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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY—
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''No Suck Tking says Editk Roberts
A NY man who thinks a woman wears pretty clothes to catch his eye and attract him, is vain, conceited, egotistical and wholly mistaken, says Edith Roberts, the little Universal star recently seen in "Lasca" and "The Triflers." Although she is one of the smartest dressers in the Los Angeles film colony, Miss Roberts boils with rage when it is intimated she has the other sex in mind.
"It's just an old time fallacy," she says, "that when a woman does her best to emulate the example of the peacock she is doing it for the sole purpose of attracting and pleasing the opposite sex. Not one man in a thousand appreciates the difference between a Paris model and a Sixth Avenue creation— and every woman knows it. Of course, most men can appreciate the general effect of a well groomed woman, but as for distinguishing between the newest modes and the vintage of the autumn before last, the male sex, as a whole is as ignorant as a Fiji Islander.
"But with women it's different. Every well dressed well informed woman knows what's what in the matter of dress. Women are their own severest critics and it is to please the members of her own sex that an actress must do her level best to acquire the very latest models to wear in pictures that call for fashionable costumes."
In "The Daring Duchess," her latest picture. Miss Roberts wears all sorts of feminine garments, from the simple ginghams of a country girl to the Parisian finery of a titled heiress.
"The Daring Duchess" is a comedy drama which affords Edith Roberts an opportunity to do, in a new way, those things she did so well in "Lasca," and "The Triflers," besides permitting her to show other phases of her fascinating personality. It tells the story of a girl bom and raised on a western ranch in America who learns that by the death of a relative in England she has fallen heir to a fortune and a title. Packing her humble effects, principally a saddle which she had won as a prize in a riding exhibition, she journeys across the sea, only to find an array of clever people determined to cheat her out of her inheritance. Of course the little American wins out in the end, after meeting with adventures both humorous and exciting. In Miss Roberts' support are Harold Miller, Rudolph Christians, Stanhope Wheatcroft, Katherine Kirkham, Ogden Crane, Hugh Saxton, Lecta Lorraine and Leonard Clapham. It was written by Tarkington Baker.
Edith Roberts in "The Daring Duchess'
Harrison Says: —
atout ''The Peddler of Lies
"pHlS is one of the best society crook plays released lately. The situations combine human interest, thrills, and suspense:
The hero, impersonating a peddler, is really a detective, detailed to capture a gang of society crooks. A young girl's brother is suspected as having stolen a valuable diamond.
The hero knows the young man is innocent. He eventually captures the thieves, who were posing as society people, and were entertained by them. He thus proves the innocence of the young man. He marries the young lady.
The picture conveys no bad moral for children. Good for any theatre.