The New Pictures

The Call of the Canyon. Glenn Kilbourne survives gassing in the War. But on his return the spectacle of his love fox-trotting and crap-shooting knocks him out. The Doctor ships him to Arizona, where a ravishing (but simple) ranchman's 'daughter nurses him back to health. Meanwhile the fox-trotter and crap-shooter runs out to Arizona for a personally conducted tour of inspection. A bad old villain chases her through a fearful storm to a deserted cabin. The hero rescues her, but she returns to fox-trotting. There is still the ranchman's daughter. Marjorie Daw, Lois Wilson, Richard Dix and Noah Beery wind this yarn into a skein of considerable entertainment.

Man from Brodney's. A comprehensive ignorance, possibly pardonable, of the works of George Barr McCutcheon prevents comparison herein of his novel and this resultant picture. His curiously exotic imagination has taken a group of characters to a strange island rich in jewel mines. Dying, the owners left a will which would return the treasures to the natives unless their son and daughter married. Fortuitously involved are a beautiful foreign Princess and one Hollingsworth Chase, American adventurer. The walking delegate of the Natives' Union, local No. 1, argues that the matter may best be settled by massacring the whole white contingent. Nine or ten thousand natives are acting on his advice when an American gunboat hears the rumpus, drops a shell in the courtyard of the besieged chateau, details a platoon of marines. The masses of natives melt. The chateau, the mines, the people are saved. To make it completely safe for 100% Americanism, the Princess, foregoing her regal alliances, decides that plain Mrs. Hollingsworth Chase is good enough for her.

Lucretia Lombard. When a subtitle announces that Destiny rules the lives of men, the beholder can be normally confident that a catastrophic coincidence is about to explode under the plot. In the present case it is a dynamited trestle over which two lovely young women in their nightgowns are fleeing from a forest fire. This forest fire is an excellent example of the thing the movies do exceptionally well. By itself it makes the picture eminently worth while.

But to bring the females back to earth after the explosion. The bride who shouldn't have been married to the hero at all is abruptly submerged in the rapids below. With the odd angle of the triangle eliminated, the other two merge happily into a straight line and follow it to the nearest church.