The New Pictures

The Knockout. An amazingly virile hero with a taste for Epictetus is embodied in this adventure by Milton Sills. Mr. Sills is one of the best of the strong and silent men. Millions of people lika to see him forsake the cloistered corner of his library for a lumber struggle in the great west. His adversary in this picture is a lovely girl, who consents to join forces for life with him at the end. The picture seems to have nearly everything but novelty.

Compromise. Irene Rich is probably the most persistently unhappy wife in the movies. One can scarcely recall a picture in which misunderstanding and tears were not her portion. Reconciliation and reward are herein brought about by the abrupt but highly exciting advent of a hurricane.

The King on Main Street. Adolph Menjou has become securely recognized as one of the most entertaining triflers. Suavity and sophistication--usually with a European atmosphere--are his metier. In the present picture he comes to America as the king of a fanciful European state. Light comedy of the most amusing quality results-- despite a somewhat slovenly final few hundred feet.

Lights of Old Broadway. Herein Marion Davies is twin sisters, twin orphans. She arrives in the U. S. some few decades ago, and is adopted, one twin by the fashionable De Rhondos (Dutch), the other by the shandy O'Tandys (Irish). The Dutch twin grows exclusive and blase. The Irish twin grows even fresher and more charming, and finally goes on the stage where Weber and Fields are just trying to gain a foothold. It is old New York--with young Thomas Edison wandering around somewhat deaf, and young Teddy Roosevelt going about in outlandish eyes-glasses. One of the big events in the story is the turning on of electric lights on 14th St., for the O'Tandys have in their feckless way acquired some of this freak electricity company stock while the Rhondos have invested in gas. Marion Davies does very well.