The Film Daily (1918)

Sunday, November 17, 1918 js&ijA DAILY 13 Star Delightful In Appealing, Human Romance That Registers Alice Joyce in "EVERYBODY'S GIRL" Vitagraph DIRECTOR Tom Terriss AUTHOR i O. Henry SCENARIO BY A. Van Buren Powell CAMERAMAN Robert Stuart AS A WHOLE. .Slender plot made delightful by pleasing players and direction that kept it human and provided excellent comedy touches. STORY Kept you interested all the way because it was decidedly human and entertaining. DIRECTION. . . .Made characters seem real and got the most out of every situation with many excel= lent touches registered. Comedy bits were great. PHOTOGRAPHY Routine; lacked definition LIGHTINGS. . .Generally too uniform with many scenes too contrasty; made faces appear chalky. CAMERA WORK Satisfactory STAR Truly delightful in lighter role than she Las been playing recently; will surely win audi= ences. SUPPORT Excellent; fitted roles perfectly EXTERIORS. . . .Very good; Comedy stuff well handled INTERIORS Very satisfactory DETAIL Many sure=fire bits CHARACTER OF STORY. .Wholesome and entertaining LENGTH OF PRODUCTION About 3500 feet THIS snrely registers as decidedly pleasing entertainment that should go over with a bang anywhere. They have taken several well-known situations in this and built them into a human, delightful romantic offering that makes you feel good all over. Ordinarily, this would have dragged, because there really wasn't enough story material to justify making this into five reels and Director Tom Terriss is certainly to be commended for injecting little touches all through this in a way that made it .carry right along without a dull moment. This started out with the situation of the rich Hero going to Coney Island to get away from his set and business worries and accidentally meeting Sliero, a poor girl from the tenements on an excursion with her girl chum. A romance quickly develops, both finding something in the other that was a delightful change from the people they were accustomed to being with. Later, while on another excursion, Hero proposes but Shero Alice makes a bad break by telling Hero about other fellows she had met, leading him to believe that she was "everybody's girl." At this point, a fire breaks out on the boat and Hero, with the aid of a tough egg whom Alice had once befriended and who had trailed along unnoticed to make sure that Hero didn't "get fresh" with her, succeeded in quelling the panic and rescuing Alice, who had jumped into the water. Feeling that her foolish talk had caused Hero to lose his regard for her, Alice is broken hearted when the tough guy calls and tells her that he will "fix" it. He calls on Hero and they return together just in time to prevent Alice from going through with the w. k. stunt of shooting herself, after which we have the happy finish, the tough guy having in the meantime made good with Alice's girl chum. We had some exceptionally well-worded titles in this, particularly the speech titles given Alice on the boat, getting over the average working girl's idea of a good time and fellows in general. These will hit home with most folks. Percy Standing, as the tough guy, was a great character, and the business at the finish where he proudly displays a wrist watch will surely get a yell from the audience. We had considerable Coney Island stuff in this, some of it taken at night, and while this may be bromide to folks around New York, I am sure it will be welcomed in other places, especially in the smaller towns where they don't have amusement parks. Director Terriss made these scenes effective by dissolving from different amusement devices into Shero's thoughts, she letting herself imagine that she was riding a real horse instead of the wooden one at Coney, and so on with the other devices. The fire scene on the boat was very well handled and the cast was well selected throughout. Walter McGrail was a very pleasing Hero: May Hopkins was very good as Alice's chum, and others were William Carleton, Victor Stewart and Bernard Seigel. f— ■M.F.D.A.. l>ireetifi$ Mabel Normaad Sbr Goldvryn *Pe<*yBadC5il" *APei*fec% 36* AnotheriiiWblSi