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Silversheet
SIMPSON NAYLOR
"The Test of Honor" (Paramount) shows the same John Barrymore as did the stage "R e demption"
in spirit to ''Eyes of the Soul." This time' we meet Daisy Heath, a chorus-girl, about to buy a silken existence by marrying a rich man she doesn't love. Private Pettigrew, with no sweetheart nor home to boast of, buys her photograph ; a chance meeting at the theater, followed by an ice-cream treat, is the beginning of their love affair. Daisy unconsciously compares her happiness while having a plain soda with the boy she loves to a lobster dinner with the man she doesn't, and finds that the scales of enjoyment weigh heavy on love's side. So that when Private Pettigrew comes back from over there, he finds her waiting for him. Ethel Clayton plays Daisy Heath vividly. While Elsie Ferguson is subtly, finely appealing as Gloria Swann, Ethel Clayton is vividly, buoyantly, wholesomely fascinating as Daisy Heath. Miss Clayton's chorus-girl is a healthy, beautiful American girl, and will undoubtedly meet with more popularity than Miss Ferguson's sensitive, highly keyed cabaret girl. Both are great performances, and both leave poignant inspirational messages. Monte Blue plays Pettigrew with just the right gradations of sadness, awe and American pluck. Charles Gerard is also in tempo as the wealthy suitor who, thanks be, does not turn out to be a conventional villain.
THREE MEN
AND A GIRL
PARAMOUNT
We are indebted to Marshall Neilan for
May Allison is the one bright spot in "The Island of Intrigue" (Metro)
Mary Pickf ord i s wholesomely pleasing in "Captain Kidd, Jr." (Artcraft)
waving the fairy wand of his keen-sighted directorship over Marguerite Clark. In my opinion, Paramount directors have been careless of little Miss Clark. They knew she was popular, pretty and talented, consequently they allowed her to bear the whole brunt of the production. No star can swim successfully against the dragging undertow of poor photography, weak stories or mangled books. Mickey Neilan has taken hold and given Marguerite just what she needed, careful handling of the lamps and camera, with the result that she photographs with all her old-time charm, which is further aided by Mickey's keen working out of a fascinating story. The plot concerns three growly club men, who professedly hate women and hire a country house to escape seeing any of the weaker sex. To this very place comes Marguerite, having fled from her wedding to a man she hates. The charm of the story rests in the delicious humor of the three men trying to resist the little lady's charm, while each one slowly but surely falls in love with her. Richard Barthelmess and Percy Marmont put real feeling into their woman-hating roles, while Jerome Patrick is conventionally passable as the third disgruntled male.
CAPTAIN KIDD, JR. — ARTCRAFT
I always find that Mary Pickford possesses a certain healthy humanness n
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