New Pictures

ADAM'S RIB -- An expensive, elaborate hash of cavemen, foreign revolutions, ex-kings, the Chicago wheat-pit in a state of acute neurasthenia, flappers, wayward mothers, and hokum.

OTHELLO--Shakespeare survives a rather heavy and over-subtitled picturization--with a fine, if uncalled for, mob scene, and some excellent acting by Emil Jannings as the Moor.

THE WHITE FLOWER--Another of those Hawaiian pictures concerning a beautiful half-caste with too many beaux of different shades of pigment. Well-photographed and with interesting bits of local color.

MINNIE--The usual Cinderella story anent the transformation of Minnie, the ugly duckling, into Minnie, the bird of Paradise, thanks to truelove and a permanent wave.

DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS --Highly unusual film of the high-tide of the American whaling industry. When one irritated sea-monster starts crunching a boat and its occupants like a peppermint stick, directly in front of the camera, it is difficult to keep the shivers out of your spine. A distinct achievement.

THE PILGRIM--Chaplin as an escaping convict turned minister presents a gorgeously funny example of custard-piety. More slapstickery and less poignance than in Shoulder Arms or The Kid, but intensely amusing throughout.

When John Barrymore returns from Europe he will return to the films as well. The Warner Brothers intend to star him, first in Deburau; then in an adaptation of Clyde Fitch's Beau Brummel.