Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-06

ative of the German secret service,
Professor Krantz. William Boyd Is
the prisoner, Frank Reicher, the pro-
lessor.
The fact that the action takes place
in a new locale for American war
I pictures-a quiet sector behind the
German lines-takes the plot out of
the usual channels and noto My en-
hanceS the drama and melodrama,
but gives a quaint and beautiful set
ting for the romance between setting
for the romance between the star and
Boyd.
| Despite grim danger and thrills
that keep the spectators spine tick
ling and hair ar-rise, the love story
and the comedy element of Her Man
/ o War; predominant. Jimmie Adams,
! Christie comedy star, and his partner
in hilarity, Kay Deslys, supply a
great deal of humor, and the tragic
/ of love interest formed by Miss
| Goudal, Boyd, and Grace Darmond,
/ the latter playing a German countess,
! furnishes still more effective comedy,
/ throughout, up to a really snappy,
happy and satisfactory ending.
Other members of the cast are
! Robert Edeson, Mil1hael Vavitch and
/ Junior Coghlan. Frank Urson direct
/ " ilNi hetIl " w ILL., WHICH WAS
adapted from Fred Jaskson's story by
( Jeanne MACPHERSON and Carrot Fort,
with c. Gardiner Sullivan as produc-
ton editor. Charles Logue repaired
/ the continuity.
Final Two Days
! William Macleod Raine, the noted
author of Western tales, wrote THE
/ Eidin' Rascal" the Universal picture
+ which VIII hrin~ Art Accord to the
/ screen of the opera House, Friday
and Saturday. Supporting Accord
Will be Olive Hasbrouck. Clarence
/ Thompson. William Steele, s. Z. Jen-
ninSs, George Conner. Les Sailor and
Dudley c. Hendricks. The picture
was directed by Cliff Smith.
/ Pauline Starke re- establishes her
claim to public approval by her per-
Torrance in Loves Blindness" the
+ Metro-Goldwyn novel of the same
/ name viii complete the program for
the last two days of the week
She is given a most difficult role
That of 19-year- old girl. who, al
/ though intelligent, WELT and Gull
tured, has been SO shielded from the
world that she would unquestoning
ly enter a marriage arranged by hei
! father to sutton selected by him
Making this situation plausible il
this day and age is a large order
but Miss Starke does II convincingly
Antonio Moreno, as Hubert Culver.
dale, the Eighth Earl of ST. Austel
, who marries the young and beautiful
/ Fanessa Levy. the money lender.
daughter, so that he may negotiate
loan that will save himself from
bankruptcy gives a fine performance
in role that could hardly be sym.
pathetic.
The picture follows with fidelity the
novel from which it was adapted
Lilyan Eastman has the role of the
| Duchess of LincOluWood, the discard
ed flame of Culverdale, and Sam De
Grasse has the part of Benjamin
Levy, the money lender, who barriers
his daughter for social prestige
Nothing more need be said of De
Grasses artistry than that he makes
his role sympathetic. At the end OF
the picture one can readily forgive
him for his treatment Of his daugh-
ter.
The story is set in a background OF
English aristocracy. The settings are
authentic and elaborate, among then
! being some of the most beautiful in
teriors ever seen on the screen. Miss
/ Starke wears many clothes and wears
them well, and there are some
! glimpses of English society functions
and diversions that are highly inter-
esting.