The New Pictures

The Exciters. One grows rather discouraged when the opening titles explain that the mortals of the title roles are society people who exist on thrills--" super jazzites." By now jazzites, like Perizzites and Hittites, are badly out of date. One grows positively gloomy when the scene opens in Miami with speedboats upon the waters and the scenery littered up with society people in stenographers' clothing. Then a flying boat crashes and things begin to improve. Soon the heroine (Bebe Daniels) on the trail of a thrill stumbles into a den of crooks. The audience has caught the idea by this time and for the rest of the picture thrills comfortably in spite of itself.

The Ragged Edge. This is all about a husband who was husband " in name only "--as mutual strangers might put it over the tea cups. The gentleman in this unfortunate predicament married his wife in a forgetful moment. When he remembered that he had stolen his stepfather's money he decided that he must make himself worthy before he dared to hope for the patter of little feet about the house. Meanwhile the couple have been chased by a detective, one of those fierce-faced movie detectives, to a lonely South Sea island. And here, dear reader, we will leave them. You may have three guesses as to a) whether he was really guilty of stealing the money, b) who won when he battled with the ugly old beachcomber for his wife and c) what happened in the final closeup.

The Man of Action, Douglas Mc-Lean finds himself confronted with a lovely girl whom he would wed if she would let him. Her objection lies in the fact that he is one of those unfortunate mortals who are worthless except for two or three million dollars. Accordingly he sets out to make himself a man despite the money. The ensuing series of adventures are pleasantly entertaining.

The Heart Raider. Agnes Ayres proceeds through this picture as a society siren against whose heart of gold other hearts, of lesser, masculine metal, shatter themselves by scores. Then one day in walks a misogynist. On board his yacht heart-of-gold meets heart-of-iron.

The cast is pleasantly supplied with Mahlon Hamilton as the misogynist and Charles Ruggles as supplementary clown. All in all the results justify two hours expended in their inspection.