NORTHLAND PICTURES

Northland Age, Volume 25, Issue 26, 15 October 1925, Page 2

NORTHLAND PICTURES

There are beautiful pictures and t lere are pictures that hold the iiterestin the throes of a comj elling plot. Rarely are the two dements combined. It is with nusual satisfaction, therefore, 1 bat picture lovers may look torv/ard to the Fox screen version ot ‘ Cameo Kirby.” to be shown next Saturday night. This picture inorporates both elements. John Gilbert plays the title role. That s something else to recommend t. “Cameo Kirby” is the story of n honourable Mississippi River ;ambler of the days of ’39, in all lis color and romance, who uses nethods considered unethical to irotect a plantation owner from in unscrupous gambler in a game if cards. He accomplishes his mrpose, only to have it frustrated when the planter ends his life, oelieving himself broke. Comflications follow which cause Cirbv to be a fugitive from jusice charged with murder. By •hanee he becomes infatuated vith the daughter of the man he ried to protect. She is unaware hat he is Cameo Kirby, whom, ;he believes, was indirectly reponsible for the death of her ather. She falls in love with dim. The situation is.strong and s worked out in a setting ®f rare :harm and natural beauty of the iouthland. The third of the “Leather Pushers” with Bill Sullivan and other features make up a big troeram.

urogram. WEDNESDAY NEXT. The romance of a respectable business man! That was the thing Sinclair the great novelist, set out odo in “Babbitt.” That he suc:eeded is attested by the way the took, the instant it was pdblished, ocketed through the fiction skies, ind became the best seller of the /ear, continuing to interest the 'eading public when other heralled books had flared out and lied. This story of a typical middleiged business man who hungered ifter romance, who got fed up vith the bickerings of his family, md who came back after tasting he bitter-sweet of a love affair, ms been transposed to the screen. This picture has the stuff in it 0 appeal to every man, woman md child who loves to see good, dean, and yet throbbing stories hat reflect their lives. This is he story of you, me, and the it her fellow. It is the story that hastocked nillions of people out of their ipathy. You will see why, on he screen. Now, don’t forget to ;e a “Babbitt” on Wednesday text. Supports include an Our Gang tomedy, “liuly Days,” Pathe Gazette and Review, etc.