New Pictures

Taxi, Taxi (Marion Nixon). Director Melville Brown's first production, Her Big Night, was so successfully and hilariously funny that the stupidity of this, his second effort, is acutely painful. The comedy is supposed to flow from the well-intentioned blunder of a hero so nitwitful that he pays $300 for a broken-down taxi on a rainy night. Marion Nixon is cute, opposite Edward Everett Horton, lummox.

The Third Degree (Dolores Costello) was once a startling play dealing with brutal police and their peculiar methods of bleeding confessions out of tortured hearts. The picture staggers ineffectually over the same plot. Everybody suffers: strong, silent men; good, beautiful, true women; the audience.

The Red Mill (Marion Davies). In a Dutch inn, a scintillant slavey woos the wrong man for her girlfriend's sake, wins the right one (Owen Moore) for her own. But the really important thing about the film is that Marion Davies wears her blonde tresses in two heavy braids and discards the velvets of romantic royalty to charm in the homespuns of domestic Holland.