Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 27, 1923

The Silent Partner. It seems that in Leatrice Joy's pictures it would usually be better to paint out all the characters and scenery but herself. She is so thoroughly attractive that the rest, mattering not at all, should be blankness as well as silence.

The present program deals with the wolves of Wall Street, which Miss

Joy shoos away from her attractive, gambling husband. But she employs an old, old shoo: she saves money on the side. When the crash comes they depart to hatch a new life out of her nest egg.

The...

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