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BY KITTY KELLY“THE RESCUE”Written and directed by Ida May Parks; produced by Bluebird; presented at the Casino. jAnne Wetherall............Dorothy PhillipsNell Jerrold....... Gretehen LedererBetty Jerrwld.................Molly MaloneHenriette....................Claire Du BrayMrs. Hendricks Gertrude Aster jKent Wetherall.............William StowellThomas Holland................Lon ChaneygOME photoplays are too good totalk about. They so abound inexcellencies, wrought together insuch perfect blending that to analyze them in words is vandalism. Such is the feeling one takes away from an enthralled observation of “The Rescue,” showing yesterday at the Casino, and, by virtue of good luck, appearing there again to-day.It is a case of woman’s work of such quality as to put that of many a pre-eminent masculine production in the soothing shade. Of its kind, I have seen nothing better. There is a cast of women, headed by Dorothy Phillips, that vital, lovely, intelligent, expressive player; containing Molly Malone, a new type of young girl, pretty, piquant and also intelligent;footed by Gretehen Lederer, gracious,benignant, here beautifully matronly.All are such rounded, easy, splendidwomen, and their actions are directed by one invisible, but who must be of the same caliber,, Ida May Parks, who has led her story to artistic victory.Through the spinning reels she reveals her judgment as perfect, her tarte flawless, her knowledge of womenkind penetrating. For that is the substance of the story. While the incidents deal with love, the contention of the divorced wife and the young girl for the one man—seemingly—the stuff on which the play is builded is human nature enshrined in interesting, intelligent personalities.Adventure is good,' melodrama is catchy, romance is appealing, but for the most forceful photoplays human j nature 'is the material that wrins. ; Here it isn’t the love theme that dom- ( inates, but the different people’s reaction to it. according to their natures. The result is absorbing attention as the matured woman brings all her womanly and actressy arts into play to save the unsophisticated little girl from her divorced husband, while the little girl, thanks to the clever scenarioist, plays her game, which to relate would be unpardonable telling.It’s all a thing of games played within games, so cleverly done thatit takes a keen feeling to realize when the game is not a game, and when it is real. The players, by obvious asides, give nothing away. The only way to know how it is coming out is to be unfortunate enough to drift in at the end of it—and have to sit through two indifferent comedies. But the sitting through is worth it for the rest of the film.In addition to the all-round playing and producing excellencies of the photoplay, there ia an idea in it, which will come to various folk vari* ously, but sanely.BROWNIE VERNON RAWLINSONIUST as you become used to things J filmistic, they get all changed around. Witness, here, Bluebird. Franklyn Farnum and Brownie Vernon will do no more team work after their coming picture, A Stormy Night.” Mr. Farnum will have no regular distracting vis-a-vis, though Joseph de Grasse, taken away from Dorothy Phillips, will direct him. I-Iiss Vernon has gained Herbert Rawlin-son as her companion in cinemac adventures which have been put in the directorial hands of Elmer Clifton.Diamonds, watches, etc. Stewart Co., Credit Jewelers to tne People, 108 N. State,—Advertisement.
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Wed, Aug 08, 1917
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