Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1928)

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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 tional type, pleasingly played by James Hall, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, and Nancy Phillips. "Rose of the Golden West"— First National. Beautifully .filmed. Romantic story of early California. Mary Astor and 'Gilbert Roland. "Satin Woman, The" — Lumas. Mrs. Wallace Reid in well-acted film of mother who, to save her flapper daughter from a foolish marriage, steps in and vamps the daughter's beau. "Shanghaied" — F. B. O. Surprisingly good. Tale of the water front and a seaman who abducts a dancing girl because he thinks she has double crossed him. Ralph Ince and Patsy Ruth Miller. "Singed" — Fox. Blanche Sweet and Warner Baxter both capital in picture of a mining-town girl's desperate struggle to keep her ne'er-do-well wealthy sweetheart from jilting her for a society debutante. "Smile, Brother, Smile"— First National. Typical "success" story of mildmannered shipping clerk goaded to higher things by his telephone-girl sweetheart. Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mackaill. "Soft Cushions" — Paramount. Douglas MacLean in gay, diverting satire on Oriental spectacles. Comedy .of agile street thief who saves a beautiful slave girl from the sultan. "Sorrell and Son"— United Artists. Adapted from the novel. Story of the devotion between a father and son, reaching climax when son gives father death-dealing drug to end his suffering. H. B. Warner. Anna Q. Nilsson and Nils Asther. "Spring Fever" — Metro-Goldwyn. Very amusing golf-fiend farce. William Haines delightful as young office clerk who suddenly .finds himself hobnobbing with a wealthy country-club set, including a rich heiress — Joan Crawford. "Stolen Bride, The"— First National. Gorgeous film of a bejeweled princess who remains true to her childhood love for a gardener's son. Billie Dove and Lloyd Hughes. "Student Prince, The"— Metro-Goldwyn. Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer in charming film adaptation of "Old Heidelberg" — the story of a boy prince at the famous university and of his pathetic romance with the innkeeper's daughter. "Ten Modern Commandments"— Paramount. Esther Ralston and Neil Hamilton in very good picture of theatrical life, based on the romance of a chorus girl and a young composer. "Topsy and Eva"— United Artists. Hilarious but too long. The wellknown Duncan sisters in a film version of their musical-comedy burlesque of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." "Twelve Miles Out"— Metro-Goldwyn. John Gilbert in tale of what happens when a swaggering, ruthless bootlegger and a haughty society girl, Joan Crawford, are thrown together on the former's rum-running sloop. "Two Arabian Kniahts" — United Artists. Enjoyable comedy featuring two soldiers who escape from a German prison camp to Arabia, and fall in love with a Moslem ladv. William Boyd, Mary Astor and Louis Wolheim. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" — Universal. Exciting screen version of this old-time favorite. Full of thrills, horrors. laughter and tears. Arthur Edmund Carewe, Margarita Fischer and George Siegmann. "Underworld" — Paramount. Exciting melodrama of master crook who kills for the sake of his girl, is sentenced to death, and makes a thrilling escape only to find the girl in love with another. George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent and Clive Brook. "We're AH Gamblers" — Paramount. Thomas Meighan in swift film of prize fighter who, after being incapacitated in an automobile accident, opens a night club, with romantic results. "Wings" — Paramount. Spectacular picture of the heroism of the aviators in the World War. Marred only by a weak story. "Buddy" Rogers, Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, and Jobyna Ralston. "Woman on Trial, The" — Paramount. Well-acted film featuring Pola Negri on trial for murder, with the late Einar Hansen very effective as her artist lover. RECOMMENDED— WITH RESERVATIONS. "After Midnight"— Metro-Goldwyn. Uninspired picture of a prim and proper cigarette girl, her wild show-girl sister, and a crook who is reformed by the heroine. Norma Shearer, Lawrence Gray, and Gwen Lee. "American Beauty" — First National. Dull, superficial film of a hotel check girl who tries to break into high society in stolen finery, but is unmasked before the entire party. Billie Dove and Lloyd Hughes. "Blood Ship, The" — Columbia. Sinister sea story full of bloodshed and revenge. Not very skillfully done. Hobart Bosworth, Jacqueline Logan, and Richard Arlen. "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. "Crystal Cup, The"— First National. Exaggerated, boring film of a girl with a violent antipathy toward men who eventually marries a novelist only to find herself more interested in his best friend. Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall. "Dance Magic" — First National. Obscure, archaic film of country girl who comes to the big city to be an actress, with the usual dire results. Pauline Starke and Ben Lyon. "Dress Parade"— Pathe-DeMille. William Boyd miscast as smart-Aleck cadet at West Point who is taken down a peg or two. Bessie Love is the commandant's daughter. "Fast and Furious" — Universal. Typical Reginald Denny film, but not up to his usual mark. Story of a young man afraid of automobiles who is forced into a race in order to win his girl. "Figures Don't Lie" — Paramount. Trivial, uninteresting tale of a stenographer, a go-getter salesman who is jealous of her employer, and the employer's wife, who is jealous of the stenog. Esther Ralston and Richard Arlen. "For the Love of Mike"— First National. Ben Lyon in commonplace film of boy from the slums of New York who goes to Yale, becomes captain of the crew, and wins the race with Harvard.