The New Pictures

THE COVERED WAGON.--The publicity experts have been making themselves objectionable about this picture for some time. They have proclaimed it in loud and raucous tones as something like nothing else in heaven or on earth. Now the picture is here and there is no comeback. The publicity was all an understatement. It is a masterpiece of restraint, of realism, of power. In it are crystallized the rigors and magnificences of the pioneers who wound slowly over the 2,000 miles of the Oregon Trail in '48, daring perils of Indians and starvation and rushing rivers.

THE TIGER'S CLAW.--Among the difficulties through which Jack Holt, American engineer in India, has to wend his unassuming way are a tiger, a half-caste wife, a sweetheart from back home and a lot of "thugs." A dam is well dynamited. The half-caste proves her mettle as a lover.

THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE.--This classic of blue grass feuds has made the jump to the screen with the blue of its grass and the scarlet of its feuds unimpaired. There are thrilling moments while the feudists grip their revolvers in one hand, their moonshine jugs in the other, their rifles between their teeth.

LOST AND FOUND.--A new South Sea Island was discovered for this picture. True, it is a small one, but it lacks none of the major Polynesianisms. A lot happens on the island, but none of it is particularly significant, because it is hard to get up any particular interest in Captain Blackbird, his kidnapped wife, his two daughters, the shipwrecked hero, or Waki, the villainous villain. The picture was filmed in the islands and the best of it is where the plot is set aside to allow the natives--of both sexes--to do their stuff. There is a lot of atmosphere--palm trees and Wak-Waks, and Fatu-liva eggs bounding about the screen.

MIGHTY LAK' A ROSE.--Bull Morgan of Murderers' Den and Hard-Boiled Mollie Malone were no proper company for poor little blind Rose Duncan. However, she gets into their clutches and Jimmie Harrison, hero, goes to the rescue. There is a good bloody fight between Bull and Jimmie, which ends up in blind Rose being squashed all over the floor by a chair swung in the stalwart hands of Bull.

The Shuberts are turning Caroline, tuneful romance, into a moving picture. Trini, the " most beautiful girl in Spain," now dancing in The Dancing Girl, will participate.