New Pictures

What Fools Men. Literature in general has grown content to let the younger generation perish.

Likewise the stage has found that the public has wearied of cocktail-drinking damsels who kiss and tell their mothers unashamed. But not the movies. Still the stories come.

This one marries the girl off to the noble chauffeur. Except for the good acting by Lewis Stone and Shirley Mason, it is uneventful.

The Man on the Box. Sydney Chaplin, brother of Charlie, has been for a long time a fairly good comedian. He impersonated an elderly lady in Charlie's Aunt and made a great success. Therefore he impersonated a woman in his next picture; in this, his third, he still impersonates a woman. He is kicked in the stomach and falls furiously down stairs. He remains a fairly good comedian.

The Son of His Father. Harold Bell Wright composes motion picture literature and sells it by the million copies. He has more competition when his plots reach the screen. There are plenty of people who can think up just as obvious adventures as he can; adventures which will photograph well against a background of the dusty West. This one is about an Irish girl, come all the way to Arizona to find her wandering brother. She finds herself in addition a close shooting, hard riding, handsome husband.