The New York herald., 1922-07-31
Gloria SwaHs0n
in Elaborate Movie
Her Gilded Cage
Picture Is Adaptation of Tove
Dreams,' q Musical Com
edy by Ann Nichols.

II one didn't look al ones program at
the Rivoli this week one would declare
that ceci u. De Mile directed Miss
Gloria swa..son's latest vehicle. "Her
Gilded Gage" for It certainly looks as
IL II had gone through the mill of his
adaptation. There Is the same appear
ance of gilt with which his pictures are
so heavily oyerlsid.
Then there is one of those remarka-
BILE and rococo apartments that seem to
exist only in De Mile picture and that
suggest nothing so much as an ancient
palace In Babylon. This one has gates
leading from room to room. just like a
cemetery-or an asylum. Naturally 1t
is inhabited by famous actress, much
of whose fame seems to be based az her
marcelle waves and her lavish gowns.
And there is the usual elaborate and
expensive banquet scene, in which the
diners appear to eat gilt too. They do
the usual extraordinary and meaningless
things. They dine in huge cage, with
a band dressed as birds, while a huge
cat does the latest form of toddle before
them and a trapese artist dressed as a
bird performs tricks above the table,
shedding her feathers the while-which
must have made it interesting to eat the
food,
1t Is only to be expected after this
that the wealthy young man who truly
loves the actress for herself alone
and not because of her Marcel waves
or her lavish gowns-should turn UP un-
expectedly at the old place and find his
dissipated younger brother entertaining
the star and that because Of his en-
bitte-ed taunts about the young woman
the brother should Immediately propose
marriage to her In a sudden fit of chival-
ry. Such is life in the great movies.
Not even about two quarts of cham
payne seem able to drown out this young
mans natural gallantry.
That De Mile air is probably due to
the fact that this Paramount picture
was produced by Sam Wood. This ver-
sion of Ann Nichols's musical comedy,
Love Dreams Is remarkable in
stance Of a play being diverted from Its
original orbit, for the Morosco show was
on Broadway last season hardly long
enough for many persons to know 1t
was a failure. There was some inter-
est attached to Miss Nichols's story OF
the French dancer who, for business
reasors was represented by her press
agent as a furious heartbreaker and
who '.ad a had reputation only on paper
ON the side she looked after her little
crippled sister and loved the fresh coun-
~ air, proving that she was really
, sterling girl at heart and loathed her
regular life as one OF hollow sham, COM
pensated only by the weekly pay en-
| velope.
The play, after an interesting and
dramatic first act, wound UP in typi-
| cal musical comedy finish, and after It's
fashion the photoplay Is just as extraor-
binary, causing one to give thanks tna'
at least the characters don't sing II
has gone through quite process OF re-
| ARRANGEMENT, comprehensive because
IL was evolved from Miss Nichols's
theme by Elmer Harris, put In scenario
| form by Percy Heath. doubtless revised
| by Wood and apparently fixed by Miss
Swanson, so that 1t would have certain
scenes in which she must wear her arma-
ment of gowns.
] Miss Swanson in Vera Michelena'f
role seems to have come closer to sim
! certify at times than before, especially
when she declines champagne This Is
the second picture since Beyond the
Rocks" in which she puts honor above q
large check. and Miss Swanson is really
coming to refuse checks on the screen
beautifully. Harrison Ford and David
Powell do reliable work as the two lead
ing men, while Miss Ann Cornwall Il
appealing without being sentimental ir
the sister role through which Marie Car.
roll twittered. Walter HERS looked like
some press agents one knows, but the
newspaper men portrayed here looked
as IL their only habitat was the movies