Screenland (Apr-Sep 1924)

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Walthall in a perfect characterization of chemist turned master crook supported by a cast that includes Helen Ferguson, Stuart Holmes, Ethel Grey Terry and Alice Lake. It will make your hair stand on end. Thrills galore. WOMEN WHO GIVE — Metro. A tale of women who weep and wait for their men folk out on the bounding main. An excellent story, but poorly interpreted by a cast that includes Barbara Bedford, Robert Frazer and Frank Keenan. Some good deep sea fishing scenes a la "Down to the Sea in Ships" but not nearly as thrilling. Reginald Barker directed. Probably not the best picture in town, but neither is it the worst. STOLEN SECRETS — Universal. Gentleman crook mystery play with lots of thrills. Has enough excitement to make "The Bat" look like a Sunday School concert. Herbert Rawlinson plays the crook, but you'll find yourself pulling for him hard. There is a skein Q. of delightful .romance threaded among the rough stuff. Irving Cummings has directed well. A better than average mystery film that should keep you gripping your seat throughout. THE PHANTOM HORSEMAN — Universal. Jack Hoxie in a ride-'emcowboy western thriller with a stage ■ coach hold-up and everything. Two gun action aplenty — all for the love of the finest little gal in the cattle country. Robert North Bradbury directs a wellbalanced cast. Light and easily digestible entertainment. MRS. DANE'S CONFESSION — Herz Film Corp. Released by F. B. 0. A foreign film that shows only too plainly the lack of modern equipment and capable screen players in the studios abroad. Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten, successful wooer of Millicent Rogers' millions, plays the heavy in a badly handled mystery melodrama. See it if you're curious to see the Count. Otherwise, don't. THE NIGHT MESSAGE— Universal A melodramatic romance of a smouldering feud in the mountain regions of the South. Lots of hokum laid on thick and a last-minute stay of execution by the Governor. It's a real thriller for all o' that. Perley Poore Sheehan is the author and director. Charles Cruz and Gladys Hulette do some really worth-while acting in the leading roles. First rate entertainment, this, and well worth seeing. YANKEE MADNESS — F. B. 0. Revolutionary stuff in Central America in which the hero squelches the rebellion and marries the daughter of the President of the republic. Has an intriguing plot, plenty of romance of the 0. Henry variety and enough fist fights to satisfy the blood thirstiest film fan. George Larkin has the masculine lead while Billie Dove is charming as the senorita. Charles Seeling directed. A really entrancing romance. SINGER JIM McKEE — Paramount. Wishy-washy sentimental slush with wild Bill Hart dishing it up. Not a typical Hart picture for there is a marked absence of his famous shooting irons. He sings and he weeps; he keeps house and he amuses the kiddies, but there's nary a sign of Bill, the he-man. Clifford Smith directed; Phyllis Haver has the feminine lead. A disappointment for the followers of Two-Gun Bill. THE DAWN OF A TOMORROW — Paramount. Done in the style of Cheapside, London, and has a moral that says : "H'ev'rything will come out h'all right h'if you'll only keep an 'appy fyce." Jacqueline Logan has a Pollyanna role of "Glad," gamin of London's underworld and Raymond Griffith plays opposite. A George Melford production. Recommend it for what it is — uncamouflaged melodrama. THE SHOOTING OF DAN McGREW — ■ Metro. An interesting picturization of Robert W. Service's "The Spell of the Yukon" with much stress laid on the villainy of Dangerous Dan McGrew. Excellent acting on the parts of Barbara La Marr, Percy Marmont and Lew Cody in the principal roles offset the flimsiness of the story itself. Many sub-titles are borrowed from the famous Service poem and lend color to the action. Clarence Badger directed. Good melodrama. GALLOPING GALLAGHER — F. B. O. A Western with the tang of the Arizona desert and the drollery of Main Street. Tender romance, too, and lots of roughand-tumble scrapping. Fred Thompson has the title role and Hazel Keener is the girl. Red blooded, out-door stuff from which you'll come away with your chest sticking out and looking for a maiden in distress to rescue. A real movie for a real boy. This department will serve as a perpetual guide to the screen. Every picture of importance will be reviewed here, and the reviews reprinted for three consecutive months to enable our readers to use this guide as a directory in selecting their month's entertainment. Additional reviews on page 49