The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-03
kETNHE MELTING POT" stands
 nobly out as one of the most v individual of a long line of fine

l k6HNHE MELTING POT" stand. noby out as one of the mos 1 4 individual of long line of fine | things in movie land
 It comes to it's point without a side
 step; of course, it has one to come to-
 that always helps; no time is wasted creating atmosphere; it is there, to start with; it all goes to creating the story q slice off of a familiar loaf with diff i ference; the difference will hold anybody { for an evening; even then, it may not l let go.
 l You couldn't have heard pin drop at the Alcazar the evening 1 saw The Melting Pot; even when the last word, "Finis, was flashed the screen, one would never have dreamed of dropping even the pin heads kept still they groped for the idea more than their hats; and there wasn't a wild rush like it usually is when the pictuPe is over, but some how it was just still and quiet and a deep suspense seemed to grip people; the same old suspense after seeing a marvel ous drama on the stage-only different
 ''The Melting Pot is short and bitter
 in a way, but it is very much to the point; the sheer mastery or the photo people in staging and filming Zangwill' s exotic story, makes a magnificent spec tacle; nobody was able to make silly remark during the entire performance like they sometimes do at the movies; 1; the great simplicity of the play and the clover stroke of sending everybody away satisfied-cutchipg the very last word of the scenario-is an art few have mas tered; the people who have done '"The Melting Pot into a film play have done it-plus.
 There's nothing new especially to talk e. NTo1% Dot ic. concerned; we've all read, years ago, MT. Zangwilrs story, and most of us have seen it on the stage, but tne mann rnIng of course, now, is the film drama of this novel and MT. Walker Whiteside as a film star; there's vast difference you know between the "legit' and the screen. In the language of MT. Zangwill, if 1 remember my text correctly, the book treats "of the amalgamation of the races in the making of the American" The theme is the love of young Jewish boy for gentle girl.
 The idea has been tried out before in various books and plays; l don't recall seeing it on the screen, but never before with any distinguished degree of success.
 Mir. Zangwill, cleverer than all the rest, with his intimate knowledge of the life of his own people, has done a mar velous bit of word painting, while the photographers with even more marvellous effect have put into pictures his ideas.
 He has introduced many Jewish cus- torns which the photographers have car ried out with life-like effect, with the idea no doubt of impressing the audience as deeply as possible with the chasm that separates the Jew and the gentle when it comes to question of inter-marriage, and thus produce stranger effect when through the agency of Gods Crucible as he has been pleased to call America the amalgamation is effected, and while all this seems rather far fetched, it serves eXcellently well for a photo drama
 Taken altogether, 'tThe Melting Pot with it's thrilling realities, it's flashing scenic effects it's rivers of blood and murder running deep and dark and crim- son, is the gasp of the movies thus fari
 You can of course gasp with what ever you like. not necessarily with what I've mentioned-that is one of the privil- eges at the movies Mine lowered be- tween indignation and fear. As the story pr progressed, I was afraid the screen peo- pie had the courage of an imagination like mine They switch off the agony as they have before us is Russia, a new Rus sia as Russias go in America Of course
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