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...potentate and made good on the confidence he gained from ruling in his dream, has been pretty badly mangled on the screen. Matt Moore, able comedian, is miscast, being for one thing several years too old. The twists of character and the strange development of fantasy are lost. The film descends to the vague and chaotic level of slapstick comedy...
Souls for Sables. The heart sinks at such a title. You can conjure the plot with the most elementary mental work. You know that some poor girl sold herself to some rich man and then was sorry. So she did. Running through the film there is a parallel tale of another girl who almost did the same thing. When girl No. 1 ended with a bullet in her heart, girl No. 2 hurried back to her husband. Claire Windsor is the principal performer...
...imposing facade of the Paris Opera House and constructed on various sets a series of ingenious interiors and dungeons. They took their story from the novel of Gaston Leroux and depended on horror chiefly for their entertainment. Though Mr. Chaney wears a more grotesque make-up than ever, the film play seems only pretty good...
...should make more pictures. She is not only excellent herself; she seems to have a knack of picking stories. George W. McCutcheon's old romance of the fancied Balkan principality comes gorgeously to life in pictures. It is well played, it is exciting. It is, therefore, an unusual film, not to be missed...
Cancer Cinema. Experimental microphotography was progressing toward a point where a cinema film would be made of the life-cycle of the minute organism that causes cancer, but recently discovered (TIME, July 27, MEDICINE). Already pictures had been made of bodies one 250-thousandth of an inch in diameter (one-third the size of any of the microscope-aided eye had ever seen). The short-waved ultraviolet ray will some day be made to carry images of bodies one 500-thousandths of an inch and smaller, by making the photographs in a vacuum.? Mr. J. E. Barnard, hatter-scientist...