Motography (Jul 1918)

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July 13, 1918. MOTOGRAPHY 57 it doesn't exist anywhere, redeemed by the powerful personality of Alma Rubens. Support — Fair. Production — Good. Photography — Excellent. This is a Police Gazette type of picture, good only in low grade houses, an utter waste of the excellent talents of the star, who will draw in the better class houses, but will not please in this picture because the story is so bad. most important points being the thoroughly luxurious mounting, which fits it for any kind of house. Universal The Mortgaged Wife — (Five Reels) — June 30 — Featuring Dorothy Phillips. The pursuit of a married woman by her husband's employer. Ralph Carter is an embezzler, Jeremiah Harris his employer. Harris agrees to let Ralph go free if Mrs. Carter will come to live in his home. The wife agrees. Harries tries to gain the young woman's love, but she repels him, and finally he is overcome by her goodness and desists. He has a fight with her brother, who questions their relations. Then Carter comes back and tries to blackmail his wife. Harris comes in and Carter is fatally shot. Then the widow realizes that she loved Harris all the time. Director — Allan Hulabar. Cameraman — Fred Leroy Granville. General effect — A pretty old story, yet told with a lot of pep that saves it somewhat. Star — Miss Phillips is pretty enough and a sufficiently good actress to save most situations. Support — Fair. Production — Good. Photography Good. This is just another "movie." It won't arouse either enthusiasm or adverse criticism. It just gets by and will do as well at one sort of house as another, for they've all had the story in a dozen different ways. Paralta One Dollar Bid — (Five Reels) — July 1 — Featuring J. Warren Kerrigan. Mystery melodrama, good suspense. Toby, is a poor white trash character, usually intoxicated, living in a little hut near a southern town. The villagers, outraged by his shiftiessness, demand that the sheriff put him up for sale under an old law. Virginia Dare, visiting the Poindexters, buys him for a dollar. Toby and Virginia, without speaking to each other of it, love each other at sight, and Toby determines to reform, but is constantly tempted by Ralph Patterson, who scents rivalry in his suit for Virginia. A revenue officer is killed by a moonshiner with a knife once owned by Tobv, and Toby is about to be sentenced to death when Virginia brings a confession from the real slayer. It is discovered that Toby, who has now completely reformed, is a lawyer, the son of a friend of the Poindexters, who has been disgraced through liquor, and now that he has reformed he can and does marry Virginia. Director — Ernest C. Warde. Cameraman — Charles Stumar. General effect — A good punch picture, flavored with lots of atmosphere and some comedy. Star — Kerrigan is an attractive figure, and is not seen on the screen nearly often enough, for he does some excellent character work in this feature. Support — Good. Production — Excellent. Photography— Fine. This is one of the best of the Paralta pictures, one of its Vitagraph Tangled Lives — (Five Reels) — July 1 — Featuring Harry Morey. A story so complicated that it needs a chart and compass. John Howland is a successful architect. His wife becomes infatuated with Paul Westcott. Mrs. West, wife of a close friend of Howland's, is in love with Howland. Mrs. West is seen by her husband forcing her attentions upon Howland, and West commits suicide. Howland rescues a girl from street assailants and gets a home for her. Howland sees his wife and Westcott in an embrace and attacks Westcott, for which, curiously, he is sent to jail. His wife gets a divorce. When he gets out of jail he learns that his wife is going to marry Westcott and the only place he can think of to find a weapon to kill Westcott is at the place where he found a home for the waif he rescued. The girl and her protector drug Howland to keep him out of trouble. A lightning bolt strikes Mrs. Ho\vland and Westcott. Howland marries the waif. "Tangled Lives" is right. Director — Paul Scardon. Cameraman — Robert Stuart. General effect — A crazyquilt of a story, so hard to follow that it becomes a regular puzzle. Star — Harry Morey is some actor, but not good enough to make this sort of thiflg stand up. Support — Betty Blythe is coming ahead fast. Production — Good. Photography — Good. This comes pretty close to being the worst picture of the year; certainly it is the worst Vitagraph in a long time. World • Tinsel — (Five Reels) — July 1 — Featuring Kitty Gordon. Society melodrama built around the effort to ruin a girl. Princess Sylvia Carzoni is the divorced wife of Richard Carmichael. They have a daughter Ruth, just arriving at womanhood, and Sylvia wants to have her and show her life before she marries. Ruth is in love with Bobby Woodward, but goes on the visit to her mother, and is immediately subjected to the wiles of a roue, Jefferson Kane. Sylvia watches the affair develop, and just when Ruth is endangered by Kane's attentions, she intervenes. She then hands her back to Bobby, saying she did not want her to marry until she knew what men of the other sort were like. This noble sentiment reunites her with her own husband. Director — Oscar Apfel. Cameraman — Lutien Tainguy. General effect — A somewhat new theme, but with about the same old stuff; in other words, it is "Enlighten Thy Daughter" with the punch taken out. Star — Kitty Gordon has plenty of opportunity to wear her well known fine clothes. Support — Muriel Ostriche and Frank Mayo in leading roles. Production — Only fair. Photography — Good. While this is not the sort of a picture calculated to make you proud you are in the motion picture business, it will go over in a way with audiences that are not too critical. Wilfred Lytell with Metro Wilfred Lytell, as well as his brother, Bert, is now enrolled under the Metro banner. In spite of his youth, Lytell has had long experience on the speaking stage, and is now playing an important role in "Business Before Pleasure," at the Eltinge Theatre, New York, while he spends his days at the Metro studios, where he is a member of Ethel Barrymore's company in "Our Mrs. McChesney," now being filmed. Ralph Ince, the director, made special arrangements so that he may fill both engagements. Lytell is playing the part of Jack McChesney, the heroine's son, in the screen version of Edna Ferber's play. This is not his first screen appearance, however, for he worked a year before under the direction of Ralph Ince, taking part in such well known pictures as "The Ninety and Nine," "The Lily and the Rose," and "Peter God." /. Warren Kerrigan in "Toby.' Two Clever Triangle Plays A western play, "A Good Loser," the first release on the Triangle schedule for July 7, has Peggy Pearce, the former Keystone player, at the head of the cast, supported by Lee Hill. Joe King will support Gloria Swanson in "Everywoman's Husband," a psychological drama, scheduled for release the latter part of the week.