The New Pictures

The Nth Commandment. A conventionally sentimental tear-teaser, pleasing only because of Colleen Moore, who manages to be charming as the poor young working-girl with the invalid husband, and George Cooper, whose comedy has genuine humor and finesse.

The Go-Getter. The apotheosis of the various correspondence courses on Selling Your Own Personality." Energetic twaddle with T. Roy Barnes as the monotonously brisk young salesman who starts out with nothing but a firm jaw and ends up with the president's daughter and a stucco mansion.

Souls for Sale. Anyone who has ever tacked up a picture of Mary Pickford over the bureau or sighed as she looked first at Valentino and then at her husband, will be more than interested in this semi-official expose (winch means whitewashing) of Hollywood and its denizens. The actual processes that go to the making of a big film--the everyday life of stars, directors and camp followers--these are entertainingly and faithfully depicted. In fact about the only thing omitted is a close-up of the interior of, say, Mr. Ince's mind. Of course the only blown-in-the-bottle villain (Landru, who has a habit of murdering his wives for their insurance) comes from outside of the pictures; the " wickedest woman in the movies " is proven to be engagingly aseptic; and even the director just talks elegant. But it's worth seeing, if only to view Chaplin in ordinary garb.

Claire Windsor arrived in New York--her first visit to Gotham. Born in Cawker City, Kansas, she had never been east of the Mississippi before. After seeing Civic Virtue, Mayor Hylan and Greenwich Village she may well be ready to cry, with Vachel Lindsay: "Ho for Kansas, land that restores us! "

The ways of producers are devious and unknowable. In filming The Enemies of Women, Lionel Barrymore and his company were taken abroad to Monte Carlo to play scenes in their actual setting. Later thousands of dollars were spent in constructing an accurate facsimile of the interior of the Casino--and after all this straining after realism the players were allowed to break the Casino rules by placing any size bets they chose.