Life — January 15, 1925 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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LIFE - er THE SILENT DRAMA “Peter Pan” HERE is only time this week to say that “Peter Pan” is a singularly beautiful picture and a credit to Herbert Brenon, who directed it. I shall review the production at length next week; in the meantime, if “Peter Pan” comes your way, you must see it. “So This Is Marriage” HE National Library of Hokum has been consulted freely by the makers of > This Is Marriage.” It includes the episode wherein the husband opens a sheaf of modiste bills at the breakfast table while one comedy ser- vant whispers to another, “You don't need a calendar in this house to know when the first. of the month comes around”; it includes the stormy quarrel scene between Mother and Father while the little kiddie, in pajamas, wist- fully tries to promote an armistice ; it includes a “Down hrough the Ages” sub-title, followed by a Biblical se- quence in color which has no relation whatever to the case in point; it also includes a wealthy and therefore despic- able bachelor, played by Lew Cody. You can't go wrong with these properties in a motion picture—and “So This Is Marriage” will probably be profitable. I, having seen the same dull tricks many hun- dreds of times before, must confess that I am sick of them; but then, I get into the movie theatres free and don't count when the gross receipts are figured up. “Argentine Love” ALENTINO, who started Colonel Carter: LOOK HEAH, KASTUS, DIDN'T AH OBSERVE YO'-ALL IN MAH MELON PATCH THIS FO'NOON? into a stuffed shirt. This is not really his own fault; no one could stand up under the blast of adolescent adoratic and retain any reasonable semblance of genuineness or sin cerity. He is to-day what the flappers have made him and [ for one hope they're satisfied. Nevertheless, stand ardized as Valentino himself has become, he is still mar strides ahead of the cheap sheiks who seck to imitate hin For instance, in “Argentine Love,” we find one Ricard Cortez making a pitiful attempt to ape the great Rudolp! and garner the plaudits of the high-school girls who buy their thrills at the box office. “Argentine Love,” which was written by V. Blase Ibafiez, is a bad story and is calculated to make one roc for the King of Spain when that widely advertised duc! finally takes place. “Classmates” y which, to say the least, is improb- shapes up as a creditable effort. It is a picture of West Point life, played by Richard Barthel mess with a supporting cast which is largely recruited from the military academy itself. These young cadets perform most acceptably on the screen, and the training that they have received under John Robertson's direction will eventually stand them in good stead: when the time comes for them to appear in news-reels_ (“Uncle Sam's Boys Stage Sham Battle”) they won't be camera-shy. “Classmates” wanders from the banks of the Hudson to a South American jungle and becomes frightfully melodra- matic and a bit unconvincing. But there can be no question of its appeal—everywhere, perhaps, except in Annapolis. Bulletin OTHING has been said about my own production for some time, due to the fact that the picture is two hun- dred and eight reels long and is about complete. However, there will be in- cluded a scene of a young lady in bed with the covers drawn tightly around her so that no bare shoulders are in out under Rex Ingram's direction as a really good actor, has since deteriorated Rastus (with a twinkle): Fo’ DE LoHD, MASSA, HIT’s SO LONG SINCE AH WUKKED IN ONE 0’ DEM COON JOKES AH DONE "PLETELY FO'GOT DE ANSAH. evidence. The sheets and pil- low-cases will not be made of satin. R. E. Sherwood. comicbooks.com