PEOPLE’S PICTURES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1925, Page 3

PEOPLE’S PICTURES.

1 —- MANY THRILLS IN “FAMOUS MRS FAIR." Although Fred Niblo’s picturizatinu of the great .American ;play, “The Famous Mrs Fair,” deals with the lives of persons moving in the highest social circles, this Metro-Louis 13. Mayor production has more than enough thrills and good, fast action to keep it from being confused with the ordinary tea party plot. probably the most spectacular event is a race'ln the dead -ot night between a through passenger tram and high powered roadster. Cullen Landis, at the wheel, took several chances in getting realism for the screen. Roaring along at breakneck speed on tlie stage highway that parallels the railroad trucks in Santa Barbara County dodging cars along the loute, making sharp turns on mountain roads scaling steep grades, Mr LaniJis gave the cameraman something to talk about. . Flirting again with fate m his roadster, Mr Landis in another episode of the picture, skids Ins car on a. wet pavement at a forty-mile gad, making a sharp hairpin turn in his pursuit of tho despicable Dudley Gillette His overtaking the villain precipitates a fight that for bitterness and realism is rivalled only by the famous battle in “The Spoilers” Fortunately, the production schedule al]o\ved(j botii players a week’s rest alter the affair.