universal.— An extravagant plot with Herbert Rawlinson as the heavy lover who saves a little blonde from an unfortunate marriage. (May.) PRODIGAL DAUGHTERS — Paramount. — Another tirade against the jazz babies of 1923. ■ This time it is adapted to the girl who leaves the old homestead only to return in the snowstorm of Christmastime. (July. ) PRODIGAL SON, THE— Stoll Film Corp. — Steeped in the gloom of church yards and deathbeds, lost loves and debts. (July.) QUEEN OF SIN, THE— Not sinful but awful. The queen's sin is weight. (June.) QUICKSANDS— American Releasing Corporation.— Drug smuggling across the Mexican border is stopped by Lt. Richard Dix and Helene Chad wick of the Secret Service. (June.) RACING HEARTS — Paramount. — Unless the auto stuff has been worn threadbare with you, it may entertain you. To us the motor seems to miss. (May.) RAGGED EDGE, THE— Goldwyn.— A Harold McGrath romance, with a lot of new blood in the cast From China to the South Seas. (August.) RAILROADED— Universal.— A lesson in how wayward sons should, and should not, be disciplined. Love finds a way. (August.) REMITTANCE WOMAN. THE— F. B. O.— Ethel Clayton's loveliness shines out from the dim and mystic East, where Ethel gains a sacred vase and nearly loses her life. (July.) j RICE AND OLD SHOES— F. B. O— A comedy of the honeymoon, with all the old situations worked overtime. (August.) ROD AND GUN SERIES— Hodkinson.— The wealth of detail and the excellent photography don't quite compensate for the distaste of such utter destruction of ducks, geese, quail and fish. (May.) RUSTLE OF SILK, THE— Paramount.— The triangle of a British statesman, his unfaithful wife and an adoring lady's maid, who loves the statesman from afar, isn't much of drama. But told with fine taste and discretion. Betty Compson. Anna Q. Nilsson and Conway Tearle excellent. (July.) SAFETY LAST— Pathe.— Harold Lloyd's bestseven reels that speed like two. Prepare for laughter, shrieks and general hysteria. (June.) SCARS OF JEALOUSY— First National.— See "Poor Men's Wives." Ditto. (May.) SHADOWS— Preferred Pictures.— An idea of delicacy and charm has been translated with great care to the screen and the result is a good picture. Tom Forman's direction of Wilbur Daniel Steele's prize story "Ching, Ching, Chinaman" is as inspired as possible in view of the fact that there are censors. The central figure, the Oriental laundryman, remarkably acted by Lon Chaney, is a fine and true conception. (January.) SHOCK, THE— Universal.— Another hideously clever characterization by Lon Chaney as a cripple of the underworld. The miracle idea is brought in again. Strong, but unpleasant — and, of course, with a happy ending. (August.) SINGLE HANDED— Universal.— Hoot Gibson as an eccentric musician who discovers a buried treasure. Hoot's better at handling bosses. (June.) SIXTY CENTS AN HOUR— Paramount.— An ambitious soda clerk plans to marry the daughter of the bank president, and go into business — all on seven-fifty a week. A riot of laughter. (July.) SLANDER THE WOMAN— First National — And still the formula! Beautiful heroine, wrongfully accused, goes to the Frozen North. There, in the great, open spaces, things happen. Mostly, good photography. (August.) SNOW BRIDE. THE— Paramount.— A forced and artificial story of life in a Canadian village. Alice Brady, even, fails to register. (August.) SNOWDRIFT— Fox.— A cooling Summer picture, with lots of ice and snow. A little waif, missionaries, Indians, impossible happenings. Marries a reformed gambler for the fade-out. (August.) SOUL OF THE BEAST— Metro.— Cinderella elopes with an elephant. Hard time has Cinderella, but all ends well, even for friend elephant. (July.) SOULS FOR SALE— Goldwyn.— A Cook's tour of the Hollywood studios. A false and trivial story, but it lakes you behind the camera and is very entertaining. (June.) SPOILERS, THE— Goldwyn.— A new version of the Rex Beach Alaskan romance, with a capital cast. As thrilling as ever. Milton Sills and Noah Beery stage a realistic fight, and Anna Nilsson is excellent as the dance hall girl. (August.) STEPPING FAST— Fox.— Tom Mix mixes with desperadoes. He saves a girl from the rascal after a trip to China, The girl says "yes." (July.) Every advertisement in PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE 13 guaranteed.