Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-20
STANLEY HAS GALA
ANNIVERSARY BILL
ruuckleberry Finn" Well Done,
IA Attraction--Excellen
Films Elsewhere

s.,,,.x--''Huckleberry Finn" comes
genuine treat because 1t contains
~ o,ements Of entertainment requisite
a. a.. tbs screen in a Juvenile story. Read
" - Mark Twain will have no regrets
.,tor viewing this product. Its selec-
.,.r for anniversary week makes 1t
Ill remembered as one OF the high
cots Of the film year.
fps, fpq., as the author wrote his book In
..;uoJic fashion, so has the director.
STPI,;sm D, Taylor, prepared his action
.nn along in similar style. Specta :
10 Iii love his selection OF the actors
tcrs nortray the main characters. while
Wnoh hrr;ef flashes of the impersonator of
ne autbor in his bed with faint vision
w W V,IncLleberry coming toward him ard
ea,ling him the story Is remarkable in
nS nSpsssautfnl ssf is the photography and the
IL. show care in choice and de-
Ps es 20 keen the characters in the proper
~ sont The raft upon. which the boy,
.n. coiored man and the two scoundrcls
.n' from place to place Is good piece
" i;nronerty." The staging of the
hootre scene. in which one Of the scala
us@e makes up as "the Royal None
,"cb, web" >" Is as funny as any that has ap-
neared in comedies. =,
peW,cb praise Is due the individual
actors for their peinstaking effort to
teep the characters true to the pen
nortraits and more will certainly come
n them In the way Of future honors.
E.necially il this so Of the -portrayers
n The Juvenile roles, Lewis ID. Sargent
ard Gordon Griffith,
Special music and quartet greatly
add TO the entertainment.
PaIace-William S. Hart's claim that
'.The Toll Gate" is the best picture he
has made is substantiatcd by the film
itself, Purely from the viewpoint OF
artistic photography. settings. lighting,
camera work. cutting and tinting. the
nicture far outdistances oven such Hart
classics as "Hell's Hinges and John
Petticoats." II has been super bly,
"shot" by that master of photography,
Toe August. with great variety of pic
turesoue western scenes. The picture
Il an exposition Of the soul of a bandit
leader, betrayed by one. of his band and
sworn to revenge until he discovers that
the bandits wife and little boy have
son IL clever as the woman--the hero
does not marry--while the little boy il
cbarmingly enacted by youngster
hitherto unknown to camera fame. Joe
Singleton is somewhat theatrical az the
villain. but Jack Richardson makes an
admirable sheriff. Mack Sennett' s
"The Gingham Girl" rcintroduces
Louise Fazenda in characteristic
rustic part.
Arcadia - The exquisite beauty of
Violet Heming, her adaptability to the
emotional media of expression afforded
by the camera, and her lucid intelli-
gence and sympathetic personality make
"The Cost an interesting picture,
Miss Heming gets small help from
the author. the late David Graham Phil
lips, whose novel carries little convic-
ton, although the director, Harley
Knoles, has rendered signal artistic
service. ''The Cost" is splendidly set
and lighted. and the acting is generally
efficient.
Victoria-Speed, sometimes melodra-
matte, sometimes unhappily comic. is
the keynote Of Tom. Mix's latest William
Fox release. The Cyclone" Cliff
Smith. the director, has made the ac-
tion of this picture, by Col. Todhunter
Marigold, snappy, and the exteriors.
photographed by Frank Goode, are rood
western vistas. The big thrill of the
piece comes when Mix. on horse of
course, nlunges bodily through n
building several stories to the earth
level The episode is tellingly disclosed
by shooting the sequence straight. with
the side of the building removed in the
fashion of the old time melodra mas,
Colleen Moore is a pretty heroine. while
Henry Herbert acts with surety and
pOise.
iRegent--Harry Houdini's interest for
me average jaded picture fan is merit
eGIy great. The famous Russian self
hoerator has way of accomplishing
camera tricks without the trickery /:
mat is to say, he slips out of handouts,
Iust as he does on the stage, without
any recourse to double printing, stop
camera or the like. Houdini's second
release Excluding the serial in which
ne appeared is Terror Island" 1t
mas been admirably photographed and
Gut' The story, by Arthur Reeve and
.aohn W. Gray, deals with submarine
invention. There are some bully under
sea shots and much exciting action.
capitol - Owen Moore's second Se,z
nick picture is entitled Sooner or
Later. IL was adapted from the short
story, The Woman Hater," by Lewis
H[ HIlen Browne, the scenarist being r
pecll p@ smith and the director, Wesley
.on Ia. production aims singly at the
Mrget of farce, and there is not the
snghtest probability in the happenInrs
Mntnough one must admit that Mr..
moore carries these thin moments off
WIN the grace of a natural born light
@nedlan. He portrays the part OF a
SEohan hater, who. like most Young
osstcnelorS, meets his Waterloo in the
,t,atcIiVe person, of Seena Owen. The
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