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56 SCREENLAND
Screenlands Critic Really Sees the Pictures!
The First Year Fox
I'd recommend this as the family film of the month, but that might keep you away. And I'm interested in pushing , you in to see it, because it's a different Gaynor-Farrell film. In fact, it isn't a Gaynor-Farrell film at all. It's a FarrellGaynor, this time. There's a difference. Charlie Farrell has turned actor on us. He need no longer depend upon his ingratiating smile and boyish appeal. In "The First Year" he gives a splendid, upstanding performance of a young husband, probably the best thing he has done. Devotees of the team will like their latest. So will others, for this time it's clever, not cloying. It follows the trials of a "nice young married couple" through their first year, past hilarious complications to a refreshing finish. There are legitimate laughs by Leila Bennett, Maude Eburne, and Robert McWade; authentic charm by Janet and Charlie, and — good! — Dudley Digges.
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Congorilla Lady and Gent The First Year American Madness Million Dollar Legs Washington Masquerade
Million Dollar Legs Paramount
The laugh picture for your list! It's wild, it's crazy, it's goofy. It's just utter nonsense. But it's funny. Don't ask 35*3*^ me what it's all about because I don't know — there's no ^ rhyme or reason to it, but there's something better — there's satire, slapstick, and the funniest gags concocted since Chaplin turned genius on us. The picture begins in the mythical kingdom of Klopstockia and ends in Hollywood, at the Olympics, in one broad jump. As the President of Klopstockia, W. C. Fields gets the lion's share of laughs. Jack Oakie, as the Fuller brush man from America who must devise some way to make $8,000,000 for the crazy country before he can marry the President's daughter, pretty Susan Fleming, is grand as only Oakie can be. Lyda Roberti plays Mata Macree, "the famous spy no man can resist," — yes, it's all as silly as that — in highly amusing and pictorial manner.
Lady and Gent Paramount
The most human picture of the month! I don't care how critical you think you are, there are certain scenes in this film that will get you. Take a dumb prizefighter, a nightclub lady who loves him, have him lose the fight, have her stick by him, have them both overcome by a little orphan, and what have you? Hokum? Maybe. But the very best hokum. And when George Bancroft plays the ex-champ, and that clever Wynne Gibson plays the girl, and when they both squeeze every drop of sentiment from every scene, then you give in, and join me in enjoying "Lady and Gent." It's much too slow, and some of the dialogue is too smart-cracky, and often Bancroft has you worried that he is "going up in his lines," as we say on Broadway; but you'll like most of it. Miss Gibson is the real star of the piece.
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