Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-30

land, some say, fnest) picture, "Man
best seller.
r1RNEST LUBITSCH was virtually
T. an unknown quantity to American
flmgoers two years ago. Only those
who had been ventureaOme enough to
wander through Europe in the days
inst following the war had run across
lis picturcs, some tawdry, some indif-
fercnt, some strikngly fine.
Then that epochal production, "Pas-
sion," Travelled across the Atlantic Tor
rather "Du Barry" did, since It was
on this side that the
Ivbifcch Is substitute title was
Tno,rn bu inflicted on long
~ T.;,,aS suffering public) and
Ov lr""SS the so called Ger.
man film invasion" had begun. Pas
SION may be considered to. have
made" 20 far rs popularity in this
conntry can "make' anything, both
Pola Ncgri and Ernest Lubitsch.
The second of the great LubItscb
series to reach us was Deception
wherein the director leaped from the
French court Of the sixteenth Louis to
the Tudor period of Britain's history:
trilopv was Zone Arabian Night"
which went to Bagdad and the magic
Eost for its atmosphere, and again had
Pola Ncgri as the magnetic star. Lu-
hitsch's Gypsy Blood" c"Carmcn"
rcnamed) came through other channels
and to many did not bulk as heavily az
the other three.
These four are not the only examples
= Of this directors work shown here.
It's too bad that they are not. Cnfr--
tunatcly, many cheap and inferior pro.
Lo, Irtf tnl s, md
then, sometimes showing unmistaknble
evidences of age and sometimes positive
apns Of having been dashed off in odd
moments rs pOtboilers.
And now we have Lubitsch in
spectacular feature on which he has put
t6e same meticulous care. thnt he Law.
ished on "Du Barry" "Anne Boleyn"
and "Sumurum'' Ito give them ~ the
names they should have had).
"The Loves Of Pharoah" is doubly
Interesting since 1t has Emil Jannings
in the third of his kingly roles. 1t
has been truly said Thy John Barrymore
and othersl that Jannings does not
play the role of king. he is that
king Out in the sand of Hollywood.
dwells .Jannings' only rival in
monarchical sonntions-Ravmond
Hatton, surely one Of the very truest
American film actors. who gave us
the unforgcttable French king Of Far,
nr's Joan Of Arc" ".Montezuma, in
Farrar's Woman God Forgot and is
now the James I. of "To Have and to
Hold"
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