July 11, 1925 A Page of Movie Reviews by Alva Taylor
MY WIFE AND I
From the Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Directed by M. Webb Warner Brothers Picture
- THE CAST:
Mrs. Stuart Borden. ................. Irene Rich My. Stuart Borden............. Huntley Gordon Stuart Borden, Jr... ............... John Harron Spencer Hobart..................... John Roche Betty Allen. ................. Constance Bennett
MRS. STUART BORDEN got up each morning and did a daily dozen or so in white sweater and bloomers. Mr. Stuart Borden each morning buried his head in the pillows so that he wouldn't hear the phonograph accompaniment to his wife’s calisthenics, took headache tablets each morning before his coffee, and refused to go to a gymnasium because
he thought he was too busy. Stuart Borden, Jr., found plenty of time to spend his father’s money on Betty Allen, a gold digger of the first rank.
Mr. Borden, Sr., decided one day to put a stop to this. He told sonny just what kind of woman this girl must be, and he told the shops that they need not extend further credit to Stuart Borden, Jr. Thus a certain fur coat had to be returned, since it would not be paid for.
One day Mr. Borden, Sr., met, at luncheon, a charming young lady who, with an enticing smile, gave him a headache tablet. Not long after that a certain fur coat was once more ordered from the shop.
Thus does Huntley Gordon, who is the “I” part of the title, once more have the role of the wandering husband. He goes back to his wife in the usual way: through jealousy. For another man seems to be in love with his wife. John Roche, specialist in villain parts, furnishes this complication.
Irene Rich, in this picture, gives another of her excellent characterizations as the wife. Constance Bennett is the alluring young creature who has in her clutches first the son, then the father. But heavy dramatics at the end of this entertaining film, on a stormy, rainy night, put the domestic affairs of My Wife and I all shipshape.
cast, furnish the thrills in Black Cyclone.
BLACK CYCLONE
Story and Picture by Hal Roach
Released by Pathe
THE CAST:
The Horses: The People: Rex Guinn Williams
Lady Kathleen Collins |
The Killer Christian Frank
Template:DILACK CYCLONE is the best wild horse
picture I have ever seen. And it is one
of the best movies of any category that
I have sat through in some time. No one who
likes horses should miss it. The human actors in
the picture are entirely subordinated to the horses.
It’s a thrilling sight, the battles between the two
horses and the two men, side by side, while female
horse and human being stand by, awaiting the
victory of their males. When the wild horse Rex
sees the man whom he trusts and admires be-
cause the man saved him fromsinking in the quick-
sand, vanquish his enemy, he is inspired to do
likewise, and for the first time the hoofed Killer,
terror of the equine herds, must put his tail be-
tween his legs, and slink away, beaten.
It isn’t the love story of the man and the girl,
and the villainous interference of the “ bad man”
which will move and thrill you. But it is the love
of the wild black horse Rex for the wild white
mare of the plains, and the evil influence of the
Killer, which will hold your interest. You will
be absorbed from the very beginning of the story,
where Rex, a colt, is left to shift for himself when
his mother is killed by a rattlesnake, until the
happy ending, when he has saved Lady from the
menacing wolves and the terrible Killer.
There’s action all the time in this picture. There
are dramatic fights between horse and horse, horse
and wolves, horse and mountain lion.
Right straight through, the photography is in-
teresting. The background is the rugged barren-
ness of the Bad Lands where the wild horses run
in herds. The horse Rex is a marvelous animal,
fascinating to watch. Black Cyclone is a film to
be seen by all horse lovers, and all movie-goers
who like the best there is in pictures.
WELCOME HOME
From the Play by Edna Ferber and G. S. Kaufman
Directed by James Cruze Paramount Picture
THE CAST:
Old Man Prouty................ Luke Cosgrove Fred Prouty..................... Warner Baxter | Nettie Prouty. ..................... Lois Wilson | Jim Corey.............o..o iit Ben Hendricks | Lil Corey. Margaret Morrie
THE young Proutys had only two bedrooms in their small flat—the only kind they could afford. But when young Prouty’s father came to live with them because his income was only five hundred dollars a year, they had the maid sleep at her cousin’s, and gave the room to the old man.
But he was so lovable that even though his ways were often annoying, one couldn’t be angry with him. Not even when he brought in his pals from the Old Men’s Home the day the club met at Mrs. Prouty’s, and untidied the house and ate all the sandwiches. But it was the last straw for Nettie Prouty when her father-in-law insulted the most important woman in the club, and the club ladies adjourned in high dudgeon. Then Nettie told her husband that either his father or she would have to leave the house.
Meanwhile Papa Prouty had been calling at the Old Men's Home across the street, where all the granddads had a great time playing pinochle and could throw papers on the floor if they felt like it. It wasn’t a charity institution, because each man paid his five hundred dollars a year and was independent. But Old Man Prouty was afraid that his son and daughter would be heartbroken if he left them, and so he decided to sacrifice the joys of the Old Men's Home. But at the end of the picture the Welcome Home sign of the Old Men’s Home greets him.
This is a “homey ” picture, well directed, and full of real life.
NEXT WEEK: Any Woman and Old Home Week, filmed by Paramount, and THE PRICE OF PLEASURE, by Universal.
