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...clan. He sees one day the enameled fields and the mansions of Cape Fear, where rich planters raise rice. He goes home unable to forget the beauty of opulent places, still less able to forget the hushed charm of a girl's voice. He falls in love with Stewart Prevost before he sees her. When friendship prompts her to offer him some money with which to get a start in life, he sees in this a reminder of the difference in their stations. So he goes away to work. Then, there is the Civil War into which Jimmy jumps with...
...Night Bride (Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford). On her wedding night, her father locked her up in the ship's stateroom with the wrong man. Since he wanted to be absolutely certain of ridding himself of his expensive daughter, he refused to unlock the door till the night had passed and the ship had sailed far into the sea. The mistake turned out to be one of those fortunate coincidences in which the ideal mating is accomplished by farce. The film is not so fortunate. Seasickness is the big laugh...
When A Man Loves (John Barrymore). It would be hard to discover a title that coos more tenderly to the box office or a picture in which an actor gives more generously of his profile and passion. The scenario is said to be related to Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut. At any rate, it resembles Mr. Barrymore's other romantic films in that it gives him the opportunity to wear heroic clothes, kill villains, and outwit King Louis XV. After doing these things many times, he finds himself in a tiny sailboat with Dolores Costello bound...
...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...
Fenway--"Seven Sinners", with Marie Prevost and Alice Brook, and "His People", with Rudolph Schildekraut: Reviewed in this issue...