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Miami. A hackneyed story, chiefly notable for its glimpses of the luxury of the famous Florida resort, and for the views of Betty Compson in a one-piece outfit...
Woman to Woman. Betty Compson does better work with the role of a little Montmartre dancer than is usually the case, though the only truly notable feature of the triangular story is the lack of a good, thoroughgoing villain...
...photoplay like this adaptation of John Galsworthy's story, The First and the Last. It is a sensitive and sensible study of the regeneration wrought in each other by two London outcasts, with only a single quotation from holy writ. A little bedraggled mill girl (Betty Compson) comes across the wastrel younger son of a wealthy family (Richard Dix) when the fortunes of both are ebbing away in their cups. Finding a new incentive in each other's love, they are about to depart to the inevitable South Africa. In a struggle with the ex-wastrel, a flashy...
...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...
...Rustle of Silk. Better than average acting is dissipated in the weakly wandering film from Cosmo Hamilton's novel. Betty Compson, Conway Tearle, Anna Nilsson, and Cyril Chadwick are asked to convince the customers that a girl will become a lady's maid simply to bask in the presence of her beloved-the lady's husband. Their love fuses. Finally, the hero becomes Prime Minister. There are flashbacks of Watteau shepherdesses and a few shootings. Out of the conglomerate mass it is possible that there are two or three selected bits which will appeal to everyone. Possibly...