Screen Opinions (1923-24)

ALL THE “TRUTH” ABOUT PICTURES 5 “NOBODY’S BRIDE”— Class C (Adapted from story of same name) Story: — Girl Crook Shot in Sacrifice for Man She Loves VALUE CAST Photography — Average — Virgil Miller. Timmy Nevin Herbert Rawlinson TYPE OF PICTURE — Sensational. Doris Standish Edna Murphy Moral Standard — Fair. Mary Butler Alice Lake ■ ■■ — Morgan Harry Van Meter Story — Average — Melodrama — Adults. Vesper Charley Frank Brownlee Star — Average — Herbert Rawlinson. Smithy Sidney Bracey Author — Average — Evelyn Campbell. Cyrus W. Hopkins Phillips Smalley Direction — Average — Herbert Blache. Uncle Peter Standish Robert Dudley Adaptation — Fair — Albert Kenyon. Mrs. Myrtle Standish Lillian Langdon Technique — Average. ■ ■ — — Spiritual Influence — Neutral. April 1 to 15, 1923. Producer — Universal Footage — 4,861 ft. Distributor — Universal Our Opinion MORAL O’THE PICTURE— None. Ordinary Production — Interesting Cast in Crook Melodrama There is no special appeal to “Nobody’s Bride,” Herbert Rawlinson’s latest, a crook melodrama in which few moments stand out beyond others. The fact of the matter is that the spectator is deluded into expecting a colorful romance between the girl crook and the man she rescued from starvation in the park. But contrary to what is looked for, the man discovers his old sweetheart while he waits outside her home for his benefactress. We are not enlightened as to why he did not recognize the house as the home of Doris Standish, or whether he had known her in another environment. Be it as it may, the picture has a good start and some peppy action, but it is not up to standard. The cast contains names that are favorably known. Alice Lake does well as the girl crook, and Edna Murphy, with few opportunities, is attractive as the escaped bride-elect. Herbert Rawlinson has done better, but in this effort he is, to a large extent, a victim of circumstances. STORY OF THE PLAY Mile. Mary Dernay, otherwise Mary Butler, aids Jimmy Nevin when she finds him fainting from starvation in the park. Later, leaving him to care for her apartment, she enters in association with a band of crooks the home of Jimmy’s former sweetheart, who is about to be forced into a marriage with a financier, and prepares to aid the butler, also a member of her gang, to make a get-away with the bride’s jewels. Circumstances arrange it so that the bride herself, staging an escape, picks up the satchel of jewels and, finding her former sweetheart, Jimmy, waiting with an automobile, she urges him to hurry away with her. Jimmy, not aware of Mary's crooked associations, takes her to the latter’s apartment. In the events that follow, the bride is made prisoner and Mary, realizing that although she loves Jimmy, his heart belongs to another, lets the girl escape, and is shot to death for her trouble. PROGRAM COPY — “Nobody’s Bride” — Featuring Herbert Rawlinson Jimmy Nevin’s destiny shunted him onto the right track through circumstances involving a girl crook. See what a cast plays “Nobody’s Bride” — Herbert Rawlinson, Alice Lake, Edna Murphy, Harry Van Meter and others equally well known. “MY FRIEND THE DEVIL”— Class C (Adapted from novel, “Doctor Rameau”) Story: — Atheist’s Theory Shaken When Last Loved One Is Near Death VALUE CAST Photography — Average — Not credited. Dr. George Dryden Charles Richman TYPE OF PICTURE — Sentimental — Dr. Brewster William Tooker Unconvincing. _ Anna Ryder Barbara Castleton Moral Standard — Fair. Beatrice Dryden Peggy Shaw — — 11 George Dryden (boy) Ben Grauer Story — Good — Drama — Adults. Artist Robert Frazer Cast — Good — All-Star. Mrs. Ryder Alice May Author — Good — Georges Ohnet. Direction — Poor — Harry Milarde. Adaptation — Poor — Paul H. Sloan. Technique — Poor. ■ — — — , Spiritual Influence — Average. April 1 to 15, 1923. Producer — Fox Footage — 7,450 ft. Distributor — Fox (Continued on next page) No Advertising Support Accepted!