Monday, Jan. 10, 1927
New Pictures
Twinkletoes (Colleen Moore). In this film with an English setting, Colleen Moore, wearing a blonde wig, looks like Lillian Gish, enacts a limehouse lily as Dorothy Gish would (TIME, Nov. 8). A peppery toe-dancer, she leaps to the heart of Prizefighter Chuck Lightfoot, who is so severely jabbed that he counters by helping Twinkletoe's rascally parent (Tully Marshall) out of a counterfeit crime, and himself into the hands of the police. Then, a subtitle records the passage of a year and a happy ending. Colleen Moore entertains.
The Cheerful Fraud. To win Ann Kent (Gertrude Olmstead), beauteous social secretary to opulent Mrs. Bytheway, Sir Michael Fairlie (Reginald Denny) bows himself into the position of social secretary to Mr. Bytheway. Ann Kent makes all the trouble seem worthwhile when she falls victim to the fraud and becomes Lady Michael Fairlie.
Valencia (Mae Murray). Dimitri Buchowetzki wrote the scenario, directed the production of a ham idyl that tells how Valencia of Barcelona, coy charmer, preferred a handsome sailor (Lloyd Hughes) to a smirking Governor (Roy D'Arcy). Clumsy framework pokes through a cheesecloth illusion.