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Because he is four inches taller than a six-foot hero, and because his eyebrows are thick and his face rugged, Ernest Torrence has lost countless hand-to-hand cinema fights, has been unlucky before the camera at cards, and has held countless beautiful women in his arms -as their father. He is Scotch. He went on the stage in London in 1901 as baritone with the Savoy Opera Company. For ten years thereafter this huge savage-looking man toured the U. S. in musical comedy. His first picture was Tolable David.
Why Leave Home (Fox). First a stage comedy and then a film, The Cradle Snatchers in its third adaptation is a noisy, dull relic, not improved by spasmodic songs. Three wives take revenge on their perfidious husbands by hiring three college boys to dance with them, but at the inn where they go to meet their husbands they find them with the three boys' three sweethearts. Best and most painful shot: the three sad young men teaching the three sad old women to dance.