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N a z i m ova's "Red Lantern" (Metro) is a stupendous production
Across the
By HAZEL
William S. Hart gives a splendid, big, sweeping characterization in "The Poppy Girl's Husband" (Artcraft)
repetition. It is a straight-running tale of a cabaret girl, Gloria Swann, who, at the very moment when she could attain all the luxuries she longs for by marrying a wealthy man, falls in love with a young Canadian soldier who has been blinded. Her gentle, mothering heart senses his great need of her and she sacrifices everything to marry him and help him win success as a songwriter. Just that and nothing more. As Gloria Swann, Elsie Ferguson gives a wonderfully human and understanding performance. One can almost feel her great, enveloping, mothering love for the blind soldier, a love which neither regrets nor looks back, but goes straight ahead to its goal, the helping of the loved one. Almost overtopping the performance of the star is that of Wyndham Standing as Larry, the blind soldier. His is one of the great characterizations of the year. Emile Chautard, the director, has evolved a sensible, hopeful picture which goes straightforwardly to a logical conclusion. "Eyes of the Soul" has no forced situations, nor sensational clap-trap, no sexual appeal, nor glucose ending. It offers, however, hope to the thousands of mangled returning soldiers and an incentive to be true to one's better self.
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PARAMOUNT
Strangely enough, the other notably fine picture of the month is similar in story, if not
"Three Men and a Girl" (Paramount) is the most charming Marguerite Clark play seen in months
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IT has long been a secret theory of mine that the producers of motion pictures underestimate their audiences. Long have I said to myself, "If only manufacturers would give the people credit for a little imagination and for a little depth." Teach people to think has been one of my cherished ambitions for pictures. I stand abashed. A terrifying doubt has entered my mind. I have seen a nearly perfect picture. A picture with a human, clean story, with a star who has generously handed several of the great scenes to another, because the plot called for it, and a picture
which has been carried to a logical, human, realistic conclusion as in the original story — and— as I stuffed my dampened handkerchief into my pocket and blundered out of the theater, I heard a woman say, "I cant see any reason they couldn't have had his eyes operated on and had a happy ending." While a man muttered crossly, "The rottenest picture I ever saw." Is it then a fact, that the public wants only syrupy or sensational pictures, or are these two benighted persons the exception to the rule and will the majority of the public appreciate the consistent fineness of "Eyes of the Soul" ?
"Eyes of the Soul" is an Artcraft production starring Elsie Ferguson. Undoubtedly you are all familiar with the story which appeared in fiction form in last month's Magazine. However, the plain little plot will bear
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