Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1927 - Feb 1928)

Advertising Section 117 try standing on his own legs for a time. Then if he flops, you can boost him up again." Meanwhile, my thanks, Miss Perula. I am glad to find one fan who has brains to think for herself. Elfreda Peel. St. John's Wood, London, England. Another Organist is Heard From. I was very interested in the letter from a movie organist, published in a recent issue, and I thought that perhaps you would care to hear from an organist in England also. Having seen so many pictures — it must be thousands — no doubt I am hypercritical, but where the average movie fan sees a certain picture only once, or perhaps twice, I see the same picture three times a day, and if the picture is showing all the week, this means eighteen times ! Just think what purgatory this can mean to a poor unfortunate cinema organist, or on the other hand, if the film is a good one, what joy. I have often been filled with genuine regret on the last screening of a real good film, but what I've said about the rubbish that is sometimes shown — well ! it's a good job I can "tread on everything" sometimes and make a noise to cover up my thoughts. And now just a word or two regarding Mrs. Olive Thompson's letter in the same issue. It is quite plain for any one to see that this lady is, above all else, a zealous American patriot, and all honor to her for be^ ing so. No\y, we are all victims of circumstance, and circumstance has brought these people to her country, and they have prospered, but, in the name of freedom, and the right of every man or woman, no matter what their nationality, to think and act for them selves, why, I ask, does she deny them the same high feeling for their mother country, that she bears for hers? Film producers do not make film stars : the film public does that, through the box office. H. Margatroyd Farrar. Regent Theater, Brighton, Sussex, England. Gilbert is Shorn of His Crovs^n. What is there to rave over in Jack Gilbert, I should like to know, to launch such bitter fights between the fans? He is just an ordinary man and actor, and as for all that dramatic love stuff, it is just bunk. I much prefer seeing Dick Dix in any picture. And I would advise those fans who are always raving about the foreigners to go see Dick, the most American hero on the screen. Also, those who don't like the foreign players had better stop hitting at them all the time. What is the good of saying all sorts of mean things a'bout them when you don't have to see them? If a star is playing whom I don't like, I stay away from the theater, but I don't tell all my friends that that particular star is rotten, because they have a right to like them if they want to. I like Vilma Banky immensely, also Greta Nissen .and Renec Adoree. Renee had better take a few reducing exercises, though. The only foreign player I have no i:se for is Greta Garbo. She is only a vamp and man chaser. But then the fans will rave over anything. I like Connie and Norma Talmadge best, and I see from some of the letters in recent issues that Connie is quite a favorite among the fans. I belong to the Movie Fans Friendship Club and have many pen pals. M. L. H. Elizabeth, N. J. A Confidential Guide to Current Releases Continued from page 59 "Judgment of the Hills"— F. B. O. Strong, simple tale of a hard-fisted mountaineer who is afraid to go to war, but eventually becomes a hero. Orville Caldwell and Virginia Valli. "King of Kings, The"— Producers Distributing. Sincere and reverent visualization of the last three years in the life of Christ. H. B. Warner dignified and restrained in central role. Cast includes Jacqueline Logan, Joseph Schildkraut, Victor Varcom, and Rudolph Schildkraut. "Knock=out Reilly" — Paramount. Richard Dix in an exciting fight film — his best picture in years. Cast includes Jack Renault, the professional heavyweight, and Mary Brian. "Long Pants"— First National. Harry Langdon both funny and pathetic in tale of a country boy in his first long pants who comes under the spell of a city vamp. "Love Thrill, The"— Universal. Laura La Plante in diverting farce of a girl who poses as the widow of a man falsely reported dead, and then is confronted by him. Tom Moore is the man. "Madame Pompadour" — Paramount. Colorful film based on the story of Madame Pompadour, favorite of Louis XV., with Dorothy Gish in the title role, and Antonio Moreno as a radical poet who captures her fancy. "Madame Wants No Children"— Fox. Foreign film. Sophisticated tale of a wealthy man's wife whose feverish quest for excitement leaves her no time for domesticity. "Man Power"— Paramount. Richard Dix in implausible but interesting tale of a tramp who arrives in a small town, wins an heiress — Mary Brian — and saves the town from a bursting dam. "Monkey Talks, The"— Fox. Unusual film of a man who poses as a talking monkey in a circus, and loses his life saving the girl he loves from a real monkey. Jacques Lerner and Olive Borden. "Mr. Wu" — Metro-Goldwyn. Lon Chaney in gruesome, slow-moving film of a baleful old Chinaman's revenge for the seduction of his daughter by a young Englishman. Renee Adoree and Ralph Forbes. "Old San Francisco" — Warner. Oldfashioned melodrama of girl who is kidnaped by the Chinese, being seved just in time by the San Francisco earthquake. Dolores Costello and Charles Emmett Mack. "Paid to Love" — Fox. Fairly entertaining film of beautiful dancer who is paid to snare a crown prince, but falls in love with him. Virginia Valli and George O'Brien. "Patent Leather Kid, The"— First National. 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