New Pictures

Footloose Widows (Jacqueline Logan, Louise Fazenda). One of the million methods of winning a husband is examined in this comedy. Two lonely females pretend they are married, seeking behind this pretense men with millions. To their dismay the principal prospect turns out to be a fifty-cent tailor. Later they locate their fated loves. Miss Logan, always one of the loveliest of stars and Miss Fazenda, returning to her frantic low comedy methods of the early days, performed pleasantly.

Puppets (Milton Sills). It looks as though the wounds of war would never heal for the movies--now that The Big Parade has made so much money. There is a shell hole scene in this one, too. Somehow no one has recaptured the ferocity and the coarse laughter of the fighting as well as did The Big Parade. The war stuff in Puppets is particularly weak. The rest of the picture is about an Italian master of marionettes who leaves Manhattan to fight. His wife attempts to carry on his sideshow. None of it exacts breathless attention.

Palm Beach Girl (Bebe Daniels). Florida real estate isn't so popular just now. Its values were overworked. Likewise Florida movies about the wild and winsome rich have been done and overdone. This is one more about rapid motorboats with the comedy included when the heroine gets seasick. Marvelous scenery and photography helps. They always help. In travel films that's all one looks for.

Lovey Mary (Bessie Love). An orphanage is as inevitably appealing as a cowboy love story or a midnight bathing orgy. The movies do them all. The escape from the orphanage by the recalcitrant, but terribly cute inmate, is always good. Later she settles in the Cabbage Patch, where everybody is poor but picturesque. Of its type Lovey Mary will do.