New Pictures: Mar. 7, 1927

Love’s Greatest Mistake (William Powell). Apparently it is losing faith in the Beloved, but so jumbled and incoherent is the scenario that anybody’s guess will do. There is a shred about “Honey” (Josephine Dunn), a sweet maid from the country; a leering villain of the Metropolis; a proud, penniless architect. There is also Love Divine. The director displayed on the screen a facsimile of the story in Liberty Magazine on which the film is based, thus proving conclusively that the thing really has a plot.

Don’t Tell the Wife (Irene Rich, Huntley Gordon). The idea of a wife giving her errant husband tit for tat by holding hands with an old friend of the family, is simply immortal. The “variation” here introduced is to have another old friend of the family perform two marriage ceremonies which only he and the audience know are faked. Then comes the excruciating suspense while pajamas are unpacked and coverlets turned down. Whoso remembers a strip called The Marriage Circle has known this picture in a previous and superior incarnation. When U. S. counter-jumpers try to be Europeans, not even Irene Rich can make them worth a continental.