New Pictures

His Secretary. Norma Shearer, now an accepted star in the Metro firmament, spends the first part of this picture looking homely and the last part her loveliest. In the homely part she is a stenographer; later she marries one of the firm. The first part is amusing and the second fairly dull, if indeed peering at the gorgeous countenance of Miss Shearer is ever dull.

Steel Preferred. The presence of Ben Turpin as a bartender would make this film for some people. But Mr. Turpin is one of the few actors who are incomprehensibly absent from the screen much of the time. The play is not, however, a cross-eyed comedy. It is a love story with a steel-mill background and fair enough of its ilk.

Tumbleweeds. William S. Hart has not changed a bit. He is back after a long retirement with a typical two-gun tale tempered with love and kindness. The scene is the Oklahoma land rush when the Cherokee reservation was thrown wide to eager homesteaders. Mr. Hart is thoroughly welcome home. His western pictures, so long a staple of national entertainment, are too consistently good (if never great) to be taken from us.