Exhibitors Herald (Apr-Jun 1922)

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CHARLES RAY IX SPECIAL CAST IN DEUCE OF SPADES THE (FIRST NATIONAL) airly pleasing is this latest Ray comedy, which was directed by the star assisted by Al Ray. Besides the humorous touches there is a human story and a thoroughly unexpected and satisfying finish. A splendid cast in support. Five reels. While Charles Raj has had stronger :hicles, this adapted Charles E. Van oan story "The Weight of the Last :ra\v" provides him with a role alto;ther pleasing and containing many nusing situations. There is a slight :ve theme, but no heavy lovemaking id the story is clean and full of human terest. Ray is cast as a Boston youth, who :arns to "go west and grow up with the ■untry." He sells his restaurant and ith the proceeds goes to Little Butte, ont.,' a town of tumbledown shacks id little business. While getting someing to eat in the only restaurant in wn, he is robbed of his money and. ven a bill of sale for the restaurant, mos converts the . place into a clean, )-to-date cafe and retains Sally the ight and efficient waitress. He feels rry for Sally and tries his hand at atch-making by coaxing the local barr, the bouncer in a saloon and others his cafe, but Sally will have nothing do with them. The restaurant prosrs and Amos plans a trip to Boston, t a junction he is fleeced of $800, in a rd game, and returns to Little Butte, ry much depressed. Townspeople havg heard of his being robbed by a card ark, decorate his restaurant with cards, e turns into a wildman and buys a uple of guns and shoots up the town, le gamblers who robbed him drive into wn and drop into the restaurant, mos serves them with sandwiches, ade of bread and a deuce of spades lich he makes them eat. He recovers s $800 and then chases them out of wn. He then realizes that Sally is the rl for him. The part of Sally is taken by Marjorie aurice, who as Marjorie Prevost, ayed opposite Ray in "The Ol' vimmin' Hole." A very capable little tress, she gives the needed touch to e rough Western restaurant scenes. ie plays with good effect one or two enes which have a happy touch of thos. Others in the cast who lend •od support are Lincoln Plumer, Phillip jnham, Andrew Arbuckle, Dick •utherland, Jack Richardson and J. P. >ckney. Richardson and Arbuckle ake a fine pair of likeable rascals, as ? card sharks. Another pleasing bit th Southerland as the "bouncer." MAN FROM HOME (PARAMOUNT) Excellent production of a famous stage play by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson. Produced by George Fitzmaurice in Italy. Scenic beauty alone could carry picture. Scenario by Ouida Bergere. Length about seven reels. The screen version of the play which made a Broadway hit several seasons ago with William Hodge as the featured player, has an even greater appeal as a picture, largely due to the beauty of the locale. George Fitzmaurice made the production in Italy, and a series of eyesatisfying scenes alone, it is worth the price of admission. Add to this a fine cast, headed by James Kirkwood and Anna Q. Nillson, and an excellent continuity by Ouida Bergere, drama having been added to the stage version, and the result is one of the best pictures made by Paramount in some time. The story is familiar to playgoers, road companies having introduced it in practically every town in the country. Genevieve Simpson, belle and heiress of her native town of Kokomo, Indiana, is given a farewell party on the eve of her departure with her brother to Italy. Her guardian. Daniel Forbes Pike is downcast until he learns that Genevieve loves him, then the farewell is less hard to bear. In Italy, Genevieve is dazzled by the attentions of Prince Kinsillo, who belongs to one of the many impoverished fragments of nobility with which Italy seems to be infested. With his father and sister he schemes to land the American heiress. The brother, too, is flattered by the atentions of the Prince, and his sister is soon drawn into an engagement. She writes Daniel, asking for a pittance of fifty thousand dollars as her dowry. Daniel realizes he is needed and starts post-haste for the land of olives and stilletos. Kinsillo has had an affair with a flower girl, Faustina, and she discovers his attentions to the American heiress. Her unsuspecting husband adores her, but she wants only her noble lover. One night, when the husband is gone, she invites the Prince to her home, stabs him, and he kills her. Meanwhile, Pike has arrived in Italy, helped the King of a neighboring principality, traveling incog out of his motor trouble, and, not knowing he is consorting with royalty, is the King's guest in the hotel where his wards are living. Genevieve takes Pike's interference haughtily, until the Prince's true character is finally disclosed, through the efforts of her guardian, when she acknowledges at last, her love for him, and they plan to go home together. Much homely humor is developed through Pike's association with the King. Jose Rubens does fine work as the Italian husband of the faithless Faustina, and John Miltern makes a dignified King. Photography unusually fine. Charles Ray and Marjorie Maurice in "The Deuce of Spades." (First National) RUTH ROLAND IN THE TIMBER QUEEN (PATHE) With the many substantial and interesting phases being brought into present day chapter-plays it looks as if the serial is destined to occupy a new and more integral part of the program, and demand a wider consideration than has been accorded it in the past. In "The Timber Queen" Pathe offers another chapter picture of the new order that readily merits consideration of those who have been inclined to pass up this type of entertainment. Starring the pretty Ruth Roland "The Timber Queen" is an interesting story of the great timber industry into which has been woven elements of daring, suspense and intrigue. There is continuity and a logical reason for the action that takes place, a fact which in itself distinguishes it from the old style chapterplay. The big forests and the business of cutting and shipping lumber which fit into the scheme of things are good educational atmosphere. The first three episodes of "The Timber Queen" indicate that it has much material for an interest absorbing story in the surroundings in which it is laid. The story deals with the workings of a San Francisco trust which is attempting to secure control of the land which Ruth Roland is to inherit on her twenty-first birthday. The will of her grandfather provides that unless she is married by that time the land will revert to her second cousin James Cluxton, who is acting as a tool of the trust in an effort to obtain the land. In the supporting cast are Bruce Gordon, Val Paul, Frank Lackleen and Leo Willis. Fred Jackman directed the production under the supervision of Hal Roach.