The New Pictures

Seven Keys to Baldpate. When Mr. Cohan wrote this play it was agreed to be one of the most interesting and effective technical experiments produced by a native playwright. Also it was funny. The latitude of the movies obscures somewhat the ingenious fitting of the pieces. The director and Douglas MacLean have retained the brisk and novel humor.

New Brooms. The theme of a man who takes over his father's business does not sound immensely novel. Of course he makes a success of it. A touch of satire on the very banality of the story was required. This the film factory omitted. Therefore the picture lacks entertainment.

Proud Heart. Rudolph Schildkraut, immensely gifted actor from the Continent, makes in this picture his first conspicuous appearance in the films. Universal has supplied for him a melodrama of the Bowery in which his two sons select the widely varying careers of law and prizefighting. It is a pretty good play made extraordinarily effective by the acting of the star.

Bobbed Hair was written by "20 famous novelists," each doing one installment. As might be expected, it turned out to be an incoherent hurrah about the modern girl, but incoherence is so often a feature of motion picture plots that the fault is not devastatingly apparent.