Photoplay (Apr - Sep 1918)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section The Shadow Stage (Continued) CHEATING THE PUBLIC— Fox FOR LIBERTY— Fox 113 William Fox certainly had no intention of cheating the public when he gave them the picture called "Cheating the Public." Each and every reel of it is "worth the price of admission." There is a story with a moral for those who like to know the ways of the food profiteers; and there is the wronged girl, in the person of Enid Markey, who shoots her potential betrayer; and there is a court-room scene where the unwritten law has no effect on the twelve good men and true, who sit in judgment; and there is the race between the motor car and the train; and the young hero waving the pardon in his hand; all, all, is there. HIS MOTHER'S BOY— Paramount It hardly seems possible that a simple tale of a country boy who went out west to a rough town where the oil wells are could be made as entertaining as "His Mothers Boy" has been made. Charles Ray is ideal in the title role. His art, if it is art, is carefully concealed, and one feels that he is playing with his heart as well as with his head. Ray is Matthew Denton, a boy who has to go to prayer meetings when he wants to swim and read Bunyan when he longs to read Nick Carter. His chance comes when the oil wells, from which his mother derives her small fortune, stop paying dividends. Matthew goes west and after he has been there a month he licks the "bad man" of the town and marries his girl. ROSE OF THE WORLD— Artcraft Could any one else have been so much the "Rose of the World," as Elsie Ferguson who is playing the title role in the Artcraft picture of that name? We doubt it, for it is a difficult role with its swift transitions from grief to anger and from despair to transcendent happiness. The story is melodramatic but there is nothing melodramatic in Miss Ferguson's interpretation. One would find it difficult to believe that a picture could be convincing which contains war scenes in India, intrigues, secret strong boxes, disguised Arabian valets, incantations and hair which turns white over night, but such is the case. BROADWAY LOVE— Universal Dorothy Phillips is quite too beautiful nnd too clever to waste her sweetness on the desert air, or her talents on a picture like "Broadway Love." W. Carey Wonderly conceived the story and he had a good idea, but something went wrong along about the middle of it; or perhaps it stopped for lack of fuel. At any rate it could have closed quite satisfactorily at the end of the third reel. Miss Phillips plays the part of Madge, a country girl who has come to New York to win fame and fortune on the stage. Being beautiful, she is beset with temptation, but they prove no temptations to Madge because she is strong minded. Gladys Brockwell is the star in a Fox picture "For Liberty," which sets itself the task of proving how easy it is to fool the German government. This is not a propaganda picture in any sense of the word, for it is doubtful if any living man could don the German uniform and enter the German army as did Charles Clary. Also if he did manage to elude the eagle eye of the Hun we hope that he would not confess to a young lady who had spent most of her life in Berlin, that he was a spy. It was risky business, but it happily turned out all right, for the girl in this case was true to the country in which she was born rather than to the land of her adoption. EVIDENCE— Triangle A Triangle picture, featuring J. Barney Sherry, is called "Evidence." All of the pictures which have turned out to be merely bad dreams the leading lady has had, owing to a pathological condition of the mind, have fooled us. And this one fooled us too — because it was not a dream. When the characters get into a situation from which no scenario writer could entangle them, then the spectators have learned to expect a ruse. But Barney Sherry, in the person of John Corbin, really murdered his wife. Disgusted with the miscarriage of justice, he makes a wager with his friend Dr. Richard Hyde that he could murder his wife, confess, and go scot free. His words were idly uttered but it so happens that he does all of these things. Pauline Starke has a small part which did not bring her on the screen often enough. "Evidence" is interesting but unpleasant. FIELDS OF HONOR— Goldwyn Oh, this will never do! "Fields of Honor"! When Irvin Cobb wrote this story he had a big idea and he put it down as simply and as powerfully as Irvin Cobb can do, and now it has been sacrificed to make a Goldwyn holiday. Who ever wn,te the scenario refused to have his name appear and one must infer that Cobb did it himself. Perhaps he did and if so it must have been under duress, for surely he never would willingly consent to sacrifice his brain child on the altar of Mammon. Mae Marsh is cast for Marie Messereau, the unlucky heroine, and Marguerite Marsh plays the invalid sister. Both of these little girls were charming and they worked with a determination worthy of a better cause. CUPID'S ROUND UP— Fox Tom Mix is the star in a very good Fox picture called "Cupid's Round Up." Somehow, we cannot imagine Tom as a despairing lover who heaves his chest and lets "concealment, like a worm i' the bud. feed on his damask cheek." Neither did Tom fancy himself in the role, so he ran away to Texas and there he gave exhibitions of riding which we have never seen equalled on the screen. t-i V What Time is It? YOU can see the correct time in the dark — if you own an Ingersoll Radiolite. Real radium in the substance on the hands and figures glows and shows the time as clear as day. 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