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Eyton inul Thomas Santsehi
in I !n Crisis,
The
Shadow
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A Department of
Photoplay Review
By Julian Johnson
A SMASHING, thrilling photoplay without a murder, a cliff, a railway collision, a fight, a motor-chase or
divorce-court material! It can't be clone? Yes, it can. "Jaffery" is the answer.
"Jaffery" is as perfect and exquisite a bit architecture as any photoplay manufactory ever turned out. As a demonstration of what may be done with a story completely devoid of melodrama to sustain interest, snare suspense, and give every beholder a vital interest in each character it is all alone. It may have successors : it has no predecessors.
Your old friend William J. Locke wrote the book : one Anthony Kelly made a scenario from it, George Irving produced it for the Frohman Amusement Corporation, and it is released by International.
See how undramatic a simple recount of the incidents sounds : Jaffery. globe-trotter, war-correspondent and grizzled bachelor, is one of a group of English gentry friends. The others are polite stay-at-homes. With a companion, Jaffery tramps the warseared Balkan mountains. Here he finds an annihilated camp, and the only living
thing a dash of bandits had left: Liosha, daughter of an Albanian chief. lie takes Liosha with him — switch-back to England, please. Hilary, of the friends, has just completed a novel of which no one knows anything. It is called "The Diamond Gate." Hilary dies. bequeathing his manuscripts as a sacred trust to Adrian. Adrian, ardently wooing Doria. is told by Doria's papa that he must accomplish something before he can claim the young woman's hand. Adrian falls for the temptation he carries about in his pocket, metaphorically speaking; be publishes "The Diamond Gate" as his own work, and leaps into fame. Back to the Eastern fight arena: Liosha, taught English by Jaffery and bis traveling companion, has married the companion — who dies of mountain fever. Jaffery brings his adorable charge, fully as useful as a fifth wheel, to England, puts her in a boarding-house, while, he (Jafferv) is fearfully smitten by the charms of Adrian's fiancee, Doria. Asked to produce a second masterpiece, Adrian can't do it, and dies writbing in a mess of conscience, confiding his secret to Jaffery.
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