Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1917 - Feb 1918)

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The Screen in Review 123 Mae Murray in a tete-a-tete scene from "The Princess Virtue." performance. The entire cast, however, could be starred, it was so perfect. As for the cunning little baby, it was a marvel, and every picture fan will be enthusiastic. Altogether, "The Manx-Man'' is so fine that it is the positive duty of 'film lovers to see it. And in this case, duty will be combined with pleasure — which is not always the blend that we discover, is it? "The Princess Virtue" (Universal) MISS LOUISE WINTER writes very agreeable short stories, but if "The Princess Virtue" is the best thing she can do for the films it will not add to her reputation. It started out with rather an interesting idea — that of a child writing a fable to the effect that the Princess Virtue had three suitors — passion, desire, and love — but was unable to learn which was which. This all fell to pieces in a collection of utterly uninteresting episodes, with a finale that seemed to occur because the time for its occurrence could no longer be delayed and it was necessary to end. Liane, and her suitors and their duels, and their misunderstandings, and the lucky (?) gentleman who was sent abroad to see if she was worth while saving^ became exasperating. It allseemed so marvelously futile. Miss Mae Murray, however, was worth watching, as she always is ; and Jack Bosburg was the lucky (?) gentleman who Avon her. The duels were quite amusing — involuntarily, of course ■ — and Miss Winter seemed to believe in them quite rapturously. "The Spreading Dawn" (Goldwyn) MISS JANE COWL has the laugh on yours truly. In the opening of the new picture entitled "The Spreading Dawn," a stern, relentless old lady, who dominates the fate of her pretty niece, en