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The Screen in Review
In "The Road to London" Bryant Washburn takes us to the real English countryside.
original. Anatol is an American and married when the story opens. Evidently he lives on Riverside Drive. His wife is played by Gloria Swanson, and Miss Swanson absolutely outglorias herself in this picture. Her clothes are enough to make an innocent schoolgirl steal papa's Liberty Bonds and cut loose.
The high spots of the picture are many. There is the scene in which Wallace Reid, as Anatol, breaks up a million dollars' worth of furniture. There are Gloria Swanson's legs. There is Bebe Daniels as Satan Synnc, "the most wicked woman in New York." Consider the name — Satan Synne. As reader to critic, can you beat it ? There is the cabaret scene — bigger, brighter, and more glorious than any cabaret scene ever filmed. There are Elinor Glyn and Lady Parker seen as "extras" in a bridge-party scene. There are the decorated subtitles, done in colors, that look like lantern slides for illustrated songs.
The picture is calculated to knock your eye out. It is the most glittering section of celluloid ever turned loose on a public that spends most of its time trying to figure out how to pay the butcher's bill. The censors may say that it is naughty; but it is no more wicked than a two-hundred-and-fifty-pound woman covered with jewels and riding around in a limousine.
"The Affairs of Anatol" has one clever episode. It is the adventure of Anatol with the f a r m e r's wife.
After watching Miss Swanson, Miss Daniels, and Wanda Hawley wearing clothes that would put a deficit in any expense account, it was a real relief to see Agnes Ayres in a gingham dress. While Wallace Reid and the other two hundred and fifty-nine stars emerge with much celluloid and glory, Miss Ayres does the best bit of acting in the picture. However, as I said, maybe it was the gingham dress.
De Mille's latest, released of course by Famous PlayersLasky, is going to cause more comment than the Einstein theory. Only twelve persons in the world can appreciate the Einstein theory. Eut we are all born with eyes.
"WITHOUT BENEFIT OF CLERGY."
''Without Benefit of Clergy" serves to demonstrate that the author of the story is not such a dub and a handicap as he is pictured. In fact, the little fellow often can be a great help to the producer. When Pathe planned to film a story by Rudyard Kipling, it sent Randolph Lewis to England to gather a few of Kipling's ideas on the subject. Mr. Lewis, being a scholar and a gentleman, carefully followed Rudyard's ideas when he wrote the scenario, and he saw to it that Robert Brunton created the real city of Lahore in his studio. The result ? A fine picture. The story tells of the love affair of an Indian girl
Mabel Ballin brings her delicate charm to the leading role in her husband's picture, "The Journey's End."