The New Pictures

Oh, Kay! There were three outstanding reasons for going to see the music show whence this cinema derived its name, part of its plot. Those reasons--Gershwin music. Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar Shaw--are missing in the movie. Instead there is Colleen Moore, never a great inducement for movie going, hardly more than usual in this offering, which tells of a noble English girl who, besieged by ennui and an unwanted suitor, goes down to the sea in a small ship, drifts into a storm, is rescued by rum-runners.

The Sawdust Paradise. Than Esther Ralston few are more lovely, than Hobart Bosworth few more noble. Somehow La Ralston failed to be convincing as the circus Hallie whom an evangelist (Bosworth) denounced because she ran a shell game. She was arrested, paroled in the evangelist's care. She gets religion, almost loses her boy friend (Reed Howes), but inevitably wins him over to the cause of righteousness.

Submarine. Handsome Jack Dorgan was a Navy diver. Between him and Bob Mason there was much horseplay and jostling, which, as every cinemaddict knows, is the way strong men have of showing affection for each other. Handsome Jack (Jack Holt) has an affair with Snuggles (Dorothy Revier), grows so fond of her ways that he actually marries her. Unknown to Handsome Jack, Snuggles seduces Best Friend Mason who happens to be a member of a submarine crew. When Jack learns that there has been an affair he is angry with his friend. The submarine in which Mason is cruising is sunk. Dorgan is the best diver in the service, but he refuses to try to reach the boat. Not until he discovers that his wife, not his friend, was the seducer, does he go into the water.

In the part of wily Snuggles Dorothy Revier has good moments. She had sinned, was therefore abandoned when her husband rescued her lover. Husband, lover renewed their friendship; the faithless wife was left to her own vices.