Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section 113 The Shadow Stage (Continued from page 74) he has made them permit him to have his princess, Mr. Cruze's effort is a rapid, freei.and succession of brisk sketches. Lila Lee, as Princess Irma, is the old Lila Lee of much attempt and small accomplishment, rather than the infinitely quaint and charming — the new Lila Lee discovered by Cecil DeMille in "Male and Female." Such fine actors as Tully Marshall, Edwin Stevens and Theodore Roberts, and such an interesting young person as Harrison Ford, are to be found in the cast. HEART OF THE HILLS— First National When he made the jigging scene in this colorful drama of the midland mountains director Franklin — perhaps quite unconsciously— vouchsafed one of the best episodes that the screen has seen in this or any other year. Like most of the things that count, this scene is simple, and is built upon the simplest of subjects: the infectious, almost orgiastic dancing of a group of mountainers in a log cabin, rhyming their steps to "Turkey in the Straw," wheezed out upon a decrepit violin. The old man, the mountain boy, the mountain girl, then the city fellow, and then everyone mingle in this mad ifestival of stepping competition. It was interesting to watch the great audience which saw this picture with me catch the spirit of the uncouth dance; they too were rvvept along on its jerking phrases like Elhiop converts in a dusky camp-meeting. And the finale! That moment in which '"grandpap" flings his arms aloft and cries a stentorian "Stop!" And why? "I done lost my false teeth !" Here is a merry episode perfectly rounded at the finish in a flash of uproarious human farce. The photoplay as a whole is quite the best of the many stories of the Kentucky and Tennessee mountains to come to moving vision in the past year or two. It is a simple, generally unstable tale, but it is told with such conviction, with such simplicity, and with so many gentle little asides that it moves one in a way than many a better piece, less skilfully manipulated, is unable to do. Also it is worth mentioning that it reflects the spirit if not always the exact literary letter of John Fox, Jr. Mary Pickford herself, as the wild little Mavis Hawn, once more enters into her physical descriptions with the fury of a novice who has everything to gain and nothing to lose — and the painstaking care and cunning detail of the celebrated performer who has everything to lose and very little to gain: altogether, an unbeatable combination of talents. Superb characterizTtions are given by Sam De Grasse and Claire MacDowell — the latter, especially, convincing and even thrilling — as Martha Hawn, a dull-eyed, slow-witted female, who, in spite of her cruelty, her selfishness and her cunning, still feels the remorse that inevitably comes to a heartless mother and a treach^rcus wife. Let us mention, also, Fred W. Huntley as the inimitable Grandpap Jason Hawn — a sturdy old man who just must have lived. COUNTERFEIT— Artcraft This story is fortunate in having so apt a name. It is counterfeit. It is the poorest piece in which we can remember seeing Elsie Ferguson. It purports to be a yarn of SDurious money-makers in Newport, R. I., the home of much counterfeit social worth. It is so original that at the end we are stunned, nay, amazed, to learn that counterfeiter Ferguson has been a counterfeit counterfeiter— in truth, a government agent — an operative of the secret service ! 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