Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

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"The Book of Etiquette," by Laura Alston Brown, the most complete, up-to-date and authoritative work of the kind ever issued, is priced at ONE DOLLAR In an Attractive and Durable Fabrikoid Binding Order from Your Bookseller or from CHELSEA HOUSE Publishers 79 Seventh Avenue, New York 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. "General, The"— United Artists. Not at all worthy of Buster Keaton. Long, dull comedy of an engineer whose locomotive, "The General," plays a heroic part in the Civil 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 Coney Island girls and two gamblers. Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, Louise Brooks, and William Collier, Jr. "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. "New York" — Paramount. Conventional melodrama. A writer of popular songs falls in love with a society girl and is accused of murdering the girl he spurned. Ricardo Cortez, Lois Wilson, Estelle Taylor, and William Powell. "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. "Taxi, Taxi" — Universal. Edward Everett Horton miscast in comedy of young draftsman who takes his employer's niece, Marian Nixon, out for the evening and gets mixed up with a crook. "Third Degree, The" — Warner. Conventional society melodrama in which Dolores Costello. as a former circus girl, suffers and suffers while her wealthy husband kills the villain who attempts to compromise her. "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 ;s 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. "When a Man Loves" — Warner. John Barrymore in stagy artificial screen version of "Manon Lescaut," the tale of the troubles of a French cavalier and his flirtatious mistress. Dolores Costello miscast as Manon. "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. "Wrong Mr. Wright, The"— Universal. Mirthless farce featuring Jean Hersholt as the sappy son of a corset manufacturer who is mistaken for the cashier who has absconded with the funds. Enid Bennett is a lady detective. "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 is the American girl. Information, Please Continued from page 102 Mrs. Johnson. — As to why no picture of Tom Moore's daughter, Mary Alice, is ever published, I don't know. Perhaps it's because her mother, Alice Joyce, doesn't care to thrust her child into the limelight. Alice Terry is five feet six inches, and weighs one hundred and thirty pounds. See A Rudolph Valentino Fan.