The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-01-07
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terly style by Violet Heming, the
young actress who made such favor
able impressions in Three Faces
East and Under Cover"
AS is quite well known. Every
woman" is in the main categorical in
character. The story opens much as
a drama of ordinary life. A beautiful
girl at a bazaar is wooed by a million
aire, an actor and a poor physician.
She is also besieged by the offer of a
stage manager to embrace a dramatic
career. Thereupon the story becomes
a transcript of the journey of Life.
The heroine becomes EverywGman,
the millionaire is wealth, the actor
passion, and other characters bear
similar names. Evarywoman is urged
to go upon the stage of life by Flat
terry to seek King Love. Her long
Journey leads her through many pit
falls, past the temptations of wealth
and passion, until finally she reaches
the humble hut of love, who turns out
to be the young physician.
"PolIyanna"
Critics everywhere assert that POL
lyanna" is one of the greatest picture
plays ever filmed. The reason for
this is hat the philosophy upon which
the story is based constituted a theme
which at the present time has an I'M
usually wide appeal.
Undoubtedly Mary Pickford, with
characteristic far-sightedness, had this
in mind when she chose this celebrat-
ed work as her first vehicle for the
United Artists Corporation.
Diversion is always the paramount
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sidered, but at the same time people
want something big and compelling
something that will drive home a few
truths without preaching a sermon or
spelling the flavor of a show which is
meant to entertain.
Evangeiine
The pictorial presentation of Henry
Wadsworth Longefellow's immortal
poem "Evangeline,' is arousing the
deepest interest among picture goers
for the sublime story of the Acadian
lovers has apparently been read by
all. Evangeline, Gabriel Benedict, Basil
and Father Felician are ~humanized.
They are given the breath of life.
There is no need to outline the poem
All are familiar with it. All have
read it, not once, but many times. And
so it is given lifelike proportions. The
English come and ~dispossess the hap
py villagers. 1t is the wedding morn
of Evangeline and Gabriel and they
are torn apart not to meet again until
old age has crept upon them.
Modern Husbands
In Modern Husbands" Henry l..
Walthall, master-actor of the screen,
finds a role worthy of his talents.
Noted for many remarkable char
acteriZations. Mr.. Walthall was ley
er seer to better advantage than in
the role of Stephen Duane, a wealthy
sto~ckbroker, who, when his family is
broken up by a 'love-pirate," and his
fortune swept away in a stock mar
ket crash. is driven to despair.
When he is about to end it all by
suicide, his mind reacts to a realiza'
ton of the cowardice of self-destruc.
ton, and is visualized in a highly
dramatic and graphic scene in which
his wife appears to him in a vision
recalling him from the depths.
In this scene Walthall has oppor-
tunity for hat acting which has made
him the peer of all actors of the screen
in initiative roles. The regeneration
of Duane and his return to happiness
with his wife are developed through
a series of dramatic episodes of tense
character in which the "love-priate'
is exposed as a forger and turned
over to the police.
The temptations to which a beauti-
full society matron is subjected and
the light and shade of social high life
are exposed in a drama which ~sustains
interest throughout.-Adv.