Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

arasr ^4. interesting photoplays I have :'een . . . but, apart from its artistic, :nic and photographic beauty and his ical interest I did not think "Woman" r to women in general. It showed men in only their worse lights and in re or less amiable moods. Take for tance the Civil War episode — it showed e consequences of a woman's whim. it Mr. Tourneur seems to have for tten that a woman saved France — anne d'Arc! Aside from this, America i,.ts her noble and heroic women — not well acquainted with American history, I hold the remembrance of Betsy Ross and other women. The Roman episode, the story of Mes alina's orgies, was only too true. Had t not been for its pleasure and luxury oving women Rome might have remained he mighty empire she was, but it must lso be borne in mind that Rome was uade great by the sacrifices of her wom m. I One of the least known, perhaps, and! yet most admirable women of Rome wast Lucretia, daughter of the prefect of Rome, who, on being dishonored thru no fault of her own, killed herself rather than live to be a bad example to other .vomen. Many, perhaps, will disagree with me, tut I do not think that the war has betered women. To my mind it has only rought out their good qualities and oved what they could do. In fact, jias given them the chance to show liselves in their true light. f women have not appeared as a geni rule in history it must be remembered it it is because theirs is the task of ilding the nation. They must rear •ir children in the paths of duty and nor and it will be a sad day indeed len the wives and mothers of the n-ld give their place to others that v may achieve fame. It is to be hoped fcMonsieur Tourneur will give us an■ "Woman" composed of her good \^ and the stories of real women. ,th every best wish to your delightand popular Magazine and Classic. Yours very sincerely, Alma Patricia Thompson. 7 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, Australia. rhy the snowbound cinema Can ■m* Editor: — Here we are to say our t' We're just filled with indignation time we see an American misrepretion of Canada in the pictures, we are inclined to believe the pho'hers get their scenery in Greenland land. In movie scenes of Canada is always the Border. Lawless _Sj murderers, smugglers and whisdealers in the stories must have a ier to escape from the North West mted Police! Mounted Police are only good thing credited Canada and i ride thru snows, yards deep, chasing ains. Both of us were born here *en years ago and we've seldom seen more than two feet deep. Of se, there are drifts, but they are iing like the snow-mountains the ies picture them. "A Daughter of the Wolf," feaLila Lee, it took one day to cross rder from cold, bleak, snow='. Canada (Bur-r-r-r-), in dog teams, ^summery city in the United States, -by the way, we've never seen a real, i^g-team or an Eskimo as yet. --best Canadian scenery we ever saw The Heart of Humanity," for which truly grateful. But the people dressed in old-fashioned clothes — {Continued on page 14) MfS!£i*P> "four Last Chance lo Oet Jack London Free Finish These Stories For Yourself Judge ! W When you sent me up for four years, you called me a rattlesnake. Maybe I am one — anyhow you hear me rattling now. One year after I got to the pea, my daughter died of — well, they said it was poverty and the disgrace together. You've got a daughter. Judge, and I am going to make you know how it feels to lose one. I'm free now, and I guess I've turned to rattlesnake all right. Look out when I strike. Yours respectfully. Rattlesnake. This is the beginning of one of the stories by O. HENRY. "A Thief— She?" 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