Life — April 1, 1926 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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SILENT DRAMA | st, it is not “The First Year asy to focus on any one. are the results of the six months’ RANK BORZAC with a keen sympathy for humble, “Fascinating Youth” principal players in the ¢: HE Commencement exercises of is a director the Class of 1926 mount Pictures Para- arduous training readily apparent in hool were held the students’ work on th Iroom of the far as I could observe, the boys and ml he was therefore average people, reen. recently in the Gr Ritz-Carlton in New Yi well qualified to handle the screen ver- sion of Frank Craven's great play, “The years at Paramount but a com. First-Year, re were no elm — plete mastery of the Charleston, which It seems to me th trees on the Ritz campus, to be sure, they perform strenuously during all 00d job with it, in spite of the fact City, and ined nothi during their bright a more impressive ceremony I have fre- quently witnessed. T he has done a no caps and alumni (th I scenes, They could that there was almost no movie material h y he main “love interest,” if such it 2 thoroughly unexciting picture, to be their big emotic have learned that r le in the original manuscript. It makes graduated from ¢ it proves to be the last le Expect sure, but it is saved from dullness by can be called, is carried by Charles to shed no tears). The academic spirit Rogers (age 21), of Olathe, Kansa its inte gence and its truthfulness. was there, however, and when kind old and Ivy Harris (age 19), of Atlant: Matt Moore is excellent as the diffi- Professor Lasky delivered his bacea- Georgia. They are both nice-looking, dent young mariner who set sail on laureate address, the press agents’ ‘There are a fev what we stylists call the turbulent seas moments of genuine cheers were deaf of matrimony. Kathryn Perry is equally 2 ascinating Youth,” con- Ce comedy in ladies (cuties tributed by Chester all) and the eight youn; gentlemen After the eight you good as the mate. (age un known), who, I understand, was grad- uated with the Class of If rom the . . “MWe ” University of Hard Knocks “Miss Brewster's Millions . ig Se re ini UST before Roscoe Arbuckle had ies had made in the (fairly effective replicas Barthelmess) had received mas, the of “Fasein: th,” the picture his unfortur nee with the exp which the kid San Francisco police made a picture f “Brewster's Millions,” which I saw and laughed at, “Brewster's Millions, with all the other Arbuckle films, was course of their scholastic duties. ] F ating Yc merely a an expe nh” were viewed nent withdrawn by its producers and has test of itried — abilities—one rested in the safe-deposit vault ever «d chan t I understand that it murmur, “Very erestin| since. The idea has now been resurrected to provide a holiday for Bebe Daniels It is called “Miss Brewster's Millions,” the inheritance having been shifted the subject is to be release as a reg picture, to be offered to the publ competition with the works of such uneducated day-laborers as Ernst Lu- bitsch, James Cruze, Malcolm St, Clair d Erich von Stroheim. easily from a male star to a female. “Miss Brewster's Millions” is an ex- ceedingly silly farce, witless most of It is necessary, therefore, for me to the time Miss nost comedienne, |b boisterously funny in spots. consider it coldly, on its merits as a Is is not the world’s for motion picture icult task, in view it she managed to of the fact that such merits are not visible to the naked eye. ating Ys learn some tricks from Harold Lloyd which, wisely enough, she has not h” is pucrile to the point of imbecility. It has no story, gotten . no semblance of dramatic interest ; po Sherwood. sibly some of the embryo stars € talent, but none of this is given an op- LIAN GISH IN (R ents will be found portunity to develop. With sixteen “La BonEME” on page 34) comicbooks.com