Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1919)

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Alice Andrews and Bob Barclay, members of a burlesque troupe going into the gold country, are stranded for the winter, and out of the moil and turmoil of the icy frontier there springs a romance between Alice and Dan McGill. a grizled prospector of forty-odd years. But Alice tires of Dan. even as Dan's love for her deepens into a supreme affection. When Barclay, now a follower of any illicit chance, meets up with her again, she falls — and McGill leaves them together. He leads a hermit's existence until he makes a great goldstrike. Drawn to the mob as a moth to the flame, Barclay of course brings McGill's wife, Alice, with him. and all three meet in the sudden metropolis of McGill's making. Then comes the branding — and the conclusion. Let us offer psalms of praise to an author who boldly makes his leading male no cherry-cheeked hero, but a middleaged man. well weathered by storms of life which have given him experience wlhout robbing him of his power. Russell Simpson, whom you will recall in "The Barrier," plays McGill — indeed a superb performance. Kay Laurell. long one of the leading beauties in Mr. Ziegfeld's bouquet, makes her picture debut in a varied and arduous dramatic role. She will do well under the lamps. Bob McKim plays the more conventional character, Barclay. The credit for the success of this picture must be split three ways, Beach and Simpson sharing with Reginald Barker, who has splendidly directed the play. PAID IN FULL— Paramount Eugene Walter's story of the lazy Harlem flat clerk who thought the world owed him a living, and the wife who did everything to save him from his own folly — this story has become an American classic, for its application is just as keen in New Orleans as Xew York. I is very pleasing to observe that when it comes to the projectors it appears in a manner worthy the original drama, both as to narrative and development, and, as well, as far as the cast is concerned. Pauline Frederick is ideally situated as Emma Brooks. She reminds one very much of Lillian Albertson, who created the part more than ten years ago. Bob Cain, playing her shiftless husband Joe. approaches 1 Brooks in a different way than did his un| forgettable stage predecessor, Tully Marshall, but he is splendidly effective in the photoplay. Frank Losee is very good— although he could have made a little more of the saturnine humor of the part — as that growlins dog of kindly heart. Cap'n Williams. Wyndham Standing plays Jimsy. Emile Chautard directed. THE LITTLE WHITE SAVAGE U niversa There are more ways than one to skin a cat, and more ways than two or three to tell a story. Paul Powell, who did some splendid work in the old Triangle days, has here made his best picture since the days when Griffith. Ince and Sennett "put in together,'' as they say in the south. The Savage is Minnie Lee (played by Carmel Myers) a somewhat dubitably "wild" girl in the sideshow of a little circus. Big Bill Dyer plays I.arkey. a circus man of verdant imagination, and the whole story is Larkey's ready and admittedly amazing tale of the wild girl's antecedents, discovery and capture, related with sidesteps, breaks and blunders, but with refreshingly easy imagination, to a couple of curious customers in front of the tent. There is no continuity, in the accepted age from page 53) sense of the world. I'm not going to tell you Larkey's fervent patchwork yarn, but I am going to tell you to see this piece of film if it comes to your neighborhood. Its breezy bold difference makes it worth while. What Paul Powell and scenarioist Waldemar Young have done here is the sort of adventure that starts screen progress. EAST LYNXE— Sennett-Paramount I hasten to give the rest of the main title — "With Variations." A healthy and basically true burlesque, such as this, is doing a lot more to make the country safe for democrats and the new republican congress than a procession of weary and orthodox romushes with clutch finishes. Here are all of the old props of sensation in use between '85 and 05: the murdering buzz-saw, the persecuting snow-storm, the pursuing railway-train, the typhoon on the canvas ocean — and. as a touch of modernity, a submarine with stage fright. The exquisite Marie Prevost is the persecutee. with Charles Lynn as the persecutor. And Ben Turpin the hero, whose heart is true though his eyes are not. The carpenter of this mock-melo is the whimsical Eddie Cline. who has shown many a good directoral notion before. THE LIOX AXD THE MOUSE — \ itagraph The world would seem upside-down to Charles Klein, if he could come back from his great coffin, the Lusitania. His most successful play, named above, was a famously popular roar at plutocracy. Nowadays plutocrat and commoner are holding hands together against bolshevism. However — "The Lion and the Mouse" is interesting, despite its out of date theme, as Yitagraph's best production in many months. Of all the Shirley Rossmores, and they have been many. I know of none more delightfully fitted for the role than Alice Joyce, who has iu~t enough force and individuality, combined with supine girlishness. to make the demure and crafty Shirley real. Anders Randolf, too. is as good a John Burkett Ryder as Edmund Breese — and that's saying a lot. Conrad Xagel is sufficient as Jefferson Ryder, without being conspicuous. The play is well produced, and evinces a care and sumptuousness ot detail which, for many months. Yitagraph has conspicuously lacked. Tom Terriss directed, and handled his story intelligently. ROMANCE AND ARABELLA— Select After "Who Cares?" this story is rather thin and frothy ; nevertheless, it is a human and therefore appealing trifle about a young widow and a handful of further matrimonial bets, and Constance Talmadge's depiction of the unbereaved relict is possibly the most winsome that could have been made had the producers exercised a choice among all the young she-juveniles of the trade. The playj by William Hulbert. stood upon its lines, as far as the stage was concerned. Many of these now make excellent subtitle material. Walter Edwartls has studied Constance Talmadge as few directors have studied their people. Everything in his productions, from locations to properties, is in harmony with a story about a young girl, and his thoughtfulness and care have given Miss Talmadge a greater artistic and popular advance than she has ever experienced. A TRICK OF FATE— Exhibitors Mutual The intelligence and charm of Bessie Barriscale are equal factors in this rather conventional but nevertheless well-handled and interesting story of two women. First Every advertisement in PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE Is guaranteed.