Screenland (May-Oct 1928)

84 SCREENLAND "Arlington Operated" HOTEL ANSONIA Broadway, 73rd to 74th Streets NEW YORK CITY 5 minutes to Theatres and . Shopping Districts. 12 minutes from Penn. and Grand Central Stations. 1,260 ROOMS (All Outside) New York's most complete hotel. Everything for comfort and convenience of our guests. TWO RESTAURANTS Open from 6:30 A. M. until midnight. Music, Dancing, 2 Radio Orchestras, Ladies' Turkish Bath, Beauty Parlor, Drug Store, Barber Shop, Stock Broker's Office. All in the Ansonia Hotel. TRANSIENT RATES 300 Rooms and Bath per day #4.00 Large Double Rooms, Twin Beds, Bath #6.00 per day Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (2 persons) #7.00 per iky Special Weekly and Monthly Rates A restful hotel — away from all noise and "dirt" of the "Roaring Forties." No coal smolee; our steam plant equipped oil fuel. Coolest Hotel in New York in Summer THE ANSONIA In conjunction with the Hotels Marseilles, Anderson, Richmond and Cosmopolitan "Arlington Operated" ON THE OCEAN FRONT "Breakers ATLANTIC CITY N.J. AS a "view of a superphoto-play fills one with satisfaction — SO will a visit to the seashore and our Hotel prove a vacation program par-excellence ! HILLMAN MANAGEMENT Bathing from Rooms Just Completed, and the Outstanding Success of the City THE BELVEDERE HOTEL 48th Street, West of Broadway Times Square's Finest Hotel Within convenient walking distance to important business centers and theatres. Ideal Transit Facilities 450 ROOMS 450 BATHS Every Room an Outside Room — with Two Large Windows Large Single Rooms, size II ft. 6 in. by 20 tt., with Bath, $4.00 per day For Two. $5. 00— Twin Beds. $6 (10 Large Double Rooms, Twin Beds, Bath, $6.00 per Day Special Weekly Rates Furnished or Unfurnished Suites with Serving Pantries, $95 to $150 per Month Moderately Priced Restaurant Featuring a Peerless Cuisine Illustrated Booklet Free on Request CURTIS A. HALE, Managing Director Rosa Reitty's Reviews — continued jwm page n GOOD MORNING, JUDGE! What all women need, if you ask me, is not a new brand of cigarettes or a dashy recipe for gin cocktails, but what they all need is a novel dose of movie comedy. Now, I'll tell you a secret. Most girls don't like picture comedies. They won't admit it because they realize they're admit' ting they haven't much sense of humor. But it's true. Women haven't a great sense of humor. I'm one and I know. But here's the funny part. Every woman likes Reginald Denny's stuff. And the reason for it is he's such a delightful cuss that even when he's clowning around, wc men are sighing — between laughs — and thinking: 'Oh what a lover that romantic looking Denny would make if he'd only stop that comedy business.' In his new picture. Good Morning, Judge, Denny is as funny as ever and twice as good-looking. He falls in love with Mary Nolan, a mission worker, and pretends to be a crook just so he can hang aroung and be reformed. The climax is a lot of laughs in which Otis Harlan does great work. SHOOTING STARS A few months ago, Anthony Asquith, son of the famous Margot Asquith and of Great Britain's late ex-Premier, decided to visit Hollywood. While he was there he sold a producer on an idea for a film of English life. And strange to relate, the result of this idea is not half bad. Everybody likes to read stories about screen stars and everybody likes to see pictures of studio life. Working on this theory young Anthony got together an amazingly sensitive scenario concerning the lives of a married couple, Mae Feather and Julian Gordon, both English film stars. Mae is offered a position in Hollywood provided she does not get mixed up in any scandal. She accepts the offer and is ready to leave when her husband discovers her love for Andy Wilks, a comedian. Threatened with divorce and scandal, she is driven to the wall. In a moment of frustration she puts a live cartridge into the gun which is to be pointed at her husband in a certain movie scene. The gun goes off and kills her lover instead of her husband. At this point the film is superb, as the dead comedian is carried past the husband and wife on the set. There is another sequence, too, the scene in the great Cathedral, where 'back-stage' life in the studio is revealed with startling reality. An excellent beginning in the right direction is this young Englishman's first effort in screen supervision. THE GIRL HE DIDNT BUY This is the kind of a picture that gives me a vast stomach ache. It's about a stage producer who gets all huffed up because the girl he promised to star 'won't be nice to him." Cecil de Mille once said if he had made love to every girl that he was supposed Lo have made love to he'd have little time left to direct pictures. Well, what goes for Cecil goes for Broadway producers, too. Most of them look after their business by day and go home to the suburbs at night more excited over their low golf score than over the ravishing curves of some young maiden. Well, to return to this picture, it gives the usual 'expose' of Broadway, and although it's far from true, there are some back-stage scenes which will make a hit. If you prefer to believe that producers are 'slimy satyrs' preying on 'innocent youth,' instead of busy business men, this picture is your meat. A HUSBAND BY PROXY A celebrated bon vivant of the French boulevards once said: 'Women go wrong solely for two reasons. The first is curiosity; the second, boredom.' If husbands and lovers only realized what a gift French films are to American womanhood, they would suggest that the wife or the girl friend take in one a week as an emotional tonic. It would rid them of both the curiosity and the boredom. For French bed-room farces leave little to the imagination— only what our censor demands. And our wives and sweethearts file in, sit very solemnly and morally while they watch the French woman 'go wrong!' Then they come home with that 'holier than thou" feeling and start off quite cheerfully making peach shortcake for supper. A Husband by Proxy is the type of film that will pacify a bored or curious woman. It's a queer mixed-up affair of French high life, bronze keys fitted to bed-room doors, husband and lover and true French naughtiness all poured in together in grande passion style. If you enjoyed Murnau's Faust you'll like to see again Gosta Ekman who played in that film. HELLO, CHEYENNE! "Cheyenne. Shy Ann Hop on my pony, There's room here For two, dear. And after the ceremony We'll ride home, dear, as one!'' That's it — Tom Mix and a western girl, two rival telephone companies trying to be the first to finish a line between Rawhide and Cheyenne. The girl's father heads one company, and of course, with the aid of Tom Mix, wins the day. A picture with plenty of punch. DOMESTIC TROUBLE Just as Jack Gilbert wants to play bad men, and Mary Pickford wants to play grown-ups, so would Louise Fazenda like to be something else besides a comedy character with her hair pulled off her ears. Well, in Domestic Trouble, she had a shot at another role. She played a vamp. Back to the funny stuff for you, Louise. It s tough but true! She seemed all wrong as a vamp. You get what I mean? She wasn't actually wrong but we are so used to seeing her the other way we can't switch our minds around fast enough to satisfy ourselves that she would make a good vamp. But wait a minute boys, all is not lost. You had better take in this picture, jast the same. And you'd better leave the girl wife at home, for there's a fast-working, slow-moving blonde heart-breaker in this film who'll win your eyes. Her name is Jean Laverty. And she is large, but luscious.