Citations

Best current pictures arranged (A) according to merit (B) according to the money they are making:

(A) The Wind: Lillian Gish's lovely acting in a good prairie-story; White Shadows in the South Seas: Photography and natives; While the City Sleeps: Lon Chancy with a detective's badge and his own teeth; The Singing Fool (Jolson): Mammy on the Vitaphone; Kriemhild's Revenge: A sequel to Siegfried.

(B) The Singing Fool (records everywhere), Wings ($7,000, Valencia, Baltimore), Two Lovers ($24,000, Loew's State, Providence), Lilac Time ($11,000, Metropolitan, Washington).

Past citations still current: The Patriot, Mother Knows Best, The Night Watch, Lonesome, Me, Gangster, Excess Baggage, Waterfront, The Docks of New York, Air Circus, Three Comrades and One Invention.