Screenland (May–Oct 1927)

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diems would a girl like Enid have to vamp a man like Jean Hersholt to subtract the aforesaid subtraction confession from him? Til have to help you out there. Since Jean Hersholt is always Mr. X the unknown quantity, he does a little rapid calculating himself and vamps Enid Bennett. Multiply that by two for comedy complication. It's five reels so multiply it by five again. No, there are no answers in the back of the book, but Ell tell you what the total is and see if you are right on "The Wrong Mr. Wright". It all adds up to a merry-go'round of comedy. Class is dismissed. You just have time to make the matinee. THE CLOSED GATE If you want a new kind of entertainment for some guests the afternoon "The Closed Gate" opens in your town, organise a Tear Party. Just give each guest an extra handkerchief, get them to the theatre, and after that your cares as hostess will cease. "The Closed Gate" is a sure fire tear duct opener, the sort of picture that gets you all choked up and lets you weep wholeheartedly and unabashed. Your Tear Party can't help being a success. You will get all wrapped up in the boy and his mother. The boy is Johnny <3[ Aileen Dee, Earle Foxe and Margaret Livingston in "Slaves of Beauty". ((The boy in "The Closed Gate" is Johnny Harron and he has something of that indescribable pathos his brother Bobby so richly possessed. Harron and he has something of that indescribable quality his brother Bobby so richly possessed — that pathetic, wistful longing for the beauty and love that always seemed just out of his grasp. Bobby, gone but unforgotten, used to remind me of flowers that were sunshine-started and never quite bloomed, and candles that could not seem to give out all their light. Gosh! I'm gulping now C[ This \ind of a picture ma\es you wish jor a broncho instead of a brougham. Fred Thomson and William Courtright. Anyhow, that's what "The Closed Gate" does to you. The mother whose death bed is a wheel chair; the father you'd like to shoot; the boy driven from home, and throwing himself into the war to die and forget Then shell shock and loss of memory. He can forget. But he cannot die. The nurse — Jane Novak. The pitiful little romance that finally What? Still crying? Everybody else is, too, so it's all right "SILVER COMES THROUGH" Whenever I see Fred Thomson and his horse, Silver, I wonder the automobile business doesn't take a skid. This kind of propaganda makes you feel like owning a broncho instead of a 1927 brougham Yes sir, Silver on the silver screen makes you wish for one of those balloon tired 51