New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-18
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| Lows Will find way.
Little Georgette Bancroft plays the
child in the picture. She is daughte,
Of George Bancroft in real life and
she looks exactly Nike him. Jack Dillon
| plays the uncle, and an excellent bit
OF acting is done by the woman who
plays the aunt. Her name Is not on
the program.
"The Journeys End" was adapted by
Mr.. BALM from H story called ave
/; Maria" 1t is released by W. w. Hold
kinson. Maria Samson sings AVE
Maria" as a prologue.
Samuel Rothafel presents Julia Glass,
the girl pianist. She plays Liszt's
Hungarian Fantasy aad has to respond
to two encores. Other features are
the Capitol quartet, Gambarelli aud
seph Sheehan, who are heard in duet
from Martha" There is also scenic
called Rome" which really seems
part Of the feature, as many Of The
scenes are laid there.
Herbert Brenon seems to have
particular talent for transferring stage
plays to the screen and leaving them
remain intact. In fact they do not
even seem to lose one dimension. They
are not fiat; they are just as real as
when you see them across the foot.
lights. The people in them live and
breathe and talk, and somehow when
the picture is finished you feel exactly
as you do after you have seen u play.
We cannot explain it. We can only
tell of the results without attempting
to analyze the process
Mr.. Brenon, himself, says that it is
because he follows the play exactly as
it was originally written.
Charming Pollock wrote "The Sign
on the Door" and after Herbert
Brenon put it on the screen he wrote
Mr.. Brenon letter expressing his ap
proval of it, Well. we saw It at the
Strand yesterday and all we can say is
that if Mr.. Pollock had not been salts
fed then he must have been difficult,
indeed, to please.
The picture is long, much longer
thnn most features. but you don't know
this until after it is over and you look
at your watch. The story unfolds step
by step with a fine attention to de-
tail, but it never drags. Mr.. Brenon
has started at the beginning and gone
straight through to the end It is 4
story of innocent women who are be
trayed, of an innocent woman who is
suspected OF murder, Of Il villain who
retains an discriminating photograph
of himself and the heroine, and after
lapse of years threatens to show it
to the husband, who is the hero. The
villain finally attempts to seduce the
young stepdaughter and that is where
he meets his Waterloo The only thing
he didn't do was become impecunious
and try to borrow the wronged hero
ines pearls; sand she didn't sell them
to buy his silence and replace them
with Tecla pearls and then have her
husband find it out when he took them
to the jewelers..
BY that we mean that it had every
thing else in it that might have made
what is called cold stuff, only this didn't
because it was all so we'll done. A few
of the titles were too vehement and
smacked of early melodrama-for in i.
stance, the constant reference to the :
villain as chat beast"
Norma Talmadge is marvelously
colorful and vital and real as Ann
Hunniwell and later as Mrs. LATE /
Regain She is magnificent actress;
we never felt this so much before. Lew
Cody is perfect as the villain and
Charles Richman was effective as the I
husband, only at times he seemed a
little heavy and lacking in sympathy.
Helen Weir is an excellent ingenue
She does not gurgle nor giggle, she is
plquant and she has beautiful hair.
Long may it wave.
Others who did good work were
Augustus Balfour, Paul McAllister and
Robert Agnew. THE sign on the door
is a First National picture"
The overture is Chimes Of Nor
mandy" hudson House SINCE "The
" orld is Waiting for the Sunrise"
Madelaine MacGuigan plays Carmen
Fantasia as violin solo. The comedy
is Snub Pollard in "No Stopover"