Arizona republican., 1922-06-08
ADJUSTMENTS
DREAM STREET" by
D. v. GRIFFITH IS At
THE R|A[TO SATURDAY

A new idea in screen stories was
given the world when D. w. Griffith
completed Dream Street" the pro-
duction which the Rialto announces
for an engagement starting Saturday.
An idea not only unusual as the
material out of which to construct
gripping photoplay that pulses with
every emotion known to the human
consciousness, but an idea in the tell
ing of which Griffith has reached
the most unusual heights of screen
art.
His players are the personification
of naturalness, every Griffith char
acter is always that-but it seems
this quality is more perfectly ex-
pressed in the relies he has drawn as
the medium of conveying the message
Of Dream Street"
And through this fact, the picture
scintillates with the most advanced
perfection in directorial genius. 1t is
as if the most beautiful poem you
had ever read has suddenly taken
animation and was enacted before
your delighted gaze. so graceful does
the story move from situation to
situation-from climax to climax.
Again it is as if the most powerful
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witnessed had suddenly taken new
form to be conjured up in fancy in
manner intensified a hundred fold.
In other scenes the sheer beauty and
fragile delicacy of Griffith's settings
will inspire an admiration deep root
ed and sincere in it's enthusiasm. And
what perfect mastery of that elusive
element-SuSpenSe- eagerly sought
by every director-does Griffith ex-
hibit in Dream Street.
He has endowed every scene with
the touch that has made him famous
throughout the world as the most
skilful director in motion pictures.
And he has carried that same un-
usualness to the most remote char
acter taking part in the production.
For his entral characters he has
chosen a wonderful girl--a singer in
London music hall-Gypsy Fair
graceful of form. possessed of ravish-
ing beauty. gentle, yet restless. viva
cious. vinsome, fascinating. with a
splash of southern blood in her veins.
Perhaps that was her greatest diff
ficulty, at least it seemed to exert
a powerful influence on her life.
Spike McFadden," powerful in
Drawn. conquers the males with his
fists. the girls he captivates with his
wonderful baritone voice. Singularly
enough his brother. Billy. writes the
songs which Spike sings best. Billy's
temper was a terrible thing. yet his
devotion to his brother thing divine.
Strange elements of contrasts in the
character of the same individual.
Both brothers love Gypsy and so
does Sway Wan, a sleek, cunning
Chinese gambler, and he dreams of
the day he will claim Gypsy to take
her to his land of lilies and blue
nights.
Love for the same girl may often
prove the death knell to mutual love
between men--even--brot espe-
cially where the forces of good and
evil are forever struggling for SUI
premacy.
And in Spike and Billy these forces
were working with vengeance. But
again what constitutes the good and
evil forces save ones own thoughts
for what man thinks he is he is
this truth is as old as the world it.
self, but how many stop to reason
that the destiny of each one is Sc
renely in the individuality of each
mans consciousness.
Griffith has covered these forces
symbolizing them through the me-
dunn of a wandering street psalmist,
humble and good, inspired in his zeal
to give the message of God to the
world, and a nomadic violinist, a
messenger from satan himself as he
fascinates with the evil notes of his
wailing violin.
When GYPSY and Spike and Billy
and Sway Wan are caught in the
conflicting spell of these two widely