The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1919)

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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY What a Triumph! SAYS NEW YORK'S CAPITOL. NLY once in a long while does it happen that a screen production receives such unstinted praise as has been so freely given to "Blind Husbands." "Unique"— "A classic"— "A new angle in pictures"— "perfect" — "Could not be excelled" — "Grips every spectator," are expressions taken at random from a veritable flood of testi And only once in a long while has a picture been so universally endorsed from every angle of its make-up — story, star, support, direction, camera work — or so unanimously lauded by trade, press, exhibitors and public alike. "Von Stroheim's creation looms up as one of the best things ever conceived," says the Motion Picture News. "Flawless," says the New York Evening World. "Simply Great," is the way the Denver Post puts it. "WHAT A TRIUMPH THIS PICTURE IS. BOTH ARTISTIC AND FINANCIAL," says Managing Director Bowes of New York's Capitol Theatre. mony. CAUL LAEMMLE Presents