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Across the Silversheet
In Which the New Photoplays Are Considered By ADELE WHITELT FLETCHER
WE ARE encouraged this month. F«r we have seen two motion pictures which we know to be Ear and away better than they would have been it they had been produced a year or two ago. In truth, the motion picture advances.
First to consider "The Covered Wagon."
This is an elemental story of a prairie train in which the covered wagonmove slowly westward ; across the plains . . . over the mountains . . . thru the snows . . . into the desert . . . ever westward. This is a story in itself. The most chronic phlegm will disappear when the wagons and the cattle ford the deep stream ; when the Indians strike from ambush ; and when there is a buffalo hunt to supplant the scraped flour barrels.
And there is another story too. Those comprising the train are human people. They know desire, greed and jealousy. But they also know in a
As Charles \hhott in The Bright Shawl, Richard Barthelmess gives a portrayal mingled with poetry and vitality. The production itself we remember with pleasure. . . . There has been talk of The Covered Wagon being as great as The Birth of a Nation. We give it [ess praise than that but we do recommend it heartily
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balancing measure courage, love and dreams. Out of their despair and alternate hope, complications are born. And the old captain finds these complication^ threatening their pioneer purpose in as great a degree as any physical dangers lames Cruze, the director, has blended these two stories nicely. And because he knew bis story was a fundamental one he dispensed with delicacies, camouflage and super ficialties with the result that he has given us a flash of the quick of life. Only one issue in criticism of James Cruze and that is the spotless wagon covers at the end of the journey. They should have been torn and soiled. Instead ( Continued on page 104 i
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