Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1926 - Feb 1927)

Advertising Section "Palm Beach Girl, The" — Paramount. Bebe Daniels in a fast and furious comedy, laid in Florida and crowded with complications and thrills. Lawrence Gray plays leading man. "Puppets" — First National. Love and treachery in New York's Bowery. Milton Sills, as the Italian maste. of a puppet show, foils all enemies and wins the girl, Gertrude Olmsted. "Quarterback, The" — Paramount. A wholesome college film, brightly and intelligently done, with the usual football scenes. Richard Dix and Esther Ralston. "Raggedy Rose" — Pathe. Successful return of Mabel Normand in a corking good slapstick comedy, dealing with the adventures of a waif who breaks into high society. "Rainmaker, The" — Paramount. Interesting chiefly for the sympathetic performance of William Collier, Jr., in an unusually good role as a jockey. Georgia Hale effective as the girl. "Rolling Home" — Universal. One of Reginald Denny's best. Rapid, amusing comedy of two young men who return home pretending to be millionaires and actually become such. Marian Nixon is the girl. "Say It Again" — Paramount. Richard Dix in another genuinely pleasant comedy. Satire on the mythical-kingdom type of film. Chester Conklin amusing in regal robes, and Alyce Mills makes a ladylike heroine. "Senor Daredevil" — First National. A Western with Mexican trimmings. Ken Maynard, in silks and sashes, does all that is expected of a Western daredevil. Dorothy Devore is the girl in ginghams. "Show Off, The"— Paramount. Not as funny as the play, but quite amusing. Ford Sterling somewhat too mature for the famous role of the show off. Lois Wilson is the girl. "Silence" — Producers Distributing. Strong, moving performance by H. B. Warner in interesting film version of this well-known crook melodrama. Vera Reynolds is the girl — both mother and daughter. "Son of the Sheik, The"— United Artists. Valentino's last film. Sequel to "The Sheik," with the star in the dual role of father and son. Action, romance, and Vilma Banky. "Sorrows of Satan, The" — Paramount. D. W. Griffith's latest. Disappointing. Adolphe Menjou is Satan in modern clothes, Ricardo Cortez the youth he tempts, Carol Dempster the distraught sweetheart, and Lya de Putti the siren. "So This Is Paris"— Warner. Lubitsch offers another masterpiece of light marital comedy. Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman and Andre Beranger, are the two involved couples. "Sparrows" — United Artists. Mary Pickford is a waif again in a gloomy melodrama of cruelly treated orphans in the midst of a deadly swamp. "Speeding Venus, The" — Producers Distributing. Priscilla Dean, in a newly invented gearless automobile, races a train across the continent in order to foil the villain. Robert Frazer is the hero. "Strong Man, The"— First National. Harry Langdon surpasses himself in the most human comedy he has made. Both pathetic and amusing as the | shambling assistant of a professional | strong man. "Subway Sadie" — First National. Unique and entertaining film of the romance between a New York working girl and a subway guard. Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall. "Temptress, The" — Metro-Goldwyn. A triumph for Gretc Garbo. Ibahez's tale of a beautiful woman whose tragedy is that all men who love her come to ruin. Antonio Moreno and Lionel Barrymore. "Up in Mabel's Room" — Producers Distributing. Vigorous domestic farce, good for many laughs. Marie Prevost, Phyllis Haver, and Harrison Ford are the entangled trio. "Volcano" — Paramount. Bebe Daniels in the emotional role of a girl in the West Indies who doesn't know whether she is white or not. Lovely settings and picturesque costumes. Also Ricardo Cortez. "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 boatr-an and a princess. William Boyd and Elinor Fair in the leads. "Waltz Dream, The"— Metro-Goldwyn. A charming light comedy from the German Ufa studios. Typically Continental. Excellent cast, though all strangers to American audiences. "Wet Paint" — Paramount. Raymond Griffith turns into a slapstick comedian in a film which you enjoy in spite of yourself. Helene Costello is the heroine. "You Never Know Women" — Paramount. Florence Vidor's initial starring film. Novel tale of a Russian vaudeville troupe touring America. Clive Brook is the knife-throwing hero. RECOMMENDED— WITH RESERVATIONS. "Amateur Gentleman, The" — First National. Richard Barthelmess in a dull, spiritless picture adapted from Jeffery Farnol's novel and laid in the time of the regency. Tale of a pugilist's son who aspires to be a gentleman. "Clinging Vine, The" — Producers Distributing. Another poor story for Leatrice Joy. Silly film, that might have been amusing, of mannish business girl who blossoms into cooing dove. Tom Moore also wasted. "Devil's Island" — Chadwick. Pauline Frederick and a good idea wasted. Turgid melodrama involving the prisoners on the small penal island off the coast of South America, whither certain French criminals are sent for life. "Diplomacy" — Paramount. Only mildly interesting. Adapted from the well-known play dealing with international intrigue. Blanche Sweet and Neil Hamilton. "Ella Cinders" — First National, j Adapted from the newspaper comic strip. Superficial but not unpleasant. Colleen Moore amusing in role of domestic drudge who rises to movie fame. Lloyd Hughes wins her. "Fig Leaves" — Fox. Mildly amusing' *=2 tale, with ancient and modern se BLANCHE MEHAFFEY £eading'jady for ReginaLd,Denny in Universal'^ "Take it from Me!' Knows The Value of A Magic Touch of Beauty The Professional woman must look her best at all times. 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