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White Gold (Jetta Goudal). Old Carson (George Nichols) owns a sheep ranch, these six months blistered by a relentless sun. With his son, Alec (Kenneth Thomson), he herds his woolly treasure on scorched hills. Into their baked monotony the son brings his bride, a young dancing girl of quick spirit (Jetta Goudal). The maddening sun drives them all to exasperation, so that when a tramp herder (George Bancroft), driven by hunger for the bride, forces his way into the room Alec left in a huff, tragedy stalks along with him. The film comes as near to genuine tragedy as anything...
Three Faces East. A mystery play of German espionage in London during the War makes moderately tense diversion. The principal spy is a lovely lady, impersonated by the tall and talented Jetta Goudal...
...famed actor and an unknown player losing and failing respectively is the major item in this film's interest. The star is Godfrey Tearle (brother of Conway Tearle), an English actor of the first rank. In pictures, he flattens out and his personality fades. Opposite him is one Jetta Goudal. In her first leading part, she quite steals the strength of the picture. She is small and seems to resemble a combination of Marilyn Miller and Mary Hay. The picture plays about on the East Side (Manhattan) amid the slums, and pawnshops. The rich man from uptown marries the poor...
...between the lightweight's husband and the rider's street girl is unsatisfying because their faces, not their wits, are in the focus. The scenes are at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris during the closing hours of a six-day bicycle race. Adolphe Menjou, Jetta Goudal and Raymond Griffith offer three of the best performances ever concentrated in one film...
...Dorothy Gish, as the Spanish dancer, le Clavel, seems pitifully miscast. She does her very best with it, but the role simply does not fit her. Richard Barthelmess, as the adventurous young American dandy-hero, is better but not wholly successful. A word should be said in favor of Jetta Gondal who portrays a scintillating Chinese vamp and Anders Randolph as a sinister Spanish captain. The direction is intelligent, the supporting cast splendid and the picture, in general, well worth seeing-what it lacks is a couple of drops of genius-and that is no uncommon lack...