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Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section
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the story and led the exercises, and he had a striking cast, headed by his own talented wife, Miriam Cooper. The photoplay itself is rather heavy and extremely complicated, but if it were boiled into a siniple story it would not be a bad sort of thing.
"Impossible Catherine" (Pearson Photoplays) I wish Virginia Pearson would light on some definite programme or definite plan for the employment of her talents. She is one of the very finest and sincerest of our screen actresses — simply going to waste because she cannot seem to get definitely placed and remain continuously, progressively at work. Perhaps the fault is that of many unobservant managers; perhaps she herself is a little bit to blame. Here is one of her sporadic offerings; not bad, indeed, but too much of a "star" picture, too much of a feature effort to show this genuine acting woman at her talented best. The story, by Frank S. Beresford, is simply a modernization of "The Taming of the Shrew." It is an ordinary, programme piece of work, very tamely captioned, employing a number of good players, among them— strangely !— the powerful and gifted Sheldon Lewis, in a role which is so small that it is almost a "bit."
"Why Smith Left Home" (Paramount) George Broadhurst's lively, ancient farce, vitalized by Bryant Washburn and a corking Lasky cast. A number of things possible to the broader scope of pictures, as compared to the facilities of the stage, have been added to increase the contemporary interest in this somewhat familiar story.
"In Mizzoura" (Paramount) I am still wondering why the Lasky studio, with the gifts of director Hugh Ford, author Augustus Thomas, scenarioist Beulah Marie Dix and star Robert Warwick, did not get more out of a time-honored piece of melodramatic material. Possibly, because the story itself was never one of Thomas' best; in fact, one of his poorest and most perfunctory, and saved only by the broad humanities of his dialogue. Robert Cain, to my way of thinking, stole the show with a performance of a contemptible villain who, after all, worked a surreptitious way into your sympathies.
"Fair and Warmer" (Metro) Should be put in a museum as a relic of the prehistoric days when beverages were not judged by their percentages. A pretty correct screen transcript of Avery Hopwood's roaring farce in which Madge Kennedy and John Cumberland figured, with May Allison and Eugene Pallette at present in their roles.
"Sadie Love" (Paramount) Marjorie Rambeau's red-hot old Morosco play, with its wild lines tamed down for photoplay purposes, and with Billie Burke quite aptly cast in the Rambeau role. It will set no arroyos in flames, but is a fair programme offering.
"His Official Fiancee" (Paramount) The rather tame story of a pleasant little fake in a business office, whereby, for reasons of convenience, a stenographer of looks and cleverness agrees to act, on occasion, as the fiancee of her manly and agreeable employer. The usual result. Forrest Stanley and Vivian Martin have the chief roles, and Mr. Stanley takes the honors, such as they are.
"L'Apache" (Ince-Param«unt) A pretty good story, which does not seem to be more than that, on the screen, of two FrancoAmerican girls in Paris, the one mistress of a dissolute rich man ; the other, the wife of an Apache who married him to shut his lips against telling what he knows of a crime her brother committed. Dorothy Dalton plays both parts, in her usual strik
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