Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1919)

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It isn't the plot so much as the personalities of the players that gets this across with a bang. Wally and Ora Carewe make the most of the many amusing situations. "mickey" (goldwyn) An entertaining comedy with Mabel Normand in the lead. Excellently played and photographed. Some of the western scenes were artistic in the extreme and the types and rural characters are excellent. There is something in this play to please everybody. While the story is not very strong, it is done so well and the acting is so fine that the story does not make much difference. It is remarked that this play was started two years ago and was widely advertised at that time. They took about 20,000 feet of film in the making and finally cut it down to 5,000 or 6,000 feet, and there are places where the story does not run quite as smoothly as it might. However, this is all lost sight of in the wonderful atmosphere and cleverness of the character types. Miss Normand is seen in a new role. At first she is a simple rollicking unsophisticated countrygirl ; second, she is dressed up in society clothes ; third, she returns to her former life and fourth she marries her rich sweetheart. There are many fine human types in this play as well as several notable scenes. Miss Normand was once a famous diving girl away back in the old Biograph days, some six or seven years ago, and later in the Keystone comedies. In this play she again shows her shapely form and graceful diving stunts, but alas, at such a distance, that we are not sure that it is Mabel herself. This may be due to modesty on the part of the director or Miss Normand — or it may be due to the fact that Miss Normand was apparently without bathing clothes— being a' poor miner's daughter living in a rough hut. That being the case, the public will probably excuse the director from keeping Miss Normand in the dim and distant background. In our judgment, this play is a winner. J. "a perfect lady" (goldwyn) There is something distinctly human about this tale of a chorus girl who educates her sister in a fashionable boarding school and in the belief that she is a great Shakesperian actress instead of a chorus girl. While on tour, however, her burlesque show is stranded in a narrow little town. Here Madge Kennedy — or rather Lucille Le Jambon — decides to give up the stage and become a perfect lady. But her attempt to earn her living at serving sodas with dancing lessons, shocks the inhabitants and she is denounced. However, the minister comes to her aid and she becomes the "ministress." Madge Kennedy, is a little lady who can be relied upon to inject a certain refinement and delicacy of treatment into whatever theme she is given. In her support Jere Austin and Rod La Rock are interesting. "too fat to fight" (goldwyn) There is a certain distinction about a Rex Beach picture. Here he has taken a war plot, which unfortunately did not reach the public before peace was declared, and shown how the war slowly, but surely, dissolved our littlenesses. His cast is nothing to rave about, but his story holds the interest in spite of the lack of beautiful clothes, girls, scenery or setting. The subtitles are little less than a positive joy. "the hell cat" (goldwyn) In spite of the fact that Geraldine Farrar stages the biggest fight of her career since "Carmen" in this picture, the most important element seems to be that the story lacks vitality. As for Miss Farrar, her gestures are not in keeping with her character. The photoplay abounds in really magnificent western scenery. Tom Santschi does the most virile bit of acting in the piece. "the she-devil" (fox) If one had not previously seen Nazimova in "Revelation" one would undoubtedly admire this play more. The story and general environment of "The SheDevil" constantly remind one of "'Revelation," and Theda Bara not only looks, but acts so much like Nazimova, that we can almost imagine, at times, that the one is the other. We do not wish to insinuate that Fox has copied Metro, that the director took his cue from Mr. Baker, or that Theda Bara tried to imitate Nazimova, for probably none of these suspicions is founded in fact; nevertheless, if Mr. Fox and Miss Bara and their writers and directors had kept just a little farther away from the general scope and scheme of the Metro masterpiece, it would have been wiser and better all around. Nazimova created a type that was absolutely new and unlike any character that she or anybody else had ever done before. Miss Bara's conception of the She-Devil was also unlike any character ever done before by her or by anybody else — except Nazimova. Here Bara depicts every emotion and shade of emotion with fidelity and skill. Her make-up, too, was a decided improvement over some of her earlier performances. Her lips were not as if carved out of ebony, and her facial muscles were more flexible and responsive. The cast was also strong. The story is a romantic one and unfolds entertainingly, and, with the exception of two or three inconsistencies, it is convincing— anything is possible in a province of Spain. But in Paris the big theatrical managers do not draw up and sign contracts quite as quickly as they do in "The She-Devil," nor hand out money quite so lavishly and without counting it. And there is something wrong with the villain — we do not hate him as we should; in fact, we sometimes sympathize with him and not with the She-Devil. The play starts out like a race horse, and keeps speeding up, but it ends like a horse car. Toward the end it begins to look like merely a series of adventures or episodes. J. 112 1AG£