Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1928)

120 Advertising Section CHELSEA Popular Copyrights Tales of the West, of Love and Mystery and Adventures on sea and land — you can have them now, fresh from the pens of your favorite authors. They are real books, too — no reprints of oldtimers but new books bound in cloth, with handsome stamping and jackets and all for 75 cents. Ask your bookseller to show you some of the books listed below — The Brand of THE QUICK-DRAW KID THE "GOLDEN DOLPHIN" "LOOKOUT" LARAMIE THE TUNNEL TO DOOM Good Books George Gilbert Joseph Montague Paul Bailey Roy W. Hinds THE VALLEY OF THE MONQUIS Arthur Preston THE BLACK SANDER Loring Brent GUN GENTLEMEN David Manning BLUNDELL'S LAST GUEST Albert Payson Terhune THORNTON THE WOLFER George Gilbert THE COASTS OF ADVENTURE James Graham OL' JIM BRIDGER Joseph Montague THE SLEEPING COP Isabel Ostrander and Christopher B. Booth THE BAYOU SHRINE Perley Poore Sheehan THE SILVER SKULL George C. Shcdd THE TRAP AT COMANCHE BEND David Manning HIDDEN OUT Howard Fielding YOUNG LIGHTNING Charles Wesley Sanders THE GLORIOUS PIRATE James Graham SCHEMED AT SANDY BAR George Gilbert THE HOUSE OF DISAPPEARANCES Chester K. Steele ISLAND RANCH STRANGE TIMBER THE FLYING COYOTES THE THUNDERBOLT'S JEST THE MUSTANG HERDER MUTINY Thomas K. Holmes Joseph Montague Raymond S. Spears Johnston McCulley David Manning Frederick R. Bechdolt BLISEA HOUSE iPlfflBlERv 179-89 SEVENTH AVE. r NtW YORK. CITY 75c "London After Midnight"— Metro Goldwyn. Excellent mystery film. Lon Chaney, as Burke of Scotland Yard, employs subtle and uncanny means of finding a murderer. Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, and Henry B. Walthall give expert support. "Love" — Metro-Goldwyn. Superficial and unsatisfying. However, the beautiful sets and romantic situations will make it a box-office attraction. The principals are John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, George Fawcett, and Brandon Hurst. "Love and Learn" — Paramount. Esther Ralston clever in the role of a girl who gets into amusing situations to distract her parents sufficiently to avoid a divorce. Lane Chandler is the hero. "Love Me and the World Is Mine" — Universal. Moderately interesting picture of Vienna before the war. Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry and Betty Compson. "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. "Mockery" — Metro-Goldwyn. Lon Chaney in realistic film of dull-witted Russian peasant whose doglike devotion to a countess leads to his death at the hands of the bolsheviks. Barbara Bedford and Ricardo Cortez. "Mother Machree" — Fox. Maudlin film of a sacrificing Irish mother who does all for her son. Belle Bennett, Neil Hamilton, and Constance Howard. "My Best Girl"— United Artists. Mary Pickford's latest, and one of her best. Tale of stock girl in the 5-and-10 who falls in love with a new clerk — Buddy Rogers — without knowing: he's the owner's son. "Night Flyer, The"— Pathe-DeMille. Simple, human railroad story of 1894, having to do with struggles of the president of a Western road to save his company from bankruptcy. William Boyd and Jobyna Ralston. "Noose, The"— First National. Thrilling story of Richard Barthelmess as a bootlegger who commits murder to save his mother's name, though he doesn't know her. He is acquitted with the aid of his mother — with neither of them declaring their relationship. Alice Joyce is the mother. "Old San Francisco" — Warner. Oldfashioned melodrama of girl who is kidnaped by the Chinese, being saved just in time by the San Francisco earthquake. Dolores Costello and Charles Emmett Mack. "On Your Toes" — Universal. Sparkling. Reginald Denny as a prize fighter, whose grandmother thinks he is an aesthetic dancing teacher. High spot in film when grandma pays him an unexpected call. Barbara Worth and Mary Carr. "Patent Leather Kid, The"— First National. Richard Barthelmess in unusually good film of conceited little prize fighter who tries to evade the war, is drafted, proved a coward, but finally redeemed by an heroic act. "Private Life of Helen of Troy, The" — First National. While the picture has no connection with the book, it is funny enough to stand on its own merits. Lewis Stone and Maria Corda have the important roles, others being Ri cardo Cortez, George Fawcett, and Alice White. "Road to Romance, The"— MetroGoldwyn. Ramon Novarro capital as spirited Spanish courtier of the early nineteenth century who, to save the fair heroine, Marceline Day, disguises himself as a pirate. "Rose = Marie" — Metro-Goldwyn. Flimsy, though beautifully produced, yarn of an Indian maiden who loves a man suspected of murder, marrying some one else to save him from capture. Joan Crawford, James Murray, and House Peters. "Secret Hour, The" — Paramount. Adaptation of stage play "They Knew What They Wanted," with punch taken out. Waitress arrives to marry rancher, who offered her marriage by mail, but she falls in love with his foreman. Rancher nobly permits the two to live with him. Pola Negri, Jean Hersholt, and Kenneth Thomson. "Serenade" — Paramount. Delightful light comedy with Adolphe Menjou at his best. Story of a musician who, on becoming famous as a composer, deserts his home only to be deftly brought back by his clever wife. Kathryn Carver, Lina Basquette, and Lawrence Grant. "Show Down, The" — Paramount. Convincing and well-acted film of two oil prospectors in the tropics, both loving the sa.me girl. All ends happily. George Bancroft, Neil Hamilton, Evelyn Brent, Leslie Fenton, and Fred Kohler. "Silver Slave, The" — Warner. Irene Rich gives sincere performance of mother who sacrifices the man she loves to give her daughter wealth. When daughter encourages an adventurer, mother pretends to be interested in him. Everything ends happily. Audrey Ferris, Holmes Herbert, and John Miljan. "Soft Living"— Fox. Madge Bellamy skillfully portrays a girl who declines to go in for the heavy alimony racket, and what happens when her husband sees through her scheme. She comes to her senses in time for a happy ending. John Mack Brown. "Smart Set, The"— Metro-Goldwyn. Not up to the usual William Haines standard. Smart Aleck polo player is barred from final game, only to rush in at crucial moment and thus save the day, incidentally winning the girl. Alice Day and Jack Holt. "Sorrell and Son"— United Artists. Adapted from the novel. Story of the devotion between a Tather and son, reaching climax when son gives father death-dealing drug: to end his suffering. H. B. Warner, Anna Q. Nilsson and Nils Asther. "Sporting Goods" — Paramount. Excellent film with Richard Dix his best as a salesman for a sporting-goods concern. Gertrude Olmsted, Ford Sterling, and Myrtle Stedman. "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. "Tenderloin"— Warner. Full of suspense spoiled only by the noisy Vitaphone. The love of a girl for a crook and his reform — but not until he goes