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SQUANDERED LIVES
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"Squandered Lives"
Stoll Film Corporation's First Offering a
Screen Version of Cosmo Hamilton's
"Duke's Son" in Six Reels
Reviewed by Epes W. Sargeant
Interesting', from many angles, is the first •offering of the Stoll Film Corporation, which is about to enter the American market with a weekly release. This is the first endeavor of the British producers to make a regular release since the days when Pathe, Urban and Gaumont were ■components of the old Motion Picture Patents Company, and the ffrst offering naturally interests quite apart from its entertainment value.
In point of acting, the production compares very favorably with the work of the American companies. Ivy Duke, the starred player, and Guy Newall, her featured support, are but two of a cast of unusual excellence. Hugh C. Buckler and C. Lawford Davidson 'also show prominently and the lesser members of the cast are all competent. They are good judges of tempo, are excellent in the pantomimic registration of their thoughts and they look the parts they play.
Technically the production shows, imoex;
fectiOns of lighting and some of the settings are cramped, though others, apart from the lack of illumination, will compare very favorably with* the best in cinematographic architecture, notably the ball room scenes near the close of the picture and the earlier hallway of an old castle at which the players are guests. In the matter of exteriors a different story may be told, for there is a fine country seat and some shots of a Thames houseboat wijh a natural background of unusual beauty.
The story is primarily propaganda for and a defense of the younger sons of titled families. This is a matter which does not concern American audiences, but the natural narrative value of the story, ai Art from this propaganda, is decidedly good and the sincerity of the players adds interest apart from the work of the author. There are one or two uncovered time jumps, but the continuity is kept well in hand, and the interest sustained past the climax. If succeeding subjects are equal in value to the first offering, the long-threatened English invasion should become a successful fact; not that the presentation equals in all re* spects the best of our native work, but because it stands up well and offers variety in stars and treatment.
STOLL FILM CORPORATION OF AMERICA
GEORGE KING President
150 Vest Forty-sixth Street NYC.
DISTRIBUTED BY PATHE