The New Pictures

The Cheat. The spectacle of a hot iron sinking into the white contours of Pola Negri's left shoulder- blade should be 50-c- worth to anybody. If it isn't there is little else in the picture to make up the deficit. Pola starts out in Paris, where she makes two errors of judgment. She incurs the displeasure of a nasty old Hindu; she marries an American newspaper man. The latter's salary, served as a double portion, Pola finds unsatisfactory nourishment. The Hindu re-enters and trouble begins.

Where the North Begins. Just as all children are taken to see Jacky Coogan so all dogs should be taken to see Rin-Tin-Tin. He is a police dog who won his first medals on the battlefields of France. In the present opus he is concerned in various entertaining spectacles of battle, murder, and sudden death in the lands where there is much ice and snow. Particularly should all Pekingese, Pomeranians and Mexican Hairless be invited to the entertainment to readjust their perspectives on the true responsibility of the canine population.

Daytime Wives. Duty is usually obvious and often dull. This celluloid sermon on the whole duty of wives has absorbed those characteristics in more than moderate proportions.

The Eleventh Hour. The printed pages of a desperate dime novel are here translated into pictures. An insane prince with the aid of the director and a few submarines attempts to take possession of the world. In order to consummate this interesting experiment he must possess himself of the secret of a new explosive which, when properly applied, is empowered to rupture the Rock of Gibraltar. The heroine (Shirley Mason) constitutes herself chaperone to the only vial of the explosive in existence. Her temperamental charge puts her through a rapid array of situations, such as: rescued from a motorboat by airplane at 50 miles an hour; shelled out of the airplane and then out of a parachute; escaped through the torpedo tubes of a submerged submarine. It may be inferred that the picture is gorgeously impossible, rabidly exciting. As a fitting climax the crazy prince is injected into a den of ill-fed lions, which he maintains below his study for the convenient disposition of his dearest enemies.