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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
Applaud " Paid in Advance
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Two three-sheets and a one-sheet wade for Dorothy Phillips' latest UniversalJew el, "Paid in Advance."
Paid In Advance
1/ JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD
REVIEWS BY THE NEWS AND WORLD
The Moving Picture World. July 12, 1919.
'PAID IN ADVANCE."
and so excellent is the team-work of these tried players that the numerous tense situations are raised to extreme dramatic heights.
Reviewed by Robert C. McElravy.
Motion Picture News. July 12, 1919.
^ splendid dramatic success is achieved In this six-reel Universal-Jewel production entitled "Paid in Advance." It was adapted to the screen by Allen Holubar, who produced "The Heart of Humanity." The new subject is a different type of story, but reflects in every stage of its development the same skilful hand that created the Canadian war epic.
The plot of this subject was suggested to the producer by a story by. James Oliver Curwood. It ranges between the Canadian Northwest and the gold fields of Alaska, and maintains in both localities a finely suggestive atmosphere. The cast, so far as the principals are concerned, is made up entirely of screen favorites,
"PAID IN ADVANCE."
Reviewed by Tom Hamlin.
A melodramatic story of the Klondike portrayed in a faithfully realistic manner by a cast of clever principals and an army of extra people. The star does some of the best work in her career, and the direction and settings are both correspondingly good. Virile action, many thrilling fights, and a neat little love element is interwoven in the story. Excellent photography is displayed on the many splendid exterior scenes. It has many intense moments and the suspense is keen.
She is persuaded to go to Dawson City as a nurse, but finds that her employer is keeper of the dance-hall. And in her final choice of becoming his mistress or a dance-hall girl she mounts a table and offers herself to the highest bidder. A drunken owner of a prosperous claim wins her, and the big scene is where he decides to become a real man and cleans out the dance-hall.
The action is fast and the thrilling activities finally focus into a quiet and pleasant happy ending. Nothing to offend, unless your audience is exceptionally squeamish.
This is a picture that should draw big and thoroughly entertain the firstrun audiences and should also pull in the high-class neighborhood houses and wholly satisfy, unless you have a very prudish audience. In popular and family theaters it should pull strongly and please mightily, and in the theaters catering to the laboring people it should pull enormously and be a riot as a picture.