Cinema

The Law of the Lawless. A tale of gypsies—Continental gypsies who travel in equine caravans and join battle with their Tartar enemies in the final reel. There is much hard riding, nasty leering, passionate gypsy love and gaily colored gypsy skirtings. Its merit is far above that of the average cinema. It is simple, direct and moderately entertaining. The meretricious and the tawdry are conspicuously absent. But just where Dorothy Dalton, the heroine, acquired her fame is a knotty problem. She manages in The Law of the Lawless to let her leading man, Charles de Roche, pick the play up and carry it away with him in every scene.

The Woman with Four Faces. Here is a high temperature drama with all the available horrors worked in to intensify the plot. Although the picture is hardly a propaganda film, ” dope” is the central theme. The present discussion involves a sucession of not unusual situations which are popularly supposed to be ” gripping.” Betty Compson seems to come into her own for the first time in a feature part that fits her so well that whatever may be good or bad in the remainder of the production can be easily disregarded.

Daughters of the Rich. For those who enjoy reading the New York Daily News or the Chicago Tribune, for those who chew gum, for those who say ” Yeh, dearie,” to their ” goil frien’s,” this play was made. There is even a milk bath scene.