Life — September 22, 1927 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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“The Garden of Allah” THERE is magic in “The Garden of Allah” — the magic that is achieved only through an appeal to the subtler, more sensitive Just what those senses are, 1 am unable to say, but I know that “The Garden of Allah’ had the same ef- fect on me as would the “Chanson d'Inde,” wafted by an evening breeze played on a clarinet, and UCTOSS the sands of Sahara. (Note: [have “Chanson d'Inde,” or ever Your Old) Gray Bonnet,” across the Sahara, or any never heard the ut On wafted other desert; but no one can dispute my right y dreams.) “The Garden of Allah” is an ex- traordinarily beautiful picture, and it is so for the sufficient reason that it was directed by Rex Ingram. NGRAM is an artist—one of the few real artists that have man- aged to survive in the movies. He is also a superb technician. I doubt that there is any other director who knows as much about photography, lighting and composition. He has the admirable ability to natural as op- reproduce on the sereen ind natural people, posed to studio settings and grease- Tae oe eecaWe ame cectiecat Allah” possesses the same quality of truthfulness that distinguishes such scenes Recent Underworld. G Evelyn Brent as a s Moll in the best 1 time Adam and Evil. a flighty husband, his jea twin brother. The s veritable mausoleum Service for Ladies. A bum farce about us wife and his tute a other hand, is a really we farce— done with intelligence, wit and Adolphe Menjou The Blood Ship. Good old-fashioned socking on a merchant ves: Hobart Bosworth is at the head of an unusually fine cast The Callahans and the Murphys. Terrible Ten Modern Commandments. I Ralston as a chorus girl with le | @ Life “E SILENT \ pictures as ‘ “Chang Only in the charac nook of the North,” srs and situa- tions that come straight from Robert Hichens’ novel is artificiality appar- ent. The hero and heroine, played by Alice Terry and Ivan Petroviteh, seem out of key with the others; both become a trifle monotonous. As for the rest, the performances are sensationally fine. Mareel Vibert, Gerald Fielding and Ben Sadour are the best. and there are many more, most of them natives, who are un- mentioned in the program. THey tell me that Rex Ingram is now out of a job because he in- sists on pered, and refuses ta take orders from Mr. Mayer, Mr. Thalberg and Mr. Rapf. Well, if the try loses Ingram, it will lose a man who has contributed more to its ar- tistic advancement than all the May- ers, the Thalbergs and the Rapfs, with all their relations, put together. g his own way unham motion picture indus- Mr. Callahan: pw you \GMNST SHOWING THE MOVIE THAT REPRESENTS THE IRISH AS DISORDERLY ? Mr. Murphy: pw we? we wrecken THe pLace! PROTEST Rolled Stockings. y of the campus. aks and Ather nice voung people Resurrection. Dolores Del Rio gives 2 magnificent performance in a moving scription of Tolstoi Id San Francisco. A romantic com ed by Louise An earthquake f ) ‘ ‘) KJ & “Hula” PPROACHING the theatre fd where “Hula” was on view, I noted an electric sign which bore the legen lara Bow—the ‘It’ Girl.” This, in itself, was enough to sour whatever sweet thoughts I may have had for Miss Bow—and I regret to say that “Hula” did nothing to re- store the precipitation of saccharine in my system. “sy one redeeming feature in and an unexpected on that. Miss Bow does not apy . little pidgin-English Kanaka girl who later turns out to be white through; she is white to begin with— but objectionable, for all that. There is a dam in “Hul with the inevitable dull, sickening thud when it bursts. There is also an op- portunity for Miss Bow to wear a shredded-wheat skirt. Iss) BOW sesses that cert which makes for long lines at the box office, but kind friends should lead her aside and tell her that eye- lashes made up to resemble pine needles are not calculated to bring out the animal nature in men, They are, if the truth must be known, rather disgusting. R. E. Sherwood. undoubtedly pos- something Developments comes galloping to the rescue just in time to save Dolores Costello from a fate worse than death Fast and Furious. Another high speed but low-powered farce, featuring Reg Denny The Unknown, A drama, in which Lor with his toe Camille. Norma young Parisienne who loved but_too often. The King of Kings. A gorgeous and almost always impressive repetition of the Gospels. Wings, The Patent Leather Kid, Chang, Stark Love, The Way of All Flesh, What Price Glory, Old Iron- sides and The Big Parade are recom mended. 1¢ melo cture: aney does thi almadge as the sad jot wisely comicbooks.com