Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

CM OTlON PICTUR ft t Across the Silversheet (Continued from, page 751 may be due. a great deal, to the dextrous handling Lewis Stone gives to a dual role. Marjory Daw is joyously pretty and youthful, while Jane Novak is femininely jiieasing as always. The story of the Canadian Northwest is well known to most of you. Marshall Xeilan has chosen his snow locations with a keen and clever eye. WHY CHANGE VOIR WIFE ?— .PARAMOUNT Cecil B. de Mi'' might be called the apostle oi dcr esticity. Surely no married couple would come to grief who heeded his lessons. De Mille has an uncanny understanding of man and woman and he weaves this sex knowledge into silken photoplays that not only appeal optically but remain in the mind later on. In "Why Change Your Wife?'* he preaches a sermon to young wives who do not try to keep themselves youthful and appealing to their husbands. Once. I might have considered the fight between wife number one and wife number two --rerated. . . but women are queer animals after all and I think perhaps De Mille understands them better than I do. Gloria Swanson is certainly his finest bit oi clay. She reflects his messages better than any mirror. Bebe Daniels is satisfactory but at a disadvantage compared to the glorious Gloria. Gloria Swanson is as refined and as rich as the almost unprocurable attar of r>>>es. Tom Meighan is more handsome than ever as the man who discovers that wives will be wives. riKTO — GOLtiWYX Recently I have had no active desire to view Mabel Xormand pictures until the other evening a couple of rabid Xormand fans dragged me to see "Pinto." I found a bewitching Mabel with eyes that sparkled more brilliantly than ever and a whole score of enticing tricks. She takes the part of a Western girl who knows nothing of women or Eastern culture and her uptakes when she is transplanted to New York form the basis for some very clever comedy situations. Mabel and Cullen Landis enact some extremely charming leve-scenes and the whole picture sen<_lone home in a pleased and happy state of mind. A WOMAN OF PLF.ASL-RE— PATHE Altho this is a typical English melodrama with the usual terribly terrible villain, and the horribly heroic hero. I never interest in it from beginning to end. Blanche Sweet portrays a poverty-stricken English girl who comes upon a rich man's secret by mistake. In order to silence her, for a wife may not testify st her husband, he marrie> her. lii order to procure luxuries for her invalid father and herself she marries him. Then comes their forced trip to South Africa t>> quell a rebellion, the ultimate rescue of Blanche by the hero, and the death of her husband. The Zulu warfare was woi fully well staged. Blanche Sweet fragilely lovely thruout and gowned in exquisite taste. Wheeler Oakmati supplied the necessary masculine element with all his former zest Wilfred Lucas the horrible husband. THF. AMATEUR WIFF.— PARAMOUNT This is an example, in my mind, of a film that should never have been relc Irene Castle is completely miscast She • meant to be an ugly, demure duckling. Her greatest as:et is her ability to j'S<«■*.<.<..<■<<: ^^<k^<V<^ L E A D E II. S H LEADERSHI CAN ONLY Q.UALITY P IN ANYTHING BE GAINED BY MAINTAIN E D REGARDLESS OF MARKET CONDITIONS OR. COSTS , TH E QUALITY OF B VD' UNDERWEAR IS UNBUDOINGLY UPHELD NO UNDERWEAR. IS BV-DAXTTHOUT THIS RED WOVEN LABEL MADE FOR THE B.VD. TH E BEST RETAIL TRADE ITrodi ,Vj'* P. 3 US Aj( 0$ and fwtfffl Cbknlrial BVD COMPANY NEW VOFLK vjy< ^■-;>>>>>^>>>'>>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^j^^a^^^^^^^a^^^5i^l i Be a 60NGAVRITER. f ^buL^Vrite the words and I will compose the mn <sic ondcfuararLteepuHica. tion. AmorwC my cfreat hits is •••• DESl3lTI?AND • ••• c/ubmit poems today on. , any subject. <J ETHWELL HANSOM 38IO BROADWAY, R »%♦• CHICAGO, USA . A ^1 § <vg&. M<; ,■-»