Tullar's Weekly (October 1923)

down the pirate crew a number of times after taking snuff. He should have had sideburns, a beard, or some- thing to make him appear more like a pirate. Lyons is not a bad-looking actor, and in the proper part that is fine, but in this one he should not have played his face straight. There is a pretty shot of the pirate ship standing at anchor with a coast background. Clever comedy which goes over strong. “SPOOKS AND SPIRITS” 2 Reels DIRECTOR Ward Hayes CAMERAMAN Billy Williams AUTHORS. .. Harry Edwards, Herman C. Raymaker STAR Monte Banks SUPPORT Harry LaMont, Gerry O’Dell, Ruth Holly and other good players. CHARACTERIZATIONS Excellent PHOTOGRAPHY Good This is everything that is to he demanded in a good comedy. The losing siutor gives Monte a pint, which Monte puts under his high hat, and starts for his wedding, exquiistely attired. All the rum hounds get on the scent and follow the groom, which makes funny look- ing. They pass Brownell’s Drug Store and everything. When Monte arrives, the sniffs sit down on the lawn to wait. Everybody at the wedding is trying to locate the fine “perfume,” when the cat tips over a statue on the mantel and breaks the bottle. The father will not have a rum hound in the family, so Monte and the girl jump in an auto and leave, the sniffers all running along behind. The couple go to a vacant house, with the aid of a colored servant to complete the ceremony, whereupon the losing suitor gets the place quarantined. A gang of masquerading crooks enter the house and start to frighten out the occu- pants. Monte finally lays out the whole gang. The other fellow arrives with a minister whom Monte has tie the knot, after he beans the bringer. This is replete with funny situations, and well played by everybody. Banks hits the bull’s-eye right along for much laughter, as does Gerry O’Dell as the negro. Ruth Holly is satisfactory, and Harry Lamont does the “other man” stuff well. Titles are funny, and printed better than many big features. The sup- porting cast, making up the rum hounds and the mas- querading crooks, are very good actors, especially the living skeleton and Mephistopheles. Good cartoon. “COLONEL HEEZA LIAR’S BURGLAR Bray-Hodkinson 1 Reel The colonel is about as lively a cartoon as one sees. Maggie Zeen sends a sure-enuf burglar to the colonel's house. When the burglar coughs he is so tough that he blows all the furniture in a corner. The colonel is driven by fright of the burglar into a rat hole, but the rat and the colonel are so afraid of each other that they run up the burglar’s pant leg. The safe remains as is because the drills break off like chalk. There are some good real actors in this, with some clever trick photography. People didn’t visit when this was on. It is on the order of the popular “Out of the Inkwell” subjects, and is good and gets laughs. Good comedy, beautifully photographed, with great educational and scenic background. “BACK TO THE WOODS’’ Christie, Educational 2 Reels DIRECTOR Scott Sidney CAMERAMAN Antonio Nagy STAR Neal Burns. Good. SUPPORT Vera Stedman, George French, Babe London, Earl Rodney, Jimmie Harrison. All satisfactory. PHOTOGRAPHY Excellent DIRECTION Good Here we get a standard farce-comedy with an edu- cational and scenic background thrown in. The scenes of the California big tree country, with trees that came ahead of King Tut, are wonderful, and the shots of the lumber industry are equal to an actual visit. It is all very beautifully done by the cameraman. Neal Burns carries the stellar honors satisfactorily. He starts with a dash, as a surveyor, and continues as the center of fast and funny experiences, with plenty of laughs from the audience, until the final fade-out, where he starts for the license with the lumber king’s daughter on a pile of lumber going up on the derrick. Burns is as spick and span here as can be—he dresses his part. Vera Stedman, in her knickers, is very good to look at, and does her stuff well. She is true to Burns, even with trees crashing down and smashing the Ford. Babe London is there with the goods, as the heavy vamp. The balance of the east are 0. Iv., especially Babe’s lover. The titles are funny and pull lots of hilarity. Don’t tell me that titles are not very important! Plenty of footage is given the titles, so that they can be read easily. The exhibitor, where T saw this one, gave the star and the title the same publicity in newspapers and on the front of the house as he did to the big feature. That’s the way! REVIEWS IN TULLAR’S WEEKEY ARE WRI TT EN BY THE EDITOR ONLY, AND WILL COVER ALL SHORT SUBJECTS THOROLY. WE ARE ARRANGING TO PRE-VIEW SAME AT THE STUDIOS.