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...Woman with Four Faces. Here is a high temperature drama with all the available horrors worked in to intensify the plot. Although the picture is hardly a propaganda film, " dope" is the central theme. The present discussion involves a sucession of not unusual situations which are popularly supposed to be " gripping." Betty Compson seems to come into her own for the first time in a feature part that fits her so well that whatever may be good or bad in the remainder of the production can be easily disregarded...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Hollywood and its lovely morons spitted upon a rapier of keen satire, in this history of Merton, the grocery-clerk, who dreamed of being an eight-reel-tragic-feature-film and woke to find himself the most popular low comedian in America...
Next came an illustrated lecture by Colonel B. K. Eustace, noted British sportsman, who, on November 21, described his own experiences in the jungle with the aid of several reels of motion picture film. A week later Mr. B. L. Brasol, former municipal attorney of Petrograd, portrayed the dangers toward which the Bolshevists are heading and pointed out the world disaster which their organization is now seeking to bring about...
...York City and its water-system?a highly melodramatic plot to sugar-coat the pill?and, as usual with Mr. Hughes, the pace of the narrative carries the reader along. The Great American Novel still remains un-written?but Within These Walls will undoubtedly make a lavish and spectacular film...
Chemistry is the subject which Mr. Edison has used in his successful experiments with the pedagogic film. But it remains to be shown whether the irregularities of the French verb can be demonstrated by the silent portrayal of a Parisien in the act of verbal gesticulation...