The New Pictures

The Phantom of the Opera-- Universal made a brave attempt to duplicate the success of The Hunchback of Notre Dame with another picture of Lon Chaney and Paris. They built the imposing facade of the Paris Opera House and constructed on various sets a series of ingenious interiors and dungeons. They took their story from the novel of Gaston Leroux and depended on horror chiefly for their entertainment. Though Mr. Chaney wears a more grotesque make-up than ever, the film play seems only pretty good.

The Coming of Amos--Rod LaRoque's face has been widely distributed over the countryside on billboards announcing him as a star of the new Cecil B. DeMille organization. His first picture is a retelling of William J. Locke's tale of the young Australian roughneck who saves a Russian princess on the Riviera. Good enough.

The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted--The tears of Irene Rich must be highly profitable liquid. Again she is playing the mother who splits with her husband. This time because, as District Attorney, he was going to prosecute his own son for manslaughter. Fairly dull.

Graustark -- Norma Talmadge should make more pictures. She is not only excellent herself; she seems to have a knack of picking stories. George W. McCutcheon's old romance of the fancied Balkan principality comes gorgeously to life in pictures. It is well played, it is exciting. It is, therefore, an unusual film, not to be missed.