New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
On the Screen
Geraldine Farrar Acts and
Looks Dual Role in New
Play ''Shadows"

Why is ii that Geraldine Farrar
looks so much more handsome as Cora
Lamont than she does as Muricl
Barnes? We tried to explain this with
satisfaction to oursclf as we sat and
watched her work in "Shadows." the
new Goldwyn picture which is being
shown at the Strand this week.
Cora Lamont is a poor girl of the
Alaska music halls, and by poor we do
not mean fallen or anything like that
We mean poor in this worlds goods
and therefore forced to wear neat print
gowns and a cameo pin at her throat.
And yet, in those scenes while she
looks radiantly beautiful as Muriel
Barnes, who is clad in cloth of gold
and strings of pearls, we could see
naught of the beauty for which she is
famed.
"Shadows" is by Willard Mack,
therefore it is good melodrame When
the story opens Muriel and her nus
band are living peacefully in 4 nice
mansion and entel tanning laVishly.
Then along comes Frank Crafty and
he recognizes in his hostess, one, Cora
Lamont, whose picture, his partner,
Jack McGoff, always carries with him.
Frank and Jack are trying to sell d
fake mine to Mur.el's millionaire hus-
band. SO Crafty calls her on the tele-
phone and says, jauntily "Hello Cora!
better persuade your husband to buy
stock in our minc.'
"My God" says Muriel holding her
hand we'll over the transmitter, "who
are you?" and she jerked the hook up
and down frantically. But all she
heard was Central's voice saying
"Waiting?"
Then, although Muriel did persuade
her husband to buy the stock, still
Jack McGotf was not satisfied He
wrote Murel letter saying he would
call on her that night, and Muriel said
AL right" Then she got out ali her
jewels and strewed them around and
when Jack called on her she ere ed
"Police. murder, e]p." and Jack was
shot and killed. SO Murel was rid of
him for ever.
Who was Jack McGoff and what hold
had he on Muriel and why did he call
her Cora? All of this is very salts
factorily explained as Muriel sits and
remlnlSces. What she thinks is thrown
on the screen. Yes, it has been done
before, but it is much more interest
ing than the way they do it on the
stage, where the maid tells the butler
ABOUT 1t as she duStS.
Milton Sills is the husband, Judson
Barnes. Tom Santsch is Jack McGof
and Fred Truesdell is Frank Crafty.
Shadows" and the photoplay is as fine
as anything we have sen. Some of the
night effects are stunning.
On the picture programme is com
edy called Grip and Stitch" The Strand
topical Review and the "Topics of the
Day"
The duet from the second act of
PIRATES of Penzance" is sung by
Mabel Day and Richard Bold. 1t is
done in costume with an elaborate
stage setting
Joseph Mattel sang Molloy's "Kcrry
Dance" and Robcrts's "Madeon." The
overture is from LA Boheme,' with
Carl Edouarde conducting
If you like Priscilla Dean at all
you are going to like her better in
"The Wicked Darling" than in any
thing she has done She is much
more human, and not once does she
wear her hair so that it makes her
head look like a scrap basket, filled
with excelsior.
"The Wicked Darling" is called "The
Gutter Rose" which means that she
steals and lies, and does most every
thing that she shouldn't and then she
loses heel off her slipper and the
prince finds it and love comes into
her life
Virtue is always attractive when it
springs phnnixlike from the ashes
made by an incnerated female heart,
and when "The Gutter Rose" returned
an $4,000 string of pearls, one knew
that she had had love thrust upon
her and had achieved virtue.
"Thc Wicked Darling" isn't really
as wicked as she sounds. and it has
we'll constructed plot, which holds the
interest to the end. Wellington Playtcr
isthe hero. and he is just the sort with
whom Mary, in the natural course of
events, would have fallen in love.
Lon CLANCY is excellent as one villain,
and Spottiswoode Aiken is equally
good as another The production is
by Tad Browning, and the scenario by
Waldemar Young.
On the picture programme are the
Topical Digest. Topics of the Day, a
comedy called "A Kaiser There Was"
and a flying 'icture entitled, 100000
Leagues in the Air" The overture is
Sodcrman's "Joan Of Arc" with James
Bradford directing. II. L.