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PRESS REVIEW
To Be Sent to the Newspapers Immediately After the First Display of Vivian Martin’s Photoplay “Mirandy Smiles.”
A Paramount Picture
Dainty Vivian Martin Makes Hit as Scrub Lady in Her New Paramount Photoplay ^^Mirandy Smiles*^
Picture of Humble Life in the Middle West is one of Distinct Appeal and the Beautiful Star Is Heartily Received by Enthusiastic Audience.
Dainty vivian martin,
one of the most charming of the long list of Paramount stars, scored another personal triumph when her new photoplay, “Mirandy Smiles,” was shown at the
theatre yesterday.
Presented to her admirers in the garb of a scrub lady in a little Western town. Miss Martin proved herself as delightful amid her soapsuds as she was charming in her recent picture success, “Her Country First.” Miss Martin is essentially an artist and each portrayal she attempts reveals her in a new and more charming light to her hosts of admirers.
In “Mirandy Smiles” Miss Martin has a most congenial role. Mirandy Judkins is a little scrub girl, who works in a Grand Opera house in a small Western town. She meets Teddy Lawrence, an organist, and he invites her to come to St. Mark’s Church and hear him play the big organ. Rose White, a Sunday School teacher, loves John Kennedy, the Rector. Dressed in her best, Mirandy goes to the church on
Sunday and is impressed by the Rector’s plea to all to give freely and she wonders how she can give, inasmuch as she has nothing.
Mirandy plans to make money by washing the surplices of the choir singers and Rose promises to give her the work. In order to raise money for the Rector, Mirandy borrows the surplices and “puts on” a sacred concert at her home with the aid of the children of the neighborhood. While the concert is on, the Rector and Rose appear and the former is amazed and gratified when Mirandy gives him 37 cents, the gross proceeds of the concert.
The Rector proposes to Rose, who puts him oft', promising to send him her written' answer. She writes a note accepting him and pins it to the Rector’s surplice which Mirandy has washed. It falls to the floor and the Rector fails to receive it. The note is found by Mirandy’s mother, who returns it to Rose. Mirandy fluffs her curls and the leading woman at the Opera House is so pleased with her that she gives her a new dress.
Teddy prevails upon Mirandy to attend the Guild School and she now realizes that he has something up his sleeve. Mirandy’s mother comes into an unexpected inheritance and proposes to take Mirandy to the country to live on a farm. Mirandy protests because she fears to lose Teddy, but he tells her that she is to go to school and after a year or two he will show her what he has up his sleeve. So she senses the personal note in his request and is happy.
There is a definite charm of personality about Miss Martin’s work in this little comedy of slum life. She makes Mirandy a warmhearted little heroine, whose independent outlook on life and keen, laugh-provoking remarks afford a never failing source of amusement. Douglas MacLean plays the leading role opposite Miss Martin, while Maym Kelso, Lewis Willoughby and Gean Gennung have important character roles. Others who rounded out the skillfully chosen cast are William Freeman, Elinor Hancock and Frances Beech.
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