New Pictures

The Blackbird. Limehouse naturally gives Lon Chaney a chance to disguise himself with grotesquerie well calculated to frighten little children. Part of the time he is a benevolent bishop. Renee Adoree, the French girl of The Big Parade, is the heroine, capably enough. Mr. Chaney is always good, and his pictures are never watered with too obvious and too usual melodramatic sentiment.

The Song and Dance Man. George Cohan wrote this play and gave it with great success just before his much advertised retirement (from which he has now reappeared). It is the story of a man who loved the stage, bad as he was, and gave up money and a business career for small-time vaudeville. Tom Moore has the part in this version. Much of the fun has survived.

Memory Lane. This sounds pretty dull and indeed is. It is a story of sacrifice. A small-town husband is contented to allow his wife to run away with a city chap simply because" he knows she will be happy. Eleanor Boardman is the girl.

Dance Madness is about as bad as its title. There is a wife, there is a husband, there is a cabaret siren. It is played for light comedy, if any.

The Reckless Lady. Belle Bennett and Lois Moran, who did so admirably in Stella Dallas, have another mother and daughter fable. Most of it is in Monte Carlo. Lowell Sherman, James Kirkwood and Ben Lyon are the males involved. Mother turns virtuous, daughter gets a good husband, and Lowell Sherman is consigned to a watery grave. It is a pretty dull film.