Variety (May 1923)

32 V A R I E T V Wednesday, May 30, 1929 CHARMING MELODY IRRESISTIBLE RHYTHM ■ Musicians and vaudeville artists who heard the original manuscript of this number played predicted for it a national and international hit. This prediction is becoming a fact. 'if you want a song that is a corker Get a Hazel Juel Walker" the girl who wrote the prize American Legion song. A FOX TROT OR TODDLE VAMP DANCE SALOME /, Song and orchestration at usual prices. Pro- fessional copies through the Denver office only —write for them. .. ... .:_. i. . ■_ l> Another Sole American Agents The Chas. E. Wells Music Co. Denver, Colorado Eastern Distributors Richmond Supply Corp., 133 West 41st Street, New York, N. Y. Western Distributors Sherman-Clay 8c Company San Francisco, Calif. • WITHOUT A PEER - A* they grow up their love prows with them. John becomes the owner of * small-town newspaper. Ho is poor but a valuable asset to the community. Stuffy Shade, a boy- hood friend, returns to the town with an oil-promotion scheme. He con- vinces John it is worth millions and secures his co-operation in exploit- ing it in the newspaper. The peo- ple of tlio town bring in their ready cash to finance the project on the strength of John's say-so. When the oil well is about to be tapped he Is informed the scheme is a fake. Just at the critical moment it is found the property does contain oil and the investors are assured big returns, with the promoters frozen out. Uart PLAYING IT WILD \'.ia(?prtph feature, with William Duncan und feMiih Jotonaon. Storjr .ml scenario by C. Graham Bektr, .lirvoted by Duncan. At F.oevTs Circle May -7. Running time. 62 minutes. Ji-rrv Hoskina Wm. Duncan Beth Webb l'Mith Johnson Old Man Wi«bl> Francis Powers Bherifl dideon Dick L»a Reno Wo'hcrby Frank Real Bill Rucker Frank Weod *>x ™*iwfMjif,,i|p 1,11,. j,. j j .: /.janishes GRAY HAIR Jn15minutes\ INECT9 RM'lf) Ir ,-f • t*» l!ut>i 1 il.IT.Ti aiMotutely fraoi »u othet l»lr entortngt: it replgnientlaM tin* lnlr shaft instead of merely roatliift the turfare. Inecto K.ii>lii u guaraiitnd to tint naturally iray, f.vlr'l <r mr>-.«K..-.J hair tn any desired btimle in 1"> minutes. Cannot l>e detected from natural, even under a microaropt; cannot Injure the hair or Interfere with Ita growth: Inecto ItapM Is iicrmanent and not affected hy s t it w.i'.ir. Turkish or Ku-.3l.u1 ball is or per- spiration atui dot-* not Interftre with prr- Diatient waring. Iiiecto Itaphi ran be ohtJiin.-'l In the flneM beauty establishment! in America. In.hi.ling such ultra-faslilnn able simps at the l'l.i/.a. ltiltmore. Com- modore. I'eiinaylvanla and Waldorf-A«toria Tlniuaanda of women apply it In the privacy of their homes. SEND NO MONEY Write, for particular! with pn»of and our 'Beauty AnalynU Chart." Form It 1 INECTO, Inc. Laboratories and Demonstration 33-35 Watt 46th Sheet. New York City. N. Y. Very satisfactory western comedy melodrama, with the accent on the comedy. If Vitagraph will continue to turn out this grade of material it ought to stage a comeback promptly. The. picture probably cost less than even most westerns, for it is practi- cally all done in natural locations. This is in Duncan's familiar style. :tnd there is much to be said for the formula aside from the money In- volved, for nothing contributes so thoroughly to creating the illusion as a natural background. The story is amusing with first- rate surprises and a lot of well- handled titles with a funny slant. Character development is natural and convincing, and although the incidents are mostly in a humorous vein they hive a certain dramatic support. For example, the hero and heroine are brought together in a highly realistic runaway accident, in Which the girl la rescued by the hard-riding Duncan after he leaps from his own galloping mount to one of the runaway team, a trick that appeared to call for a good deal of nerve. The only bit of hokum is the con- stant gunplay, but that seems to be necessary to the western type of tale. StlU it does seem a bit ridicu- lous to have control of a situation three or four times as one gun-toter SaUn after the other "gets the drop" on the rest. It's getting to be stale stuff. Miss Johnson makes a charming heroine, playing quietly and without the syrupy sweetness that goes with most screen heroines. There are a number of good character bits, all well handled. At least the story gets away from a fight for control of a ranch or a mine, and the familiar type of "bad man'' does not figure in it. Instead a ne'er-do-well drifts