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...Unholy Three (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When released as a silent picture in 1923, this film had a quality of strained and macabre horror which was largely dependent on the fact that none of the participants in its gruesome goings-on was able to make himself heard. No voice, it was well understood, could be so wheedling as the voice which one imagined would be used by Mrs. O'Grady, the keeper of a petshop, who was really a man and the leader of a band of thieves. Her grandson, whom customers observed cuddled up in a perambulator, was really...
...other. Accordingly last week in Paris gathered delegates to an historic cinema conference. Present were representatives of the great U. S. and German concerns interested in talkie patents-John Edward Otterson of Electrical Research Products Co., Inc., Charles J. Ross, John Cecil Graham representing Paramount, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Pathe, Radio Corp., George E. Quigley of Warner Bros. They settled down to debate their problems amicably until they decide whether to make an agreement or start a trade war. Will Hays, on the motion of Dr. Curt Sobernheim, general manager of the Commerz-und Privat-Bank of Berlin...
...Lady of Scandal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When a good play is turned into a picture by the photographing of its acts, scene by scene, it loses more than the artifice of flesh and blood. Its framework stiffens. Graces that shone brilliantly behind the footlights seem antiquated in the more fluid form for which they were not intended. This comedy of Lonsdale's, The High Road, is not really oldfashioned. Its situation-the consternation of an English family when faced with the possible marriage of one of its scions with a Gaiety-girl-is ingeniously handled. Ruth Chatterton and Basil...
...Floradora Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is a brilliant, animated cartoon of the fashions of the Mauve Decade?a cartoon brought to life by the comic playing of Marion Davies and built around an effervescing, satirical story...
...Divorcee (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Whether the success of Ex-Wife, the novel from which this picture is adapted, was due to its frankness on sex, or to a certain distinct and half-naive pathos in its sophisticated affectations, will make little difference to people who see The Divorcee. The film accurately reproduces all the qualities of the book, including its disorder and its occasional approach to burlesque, but Norma Shearer's beauty makes it worth watching in spite of mediocre dialog. It concerns a young couple whose happiness was disrupted because they had a habit of confessing their in fidelities...