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...Gets Slapped. It had been venturesome to suggest that the stage version of He could be ameliorated, or even approached by another, least of all by a cinema version. Perhaps that cannot be said now. Yet if the screen was ever moving, if producers have ever credited their patrons with perception sufficient to be delighted by suggestion, by nuance of lighting, gesture and stage-composition, for the expression of valid emotions, then these things have come to pass again. Playwright Andreyev has Victor Seastrom to thank for directing, Lon Chancy for acting, a highly authentic recreation. "He," one recalls...
...screen version of He Who Gets Slapped...
QUEEN CALAFIA-Vicente Blasco Ibanez-Button ($2.00). Ibanez has had excellent motion pictures made from at least two of his romances. The shadow of the silver screen is never lifted from this one. The plot is based on the legend of an Amazonian queen who loved her bitterest foe. In modern Madrid, Conchita Douglas, a woman of spectacular proportions who did not hesitate to demolish bare-handed a sinewy gentleman who caused her annoyance, fell in love with the son of an old enemy. Realizing that she was too old for him, she resolved to sacrifice herself, told him (falsely...
Tarnish. When $70,000 changed masters for the screen rights to Gilbert Emery's play, savants of the celluloid wondered. What would the censors...
...Lily. Principally about an Apache and a little lady of the streets. Apparently all Apaches finally involve themselves with ladies of the street. At least all stage and screen Apaches. They usually do it according to formula as did the Apache in The Red Lily. Since he is Ramon Novarro, there seems to be somewhat more excuse for it than usuaL