Motion Picture News (Sept-Oct 1916)

2058 MOTION PICTURE NEWS Vol. 14. No. 13 and she agrees. Out west, however, she soon tires of the sameness of her existence and during the roundup she deserts him. Repenting her action when she gets half way to the city, she writes asking him to forgive her. He never receives the letter as it is lost in the mails. Back in the city she takes the easiest way out of all her troubles and lives illegally with a wealthy society man. On learning of his marriage she makes public his true character. Later she goes back to the cabaret as scrub woman and here her husband finds her, taking her again to the west, where she dies. Miss Farley in the role of Masie gets in some excellent acting, although when it comes to looking pretty it must be confessed she can not rank with the average motion picture actress. William Conklin plays her father while others in the cast are Mrs. Farley, Beatrice Van and Frank Newburg. Mr. Hamilton's direction is adequate in proportion to the material he worked with. In the matter of detail his work is excellent. The settings are fair and the camera work good. Distinctly for the masses, " Inherited Passions " would create an even stronger impression providing some of the footage were eliminated. As a five reeler we would have no hesitation in recommending it as excellent entertainment for the class of people for which it was produced. « THE RETURN OF ' DRAW ' EAGAN " (Triangle-Ince — Five Reels) REVIEWED BY PETER MILNE <<'~r'HE Return of 'Draw' Eagan " is the return of William S. A Hart to the picture of all the wild and woolly west. Again he is the bad man who turns good because of a girl, again does he prove his prowess with his fists and his two six shooters. In fact the picture sets Mr. Hart ofT to his best advantage and Mr. Hart rises to meet every situation offered him with the fascinating ease for which he is famous. Though it is a Western and though it contains some situations of familiar character, the story by C. Gardner Sullivan is original as a whole, while the treatment accorded it by author and director is of the best sort. In the story there is plenty of suspense and plenty of thrills and the production sets forth some realistic pictures of western life in the rough. Next to " The Patriot " it is the best thing Mr. Hart has done in a long time. Eagan at Yellow Dog " Draw " Eagan is a bandit with a price on his head and when the picture opens he is obliged to disperse his band and hide for a time. When he shows himself again it is in Muscatine. Here he displays such fearlessness in resisting the town terror, that he attracts the attention of the leading citizen of Yellow Dog, a neighboring settlement. The citizen requests that he come to Yellow Dog and act as town marshal, and subdue some of the more rambunctious inhabitants of the place. Eagan consents and quickly brings the town of Yellow Dog to order. Then there is his romance with the daughter of the leading citizen, his realization that his past life makes him unworthy of her. Then there reappears on the horizon Arizona Joe, a member of his old band. Joe by threatening to tell of Eagan's past, has the run of the town until the leading citizen complains. At last Eagan decides to face the music and give up the girl. Joe tells of his past and is promptly sent to his hereafter by the marshal. The girl is heartbroken, but even her hero's past is not sufficient to eclipse her love for him and so they live happily ever after. Opposite Mr. Hart appears Margery Wilson. Miss Wilson and her brown eyes reform the bad man and it's no wonder — with one look she could convert the worst of them all. She it was who appeared as Brown Eyes in " Intolerance " and we hope she will appear many times again. Robert McKim is again the villain as Arizona Joe, Louise Glaum has her familiar role of a dance hall girl, while J. P. Lockney is the leading citizen. " MANHATT.\N MADNESS" (Triangle-Fine Arts — Five Reels) REVIEWED BY PETER MILNE DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS in another winner. Which short statement ought to suffice for a review of " Manhattan Madness." In fact it is, but merely because such a small collection of words might be lost in the shuffle it remains for more to be written. We can tell you that Douglas Fairbanks has the sunniest and most contagious personality that ever flickered across the screen. In the Mysterious House that as an all-around athlete Douglas Fairbanks puts Jim Thorpe way back stage, that Douglas Fairbanks is the best actor of the silent drama, that the Fine Arts producers know just how to present Douglas Fairbanks to the public : but then we can also tell you that water is usually wet. that babies aren't given a diet of absinthe, that the picture business is beyond it^jnfancy. and a lot of other things that you know as well as we dg? The tiling is that Douglas Fairbanks in " Manhattan Madness "^s a winner, as we remarked before. This time the star appears as a westerner with a college education, who pooh poohs New York because it is slow. His friends after hearing their great and more or less honorable city belittled