The New Pictures

Little Robinson Crusoe. It must be a discouraging task searching for vehicles in which Jacky Coogan can travel new stages on the road that he has paved for himself thus far with great prosperity. None of his later films seem much more than thinly gilded frames in which to set his brilliantly expressive countenance. In the current picture he is wrecked on a cannibal island, and disports himself amidst the cannibal cancan.

The Iron Horse. Heralds had busily prepared the advent of this luxuriously equipped film with announcements that it was a second Covered Wagon. When it arrived, it turned out to be a steam engine instead of a prairie schooner and not such an irresistable choo-choo at that. The story attempts to be an epic commemoration of the spanning of the U. S. with steel rails. It is probably pretty good history but there was oil on the tracks somewhere and the drama never got completely under way.

The Man Who Came Back. Patrons of the high blood pressure drama will recall this melo-sample of a few years back. The hero slides down the widely advertised trough of iniquity and gets the breaks working just before he pitches over the edge. For the outcome, the reader is referred to the title. George O'Brien and Dorothy Mackaill are the slider and the brakes respectively. The action roams just about all over the world, gets into opium dens and that sort of thing, and manages to make itself thoroughly exciting.

Flirting With Love. Is a very bad title for an excellent picture. In the general course of events, an eminent alienist becomes involved with a somewhat less celebrated actress. For good and sufficient but too complicated reasons to discuss here, the lady is playing the role of a dual personality to dupe the scientists, Finally he writes a play and she wins the lead, intending to burlesque the action at the opening. She falls in love with him just too soon to consummate her highly ingenious revenge. Colleen Moore is the woman in the case and offers one of her most attractive performances. Conway Tearle, the alienist, is typically Tearle, which for several million people is all that's necessary.

The Female. Africa is the setting. A fierce girl supposed to have been nursed by lions, the heroine. A murder of her Boer husband, the climax. A handsome English lion-hunter, the anticlimax. Betty Compson is the female supposed to be so deadly. She is.