Life — September 29, 1927 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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“The Joy Girl” TTHERE can be no question that Olive Borden is a complete and satisfying eyeful. She has a lovely face, a stili more lovely form; she looks well in all manner of costumes; she gracefully. thing missing in moves easily and There's just one her equipment as a movie star—and it's a pifflingly unimportant item at that: she can’t act. In “The Joy Girl,” Miss Borden has a part which was undoubtedly designed for her, and for her alone, by the most discriminating fashion experts in the Fox studio. girl of humble origin who is turned loose on the golden sands of Palm Beach to snatie gets him, of course, she has passed a series of obj sons in the virtue of poverty, the vice of greed, ete., ete. She is a she after a millionaire; but o1 “The Joy Girl” is a thoroughly third-rate movie—badly acted, eare- lessly directed and woefully inept in all its mechanical functions; but it will and may harm no on amuse n’s new i there is a young lady who can both look and act. Her name is Sue Carol, and com- “pip You HEAR THE NEW ORGANIST AT THE CATHEDRAL OF THE MOTION PICTURE LAST Nigir?” “NAW, MY WIFE DRAGGED ME OVER TO THE SOME MOVIES.” CHURCHE TO SEE from where I sit, she appears to be well started along the primrose path to fame and fortune. Mr. MacLean, in “Soft Cushions,” bold attempt to break away from his usual routine. He im- personates another thief of Bagdad, but one who does not believe that happiness must be earned ; indeed, he robs right and left, he insults the person of the Wazir, he double-crosses his own pals, he even pulls the Sultan's beard—and_ he gets away with it unpenalized. “Soft extremely pleasant entertainment, principally ase of Mr. MacLean’s sprightly performance and a series of excep- tional sub-titles. It is imbued with much the same cheerfully irreverent spirit that is evident in musical comedies, One does become a trifle tired of the innumerable predicaments and narrow escapes in which Mr. Mae- Lean is involved. But one certainly tired of ing at has made a sacred Cushions” is bee: college does not grow Miss Carol. At least, here’s one who didn’t. R. E. Sherwood. The Garden of Allah. A singularly beautiful picture of the desert, and of its effect upon a renegade directed with his usual superb taste, by Rex hh gram. Hula. Clara Bow not nearly so alluri Underworld. A perfectly swell crook melodrama, with the massive George Zancroft and the alert Evelyn Brent Old San Francisco. Dolores Costello as the girl whose sex appeal started the San Francisco earthquake Adam and Evil. humor priest the flesh, but it’s as one might expect Machine-made Recent Developments Service for Ladies. Adolphe Menjou is another gay and supremely likable deceiver. This is excellent light comedy The Callahans and the Murphys. It seems there were two. Lrishwomen.. The Blood Ship. Hobart Bosworth ther two-fisted he-men in an excit- ng demonstration of the power of brute Ten Modern Commandments. A rus girl's romance—and very tepid, te Rolled Stockings. Louise Brooks is most attractive as a campus queen Resurrection. This isn’t particularly cheerful, but it's unquestionably dramatic —thanks principally to Dolores Del Rio, the star, and Edwin Carewe, the director Tillie the Toiler. Marion Davies as a stenographer who spends at least $425 a week on clothes. Fast and Furious. inald Denny's peppy | Camille. The sob-story of all, with Norma ge as the lady who neglected to smoke Old Gold ciga rettes The King of Kings, Wings, The Patent Leather Kid, Stark Love, The Way of All Flesh, What Price Glory, Old Ironsides and The Big Parade are called to your attention Another of Reg- tless farces. comicbooks.com: