Screenland (Oct 1924–Apr 1925)

72 SCREENLAND Dramaland — continued from page 62 raised her the farm if she will bear him a son. Now Abbie thinks that this can be arranged, and Ebben is the" man she chooses for the purpose. Reel Five — Ebben falls madly in love vdth Abbie and she with him. A son is born and Ephraim is overjoyed, thinking it his. Ebben, by a chance, learns of Abbie 's original intentions and refuses to credit her present love. He curses her and tells her that he .will leave that farm in the morning and leave his mother's ghost behind to haunt her. Abbie swears undying love and, thinking it will prove her love of Ebben, she strangles the baby in its sleep. Reel Six — Ebben at first is frantic when he learns from Abbie that she has killed the child of his whom he loved. In a fury he runs to the village and reports the murder to the sheriff. Then, remorseful, he returns to surrender himself as an accomplice. The sheriffs arrive and lead off Ebben and Abbie, who swear to love one another unto death. (Which seems not far distant.) Ephraim pursues them with fatherly curses. Exeunt Omnes. |/ a n Torrence, Ernest's son, ioith h i s A berdeen terrier in front of their Hollywood home. Some N etu Films — continued from page 47 tried to come back. Gasnier directed this film and he has outdone his every other effort. This, by the way, is what you'd call safe entertainment for the whole family. Similar in many respects to ' 1 The Parasite" was the Producers' Distributing Corporation's production, "Another Man's Wife." Our first reaction to this film, which is a not uncommon tale of a misunderstood frau and her bull headed husband, was that here was a most remarkable cast of big-timers gone wrong. Into the five reels of feverish drama which is usually to be found in these cellu loid tales of domestic entanglements, there has been crowded no less formidable an assemblage of favorites than. James Kirkwood, Lila Lee, Wallace Beery, Matt Moore and Chester Conklin. They might have been saved, as Merton would say, for bigger and better things. Even so splendid an actor as Kirkwood is subjected to what must surely have been to him the embarrassment of being rescued in the final reel from a raft — by a U. S. Submarine. And it's strange, too, what roles such fellows as Wally Beery and Matt Moore will jump into so that they may average better than fifty salaried weeks a year. With Charlie Chaplin, Mary and Doug it's a case of all in the family. Charlie married his leading lady, Lita Grey. "Help, help, help," he cried, " I 've gotta have a new leading lady. Whad'm I going to do?" "Never mind," says Doug, 'A friend in need is a friend indeed.' They Say — continued from page" 68 Take my leading lady." And that's why Georgia Hale will be Charlie's leading ladj^ instead of Doug's and and instead of Georgia, in "Don Q, " Mary Astor will be Doug's leading lady. With Gloria Swanson starting the ball a-rolling, the what looked like Much of the earlier action "Another Man's Wife" might hav been eliminated without seriousl affecting the dramatic worth of th story. In fact, with the fight on th raft and the submarine rescue an everything, this film would hav made a right smart two-reel ruelle drammer. Still, we suppose, Dire tor Bruce Mitchell was under orde] to get his full money's worth out 0 such a grand array of talent as 1» had to work with. We wouldn't recommend seein! this one unless, say. there was not ing else in town except Fox 's ' ' Fol of Vanity." And then, perhap vou'd have a right to a toss-up. low matrimonial figures for t. month have taken a sudden rise, might, at the same time, while I announcing engagements call your attention the engagement Gertrude Short to Percy Pembrok also, of Alberta Vaughan ai George O'Hara plighting their trot