Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-23 | Page 6 | 1926 Was a Lean Year in the Movies; Tendency is toward Better Things

1926 Was a Lean Year in the Movies Tendency Is Toward Better Things V o iI i t w v 4 C F. F o 7 o 4 w Their acting was of especial merit during 1926 1925 Left eft to right they are above Clara Bow Harry Langdon Langdon Lang Lang- don and Renee Adoree below Noah Be ry Victor M and Greta Garbo By GENE COHN NEA Service Writer NEW YORK Jan Ian 22 back down the screen year it seems a abit bit more dIsappointing than usual While there have been several films that wm not soon be forgotten forgot forgot- ten the general run of stuff was particularly dismal Perhaps the tendency as the year car ends may be said to be upward From Hollywood come reports or of Pola Negri's latest of WIngs and the new Von of Mur- Mur neau's picture and of Jannings getting getting get get- ting to work of l and the new Mauritz Stiller Stiner operations of The n Bough ough RIders and many more LANGDON WELL RECEIVED Of the new reputations made withIn the past year the parade seems to me to be headed by that Inimitable clown Harry Langdon who gave us Tramp Tramp Tramp and The Strong Man He fe received a fortunate reception Then there is VIctor Price memorable acting In What Glory Glory-as fIne a. screen performance perform perform- ance as the American cinema has recorded I There is Noah Beery's brutal captain cap cap- tam tain in Beau Geste Greta Gret Garbos Garbo's rIse a as chronIcled by Tile The Temptress Temptress Tempt Tempt- ress the alluring arrIval of Clara Bow and hints of considerable promIse In LouIse Brooks Brooks' bIt inLove in inLove Love Em and Leave Em MEMORABLE To make the list complete I have cauSe also to remember Emil Jannings Jan Jan- and Lya de Putt In VarIety Van VarI ety Ricardo Cortez and Carol Dempster In Sorrows of Satan Florence Vidor and Adolphe In The Grand Duchess and the Va Waiter Iter Andre Berenger In So ThIs Is ParIs and agaIn In The Eagle of the Sea Wallace Wailace Beery in Were In the Navy Now and aJain in Old Ironsides LoIs Lois Moran in God Gave Me 1 20 otherwise Cents a quIte impossible impossible sible picture VUma Vilma Banley In Son of the Sheik Sheile Alec Frances In Peter Pe Fe ter Grimm George Jessel In an otherwise IncredIble pIcture Private Private vate Izzy Murphy 1 Gary Cooper quite an unknown In The Winning Win Win- ning of Barbara Worth anythIng Renee Hence Adoree has done no matter how terrIble the pIcture and and- Lars Hansen In The scarlet Lett Letter r. r On the other hand it Is unpleasant ant to record that nothIng outstanding out out- standing has come from such established established stars as Mary Pickford GlorIa Glo- Glo rIa na Swanson Douglas Fairbanks Harold Horold Lloyd Betty Bonson Milton Sills Colleen Moore Bebe Daniels Lon Chancy Chaney Mae Murray Marion larion Davies RIchard Di Db and the rest The pictures of 1926 whIch I liked best were What PrIce Glory Beau Geste Variety Tramp Tramp Tramp Moana loana Old Ironsides Th Grand Duchess and the Walter Waiter So This Is ParIs The Scarlet Letter and The Strong g Man