Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1925 - Feb 1926)

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The Screen in Review 57 bad one who is no respecter of women, Edward Gribbon. Monte Blue was the engineer who didn't know trains ran on tracks. The moral is : "Always wave to the engineer because you never know when it may be Monte Blue." The Rest of Them. Lewis Stone, Virginia Valli, and Nita Naldi are in a picture about sin called "The Lady Who Lied." Lewis Stone is the explorer. He finds Virginia Valli just after she has married some one else, so the only thing to do is to hop out on a desert with Miss Valli and a camel. That's all there is to it. Nita Naldi is put in to show that Lewis Stone really is fascinating to women. "The White Desert" has a fine landslide, and a good snowstorm, but the story is rather old and frostbitten. Claire Windsor is the railroad president's daughter. She passes up the pleasures of society to stay with her father and several hundred other men in a camp in the mountains. She finally gets one of them, the only other possibility being to die in the blizzard. There is a race with starvation and a sick baby, and a renegade puddler. I bet you don't know what that is. Pat O'Malley was the great light-hearted Irishman. "One Year to Live" has an imposing cast and lets it go at that. Aileen Pringle, Dorothy Mackaill, Sam de Grasse, Rosemary Theby, and Antonio Moreno are the names that attract. The scenes are lovely and the gowns are elaborate. "Smooth as Satin" is a picturization of Bayard Veil 5£ 'Lost — A Wife" brings Greta Nissen to the screen. Tom Moore and Zasu Pitts have leading roles in "Pretty Ladies." ler's play, "The Chatterbox." It is impossible but it is amusing. In fact it is more amusing than exciting, and I have a vague idea that it was meant to thrill a little. If you really believe it, it will make you lose your faith in crooks. I have never seen such a blundering, incompetent lot of them in my life. I'd hate to trust them with my money. They might lose it. Evelyn Brent is the bright spot of the picture. In "The Making of O'Malley," Milton Sills is the bighearted policeman. This time he is fighting the liquor traffic in New York, which is a little bit like sweeping the bottom of the ocean clear. He is intrepid enough to try anyway, only to find that if he makes the arrest, he will bring shame and trouble to the girl he loves. Love triumphs over duty, and O'Malley flinches as he tells his captain the protecting lie. It is a picture about a great heart, but it is pretty well done. "The Sporting Chance" has a race horse and Lou Tellegen in it. They don't seem to get along together. The race itself is thrilling and amazingly photographed. The story is about a hero who will win the right girl if he wins the race. Dorothy Phillips returns to the screen as lovely as ever. Matt Moore is in a fairly amusing picture, "How Baxter Butted In." The audience seemed to think it funnier than I did. Mr. Moore is a clerk in the advertising department of a daily newspaper. He works some of the time and dreams the rest of the time. For a while it looks as though everything would end tragically for him. The girl he loves has lunch with his boss, and he has to support his widowed sister-in-law and her children. In the end he has a chance to be the hero of his dreams. It is a story of petty trials and victories handled ingeniously by a clever director. There is a very nice scene in it. Baxter falls into a daydream in a restaurant while he is eating a bowl of milk and crackers. This dissolves into a raft in a stormy sea, on which one sees Baxter, the girl he loves, Continued on page 94