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Pueblo Prints A PEEK EACH WEEK f|E LA AT By VERDAD. MOTION PICTURES g “UP UN MABEL'S ROOM.” youth he loved a lady, but he didn’t a lot of good fun: “Up in know he was the father of a son. fJIHERE’S■ Provost, Men, It seems, were like that in the Mabel’s Room.” Marie one time bathing beauty for Mack Sen- old days. And so on and so on until nett, has lost none of her shapeliness the final climax, when his son, “Senor and has become a comedienne of high Daredevil,” "brings home the bacon” order since she “walked the beach.” to proud papa, saves his gold, saves She does the honors In this picture the mining camp and marries the girl and does them well, and parades her —tho you wonder why he does 1L form to the delight of the observant Dorothy Devore plays the girl—badly. sex and the envy of the hopeful one. The new star, Ken Maynard, has rpHE Guitarist is a blind man. He Juan, nicknamed “the mule,” is the The picture is a bedroom farce- appeared In pictures before only as ft never learnt how to read notes nor all-around flunky in the oldest hotel comedy done over from the stage suc- “stunt man.” He rides daringly and the yet in value of notes, he knows how the village. This swarthy bachelor cess. The story concerns itself with his horse, “TErzan,” is a beauty, who to keep time and play anything he is not an old man, nor will he ever be the adventures of three couples and goes thru many tricks that prove a hears. It feels so different to come young again, even if he does not look three others at a week-end party that circus training but are not essential becomes hectic In the an to a good picture. Ken Maynard has to a “baile” (dance) where the gath- a day older than he looked ten years pursuit of ex-husband by his wife and the looks; he has physique; he's no great ering is dressed up to the minute, ago. It sad to figure, former was see his bent possession of a chemise—a gift to his actor, but he may learn to “get by.” with few exceptions, and find the band and withal that, comicaL Juan had a former wife in the days of early in- If his press agent can be believed, he of small town Mexican musicians in way of walking with his head and fatuation. is a Texas collegian who learned than civil en- blue working shirts, khaki or denim chest so far ahead of his legs that it' The absurd plot is laugh-provoking. horseback riding better The snappy. Marie Pre- gineering and spent some time doing pants, rarely in full dress suit of seemed he would fall forward on his sub-titles are vost has freshness and charm and is “stunts” for leading circuses, finally They poor they cloth. are and what face any minute. One actually waited excellent both negligee graduating the movies. He played goes in and with into earn for food. Most of these to see it happen, and much relieved to clothes on. Phyllis Haver, Paul Revere and did his famous “ride” musicians play "lyrico’’ (by ear). another see it didn’t. One day this Don-less- one-time bathing beauty and one of in “Janice Meredith.” When instruments in tune their are Juan was approached by those that “gentlemen prefer,” does they play in a manner that is touch- the “Ameri- “Senor Daredevil” is the first pic- can” and, knowing to well, together with Harrison Ford, ing. a sweet dreaminess, a him be some- ture for Ken Maynard and his horse. There is deaf, she cried at the top of her who plays the pursued hubby. The sadness expressive of romance and what If they don’t give him something bet- voice: “Juan (without don), supporting cast is good enough tc tragedy with all its delights and sor- the if ter to act in and a better leading lady you know of a good girl who wants complete an hour’s uproarous fun over rows, weariness of body and soul, a Barnum & Bailey’s circus is going to work, send her to me.” Smilingly what happens “Up in Room.’ brooding over much that makes or Mabel’s get back one of their old performers (these wretched souls always the Take heed: This is not an “impor- breaks their lives. The soft plaintive- wear and a very fine horse. W. C. shine of smile) he took the senora tant” picture. Take heed some more: ness of their playing is an interpreta- a and in his kind, quiet, nasal It’s worth seeing Mabel! tion of human emotions. over their own draw'l he answered good naturedly: While they play the liveliest of dance “Todas son buenas” (all the girls are “SENOR DAREDEVIL.” music—say jazz—one is conscious of good). What a worthy rebuke! Who NEW star their playing A has risen in the work. manner of it. The de- would have thought lightful turn turn and or suspected Juan of movie “westerns.” But the of the Guitarist without the Don, nicknamed his sightlessness gets into one’s bones. “the gods that guide thj fates of a movie mule," to be so fine a cavalier? star have played a dirty trick on this • ••••• *••••• one. Unless the First National Pic- Tall, thin Pablo gained the admira- tures will fire the bird that wrote the .»on -of many and scorn of a few. Dur- scenario of “Senor Daredevil” To say anything unkind about any- for Ken Qu epidemic years ago he Maynard, this particular not one at all is a most distasteful thing star is bathed twice daily in the river, build- going to glimmer for long. to do. Things not kind are very often ing a fire on the banks to keep warm Never—well, hardly so true, and the truth always gives a ever—has Every one in the village predicted his poor given any pain. It is painful to write about Che, a scenario been to ac- death, but he kept on bathing and tor. story is improbable, the mute poet. His ever smiling face The impos- living; others did bathe, the flu got sible, unreal, uninteresting, not eyes that aren’t both alike, his unbear- them and most of them died. “God’s has able and—well, in short, it’s hands and feet are not altogether “one will,” they all said, “God’s will that helluva story.” A westerner straight, and he walks in a shuffling, rugged tall Pablo should bathe and live who fails supplying to hoppy shimmy way is in a mining camp do it again.” does know that rather with grub thru Pablo not laugh-provokiag. But there is the the evil machinations the value of money. He was of dirty, dirty, gawd how never other Che, not seen at first sight nor a dirty paid with money for any work he did. villain, prays for a at any other time if looked at super-* son. Presto, He does not know what it means to changeo—he gets All ready ficially—Che of the heart. He, one. buy When hungry, he goes too, made. It early Ken Maynard or to sell. is a menial at the hotel, and he, seems that in his a house, asks for food works too, into and has a nickname—“the burro.” If he for it Whatever he eats, he pays takes a notion to quit his job he will with his labor. He never begs. At search for odd jobs. "When he helped times he obtains food from people at flour mill and was paid with who have no use for his labor. No the flour he accepted graciously, one has checked him sip know most but Rudolph Valentino to if the following day when he was again he paid in labor what he owed for offered flour or money, refused food took way. day he in he that One he his mute, eloquent called at the small town store and manner, which meant something to this effect: “I am “Oyez, quiero fosforos” (“I want “rpHE world’s greatest lover” Is Lady Letty,’’ said: back on the hotel job and helped in "Monsieur Beaucaire” matches”). The Mexican clerk didn’t dead. The volume of the event Eagle” this mill because I wanted to help. I “The and his last picture “The sell the matches tall Pablo. He stopped even the skeptic and scof- to had a meal at The simple Son of the Sheik” (reviewed in this just gave them to him. Who expects the hotel.” fer for a minute, for the loss of “The hearted “burro” smiled all the column pay from Pablo? You see, he didn’t while Sheik” proved of such tremendous a few weeks ago) are some of he was making this clear. are beg. He demanded. Demanding is There moment. The press, the movie world his other pictures. The titles of the youngsters who glory in the art of not begging. At another time was and the world at large moved “great lover" and “The Sheik” per- he provoking an unfortunate, and they in- were so considerably happy by that the impress of Rudolph Valen- haps did not do justice to him an rendered tfie dulged in it at the expense of Che’s as storekeeper who present- tino unmistakable. "Romance” actor tho they helped his popularity.