Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1926)

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, Davies in "Lights of Jack Mulhall, Cori nne Griffith Old Br< >adway" Crane in '•Classified ley and Rudolph "The Eagle others is excellent, but more than excellent as turned in by the Gilbert-Adoree combination. The second part of the picture presents the war flavor — and how eloquent it all is — how terrifying, how moving, how thrilling ! The lumbering lorries, the zero hour, the individual deeds of heroism, the breaking out of a hellish war in all its fury. A magnificent picture, vivid and compelling — one striking deep at the emotions and touching all the humanities. King Vidor has made a masterpiece. It has been a labor of love and entJiusiasm — evident in the honesty of its humor and pathos. And tlic colorful realism of if all. — Metro-Goldwyn. Stella Dallas — Di ama ""There have I 1 on the screen >een grt idt mofha '-l<n •c pi •tares recorded , but no ue can coi npai ■c to "Stella Dallas." -which comes to us on a tidal wo of maternal passion. It is tender— it i be described as s poigm a flesh int — it is 1 beat itiful, . It might best and-blood pi C t u r e >, heart which tugs at tin strings with a i tremen I^Rl w^5 dons urge. Inyone endowed with half o ■iLiI heart cannot h dp ■ re sponding to it. ? story -end the appeal of its the King this nett, > mother. your Ik ache in vulgar and tin uple. etiquette or deportment 1. It fairly wrings ng to cope" with the woman, one who is ho is pure gold thru husband who is the oise. He leaves her 1 who has inherited n when this mother, -and ignorant of what constitutes good taste in dress — is humbled with the knowledge that her daughter is "ashamed of her. She tries to hide her shame, but the girl's keen intuition discovers the sham. This is all expressed with tremendous heart appeal. These poignant touches sound the biggest note of pathos ever recorded in the annals of screen production. And Belle Bennett gives a performance which is an achievement of mute suffering. Sh.c sniilcs thru her tears, but her heart is broken. Hers is a portrait which wins the highest praise that can be bestowed upon sheer artistic pantomime. Her work is marvelously real. You smile and cry with her. The other players are good — but as good as they are. Miss Bennett dwarfs their ; By all means see this magnificently touching picture. It carries a mighty heart-beat. All hail to Henry King for his honesty and sympathy and understanding. There is -lory for him — there is glory for all who worked with, him to make this an achievement in screen art. — Goldwyn-L'nited Artists. The Eagle— Romf^a ■WALEXTIXO * (7 A' in his latest romantic tn re has color and person looks more white h desert that /w ley Mason in "Lord Jim" Valentino does not distinguish himself here, n that matter does anyone identified with the picture Louise Dresser as Catherine the drear. Tl . much to the "comic opera" in desigi tion — in that the young Cossack lieutenant spurns the royal lady and masquerades as a bandit to escape herv^ath. Then he proceeds to fall in love with the daugh -T .lj *' a land baron who had been the nemesis in his father"*)} \*~ The characters dont come to life at all a^S<(n< plunges along in blind fashion without a