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Barbara LaMarr
Read the First Newspaper Review!
—you'll get just as enthusiastic when you see the picture—
THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1923,
GoWwyn's production of Rupert Hughes's own screen adaptation of his novel "Souls for Sale," as shown for the first time semj -publicly at the Capitol Theatre this morning, is, in our estimation, the greatest audience picture we ever saw. And by that we mean that, from our point of view, "Souls for Sale" has every element in it that will attract and hold an audience.
At the present time we know of no film subject that could be one-eighth as interesting as films themselves. Every one, or practically every one, talks of Hollywood at least once every day, and in "Souls for Sale" Hollywood is made to stick out its tongue, open wide its maw and say "Ah," while the audience feels the Hollywood pulse and takes its temperature, ... _.
Evidently Rupert Hughes, an impetuous sort of chap, grew rather weary of hearing: his cherished locality referred to as though it was prancing about on cloven hoofs and che-wlng Roman candles and set himself » out to set Hdllywood right in the eyes of the doubting ones. And whether Hollywood life and happenings as depicted in "Souls for Sale" are the life and happenings of the real Hollywood is a secondary consideration, for Major Hughes has given the Bcreen a masterpiece and is unfolding a story as gripping and as real, as logical and as thrilling, as any film we have seen.
Although there are no stars flaunted in big typed flourishes on the advertising of the Dicture, "Souls for Sale" probably shows more real stars than, any other film on record save the
news reel showing the annual meeting' of the Screen Actors' Guild at a barbectie. In fact, the beholder Is led right up to many of the big California studios and allowed to pet the "animals" to his heart's content.
And besides showing us the mainspring and what makes the cuckoo coo, Major Hughes has given us a story that is Interesting from the moment Eleanor Boardman. as the sadfaced heroine, jumps from a transcontinental express in the middle of the Great American desert in order to escape a man she had been tricked into marrying, until the film ends in complete destruction by Are and tornado of a circus as big as P. T. Barnum ever dreamed of.
The cast?. See "Who's Who In Hollywood;" and even then you'll a few who appear.
DON ALLEN in The N Y Evening World
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ELEANOR ^ BOARDMAN
FRANK MAYO MAE BUSCH RICHARD DIX LEW CODY BARBARA LA MARR
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