Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

player. Lively comedy with laughs galore. Tom Moore as a trap drummer. "Temptress, The" — Metro-Goldwyn. A triumph for Greta Garbo. Ibanez's tale of a beautiful woman whose tragedy is that all men who love her come to ruin. Antonio Moreno and Lionel Barrymore. "Tin Hats"— Metro-Goldwyn. The farcical adventures of three buddies overseas. Romance of a gum-chewing doughboy and a haughty German baroness. Conrad Nagel and Claire Windsor. "Upstage" — Metro-Goldwyn. Norma Shearer in a deft, humorous picture of vaudeville life, with a thrilling climax. Tale of a pretty dancer whose head gets turned. "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. "Waltz Dream, The"— Metro-Goldwyn. A charming light comedy from the German Ufa studios. Typically Continental. Excellent cast, though all strangers to American audiences. "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. "Ace of Cads, The" — Paramount. None-too-successful transference of Michael Arlen story to screen. Adolphe Menjou is the self-sacrificing hero, Alice Joyce the lady. "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. "Cheerful Fraud, The" — Universal. Reginald Denr^ in a strenuous but not particularly funny comedy about a British nobleman in disguise. Gertrude Olmsted is the girl. "City, The" — Fox. Dull film of a once daring and successful play. All about a blackmailing dope fiend. Robert Frazer, May Allison, Richard Walling, and Walter McGrail. "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. "Fig Leaves" — Fox. Mildly amusing tale, with ancient and modern sequences, of what happens to a wife who cares too much for clothes. George O'Brien and Olive Borden. "For Alimony Only" — Producers Dis Advertising Section tributing. Unrealistic attempt to show the evils of alimony. Leatrice Joy and Lilyan Tashman are the successive wives of the alimony slave, Clive Brook. "Forever After" — First National. Tepid tale of a poor boy and a rich girl — Lloyd Hughes and Mary Astor — ranging from college football to the World War. "Girl from Coney Island, The" — First National. See "Just Another Blonde." "God Gave Me Twenty Cents" — Paramount. Not entirely satisfactory. Tale of a waitress, two sailors, and a girl from prison. Lois Moran, Jack Mulhall, Lya de Putti, and William Collier, Jr. "Great Deception, The" — First National. A feeble melodrama of the late war, with Ben Lyon as a supposed spy and Aileen Pringle as the girl. "Her Big Night" — Universal. Laura La Plante in a long-drawn-out film of a shopgirl whose resemblance to a movie star puts her in the way of a thousand dollars. "Her Honor the Governor" — F. B. O. Again Pauline Frederick ably plays a tense, emotional mother role. A melodrama of political intrigue, somewhat too theatrical and heavy handed. "Into Her Kingdom" — First National. Corinne Griffith in a far-fetched film based on the theory that a daughter of the late Czar of Russia marries a Bolshevist and comes to America to keep shop. The Swedish Einar Hansen is the Bolshevist. "It Must Be Love"— First National. Colleen Moore as a delicatessen man's daughter who tries to rise above her hated surroundings. Not as sparkling as her best films. Malcolm McGregor is her hero. "Just Another Blonde"— First National. Also released as "The Girl from Cone}' Island." Slow film dealing with two Coney Island girls and two gamblers. Dorothy Mackaill. Jack Mulhall, Louise Brooks, and William Collier, Jr. "Last Frontier, The"— Producers Distributing. The pioneer days again. William Boyd, as a stalwart j^oung scout, and Marguerite de la Motte, as a flowerlike Southern girl, are the pair of lovers. "Lily, The"— Fox. Belle Bennett in a complicated, old-fashioned film of a young woman who sacrifices romance for the sake of her father, and grows old a slave to duty. "London" — Paramount. Dorothy Gish in a feeble film of a soubrette of the London slums who is adopted by a rich old lady. "Marriage Clause, The" — Universal. An unreal, unoriginal film of stage life, with Billie Dove in the role of a star who is torn between a career and marriage. "Michael Strogoff" — Universal. An importation from France, being a melodramatic story of Russia. At times very dramatic, but inclined to be slow and a little dull. "Old Soak, The"— Universal. Supposed to feature a humorously philosophical old tippler, but young romance is given first place. Jean Hersholt is the tippler, George Lewis and June Marlowe the youngsters. "Padlocked" — Paramount. Absurdly improbable tale of a stern, bigoted father whose self-righteousness is the Why Don't You Play I a Hohner Harmonica? i Anyone may quickly learn to play real music on a Hohner Harmonica with the aid of this Free Instruction Book. See how easy it is! 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