The Billboard (1920)

: * fe^vtp .'■.-,'■ :■■■ ' • . ••,•'.->' 0 V I N G PIC T URES 4a K1LDARE OF STOIM. Taken from the novel of the earns title, "Ktldare of Storm" la a Metro release, starring Emily Stevens. It Is such a picture as could B« looked forward to with Miss Stevens the principal attraction. 'She plays Klldare's wife, resulting from a marriage of conven- ience. Mrs. Ktldare likes a doctor and the doctor likes her. But that 1b all. Klldare thinks otherwise, however. Firstly, because he finds a note written by his wife to the doctor, and secondly, his wife has always re- pulsed htm. Upon obtaining the note from a servant he goes after the doctor and is killed —by'the servant girl, although the doctor Is sentenced to litei imprisonment for the mur- der. After five years he is pardoned. After some more years he meets once again Mrs. Klldare, Just after the servant girl confessed. As the doctor had been waiting for something like this, the way was then Cleared for the marriage of the doc and Mrs. K. When the doe left prison, pardoned, he wouldn't even see Mrs. K, Bald the world still believed him to be a murderer. So he went to doctoring In a little way from the Klldare home. The doo always lived a little ways from the Klldares, -Jn the first reels Mrs. Klldare would ride on Ahorseback to the doc's home In the daytime and walk over, there at night She probably thought more of the horses than she did Of her feet In the fifth of the five long reels, the servant said the doc only hit Ktldare once with his riding crop, while she hit htm twice, There's Quite a lot of unimportant-de- tail worked out, and some excellent Individual acting. Miss Stevens appears to have grown heavier before the screen, and in this picture younger as the film progresses, although there . are a couple of long lapses. The book may have had enjoyed popularity—the picture won't. It's too commonplace. Sim9. awomanofTmpm.se. La Veool Lina CavaJierl Nina .Gertrude Robinson Count Nerval Raymond Bloomer Phillip .Robert Cain Mme, Gardiner. ....Ida Waterman Dr. Paul Spencer.. Leslie Austern Mr. Stuart J. Clarence Handysldes Mrs. Stuart. Matilda Brundage Cleo Corinne Uzzell Lina Cavalier! in "A Woman of Impulse" (Paramount) again proves herself an actress as well as merely a beautiful woman. It is a pari well suited to her. temperament and talents. The/ picture was seen at private showing;. It tells the story of Leonora, the daughter of a poor lace-maker, possessed of a beautiful voice but with no means to culti- vate it. Discovered by Mr. and Mrs. Stuart, wealthy Americans, Leonora and her sister, Nina, are adopted by them, upon the death of the girls' mother. After studying Leonora becomes a famous prima donna known as La Veool. Leonora meets a Spanish nobleman called Couat Nerval who wishes to marry her, but she hesitates owing to his jealous nature. When hia American cousin, Phillip, pays court to Leonora, Nerval persuades her to consent to his suit and they are married. On the way to America the younger sister, Nina, meets Dr. Paul Spencer, an? they fall In love. Phillip, back in America; persuades his mother to invite them to their home in New Orleans. This she does against her will. Phillip falling in his renewed attentions to- ward Leonora, turns to Nina. But Nerval has again btoome Jealous of his wife. Learning that Dr. Bpenoer is on his way to see Nina, Leonora goes out in the garden one night to tell Phillip Nina.will be unable to keep an engagement with him He snatches her in his arms sad Leonora stabs him with a hair ornament—e miniature dagger. Nerval has seen the struggle from a distance and mis- understood It, Phillip is found dead, stabbed in the back. Leonora Is accused, but when Dr. Spencer ar- rives he shows that it would have been im- possible for Leonora to have stabbed him in such a position. .Then Cleo, a Creole do- mestic, confesses that she stabbed Phillip be- eause she was Jealous of him. While the picture Is cut to fit Cavalleri, and does fit her, she Is capable of doing bigger aad heavier things. The support Is an ex- cellent company. Especially good are Ida Waterman as Phillip's mother, Corinne Ussell as Cleo, Raymond Bloomer 'as the Count and Robert Cain as Phillip. The direction, photography and scenery pass. THE WINBOWOPFOSITE. Helen West Leah Balrd P««tT Harmon Violet Palmer Mrs. Palmer Matilda Brundage Molly Florence Sottong A B gXwo anle5r } JameB M °" ,Bon Robert West Harry Burkhardt Sidney Holmes Bdward Mackey John T. Manley Joseph Burke Martin Cross. Ben Hendrloks la "The Window Opposite," starring- Leah Balrd, Ivan has made a picture which promises thrills at the outset, but which la too long and greatly Inclined to drag In spots. It ..•?»W SWrcelJr .h»TA. been...written., for:. .Miss... Balrd, as her pert la by no means the stellar In the window of the title a murder Is seen committed. In the dead of night, against the bright light within, a hand clutches a long dagger, stabbing a person out of the range ef vision. The effect Is very good. , Next door to the house of the tragedy'llves Helen West with her drunken husband, Robert And here comes Sidney Holmes, an old friend, to visit them. He sympathises with Helen in her negelcted state. In the next bouse lives John Manley, whose son wishes to marry Peggy Harmon, -Mrs. West's sister. Her mother opposes the matoh, and the two attempt to elope. Manley goes to his father and asks for funds, refused. So the son takes lodg- ings outside and.goes to work. Shortly after the father Is found. stabbed to death- Manley is arrested, charged with the murder, and found guilty. He Is sap- posed to have been seen leaving his lodgings late on the night of the murder, and to have'returned some time after. Through the efforts of Peggy a famous criminologist is consulted, and he eventually traps Agulnaldo, a Philippine servant in the house, into a con- fession. This: he does with the aid of a- medium who utilizes his Illusions in the men's room In the night to terrify him into a con- fession. The parson who saw the hand In the window is Holmes, and it is he who tells the criminologist the hand was brown. Helen West had walked in her sleep the night of the murder, had fallen and been stunned without waking, and West carried her back to her room. Here he saw the murder, and rather than compromise Helen prefers to let Harmon Suffer. The drunken husband considerately dies, and the two couples are at last free to marry. It turns out that the Phillpplno servant was old Manley's own son by a Phillpplno woman whom he had later deserted. The son had come there with the express purpose of re- venge., The picture has been made with infinite care and attention to detail. The lighting Is ex- ception, as there are many night scenes and. ghastly effect admirably secured.. Miss Balrd does what she can with her role. The honors go to James Morrison in the dual role of young Manley and the Phillpplno. It 1b a fine piece of differentiation. He appears alternately as a fair young American and as the swarthy Phillpplno, yet keeping the simtllarlty in appearance whioh Is essential to the plot. , The company Is of uniform excellence and the direction good. Frank Griffin, comedy director associated with Lubln and later with Keystone and Ben- nett for many years, is now with L-Ko. Raymond S; Peck has been -appointed man- ager of the Mutual branch at Montreal, suc- ceeding Basil Horsfall. 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