Monday, May. 17, 1926
New Pictures
Hell-Bent for Heaven. The Pulitzer Prize play for 1924 has been made over into a motion picture with more effect than usual. The film has not, naturally, retained the full, true purpose of the play. But it has a splendid flood. It deals with a boy who got religion at a camp meeting.
Skinner's Dress Suit. An old picture, made over from an Essanay release of the old, old days, reappears genially enough. It is, as you may gather from the title, a comedy about a man named Skinner who was the proud possessor of a dress suit. Reginald Denny and Laura La Plante have the leads.
Brown of Harvard. Donald Ogden Stewart, humorist, has been put to work by Hollywood and has emerged with a very amusing college picture. In the old play the sport concerned was boating, while in this version the big scene takes place at the annual football game. There is also love. Jack Pickford and Mary Brian are involved.