New Pictures

Long Pants (Harry Langdon). The Boy (Harry Langdon) consumes such inflaming literature as "Don Juan," "Great Lovers of History," "When His Love Grew Cold." Therefore, when his father provides him his first pair of long trousers, the adolescent breaks out in a romantic rash with tragic freckles. He mounts his trusty, high-spirited bicycle, dashes out to the park, there meets with a grande dame reposing in a Rolls-Royce while her chauffeur mends a flat tire. The Boy, sore smitten, circles the auto, displaying a repertoire of bicyclical virtuosity rivaled only by his vaulting hopes. Amused, the lady kisses her seraph-faced admirer, whose innocence in the throes of the cosmic "urge is droll to behold. Thus compromised, the trousered one needs must slay his contemporaneous sweetheart who lives next door, in order to be free to follow the grand passion inspired by the lady of the Rolls-Royce. In plenty of time and after many an antic he discovers that the Rolls-Royce lady is unworthy and returns peacefully to the girl next door. Harry Langdon's lonely innocence is most excellently done.

The Night Bride (Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford). On her wedding night, her father locked her up in the ship's stateroom with the wrong man. Since he wanted to be absolutely certain of ridding himself of his expensive daughter, he refused to unlock the door till the night had passed and the ship had sailed far into the sea. The mistake turned out to be one of those fortunate coincidences in which the ideal mating is accomplished by farce. The film is not so fortunate. Seasickness is the big laugh.

Irish Destiny is a film made in Ireland by Dr. I. J. Eppel. It records with bungling artistry but unmistakable sincerity the struggle between the Irish Republican Army and the British Black-and-Tans during the bitter squabbles of 1916-22. Most interesting are pictures of the escape of 200 prisoners from Curragh Prison Camp, the burning of the Dublin Customs House, street fighting in the city. In spite of paucity of entertainment, the film holds the attention of those whose feelings are swayed by political, racial considerations.