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SCREEN OPINIONS WEEKLY SERVICE
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May the coming year bring to you much happiness, and to your business all the success you wish for.
We hope you will plan and build to make 1923 the banner year of your many successes.
Our Classifications Are as Follows:
Class AA — Masterful. Class A-c — Excellent. Class A-b — Superior. Class A Very good.
Class B — Good. Class C — Average. Class D — Fair. Class E — Poor.
“MINNIE”— Class A-c
(Especially prepared for screen)
Story: — Homely Girl Who Tried to Make People Believe She Had a Lover
VALUE
Photography — Superior — David Kesson and Karl Struss.
TYPE OF PICTURE— Humorous— Unusual. Moral Standard — Average.
Story — Excellent — Comedy — Family.
Cast — Excellent — All Star.
Author — Excellent — Marshall Neilan.
Direction — Excellent — Marshall Neilan. Adaptation — Excellent — Marshall Neilan. Technique — Excellent.
Spiritual Influence — Neutral.
Producer — Marshall Neilan Footage
CAST
Minnie Leatrice Joy
Newspaper Man Matt Moore
Minnie’s Father George Barnutn
Step-mother Josephine Crowell
Step-sister Helen Lynch
Chewing Gum Salesman. .. .Raymond Griffith
Young Doctor Dick Wayne
Janitor Tom Wilson
Local “Cut-Up” George Drumgold
January 1 to 15, 1923.
■6.696 ft. Distributor — First National
Our Opinion
MORAL O'THE PICTURE— None Outstanding.
One of the Season’s Best — Originality Its Key Note
“Minnie” is the kind of a picture that the whole neighborhood is going to hear about from the first-nighters. It’s well worth going to see merely from the amusement standpoint, and besides it is really something new. Originality greets you from every scene. It is also a difficult picture to describe accurately, for as “the proof of the pudding is in the eating,” so the enjoyment and understanding of this picture is in the seeing. The settings of “Minnie” are unusually well arranged, and each room in the Scully House, a hotel kept by Minnie’s much-married father, has its own individual atmosphere, and so like the things that we have seen that one all but exclaims as the imagination is ushered from one room to another. And the people do the things we would expect them to do. All excepting Minnie who does a lot of things that we don’t expect, and which help to keep the spectator in roars of laughter. For instance, when she goes motoring with a young man and hurries homeward on foot at a whispered remark that doesn’t please her, we laugh. But when the same thing happens with the second and the third man, who stop at the same place, do the same things, say the same things and finally she brings along a pair of extra shoes, with which to walk back, the laugh becomes a riot. But then with the last of
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