Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

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But he too becomes victim to Connie's wiles and a wedding takes place which is perfectly satisfactory to all concerned, because Connie belonged in Burke's peerage. WHAT EVERY WOMAN LEARNS — FAMOUS PLAYERS When husband-director Fred Niblo transplanted wifey Enid Bennett from her namby-pamby, sugar bonbon roles into the wearisome way of an emotional actress, he knew what he was doing. Enid was too cloyingly sweet as an ingenue to be wholly palatable. In her last two releases Miss Bennett has shown an increased depth that is at the same time womanly and winning. The only objectionable part about her present picture is its title. This is a cheap and maudlin appeal to those who wish sensation with their movie meals. The story is one of married life. As is ofttimes the case, a young girl chooses from deceptive appearances, only to find out the real character of her husband — too late. Here he is shown as a drunken bully who seeks to cause her endless trouble and whom she finally murders. The trial scene fails to make clear just how the court exonerated her for the crime — but it does, and with her second chance she chooses the right man. THE GOLDEN SHOWER — VITAGRAPH Gladys Leslie is herself a golden ray on the silversheet. She needs only two things : first, good stories, and second, to patronize a fashionable modiste. The first three reels of "The Golden Shower" are admirably worked out. We have the little girl who wants to make good in New York and yet stay good — pursued by an unscrupulous roue. She is capable of taking care of herself, however, and escapes all his traps, which so enrages him that with his dying breath he signs all his fortune to her, knowing she will be accused of being his sweetheart by a suspicious world. So far SO' good, then "blooy!" goes ihe carefully wrought fabric. In stalks chance and all the donebefore situations. No one will believe in the girl's innocence ; she is shunned by all until, under an assumed name, she meets the roue's son. They fall in love with each other, but she refuses to marry him until he believes in the innocence of the girl who he thinks is responsible for his father's ruin. When he discovers her identity with the girl he loves he is horror-stricken and repulses her in true movie fashion. But at length he is brought to believe in her innocence. Gladys Leslie is charming in the leading role. The rest of the cast is sufficient. LUCK IN PAWN — FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY Strenuous efforts are being provided to make Marguerite Clark's picture path continue to be a lane of roses. "Luck in Pawn" is a pleasant fluff-ball of a movie all about a girl who dreams of fame, but wakes up hungry. Fate leads her to a hotel, where a rich young man prompt^ falls in love with her — and that's practically the end of the tale. Miss Clark does not make the most of herself by any means. Has she become indifferent to her screenic honors? We wonder. HAWTHORNE OF THE U. S. A. — FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY If there is any one to dispute the fact that Wallace Raid is the most dashing and the handsomest man on the screen today, I advise him, or more likely her, to go to see "Hawthorne of the U. S. A." and be convinced of the error of his — or her — ways. Never has Wally screened to better advantage, never has he been more full of pep and life and irresistible good spirits (prohibition variety) than in this sunshine comedydrama. His role is that of a young American who falls in love with the princess of a small sovereignty, and who, with characteristic vigor, proceeds to turn the whole kingdom topsy-turvy . . . and win the royal lady in the final reel. Lila Lee as_ the princess reminded me of a little girl playing grown-up. She is too immature to wear trains as yet. Charming she is and essentially youthful — but not queenly. "Hawthorne of the U. S. A." is one of the finest pictures of the month. THE HEART o' THE HILLS — FIRST NATIONAL "Heart o' the Hills" is worth while viewing if for no other reason than to see Mary Pickf ord in her young-lady riding costume for about three minutes in the fourth reel. Here we have the incomparable Pickford in a momentarily grownup young-lady mood of such sweetness, dignity and quaint womanliness that we cannot but look forward to the time when she will lay aside her little-girl roles and give us some real young lady characterizations. There is a great field ahead for America's sweetheart. For the rest, "Heart o' the Hills" is a typical Kentucky mountain story, with Mary portraying a precocious, headstrong, fearless and lovable mountain child. Lowe — And Behold! {Continued from page 95) of success. In the first place he has quite a breath-taking physical vitality and push and go, which are of inestimable worth. Then, too, he has what the radicals might term the rationalistic viewpoint. He believes, for instance, in the God of our Fathers and in the life hereafter. I dont know that he goes quite so far as to credit the golden streets and the harps and all the other interior decorating, but he does affirm that we will live again and he reasons about it, which is more. "You cant see my thought," said Mr. Lowe, "yet it is here. You cant give me, tangibly, your thought, yet you have it, and I, perforce, must believe that you have it. This same thing, in a larger sense, is true of our inner selves. They will go on. They will persist. They cannot die, because they are indestructible." He says, "Why be a skeptic?" And at cynicism he laughs. He believes in marriage because of children, and since, he says, marriage was ordained for the purpose of children, the question is self-answered. He believes that the secret of happy living is to be found in balanced living, in the old orders and the old beliefs; in, more than all else, never going against Nature and her laws. He is a constructive sort of person, and, in applying the laws of construction, he, himself, as an individual, w'll not be eliminated. LAG£