The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
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l BBWN ' HEN A MAN SEES RED' i: 1 WV a photoplay which suggests Jack London and Req
 Beach at their reddest their rarest and 1 their raciest.
 1 I don't know why color schemes should be given to certain emotions, unless we "emote" in colorful way. We speak of being green with Jealousy" mad as
 blue blazes,' temper at white heat, ' purple with rage" 'blushing pink (which is almost out of date; the act, mean, not the expression), and "see- ing red"; any way the color scheme lends vividness to the emotion, and so it
 goes.
 In the first place, before I tell you
 about the picture play, When Man Sees Red" let me tell you that the Far nrms-William and Dustin-are among my favorite actors, not only on the screen, but on the legitimate stage; these men are what we call born actors"; they look the part; they dress the part: tEey "act" the part. William Farnum has seldom had a picture play which gives him a finer opportunity than
 WneH MdH OeeS IbGu, HlilCi ID dll adaptation of 'The Painted Lady" which had never read, by the way, and am rather glad, because I might have been disappointed, especially if I liked the story
 In When a Man Sees Red' William Farnum, as the hero, Luther Smith, lives up to the title, for he sees red contin- ha of xytp- orous and stirring melodrama, for that's what the picture is-old-fashioned, gen. une. thrilling melodrama, or mellow drammer," and I adore it; the kind that goes with what the advertisements say of 1t, when "red-blooded," wild and woody" and 'sich like" expressions are used.
 Also, When Man Sees Red" Is what I'd call realism; not the kind that Zoa and his followers would call real isn,' but what Jack London and Rex Beach, in their pen pictures of wild, rugged, frenzied life call realism" Some of the scenes are almost brutal, they are 50 real, but they are wonderful all the while
 In the flight" scene, the part of the director is plainly shown, for handled by a less capable person it would have pe1r. gfotesque. just as Geraldine Farrar's s fight scene" in Carmen"
 When Man Sees Red' opens with a white slave" incident, reproduced from a widely read and actual case which oc- cured in or about San Francisco not so very long ago. and which startled the ep tire world.
 A young sailor returns from long cruise to find that his sister has been Kidnapped and murdered on the Barbary coast and that the terrible shock has killed his mother. From that moment the sailor man swears a sort of 'vendeN ta" arrangement, as the Italians would say, and vows he will devote the rest of his life to seeking out and averaging the murderer--the man who was guilty of the awful crime which to him meant dc ub:e sorrow.
 After series of thrilling adventures, the sailor man finds himself Robinson Crusoe-like, stranded on a desert island where his sworn enemy is offering "The Painted Lady, at auction to crowd of savage, murder-loving creatures He falls gleefully upon his victim and stranges him with undis- guised joy, and then resumes his woo- ing of "The Painted Lady" whom he had known under less primitive circum- stances.
 William Farnum is. of course, the brave, courageous, splendid young sailor man, of the rough-and-ready, happy-go-