The Picture Show Annual (1928)

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Picture Show Annual 105 c Jwds &D Cotnpan CINEMA COUPLES WHOSE PRESENCE IS SUFFICIENT TO ASSURE A SUCCESS A dam, we are told, was the first to consider the attraction of two human beings superior to the attraction of one, and ever since he dis- pensed with a spare rib in order that his dream might materialise, we have been alternately blessed and cursed by the habit of " hunting in couples." The really ideal couple is the one in which each half complements and draws out the best in the other half. This applies not only to marriage and friendship but to business. On the stage and screen we all know that some combinations of talent are failures even though each artiste may be well known and liked, while with a different co-worker, even of lesser fame, they could each have risen to great heights. The main reason why certain teams seem to be a company in themselves, and given adequate stories and a competent director, can turn Ronald Colman and Vilma Banhj) as they appear in" The Winning of Barbara Worth." Below : John Gilbert as Bardelys and Eleanor Boardman as Roxalarme in " Bardelys the Magnificent."