Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-20
STANLEY HAS PICTURE
FULL OF ADVENTURE
Dorothy Dalton at Best In
woman Who Walked Alone."
Other New Films

Stan.ey There Is probably no
woman star now acting in the films who
would have been better choice for the
heroine of "The Woman Who Walked
Alone" than Dorothy Dalton. for the
simple reason that Miss Dalton typifes
the out of doors, adventure and action,
and that's just what this feature pos
scsscs.
There is here Adventure. spelled with
n capital A. but 80 smoothly and artis-
tically done and splendidly acted that
Inconsistencies. nnachronsms and i'm
probabilities land there are some) are
quite forgotten. The picture purports
TO be nothing more than 1t Is - a
mighty entertaining yarn. crammed
with exciting incidcnts-and it never
falls down in its task.
Miss Dalton is seen first as an Eng
lishwoman, Il commoner's daughter
married to an earl whom she does not
love. Compare Director George Mel
fcrd's careful treatment here to that in
beyond the Rocks" Except that
some of the exterior shots look Cali
fornia rather than Britain. the whole
atmosphere is worked up in corking
style. Then the time-worn situation of
the heroine sacrificing herself for n
younger and tlighty sister is used, but
again with credtablc effect. Next we
see Miss Dalton as the proprietress of
South African tavern, Transformed
from the really beautiful titled lady
land we have never seen Miss Dalton
quite so fascinating) to the plainly
dressed. quite ''unfeminine" looking
girl Of the vcldt, where she claims, with
pride, to be 1.-The woman who walks
alone
The love story is quite the best that
| the screen has seen in some time, be-
cause it is neither too casual nor too
highly lowered. Miss Dalton and Mil
, ton Sills, the hero. are both of them
too busy fighting for their lives and
their happiness to indulge In needless
close-ups. but the audience is made to
feel quite clearly the sincerity and
depth of their affection.
Striking pieces of acting arc con-
| tributcd by Mabel Van Buren as wild
and uncivilizcd Beers wife. Cecil Hol-
| Radcliffe as the earl and. especially,
Maurice Flynn as Jock MacKinncy, n
| member of the British South African
mounted police. Wanda Hawley's
blonde beauty is not well brought out
either by camera or story. Miss Dali
ron : personalitv quito dwnr.s : her.
The photography is striking. the
cloud effects being especially note.
worthy. The ycldt is most realistic,
far more so than the English land.
>rapc. Put this down as thrilling
and worth while adventure warn
Arcadia-E,hcl CLAYTON has bod 50
many inferior ricturcs Of late that II is
pleasure TO record one of hers winch
stands nm close tn the ron -notchers. 4
little more expense on tho production
end. and n little more careful dircc-
torinl work in some places would hay.
made For tho Defense" her latest
something TO bc talked o5out,
As If is, this mrlodrnmn bv Elmer
l.. Rice makes film thnt holds the nt-
trntion always and rises with hono
at the end in a courtroom scene whi"S
is actually different. rho vilIninv i.
suppljed IonJ we'll actcd roo bv
Bertram CrnssbyI by Hindu nbvsi.
clan, and il is his murder thai cai,srs
the complications Of the plot and re-
suits in the trial scene.
Both Miss Clayton and Vernon
Steele, who plays the hero, do yeoman
duty, In parts that seem n bit more
human and appealing than most char
acters in melodrama-especially on the