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PRESS REVIEW
To be Sent to the Newspapers Immediately After the First Display of
“In Pursuit of Polly,” A Paramount Picture
DAINTY BILLIE BURKE’S
“IN PURSUIT OF POLLY”
SCORES DECISIVE HIT
Popular Paramount Star’s Characterization Proves Artistic Delight to Immense Audiences
ALWAYS delightful in any portrayal she attempts, Miss Billie Burke, the dainty Paramount star, was seen by an enthusiastic audience at the theatre in her latest Paramount pho
toplay, ‘In Pursuit of Polly,’’ yesterday. Miss Burke demonstrated her popularity in no uncertain manner, for her portrayal in this photoplay was as artistic as it was delightful, and that it pleased her audience was manifested frequently throughout the presentation.
In this photoplay Miss Burke portrays the role of Polly Marsden, a wealthy young woman, daughter of a retired cotton-broker, who is loved by two men — one a poet and the other a prosaic broker, neither of whom she seems inclined to accept. Her father demands, however, that she choose between them and she enters into an arrangement whereby she is to start for parts unknown in her automobile on the following day with an hour’s start and the man who catches her first is to claim her as his bride.
From the moment Polly starts on the race, situation after situation, each more thrilling than
the preceding one, follows. She becomes entangled in a German spy plot, which leads her from one place to another in quick succession and she is pursued by Colby Mason, a millionaire patriot, who is identified with United States Secret Service and who is engaged in the patriotic task of tracing Hun spies. He meets Polly in circumstances which lead him to suppose that she is the confederate of Emile Kremer, a notorious German spy, and he keeps both in his eye.
Kremer reveals to Polly a rendezvous of Hun spies and anxious to expose them, Polly goes there followed by Mason, who believing his suspicions regarding her to be verified, reluctantly places her under arrest. Kremer and his band are apprehended and the poet and broker now arrive, each eager to acclaim Polly. Her identity is established to Mason and the absurdity of the charge against her revealed. Mason having caught her first, Polly accepts him as her husband and both are happy.
The photoplay is one of unusual interest from every standpoint. Miss Burke was exceptionally charming in her portrayal of Polly and her mannerisms were a source of perpetual delight. Thomas Meighan, as Colby Mason, appeared to splendid advantage, as did also Frank Losee as “Buck” Marsden and Benjamin Deely as Kremer, the spy. The support generally was adequate and the photoplay, as a whole, directed by Chester Withey, and picturized by Eve Unsell, may be recommended as an attraction of superior merit.
TRADE.
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