Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1920)

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Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section The Shadow Stage ( Concluded ) of the prettiest girl in it in particular, and then marches his boots back to prison to atone for his misdeeds. The talc is amusingly told by Lloyd Ingraham. Doris May gives smiling support, and the cast is replete with hayseed types. SUNDOWN SLIM — Universal SUNDOWN SLIM" ambles his way unsatisfactorily through five reels of film to an unsatisfactory finish. Sundown Slim, through no fault of Harry Carey, the star in the production, but simply because the character is poorly and inadequately drawn, fails to arouse any interest or sympathy, and it is as difficult to follow his peregrinations as it is to put together a jigsaw puzzle in which sundry pieces are missing. We recommend "Sundown Slim" as an excellent test for the imagination. Carey needs another "Overland Red." HEADIN' HOME-Kessel and Baumann PERHAPS you are one of those who saved up enough pennies to see Babe Ruth display his prowess on the baseball field only to be interrupted by the fair damsel on your right requesting peanuts and lemonade just as Babe scores a homer. Perhaps you have been carrying a heavy grudge on your shoulder ever since. Be that the case you can remedy the evil, for Babe Ruth not only enacts his life story in "Headin' Home" but he throws a wicked bat and slides a tricky home plate. Ruth's rise to fame is told by an old man from his home-town seated in the grandstand. There is a real plot and a counterplot and enough views of Ruth to please the most inveterate "fan." Madison Square Garden, being the largest hall in town, was engaged to present the feature in New York. UNCLE SAM OF FREEDOM RIDGE — Harry Levey UNCLE SAM OF FREEDOM RIDGE" is a screen adaptation of Margaret Prescott Montague's story written frankly to sound a message on behalf of the League of Nations. Therefore, in a sense a propaganda picture, the production is by no means equal to the dignity of its task. The story concerns an old patriot of West Virginia who, giving his son up to the great war to end war, feels that the boy's death has been sacrificed in the cause of world peace; but when the old man finds that America is turning her back on the League of Nations, he makes "a blood atonement" and wrapping himself in the flag, dies by his own hand. Such is the story which has been given production under the directorship -of George Beranger. The principal parts are played by William D. Corbett, George MacQuarrie, Paul Kelly and Helen Flint. H' THE BAIT— Metro OPE HAMPTON redeems herself in this picture, which might well be called "The Proof of Good Direction." Miss Hampton is laboring under the handicap of being starred by violent means rather than permitting her to develop by experience. "Salome," her first venture, was pretty bad, mainly because of the inexcusably poor direction of Leonce Perret, who forced the star to act all over the screen, and made of it a "movie" of the early Kalem period. Mr. Tourneur reversed this process, adding real intelligence to the direction, and the result is a very good entertainment and a fine performance by Miss Hampton. If you have seen "Salome" you should see her new vehicle. Aside from a good picture, it is a most interesting contrast in direction. "The Bait" is good, straight melodrama, the story concerning a shopgirl who is framed and sentenced to prison, only to be rescued by a band of crooks who surround her with luxury and give her all the advantages of travel and education that she may trap a rich man's son into marriage and subsequent profit for the gang. Any weakness the story may have is compensated for by the director's usual excellence of setting, lighting and photography. The Male Background (Concluded from page jj) in what a heroine feels than what a man does or thinks. I feel you allow men in your cinemas at all only because you want to make the ladies happy, God bless them, — for wanting us at all, I mean," he grinned. "I hope," Powell confided, "that perhaps the Paramount office is going to export me soon. Not that I wish to leave America at all but that I rather want to get back to England for a while. Of course it will be like getting a divorce from Mr. Fitz Maurice, he has been directing me so long, but a chap likes a change. . . And home is home. Besides, I'm tremendously interested in showing the English cinema audiences all that I've learned here in America. He happened in pictures for money's sake, because as an actor he was so tired of being without a job during the summer months. He was f^rst an extra at five dollars a day and the following winter, at ten, when he was playing at the same time, the artist in "The Passing of the Third Floor Back" with Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. Later he decided to go into pictures altogether. "And then I couldn't get into them for a year. Fact. Out of a job. It was the queerest thing," he smiled shamefacedly, "I just couldn't get a job. I tried everywhere. I was too ignorant of the way to do it, or too British, or something. Ridiculous?" He laughed at the recollection. "Ah, well. I finally did land, anyhow. And have been leading a terrifically polygamous life ever since. Husband to first one, then another.'' Mr. Powell is not English at all, but Welsh. Or practically. He would have been entirely but for the fact that both he and his mother happened to be in Glasgow at the time. "But outside of that," (outside of Glasgow, we took it), "I am entirely Welsh, certainly so by inheritance and — er, selection. You know, my digging up my past experiences and so on reminds me of what George Bernard Shaw said to me on the boat just before I sailed over here for the first time. I was playing in his 'Capt. Brassbound's Conversion,' as I remarked before. He stood talking to me on the deck and finally said, 'Do you know anyone in the States, Powell ?' I said no. 'Do you want to?' I laughed and replied, 'Naturally.' He looked thoughtful. Oh, a rare old chap is Shaw and though unexpected, the most delightful fellow in the world. 'Here's a plan,' he said. 'Try it out. Just as the boat lands in New York, print on a large placard, 'I know George Bernard Shaw,' and tie it on your hat and walk down Broadway. I give you my word, Powell, in fifteen minutes you'll meet everybody !' " Mr. Powell laughed. "And at that, he is probably right. G. B. Shaw is always right." *'Why, that's the i lird increase I've J „ f Tj. • J th had in a year ! It just shows what special training will do for a man." 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