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LEAVE MAE the effect of its star names at the

WEST ALONE

ENGLISH CRITIC OF PURIFIERS.

REVIEW OF THE CINEMA

so at once.

By a Critic

box-office, I think that as an enter-

tainment with Lubitsch as show-

man it hardly comes up to scratch, The persistent amours of M. Chevaller, whils charmingly done, tand to lose a little of their urgency after the passage of years. His naughtiness, 'and the musical, coquetry of Miss Jeanette Macdonald, who has cultivated a now, and awfully refined accent for the occasion, hardly mako up for the lack of drama in the pre- nout, anga of widowhood. There is a flatness, too, about the comedy London, Dec. 1.

that makes us understand why Mr. They have started to purify Lubitsch should have observed in Mae West. They must stop doing a recent Interview that he is In "Belle of the Nine-{"worried about the future". We ties" at the Plaza, she is a púri-} might be disposed to Iny the blame tanical white-washed shadow of on the purity campaign for her true self. It is true there nre Lubitsch in the same interview, a few lines still left capable of a goes on to remark that "the gen- double and hidden meaning, but cral public will get the impres- they are feeble jokes unworthy sion that the campaign is against of a strong and irresistable char,cheap hokum; but the publle may acter like here. Mne in this film not see the possibility that the is condemned to sing a number of same campaign will. force the songs that have little attraction higher cinema expression into for an English audience, and hokum of a different, but equally { which are of no help to the story. lamentable nature." Since, how- In fact they interrupt its action.ever, he adds in the next breath, There is the familiar mixture of freedom on light flimsy stories, "I can work with almost complete boxing men, heavy displays of

like the "Merry Widow" the Jewellery, crowds of admiring

| puritans It would seam must be exonerated from

followers, dirty work folled by temporarily Mae's superior intelligence, and blame... this timo Duke Ellington's band

is thrown in as a make-weight. There is no need to go very far But if this is the frat Mae West for an alibl for Mr. Lubitsch or for Mac West. "The Merry plcture for you to see get it out widow" is an unsatisfactory film

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of your head that it represents her and "Belle of the Nineties" at her best. The melodrama left even more unsatisfactory film, be-j in the tale is exciting enough and cause it has Hitle to say and only There are hun- a Are Acene is well worked, but one thing to an

dreds of other pictures produced one does not spoil a first class yearly, both here and in Holly- queur by drowning it with soin wood, that auffer in greater or water.

less degree from the same dia- ability. What is needed is a cam- The Merry Widow" at the Empaign. not against the ethics, but pire does give us something more against the ropitisiousness of sex... edifying than incessant hip-swing-there was once and still may be ing. This doughty lady of musical called Mr. Q. Dull. Such a nice for all I know-a film executive comedy emerges from Lubitsch's наме I always thought, for 4 hands in a whirl of music and dignitary of the cinema. what is known I think, as sociál

PROPAGANDA gaiety. The old tunes, "Vilia" and "Maxim's" and the rest, are *Propaganda on the screen falla as captivating as ever, the interi-into three categories, the spurious, the misguided, and the inerre. or grouping and decoration is The Inst is rarely met with; when Just as direct as the exteriors it comes it is always greeted with are, hurrible, and the famous unanimers dislike. In a curious there are any medical men in the waltz, in which Lubitsch alternatelyly named propaganda film the States corresponding to the genties man as depicted by Mr. Mack, I | empties and floods his floor with Capitol. "Shall the Children Pay?"

veteran Amerlenn author-actor, marvel that epidemics are not swinging Bigarea is quite beauti Mr. Willard Mack, sets out with raging through the Bountry. He fully done. There are nice mo- a set stern face to make a picture behaves more like our old stage ments tag, of comedy in the open- for the ignorant out of the typical nequaintance the confidential re- How his grandfather took himing into my ear the old jacobito ing scenes, and an occasional, American sex book. According to ceptacle of the family's woes. on his knees and told him how he ballad: Wha wadna fecht for

Mr. Mack the younger female Flaming youth is shown having a had

Charlie? 'Poor Prince Charlie? though very occasions!,, bright population of the States-is attil high-old-time, and in the end pay-described in a wireless talk by the went on the old man daw bim

Prince Charlie seen linc.

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