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Even so, however, although American films may satisfy the craving for a time, it will doubtless not be long before native heroes of the silver-screen are developed from home talent. In this event Turkish movie addicts will do well to keep their eyes open, lest they fall victims to the same set of stereotypes which rules the American flock good old standbys like the hero of the range, the poor but-honest scullery maid, and the constantly tuxedoed viper who wrecks the home. If all these characters are transplanted, with local adaptations of course, into the original Osmauli...
Robert E. Sherwood, critic for Life, has written a volume* comprehensively entitled The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-23, also Who's Who in the Movies, and Yearbook of the American Screen. Critic Sherwood himself admits that the value of such a work is questionable. And it is doubtful if the average cinema patron, will care for an appraisal of the best pictures of a year ago, now that they have come and gone. But the book will be of no small value to the professional reviewer of the screen, as well as the earnest student of the cinema...
This entertainment, which combines the motion-picture screen and the speaking-stage, as Mr. Thomas appears personally, has attracted several million people in England, Australia, India, and the few cities in America where it has been given. Lowell Thomas was fortunate in being able to obtain an inside story and take exclusive moving-pictures, colored and otherwise, of this "Last of the Crusades...
...Enchanted Cottage. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play has achieved more Barriesque success on the screen than it did on the stage, due to the discriminating direction of John S. Robertson, who is an old hand at his Barrie. And Richard Barthelmess returns to that enchantmemt for the public which he had in Tol'able David...
...Moral Sinner. This screen version of Leah Kleschna is likely to be viewed as a deliberately unfriendly act by Mr. William A. Brady, since his stage revival of this famed crook drama of 20 years ago is to be presented soon. It is not in the modern mystery vein of underworld plays, the only mystery being why the producers, after having bought the play for its previous standing and exploitation value, changed the name. The only explanation is that paradoxical titles are now in vogue on the screen, following the example of Playwright Shipman on the stage. Shipman might have...