Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-16
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| Listen, Minska ! remember wher
you went to buyAyour smallish son 8
fiddle. The Teller showed you IA:
Stradivarius' violin for s70o, and you
said: Seven hundred dollars for thai
olden fiddle? Why. / can get 1925
| Stradivrius for whole iot cheaper.
That ran thru my mind as the frs
part of the wonderbar picture HUI.
| moresque' got unfolded And the
father Of the smallish boy. just like
in your own life, objected TO spending
81 for the boys future. That was thu
thoight, like l said. in the first par
| of the picture. As the picture was
| getting later much difference ideas
1 took hold of me.
Its three In one kind of film
this 'Humores1ue'-your eyes. head
and heart are on the go at the same
time. You claim you got hardening
OF the arteries. Minsk, and you cans
afford to go to Professor Mandelbaum
| about it: well. then. the Criterion
Theyter ought to be reasonable
priced clinic for you. Ii the blood
don't circulate thru them ossified
veins OF yours in that 'Humoresque'
| picture, then. scientifically YOU should
have been dead in 1894. | never in
| ail my gallery days seen more gulp-
ish kind of film. l dunno, this Fan
ME Hurst story, honestly, just .tzoops'
you by the heart right from the very
commencing. But it amt what is
popular called a tear jerker' Minsk !;
that crying that will fog your glasses
Is OF the legitimate kind. Why. /
could imagine then If you're looking
at the film, itself
The cast that handles the work Is
a chempean cless OF ectors. Vera
Gordon, who plays the mama. lebe 1,
IL the finest portraying yet on the
screen Of that kind of II part. When
say the finest l mean the Finest
In Miss Gordon's case. its a one
priced word and can't be mad,
cheaper. It's the first time when !
seen her in the films 'Keinihorri.'
And then again the work OF lit
Bobby Connolly Nin't to be ignored.
You feel like grabbing him in you,
arms and squeezing him-he's periec,
for squeezing purposes. OF course
when he grows up. he amt the same
Teller. 1t takes two to play a mans
full life In the films and that's wha:
Is still bothering the efficiency guys
| in the movie business. But each ector
| and ectress is worth what they are
paying them--in the making Of this
'Humoresque' production.
Alma Rubens is wonderful to looK
at and she adds up to it tone more
I sweeter than the playing of our hero
| ic<n I" ~,
l seen better gepicked types. all thru
the story. than the ones they have
here. It's a story of the East Side
thousands heppen like it every da,
among them people there-people
who could afford to rest on thu
laurels of their past, but are contin.
ually struggling in the present, t.
have the future their browning glory
Such story. Minsk. is Fannie
Hurst's-such a film is the 'Humor.
esque'."-By :Hershfield. the cartoon.
| list.
Pauline Frederick as MADAME X
| One of the greatest stage dramas
of the past decade is Madame X
| by Alexandra Bison. Following an
LuIOpSdil SuCCCoS IL WIS lIduSpldNIeU
on the American stage with Dorothy
Donnelly, sterling emotional actress
in the leading role, and duplicated
the success It had met with abroad.
1t Is a work most admirably adapted
for screen production and when Sam
uel Goldwyn secured the Aim rights
he showed the greatest judgment in
selecting Pauline Frederick for the
leading part. Miss Frederick with
the best schooling on the stage and
screen, and possessed of all the es-
sential qualifications for dramatic
success, could not be excelled in Il
screen version of this great drama.
Presented with care for detail and
with painstaking effort to follow
faithfully the principal threads of
the story, Goldwyn has produced a
great picture Madame X" is the
offering at the Casino theater for
three days, opening Sunday.
Molly Mcintyre is scoring heavily
in Chicago, where she is being seen
in Adam and Eva This comedy
was one Of the brightest things on
Broadway last season and is repeat
ing it's New York success in Chicago.