Citations

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

(A) The Wind: Lillian Gish's best picture in eight years. Shadows of Fear: French adaptation of a Zola murder story. Show People: Marion Davies turns the camera on itself, herself, her Hollywood friends. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chaney as a bloodhound with bunions. White Shadows in the South Seas: Fun among the sharks. The Singing Fool: Al Jolson's larynx. Dry Martini: Ritz bar (Paris) barians.

(B) The Singing Fool (still making records) ; Noah's Ark ($28,000. Chinese, Los Angeles); Our Dancing Daughters ($18,000. Fifth Avenue, Seattle) ; Me, Gangster ($17,000, Loew's State, St. Louis).