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...Sorrows of Satan (Adolphe Menjou). David Wark Griffith, director of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, the man who guided to stardom Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Carol Dempster, the man generally hailed as the "old master" of the cinema, has attempted the sublime. The first few minutes of The Sorrows of Satan do suggest a Miltonic vastness, but shortly thereafter the film settles down to a good little "heart interest" story about love in the tenements. Here, midst Dickens-like poverty and squalor, a pathetic romance almost blossoms into a wedding (Carol Dempster, Ricardo...
...fell in love with one of our loveliest, and was denied the right to marry her because of the exacting demands of royalty. But in the cinema (you have guessed it) he does marry her. England need not be alarmed. The Prince and his kingdom are mythical. And Richard Barthelmess does not resemble the renowned Edward Albert. Not that it matters particularly, since the picture is pretty dull...
...Beautiful City. Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Gish are a remarkably popular couple, and this picture will probably be ap- proved. Mr. Barthelmess plays a poor flower vender in Manhattan- which is the beautiful city. He goes to jail to shield his larcenous brother. Miss Gish is an Irish girl. You can fit in the rest of the pieces yourself...
...given a year or more of life in which to finish his orchestral symphony. The cinema people, for no reason at all, have given the leprosy to his inoffensive little native girl. Five months later they have cured her to make way for the happy ending. Richard Barthelmess played the boy rather badly...
...Toys. Richard Barthelmess and Mary Hay, who cooperate as man and wife, extended their cooperation as hero and heroine of this entertainment and made it generally amusing. They play a newly-wedded pair, have a child, a quarrel or two and finally fall foul of the "other woman." The singular individuality of Miss Hay seems to grow with her experience; Mr. Barthelmess displayed a vein of comedy which most of his previous pictures have not tapped...