Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 22, 1923

The Eternal Struggle. Oldsters will recall the day when Earle Williams was one of the major idols of the cinema, Earle rather dropped from prominence. Here, then, is he back again. Playing the Royal Northwest Mounted Policeman in scarlet coat and honor of pure white, he makes what is dubiously known among movie fans as a "romantic figure." Royal Northwesterners have by this time become just a trifle stereotyped. The first sentence in the Scenario Writer's Primer reads: " The Northwest Mounted Policeman always gets his man."

The Fighting Blade. Richard Barthelmess...

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