Motography (Jan-Jun 1918)

January 5, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY 39 "Her Second Husband" Latest Edna Goodrich-Mutual Star Production. Reviewed by Genevieve Harris TilS is something of a comedy-drama, or perhaps we might better call it a light society drama, for the humor is not a very prominent element, though the story is frivolous in type. It concerns the quarrel which separates a young The quarrel begins. married couple, their divorce, a rather unusual second courtship and their re-marriage. While the plot itself in many ways seems "much ado about nothing," the story is nicely handled so far as acting, settings and photography are concerned. Miss Goodrich becomes a clothes model during a portion of her picture career, and introduces many interesting costumes. While the picture is not remarkable, its star is well liked in most localities and it will prove a good average entertainment if the audience is not too critical. Dell Henderson directed the play. William B. Davidson plays opposite the star. Richard R. Neill, Miriam Folger, Bert Busby and Grace Heehan are in the cast. The release date is December 31. The story: John Kirby, a broker, to further his Wall street operations, insists that his wife entertain persons who repel her by their vulgar ways. Affairs are brought to a crisis when Richard Stone, one of Kirby's clients, brings Celeste Valdane, a coarse, ill-bred woman, to the Kirby home. Helen rebels at acting as hostess to such persons. After a quarrel, she and her husband agree to separate. Divorced, Helen is forced to earn her own livelihood, and becomes a stenographer, accepting a position as stenographer in Stone's office. When Stone forces his attentions on her, Helen leaves and secures a position as a suit model. Hoping for a reconciliation, John determines to find Helen. One evening he agrees to act as escort to a girl to a masked ball. By a strange coincidence, Helen is the girl he is to escort. John is in ignorance of her identity, but Helen learns that it is John who will accompany her. At the ball Helen does not unmask, and John is puzzled by certain characteristics that remind him of his wife. Shortly after the night of the ball John learns that it was his wife with whom he danced, and, enlisting the good offices of a friend, he so contrives that Helen is beguiled into a motor car, and himself disguised as the chauffeur. When they reach a lonely part of a country road, an apparent breakdown occurs,_ the chauffeur orders her to alight, and led by him, they arrive at the home of a justice of the peace, where Helen acquires "Her Second Husband." "Vengeance Is Mine" Mrs. Vernon Castle in Her Fourth Pathe Play. Reviewed by Genevieve Harris ""THIS fourth Pathe feature starring Irene Castle compares 1 favorably with the others in the series. It is made in something the same style — that is with plenty of action, a dash of mystery and an opportunity for the star to wear a variety of clever costumes and engage in athletic stunts. This time for good measure we have a dancing scene. The sets in the picture are very pleasing. The photography is clear and the scenes pretty. Although the picture contains tragedy and crime, the general effect, due to the rapid action and the lightness and daintiness of the pictures themselves, is of brightness and vivacity. The picture can be advertised confidently in any locality in which the preceding features have been well received. We believe that it will appeal to neighborhood and small town audiences especially, in which there are a number of women, for they will like to study Mrs. Castle's costumes and will enjoy the society atmosphere in which the play is laid. Frank Crane directed the picture. John A. Moroso wrote the tale. Elliott Dexter, Frank Sheridan and Helene Chadwick lead in the supporting cast. The story: Paula (Mrs. Castle) sets out to avenge her father's death. He had committed suicide after his bank was ruined by a group of unprincipled financiers. She is introduced to society under an assumed name and manages to meet and learn something of the tricks of the men who ruined her father. Before she can do anything against them, they learn who she is and she is obliged to leave. She next becomes a cabaret dancer, since her fortune is gone, and in this capacity again meets one of the men. Intoxicated, he tells her where she can find evidence of her father's innocence. Paula enters the Van Brunt city home and secures the letter which would free her father's name. Van Brunt's wife, about to run away with another man, is found by Paula, who convinces the former of the error of her ways. Paula escapes with the letter but on a second thought she returns saying that Vengeance is not in her hands. Van Brunt commits suicide and Doctor Smith, who is interested in Paula, disowns his own father, thus bringing punishment to the man higher up. "Love Letters" A Paramount Picture with Dorothy Dalton. Released December 24. Reviewed by Helen Rockwell CXCELLENT treatment of a time-worn theme has made a '-' meritorious production of this Thomas H. Ince picture, ''Love Letters." The hue and cry for new plots would immediately subside if more old ones could be thus remolded in such charming fashion. Although there is probably not a new situation throughout the picture, you are never once reminded of the fact and the problems are thrashed out so artistically that comparisons do not recur to your mind. It is in every way a production worthy of attention and one which will send all grades of intelligence away satisfied. The general outlines of the picture are not so different from Dorothy Dalton's, "The Price Mark," although this feature is in every way superior. The story is of a young girl who attempts to obtain some indiscreet love letters which were written before her marriage to a despicable faddist posing as a teacher of Oriental cults. In a struggle for the letters she believes she has killed the man, but a faithful servant confesses to having dealt the death blow after she IB ^^H V *wi m V . s ^^S^^^g^ ^^k 3Cf mm ^m ' \A ml Hjfl mm Eileen meets her former lover.