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...referred to merely as "another mouth to feed." The mouth, in this grim reproduction of Swedish farm life, is a certain Goldie (Norma Shearer) who buys a farm for her parents with funds obtained from a dubious source. Miss Shearer is fair in both senses of the word; Lon Chaney is the dubious source...
...Phantom of the Opera- Universal made a brave attempt to duplicate the success of The Hunchback of Notre Dame with another picture of Lon Chaney and Paris. They built the imposing facade of the Paris Opera House and constructed on various sets a series of ingenious interiors and dungeons. They took their story from the novel of Gaston Leroux and depended on horror chiefly for their entertainment. Though Mr. Chaney wears a more grotesque make-up than ever, the film play seems only pretty good...
...have liked The Unholy Three. It is a crook tale about a ventriloquist, a midget, a strong man, a sap and a girl. The very complicated plot, the murder, the trial and the solution are too intricately contrived for reworking here. They contain hate and happiness, diversion and distress. Lon Chaney plays a ventriloquist who turns into a grandmother...
...ever moving, if producers have ever credited their patrons with perception sufficient to be delighted by suggestion, by nuance of lighting, gesture and stage-composition, for the expression of valid emotions, then these things have come to pass again. Playwright Andreyev has Victor Seastrom to thank for directing, Lon Chancy for acting, a highly authentic recreation. "He," one recalls, is a much-slapped circus clown, beloved by the world only for a buffoonery which he wrings from the shattered, poignant remnant of a life known to none but himself...
...onto the first night threshing-floor and returned an incredibly low per cent of entertainment. Just why the autumn's offerings, while high in quantity, have been meagre in merit no one can explain. The fact remains. Robert Loraine, an English actor of some prominence, was lured from Lon don to play Tiger Cats. He impersonates an "eminent neurologist" who hates his wife mentally and craves her physically. So sharp becomes the inner struggle that he shoots her in the second act. By the end of the evening, they have agreed that they love each other. From every normal...