Photoplay Magazine, January 1921 (anuary 1921)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section ioi The Shadow Stage (Continued from page 66) and a line cast of principals helps materially in its playing. They include Lewis Stone. Wanda Hawley, Jack Holt, Agnes Avers and Robert Cain. Donald Crisp, who has gone to London for Paramount, did the direct- ing from a scenario prepared by Beulah Marie Dix, and there are several fine pic- torial effects achieved by the camera man, Edgar Schoenbaum. CURTAIN—First National DIRECTOR JAMES YOUNG, to whom much of the credit for the enter- tainment of the beauteous Kathcrine Mac- Donald's newest picture, "Curtain," be- longs, has been content to tell Rita Wei- man's simple and logical little story as it should be told—simply and logically. What happens happens reasonably, and we thus escape the irritation of watching a director straining to make a picture "big" that does not justify the effort. Miss Mac- Donald in this instance is a popular actress who decides to marry a rich admirer in place of a poor but promising author because that seems the wisest thing to do. But after sacrificing her career for her new hus- band she discovers that he is one of those upper Tenderloin aristocrats who simply must take on a new feminine interest period- ically to make life seem worth living. Kath- erine suspects the worst, almost from the first, but for the sake of her young son for- gives much—until she discovers that hus- band has been spending his vacations with the lady who was her rival on the stage. This is too much and she not only deter- mines to apply for a divorce, but to return to the stage immediately and play the role her rival thought to play. When she is legally free she promises to marry the young author she lacked the foresight to accept in the beginning. Miss MacDonald con- tinues to improve as an actress, and her director is wise in not forcing her to at- tempt any scene to which she is not fully equal. Charles Richman is again the bad boy, Florence Deshon the home wrecker, E. B. Tilton a reasonable sort of theater manager. There is a rich and attractive background tastefully in keeping with the story, and the handling of the backstage scenes of the theater is especially good. HOMESPUN FOLKS— Associated Producers ALL the folks in your house will like ''Homespun Folks"—unless you happen to have one or two radical young persons who sniff at anything but the higher drama. It is very honestly the type of picture the title suggests. Farmer's son determined to be a lawyer; crusty lather who insists he shall stay at home and milk the cows; sympathetic mother who wants everybody to be happy. When father would tear in two son's hard-earned law-school diploma son fights back and is driven from home. 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