New Pictures

Lonesome Ladies (Lewis Stone, Anna Q. Nilsson).

Year in and year out John Fosdick's unbounded domesticity has consisted of smoking cigars over the evening newspaper while his good wife sits by, bored. Come a pair of Mr. Fosdick's onetime sweethearts to vamp him. For a while the sirens disrupt the family, giving Mr. & Mrs. an opportunity to realize how dear to their hearts was that old homely destitution. They make up, promising each other that "everything shall be just the same as it was before." In the end John Fosdick is seen smoking cigars over the evening newspaper while his good wife sits by, bored.

Madame Pompadour. Dorothy Gish flickered to fame as a saucy heroine of the common people. Now, snatched from her natural background, she is seen in 18th Century regalia exercising shop girlish charms to enslave King Louis XV of France. As might have been predicted by pessimists, the Mme. Pompadour of the infant industry is no resourceful siren but a sweet, good lass in love with a poor artist. It was Fate which pushed her into a palace.

Judgment of the Hills.

Orville Caldwell shows how a lethargic giant of the Kentucky mountains is purged of cowardice and drunkenness through the combined efforts of his little brother (Frankie Darro), his sweetheart (Virginia Valli) and the War. The little brother's strategy makes him go to battle; the heroine's faith pulls him through; the War is the crucible. The film drags at times.