The New Pictures

THE LITTLE CHURCH AROUND THE CORNER. The cast is split in half. Half of it are capitalists, dancing and frittering away their time and their millions. The other half are coal-miners, holding up the ballroom floor for them to dance on. Eventually, when the mine caves in, the work of rescue is carried on very effectively by the mine owner's prospective son-in-law, who is also a minister. THE LEOPARDESS. There are two kinds of collectors in this picture. One, a man named Quaigg (Montagu Love), collects leopards and women. Another, Croft, collects butterflies. Quaigg, touring the South Seas with his leopardess, gathers up a little half-caste (Alice Brady). He does not believe in altering methods once successful, so he treats the girl and the leopardess very similarly. When the butterfly collector, Croft, tries to see what kindness will do and explains to her that Quaigg is taking advantage of her aboriginal innocence, Quaigg throws him overboard. Later on, in America, Croft bobs up again. Quaigg turns the leopardess on the captive girl, but, seeing a whip in her hand, the animal hastily changes her spots and disposes of Quaigg instead. Croft and the girl head back for the South Seas again. SUZANNA. There is a considerable confusion of babies and husbands in this picture. Suzanna (Mabel Normand) is a little Mexican lady who was changed in her cradle in order that she might be poor for the first part of the picture and rich at the end of it. She is just getting herself married to the villain, a dashing bull fighter, while the hero marries Dolores, who is not a particularly nice girl, when everything gets balled up again. The hero bolts at his altar, seizes Suzanna from her altar, and gallops off at a terrible rate. Follows a duel on horseback--with the girl hanging on at some cost to her dignity--and a final readjustment and exchange of mates. GRUMPY. Theodore Roberts does to perfection the part in which Cyril Maude triumphed on the legitimate stage--that of Grumpy, fussy old supersleuth, with his shawl about his shoulders, his shrewd eyes and his big magnifying glass. The plot is comparatively unimportant. It is about the stolen diamond and how Grumpy followed it to the shoeheel of the amiable villain. The chief clue is a gardenia with a woman's hair wrapped around it.