Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

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"New Klondike, The" — Paramount. Thomas Meighan and Lila Lee in an amusing satire on Florida real estate, with a few baseball players thrown in. "Oh! What a Nurse!"— Warner. Syd Chaplin in skirts again. Good story, with funny gags, but too much repetition. "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 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. "Red Dice" — Producers Distributing. Story of the bootlegging underworld. Rod La Rocque in role of young man who has only a year to live. Marguerite de la Motte is the girl. "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. "Sea Horses" — Paramount. Pleasant tropical film featuring Florence Vidor, Jack Holt, and that easy-going villain. George Bancroft, and including both a deluge and a cyclone. "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. "Song and Dance Man, The" — Paramount. Clever, amusing picture of the ups and downs of vaudeville players. Tom Moore, Bessie Love, and good supporting cast, make things interesting. "SpJendid 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. "That Royle Girl"— Paramount. D. W. Griffith picture — rather brassy melodrama featuring Carol Dempster, and including a murder trial and a cyclone. James Kirkwood, Harrison Ford, and W. C. Fields form the male contingent. "That's My Baby" — Paramount. Douglas MacLean funny in a comedy that is otherwise something of a bore. "Tumbleweeds" — United Artists. Return of William S. Hart as noble cowboy in film of homesteading land rush. "Volga Boatman, The"— Producers Distributing. A slow-moving De Mille film, built around the early events of the Russian Revolution, and featuring the love affair between a boatman and a princess. William Boyd and Elinor Fair in the leads. "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. "What Happened to Jones" — Universal. Reginald Denny in another entertaining film, dealing with a young man who gets into all sorts of complications. Marian Nixon and Zasu Pitts add to the fun. "Whispering Smith" — Producers Distributing. Exciting crook melodrama, with H. B. Warner in the role of a secret-service agent who falls in love with an outlaw's wife. Lil3ran Tashman, Lillian Rich, and John Bowers. "Womanhandled" — Paramount. Richard Dix in a delightful light comedy of a polo-playing young Easterner who, to win a girl, tries to become a man of the great open spaces. Esther Ralston is the girl. "Yankee Senor, The" — Fox. One of best films Tom Mix has made in some time. Complicated plot, with Olive Borden as heroine. RECOMMENDED— WITH RESERVATIONS. "American Venus, The" — Paramount. An elaborate fashion film centering about a beauty contest. Gaudy and uninteresting. Esther Ralston in leading role. "Bride of the Storm"— Warner. Dull and dreary. Girl, stranded on an island with three bad men, is rescued just in time by United States warship. Dolores Costello and John Harron. "Broken Hearts"— Jaffe Art Film. Boresome, sentimental drama dealing with the troubles of a young Russian Jew. Poorly done by Maurice Schwartz and Lila Lee. "Dancer of Paris, The"— First National. Mediocre film based on Michael Arlen story. Dorothy Mackaill very lovely in role of dancer. Conway Tearle opposite her. "Devil's Circus, The"— Metro-Goldwyn. Neither very good nor very bad. Norma Shearer in role of circus girl. Charles Emmett Mack is the crook hero, and Carmel Myers a jealous woman. "Fascinating Youth" — Paramount. Featuring the graduates of the Paramount School, none of whom make much impression. Tale of a rollicking group of young artists.