Wid's Filmdom (1921)

Siena rn ee ‘B@ Patera Sunday, September 4, 1921 whiel DAILY Alice Lake in Average Type of Dual Role Story Alice Lake in “THE INFAMOUS MISS REVELL” Metro BS dots a) Ie gedery 28S certs. ai ts Dallas M. Fitzgerald UL PAS oo. ohitee caer tiny ano W. Carey Wonderly pe reetwree OB Yaa een ore ae Arthur J. Zellner CA MIG AMAN oo atace ent seer Roy H. Klaffli AS A WHOLE....Rather tedious production of dual role story; little suspense and entirely too many star close-ups iL Chiewer. 0. F205 ay A little out-of-the-way twist at the start, but usual and rather commonplace for the most part LISS ON legate ers ie Are oe. Average te Ea ene ec tees 1 ape aan es... Satisfactory pe ACL IN Cee PAE. PS oz Average eres DO WO) Kates cos etc ss Satisfactory SAE es Capable in both roles, although she suffers from too many close-ups EO Sten, eR ROR oO, Serge scs+ «« Satisfactory ee LO) RO gas eer ee o. ot kh 2.2 eee Good PUR TLC) be See eer Sr Ee oie. x aa ge «be Good ERA Lily seer Re Ey eens i. 53 All right CHARACTER OF STORY....... Twin sisters; one dies and the other assumes her character to retain fortune for kids PENGTHOUPRODUCTION...... About 5,000 feet Except for a twist a little out of the ordinary at the start of “The Infamous Miss Revell,” this adaptation of. W. Carey Wonderly’s story offers little that is unusual or suspensive in the dual role type of melodrama. For the most part the story, which comes down to a plain sort of romance, the sole point of interest in which is the mistaken identity of the heroine, resolves itself into a rather tedious and close-up-glutted picture. Presumably the director and editor thought it necessary to run an unusually large number of star closeups to differentiate the dual role. However, many of these are altogether superfluous and they have a habit of slowing up the progress of the story that is disconcerting to say the least. Besides the story itself seems of a particularly obxious character. Once the main situation is established there is little in the way of dramatic suspense to come to the spectator’s rescue. Alice Lake appears as both Julien and Paula Revell. They are in hazardous financial circumstances after their father’s death. To earn money for her four younger sisters and brothers, Julien becomes the nurse and traveling companion to Putnam, a wealthy old Putnam dies and leaves his wealth to Julien on the condition man, and so earns an infamous reputation. that she must not marry. whom the money should go, desiring to get his mother and sister out of want, courts the Revell girl, who now lives with the children. Despite the facts of the case, Max finds himself falling in love with the “infamous” lady. He Max Hildreth, Putnam’s nephew, to stops his suit and she, loving him, believes it is her “past” that silences him. She then confesses that she is not Julien but Paula, that Julien had died and that she usurped her character to retain the money for the children, not knowing that she was depriving others of it. Of course the romance ends happily and the money is equally divided. Miss Lake does pleasing, work in the two roles and receives adequate support from Cullen Landis, Jack Saunders, Lydia Knott, Herbert Standing, Alfred Hollingsworth and the four child players. “GEVAERT” Rede Wo FTE Me oat OrGhik Positive—Negative—Colored Positive United States Distributor THE GEVAERT COMPANY OF AMERICA, INc. HOOVEN BUILDING 117 West 46" St., N. Y. City (Wes. Pate) Manufactured by L. GEVAERT & CO. ANTWERP, BELGIUM