Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

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Whitman Chambers Robert Ormond Case Henry Leverage William Morton Emarf 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 Dor-ance and James French Dorrance fHELSEA HOUSE 79-89 SEVENTH AVE-. NEW YORK CITY 75c 75c The Screen in Review Continued from page 95 man comes along, in the person of Douglas Gilmore, it is seen that Ginette has been saving her kisses for him. Call It Budapest. "The Show" doesn't quite get over, on the whole, as fully as John Gilbert's vivid acting as Cock Robin deserves. It is a melodrama of a Budapest side show, and Gilbert plays the barker — vain, cruel, unscrupulous— with authority and zest. It is quite unlike any of his other roles, and one can easily understand his enthusiasm for it. This makes it doubly regrettable that the picture moves slowly and lacks an arresting quality, in spite of a novel background and colorful hocus-pocus on the stage of the side show. Renee Adoree, photographed to her disadvantage, plays Salome, Cock Robin's inamorata, but for some reason she is listless. There is the villainous Greek, done by Lionel Barrymore, a stupid country girl who blindly adores Cock Robin, and an old man, who is made to believe by Salome that his criminal son is a brave soldier. It is her kind deception that seemingly brings about a great reformation in Cock Robin's character, when he discovers it ; but it left me unconvinced of anything except the scenario writer's hard work, and Gilbert's efforts to vivify it. Darkness Before Dawn, Her name was Laena, but they called her Egypt because she was so pagan. Meaning that she was given to jazz parties, country-club high jinks, and the like — all quite re spectable, according to everyday standards. Egypt was just another of those willful society girls, but the name of the picture, "Sensation Seekers," leads you to expect something hot. Well, you don't find it. Egypt high hats the handsome young clergyman, is arrested in a raid, and generally goes her own sweet way until she decides she loves the clergyman. But as he won't give up his calling to marry her, she flounces out to bestow her heart and hand on his dissolute rival. The picture ends with the finely staged wreck of a yacht, whither the clergyman has dashed to "save Egypt from herself." Billie Dove is the girl, Raymond Bloomer the cleric, and Huntly Gordon the other man. Rinty Takes a Bow. Rin-Tin-Tin's new picture is "Hills of Kentucky," and it is well worth seeing, in the same way that all Rinty's pictures are. The title explains the location of the story, and when you are told that the canine star is The Gray Ghost, a wild dog who leads his pack into all sorts of predatory adventures, until he is tamed by human kindness — a child's kindness — you need not know any more of the story. The players in Rinty's support are Dorothy Dwan, as a dainty schoolma'am, Jason Robards, who has cause, with Hamlet, to say, "Oh, would that this too, too solid flesh would melt," and Tom Santschi, as well as Billy Kent Shaeffer, the remarkable child actor, who attracted attention in "The Home Maker" two vears agro. Manhattan Medley Continued from page 54 ingenue in her own right. Leaning on the arm of her distinguished husband, she is a familiar figure at first nights. Sherman, his wife, and his monocle, are inseparable, save on those workaday occasions when Miss Garon escorts her blond tresses to a studio and registers. Picture contracts — to go westward, of course — are dangled before the twain, but up -to the present, Manhattan has held its lure, and whether it is a Ziegfeld opening or a film event, the Lowell Shermans continue to Jbe among those present, and decidedly worth looking at. Facing the Music. Another happy couple joined our midst when Corinne Griffith and her husband, Walter Morosco, sailed in on the Leviathan. When Corinne enters Manhattan by rail she usually detrains at a station some distance from the city, so that she can be mistress of her movements and pass into her hotel unattended by the fuss demanded by some of the stars. But with the passenger list of a big liner open to inquisitive eyes, it was impossible for her to duck the reporters. So she made the best of it. While in London she acquired the film rights to a play with the piquant title of "The Garden of Eden." but it isn't the sort of piece the name would indicate. It's a society comedy, and Corinne expects to use it as her first vehicle for United Artists.