Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

Photoplay Magazine — Advehtising Section 107 The Shadow Stage (Continued) upon their actions. "Mary's Ankle," however, seems a more convincing adventure in pictures than it did in the theater. This is partly true because the screen comedians and their director accept the story as being frankly preposterous and play it. only for the fun that's in it, while the talking actors and their director were always trying to convince audiences that both story and characters bear some relation to reality. Which they do not. Three improvident young men conceive the scheme of announcing the wedding of one of their number, a physician, hoping thereby to extract a few solid silver wedding gifts from distant friends and a check from a tightwad uncle. Their scheme is a complete success, excepting insofar as the gifts and the uncle's donation are concerned. The distant friends send lingerie in place of silver and uncle comes in person to meet the bride. Mary is providentially picked up outside the door of the hero's office. She has twisted her ankle and needs help. It then transpires that both her name and address tally perfectly with those sent out on the bogus marriage announcement. Complications follow until a real marriage is substituted for that which was phony. The financial embarrassment of the young men is made amusingly real by Douglas McLean, Victor Potel and Neal Burns. Doris May and ankle are a success as Mary, and a lot of fun is had with the animated titles that dance to express the elation of the conspirators. This title feature, which is growing in popularity, can easily be overdone — so the boys had best beware. THE LONE WOLF'S DAUGHTER— Hodkinson NOT the least of the war's influences was to make an honest man of Louis Joseph Vance's friend, Michael Ledyard, otherwise and usually known as "The Lone Wolf." Some time after the trouble started in France it appears Michael became a respected member of Scotland Yard and took a hand in running down the plots of that naturally wicked person, Prince Victor. In "The Lone Wolf's Daughter," which is Mr. Vance's sequel to "False Faces," the author has been to considerable pains to develop an exciting story at the expense of such plausibility as barred the way. Delving into the Lone Wolf's past, he presents him with a daughter whose mother was the Princess Sonia, wife of Prirrce Victor. The girl is reared in ignorance of her parentage, and eighteen years later, when she is threatened by Prince Victor, is rescued by her father. As a story of adventure "The Lone Wolf's Daughter" holds together as well as need be. The attempt, however, to take the interest away from the Lone Wolf himself and center it on the daughter is nullified by the fact that he is much the more interesting figure of the two. Louise Glaum has difficulty in sustaining interest in the girl. This weakness, added to those forced situations in which underground passages, Chinese criminals and boats that seem to plow through the streets of London figure, minimizes the picture's chances for anything resembling a lasting popularity. Miss Glaum is an attractive heroine. THE BEAUTY MARKET— First National KATHERINE MacDONALD'S beauty is of a kind that makes a good picture great and saves a poor picture from beins dull. Although "The Beauty Market" is the conventional story of the society girl who feels she must sell herself to the highest ,v«5P' Six Things Essential in Baked Beans There are six great reasons why them, so do doctors. Also everyone beans should be baked by experts. who ever tried Van Camp's. Domestic science authorities know What Homes Can't Do The beans must be selected. Many are impossible. At Van Camp's each lot is analyzed by chemists. Skins must be tender, but hard water makes them tough. 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