New Pictures

The Nervous Wreck (Harrison Ford). Owen Davis' play, turned into slapstick, presents the usual "Christie Comedy" stuff: Ches Conklin, Mack Swain. Phyl Haver, smashed dishes, broken pates, all whirling around in clownish jamboree, affording some measure of Punch and Judy merriment.

Gigolo (Rod La Rocque). Edna Ferber wrote the story: a Western boy loses his fortune in Pa: shoots down enemy planes, sinks to the level of dancing boy lonesome old ladies, is stung back to respectability by his sweetheart's caustic rebuke, returns to the ironworks tradition of the pioneer Gorys, emerges on top after all. In spite of amateurish photograhy jumbled scenario, the audience found several good moments.

The Quarterback (Richard Dix). Another football conflict, salted by strong men's glycerine tears, sweet maidens' registered smiles, introduces Quarterback Dix. Totally different from the Red Grange business in that a milk route has been substituted for ice, it nevertheless squeezes out the same delighted gasps when agile Richard slides over the goal line on his handsome hip. For a long while things look black for Alma Mater Colton. False charges of professionalism ban the star back for the game. Even when, proved innocent, he plays again in the third quarter, it is of no avail--till he is assured of the heroine's true love. Then the mud begins to fly. The smile of Louise Mason (Esther Ralston) is good for hundreds of yards through anybody's line, and a winning touchdown in the last ten seconds.

Her Big Night (Laura La Plante). Out of a clear sky comes a call for Frances Norcross to impersonate abducted actress Daphne Dix. Frances' sweetheart, the press, Daphne's husband, are all very much befuddled, to the moderate glee of the audience. Eventually everything clears up, leaving Frances and her fiance the stronger against matrimonial bugaboos by $1,000. Tully Marshall, mouth full of popcorn, represents the press.