The New Films

The Freshman. The advent of Harold Lloyd is always a major matter in the movies. His latest scenario goes back to the ever reliable college campus, and attempts to make merry with the ever reliable boob who becomes the college hero. Possibly Mr. Lloyd was too well aware of the reliability of his material. He did not seem to strive as usual for novelty. It would be madness to say that The Freshman is not funny. Mr. Lloyd could be funny playing an undisturbed mummy. Simply this: The Freshman is not so funny as earlier of the comedian's adventures.

Below the Line. Rin-Tin-Tin is the favorite movie actor of a number of people. Such people will be highly gratified with the latest model. What matters it if the melodrama is wild and foolish? The dog saves the old woman about to be throttled by her wicked son; the dog vanquishes a pack of bloodhounds.

The Circle. Parts of this picture, particularly the early parts, make enormously amusing screen material. One finds a tale of English nobility; a runaway couple coming back after 20 years to warn the daughter of the woman in the case not to run away with someone else's husband. It is a bid for happiness that life will defeat. Somerset Maugham wrote the original comedy. As is customary a new ending has been written, quite destroying the author's original intent. One is used to those things by now, and thankful for sequences of shrewd amusement in the earlier reels.

The Tower of Lies. In any realistic cinema, a newborn child is referred to merely as "another mouth to feed." The mouth, in this grim reproduction of Swedish farm life, is a certain Goldie (Norma Shearer) who buys a farm for her parents with funds obtained from a dubious source. Miss Shearer is fair in both senses of the word; Lon Chaney is the dubious source.