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High power romance with oriental trappings forms the piece de resistance this week at R. K. O. Keiths. "East is West" starring Lupe Velez is a screen version of the play of the same name, which enjoyed a long and successful run. In spite of this the improbability of the plot is nearly too much of a handicap for the cast, who rescue the play from the depths of ham melodrama by skillful and intelligent acting. White slavery on the Chinese and San Francisco water fronts with the usual handsome young hero to rescue his fair maiden from the clutches...
...Keith's--"East is West". Lupo Velez and Lewis Ayres providing some Oriental atmosphere in a rather exciting fashion...
Loew's Orpheum-"Hell Harbor". Lupe Velez being dynamic...
...depth, individuality and something understandable and human about it, is here a German brigand who makes a good living buying and selling the produce of an obscure island in the Caribbean Sea. Among his current deals is one, negotiated with the lady's father, for possession of Lupe Velez. Like Hersholt, Miss Velez has a specialty in her acting: she is a professional Latin spitfire. Director Henry King, whose specialty is the reproduction of romantic and dangerous backgrounds, has done well with the photography, making the story look a little different as it follows its familiar outlines. John Holland...
Tiger Rose (Warner). Lenore Ulric amply proved that this weak-kneed melodrama of strong men and a siren in the Canadian Northwest was effective in the theatre. Bright-eyed little Lupe Velez lacks the finesse that Belasco taught Lenore Ulric, but makes up for it to some extent by her vivacity, her Mexican accent, and the songs she sings occasionally in a voice sharp as a cactus, shrill and toothy, but somehow attractive. Best shot: Bull Montana wiping his nose with his shirt sleeve...