Photoplay (Apr - Sep 1918)

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Platinum set ring. $50.00 Liberty Bonds accepted in payment L.W. SWEET & CO., Inc., Dept. 42-J 2 and 4 Maiden Lane, NEW YORK CITY to 60^ SAVE 25 on slightly used GRAFLEX-KODAKS '/(■ The Shadow Stage ( Continued) Only, Jack would a-spying go, ered by Wheeler Oakman, a philanthropic millionaire. From there on it was plain sailing for the scenario writer. praise. to find favor in the sight of his father, an admiral, and his sweetheart. Of course, having donned a rag and a hank of hair. Mulhall must needs stride widely and smoke numerous long cigars in the sanctity of his boudoir to prove his masculinity. They all do it, and with the same unfailing regularity the spectators always enjoy it hugely. THE WILD STRAIN— Vitagraph Nell Shipman diverges from the beaten path in a Vitagraph feature called ''The Wild Strain." It is the story of a girl who has seven respectable generations back of her, indicated by portraits on the wall, and who still has a wild strain. One suspects all along that the missing eighth grandfather has something to do with it, and one is right. He turns out to have been a Spanish brigand. So far so good; but a number of persons are introduced, which complicates matters so that, for a time, the main issue, viz: who shall marry whom, is confused. GHOSTS OF YESTERDAY— Select Toward the close of her stage career, Mrs. Leslie Carter appeared in a play by Rupert Hughes, called "Two Women." Those who remember the plump and middle-aged Ruth Graham and Jeanne La Fleur of Mrs. Carter could hardly wait to have the memory eradicated by Norma Talmadge, who essayed the dual role in a picture called "Ghosts of Yesterday." Both Mis's Talmadge and Eugene O'Brien do magnificent work in this picture. Mr. O'Brien is admirably cast as Howard Marston, the waster, and Miss Talmadge as Ruth the toiler, and later as Jeanne the spoiler. The first is a little seamstress, the second a wanton cabaret singer of Paris. For some reason, we know not what, Miss Talmadge's delicate, intriguing beauty, was not nearly so apparent as in her former pictures. The picture was directed by Charles Miller. The supporting cast includes Stuart Holmes and Ida Darling. The scenario was by Mis; Mildred Considine. THE BLIND ADVENTURE— Vitagraph "The Blind Adventure" is an interesting picture made from an interesting story by Earl Derr Biggers, called originally "The Agony Column." The featured players are Edward Earle and Betty Howe. It was assuredly not an easy thing to turn this story into a photoplay, for it was merely a series of letters written by Geoffrey West to Marian Larned in an attempt to win her attention sufficiently to warrant an introduction. What Geoffrey told Marian in the letters is visualized on the screen and makes excellent entertainment. The novel idea is well handled, and the key carefully concealed. RIMROCK JONES— Paramount "Rimrock Jones" is a Paramount picture, starring Wallace Reid and it has a number of good features other than those usually found in a western drama. For instance, the hero, Rimrock, has a sense of humor as well as a sense of direction with a six shooter at one end of it, and his repartee is as diverting as his roping. All of the pictures which Donald Crisp directs have nice little human touches in them which make the actors and the spectators at home with each other right away. Rimrock Jones is a mine owner who is made a victim of the "apex law" and he wanders about penniless until he finally stakes another claim and defies any one to take it from him on pain of death. Rimrock is all right until he visits New York and there he -strays from the straight and narrow path. Not the least of his transgressions is appearing in a palm beach suit in the middle of winter. MAN ABOVE THE LAW— Triangle Cameras and Lenses of every description. Equal to new. Save money. 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Neither does any one. at any time, sling a lasso or draw a six shooter. The Mae Murray helped to write the story weapon which Duke Chalmers uses is "far FACE VALUE— Bluebird "Face Value," which has been screened by Bluebird. She is also the star. We like her better as a star than as an author. There are numerous incidents which reach the heart, but this is due to the portrayal rather than to the conception. The prologue shows Joan Darby (perhaps a daughter of "Darby and Joan") at the age of ten, and Miss Murray manages to look not a day older than that. She is apprenticed to a cruel washwoman, who makes her scrub floors and carry home the laundry. So Joan runs away and wanders about for six years in one reel, before she is discovered as cashier in a quick lunch room. She had to be insulted by the manager so she could run away again and be recov more deadly. Jack Richardson does splendid work in the title role, for Duke Chalmers is known as "Man Above the Law" to the Navaho Indians. He is the victim of an unhappy love affair and man-like he resents so intensely the fact that the girl in the case tired first, that he goes west and becomes a trader. He insures the Red Men's loyalty by giving them poor whiskey which is labeled "pain killer." But it does not kill his own pain, and in this unhappy frame of mind he falls a victim to the charms of a young school teacher who attempts uplift work in the little settlement. The psychology of Chalmers is an interesting study and the story has not the banality of an illogically happy ending. Every advertisement in PHOTOPLAY MAOAZIKT! is guaranteed.