Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1926 - Feb 1927)

Advertising Section 105 That Foreign Legion Again. Admirers of Milton Sills will get quite wrought up over his excellent performance in "The Silent Lover," for it is his best in a long, long time. He begins as Count Tornai, charge d'affaires of the Moltavian embassy in Paris, with a weakness for wine and women and carelessness in disbursing the funds of his country. Because of an escapade, he seeks oblivion in the French Foreign Legion and very soon comes to grips with the predatory Ben A chined, played by Montagu Love, and eventually clinches with Natalie Kingston. ''The Silent Lover" begins most interestingly and. in fact, sustains this quality throughout, except when Charlie Murray, Arthur Stone and Claude King, as an Irishman, a Jew and an Italian, are called upon to supply that doubtful commodity known as comic relief which seems to me to have no place amid the wastes of the desert. But the picture is well worth seeing, and Milton Sills' acting in the Paris episode will not soon be forgotten. Naughty But Funny. "Ladies at Play" expresses it all too mildly to suit me. The ladies play fast and loose, with emphasis on the last word, in the picture of that name. It is a riotous farce, and the cast glitters with talent — Doris Kenyon, Lloyd Hughes, Louise Fazenda. Virginia Lee Corbin, Ethel Wales, Philo McCullough, John Patrick, Hallam Cooley, and a lot of others. The plot, of which there is enough, can best be summed up by saying that Miss Kenyon, in order to inherit a fortune, must be married within three days to a man approved by two oldmaid relatives. And when Lloyd Hughes rejects her proposition to be her husband, she sets out to compromise him. In the midst of this adventure, two youths are hired to compromise the spinsters. This adventure is skillfully played by every one in it, Louise Fazenda in especial covering herself with glory, and Miss Kenyon, though mixed up in wild proceedings, does so with no loss of her distinction and beauty. Marking Time Continued ing honors with Mr. Mix's Tony is not to her liking, and who will blame her? '"I've done so much Western romancing that I scream at the sight of a mustang," said Pauline, pouting. Hers is a somber disposition, from which the sparks are struck with rare effect. "It's fine to be in pictures if you taste the variety of pictures. But to be a saved heroine day in and day out ■ It's discouraging." To mask my troubled feelings I switched the conversation back to New York, and again Pauline's slender face lighted. "It's the only city," she declared positively. "Although, strangely enough, people eeem to have a hard from page 74 time amusing themselves here. In the West crowds are gayer with less effort. Perhaps the spaces are more open or the sea air invigorating. It's easier to have what is known as a good time out there." She caught herself up abruptly. "But I'm simply mad about New York. Last night I saw George M. Cohan as close as this !" Youthful, yearning, prepossessing, Pauline is in the process of marking time. She is doing a long-time apprenticeship against the day when the real part comes. And when it does come, don't be surprised to see Pauline step high, wide, and handsome. What Do We Have Here? Everything! Continued from page 85 globe. Their data on foreign lands is authentic and reliable. Jack Allman. as has already been told in PicturePlay, captures and trains reptiles and insects for camera work. One cafe in Hollywood makes a specialty of location lunches. Quite a number of stenographic and photographic agencies contract to answer the players' fan mail and to send out their photographs. 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