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The Shadow Stage
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ettes quite properly wear— nothing. And you arc not shocked, rhere is far more indecency, you know, in a paraded bit of
e than in the natural, absolute unclothed.
This is not a perfect picture. Our wishes that there wore more flashes of comedy to bind people ami episodes together in warmer humanness. Occasionally Miss Kellerman cavorts like an H,0 primadonna, getting unite out of the plaj to sing an optic cadenza of splash. And again one longs t'or the dramatic value of closer, more contrasty photography.
But what has been perfect since the Greeks finished their big house on the Acropolian hill ? Here is a stunning photoplay which is a marvel of its kind, and the proclaimer of its author-maker as a masterdirector of first order, for every fault it
.1 dozen excellencies. Mr. Shay is his sufficient self, and Jane
has an awful race for her honors as First Little Kitl of Photoplay with her artless sister. Katherine. Hut it is Marcclle Hontabat, a tinily intense French girl, who pirouettes away with all the acting honors.
\Y/l'l'!I the arrival of the gentle month ** of June there descended upon Longacre Square, New York, such a deluge of blood as would have flooded all the trenches of Kurope. Two days before the murderous exploits of Macbeth were exposed at the Rialto, the luce engines of destruction began their work of wholesale slaughter at the Criterion, and two days after the Shakespearean orgy of death, the Thomas Dixon massacres were confessed at the Liberty. It is more than a coincidence that Ince projected his peace fantasia, "Civilization" in the same theater which had housed Blackton's "Battle Crv of Peace" about a rear earlier, and that "The Fall of a Nation" was
focused upon the same screen which for a year i ai i ied " I he Birth ol a Nation." I is more than coincidence, it is challei and even d one were not ini lined to employ comparative criticism, such circumsts
make it practically unavoidable. To State
the case, arbitrarily therefore, the order of merit ol these four war spectacles must be awarded in the following gradation: "The Birth .'i a Nation," "Civilization," "The Battle Crj oi I'. a< e," " llu fall of a Na tion." And to make the statement com plete, it must be added that an unassuming' little live-rcelcr from the bine Arts Studio, now several months old. "The hiving I . « r pedo," should be remembered, and given third place.
The strength of "Civilization" lies in a remarkable achievement by Thomas II. Ince. who has not permitted lbs story to be cheapened by the introduction of a trivial romance. The moment a titanic struggle such as is depicted in any of these creationis pushed aside to make way for personal romance, there is a long, hard drop. Mr. Ince has used just what story was necessarv to knit his reels into a unified whole, and no more. .The King of Wredpryd has become involved in a war for which there is no justification but conquest. Count Ferdinand, commander of a submarine, is influ
Adda Gleason and Monroe Salisbury in "Ramona."