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REVIEW
Newspaper review of *^THE HIRED MAN” to be sent out the day following the
first showing
In "The Hired Man," Charles Ray, the youthful Paramount actor who has come to be recognized as the typical American boy as Mary Pickf ord typifies American girlhood, plays a new and somewhat different sort of role from anything he has yet attempted.
This is a farm hand on a large New England farm, who is sincerely and deeply in love with the pretty daughter of his "boss." The sacrifices that he is called upon to make for her are many, and he cheerfully gives up every thought of himself for her sake.
There are some exceptionally effective scenes in which the camera work is more than usually attractive, including a fire scene in which an entire farm is sent up in flames. Mr. Ray rescues several persons, including Ruth, his sweetheart — in real life Doris Lee, and in the rehearsing was severely burned.
A country fair figures prominently also, and in order to film these scenes Mr. Ray, Victor Schertzinger, his director, and an entire company • of players, as well as Thomas H. Ince himself, went to Los Angeles, California, where they attended the annual county and state fair.
Gilbert Gordon plays the farmer's dissipated son, who works in the local small town bank, and to keep up with his spendthrift companions embezzles the bank's money. Knowing Ray's affection for his sister and that their father disapproves, this son comes to Ray, as Ezry, and demands the money to repay. Ezry has saved, after years of hard work, about enough money to fulfill the obligation, and he cheerfully gives it up, returning to the farm and the daily hard grind without a word of explanation.
Ruth and her father do not understand this, and regard him rather suspiciously. The fire, started by Ruth's brother's carelessness, breaks out, and it is there that "the hired man" justifies himself in the eyes of the girl he loves and her father. A touching scene occurs when he comes back to consciousness after the fire to find Ruth bending over him, while her father vociferously announces to the assembled neighbors that "there's my future son-in-law--the finest chap yet," after his strenuous abuse of former days.
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