New Pictures

The Road to Mandalay (Lon Chaney). Good old-fashioned explosives cannot be downed. If you take an evil man and bring him upon his daughter on the point of going bad herself there is bound to be drama. Set this story in a Singapore dive, with yellow and brown wickedness all around and the atmosphere is perfect. Particularly when Lon Chaney plays the bad man with an unsightly cataract on one eye. You may not believe but you cannot resist.

Variety (Emil Jannings). Made in Germany is a trade mark which we learned, ten years ago, to shun. It is returning on the most American of all products, the movie, with irresistible authority. Germans have made several of the best motion pictures in history (The Last Laugh, Siegfried) and this latest sample is of unfailing excellence. It is not a new story, telling as it does of the pretty girl, the old trapeze artist, and the young trapeze artist who weaned away her love. It is a magnificent sample of the new German treatment, which depends chiefly on economy. It compels attention through simplicity. Emil Jannings gives his usual masterly performance.

Up in Mabel's Room (Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford). The old stage farce which became entangled with the police in 1924 has been revived, slightly pasteurized, for the screen. It is a story of a girl's silk undershirt and how it pursued her doggedly through various love affairs. It is a farce of the frantic, door-slamming variety, and fairly funny.

Born to the West (Jack Holt). It seems there was a pure sweet girl on the eve of a forced marriage with a wicked gambler of the west. In rode Jack Holt from the silent hills and smashed the horrid plot. Dance halls, handsome horses, and mountain grandeur are all there. Old style, perhaps, but good enough.