--- title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 26, 1927 description: Serenade (Adolphe Menjou). It is curious that the cinema, an industry only recently become civilized, should already have produced the rarest and most delicate flower of decadent aristocracy, an... canonical: https://time.com/archive/6897334/cinema-the-new-pictures-dec-26-1927/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 1927-12-26T05:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-22T12:54:50.526Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 26, 1927 og:description: Serenade (Adolphe Menjou). 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It is curious that the cinema, an industry only recently become civilized, should already have produced the rarest and most delicate flower of decadent aristocracy, an example of supreme elegance. It would be unfair to say that Dandy Menjou is an actor as well as an example. All his roles are the same; he wears fine clothes to hide his scrawny shanks; he gets all his effects by raising one corner of his triangular mustaches, by flipping one hand in a small arc to indicate either the tremendous futility of life or his willingness to marry a rich & beautiful woman. In Serenade he impersonates a young composer who, in the flush of success, takes advantage of his wife’s good nature. After she retaliates by taking advantage of his credulity, gently implying the presence of a lover where no lover exists, the last fadeout shows his boots and her slippers nestling together outside the door of their room. The events leading up to the reconciliation have the glitter and charm, thinned somewhat by a mediocre medium, of the writings of Arthur Schnitzler. Even as an orchestra conductor, a profession of which one is led to suspect he understands not even the rudiments, Dandy Menjou is suave enough mentally and facially to make the street sheiks, when they leave the theatre, light their cheap cigarets with an uncouth and elaborate imitation of his gesture. Honeymoon Hate is essentially The Taming of the Shrew relieved of its light-hearted ribaldry and trimmed instead with lavish gondolic romance. Florence Vidor is charming enough, as she storms gently at her insistently regal husband, to impart some flavor to the insipid story. London After Midnight gives Lon Chaney another opportunity to make his face even more threatening and unpleasant than usual. He does this because he is a highly efficient Scotland Yard detective on the trail of grave-walking, werewolfish murderers who haunt a house near London. The rest must remain a mystery; as such, it is well worth squirming about. Helen of Troy is a legend whose life has passed, like an old coat, from king to courtier, from courtier to servant, from servant to beggar. Homer wrote about a fine and glittering lady; Marlowe found lines like golden bells, for a casual queen; John Erskine made the legend into a matrimonial farce, and now the matrimonial farce has become a cinema, played against Maxfield Parrish walls and valleys, by Maria Corda, a pretty little blonde girl with an affected way of showing her teeth. Immortalized by a great poet, modernized by a clever man, vulgarized by the First National Pictures, Inc., it would be natural to suppose that the old coat could now be no more than a shred of dishonored beauty. This is not accurate. Far from beautiful, seldom even witty, The Private Life of Helen of Troy manages to enrapture most of the people who watch it by its simple and consistent formula. A wisecrack when uttered by a mythical king is ten times funnier than the same wisecrack offered by a drugstore cowboy. Menelaos shakes hands with his subjects and, by stentorian snoring and an overemphasized case of hay-fever, blows his wife away. Once gone, she realizes that a statue is not an idol unless it has clay feet; and that men are always either snoring or boring. This cultural advance is accomplished with a great pounding of subtitles, and a cast whose gait is not always, but usually, smooth and rapid. Among its members are Lewis Stone as Menelaos and Ricardo Cortez as a sultry but persuasive Paris. Now We’re in the Air. Wallace Berry and Raymond Hatton have for some time been in the throes of a series of adventures as difficult if not quite so herioc as those in which the Rover Boys once acquitted themselves. Bouncing about this time from clouds to shell-torn battlefields, their misfortunes are ridiculous enough to be laughable. Most laughable is a scene, perhaps the most vulgar ever photographed, in which the two are impersonating the front and hind legs of a cow—a cow which is naturally incapable of the functions most commonly associated with its kind. It must be admitted that Funnyman Berry is about ten times funnier than his partner and that the canny reluctance to state the name of the opponents of the French, English and U. S. Troops in the late War adds little to the suspense. Home Made. Johnny Hines, pretending he is a man pretending to be a railroad porter, meets a pretty girl. Then afterward, pretending not to be a restaurant waiter, he bluffs his way to financial and marital success. None of this is nearly as funny as it is intended to be. The Valley of the Giants. Through the gloom cast by enormous forests and the fact that the girl he loves is the niece of the man who is cutting down his father’s trees, Bryce Cardigan (Milton Sills) staggers, twisting his face with the effort of carrying too much drama for any three cinemas. Doris Kenyon, as the girl he loves, though nice to look at, cannot give him much help. Explosion is about two men, one a villain, one a hero, who want the same girl. The hero gets her. Like all German films, this one has bright sparks of photographic realism, lighting in this case the smoky darkness of a coal mine. But these sparks flicker and die along the grey and interminable fuse of the story which leads, at last, to a nonexplosive climax. French Dressing, no matter how generously poured over Lois Wilson and H. B. Warner, should have at least a dash of the sharp subtlety of vinegar. Lacking this the other ingredients, though orthodox and not unpalatable, become somewhat spiritless. In this case they are a marital quarrel, a soupçon of extra-marital jealousy, a sudden but not surprising beautification of the wife, and, a bad last, the reconciliation which leaves her in charge of a quiescent situation. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6897334/cinema-the-new-pictures-dec-26-1927/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6897334/cinema-the-new-pictures-dec-26-1927/"},"headline":"Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 26, 1927","datePublished":"1927-12-26T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T12:54:50.526Z","description":"Serenade (Adolphe Menjou). 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