The New Pictures

One Year to Live. You can feel fairly certain after scrutinizing this title that, in the end, she finds that the "one year to live" decision is reversed to allow her marriage and the happy ever-afterward. Before this, she was a dancer's maid; supported her invalid sister, became a dancer; warded off seduction by the wicked theatre man. It is pretty bad, even as these things go, notwithstanding the presence of Dorothy Mackaill, Antonio Moreno, Rosemary Theby, Aileen Pringle and Joseph Kilgour.

Cyrano de Bergerac. With this film, it is again indicated that good plays do not necessarily make good cinemas. Also the casual cinema adapter is vaguely vindicated. For this version of the Rostand comedy-- made by Italians--follows the lines of the original like a silk stocking. Thus is eliminated virtually all the comedy of line. The cinema is essentially the drama of movement. Cyrano sits still too often. Yet, as a faithful transcription of one of the greatest of modern comedies, the venture deserves attention from thoughtful cinema-goers--particularly those in. the waste places where otherwise the comedy can never come. One Pierre Magnier gives an able performance and the film is done in colors.

The Texas Trail. Harry Carey has been making Western thrillers for years and years and even longer. They are one of the few types of plot that, to the jaded taste of this department, stand repetition. In this one, she goes West looking for cinema cowboys and finds MEN.

The Lady Who Lied. Lewis Stone, Nita Naldi and Virginia Valli contrive to hoist this hackneyed happening up by its boot straps and make it casually entertaining. It is a yarn of Venice and the Sahara in which the lady marries the wrong man in a fit of pique. She has to renounce her lover to have his life and wait a few months for the husband to be murdered.

The White Desert. Outside of a stunning avalanche of snow, this item has little of distinction. It is the old story of the Irish railroad superintendent and the railroad president's daughter. He brings a rescue party through the blizard. Naturally.

The Light of the Western Stars, by Zane Grey, gives Mr. Noah Beery an opportunity to express, by flexing his facial muscles, lust, anger, confidence, contempt for his enemies as one Brand, who always gives his victims the choice between paying him $10,000 down or taking the walk of death, haha. He has designs upon a girl. Her true love, a surefooted, sound-toothed Benedict bowls Brand over.