Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1919)

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Very very rarely havexou read Hobart Tienlex With ^ohn 'Superb," says the Billboard. 'A revelation," says The Morning Telegraph. 'A rare treat," says The Trade Review. 'A celluloid epic," says the N. Y. Re 'An achievement,', says the M. P. News 'Of the best chiss," says the M. P. World. f NOVEMBER H, 19 RENT FEATURE FILMS John Morrell Says: ''The Gay Old Puts Hobart Henley in Griffith-Tucker Class of Directors An Absorbing Exposition of a Piece of Real Life, Beautifully anc3 Sympathetically Presented, Is This Picture Made From an Adaptation by Mrs. Sidney Drew of EAna Ferber s Story — John Cumberland Perfectly Em bodies the Leading Character. Dils offtring. Thpy ' r opinion. If audi i.lclur*9 ,hr leaat _Mt of bomba ns wplrome should bp i .Tpprc<latr>l by a long su who boy hi* e>« War — n boy «'ho mlchl have been his boy. And his poignant sorrvw la acute We.^Ilhy he Is. but he cannot buy happlpt^s. Vou Io«k at him sitting In a luJdvnIy dr.ib. And th« yran draj; by tnonotonously. The world la ful; of ! ► CO cut un accept the in ortlturte. Hn' cs. and (hey aic given vonderful expression. The theme Is based upon a promiee O a dying reUtlvc — a |>ronil%e which ihoulJ be brok-n liKhtly .is. It la iprlotjsly TTi.tile. You look upon a mm ? ''ha" ^'n'x*"'! forffii of hi* BUb •V"'t T for (bought. 1 ' urposedly bl; j 'o^'^'rh icoordihg j ' ha PI iltl. who less bc sein it he refraUi from marrylnj slaters -ire uroviJcd for. RoTtxra to him but he t forced hia MstTs aro seir.sh They 1; I'lPiMBSoKsing he is comlook after them until Ihey llme ;icitte must li.ive been his 5ufTerincwhen he reallied that when life did h.iv( Bomeihlng (o offer he had groivr too old to enjoy it. The thought atrik*: home that the dead have no right o\cr the dc^i.nus of th; living He had everyiliinB, but hM elstcn Ifish to pjireciate him. ruckling to & happy endig here. It \«oul<J h.ive s[ llcd (he ■uthfulness. Sd Mr Kenlcy has r*. rated a powerful thought. That's it— picture ivlth a Ihoaeht. He has been iiihluT to lh<; script — the script ol .Mrs. S.dney Drew' v^hlch does not \ary one bit from the original. Ills clOFe r.vphL'ation to detail is emphasUed In more th,Tn one place. The cMtiTines of a begone day, the doeoratlons— these arc representative of that lima. As far as the slory Is concerned ho has* eml>elllahed It with shafts of humor which somewhat ^lleviafe the poignant characterization. Tet the thought remainK. It is .ns fine » pUlure as anything that h.is reached Lnw I has long iia?ecd the mile ' »»'"• i oil] man. a paih»Hc old | allies that f* Joyi of life) rl iiim by, so .hte aricmptfl lo ' Tce~n This" • 'The Mir Mai It John Ct.inber ^'"jo'l'i.V Mof^FT-ET I it' I l»tn spoilri hid U, " . ,|„ J ="cmpi 10 S,„i , . oM and -„i,k °'* *»« how ;, ' tK^ir Jl*f^"' HctI,, Sunt -> aid n»n. „.„„^,f ATCH LINES