Life — February 1, 1923 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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(tHE SILENT DRAMA 2 Recent Developments he regular Silent Drama depart- he ‘oil be found on page 24) Salome. United Artists—A singu- larly beautiful picture, in which Nazimova appears as the lady who first made dancing famous. It is x ird, exotic and startlingly un- 1—but it violates no moral codes and will not offend anyone. Broken Chains. Goldwyn.—The lady wie wrote this story received a prize of $10,000 for her effort. She was overpaid. Thirty Days. Paramount—A fair farce, with Wallace Reid in the featured position. Jack. Pathé—Harold Lloyd sing laughter and good cheer all those who possess the paltry price of admission. The Toll of the Sea. Metro—A beavtiful color film, in which a Chinese actress, Anna May Wong, establishes herself as a star of the _ first magnitude. The Town That Forgot God. Fox. —Mediocre heart-throb drama, cul- minating in| a marvellous flood scene which is sweeping enough to wash out memories of all that has gone before. The Headless Horseman. Hodkin- son.—Will Rogers as Ichabod Crane in an occasionally pleasing film version of the famous legend. For Review Next Week—“Drums of Fate” and “Gimme.” Un Beau Geste Tue gods were lolling about on their cloud-banks, resting after a strenuous game of tiddle-de-winks with the stars. Wondering what to do next, one of them suggested hav- ing the Earth brought before them on a spit, in order to view the mor- tals. It was soon done, and the Ce- lestials looked on, while funny little humans rotated before them, in pos- tures representing pride, love, hu- mility, anger, and despair; or ran around shouting silly slogans about “Duty to the Fatherland,” “The Brotherhood of Man,” and “The Sanctity of the Home.” the gods rocked with merriment, when, suddenly, one of them noticed a tiny individual, standing apart from the others, in a slightly dif- ferent attitude. He turned to a fel- low-god and, handing him his binoc- ulars, said, “That chap there gaz- ing up at us has a rather noble bear- ing The other god looked down and acquiesced, and together they nodded in approval at the little man below them, who was sticking out his tongue. DiTe In Your Country —a“Strange Land?’ See it now BY AN ENGLISHMAN Orient—have climbed the Alps in Switzerland and Italy, and the Chinese Himalayas, I've seen the famous island of Capri. I’ve ridden camels on the great Sahara Desert at sunrise. Enjoyed, in fact, most of the beauties and the grandeurs that mark different portions of the earth. And yet I've visited no one spot on the globe that combines “so many trips abroad in one” as one section of your own country provides. IES been to Europe and the The railway journey there from your eastern cities is itself worth while, and the most comfortable that I've ever taken—summer or winter, and I’ve made it several times during both seasons. But the most extraordinary thing about your Southern California, is that year-’round perfect climate, which I had heard about but never quite believed could be so delightful. In my country we love sports and follow them almost religiously in good weather. But in Southern California you have more than three hundred days a year with the sun shining and all our sports to boot. English golf courses are famous, but you have many oftheworld’s best there, and you can play almost every day. “ss Then there's fishing, hunting, | yachting and sea-bathing of the finest kind. You ride your horses in themountains, motor toyour desert, enjoy thepeace- ful beauty of the rare old mis- - All-Year Club of Southern California sions, or have tea at your hotel or modest boarding place in your great central city there, and all within a radius of two hundred miles which you travel on those incomparable mo- tor roads. oe I don’t see how anyone could be bored there, and I never met a fellow who was bored. He was always going here or there or doing this or that. And his children looked the happiest and healthiest that I have ever seen. I hear that a hundred thousand new visitors went there last summer. My only wonder is that they had not been there before. Above is a tribute to a portion of your country that perhaps you've never seen—the All-Year Playground of America, the one place of its kind. Come now or next summer—come at any season—and enjoy its com- plete change. Bring the family. Put your children in fine schools, There are things to see and do here that you’ve never seen or done be- fore. It is not too soon to plan now for this great trip. No matter what sea- son you plan to come send now for fullinformation. Ask railroad ticket agents or mail coupon below. Plan for next summer, or come now. You'll say it’s the best trip of your life. Southern California is the now gateway to Hawaii oe ey Att-Yzar Cuvs oF Sovraern Cattror Dept. M1202, Chamber of Commerce BI Los Argeles, Calif. Please send me full information about the sum- a and se ‘vacation possibilities in comicbooks.com