Pictures and the Picturegoer (Jan-Dec 1924)
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NOVEMBER 1924
Aileen Pringle and Huntley Gordon in " True as Steel."
Ralph Forbes, Stewart Rome, Donald Searle. Sydney Fairbrother, Buena Bent, Simeon Stuart, Walter Tennyson, and Gertrude Sterrol in support. Excellent though tearful entertainment.
Secrets (Ass. First National; Nov. 17).
Romantic drama founded upon the popular play with Norma Talmadge and Eugene O'Brien as the lovers, Patterson Dial, Emily Fitzroy, Claire McDowell, Gertrude Astor, Francis Feeney and George Cowl, Alice Day, Charles Ogle, May Giraci and Clarissa Selwynne, Winter Hall, Winston Meller and Florence Wix. Excellent entertainment.
The Shooting of Dan McGrew (Jury; Nov. 10). An Alaskan drama written around Robert Service's well-known poem. Featuring Barbara La Marr and Percy Marmont, supported by Lew Cody, Mae Busch, Max Ascher, Fred Warren, George Siegmann, Eagle Eye, Milla Davenport, and Phillipe de Lacy. Excellent dramatic fare.
The Signal Tower (European; Nov. 3).
Wallace Beery, Virgina Valli, Frankie Davis, Rockcliffe Fellowes, Dot Farley, James O. Barrows and J. Farrell MacDonald in a fast-action thrill melodrama of railway life. Excellent of its kind.
Sodom and Gomorrah (F. B. 0.;
Nov. 3).
A .story of modern society with an elaborate biblical inset, featuring Lucy Doraine. Good spectacular drama.
The Telephone Girl Series (W ardour;
Nov. 3).
Short comedies featuring Alberta Vaughan, supported by George O'Hara, Gertrude Short, Douglas Gerrard, Charles King, Kit Guard, and Al Cooke. Good light entertainment.
Temporary Marriage (Pathe; Nov. 24). The story of a domestic upheaval and a divorce that never materialised. Mildred Davis stars, with Tully Marshall, Myrtle Stedman, Kenneth Harlan, Maude George, and Stuart Holmes in close the competition for acting honours Good entertainment.
Trailing Wild Animals (Jury; Nov. 3).
One of the best of its kind ever made. The Martin-Johnson's penetrate still further into hitherto unexplored parts of Africa and show you .some amazing studies of wild animals in their native haunts. A fine and amusing 'educational.
The Trouble Shooter (Fox; Nov. 3).
A fairly good Tom Mix feature with Tom, Tony, and stunts, but very little else. Kathleen Key opposite the star, also, J. Gunnis Davis, Mike Donlin, Dolores Rousse, Charles McHugh, and Al Freemont.
True as Steel (Goldwyn; Nov. 27).
A husband-and-wife story in which the wife is the business man with the
usual business man's temptations 10 which she nearly, but not quite, succumbs. Capably acted by Aileen Pringle, Huntley Gordon, Louise Fazenda, Eleanor Boardman, Louis Payne, William Haines, Norman Kerry, and Lucien Littlefield. Good entertainment.
Twenty-one (Ass. First National; Nov.
Dick Barthelmess and Dorothy Mackaill in the story of a molly-coddle who struggles to become a man so as to marry the girl he loves. Dorothy Cumming, Joan Simpson, Joe King, Elsie Lawson, and Bradley Barker support. Good but a bit slow.
The Unknown Purple (W. & F.; Nov. 10).
Henry B. Walthall in a sensational melodrama with a purple ray as iis chief point of interest. Alice Lake, Stuart Holmes, Helen Ferguson, Frankie Lee, Ethel Grey Terry, James Morrison, Johnnie Arthur, Brinsley Shaw, Richard Wayne and Mike Donlin lend capable support. Excellent mystery drama.
The Unwanted (Napoleon; Nov. 17).
A war story containing fine and convincing scenes of a great tank advance, and some beautiful Venetian and Swiss exteriors. Aubrey Smith stars, with Lillian Hall Davis, Francis Lister Mary Dibley, Nora Swinburne, and James Reardon in support. Good popular fare.
West of the Water Tower (Paramount; Nov. 20). A story of American small town life in which the characterisation is the main feature. Excellent acting by Glenn Hunter, May McAvoy, Ernest Torrence, George Fawcett, Zasu Pitts, Charles Abbe, Annie Schroeder, Edward Elkas, Joe Burke, and Gladys Feldman.
The White Moth (Ass. First National; Nov. 24). Barbara La Marr and Conway Tearle in a colourful story about a dancer in Paris. Charles de Roche, Ben Lyon, Edna Murphy, Josie Sedwick, Kathleen Kirkham and William Orlamond support the stars. Artificial stage and sacietv drama.
trnst Lubxtsch, Pauline Frederick, Lew Cody and the technical staff looking at a bit of " Three Women " in Warner Bros, studios.