Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

Advertising Section 117 "Taxi Dancer, The" — Metro-Goldwyn. Agreeably entertaining. Joan Crawford alluring as dance-hall girl who gets in with a bad crowd, but finally lands safely back in Old Virginny. "Tell It to the Marines"— MetroGoldwyn. Lon Chaney, William Haines, and Eleanor Boardman in entertaining picture of flippant youth who joins the marines just to play the races and gets put in his place by a hardboiled sergeant. "Three Hours"— First National. Corinne Griffith in tale of a mother who steals for the sake of her child. Lots of plot and "high society." John Bowers is the sympathetic friend. "Twinkletoes" — First National. Colleen Moore appealing as a Limehouse girl who suffers all kinds of villainy before she and her prize fighter, Kenneth Harlan, fade out in a cabbage patch. "Venus of Venice"— First National. Constance Talmadge in gay yarn of picturesque Venetian beggar maid who is also a thief, eventually reformed by the rich Antonio Moreno. "White Gold"— Producers Distributing. Jetta Goudal gives fine performance as Spanish girl in this exceptional film of the West, full of sinister moments and grim situations. "Wolfs Clothing"— Warner. Lively, entertaining picture of subway guard who accidentally comes into a fortune and is swirled through all sorts of thrilling adventures. Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller. "Yankee Clipper, The" — Producers Distributing. William Boyd and Elinor Fair in beautifully filmed but trivial sea picture, based on the maritime rivalry between the United States and England in the middle of the nineteenth cetury. RECOMMENDED— WITH RESERVATIONS. _ "Afraid to Love" — Paramount. Polite but tepid comedy of titled Englishman who marries a girl just to inherit some money and of course falls in love with her. Clive Brook and Florence Vidor. "Ankles Preferred" — Fox. Trivial hodge-podge featuring Madge Bellamy as a pert shopgirl who means by hook or crook to get on in the world. Lawrence Gray is the "nice young man." "Beloved Rogue, The" — United Artists. John Barrymore in an undignified, clownish portrayal of Francois Villon, vagabond French poet of the fifteenth century. Marceline Day is the lady. "Bertha the Sewing=Machine Girl" — Fox. Madge Bellamy in old-fashicned melodrama of girl model who is decoyed to a gentleman's yacht, but saved in time by a young shipping clerk. "Blind Alleys" — Paramount. Thomas Meighan and Greta Nissen in slow film of army officer and his bride who are accidentally separated in the big city, and go through all kinds of adventures before being reunited. "Brute, The" — Warner. Monte Blue in implausible picture of genial, simple-souled cowboy who kisses a girl, then makes the horrible discovery that she works in a dance hall ! "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. "Demi=Bride, The" — Metro-Goldwyn. Norma Shearer miscast in role of a mincing young French girl who steals her stepmother's beau. Lew Cody and Carmel Myers. "Don't Tell the Wife"— Warner. Another sophisticated comedy of entangled husbands and wives. Not particularly good. Irene Rich, Lilyan Tashman, and Huntly Gordon. "Gay Old Bird, The"— Warner. Louise Fazenda in dull, dreary comedy of a cook who is persuaded to pose temporarily as her employer's wife, that he may receive a large sum of money. "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." "High Hat"— First National. Foolish satire on the motion-picture world, with Ben Lyon and Mary Brian cast to disadvantage in a silly plot. "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. "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. "Lovers" — Metro-Goldwyn. Ramon Novarro and Alice Terry in disappointing picture showing the damage done by malicious gossip. "Love's Greatest Mistake" — Paramount. Old story of country girl who comes to the city, is pursued by a wealthy villain, and saved by the noble hero. Evelyn Brent, James Hall, and Josephine Dunn. "Man Bait" — Producers Distributing. Marie Prevost in a theatrical but uninteresting film setting forth the preposterous adventures and unlikely triumphs of a shopgirl. "Matinee Ladies" — Warner. May McAvoy and Malcolm McGregor in slow, dull film about a cigarette girl and a law student who hires himself out as a professional dancing partner. "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. "Night Bride, The"— Producers Distributing. Marie Prevost and Harrison Ford in mediocre farce of a society tomboy and a young author, who start off by hating each other. "Notorious Lady, The"— First National. Conventional society melodrama beginning in London and ending in South Africa. 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