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Sunday, July 14, 1918
AILY
19
Star's Personality Lifts Fair Production and Convenient Routine Plot
Mary Miles Minter in
"THE GHOST OF ROSY TAYLOR"
Mutual
DIRECTOR Edward S. Sloman
AUTHOR Josephine Daskam Bacon
SCENARIO BY Elizabeth Mahoney
AS A WHOLE Decidedly spotty, painfully convenient story made fairly interesting by star, players and atmosphere touches.
STORY Things certainly happened in an
obliging manner.
DIRECTION Gave excellent atmosphere in
French scenes and made several individual bits pleasing but failed utterly to tie loose links in story together.
PHOTOGRAPHY Some excellent, some too
contrasty.
LIGHTINGS Some very fine but frequently
high lights too strong.
CAMERA WORK Varied from fine to fair
STAR Very pleasing personality but handicapped by lack of variety in character.
SUPPORT Some very good types; generally
satisfactory.
EXTERIORS Many very well chosen;
generally pleasing.
INTERIORS Generally very good
DETAIL Early atmosphere very good;
generally satisfactory.
CHARACTER OF STORY Inoffensive
LENGTH OF PRODUCTION About 4,500 feet
IT seems unfair to such a pleasing star as Mary Miles Minter to burden her with the handicap of convenient ordinary routine plots such as this.
The story is one of those "jest happened" things and we have situation after situation where the author has to become very, very obliging to herself in order to make things dovetail. It sure was not what might be called an exciting tale and the average audience will get rather tired of its wanderings because the end is very, very obvious.
After starting off with the fright of a couple of society folk over seeing a ghost in a house, the story goes back to explain at great length how the ghost happened to be there, finishing up in the last reel with the same ghost situation only by now we have been led up to understand the why and wherefor.
It all happened through Miss Minter's being a little French girl whose father died suddenly with the result that an obliging lady stepped into the scenario and engaged her as nursemaid which landed her in America where she was immediately let out to face the world alone.
Then the author planted a door key and, a letter in front of the bench in the park where M. M. M. sat and she in tracing the owner of the letter found that this person had died. For purposes of the scenario, our beautiful M. M. M. decided to take up the duties of the dead housekeeper and so she journeyed to the home that fitted the door kev and began to clean things up a bit.
The hero misunderstanding her presence sent her to a reform society and she was planted in a reformatory but afterwards escaped and when the guards were about to arrest her again, hero stepped into the rescue and we also found that she was the niece of the head of the reform society — ta! ta! ta! ta! ta! ta!
With the exception of the very interesting French atmosphere and types in the first of the film and Miss Minter's ever pleasing presence this has nothing to commend it.
Alan Forest was a nonchalant hero who did little but did that little well and George Periolat died satisfactorily as Miss Minter's father and then appeared as the brother of the dead man.
Others in the cast were Helen Howard and Emma Kluge.
Charles M