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When A Man Loves (John Barrymore). It would be hard to discover a title that coos more tenderly to the box office or a picture in which an actor gives more generously of his profile and passion. The scenario is said to be related to Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut. At any rate, it resembles Mr. Barrymore's other romantic films in that it gives him the opportunity to wear heroic clothes, kill villains, and outwit King Louis XV. After doing these things many times, he finds himself in a tiny sailboat with Dolores Costello bound...
Valencia (Mae Murray). Dimitri Buchowetzki wrote the scenario, directed the production of a ham idyl that tells how Valencia of Barcelona, coy charmer, preferred a handsome sailor (Lloyd Hughes) to a smirking Governor (Roy D'Arcy). Clumsy framework pokes through a cheesecloth illusion...
...Poetic Scenario...
...felt, as it was in Poet Heyward's other story, Porgy (1925), about a purple-black beggar of Charleston. He has let the beauty of his new locale run away with him. What he should have written was an idyl. What he has written is a poetic scenario...
...Armored Cruiser Prince Potemkin. In search of Broadway favor came three foreign films last week: Faust (German), Michael Strogoff (French), Potemkin (Russian). Potemkin has been called the supreme achievement in cinema. The scenario follows the simple historical account of mutiny aboard the Imperial Russian cruiser, Prince Potemkin, in the year 1905. It dallies with no hero, no heroine, no plot complication. The drama is of the crew, the human beings who scrub, polish, mother the steel monster and are fed, in return, with wormy meat. They protest. A sail cloth is thrown over 50 sailors, marines are ordered to shoot...