Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1923)

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Starts off well, but slumps at the end. Florence Vidor the great redeeming feature. (.4 ugusi.) MAN FROM GLENGARRY, THE— Hodkinson. — Ralph Connor's erstwhile best-seller has suffered in the screening, but the logging scenes are fine and the 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.) McGUIRE OF THE MOUNTED— Universal.— Another Northwest Mounted Police story, with the usual dauntless hero. Plenty of action and interesting to those who like these stories. (September.) MERRY-GO-ROUND— Universal.— One of the best pictures in months. A Viennese story, with the atmosphere capitally maintained, and exceptionally well acted. (September.) MICHAEL O'HALLORAN — Hodkinson. — The too-sweet story of a Chesterfieldian street urchin, who shows a lot of ricli folk how to behave. (August.) MODERN MARRIAGE — American Releasing Corporation. — The team of Beverly Bayne and Francis X. Bushman return in a commonplace story smoothly screened. (June.) MYSTERIOUS WITNESS.THE— F. B.O.— More formula stuff. The sweet and ailing mother, the selfsacrificing son and the rest of it. Sickeningly sweet. (September.) 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.) OUR GANG COMEDIES— Pathe.— One hundred per cent kid stuff — for the whole family. Don't miss Little Farina, age two, colored. (June.) PENROD AND SAM— First National.— One of the entertainment gems of the month. Real boys with a story handled by William Baudine, who remembers that he was once a boy. Don't miss it if you enjoy kids. (August.) PETER THE GREAT — Paramount.— Another foreign film, with that truly great actor, Emil Jannings, in the title role. This is a real picture and one that should not be missed. (September.) 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 Chadwick of the Secret Service. (June.) 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.) RAPIDS, THE — Hodkinson. — A conventional story of the building of a town by a man with brains and foresight. The steel plant scenes are excellent. (September.) RED RUSSIA REVEALED— Fox.— Half scenic and half educational. Shows the heads of Soviet Russia, a revolting group, but worth stud\ -. (September.) 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.) RICE AND OLD SHOES— F. B. O.— A comedy of the honeymoon, with all the old situations worked overtime. (August.) RUPERT OF HENTZAU— Selznick.— A lively, romantic tale, with lots of excitement and thrills, but tar behind its Anthony Hope predecessor, "The Prisoner of Zenda." (September.) . 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.) r SAFETY LAST— Pathe.— Harold Lloyd's bestseven reels that speed like two. Prepare for laughter, shrieks and general hysteria. (June.) SAWDUST — Universal. — Unconfined realism, starting with a circus and ending up in one of those palatial homes and an attempted suicide. (September.) SELF-MADE WIFE, THE— Universal.— Threefourths of this picture is good. The end falls badly. Also unnecessarily, just to work in a jazz party. (September.) 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.) SHOOTIN' FOR LOVE— Universal.— Shell shock is the underlying theme of a swift Western. The hero, back from the war, walks into a feud which is fully as exciting. (September.) SHORT SUBJECTS — Educational. — One and two-reel novelties, grouped together in interesting bill. "Kinograms," a Bruce scenic, "Speed Demons," Gene Sarazen demonstrating golf, and two comedies. (September.) SINGLE HANDED— Universal.— Hoot Gibson as an eccentric musician who discovers a buried treasure. Hoot's better at handling hosses. (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 takes 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.) Every advertisement in PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE is guaranteed.