Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-30
NEW MOVIE STAR
IN PEGGY HYLAND
Seen at the Stanley in the
Famous Players Film, Saints
and Sinners
By the Photoplay Editor

| OF the three new feature nlms that cam,
TO the downtown picture houses yesterday
one, Saints and Dinners" at the Stanley
presented n new star who Is likely 70 queer
Il over the movies for some time, She Il
| Peggy Hylandi and as her English beauty
| teethes, she has long been n favorite IN ths
| "cinemas" of the British Isles Her per.
formanoe OF the heroine in the film version
or Henry Arthur Jones play was charming
and effective.
The Aim itself was hardly that 1t pro.
gressed steadily along Its not very exciting
| story. But that story was q stage story
| with little or no filrn values Of the sort that
| the screen can and should develop tremen.
dously, IL told the tale of the lover who
tricked the minister's daughter into n com.
promising position and had TO fight another
admirer as a result. That over, II showed
the efforts of money-grabber to force
the minister to aid his dirty plans or be
forced from his pulpit. IL ended UP hap
ruptcy for the money-grabber and a rich
mine for the trusty admlrer. The movies
deserve something, ,hetter.
At any rate. they got good production: /:
some fascinating rivers and pine woods Of
Florida which were quite as un-Englsh as
ployed.
The second half OF the week the Stanley
will present Fannie Ward, in "A Gutter
Magdalene"
The mark of the smalleys is over all the
Blueblrd photoplay. THE Eye of God"
which came to the Regent yesterday. It's
story of a murderer haunted by the fear of
God Ia told with every screen facility for
holding suspense and stirring the imaglna-
tion. II indulges in the many clever double
printlngs, including n representation of the
Eye of God, which fastens beam of light
upon Tyrone Power with ghastly effective
ness. and II rejoices In the novelty OF hand
written leaders" that come as part of the
confession written In prison by the MUIR
derer whom we first encounter as the con-
victed criminal that the film finally makes
him. The result is fascinating effect of
personal narrative. Incidentally, there are
very few OF these leaders" and almost
none Of the old kind.
Tyrone Power does good work
The new flm at the Arcadia, on the other
hand is chock full OF leaders The Market
OF Vain Desire" is almost nothing else II
is we'll acted--especially by that real add.
ton to the screen. II. B. warner-it is
effectively staged, and the leaders are as
decorative as in all Mr.. Inces photoplnys
But its story Of a preacher who saves a
society girl from a loveless marriage with
foreign nobeman by bringing a prostitute
into his pulpit as an object lesson for his
sermon is naturally dependent almost alto
gether on reproducing this sermon in the
printed word.
The last half Of the week the Arcadia will
show another Triangle production, Going
Straight" with Norma Talmadge.
Yesterday the Palace showed "Pasquale,"
Paramount-M -Morosco film, already re-
viewed favorably from it's production at the
Stanley. The last half of the week will
come Sweet Kitty Bellairs," with Mae
Murray,
The Victoria got together 80 admirable
a combination yesterday that It will con-
tinue 1t throughout the whole week II is
w. S. Hart in the Triangle play, THE
Primal Lure" and Charlie Chaplin in "Po-
lice"
All week the Belmont shows Police"
with Charlie Chaplin. In addition on Mon
day and Tuesday there is The Heart of
Paula" with Leonore Ulrich; on wednes-
day and Thursday The Bargain" with W.
S. Hart. and on Friday and Saturday, The
Race" with Victor Moore and Anita King.