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Paths to Paradise. "Darling/' said Raymond Griffith, master crook, to Betty Compson, his accomplice, when their speedy roadster had just eluded 100 motor cops, "I feel we're doing wrong. Let's turn around and take the diamond necklace back where it belongs." They do so; another chase speeds up an excellent comedy...
Locked Doors. Youth (Betty Compson) married to simple senility (Theodore Roberts) falls in love with a young and handsome hero (Theodor von Eltiz). This happens by the side of a trout stream in romantic circumstances that just escape being obvious. From the viewpoint of technique the story gets worse and worse. A red-hot flatiron sets fire to the house at midnight, and, as if this were not ridiculous enough, the young lovers, saying protracted good-byes in the lady's bedroom, persist in arguing as the flames sweep around them. There is the usual insipid ending-divorce...
Garden of Weeds. "Saved by a Man from Syracuse" might have been the secondary title of this adventure. Betty Compson is the young person and that from which she is saved is a sort of country-club harem. There is an insidious individual who backs theatrical productions and swindles big business men as a relaxation. In his garden, country club, harem, is a variety of unfortunate and very lovely young women who have presumably come there from the various assemblies of his revues. He is just about to scalp another soul (subtitle writers are warned that this morbidly mixed metaphor...
...Female. Africa is the setting. A fierce girl supposed to have been nursed by lions, the heroine. A murder of her Boer husband, the climax. A handsome English lion-hunter, the anticlimax. Betty Compson is the female supposed to be so deadly...
...that have lately tried to set the screen on fire. In order to put novelty into it, the heroine is made to say, with the pertinacity of a parrot, "I'm a good girl; I expect a man to make one mistake-but only one." Betty Compson, looking her prettiest, is probably so well-behaved because the picture was directed by her future husband, James Cruze. The story of this girl, angling for a husband among various flirtatious businessmen, gathers headway slowly, as respectably riotous films often do. But it is true to life in that the girl, faced...