New Pictures

Her Honor the Governor (Pauline Frederick). The term of "Ma" Ferguson in Texas probably inspired this effort; a story of a woman's woes in politics. The governor's son is charged with murder. The executive mother is about to pardon him when it appears that he is an illegitimate son and she an unmarried mother. Need it be said that both charges are untrue? Need it be said that she retires from politics to the simple married life ? Need it be said that feminists will be furious with the whole thing? Pauline Frederick contributes a good performance. (See WOMEN, p. 6.)

The Plastic Age (Clara Bow).

Percy Marks's searching study of contemporary life in a co-ed college has been turned by the cinema into the most tiresome kind of rah-rah worthlessness. The freshman loses more and more morals up to his junior year. The next year amid stupendous glory he wins the football game for dear old Prescott. Only the amusing and facile acting of Clara Bow rescues the picture from the limbo of the impossible.

Nell Gwyn (Dorothy Gish). The

first English film of any importance ever to visit our shores has been released. It is a light hearted story of the playful mistress of Charles II, full of character, atmosphere, humor. It is devoid of the dull wastes of costume and scenery usual in such endeavors. It tells a simple comedy simply and ends it with the true pathos of tragedy. Nell Gwyn is shown meeting the King outside Drury Lane. She rises through his patronage to a prominent place on the English stage. Through his favor she confounds the haughty females of the court. He dies with the famous words, "Don't let poor Nell starve." Dorothy Gish (perhaps best of all movie comediennes) plays the part with unerring wit and sympathy.