Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1927 - Feb 1928)

Advertising Sf.ction 119 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 Madg 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 Frangois Villon, vagabond French poet of the fifteenth century. Marceline Day is the lady. "Bitter Apples" — Warner. Meaningless picture of a girl who marries a man out of revenge and then falls in love with him. Monte Blue and Myrna Loy. "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. "Broadway Nights" — First National. Lois Wilson miscast as gawky, ignorant girl who marries a vaudeville actor, becomes a big success, and is tempted by a rich producer, with husband rushing to the rescue. "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! "Butterfli'^s 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 Jam.es Kirkwood. "Climbers, The" — Warner. Irene Rich in dull, meandering tale of innocent Spanish duchess who is maliciously compromised, then banished to Porto Rico, where she falls in love with a sneering bandit. "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 pi 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," play: a heroic part in the Civil War. "Heart of Salome, The"— Fox. Gaudy, heavily dramatic film of an alluring European adventuress who helps a wicked baron in his nefarious operations, until reformed at last by an athletic young American. Alma Rubens and Walter Pidgeon. "Heart Thief, The"— Producers Distributing. Dull film of a Hungarian peasant girl who marries a rich old landowner, is almost compromised by his scheming relatives, but is saved in time by the handsome hero. Lya de Putti and Joseph Schildkraut. "High Hat"— First National. Foolish satire on the motion-picture world, with Ben Lyon and Mary Brian cast to disadvantage in a silly plot. "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. Eveb'n 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" — W^arner. 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. "Mother"— F. B. O. Belle Bennett in another tale of a suft'ering mother, who, after she has raised her husband and son from poverty to luxury, is betrayed by both. "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 Povv'ell. "Night Bride, The"— Producers Distributing. Marie Prevost and Harrison Ford in mediocre farce of a society tomboy and a 3'oung author, who start off by hating each other. "Notorious Lady, The" — First National. Conventional society melodrama ueginning in London and ending in South Africa. Lewis Stone and Barbara Bedford are the husband and wife eventually reconciled. "Orchids and Ermine" — First National. Colleen Moore wasted in thin, unamusing tale of a switcliboard operator who marries a rich young man posing as a valet. Jack Mulhall is the young man. "Rubber Tires" — Producers Distributing. Boring picture of the frantic efforts of a family to recover a discarded car whose value has suddenly risen to ten thousand dollars. Bessie Love and Harrison Ford. "Sea Tiger, The" — First National. Silly film, laid in the Canary Islands, of two brothers, a girl they both love, and a trouble-making vamp from Broadway. Alilton Sills, Mary Astor, and Larry Kent. "Taxi, Taxi" — Universal. 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