The New Pictures

Skyscraper. The steel riveter--the man who builds the hanging gardens of the U. S.--is herein made the subject of jest. One riveter drops a red hot rivet down the seat of another riveter's pants. Both are rivals for the hand of a chorus girl. The successful riveter (William Boyd) swings through the air on a chain, from his work to a theatre roof, in order to embrace the girl.

Street Angel. In the slums of Naples a mother is dying. Her daughter, Angela (Janet Gaynor), goes out on the streets to obtain money for medicine by selling herself. Arrested, sentenced to a workhouse, she escapes, finds employment with a traveling circus. And, as any botanist could have predicted, the rose of romance burgeons in the sawdust. In this case, the male principal is Gino (Charles Farrell), who paints minor masterpieces more often than he takes a bath. When Gino takes Angela back to Naples, the police recognize her and clap her into jail. When she is finally released, Gino exhibits a desire to strangle and a passion to wed. Noble, he weds. The warm, misty sky of Naples and the warm beauty of Miss Gaynor were not missed by the camera.

The Chaser. "Girls, isn't he simply darling!" Thus exclaimed one of a series of advertisements in fashionable women's magazines. The face in the copy was Harry Langdon's. His business of being simply darling consists of three gestures: 1) staring blankly like a little boy who has just found half a worm in the apple he is eating; 2) picking his teeth with his thumb and index finger; 3) waddling as if his pants were about to fall down.

In The Chaser Mr. Langdon is a wife-pecked husband, who is made to do the cooking and housecleaning. Morose, he drinks "poison" which turns out to be castor oil. To some, that is simply darling.