Screen Opinions (1923-24)

“BOOK THE NEW PERCENTAGE WAY" 131 plane in a storm at sea, and with the arrival of drenched occupants at the home of the hero on an isolated island a vein of comedy creeps in. In fact, the entire story — a story without much plot — is visualized in light-hearted style. Theodore Kosloff gives an artistic performance as Richard Forestall, soldier of fortune, and the one young man of the story with serious ideas. Richard, it may be noted, lays bare to the others the folly of their good-for-nothing lives. Robert Cain, Recardo Cortez, Irene Dalton, Alec Francis and Snitz Edwards are among the best of an excellent cast. Photography and illumination are splendid, and effectively worded subtitles add jazz to jazz. STORY OF THE PLAY Babs Weston becomes engaged to Richard Forestall as he is about to board a boat for 1 Europe. Later she forgets him, and while her father is absent on a mission in the Orient, she becomes associated with a jazz crowd, and when Richard and Bab’s father arrive at the Weston home together, she is in the midst of a jazz party, and has become engaged to two more men. When an aeroplane in which Babs is riding along with Clyde Dunbar, about to be divorced from his wife, is stranded on the beach of an island on which Richard’s father lives, Richard, who has arrived by yacht, proceeds to teach her a lesson on the folly of jazz, after smashing the radio communication to the mainland. The end reveals to Babs the fact that she really loves Richard. PROGRAM COPY — “Children of Jazz” — Featuring Theodore Kosloff, Recardo Cortez, Robert Cain and Eileen Percy Pretty Babs Weston discovered the folly of jazzing a romance when her first and only love revealed to her the colors under which she was sailing. Theodore Kosloff Recardo Cortez, Robert Cain and Eileen Percy are members of the cast of this jazziest of jazz pictures. “DIVORCE”— [Class A-c] 90% (Adapted from story of same name) Story: — Wife Saves Marital Bark from Divorce Courts by Losing Success Drugged Husband His Job VALUE CAST Photography — Excellent — Jack MacKenzie. Jane Parker Jane Novak TYPE OF PICTURE! — Fascinating. Jim Parker John Bowers Moral Standard — Good. George Reed James Corrigan 1 ■ 1 Mrs. George Reed Edythe Chapman Stoiy — Excellent — Drama — Family. Gloria Gayne Margaret Livingston Star — Excellent — Jane Novak. Townsend Perry Freeman Wood Author — Excellent — Andrew Bennison. Winthrop Avery George Fisher Direction — Excellent — Chester Bennett. “Dicky” Parker Phillipe DeLacy Adaptation — Excellent — Andrew Bennison. — ■ . . ■ ..... Tedinique — Excellent. August 1 to IS, 1923. Spiritual Influence — Good. Producer — Chester Bennett Footage — 6,000 ft. Distributor — F. B. O. Our Opinion MORAL O’THE PICTURE — Patience and Understanding Can Often Cheat the Divorce Courts. Well-Pointed Lesson in Fascinatingly Human Production There are various reasons why “Divorce” is a production that every exhibitor will want to play, foremost among which is the fact that it is produced humanly. The people of the story do pretty nearly if not always just what we would do in their places. Of course, all men are not of the type of Jim Parker, the success-intoxicated husband, but many women resemble the patient, thoughtful type so exquisitely portrayed by Jane Novak. Chester Bennett’s direction leaves no stray ends, as it were — each thread of the story is drawn neatly into place, and the development of the plot is rich in details that are necessary to realism in setting the central figures. The child Phillipe DeLacy is delightfully natural, and the scenes in the early part of the picture, ) where father, mother and child romp about the happy home, previous to the days when too much success put a crimp in domestic harmony, are especially pleasing. John Bowers is excellent in the role of Jim Parker, and Margaret Livingston as Gloria Gayne, with her net out for every man she thinks has money, is exactly the type for the part. The cast is good throughout, the settings are artistic, and we are quite sure that the picture will give the best of satisfaction wherever it is played. It contains a valuable lesson that is delivered without preachment. STORY OF THE PLAY . When Jane Parker’s mother divorces her father, her own husband assures her that theirs ts a love of the past, the future and forever. But when Jim Parker is promoted to a position (Continued on next page) No Advertising Support Accepted!