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...mountains is purged of cowardice and drunkenness through the combined efforts of his little brother (Frankie Darro), his sweetheart (Virginia Valli) and the War. The little brother's strategy makes him go to battle; the heroine's faith pulls him through; the War is the crucible. The film drags at times...
...German people, as many know, have gone off on a physical culture twig. This Ufa film shows them at it-dancing in the valleys, chinning on the mountain tops, swinging, stretching, running, generally intensifying and multiplying the daily dozen...
Babe Comes Home. George Herman Ruth, variously known as the Home Run King, the Biffing Bambino, the Sultan of Swat, the Mogul of Mayhem, etc., does poorly in a film recounting the life story of a baseball player. Mr. Ruth is not even qualified to hold a cinema actor's lipstick...
...without hope to happy fulfillment. Crime & Punishment.* Dostoievsky wrote a grand and gloomy novel about a Russian youth who seeks salvation in rationality and finds it in faith. In the course of his anguished gropings he commits a brutal murder, falls in love with a gentle girl. Phoenix Film Co. of Germany has telescoped the story onto the screen with sincerity enough to preserve its hulk but without art enough to point its outlines. Ten Modern Commandments (Esther Ralston). Among modern young women, it appears, the ten modern commandments are all one: "Get your man." That much Kitten...
...manner of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, heard described the slow motion photography of living cancer cells. A motion picture camera is focused on a cancer sore and operated slowly for varying periods up to two days. The long negative is developed and a positive film made. When the reel is projected on a screen the cancer cells, magnified, are seen spreading, moving, creeping, quite like budding flowers seen in slow motion pictures. The process is expected to reveal to cancer searchers many an unknown detail of the disease...