New Pictures

Joanna. If you go to see this one, lay no blame here. It is cheap and purple philosophy about midnight bathing parties, why girls go wrong, and all that.

Time, the Comedian. Frederick and Fanny Hatton wrote a novel in which Lew Cody, Mae Busch and Creighton Hale have been blended with thoughtful, valuable effect. It is about a wife who deserts a husband, is in turn deserted by a lover, and occupies herself at the conclusion by protecting her daughter from the latter. Miss Busch is better than four out of five who attain stardom. For once she has a chance and a director. This latter, curious to relate, is Robert Z. Leonard, whilom husband of Mae Murray and directorially responsible for many of that lady's worst endeavors on the screen.

A Woman of the World. Pola Negri in a light comedy is unusual. The light comedy is only fairly comic, which is rather more usual. She plays a European temptress who pounces down upon a small Iowa town and quite disrupts the population, including the stalwart and belligerent sheriff.

The Splendid Crime. Bebe Daniels is always entertaining, and a girl crook who reforms is always" entertaining. And neither is a matter for incoherent eulogy.

The Golden Cocoon. This is another error. It is a political story about a girl with a suspicious past which is about to rise up and smite her legislative husband on the eve of election day. It is played by Helene Chadwick and solved with a pistol shot.