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By HAZEL
PERSONAL opinion is a peculiar sentiment. Very few of us think precisely the same and yet oftentimes we are such cowards that we dare not tell the other fellow we dont agree with him. Often we smile and smirk and accept our friends' opinions as our own just that we may not be judged queer.
It is the fad at present for the various film critics to approve of all that certain top-notch players, directors and companies create. They lavish colorful adjectives each month with a fulsome pen. I have my own private opinion that an actor who can do no wrong is at a frightful stage of the game. Think of the utter boredom of never having to exert one's self to better one's work. Imagine how little incentive there would be to live, to do, if everything one did was rated perfect. If a great actor fails to make me feel with him, be glad with him, sorrowful with him, then he has failed, in my opinion, '• „t as much, nay
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Top, Thomas Meighan and Gloria Swanson in "Why Change Your Wife?'' Paramount; center, Harold Lloyd in, the Pathe comedy "From Hand to Mouth," and bottom, Eugene O'Brien in "T he Broken Melody," Selznick
r? /er won laurel wreaths galore. And so I found
HEARTSTRINGS — FOX
" a complete failure so far as the story or the work of William Farnum were concerned. ''Heartstrings" tells the story of a violinist who sacrifices everything to make his sister happy. Thru five reels we watch him wade in mock sentimentality. He believes in turning the other cheek not only once but forty and nine times that his sister's betrayer may smite him on the other. Farnum has done virile, manly work on the screen. This servile picture that he presents is neither becoming nor a good work. His meek and lowly spirit was not admirable ; it was irritating. He could have finished the whole picture beautifully and satisfactorily by smashing his sister's betrayer's face in the first reel . . . but then there would have been no picture — would there ?
THE BROKEN MELODY — SELZNICK
Here, on the other hand, while Eugene O'Brien has very little better material to work with than every other star has had at some time or other, he makes "The Broken Melody'' such a realistic thing, such a human picture that it holds one as would the life history of some dear friend. The tale deals with two young lovers,