New Pictures

The Barrier. Rex Beach's old novel has been strenuously resuscitated with icebergs, shipwrecks and Lionel Barrymore, all good. It is an Alaskan tale with an army captain and a half-breed girl in the centre of the screen most of the time. Stone, sea water and primitive emotions make sound routine melodrama.

The New Klondike. Thomas Meighan has succeeded in getting a good story. It tells of a major-league baseball player in the spring training camps of Florida. He is a pitcher who gets fired and plunges into real estate. There is of course a girl. Ring Lardner is the author, contributing' his shrewd and humorous observations on baseball players' foibles gathered in his old days as a sports writer.

Desert Gold. Zane Grey has contributed another hair-raiser, in which a sand storm is a vast feature. It deals with the dangers surrounding a girl who lived on the edge of a Western desert, and how a brave lieutenant of cavalry (Neil Hamilton) preserved her from them. Western pictures, like Western sandwiches,-- are much the same everywhere and good if you like them.

--A western sandwich is a ham and onion omelet with bread above and below.