New Pictures: Jul. 26, 1926

Bigger than Barnum's (Ralph Lewis-Viola Dana). The story has probably been told before of the tight-rope walker who displayed his talent in private life and rescued a beleaguered heroine. This particular walker walked a telegraph wire into a burning building to complete the rescue. Previously he had refused to perform a certain difficult stunt in the circus and was branded a coward. The circus scenes are fair, the climax exciting, and the whole picture dangerously close to average.

Men of Steel (Milton Sills-Doris Kenyon). The pictorial possibilities of the steel mills are...

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