New Pictures

Cradle Snatchers. Those who have seen the play by the same name, about the middle-aged wives who prove that no girl need consider herself older than she feels as long as young men are working their way through college, will know what to expect.

A Million Bid (Dolores Costello, Warner Oland). The title indicates how much Millionaire Geoffrey Marsh (Warner Oland) paid Mrs. Gordon (Betty Blythe) for arranging his marriage to her glossy daughter, Dorothy (Dolores Costello). The film indicates how Villain Marsh gives over to Hero Brent (Malcolm McGregor) after a storm at sea.

Edmund Kean, Prince Among Lovers (Ivan Mosjoukine). Edmund Kean, famed English actor, about whom Dumas wrote a play which is the structure of this film, is depicted wooing the ladies, avoiding the creditors, insulting the Prince of Wales, acting Hamlet and Romeo so all the world wonders. Pictures of old Drury Lane Theatre lend a touch of authentic local color. Actor Mosjoukine, a Russian, under direction of Albert St. Louis, a Frenchman, gives an intelligently humorous interpretation of the English hero.

Closed Gates (Jane Novak, Johnny Harron). This should be a good lesson to erring youths and indiscriminate cinemagoers. It tells about the scion of a wealthy family who allowed himself to get into an automobile wreck with the wrong girl, thus precipitating a scandal that killed his invalid mother. Father banishes Son; grimly the gates close behind his homelife. War . . . shell shock... amnesia. The boy returns, having lost trace of his family, his past, his own name. The heroine marries him anyhow. One day he wanders into his mother's bedroom to weep on her pillow. Father sees Son; tenderly the gates open again.