Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-26
ADJUSTMENTS
"The Marriage Market" Unusual
Drama of Married Life

drama OF Married IhS
"The Marriage Market" from the
pen of Evelyn Campbell, Columbia
Picture that opened last night at the
Colonial Theatre for a two days
run, is one of the finest pictures
this reviewer has ever seen.
The author of 1.-THE Marriage Mar
ket" hurls a scathing denunciation
at the whims and foibles of our
younger generation; their weak
nesses and strengths.
Here is wildly and sincerely por-
trayed for the first time on any
screen the penchant of our young
folks for jazz and bootleg whiskey;
for "necking parties" and wild
.carousals. The author breaches no
sermon, nor can he be accused of
pointing a moral; but he has taken a
page from life and painted. it on the
screen with glowing, bold strokes.
The plot concerns Theodore Bland,
a charming, impulsive girl, who. at
seventeen, is sent to a finishing
school" by an ambitious mother to
be prepared for a brilliant mar
riage. But Theodora's heart con-
trolls her head and a kindly, gen.
erous nature prompts her to give
protection to a girl who tells her
she is running away from a reform
school. Theodore discovers when
it is too late that the girl is a
murderess, and the ensuing compli-
love interest, are thrilling and I'M
usual to the nth degree.
The acting is superb throughout
Theodore is deliciously portrayed
by Pauline Garon, the little French
fiapper, who made an overnight hit
in Cecil deMille's Adams Rib"
Jack Mulhall, who heads the list of
players, is supported by q cast of
distinction, including Alice Lake.
Shannon Day, late Of the "Follies,"
Jean DeBriac, Mayme Kelso, Vera
Lewis, Willard Louis, Kate Lester
and Mare Robbins.
The Marriage Market was pro-
duced by Harry Cohn, and directed
by Edward J. LeSaint.
Daring, Dazzling Dean Scores in
"Drifting'
Drifting starring Priscilla Dean
at the Opera house, Universal-Jew
production. Cast: Priscilla Dean,
Cassie Cook, Lucille Preston: Matt
Moore, Capt. Arthur Jarvis: Wallace
Reery, Jules Repin; Anna Mae Wong,
Rose Ii: Mile. Rose Dione, Nine.
Polly Woo; j. Farrell Mcdonald,
Murphy; William V. Mong, DR.. Ii:
Bruce Guerin. Bruce Hepburn; Edna
Ticchenor, Molly Norton; Frank
Lanning, Chang Wang; William
Moran, Mr.. Hepburn; Marie de AL
bert Mrs. Hepburn.
Miss Dean impersonates a dramatic
fgure-a woman alone in China with
no friends, no money and no honor
able resources. But she has to use
the resources she possesses to save a
friend from the opium habit. and that
those resources are not honor a BILE
cannot stop her. The whole story is
actuated by the secret romance of
the great opium traffic that is China S
and the world's-curse.
Supporting Miss Dean are Anna
May Wong, cast appropriately as a
beautiful daughter of China, Wallace
Berry, who appears as a leader in the
dope trade, Matt Moore, seen as a
government inspector working under
the guise of mine superintendent,
and J. Farrell Mcdonald, Mile. Rose
Dione, Bruce Guerin, William v.
Mong, Frank Lanning and others.
The casting is unusually accurate
and the performances consequently
lend an atmosphere of realism and
humanness.
A. L. Younger and Tod Browning
adapted the Cotton play and Brown
ing directed. The peculiar nature of
the elaborate sets, the fine technical
direction and the appearance of sew
cral hundred real Chinese extras"
make the picture convincing as well
as entertaining.