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Sunday, July 14, 1918
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Sex Meller, Fairly Well Produced. Will Get By As Program Offering
Virginia Pearson in
"HER PRICE"
Fox
DIRECTOR Edmund Lawrence
AUTHOR George Scarborough
SCENARIO BY George Scarborough
CAMERAMAN Frank Kugler
AS A WHOLE Old material has been given
a few new twists. Inconsistent but will get
by as program offering. STORY "Price She Paid" theme with sex
stuff fairly well hurdled. DIRECTION Gave rather good foreign
atmosphere and made most of old situations.
Not exceptional.
PHOTOGRAPHY Varied but generally satisfactory
LIGHTINGS Some very good; others acceptable
CAMERA WORK Good. Dissolve of painting
nicely handled. STAR Looked beautiful in scenes where she
was well lighted. Registered some good
moments. SUPPORT Satisfactory. Willun kept charac=
terization within bounds. EXTERIORS Some beautiful shots. Foreign
atmosphere good.
INTERIORS Acceptable
DETAIL Convenient in spots but generally O. K.
CHARACTER OF STORY Not for children but
hardly objectionable. LENGTH OF PRODUCTION 4,644 feet
SINCE the followers of Fox productions have come to expect considerable of the sex element in nearly all of that company's offerings I think this will provide entertainment for the particular clientele who have been attracted by productions of this nature in the past. This is a "heavy" meller of the "Price She Paid" calibre and although it contains no comedy relief it has been fairly well produced with the "kept woman" proposition
handled in a way that keeps it from becoming objectionable.
The story opens with our friend, the artist's model with wholesome traits, who aspires to be an operaticstar and after debating as to whether a future career on the stage is worth the "price" she accepts the offer of willun to take her to Italy to study if she will be his mistress.
Willun soon tires of her but she attains fame as a singer and later meets a man in Paris with whom she falls in love. He spurns her when he learns her past, and she returns to America, determined to wreck vengeance on the man who caused her downfall. Going to his office, she learns that willun had died the year before but learning that his brother had continued with the business on willun's capital, she plans to ruin him instead.
It seems that every time a woman wants to wreck a man's career in the "movies", she reclines on a couch in a L. & B. H. sown and vamps him 'til he just naturally falls and that's the way they framed brother's ruin here. The brother loves Virginia in spite of the fact that she had brought about his financial ruin by tipping off a deal to a competitor, however, and after she told him what she had done and the reasons therefore, he tells her that he loves her too much to give her up and suggests that they start life all over again together. Curtain.
Virginia Pearson appeared to good advantage in most of her scenes but was not evenly lighted and while she appeared beautiful in some shots she photographed to a decided disadvantage in others.
The other two artist's models who appeared with Miss Pearson in some of the earlier scenes, overacted in their attempt to get over as the carefree professional model and the attempts of the director to inject a few comedy touches by having one of these models throw a g:ob of cold cream at the other in the dressing room, failed to register.
Henri Leone, as the vocal teacher, made his part stand out. Edward Rosen was the willun and kept his characterization within bounds in a manner that made it effective. Victor Sutherland played the part of willun's brother whom Virginia ruined and later married and was rather pleasing in the role. Others who appeared were Paul Stanton, Mrs. Allen Walker and Charles II. Martin.
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