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Universal Weekly
May 29, 1926
Tips from the Movie Critics
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"WATCH YOUR WIFE"
BY MAE TINEE
GOOD morning! Want to rent a wife, Man ? Strictly business. The hours? 8 to 8. The girl? Pretty girl! Tact. Breeding. Charleston. Right clothes and knows how to wear 'em. Playful. Companionable. Good housekeeper. Warranted an ornament to any home.
Apply to — well — see the picture for the address of headquarters.
The one turned out for the purposes of this film is to be described as a classy dame — if you're not finicky about your English. She comes to the aid of the beset hero of the piece, who, shortly after parting from his better half in the judge's chambers, rolls a mournful eye over a femininetouchless household and concludes with the prophets that man was not meant to live alone.
The Blonde Domestic Asset he engages is not the heroine of the story. That honor belongs to the dark charmer, Miss Virginia Valli. She is the wife, who, after three years of failing to understand or be understood, steps out in search of that perfect felicity that every woman wants and might as well make up her mind first as last she'll never have.
No, the Blonde, brightly impersonated by Helen Lee Worthing, proves merely a new link in quite a good old chain that had been severed.
Is thy interest whetted ? Thy curiosity intrigued ? All is as shouldst be, then. Step right over to the Randolph and learn the low-down.
An amusing comedy drama — "Watch Your Wife." Snappy and original. Made from the story by the Swedish writer, Goesta Segercrantz, it has been Americanized for the purpose, boasts a cast who act and dress like humans, and a director who knew how to put them through their paces.
He's sure enough a married man, this Svend Gade ! Or if he isn't he ought to be. No bachelor has any business knowing as much about married folks as he does. (Length: 6974 ft.) —Chicago Tribune.
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"THE COHENS AND KELLYS"
BY PEGGY PATTON
HOKUM to be sure — but a gem in Hokum — that is "The Cohens and Kellys," now showing at the Alhambra.
If you don't find this Jewish-Irish feud, not only full of heart appeal but a splendid mixture of the most entertaining comedy; then your sense of humor and appreciation is not registering 100 per cent. You may say it is overdone— exaggerated, but it is so well stocked with laughs and just the right shade of pathos, that the fault is easily forgiven.
It is difficult to do the story justice in words, there are
so many little subtle touches, so many fine points and laughs, that just must be seen to be appreciated. Suffice to add that you are the loser if you pass up this production.— Milwaukee Wisconsin News. (Length: 7774 ft.)
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"THE BEAUTIFUL CHEAT"
A DELICIOUS vein of whimsical satire runs through the entire 6,583 feet of "The Beautiful Cheat," on view this week at the Colonial, with Laura LaPlante as its principal vehicle. One thinks that the extravagant affectations adopted by Mae Murray in all her roles, before Erich von Stroheim took her in hand, were used to garner "inspiration" for this choice bit of celluloid cynism. The story is about the movies, and was taken from "Doubling for Cupid," a series of magazine stories by Nina Wilcox Putnam. Adaptation of the story was made by A. P. Younger. The filming was directed by Edward Sloman.
It is probably one of the most assiduous bits Laura La Plante has ever done. She plays with gusto the part of the comparatively uncultured movie star, moving in the circles of the elite. Alexander Carr and Harry Meyers are the principals of a large cast in her support which includes such widely-known names as Bertram Grassby, Youcca Troubetzkoy, Robert Anderson, Kate Price, Helen Dunbar, Tom S. Guise, Helen Carr and Walter Perry.
The story has to do with a little 5-and-10-cent girl clerk with a yearning to become a screen favorite. She is "discovered" by a motion picture producer just after poverty threatens him from a production that failed and he sees in her possibilities for a wonderful actress. He puts her under contract and sends her abroad with a skillful press agent with instructions to leave nothing undone to attract world-wide attention to her. In France, she acquires an accent and a "temperament" before being brought back to America. The girl becomes famous as a Russian actress, Mei'itza Callahanitzki, nee Callahan. She charms a French nobleman, the Marquis de la Pontenac (Bertram Grassby), as well as her own publicity agent, played by Harry Meyers. The nobleman gives her diamonds and pearls and the publicity man arranges a stunt for Apaches to rob her of her jewels, for which he has substituted paste affairs.
She returns to America followed by sundry nobility, to find things at the studio in an uproar over finances. The resourceful press agent arranges a party in a Long Island mansion, where Miss La Plante pretends to be the hostess while the owners are away in order to impress a guest into backing the first picture. They practically steal the big mansion with a retinue of servants to pull off her party. Having few friends of the socially elect, or even of the film colony, her producer hires "extras" and their efforts to get away with it make many an amusing scene. The people who own the house return unexpectedly, one of the actors in the company happens to be their son and a quick readjustment of plot brings about a "happy" ending. Some elaborate settings and some "inside stuff" in the studio adds to the general interest of the comedy.
The supplemental film features of the bill include a Buster Brown comedy, "Buster's Mix-Up," with Buster, Mary Jane and Tige, in some hilarious antics; and the Colonial International News. — Indianapolis News. (Length: 6583 ft.)