Picture Show (Oct 1920 - Apr 1921)

Picture Show, April lbth, 1921. 3 THIS WEEKS PICTURE SHOWS " Ernest Maltravers " (Ideal) Cowley Wbioht and Lilian Hall Davis. " The Strongest " (Fox) Renke Adoree. " His House in Order " (Paramount -Artcrajt) Elsie Ferguson. " The Broken Butterfly " .. (Jurya) Pauline Starke and Lew Cody. " The Man Who Woke Up " (Western Import.) Pauline Starke. " A Daughter of the Wolf " . . (Paramount) Lila Lee and Elliott Dexter. " His Daughter Pays " (Walkers) Gertrude McCoy. The British Release of the Week. ERNEST MALTRAVERS, Lord Lytton's famous novel, produced by Jack Benton. ■ scenario by Eliot Stannard. Ideal Films Ltd. It is a strong plot, ably portrayed by a very strong cast of British actors : Ernest Maltravers is played by Cowley Wright, Mr. Maltravers (Albert Sinclair). Mr* Merton (George Bellamy), Mrs. Merton (Miss Florence Nelson), Caroline (Miss Violet Bucalossi), Mr. Mason (Alban Atwood), Doctor (Frank I. Arlton), Luke Darvil (Norman Partridge). Walters (N. Watts Phillips), Alice (Miss Lilian Hall-Davis), Evelyn (Miss Stella Wood-Sims). Lord Vargrave (Ernest Douglas), Ladv Vargrave (Madame C. A. d'Esterre), Mrs. Jones (Mrs. Watts Phillips), George Legard (Hubert Gordon Hopkirk). The Story. ONE night a handsome youth, Ernest Maltravers, returns from his studies abroad. On a desolate common he loses his bearings, and is offered a bed by Luke Darvil, a hardened ruffian. ' Ernest is warned by Alice, Darvil's beautiful young daughter of sixteen. Presently Luke, in the company of a villain, by name Walters, • 2 enters the room, intent on murdering his trapped k," visitor, but Ernest is saved by Alice. The two fly together. Next day commences a love idyll between these two human beings so curiously flung across each other's path by Fate. The old story of love in a cottage follows, until one day Ernest is obliged to hurry away to his father, who is seriously ill. ' During his absence, Luke Darvil burgles the cottage, and Alice is carried off. Ernest returns to the place of desolation. He searches in vain for Alice, and eventually, distraught, goes abroad. Later, Alice escapes, and is eared for by chance strangers on the country side. Lord and Lady Vargrave. They give her shelter until her child is born, and try to find her lost lover. Years pass. Evelyn, Alice's daughter, is now » rex^lica of her beautiful motUST, and she and THE "PICTURE SHOW'S" GUIDE TO PICTUREGOERS Maltravers' secretary secretly love. And then one glorious day Alice and Ernest meet . There are tears, smiles, and a great joy on that wonderful day of reunion. A fino film, that knows not the word " dullness," whilst the settings are decidedly attractive. Incriminating Letters. HIS HOUSE IN ORDER " is an adaptation of the well-known stage play by Sir Arthur Pinero. Nina Graham, who is played by Elsie Ferguson, is engaged as a governess in the house of Filmer Jesson. After the death of the hitter's wife, Nina marries him, but the family treats her with coldness. Her husband finds that she cannot keep his house in order, and, when more trouble appears likely for Nina, she discovers letters which throw an unpleasant light on .lesson's first wife. The discovery at once leads to a different state of affairs. A Woman's Revenge. LIVING under the same roof in a small lake settlement are two women, one young and the other middle-aged, who hate each other. A composer of music comes along, falls in love with the girl, and secretly marries her before leaving her for a time. When he returns later on, he is told by her middle-aged companion that his wife and the child are. both dead. In reality she has turned them Adrift through revenge, but the man, believing her story, goes away, and, meeting the sister of his first wife, m:irrie< her. Then comes a dramatic surprise in this film. "The Broken Butterfly," with an ending which many in the audience will probably not expect. Pauline Starke is in the title role. The Awakening. PAULINE STARKE is also the heroine in " The Man Who Woke Up," although the really prominent figure is that of an American colonel, with a penchant for journalism and a hatred for a certain Northerner. Broken in health, the colonel has to borrow money, and while on a holiday his daughter Edith fa!! in love with a young writer. There is an amusing and delightful surprise for the colonel, who '" wakes up " to learn who his proposed son-inlaw really is, and from where the money con.''-. A Tale of the Snowy North. WITH picturesque scenes of the forests and snow plains of Canada and a good story to match, " A Daughter, of the Wolf " is certain to hold your interest, especially when the star in it is Lila Lee. As the daughter of a fur smuggler known as " The Wolf, she goes with him to a big town and makes the acquaintance of a young man of means. As the story unfolds itself, we find him attacked by one of the Wolf's associates as he tries to see her again. She comes across him lying on the ground unconscious, but the excitement is by no means over, as shown by the scenes that follow. Kidnapped. IN " The Strongest," featuring Rence Adoree, we are given the story of a girl who is expected to marry a crook posing as a vi-count. But her hand is also sought by a young American. There are several exciting scenes, including a thrilling rescue of the girl who has been imprisoned in a lonely building. Life in the Under-World. GERTRUDE McCOY as the daughter of a diplomat, is the chief figure in Hii Daughter Pays," a film depicting a not to > pleasant phase of life, though the story and acting are both ,good. The girl becomes entangled in the meshes of a rascally spy. who compels her to lead the life of a dancing girl in a gambling -den. Her degradation is graphical U depicted, while there is an exciting scene in which the villain attempts to gain a second victim in the person of his fiancee's sister. There are glimpses of the underworld, all of which have beon well staged. COWLEY WRIGHT and LILIAN HALL DAVIS in " Ernest Maltravers." COWLEY WRIGHT as Ernest Maltraver3 and LILIAN HALL DAVIS as Alice. (Above) ELSIE FERGUSON in " His House in Order," a Paramount-Artcralt picture,