Photoplay Magazine, January 1921 (anuary 1921)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section The Shadow Stage (Continued) shoolin' and drinkin' and lovin' as they sec these things in the Great West? Then sec this picture. It's a western and a good one —a corking tale by Tex O'Reilly, who knows his west as few know it, of men who wanted free grass in the Texas cattle-country and of other men who didn't. Tex himself turns actor and gives a fine performance as Wild Bill Devlin, leader of the men who did. His daughter loves the young man from the effete east who finds himself heir to a ranch and a tradition to carry on the barbed- wire warfare. It is up to the easterner to change Wild Bill's mind—both as to free grass and his own status as a son-in-law. Wild Bill capitulates, and there you have the story, embellished with great gunplay and hard riding. Bob Townley directed carefully and capably. Allene Ray is the equestrienne heroine. Harry McLaughlin who later lost his life in an airplane acci- dent, showed promise as an athletic actor of the Fairbanks type. HALF A CHANCE—Pathe IT is touching to see a motion picture audience warm up to a really good pic- ture. It brought honest tears to this re- viewer's eyes to note the simple faith of the average fan when he stumbled on this practically unheralded production and got more than his money's worth of entertain- ment. It isn't a "'super-special." Frederick Isham's strong, healthy and wholesome yarn concerns itself with one Sailor Burke, a sea- man turned prizefighter and a prizefighter licked by booze, unjustly convicted of mur- der. On his way to lengthy imprisonment, he escapes his guard and fights his way to a new life. He later learns law from tomes cast up like himself, by the sea to the shores of his lonely private island. When he gets back to civilization his pugilistic prowess is equalled by his knowledge of the law. He uses both before he clears his name and wins the girl. The surprise and the star of this he-show is Mahlon Hamil- ton, known always as an adequate actor, but never suspected of such depths and force as he displays here. A splendid Inart- ful performance, his, deserving of complete stellar honors. Lillian Rich is not so satis- factory as the heroine. Mary McAllister proves herself all over again the most charm- ing of our younger actresses. Robert Thorn- by's direction is thoroughly masculine but never unsympathetic. If you want a rous- ing good picture, don't mi<s this. RUTH OF THE ROCKIES— Pathc Serial IT is not hard to understand why serial drama has such a hold on the youth of this country and others. Serials, today, are pretentiously mounted and sensibly thought out. They are logically unreasonable—even this one about an energetic young lady who has nothing to do every day but track down a band of diamond smugglers. Ruth Ro- land plays the lively heroine, assisted by Herbert Heyes. THE GILDED DREAM—Universal CARMEL MYERS is the frivolous heroine of this one. She's a country girl who falls heir to five thousand dollars where- with to realize her girlish dreams. She does exactly what three thousand and twen- ty-one girls have done before her—on the screen: goes right off to the city to ac- quire a husband both rich and handsome. Miss Myers probably establishes a record for -nappy work: she at once meets the I03 —the finest reproducing phonograph in the 'world HEAR the crooning lilt of a mother's soft lullaby or the ensemble of a famous orchestra — reproduced by the Steger with rare faithfulness to every tonal value, due to its patented, almost human reproducer, its tone chamber of spruce and its adjustable tone-arm, which insures the proper pressure on all makes of records. The Steger plays all records correctly —110 parts to change. 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