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Around the World with the Speejacks. Echoes of the loud hurrahs that greeted the return of the 98-foot honeymoon yacht which carried Albert Y. Gowen, of Cleveland, and his bride around the world have been preserved in celluloid. The result is a travel picture. It travels fast, and is, therefore, fragmentary. Nevertheless it will suffice for a vicarious voyage for vast sections of citizenry whose wanderings are bounded by the village store; the state fair; the subway kiosk...
John Barrymore has just completed in California, a celluloid Beau Brummel. Lenore Ulric's return to the screen will be signalized when Tiger Rose is presented to a breathless world at Christmas time...
...defeated moving picture censorship, not for themselves, but for their children's children. For with a board of censors, some great director might be rushed in at the last moment to correct the work of a loose-minded scenario writer. And so poring, five hundred years hence, over dusty celluloid strips, the student might come suddenly upon a treasure a bit of dialogue by Ince, or an art title in the hand of D. W. Griffith...
Many and many a year ago was this plot skeleton first set up for celluloid decoration. Despite its age, Barthelmess makes it dance with more than its share of youthful agility. His own part is set squarely in a favorite groove. His supporters (particularly Dorothy Mackaill) know well and perform capably their various businesses...
Ruggles of Red Gap. Critical inquest into the reasons for this picture's being no better than it should be conclude with the finger of suspicion pointing at the scenario-writer. He had an oportunity to adapt what might have proved the best celluloid comedy of the year, but, unfortunately, he judged his own ability superior to that of the original author (Harry Leon Wilson). Out of the wreckage the cinema addict can salvage considerable amusement. If he happens to have read the story he will experience a great wave of pity for the vacant spaces inside the adapter...