New Pictures

The Lady In Ermine (Corinne Griffith). If cinema has done nothing else, it has emphasized for two decades that war is hard on ladies. Herein, for instance, an Italian grande dame finds her villa invaded by roaring Austrians. To save her good husband's life, she must surrender to the Austrian general her ___. But she does not. Director and scenarist have contrived an honorable solution, a terrible picture.

Hotel Imperial (Pola Negri). In Austria, during the troubled days of the War, a beauteous chambermaid exerted profound influence upon the East European situation by confessing to the Russian invaders that the Austrian hero was in her room at a certain embarrassing hour, hence could not have murdered the Russian spy, nor have stolen the important papers. For this strategic fib the Austrians give her the freedom of the army, and the hero. Again Pola Negri finds herself decorating a Hollywood nursery-rhyme.