Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

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Photoplay Magazine — Adykhtisino Skchon The Shadow Stage (Continued) Her "Beautiful Beggar" of this extravagantly mounted piece is just another pastel added to her shadow-gallery. H. H. Van Loan's story is not in the least new, or sensational, or human. Tod Browning's direction is good, but never extraordinary. You are left with a feeling that it should all have come to something — that Wheeler Oakman, a good actor, should somehow have stood out more definitely, that Priscilla was just as corking in those crook melodramas, that Wallace Berry as a Sheik is still a darn good pursuer of the innocent, and that the best argument in favor of that disputed dance, the shimmy, is the glorious Priscilla's version of it, right out in a Turkish dancehall in Universal City. MY LADY'S GARTER— Tourneur Artcraft Everytliing ! Absolutely everything — from a stolen jeweled garter and a mistaken elopement, to a hero who swears "I didn't do it— I swear I didn't do it" to a beautiful heroine — even unto a rescue-from-drowning by hero et heroine ! It's all there in a typically drury-lane-drammer fashion — but somehow you expect more of Maurice Tourneur. It must be considered that this, while released only recently, was manufactured sometime ago — before Tourneur ever screened Stevenson or secured his Victory over Conrad. It's an adaptation, struggling to be up-to-date, of a Jacques Futrelle novel, concerning the garter which Edward III presented to the Countess of Salisbury and which, many centuries later, is stolen from its case in the museum. Wyndham Standing is suspected by the cast, but not by the audience. We all know he never could have done it; in fact, with Sylvia Dreamer, a gorgeous if spoiled heroine, we agree that he couldn't have done it. Well, say ! Now that M. Tourneur 'as this off his mind, might we presume to argue that he make some more Prunellas? THE VERY IDEA— Holmes-Metro You will go to see this because you expect it wUl be naughty. Whether or not you saw William Le Baron's snappy eugenics stage farce, you undoubtedly read or heard about it, and that it brought the blushes nobody will deny. However, Taylor Holmes' cinema of it is perfectly proper, except for one or two illustrated titles of a descending stork. By the way : we wish they would let up on these fancy titles — sometime, somewhere. They are decidedly insulting even to an average intelligence. For instance, a caption to the effect that the young wife returns to her hotel is illustrated precisely with a supposedly funny cartoon of a woman walking up a path to a house. And there were more like that. Mr. Holmes fares far better, as to personal material, in this than he did in his first independent production. His direction is excellent, being that of Larry Windom, and his support admirable, including Virginia Valli as the wife and Fay Marbe — a Broadway recruit — as the vamp. We'd like to see more of Miss Valli — and we're not thinking of the bathing scenes, either. She's just as pretty in street clothes. TOO MUCH JOHNSON— Paramount Don't you think Bryant Washburn is a lucky young man? No expense has been 113 (Continued on page 120) Lucky Boy to have a food confection waiting after school. And to have it Puffed Wheat, which is whole wheat, steam exploded and made easy to digest. Millions Now Enjoy Them There are millions of lucky children now who revel in Puffed Grains. American homes are now enjoying some 750 million dishes of Puffed Grains in a year. And this is why: These bubble grains have made whole grains enticing. Prof. Anderson's process — steam explosion — has made digestion easy and complete. Once they were breakfast dainties. Now they are all-day foods. Millions of dishes are served in milk for suppers and between meals. Millions are mixed with fruit. Millions are crisped and lightly buttered for hungry children to eat like peanuts — dry. All shot f ronn guns Puffed Grains are shot from guns. By steam explosion they are puffed to eight times normal size. Every food cell is thus blasted and fitted to digest. Every atom feeds. These scientific foods are also the most delightful grain foods known. They are airy, flimsy, nut-like — flavory food confections. In every home such foods are needed several times a day. Puffed Puffed Corn Wheat Rice Puffs Also Puffed Rice Pancake Flour Pancakes 'w^ith Nut Flavor Now we have added Puffed Rice flour to a perfect pancake mixture. The Puffed Rice makes the pancakes fluffy and gives a nutty taste. You have never tasted pancakes so delicious. When you order Puffed Grains order Puffed Rice Pancake Flour as well. Simply add milk or water — the flour is self-raising — and hear what your people say. 3:U3 When you write to advertisers please mention PHOTOPL.iY JIAGAZIXE. 4