Screenland (May-Jul 1926)

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Send me, postage paid, one Lotion Face Bleach. On arrival, I will pay postman only SI. 50. IE not delighted after six days* use I will return, it and you will at once refund my money. Name « Address SCREENLAND a crook. It isn't a very pretty story, for the crook is pinched before they can be married and the girl, disillusioned, goes to the city and leads a "life". The two are separated all through the picture, each blaming the other for breach of faith, but in the end, of course, they meet again and are joined in matrimony. A sordid, unwholesome tale of the dregs of life. The love interest is there, of course, but it is the kind of love which has to go through too much fire to be purified. The breaking down of the country girl's ideals, her expulsion from the country home by her narrow-minded father, her drab life on the streets, all leave you with the feeling that, though such things undoubtedly exist, they can't exactly come under the head of entertainment. I knew that my friend had no intention of becoming a crook and going to jail for a number of years just to show a girl that he loved her, and I couldn't help but feel, as I watched this tragic story unfold, that most young eople would, to say the least, fail to get any benefit from such an example of bedraggled passion. I was glad, therefore, when the next picture on the list was announced as a comedy. "The 7^utcrac\er" was its title, and the everdelightful Edward Everett Horton was its star. All filled with expectation and a good lunch, I dragged my friend — somewhat bewildered by this time — ■ to the projection room, and together we sat through six reels of as dumb a "comedy" as ever cluttered up a screen. Horton is shown as a henpecked husband who feigns amnesia to escape from his bondage. He poses as the "Llama king of Peru", and by one of those marvelous strokes of luck which happen in the movies, he acquires a fortune overnight and flits around with young ladies gowned like the Queens of Sheba. Meantime the little wife finds him, suspects the genuineness of his amnesia and plans to make him snap out of it. She arranges to have him kidnapped and brought to a room where several horse doctors, posing as surgeons, tell him to prepare for an operation to restore his memory. Of course he falls for the plan, "recovers" his memory and makes up with the little woman, who by this time has changed from a drab housewife into a giddy butterfly. It is all very impossible and very tiresome, despite the strenuous and often clever efforts of Mr. Horton. And as it shows married life in anything but a favorable light, I could see my friend weakening by the reel. Nobody could blame him for that! Of course, nobody could see a film version of that famous old operetta. "The Prince of Pilsen", without picking up some hints about the gentle passion. The only trouble is that it only shows how a prince of the royal blood wins a comparatively simple American maid, and of course an ordinary male U. S. citizen can't be expected to apply the lessons with any great degree of conviction. In this one, the maid comes from Cincinnati with her father, and dad becomes inebriated and is mistaken for the Prince. He is hauled away to the castle of a reigning Princess and is about to be married off to her when it is discovered that he has been innocently practicing a fraud. He is about to be executed, when the girl and the real Prince arrive and save him. Throughout this maze of old but amusing hokum, a very pretty little romance is developed, with Anita Stewart and Allan Forrest as the romancers. Scenes in a quaint German inn, scenes in a lovely rose garden, in a bandit's lair and finally in the palace, are full of inspiration to the young man whose fancy is lightly turning at this sea' son of the year. Anita is charming — as always — and it doesn't seem possible that even such a dub in love-making as my friend is, could fail to do the right thing at the right time under Anita's provocative spell. "The Prince of Pilsen" is an amusing and entertaining picture, and George Sidney, as the heavy-beer-drinking father, is very lovable. Incidentally, this picture has the screen's greatest novelty — a fashion revue staged in a church! The scene is the wedding of the Princess, and the court ladies appear in costumes that make the Follies draperies look like those worn by the Puritans at a witch trial, while the Bishop looks on with perfect equanimity. By this time I was afraid that the seeker for knowledge was worn out or so befuddled by what he'd seen that any more medicine would make him go around picking daisies on Times Square. But I found him as determined as ever to get the low-down on love, so I took him with me when Br'er Fox gave a private showing of "Siberia". The love interest in this, beside being thoroughly conventional, is secondary to the big theme of the story, the fighttfor freedom of ideas. It is the story of Russia as most of us over here have known it for years — tyranny, brutality and stupidity under the Czar; terror and suffering; exile to the bleak wastes of Siberia; the triumph of the proletariat; and finally the same tyranny and misuse of power by the self-appointed proletariat leaders. It is intensely interesting and makes you sympathize with the Russian people in their revolution. It also gives you a glimpse of what Russia is suffering under today when the people's champions turn out to be more concerned with the welfare of all the people than were the Czars. Alma Rubens, as an aristocrat who labored for the people, gives a stunning performance. She is loved by three men — the revolutionary leader, a good officer of the Czar, and a bad ditto. When she is sent to Siberia, the officers fight each other on her account. The bad one is slain and the good one put under arrest. Then comes the leader of the people with the news of the successful revolution. All prisoners are freed, but just when you think the girl's troubles are over, the leader turns out to be a conceited self seeker who wants the girl for himself regardless of her own feelings. The officer escapes and there is a wild sleigh ride through the snow-bound wastes, with a pack of wolves in pursuit. The leader pursues but is put down and out by the officer and the lovers finally make their escape. As a lesson in love making, this is somewhat confusing. Apparently the novice must either start a revolution to make his lady-love cast coy glances at him, or he must be a handsome young officer in a uniform like the doorman at a night club. Revolutions, like wars, are kind of scarce around these parts, and while a uniform can be rented from any costume company, it's a long way to Siberia. However, there's balm in Gilead for the seeker after knowledge. "Siberia", for all its gripping drama and its poignant picturization of life under the Czars, may not be much of a help to the lovelorn; but there's good news in store for those who long to pop the question. "Sandy" tells all! "Sandy" is about love — and you'll love it. It may not make much of a hit with grandma, in spite of its moral ending; but grandma is supposed to know it all anyhow — and what she doesn't know about the younger generation won't hurt her. The pretty little girl in the film goes after love in a Big Way. She starts with a stren