The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 29 Service Page for "Burnt Wings" AT A GLANCE SUBJECT— "Burnt Wings." LENGTH— Five Reels. STAR — Frank Mayo. PREVIOUS HITS— "A Little Brother of the Rich," "The Brute Breaker," "Lasca," "The Peddler of Lies," etc. DIRECTED BY— Christy Cabanne. STORY FROM— "The Primrose Path" a play by Bayard Veiller, author of "Within the Law" and "The Thirteenth Chair." SCENARIO BY— Hal Hoadley. SITPPORTING CAST — Josephine Hill, Betty Blythe, Rudolph Christians, Beatrice Bumham. LOCALE— Paris and New York. TIME— To-day. THUMB-NAIL THEME— The stoiT of an artist who owes his life and success to a woman's sacrifice and who realizes his great debt to her just in time to save them both from a regrettable step. ADVERTISING PUNCHES 1 — The fact that "Burnt Wings" is an adaptation of the stage play, "The Primose Path" by Bayard Veiller, author of "Within the Law" and "The Thirteenth Chair." 2 — The popularity of Frank Mayo, the star, who scored such great hits in "A Little Brother of the Rich," "The Brute Breaker" and "Lasca." I 3 — The strength of the supporting I cast, which includes Josephine Hill, Betty Blythe, Rudolph Christians and Beatrice Bumham. 4 — The masterlv direction of Christy Cabanne, for five years associated with David W. Griffith as his chief of staff. I 5 — The intimate views of an artist's studio, with its Bohemian life and pretty models. 6 — The fact that this production introduces to screen patrons Rudolph Christians, Europe's most popular dramatic star. 7 — The realistic view of the Latin Quarter in Paris. CAST Joan Templeton Josephine Hill Ned Templeton Frank Mayo James Cartwright Rudolph Christians Helen, his Daughter Betty Blythe Hortense Beatrice Bumham THE STORY JOAN, a pretty country girl who eloped and married a stmggling young artist, is living ■with her husband, Ned Templeton, in Paris. They are happy in their love but the road to success is a rough one and they are in desperate straits financially when Ned is taken sick. The doctor prescribes rest and plenty of clean, wholesome food. The landlord is threatening eviction because the rent is unpaid. He suggests a "way out," telling Joan that no pretty girl need be without money in Paris. She is horrified at the thought, but in desperation she finally goes out on the street and meets a rich American, from whom she receives sufficient money to nurse Ned back to health and strength. Joan's husband thinks the money came from her father. In America Ned's work attracts attention and James Cartwright a wealthy art collecter, engages the young artist to paint his portrait at the behest of his daughter, Helen, who has been impressed by Templeton. Helen falls in love vdth the artist and Cartwright, anxious to gratify his daughter's wishes and hoping to have Templeton for a son-in-law, causes an estrangement between Ned and Joan. The patronage of the wealthy art collector brings Ned success, but through the machinations of Cartwright, Templeton and his wife have drifted apart, each thinking the other has ceased to care. Cartwright finally goes to Joan, who is having trouble earning her living as a model, and offers her money to give up her husband to his daughter. He persuades Joan to come to the Cartwright home that night, saying he will prove to her that she no longer occupies a place in her husband's affections. He extends a similar invitation to Templeton. They all meet there and Joan, stung by the injustice of it all, finally tells her husband before Cartwright and his daughter how she obtained the money that saved Ned from starvation in Paris. It was Cartwright himself whom she met that night on the street. She reveals his actions in trying to keep them apart and then quietly slips away while Ned is in the midst of a stormy scene with Cartwright. Suddenly Templeton realizes that his wife has gone. He overtakes her in the garden and all misunderstanding is cleared away, their love blazing up bigger and brighter than ever before. ADVERTISING DISPLAY LINES She made a woman's supreme sacrifice and then nearly lost him. But love finally triumphs in "Burnt Wings." She refused to sell her husband because — because she loved him. See Frank Mayo in "Burnt Wings." Her husband was sick. He needed food, medicine. They were penniless. But there is always money for a pretty girl in Paris. Was she justified? Judge for yourself in "Burnt Wings." One woman had wealth, beauty, every worldly thing. The other had made for him the greatest sacrifice a woman could — and she was his wife. The story is powerfully told in "Burnt Wings." They told her she was blocking her husband's success, that he had ceased to love her, that she could give him up. But she wasn't, he hadn't, and she wouldn't. That is pretty Joan's predicament in "Burnt Wings." All the powerful appeal of Bayard Veiller's great stage success, "The Primrose Path," is brought out in "Burnt Wings," its screen adaptation produced by Universal.