Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

118 Advertising Section CHELSEA HOUSE Popular Copyrights Tales of the West, of Love and Mystery and Adventures on sea and land — you can have them now, fresh from the pens of your favorite authors. They are real books, too — no reprints of oldtimers but new books bound in cloth, with handsome stamping and jackets and all for 75 cents. Ask your bookseller to show you some of the books listed below — The Brand of Good Books RONICKY DOONES TREASURE David Manning FAST MONEY Eugene A. Clancy THE GREEN BAG John Paul Seabrooke LENNISTER OF BLUE DOME James Roberts TWO-GUN GERTA C. C. Waddell and Carroll John Daly RAINBOW LANDING THE PHANTOM ALIBI MARK TURNS WEST ON THE TRAIL OF FOUR STRAIGHT CROOKS POISONOUS MIST THE LOOTED BONANZA JUST BUCKAROOS THE PURPLE LIMITED MASQUERADE SPANISH NUGGETS THE AWAKENING OF ROMOLA MARCIA COWGI RLS— PLUS THE INCA'S RANSOM THE CRIMSON BLADE Frank Lillie Pollock Henry Leverage Mary Imlay Taylor David Manning Howard Fielding Gordon MacCreagh E. Whitman Chambers Robert Ormond Case Henry Leverage William Morton Emart Kinsburn Anne O'Hagan Anne O'Hagan George Gilbert Gordon MacCreagh Madeleine Sharps Buchanan THE AMATEUR DETECTIVES Christopher B. Booth THE GLACIER GATE Frank Lillie Pollock WILD BILL Joseph Montague RIM 0' THE RANGE Ethel Smith Dorrance and James French Dorrance tmSEA HOUSE PUBffiriqg 75c 75c "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. "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. "Bertha the Sewing=Machine Girl" — Fox. Madge Bellamy in old-fashioned melodrama of girl model who is decoyed to a gentleman's yacht, but saved in time by a young shipping clerk. "Butterflies in the Rain" — Universal. Long-drawn-out film of modern miss who marries a staid middle-aged man and leads him a merry dance. Laura La Plante and James Kirkwood. "Cheerful Fraud, The" — Universal. Reginald Denny 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. "Diplomacy" — Paramount. Only mildly interesting. Adapted from the well-known play dealing with international intrigue. Blanche Sweet and Neil Hamilton. "For Alimony Only" — Producers Distributing. 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. "Hotel Imperial" — Paramount. Disappointing wartime film. Pola Negri, as a hotel chambermaid, and James Hall, as a spy disguised as a waiter, scheme against an enemy general and incidentally fall in love. "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 MacGregor is her hero. "Just Another Blonde"— First National. Also released as "'The Girl from Coney Island." Slow film dealing with two Cone3r Island girls and two gamblers. Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, t r.-„„i., w:ti:„.„ r-„ii:„, T "Lady in Ermine, The"— First National. Just piffle. Corinne Griffith, as an Italian duchess of the period of 1810, apparently suffers at the hands of an Austrian general, but — it's only a dream. "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 feeble film of soubrette of the London slums adopted by a rich old lady. "Man Bait" — Producers Distributing. Marie Prevost in a theatrical but uninteresting film setting forth the preposterous adventures and unlikely triumphs of a shopgirl. "Masked Woman, The"— First National. Feeble and ineffective. Anna Q. Nilsson, as the wife of a young doctor on the Riviera, is compromised by a crafty baron, but all ends well. "Michael Strogoff" — Universal. An importation from France, being a melodramatic story of Russia. At times very dramatic, but inclined to be slow. "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. "Paradise" — First National. A mistake from the beginning. Milton Sills and Betty Bronson are miscast as sweethearts in a story that shifts from Broadway to the South Sea Isles. "Popular Sin, The" — Paramount. Not so good. Sophisticated comedy of marriage and divorce, with Florence Vidor, Clive Brook, Greta Nissen, and Philip Strange jointly entangled. "Risky Business" — Producers Distributing. Lacks vitality, but has moments of good acting. Vera Reynolds in the role of a girl who wavers between a rich man and a poor one. "Take It from Me" — Universal. Not up to Reginald Denny's usual standard. Escapades of a reckless young man who assumes charge of a department store. "Tin Gods" — Paramount. Thomas Meighan as a silently suffering builder of bridges in South America who turns to drink, but is redeemed by Renee Adoree. Aileen Pringle is the ambitious wife. "Valencia" — Metro-Goldwyn. Dull film showing Mae Murray as a Spanish dancer who is wooed simultaneously by a sailor and a nobleman — Lloyd Hughes and Roy d'Arcy. "White Black Sheep, The"— First National. Richard Barthelmess in unconvincing film of a disowned son who goes to the Orient, saves the British nation, and is forgiven by father. "Winning of Barbara Worth, The"— United Artists. Vilma Banky and Ronald Colman somewhat miscast in this film of the great open spaces. Beautiful scenery and a capital flood, but story heavily told. "You'd Be Surprised" — Paramount. Raymond Griffith, in a subtle but rather tedious satire on mystery stories, is a dapper coroner called to the scene of a smart society murder. "Young April" — Producers Distributing. Another mythical-kingdom yarn. The Schildkrauts, Rudolph and Joseph, form the royal family, and Bessie Love