The New Pictures

The Lone Wolf. A good stock picture with a trick airplane pursuit at the finish and nifty parachute feats. Jack Holt plays in his customary personable manner the favorite criminal of Louis Joseph Vance. A good fellow at heart, he has just a few lovable weaknesses where necklaces are concerned. Also, Jack seems just a bit too suave and well-tailored, even in Apache disguise. He fights off a band of Apaches known as "the Pack" while they try to smuggle out of France the secret army plans that nowadays replace the child and the papers in well-built melodrama. It is rather like seeing the head waiter at Sherry's stand off a gang of real tough-mugs from the Bowery. One cannot quite believe it. But one feels properly thrilled at the finish when there is an exciting chase through the clouds that transfers the underworld to the upper world. Then it is that active Jack wins in Dorothy Dalton the girl confederate of the gang--and everyone except the airplanes turns out to be a U.S. Secret Service agent.

The Rejected Woman. Interesting results have been attained here despite the fact that the story runs for over two reels before the director seems aware of it. Whenever he fancies the audience is tired of palatial drawing rooms, he shoots them a few snow scenes. A young spendthrift (Conrad Nagel) is forced to land in his airplane in Canada. He falls in love with the inevitable backwoods beauty (Alma Rubens). When she is ashamed to be seen in the best circles with him because of her underbreeding, the wily villain sends the innocent girl to Paris for culture. This situation can be straightened out only when Hero and Villain, again in the north woods, peel off 14 overcoats and fight. Men. This is all woman, for it Is all Pola Negri. It is her best picture to date, although it does follow beaten trails through Montmartre. She plays with all the matchless glow of her temperament the role of a young woman who hates all men for what a few of them have done to her, until the right young man awakens her love by giving her a good shaking. One of the striking features is a magnetic students' ball in Paris, that looks as if it actually belonged.