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The Screen in Review
There are moments of the old Charles Ray in ''Two Minutes to Go," but not enough of them.
character contrast. Emil Jennings as Dantoii adds another briUiant historical picture to his former studies of Louis in "Passion," and Henry the Eiglitli in "Deception." ^^'erner Krauss, the recent Doctor Caligari, was less satisfactory as Robespierre. Evidently impressed by what he knew of the cold temperament of this rigid celebrity, he froze his face into a mask which was often ludicrous and never realistic. The various women — a beggar maid, a wanton, a lady of quality — were as natural as they were ornamental. The mob scenes were handled with great dramatic force.
"The Iron Trail."
There is so much scenery in this film and it is so entrancing that I couldn't keep my mind on the Rex Beach plot. There is, however, a great deal of plot — almost as much as there are mountains and placid lakes and ice and snow and moonlight. A voung civil engineer in Alaska is fought by crooked promoters, who sent a girl reporter out to write a front-page, scare-head ex
pose. She goes to m u c k r a k' e , but remains to fall in love with her proposed victim. The y join forces, and together save a bridge from the
Priscilla Dean does her best tvith the thrilling; tale of "Conflict." but this melodramat ic story o^ers no fair test of her emotional ability.
flood by a three-minute margin. Wyndham Standing is the engineer who looks so well in puttees and Alma Tell the pretty sob sister.
"CindereUa of the Hills."
Perhaps you remember a slim little girl with an expressive little face who was discovered by Maurice Tourneur in "The Last of the Mohicans." She was Barbara Bedford, who now arrives as a I'^o.x star under not altogether fortunate circumstances. For her scenario is the same old }arn of the neglected waif in the Ozark Mountains, and her director has set his teeth and resolved that she shall be cute at all costs. The result is hardly a fair test for any debutante, least of all for as yo_ung a star as Miss Bedford seems to be. If the company will shuffle their cards and start her all over again we feel sure that she will justify the ])romise given in the Tourneur shots.
"White Oak."
William Hart on a Mississippi River boat again — as a card shark, of course. He doesn't stay there long, however, but moves out West where the Indians are. This provides a hectic tribe battle, through which the champion two-gun man emerges with the girl in his arms. Hardly original, but never tiresome — Hart couldn't be.
"Enchantment."
This is one of those chocolateeclair stories, all mixed up with fairy tales and debutantes' dreams and Shakespeare — yes, more Shakespeare ! Marion Davies plays a spoiled society darling whose father takes her to see "The Taming of the Shrew," and gets an idea. He persuades the hero to act like Pctrucliio, and of course