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CARPENTIER SCORES
"The Wonder Man”
Directed by John G. Adolf
Has Smashing Premier
in NEW YORK CITY at $2.00 Admissions.
The Grand Ballroom of
The HOTEL ASTOR seating 2000 people
was packed to capacity.
S.R. O. Business the first four days of the run indicates
“TURN AWAY” Business
for the entire week.
This Triumph was scored in the face of a three-day Holiday that caused an exodus to the country,
that was unprecedented in the
history of New York,
CRITICISM from
The New York Evening Telegram
May 30, 1920
by JANE DIXON
“Last evening, in the grand ballroom of the Astor Hotel, Georges appeared for cinema championship of the world. Beyond peradventure of doubt his is no one-track talent.”
A BIG SURPRISE
“The Carpentier picture was one of the biggest surprises Broadway has had in many a season.
“We are wise to the ways of capitalizing celebrities—hundred-thousand-dollar name— ten-twenty-and-thirty scenario acting, scenery and support. It always makes us feel as if some one had sold us a toy balloon and then stuck a pin in it.
“Robertson-Cole have not so imposed upon a hero-worshipping public. They have made it possible for us to see one of the most popular athletes of the day in action. This much we expected, but what we did not expect was to find in Carpentier a real actor, an artist with the finish of a French gentleman and the finesse of an habitual stage star.”
THE WONDER MAN
“Such is the name under which RobertsonCole, promoters of the film, have chosen to introduce their boxing star to an already sceptical screen world.
“M. Carpentier not only lived up to the title. He did more. He topped it. Three trozen-faced critics who are wont to use these twilight picture heurs for malevolent meditation, were seen to rouse from their stupor and blink their eyes unbelievingly at ‘The Wonder Man.’ When our hero caused the villain to kiss the canvas for the fatal ten, one of these three ravens actually committed the critical faux pas of clapping his hands in approval just like an ordinary ticket-buyer. The mistake was overlooked on the part of his fellows owing to the heavy barrage of applause being laid down by a wondering and well-pleased audience.”
“MILLION DOLLAR SMILE”
The Carpentier smile is bound to cause the hearts of several million matinee maids to skip a beat every time it lights up his frankly winning face. His is a personality so accentuated as to overcome the silence of the screen, to reach out and make friends among those who have merely meant to pose in the role of onlookers.
The story? Why tell? Suffice to say it is good, substantial, thrilling, sustained, and that it has to do with the French and the United States Secret Service.