Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

The Shadow Stage (Continued from page 67) 109 can afiord to have children. Miss Clayton incident and of being painstaking in filming said that though the picture only bore a retook her medicine like a lady and a heroine; even the least important scenes. The inter mete family resemblance to the book for Properly repulsed Irving Cummings so soon est in the story is well sustained throughout, which the company had paid, he had an idea Frank Thomas is the reporter; Maurice Costello, getting rapidly back to his old form, is a good heavy. "JUDY OF ROGUES' HARBOR" — Realart as she learned his intentions; saved her film sister, Anna Q. >iilsson, from the soiled hands of a would-be home-wrecker, and finally married honest Charley Meredith. THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME— Goldwyn ^ , Dorothy Parker says, "It is really the Jack Pickford found the adventures of sagacious writers who lavish their ink on "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come" exhortations to be glad, glad, glad; for that much to his liking. For that reason he is is the way to bring in something to be glad able to lend a suggestion of reality to the about." John Fox story which is thrown against a How true, how true ! Apparently no background of attractive interiors and exte writer who offers the faintest excuse for that tiie film was a good one — but he wasn't sure, having seen only two and onehalf motion pictures before and not considering himself exactly an expert critic. Anyway, he thought he liked it. There was a suspicion of moisture on his eyelashes, since the drama ended with one of those long-separated-thought-you-weredead mother and son clinches which are always good for emotion, no matter how stern the heart. He appealed to one of the lady reviewers whose nose was also unnaturally snufily for confirmation or denial of his opinion. She riors of the old South. Drifting into "King some such subtitle as "Ef yuh got love in yer replied that though she considered the pic dom Come" valley, following the death of heart, nothin' can hurt yuh" has the slight ture exciting, could a man re-marry Tne the Cumberland Mountain guardians who est chance of being turned down by film woman he had turned from his house fifteen had brought him up, Chad Buford progresses producers, no matter how ridiculous the years earlier and not guess she was the logically through his cabin life with the story. same little lady, no matter how carefully Deans, gets to Lexmgton, meets Major Bu "Judy of Rogues' Harbor," by Grace Mil disguised? ford who accepts him as a distant relative, ler White, is one of those pictures calculated That gave one of the gentlemen reviewers and finally fights his way to a lieutenancy to fire you with the "glad" feeling. It does a chance to bring himself to the eminent of the Union army. The war scenes are not stressed and the waving of the flag is modestly accomplished, so that the effect of the picture is pleasantly stirring and agreeably sentimental. Clara Horton and Pauline Starke divide honors as the loved and lost heroines. "DEADLINE AT n"— Vitagraph George Fawcett, turned director, has done very well with his first Vitagraph picture, "Dead Line at 11." Whether this newspaper story proves as puzzling to the average audience as most acted newspaper plays have done it is impossible for a newspaper man to say. An honest attempt has been made to make it seem reasonable, and to clutter it as little as possible with the technique of newspaper publishing. Of course, things happen with a suddenness in the office of the "Daily Planet" that no one familiar with the workings of such a location can accept as plausible. Yet there is such a thing as a "Dead Line at II," when the first editions go to press, whether an account of the hero's rescue is in type or not, and star reporters who carry their inspira MONA LISA Presented by Francis I. Paint Furnished by Di Madder Brothers Wholesale and Retail. Colors Ground by Ole Ochre. Costume by Mile Chargehi. 4:144 Rue De La Paix. Canvas by Tomasso Shoddhy. Vdtnishing by O. B. Gumm. Frame by I. fVhiltlrJit. Modtl. Sigmtt 'B.,.-.™ author's notice. He answered no, a thousand nos — a terrible mistake had been made in changing the original story, in which the two marital adventures of the unreasoning wife-wronger had been made with sisters, not with the identical woman. He believed that the plot was now weak, vain, illogical and silly. Which left the author and us (meaning me) in a terrible state of confusion, because we had committed ourselves in favor of the piece and this was one of the trade's trick reviewers. Why don't you go to see "Black is White," and get a good bawl out of it, and then talk it over with mother to see which one of us you agree with? We wager that you'll like it — especially Dorothy Dalton. "WHO'S YOUR SERVANT?"— Robertsori'Cole If other arts were credited in the noisy (?) manner practised in some truly great film masterpieces — ( According to James Gabelle. ) it makes you glad, glad, glad to go home. "Judy is a golden haired child brought up tion on their hip were not unknown to Park in inconceivably brutal surroundings, and Row before the prohibitionists took the joy yet she has remained so sweet and pure out of life. But even such an one would find that she believes it wicked to kiss a nice it a little difficult to cover half the lower boy she wants to, unless they are engaged, east side in twenty minutes. Divorced from The fact that the Japanese house boy is at the same time a spy in the Japanese secret service is the point which saves this picture for one of those "Who's Your" titles, which are running in "What's Your" and the "Why Should Your" titles a close race for popularity this year. It is founded on the stage play, "Haru-Kari," by Julian Johnson. One of those navy secrets gets its technical shortcomings, however^ the story is so good that the feeling at the end of the picture is that it could easily have stood another reel for its further and more Daughters of our best families should be stolen, and of • course the poor lieutenant shamed by her example. The picture who loves the admiral's daughter is accused, makes two points clear — that we must Daughter is led to suspect Ito. Though it be on the lookout for Bolshevists, they be seems that she might as well have confided ing the one class of people, apparently, who in dad — she decides to sacrifice herself if complete development. The heroine, neatly do not succumb to the "love in yer heart" necessary to prove her sweetheart's innocence, and convincingly played by Corinne Griffith, treatment, and that this is a small world She goes to Ito's room, he having tried to is a daughter of wealth who, refusing to after all. Grandfather, daughter, and seize her hand several times while she was marry a titled Englishman to please her grandchild have been living within a stone's good naturedly helping him with his Eng mother, determines to live her own wage throw of each other for years without lish. She gets the paper — but is forced to earning life by becoming a newspaper wom knowing it. It is full of unintentional com kill Ito. But that's all right, because every~ " edy, banalities and unnecessary cruelty. "BLACK IS WHITE"— Ince an. During her first weeks on the "Planet" she runs down a murder story, saves the star reporter from going to jail as a suspect, gets the story into the office in time to make the first edition, and, of course, marries the young man she has redeemed, Mr. Fawcett's long experience with D. W. Griffith has taught him the value of the human that he had committed There was an argument in the projection room after we saw this last of the voluptuously-rounded Dorothy Dalton's Ince photodramas. George Barr McCutcheon, genial author, body believes hari-kari. Lois Wilson plays the heroine, and we heard a man behind us say that he thought she was a pretty girl. We believe that anything Mr. Johnson writes is deserving of better treatment than this play had at the hands of the producers.