into a cattle town and in a card game wins a local newspaper. He conceives the idea of using this unfamiliar instrument to work out the moral and political regeneration of the community. In the process he falls in love with the former editor's daughter. He finds gross mismanagement in the office of the sheriff, and works out a cam- paign to defeat the present sheriff and put in an efficient successor. To accomplish this he has to make believe he is a desperado and work ad sorts of tricks on the sheriff, in- cluding the exploit of pulling his nose. By this he makes him ridicu- lous before the natives and carries the day for his own candidate with a capital surprise ending, although the finale Is rather slow in arriving and pauses just a bit too long before the "Finis." Nevertheless It makes a good, amusing, light feature. Here presented in a daily change of bill house as half a double bill, the other half being "The leopardess," with Alice Brady. Rush. taurant. Virtue wins, vice is pun- ished, and at unusually brief inter- vals the fans burst into applause when old-fashioned justice is meted out by the scenario writer. Rawlinson has a better part than most of his recent ones, and he plays it with his accustomed natural- ness and absence of posings. Play* ing opposite is Miss Perry, who de- serves more prominence than she has been given in filmdo.n. She has in a high degree the appeal of simple womanhood, a type of beauty that is sweet and yet has character. She could be made a strong screen name with right exploiting. Tully Mar- shall has a splendid bit as "Pick- handle" Dorgan. Jimmy's father, who by his shrewdness brings about Jimmy's reformation and rehabilita- tion after he has had his foolish fling, the trick being turned by ty- ing up his fortune a»d letting it go to the boy only after he has had his lesson. In the early part there are some fine settings, and the society scenes and fashionable restaurant episodes are managed with telling effect. Hush. rr Other Film Reviews on pages 24, 31. 34, 36, 37 ^ M INERS MAKE UP Est. Henry C. Miner, Inc. The only reason TAYLOR-XX Wardrobe trunks sell is— Proven Worth! Now $75 TAYLOR'S 28 E. Randolph St. 210 W. 44th St. CHICAGO NEW YORK FOOLS AND RICHES Universal society drama with Herbert Rawlinson rind a cast of important player*. Story by Fred J. Johnson, directed by Herbert Btache. At I.oew's 43d Street. May 28. Jimmy Dorgan Herbert Rawlinson Nelly Rlye Katherine Perry John Dorjran Tully Marshall Rernlce Lorraine Doris Pawn Dick Mason Arthur S. Hall Fransconl Nicolai da Ruir EDDIE MACK TALKS: No. 136 Herbert Williams, Williams and Wolfus. one of the greatest comics on the vaudeville stage, hat been a wearer of Eddie Mack clothes for many years. Mr. Williams cr\anges his act from season to season, to keep his comedy up to the minute, but to date has not changed his tailor, as Eddie Mack is world- famous for his comedy creations for the stage and his latest styles for street wear. Newark is enjoying this inimitable team of laugh provokers this week. MACK'S CLOTHES SHOP MACK BUILDING Just s atep East of Broadway on 4C'h Street BERT IS AT THE 46th STREET STORE A picture shrewdly made for the neighborhood trade. It has a cer- tain flash of high life, but the sym- pathetic scenes go to a plain and homely hero and heroine. It has a world of hokum such as went into the tried and true old melodramas, but for the Universal line of trade it is sure fire. The manly young hero is tricked and tripped by the society moguls and stripped of his fortune, only in the end to turn the tables against his enemies, aided, of course, by the gingham heroine, and comes out winner. In short, It's a Cinderella theme with a male Cinderella and society schemers for the stepmother. The same formula could be worked infinitely and indefinitely and could hardly miss under reasonably expert handling. The story points a moral—no less than the world old one of the prod- igal son—indeed, the hero Is a mod- ern prodigal who wastes his in- heritance and only wins his way back after he has been forced to menial labor as a waiter in a res- JUST FOR tTONIGrlTj MARCH* m M THE] SIAMESE PARADE OP THE WOODEI OtDIEI IS BY THE OLD APPLE, TREE **** ■ if i 2z*m :c m&-: Wis PARADED WOODEN SOLDIERS SPECIAL AJUL\ 90 .HAACH ARR.-S5* FOXTROT I*** CHMUXTUMTK-35t J0STFOR.TDHI6HT WALTZ/ 0 ' fe^^ 7 ) SBgfa* ssishiski^ ham of mc -imsi ItUtBi THE YOUTHFUL DANCING COMEDIAN BOBBY JACKSON - "ECCENTRICITIES" wit* DON FRACIER ROSE VERNEtRE MAUREEN HUNT . . NOW PLAYING POLI CIRCUIT