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Laurence Reid
Reviews
THE New Photoplays
the vicious admirer attempts to force his attentions on the girl, she kills him.
This is "The Wind" as it's revealed in this drama. And it's too morbid to attract any untoward interest from fans desirous of being entertained. Miss Gish acts with first-rate emotion, but her big moments lack the intensity of feeling of some of her earlier pictures. Lars Hanson is very excellent as a son of the soil. And the others are competent enough. The production is a quality one, the settings being authentic, the atmosphere ringing true. But the story is driven home with heavy blows — there being insufficient shading to vary the drab monotony of the plot.
Pep and Ginger
P. McEVOY'S "Show Girl" looms up on the screen as a fair-to, middlin' character study. It reveals a wise-cracking chorus girl
who knows her stuff. She knows
how to interest sugar daddies and
young fellows who are barely
able to make cigarette
money. The original is
an episodic yarn — a
IT'S a morbid story — this "Wind" which brings Lillian Gish back to the screen after a fairly lengthy absence. And it's a story which cannot be called very entertaining since it tells nothing but a sordid story of domestic conflict without revealing much of spiritual value. Apparently, the idea exploits the reactions to a life on the prairies of a sensitive young girl unfamiliar with the drama of the soil and the hardships accompanying it.
So the story follows a single-track line of action. The desolate, windswept prairies furnish the background, and the characters of this drama are as devastating in their make-up as the whirling sands and the bleak atmosphere. It may be life at that, but it lacks human, sympathetic understanding.
Stress and Storm
IT is Lillian Gish's privilege to remain in a constant state of fright at being brought up so sharply against such contrasts in her life. She has come from Virginia, bound for her cousin's ranch. Once established there, she innocently precipitates a marital conflict through the jealousy aroused by her cousin's wife — and the fondness of the children for the sensitive visitor. Forced to leave the ranch, she accepts refuge from an admirer whose conduct belies the earlier impression she had gained of him.
There is real conflict as another admirer tries to force his attention upon her. Meanwhile, the prairie winds and sand are keeping pace with the storms raging in the hearts of the characters. When
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At the top are Gilbert Roland and Norma Talmadge in a scene from "The Woman Disputed. " At the left, Lillian Gish, Montague Love and Lars Hanson enact a tense moment from "The Wind." Below, Alice White and Charles Delaney talk it over in "Show Girl"