New-York tribune., 1920-01-05
On the Screen
Norma Talmadge Stars in Screen
Version of "A Daughter of
Two Worlds at Strand
By Harriette Underhill

BY Harriette Underhill
Leroy Scott is indebted to Alasma
lalmadge and Edmund Goulding for
bringing to life the people he con-
celved in "A Daughter of Two Worlds" :"
MISS Talmadge plays the title role
M the screen version of Mr.. Scott's
story, which is the feature at the
strand this week, and Mr.. Goulding
made the adaptation.
we flnlshed reading the story Just
IN time to make the o'clock perform
ince at the Strand and we reall, we're
ANXIOUS to find cut what they had done
with it, for the author had not
bothered about such things as delinea-
t1on OF character. He just went ahead
with the action, and there was plenty
of that
Jennie Malone is much nicer per-
son on the screen than she is in tho
book, and for the benefit of those who
have read the story we shall say that
she wins the hero without resorting
to the forging of Gloria's name or
leading parade down the front stair
case at o'clock in the morning to
catch two people in surreptitious love
affair.
This was the part we could not for
give Jennie-it was much more repre-
...ensible than forging a check or jump
ing her bail, feat which she perform,
| ia the first reel.
beauty, her wit and her fine art. made
Jennie Malone a very real sort of per-
son. But she may be trusted always
TO do that.
Jack Crosby is Kenneth Harrison. the
hero, and in the screen version he re-
mains the hero to the end. At no time
does he betray the slightest disposi-
tion to rob his father or beat his wife,
Instead he is very good young man,
but also very coy one. Perhaps we
are difficult to please, but we do not
like coyness in hero.
Gilbert Rooney is excellent as Harry
Edwards, the man who almost went
to the electric chair because he re-
fused to produce an alibi, and William
Jackson.
Virginia Lee is Sue Harrison, but
we thought her too unnecessarily coy.
Why this wave of naive vivacity
Barry Baxter plays Billy Grayson, her
fiance, but he hasn't as much to do as
one could wish
Frank Sheridan is seen as Black
Jerry, and Ned Burton is Uncle George.
The story might we'll be called the
| fall and rise Of Jennie Malone, for she
starts off as the daughter Of Black
Jerry Malone and ends as the wife Of
Kenneth Harrison. Yes, he was the
coy one, but Jennie was in love with
him and he had oodles of money and
nice parents and home ON Fifth Ave-
nue., SO they threatened to live happy
ever after.
This is Miss Talmadge's first appear
ance as First National star, and
people who are forever crying that the
screen versions are never saticfac-
tory, after one has read the story,
should see "A Daughter of Two
Worlds" They will not be disap-
pointed.
The feature is followed by a Harold
Lloyd comedy called "From Hand to
Mouth"
The overture is Dance of the
the Strand Topical Review, edited by
Jack Eaton; Redferne Hollinshead and
Malcolm McEachern sing Excelsior"
and Eva Leoni is heard in Strauss
Spring Voices"
1t was an afternoon spent with Nor
ma Talmadge, for, after leaving the
Strand, we went across the street to
the Rivoli, and saw "She Loves and
Lies" an adaptation Of Wilkie Collins's
story by the same name. Chester
Withey adapted the story for the
In this Miss Talmadge is seen first as
Marie Calender, "a society favorite," /"
but we should not blame her if she
thought that all the worlds a stage;
being continually called upon to i'm
personate some one. First she is Marie
Dix, an actress, then she is Mrs. Ernest
Lismore, middle-aged woman with
gray hair, and then June Daye, a
Greenwich Village artist.
Of course this jumping lightly from
Fifth Avenue to Sheridan Square and
back again is child's play to Miss
Talmadge, but we must confess that
our dominant thought, as we watched the
picture, was "n1y, but aren't you going
to be handsome middle-aged per-
son!"/ The gray wig and long ear
rings are fascinating and singularly
becoming. The picture is amusing if
not convincing and we rather like the
way Conway Tearle is all at sea, as to
whom he is in love with. If it had
would have considered him bit Of
cad to marry woman for her money
and then go chasing down TO the
village every day to see an artist per-
son who portrayed "Innocence' on can
vas and believed in the fourth dimen-
| sion. But you know the way Tearle
has of making you think it is all right,
!, because he is doing it!
Ida Darling is the aunt who is al
ways reading the cards and telling you
important things like "You are going
to be in light room with dark
man." etc. Phillips Tead is seen in an
amusing role, that of Bob Brummell,
who loves Marie, but finally finds
solace in Polly.
AS vehicle for Miss Talmadge
''She Loves and Lies" seemed quite
inadequate, but the rest of the spec
tators, who were present at the ma
tinee performance, evidently did not
agree with us. They laughed and ap-
plauded vociferously.
There is Christie comedy Go West
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