The New Pictures

The Lullaby. Husband commits murder and is himself killed in the act. Faithful wife takes part blame and is parked in state's prison. Baby daughter is adopted by State Governor and brought up respectable. Years pass. Mother comes out. Mother seeks baby daughter. Baby daughter is having coming out party at very gubernatorial mansion. Mother gets by the butlers. Governor persuades mother: "She must not know." Mother agrees and goes out on lawn to commit suicide. Daughter and fiance bring her around. Fiance marries daughter anyway.

The only valuable contribution of the picture is the versatility of Jane Novak in the triple role of wife, old prison-poisoned mother, her own daughter.

The Eternal City is a striking picture of a very bad play. Italy rescued from anarchy by Fascism is the subject. Mussolini is one of the actors (a few brief shots). An entire company was transplanted to Rome for the proceedings. Somewhere in the crowd was a singularly capable cameraman who managed to recapture for the screen much of the pictorial splendor that was Rome's. Unhappily the story is a badly battered old tinier. A story that Lionel Barrymore, Barbara La Marr, Bert Lytell, Richard Bennett and Benito Mussolini can't save, must be not only old but moribund.

The Extra Girl. While State after State was going anti-Normand to impress chauffeurs that the season on millionaires was definitely closed, New York (probably fearing the vote of the nine million taxi-drivers in the widely known metropolis) stayed silent. Accordingly Mabel Normand opened in The Extra Girl. It turned out to be a feminine edition of Merton and guaranteed harmless. The scandal-starved hundreds can gaze, gape and grin at Miss Normand to their hearts' content and bring their children. For those who align themselves with this department in Considering screen Mabel an exceptionally comic personality, the picture will appeal.

Heritage of the Desert. In the telling of Western stories Zane Gray and the cinema are, in their respective mediums, difficult to defeat. Therefore when they get together the resulting entertainment must be big medicine. Ably assisted by Ernest Torrence, Bebe Daniels, Noah Beery, the cinema chemists have herein compounded an exceptionally vigorous specific.