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West of the Water Tower. Since the book on which this film was founded has been widely sold and widely discussed (TIME, June 11) it seems unnecessary to detail the plot. Sufficient unto the story is the memorandum that it is a tale of Western small town life, youthful love and the bigotry of rural ignorance. As transferred to the screen and interpreted by Glenn Hunter, it seems to lodge safely among the leading half dozen pictures of the year...
...Hollywood plant will resume operations with three companies. Gradually twelve companies will be engaged there. In 1924, 45 pictures will be made in Hollywood; 15 other film plays will be made at the Lasky studio on Long Island. This projected production of 60 pictures in 1924 compares with the 52 pictures produced in 1923. Mr. Lasky emphatically denied rumors to the effect that motion picture producers contemplated moving their studios from Hollywood to the East. Said he: "These reports about centering production in the East or about moving our studio East are entirely unfounded. Time after time we have investigated...
...Mine. Behind this ghastly title, there lurks a film of gold. It is another of Booth Tarkington's yarns of youth. He has somehow managed to preserve his peculiar humorous charm in strips of celluloid. Ben Alexander makes the various boyhood adventures pathetic, amusing, sincere...
Long Live the King. It is becoming the fixed opinion of a large proportion of the population that Jackie Coogan is the one public character whom America cannot afford to lose. Each time he reappears in a new film the adjective army passes jauntily before the cinema reviewers and is detailed en masse to support the Coogan picture. This army is at present on the march. With the possible exception of Oliver Twist, Long Live the King (from a novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart) is the best thing Jackie has done. He plays the tiny Crown Prince of a European...
...Mailman. A very small and energetic group of citizens are intent upon rousing the large and lethargic population to the rescue of its postal servants. Apparently mailmen are distressingly underpaid, overworked and ill provided for by pension. These points are all driven home in this film with the sounding mallet of melodrama. The purpose of the plan is obviously to provide campaign material for the emancipation of the mail slaves; by its banality it serves another cause equally well-the cause of those who detest the rank old-fashioned type of hiss and cur melodrama...