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...before settling down to a good, but humdrum, existence. This story of a French girl, who works out her salvation by posing for the Madonna and acquiring some of her spiritual quality, might be effective if Charlie Chaplin directed it-and somebody besides Viola Dana played the role. But Lew Cody, Monte Blue and Marjorie Daw help very much in this story, which is The Miracle reversed...
Walker vs. Tendler. In Philadelphia, a ten-round contest for the welterweight title was decided in favor of Champion Mickey Walker, who refused to give Lew Tendler (lefthanded lightweight) the ghost of a chance. Some said that neither man suffered overmuch from exertion. Tendler left the ring without a mark, and Mickey's face was the only part of his anatomy that showed gore...
...that his wife is tarred with the same brush as the defendant, but he manages to get over it. The picture resorts to the favorite current system of wadding up a batch of stellar talent (Sylvia Breamer, Bessie Love, Myrtle Stedman, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Carr and Hobart Bosworth). Lew Cody plays the roue till murder seems highly desirable...
...Melody Man. Lew Fields, after an absence, returned to Broadway, a bit more leisurely, a bit stouter, but still screamingly pathetic. His vehicle (by the hitherto unheard-of Herbert Richard Lorenz) is not brilliantly original, having most of the ancient elements of tear-winning hokum combined into a pathetic story which Lew turns into a highly satisfactory farce-comedy. The platform of the play is an assault on "Tin Pan Alley" and the jazz factories. Franz Henkel (Fields) is an old German composer who showed considerable promise in his youth by writing a Dresden Sonata. A university brawl, in which...
...Melody Man seems to be a jumble of The Music Master, The Show Shop and Potash and Perlmutter, cemented by the unshakeable popularity of Lew Fields...