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The Six Best Cellars," with Bryant Washburn and Wanda Hawley is a distinct novelty, and deliciouslv funny , to boot.
A Tabloid Review
Of some recent screen plays offered for your guidance.
Bv Peter Milne
MY colleague and coreviewer has been expounding what he is pleased to call "the spiritual drama."
I have chosen as the anti-prandial cocktail to precede my own celluloid feast, an example of "the drama of spirits'' — ardent spirits, to borrow a phrase from our forefathers.
In these days when the prohibition question seems to have come very much to life again — judging from the activities in various State legislatures, and elsewhere— "The Six Best Cellars" is very timely.
But don't. be alarmed — the picture is no argument for either side;. of the. debate. It is sheer amusement, and if you have a sense of humor you'll laugh at it, no matter what your politics or moral attitude on the question may' be.
The story concerns the very amusing attempts of a young couple, moving in the very best circle of a suburban town, to make a stock of home-made wine. As all of us have known of some very amusing experiences along this line — if we haven't had them ourselves — this picture is bound to strike a universally responsive chord. It is deliciouslv funny — as entertaining as a bottle of wine— and with no, after effects. Moreover, it's a novelty, and that is always a treat. Bryant Washburn and Wanda Hawley represent the two principal characters in this very timely comedy.
"His Wife's Money" — A husband who objects to living on his wife's millions is the central figure of this engaging drama, which is by all odds the best Selznick picture that has been awarded Eugene O'Brien since he achieved star's estate. Zena Keefe appears as the wife who couldn't understand her husband's feelings. Their conflict is always very human and interesting.
"The Sporting Duchess" Dairy Lane melodrama oSfairi with the familiar but always useful race-track finish, made sustaining and often thrilling, despite plot absurdities, by the splendid acting of Alice Joyce, Percy Marmcnt, and Gustave von Seyffertitz.
"Silk Husbands and Calico Wives" — Utilizing the situation of the homespun wife unable to keep stride with her ambitious husband. A realistic work, but one which the author, Monte Katterjohn, has piloted to no dramatic conclusion. House Peters is effective as the silk husband.
"The Stolen Kiss" — Which traces the life of one of those ever "glad" heroines from early girlhood to maidenhood. An ample vehicle for Constance Binney in the way of characterization, but one which is episodic and at times quite false in "conception.
"The Road to Divorce" — An elemental story based Continued on pane 94