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This page is primarily a **film review section** from Life magazine, not a political cartoon. It contains short critiques of silent films then in theatrical release, including titles like *The Sign on the Door* (starring Norma Talmadge) and *The Conquering Power* (directed by Rex Ingram). The page also features **two advertisements**: Graflex cameras (emphasizing their capability for candid children's photography) and Pears Soap (established 1789). At the bottom is **"The Regulator,"** a brief humorous dialogue in which a mistress questions her maid Mary about inconsistent egg-boiling. Mary explains she times them the same way each morning but attributes variations to unmeasurable factors—a gentle joke about domestic service and the unpredictability of household tasks. The content reflects 1920s popular entertainment and consumer culture with no evident political satire.

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MADE WITH A GRAFLEX CAMERA, KODAK ANASTIGMAT/. 4.5 LENS GRAFLEX It is not merely in the doing of sensational things in speed photography that the Graflex excels. Its efficiency qualifies it for the snap-shot in the shade, for the taking of the most delightful of all pictures—unposed pictures of the children. : Graflex does the unusual things in photography and does them well, especially well if it has the added advan- tage of the Kodak Anastigmat f. 4.5 as its lens equipment. Eastman Kodak Company Folmer & Schwing Department Rocuester, N. Y. Matchless for the Since ion 1789 b BN Ee | yf w as always Mt all druggists | vertisements lead one | go by.—Punch. ——S icy THE SILENT DRAMA _) Recent Developments (The regular Silent Drama department «i be found on page 22) The Sign on the Door. First National — Norma Talmadge’s emotionalism attai new voltage record in this thoroughly al ing melodrama, Straight From Paris. E£quity—The triumph of a French milliner over our upper class mediocrity, set forth in excessively fashion by Clara Kimball Young. The Conquest of Canaan. Paramo —A pleasant picturization of a_ real town, which is inhabited by people who form strictly to theatrical types. Thom: Meighan and Doris Kenyon are miscast, but it doesn’t seem to make much difference. The Golden Snare. First National—A little melodrama and a great deal of snow. It is advisable to concentrate your attention on the snow. An Unwilling Hero. Goldwyn—Will Rogers is excellent as Whistling Dick, one of O. Henry’s most amiable tramps. The Conquering Power. Metro—An- other fine production by Rex Ingram, who is threatening to beat the German movie pro- ducers at their own game. Balzac’s “Eugenie Grandet” provides the motif of the story. Love’s Penalty. First National —Hope Hampton works hard to save the situation; but it is waste effort. The Old Nest. Goldwyn—A concen- trated attack of tear gas, under the personal supervision of the eminent Mr. Rupert Hughes Scrap Iron. First National—An excel- lent story of the prize ring, whjch adds ma- terially to the already formidable fame of Charles Ray. The Twice Born Woman. Sonora— When in New York, this film played at the Hippodrome, and nobody had any difficulty in getting seats. The Golem. Riesenjeld—In many ways. the finest of the foreign pictures—vivid, gro- tesque and intensely dramatic, Heedless Moths.—Life studio as it is described in in an_artist’s is most disappointing. Without Benefit of Clergy. Pathé— Kipling’s story has been adapted with rarc intelligence, and converted into a_photoplay that is pictorially effective and well acted Carnival. United Artists—An_Englis! picture that ranks above any of the films im- ported from Great Britain of late years. Th backgrounds for the action are furnished the Chamber of Commerce of Venice (I For Review Nexr Weex— he “The Great Moment,” “Nobo he M tery R Don't N ur Wit, The Regulator Mistress: Mary, how is it that th eggs for breakfast are sometimes boile¢ soft and sometimes quite hard? Mary know Well, Mum, I'm sure I don't I puts them in regular as th ck strikes eight, and I takes them out without fail when I hears the down trait comicbooks.com