Screenland (May–Oct 1927)

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C[ A girl never \nows. enus of ENICE Q In your gondola ll those things you have heard about Venice are apparently true. Take it from "Venus of Venice". It s a paradise for beautiful young girls — preferably pickpockets; it abounds in rich and fascinating and easily imposed-upon heroes. And its gondolas are just too cute for anything. This new Constance Talmadge picture should be called "The Diving Venus of Venice". Yes — she swims home. When the villian pursues her, she simply walks, not runs to the nearest window and does a neat dive into the handy canal. So that is Venice. Naughty Carlotta has long been the despair of the Venice police force, who never seemed to think of equipping themselves with water-wings when on her trail. She has everything her own way until Tony Moreno turns the tables on her by doing a little thieving of his own. He does a good job of heart-snatching — and our Venus decides to reform. First, she has to square it with her former accomplice, whose name, of course, is Marco. And it involves a lot of explanation, let me tell you — and a couple more dives. It's only at the Carnival that things are cleaned up — both ways. When Connie-Carlotta does her next, and final dive she is accompanied by Tony, who C[ Constance Talmadge has everything her own way until Tony Moreno springs a surprise. believed in her all the time. Madcaps in any vicinity are advised to adopt Connie's Carlotta costume — it's equally effective for street or canal, walking or swimming. A girl never knows. The surprise of this comedy, however, is Julanne Johnstone. She plays one of those fiancees who arrives on the scene unexpectedly and inopportunely. Usually her advent makes no difference whatever to the story. The hero and heroine proceed just as if she weren't there, and so does the audience. But when the beautiful Julanne appears, you wonder — if only for a second — if she won't win the hero back after all. That's how attractive she is. She reminded me of Renee Adoree and Claire Windsor, all at once. Try that before your own mirror sometime. C[ Gilda \nows her Broadway — and she'll show you around. CABARET (\Hey, Hey —Here's Cabaret! roadway! If you've been there you know what it means. If you haven't, you've dreamed about it, I and you're probably saving your pennies to pay it a visit. But now you can put it off a little longer. Broadway is here — right before your eyes. Jump right in and have a good time. Gilda Gray will help you. From the time she makes her dazzling entrance as the star of a night-club show, all the way through a sizzling melodrama of crooks and cabaret girls to the grand finale in which she out-dances all the other dancing stars of Broadway, N. Y., and Broadway, Movieland — Gilda is the life of her own party. And now's the time for all good men to come to the aid, too. And because she's swell to her mother and father, sweet to her little sisters, and loyal to a weakling brother, the ladies will like our heroine, too, thus ensuring a pleasant time for all. For the first time that I can remember, you're taken behind the s.cenes of Broadway by an insider instead of a tourists' guide. Under Gilda's guidance, you're inside looking around, and you don't feel like a boob in a big city, You 45