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PLAY OFrORPHANITHRILL INC.* y/But Everything Turns Out as Ex-) | pected for Mary Pickford in“The Foundling”; Censors Frown on “Madame X” Movie.the Bijou Dream for an indefiniterun had perforce to be called off. But Henry W. Savage is not a man to^ be conquered by a handful of censorites, so there is much hope of “Madame X” appearing publiclyin our midst at an early date.Personally J cannot see why “Madame X” succeeds in making such an overwhelming appeal to public sentiment. It is no exaggeration to say that hard-headed men and women of the world weep without shame in the theater while “Madame X” is being played on the stage. I have seen the weeping and been amazed to find it so. The powerful grip with which Brisson’s great drama holds its audiences from curtavn to curtain is not to be wondered at.The attention-arresting intensity of the play is plainly manifest in every heart of the people episode from beginning to end. It is the maudlin condolence betrayed with tears for Madame X the spineless charactered woman, that I cannot understand. Pi*y her? Yes, for her frailties because she is a womanand in her own way unmistakably suffers, but to condone her actions and blame the husband she betrayed? Most decidedly not.MADAME X WEAK. /CACE the truth and admit thatMadeline X is a weak, spineless, selfish creature, sheltered, and forsaken, then gladly will J admit that“Madame X” is a great, a powerful play, losing nothing of strength inBY JUANITA GRAY.|y|AKY PICKFORD in a hearI-string photoplay, “The Foundling,'’ a Paramount picture showing at the New Strand Theater for New Year’s week, is a livable, lovable, kissable, huggable Molly O, a sweet-faced, and wistful-eyed charity orphan clad in an institution regulation dress and taken to the underground kitchen of a boarding house to slave for her daily bread. Mother-starved little Molly O asks only for a wee bit o’ ’ love and is apportioned nothing but hard work. ' *And yet the simply delicious part of this creep-into-your-heart camera playlet is that everything happens just as you want it to. Your heart aches and the tears are closeto your eyes for sympathy of thebrave little orphan’s luckless plight, when livable, loveable Molly O looks up bright-eyed and smiling to pat your eyes dry and leave you glowing with gladness because she has found somebody to be kind to her always and need never be a lonely, loveless little orphan any more.But you mustn’t forget the other little, orphans left behind in the big, cheerless institution that Molly0 came from. They are livable.lovable and lonely, too.* * *“MADAM E X” OBJECT LESSON.R|y|ADAME X!” 1 saw her beforethe censor board saw her, and1 thought that she was good for the people to see—she’s such a splendid object lesson for the idle, discontented—but the censor board did not think the same as I, therefore her reported engagement atthe camera adaptation. The characters, human in their weakness, compel admiration and attention, while tlie episodes, vital and dramatic, follow in natural sequence to a logical close.Dorothy Donnelly, in the titie part, may easily be conceded to be among the few greatest of the dramatic, character players of our day. The poor drug-clouded brain of the destitute derelict is even Ibss capable of a right thought than that of the sheltered child woman respected of husband and friends, but Dor- i othy Donnelly brings a marvelous 'personality and color to the partwhich undoubtedly has much to do J• iwith the record-breaking success of the play.“Madame X,” a Henry W. Savage production now on the Pathe Gold Rooster program, is to be released at an early date, we hope.
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Chicago Examiner
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Tue, Jan 04, 1916
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