Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-14
NAZIMOVA THRILLING
IN EYE FOR EYE" FILM
Pauline Frederick Scores at the
Arcadia, While May Allison
Is at the Regent

sTANLEy-,"Eyc for Eye, with Ala NsaimoySS NsanS a.
Henry Kistcmaeker. Metro play
Eye for Eye" will be among the best ten
photoplay productions in the list for TINS
season because it contains all that could be
desired by the most exacting movie ran
There Is n wealth Of dramatic acton
throughout the play without one bit of the
comic relief which some directors would nave
inserted into the scenario. The exceptional
length of this film proves that there can be
no set standard for what Is termed Feature
production" for It takes nearly 1000 feet OF
film to tell the tale effectively.
A French officer is saved from death at
the hands of a band of Arabs by one OF the
women of the tribe. Later this band Is
annihllated by the soldiers and the girl
makes her way to France via travelling
circus. There fate brings her to the place OF
the man she saved in the desert, and she
stays at his home The wife OF the man
elopes with lover and leaves the field clear
to the girl, but not before there is scene
between the nephew Of the man and TINS
desert woman.
ALA Nazinova excels dramatic ac-
tress of the screen because she has the
faculty to portray with mobile features ana
significant gesture emotions for which an
other actress would require many titles.
Never does she seek the center of the action,
and yet when she Is in n scene 1t liz her
personality which makes itself manifest AT
once Other characters are impersonated by
Charles Bryant, Donald Gallaher, Sally
Crute. L. L. Fernandez John Reinhard, Louis
Stern, Charles Eldridge, Hardee Kirkland
and little Miriam Battsta,
There is much TO admire in the pictorial
art of this production, and many of the set
tings bore the marks of reality instead of the
usual studio production. The groupings and
lightngs have been tastefully arranged.
while the designer of the art titles and the
details deserves much credit. The accom-
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"Scherherdzade" was an ideal selection for
the film. The newsweeklies completed the
program.
frcderiSk pirected % by Emile Chau,ard from a
story by f. ". lIornung. Paramount play.
| Eve Unsell made the adaptation of this
cinema from the story by L. W. Hornung,
| and she has retained many Of the dramatic
| points of the tale This is just the style OF
| story in which Pauline Frederick can be cast
| and appear at her best because 1t permits
| of many dramatic scenes OF the sort her
| admirers like to see her portray.
| Married to man she does not love be-
cause of his fondness for drink, she meets a
| pianist residing in the same apartment house
| with herself. Her husband finds these two
| in his home and orders the man out at the
| same time inficting injury to the Wife. who
| leaves him. Later her husband is found dead
| and she is accused of the crime. Then she
| meets benefaCtor who knew her husband
| in Australia, and after many tribulations they
| plight their troth but not before it is found
| the pianist is the culprit. All this is GER
| tainly great movie material for this player.
| The direction Of Emie Chautard is capable.
| Besides Miss Frederick there appear in the
| important parts Wyndom Standing. Ronald
| Bryan. Jack W. johnson, Henry Heaton and
| Nancy Halfway.
REGENT--"He1 Insprationr with May Allison
Tom Geraghty. Metro play.
| There is n clever little idea in this story.
| "IIer Inspiration" and although it has been
| used before in stories IL is here treated in
| such novel way that 1t appears like n new
| plot. 1t centers about an author of play
| who is sent to "A district where there are
| moonshners and revenue officers, and, OF
course the "stlr for which these officials
| are looking. The playwright hero falls II
love with the little girl OF tho camp. bu
| returns to New York for the rehearsals OF
| h,s play. There he finds that the whole
| affair has been staged by the manager oi
| the production and that the little girl of tho
mountain is none other than the actress who
| will play the leading role. And so they were
| married. Rather queer thing that an au'
| thor of a stage production could not tell the
| whole affair was faxed
| May Allison is the alluring heroine of tho
stage and the moonshners little girl. Her.
| bert Heyes has the role of the author, while
! Charles Elder, Jack Brammall and Allen D.
Sears appear in other roles.
vICToRfA-",Treat I'm Rough with Tom Mix
story by Charles Alden Seltzer. Directed b.
Lynn Reynolds. Fox play
| It was n good idea to name this produc-
ton after the slogan which the boys attached
to t,e tank corps of the army, adopted fol-
their classification among the pet names OF
the warriors, because Treat EN- Rough
| aptly describes in n few words the whole
action OF this photoplay. Meodrama of the
western cowboy type is what Is found here
and it has an appeal because Of the daring
tricks performed by the hero and his part
ners.
The director also did the continuity" o
the story and therefore able to handle
the authors ideas to better advantage thar
a director. who must follow the scenario OF
another. The finale of the story is 6
THRILLER" for it shows heavy wagon going
down hill and crashing into n building ir
shlch the villains are hiding. But before al
this there are the customary cattle thieves
and the bad man in love with the heroine
Tom Mix is the cowboy hero, and Jane
for Ter story finds II as well as a lover
Charlie lie Moine, Jack Curtis and Val Pau
are in the support
Educational pictures can be made inter.
esting as well instructive If they are
presented in the manner that Martin T.
Johnson has provided In his effective movies
of the cannibals of the South Pacific, which
is the added attraction.
The Palace has Norma Talmadge in "The
Forbidden City" William S. Hart Is at the
Strand in Branding Broadway" while the
Locust screen reveals Douglas Fairbanks ir
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