The New Pictures

Garden of Weeds. "Saved by a Man from Syracuse" might have been the secondary title of this adventure. Betty Compson is the young person and that from which she is saved is a sort of country-club harem. There is an insidious individual who backs theatrical productions and swindles big business men as a relaxation. In his garden, country club, harem, is a variety of unfortunate and very lovely young women who have presumably come there from the various assemblies of his revues. He is just about to scalp another soul (subtitle writers are warned that this morbidly mixed metaphor is copyrighted and its use forbidden, no matter how great the temptation). That's where the man from Syracuse comes in. The soul-scalper is played by Rockliffe Fellowes in a manner to reinforce the growing judgment that he is about the next star to be discovered in the crowded California heavens.

The Only Woman. The old story of the girl who married the wastrel to save her father's crooked business fortunes. All the rest of the report is good news. Norma Talmadge played it in association with Eugene O'Brien. Sidney Olcott, who stands with Griffith, Lubitsch, and Cruze as one of the great directors, turned his hand to the old yarn and wove it into a bright and almost novel garment. Of late, Mr. Olcott has been directing in the East (Little Old New York, The Green Goddess, The Humming Bird) and deserted to do The Only Woman in Hollywood.