The New Pictures

Unguarded Women. Here is a picture that is better than its title, which suggests flappers running wild through Hollywood. Instead, it is a sterling drama of a man's struggle to conquer the innate cowardice of his soul, done without a single heave of the bosom. Richard Dix, with manly and yet inoffensive touch, depicts a War veteran, acclaimed as a hero, who has assumed the honors due a dead comrade. In China he meets the widow of his slain buddy, now any man's plaything. To discharge his debt, the hero decides to rehabilitate her by marrying her and discarding his own sweetheart, but she finds a knife is a better solution of their difficulties. Bebe Daniels is impressive in this tragic role, acting without the help of a single bathing costume.

The Perfect Flapper. Colleen Moore depicts a girl who discovers she's too good to be popular. To overcome this she goes the pace according to the well-established cinema formula. Eventually she is saved by an upstanding young lawyer (Frank Mayo), after she has fallen down a chimney and thus had sense shaken into her. There is a novel scene of high jinks aboard a house being moved bodily through the streets, and Sydney Chaplin is fairly diverting in an inebriated state in a standard roadhouse.

Changing Husbands. Dual identity breaks out again on the screen, after lying quiet for a while. Pictures wherein two persons with absolute resemblance exchange places are always unconvincing, even though a theatrical paper not so long ago reported that an actress substituted for a wife, as is done in this picture. Here Leatrice Joy plays both the actress desirous of domesticity and the wife with an itch to act. To American audiences, it will probably seem a very serious business when they shift husbands.

Revelation. Once more a Paris model is apotheosized, after first being allowed by a kindly director to have her fling before settling down to a good, but humdrum, existence. This story of a French girl, who works out her salvation by posing for the Madonna and acquiring some of her spiritual quality, might be effective if Charlie Chaplin directed it--and somebody besides Viola Dana played the role. But Lew Cody, Monte Blue and Marjorie Daw help very much in this story, which is The Miracle reversed.