Show SELECTS SELECTS TENi TEN BEST FILMS I II I Do You Agree With This Writers Writer's Choice for 1924 By JACK GI JI EU NIA ben nico Ice NEW Jan A 10 10 A A timid soul Mul would shrink at setting down downin downIn In Irre Irrevocable black and white a alist ai list of tb the ten best beet motion pictures picture lof of the year The movie critic or 01 orlone orone lone one so designated I Is not a timId soul The Tho ten best bet movies of 1924 I then are not necessarily In order of their comparative excellence lOt The The Thief of ot Bagdad Greed Gredd I The Sea Hawk k Dramatic lIfe Uto of Abraham Lin Lincoln col coin coln The Tho White Sister Beau Beau Brummel Brummet Man Ian Handled GIrl Gin Girl Sh Sh- Sh 1 Iho ho Cottage Secrets Secret It I Is not to be Implied that are arc faultless but each sach has somo outstanding element a In feeling Imagination a 0 whimsy himy a humor a a poignancy or ora ora ora a biting veracity something cio ele- elemental ele elemental mental and Impressive e The Ten Commandments Woman of ot larl Paris file rho Marriage Circle Anna Christie and these these extraordinary extraordinary ary turns films while not viewed le leed ed by II a large part of oC the public until this year ear were listed among this Writ Writ- Writer writ writers er Cr ers 5 ten best bost last y vear ear And by isa a of oC explaining this year s a I must mut admit that there thero are several pictures o of high repute released during 1924 1921 I did not manage to see sec borne Some of these thee might ha have base e Jostled for places place among those thoo named Box Bo office listings were not con con- considered con considered 1 Zor or was nas as more moro technical III It I which I Is apt to bo ho over over- overstressed over stressed by those In tn the Industry and those tholie professionally close to It itt t LIZ LI As Ask yourself What are aro the ten len Lest best picture pictures I ve ye seen Been this past year and at once you evoke a certain number of oC vivid hid memories I 1 Iso he six or seven elen will undoubted undoubted- t I leap loal up from front the mental c cOlliS eins OlliS ci ns lou ou oiz do not question their supe- supe superiority supe superiority And the likelihood I Is that thai the great majority of oC photoplay goer coors will agree on these few few- few e omen even en movie critic critics Th They have base ha e uni appeal They reach leach down and touch what hat is common to us usall eli all both Loth In Iii what hat a hat they present and ho ho they present It The remainder of ot your sour our ten best besl probably Indicate your our Individual Id ual bias your our our temperament asso- asso asso associations environment eU your our mood In nt at life liCe and Its Here thu heie Is Iii dh of hero Here Is I you sou OU ian can pan your neighbors and your mos mo moIe lo Ie for or differ differ- differIng differing ing I Ith you a as I Is your Inalienable IlnI right and privilege It If all oil folk Loik were ere to agree on the tho theten theten ten best pictures 01 ot the tho best ten to twenty en ty this year vear ar and next the tIme producers producers ers r problem would be bo solved We Ve WeI I 0 bo ho doomed forever to see for tor- for tlc replicas replica of oC these appi 0 0 cd So for or the sake of oC sa- sa va a- a ard expel competition tion let lets s at least pretend to dis- dis disagree disagree dis disagree agree CUT CUl CC The past year vear o of picture has Le been n marked by diminution of oC by closer adherence I Ito I to schedule by less 0 among the so called Independent producers ers 5 The rho scare of ot last year vears ear s slump sas largely responsible Despite this thle however howe er there thero ha base been notable pioneering sen- sen ven ventures tures especially Douglas r- r lair lair- r banks air ball I leap into the realm of ot fan fan- fantasy fantasy fan fantasy tasy with Ith hi his Thief of Bagdad and Erich Von Stroh Stroheim elm s darIng Innovation In filming the novel under the name Greed roeda Greeda a a picture which as ex exhibited e- e In no wise Ie Indicates the tho scope and PO power poster er and sinister dig dig- dignity dig dignity of ot his original faithful Iran tran- tran incidentally Incidentally the above list ol ot ten best LeI nor any man s i list Is h Ismore lamore moro more tl Si an an approximation of ot jut just pie lures hat time the public wants in k tures The poor producers producer simply have havo to muddle along like along the rest of oC us who don dont tal t a straight In our aim to pleasa |