Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

116 Advertising Section The Amusement Calendar ■ off eyed by . Associated Exhibitors,/^ Oscar A. Price , Pres. 5 6 ID BETTY CONFSON HOUSE PETERS and JAY HUNT From Leroy Scott's MM0 frfiW^ Gfi Fatuous Novell J^r&M & M m&WP \ Personally Supervised by Edward Silton GLENN HUNTER Ivith CONSTANCE BENNETT %~""*-* as another of those ''lovable boob" characters PINCH HITTER Directed by Joseph Henaberr from the Story by C. Gardner Sullivan i — i STRONGHEART Ihe most natural actor on the screen, in a smashing picturization of the^ widely read Novel by Rufus King ~ NORTH STAR Presented by HOWARD ESTABROOKj. Directed, by j Paul Powell "Midshipman, The" — M e t r o-Gold wyn. Amusing film of life at Annapolis, with Ramon Novarro in role of a midshipman. Marred only by some impossible situations and too much sentiment. "Mystic, The" —Metro Goldwyn. Sister film to "The Unholy Three," showing the machinations of three fake spiritualists and a clever crook. Aileen Pringle is quite flashing in the title role, Conway Tearle good as the crook. "Old Clothes"— Metro-Gold wyn. Jackie Coogan a little more grown up in a typical Coogan film full of hokum which his acting makes plausible and funny. "Only Thing, The"— Metro-Goldwyn. Another of Elinor Glyn's royal romances. Conrad Nagel, as an English duke, and Eleanor Boardman, as a previously betrothed Northern princess, finally come together after many vicissitudes, including a gory revolution. "Phantom of the Opera, The"— Universal. Gruesome story of a criminal maniac 1 who haunts Paris Opera House, making life horrible for members of the opera. Lon Chaney, as Phantom, pretty awful to look at, Norman Kerry wooden, Mary Philbin pretty. "Regular Fellow, A" — Paramount. Raymond Griffith delightful in an amusing picture satirizing the social life of a modern crown prince. Mary Brian opposite him. "Road to Yesterday, The" — Producers Distributing. Joseph Schildkraut, Jetta Goudal, Vera Reynolds, and William Boyd play four modern young people who are carried by a train wreck back into the Middle Ages and are seen in their former incarnations. "Sally, Irene, and Mary"— MetroGoldwyn. A light, amusing comedy concerned with the evils and dangers of Broadway. Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford, and Sally O'Neill are three musical-comedy girls. William Haines is the hero. "Satan in Sables" — Warner. Lowell Sherman as a rather dissipated but very attractive Russian prince who goes through life counting no costs, suffering for it in the end. Pauline Garon lively as a naughty but innocent little French girl. "Seven Keys to Baldpate"— Paramount. Hilarious version of the stage play; Douglas MacLean, the young author who tries to write a book in twenty-four hours, to win his publisher's daughter. "Seven Sinners" — Warner. Marie Prevost, John Patrick, and Clive Brook are the three most important of seven crooks who simultaneously attempt to rob the same country house and all get locked in together. .Good comedy. "Simon the Jester" — Producers Distributing. Rather sentimental adaptation of William J. Locke's novel of a young man who falls in love with a circus girl. Eugene O'Brien, whimsical and wry; Lillian Rich, tearful as the girl. "Skinner's Dress Suit" — Universal. Reginald Denny in a thoroughly enjoyable comedy of young clerk whose wife becomes extravagant on the strength of a raise which he dares not tell her he has not received. Laura La Plante is the wife. "Splendid Crime, The" — Paramount. Bebe Daniels as a lady crook who falls in love with a handsome young man, played by Neil Hamilton, and straightway reforms. Not an unusually exciting film, but worth seeing. "Splendid Road, The"— First National. A fast and furious film of the California gold-rush days, with Anna Q. Nilsson, Lionel Barrymore, and Robert Frazer in the foreground. "Stage Struck'^— Paramount. Gloria Swanson in slapstick comedy; tale of small-town waitress with stage aspirations who joins a cheap traveling show with amusing results. "Sun Up" — Metro-Goldwyn. Drama of the Carolina mountaineers in which Conrad Nagel does some surprisingly good acting. Lucille la Verne is very fine as his mother, and Pauline Starke, as his wild little sweetheart, looks more like Gloria Swanson than ever "Tumbleweeds"— United Artists. Return of William S. Hart as noble cowboy in film of homesteading land rush. "Wanderer, The" — Paramount. Spectacular film based on biblical story of prodigal • son, with William Collier, Jr., acquitting himself well in the difficult leading role, and Greta Nissen interesting as dancer who leads him astray. Ernest Torrence, in part of villain, gives best performance of picture. "We Moderns"— First National. Colleen Moore very much alive as English flapper who loses heart to drawingroom poet and does some rather startling things in process of getting him. "Wild Horse Mesa" — Paramount. Western melodrama, with good cast, including Jack Holt, who does some fine riding, Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and a company of wild horses. RECOMMENDED— WITH RESERVATIONS. "Best People, The" — Paramount. Shopworn tale of wealthy, drinking, dancing family who make fuss when favorite daughter falls in love with model chauffeur. Warner Baxter and Esther Ralston head cast. "Bright Lights"— Metro-Goldwyn. Rustic drama of a country boy and a chorus girl in which Charles Ray is made to look foolish in a type of role that he long ago outgrew. Pauline Starke is thoroughly suitable as the chorus girl. "Circle, The"— Metro-Goldwyn. A very bad picture of a good play, poorly adapted, poorly directed, and poorly acted. Eleanor Boardman, Malcolm MacGregor, and Creighton Hale in featured roles. "Cobra" — Paramount. A lethargic melodrama in which Rudolph Valentino, always impeccably dressed, comes under the spell of the serpentine Nita Naldi, who eventually meets with a dreadful end in a hotel fire. "Coming of Amos, The" — Producers Distributing. A William J. Locke story done too elaborately, with Rod La Rocque playing uncouth but rich young Australian who lands at Riviera and falls under spell of scheming princess, Jetta Goudal. "Compromise" — Warner. Badly done picture of supersensitive young girl who marries childhood playmate and