Life — July 7, 1921 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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Carr ve aditad The Silent Drama The Ten Dollar Raise “ HE Ten Dollar Raise” starts off Ts though it intended to be exceptionally good. But the start of a picture — oF of a romance, or a race horse, or anything else, for that mat- ter—is apt to be deceptive. The characters in the play are simple folk who work in one of those offices that Peter B. Kyne writes about; and as long as they stick to the office, every- thing is fine. But the minute they get together and decide to take a trip to Chinatown, you know that all is lost— that the orchestra is about to play chop- © stick music, while the ushers walk up > and down the aisles throwing incense F into the sneeze-laden air. Your fears are not groundless. “The | Ten Dollar Raise” cracks under the P strain at this point, and later sinks into | ' a hopeless mire of mediocrity when the down-trodden members of the office force appear in white flannels against a back- ) ground of gushing oil wells. The cast is good, and the direction F excellent—but. it is a weak story and a P disappointing film. A Kiss in Time ROTHY and inconsequential, but undeniably amusing, is “A Kiss in Time,” with Wanda Hawley in the F stellar rdle, and T. Roy Barnes doing © all the work. Mr. Barnes, as a young author who boasts that he can kiss a girl within three hours of their meet- ing, displays a comic gift which is in- deed rare on the screen. Miss Hawley ) is only called upon to sit at one side and » laugh at Mr. Barnes during the picture —a task which is not particularly dif- ficult for her, or for the audience, either. It is difficult to conceive what “A Kiss in Time” would be like without the droll Mr. Barnes. With him, it is consistently good entertainment. A Private Scandal AY McAVOY, the wonderful little Grizel of “Sentimental Tommy,” has gone the way of all flesh in the movies. She is a “star.” And for that reason, she feels it incumbent on her to be a saccharine cutie, with numerous stock tricks and a painful tendency to overact. “A Private Scandal” is a poor picture, but it will be additionally distasteful to those who had the privilege of seeing Miss McAvoy when she was an actress instead of a star. RES. FOR REVIEW NEXT WEEK: “Without Benefit of Clergy,” “Sowing the Wind,” ‘ “Appearances” and “Life.” TIFFANY & GO, NOTED FOR DESIGN QUALITY AND WORKMANSHIP ILLUSTRATIONS WITH PRICES OF JEWELRY AND SILVERWARE SENT UPON REQUEST FIFTH AVENUE & 3/7! STREET New YORK [For YouR VACATION || SFist aces “Success in Music and How Taalor to Win It”? Sousa and. nino other vorid-famous, fu “From modish leathe tell how you can quickly learn to play ses ophone, cornet, trombone, clarinet, of many finishes band or orchestra instrument and double R AXT O N your incesse and plessure: Coan instrament THE B E LT ree MEN THE BELT WITH THE / J 72S GON Ba ~ COMFORT FEATURE / elias 2 teieeaa os of smartest design general break-down when you can cure your F Ing \ all the reouwisites ofstul y i mport and ouality WHY SUFFER i ~ From severe nervousness, depression, sleeplesanese and Having suffered from these deadly attacks, I have ‘The extra thickness over the hips is shaped to fit the devoted eight years of study to their cure and am preps body. Amply pliable and yielding to the movement — |} to give full information to men and women. A person: of the muscles it allows the belt to be worn compar- letter outlining the most effective principles and natural atively loose and"still give to the trousers that so laws insuring speedy recovery, bodily and mentally, will esired support and stylish hang. be sent upon receipt of $5.00; no other charges. ‘THE PERKINS-CAMPBELL CO. L. W. VERIGIN naw yore St! Brsfeer, Cnonat, Brilliant, B. C. Canad: comicbooks.com