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About Nextf Productions
abused woman. And because of the Graustarkian character of the story, it doesn't carry the ring of conviction. Too much stress has been laid upon the happy ending — and the effort to achieve it becomes tedious.
It tells of a princess forced into a marriage with a king of a neighboring principality. She is, however, in love with a captain and had previously been married to him by a gypsy ceremony. A little child shall lead them — that's the pattern to conclude the tale. And these final scenes offer some melodrama. It is all very obvious. But it is well mounted.
The Alaskan
Louise Dresser, Virginia Corbin, and
Ricardo Cortez in The City That
Never Sleeps
Renee Adoree is a fascinating senorita in The Bandolero
"VTou will not find Thomas Meighan "at home" in this ■*■ picture. What's wrong with it? Well, Tom is out of place in an old-time Bill Hart melodrama. It's very much blood-and-thunder — with virtue and villainy painted in extremely vivid colors. And it concerns an Alaskan fighting the cause of the homesteaders against those irrepressible "big interests." Then he protects the girl in scenes of hackneyed hokum.
Meighan misses Tom Geraghty and Al Green, his former scenarist and director. They fashioned human pieces for him. He tries his best to be convincing here — but the plot is against him. And Estelle Taylor, as the girl, emotionalizes her role far more than the importance of its demands. Look to the backgrounds and photography— the redeeming features.
Tarnish
Viola Dana is her clever, impudent self in The Beauty Prize /^ilbert Emery's forceful drama, which was a highly ^^ successful Broadway play of last season, comes to the screen with all its essential features. It is an excellent job on the part of George Fitzmaurice who, in taking Frances Marion's well-constructed script, has brought forth all the force and logic of the original. Particularly skilful in the manner in which he has established its poignant drama — and yet he has not sacrificed its humor and humanities.
The theme woven around the idea that most men are tarnished of character — that the best solution for a woman in love is to accept one who cleans easil y — i s easily understood — and as played here by a clever cast comprising Marie Prevost, Albert Gran, May McAvoy and Ronald {Continued on page 84) ^"^«SPB ^^■"~ Mary Philbin plays the title-role in The Rose of Paris
In Oh, You Tony! Tom Mix burlesques a Westerner acquiring culture
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