? episodes are the red-blooded episodes of the great out-of-doors, and in their swift succession there is cumulative dramatic force. If he does, and from a commercial standpoint "The Cheat" is a better picture than "The Unknown," the movie public should be spanked and kept from indulging in their favorite pastime until they have reformed.For from every point of view "The Unknown" is infinitely superior to "The Cheat." It is all of the things a movie should be-things a movie will have to be to compete with the spoken dra?after the first novelty, which ha?ot ?t lost its spell, has worn ?.It tell a tale of romance in Algeria, a romance unreeled amid exotic scene, so that the imagination is stirred and the ?clang of the Broadway cars sound far away while the film flickers. Lasky knows his public, and what it wants, and then again he may not. Lasky has not seen "The Unknown," he should have the studio folks unreel it for him at once, and see whether he still feels the same about "The Cheat." Perhaps Mr. Lou-Tellegen as the star, was shown.If Mr. The picture was released yesterday through the Paramount program in the Strand, and simultaneously in the Broadway Theatre another Lasky-Paramount picture entitled "The Unknown," with Mr. Lasky, head of the film producing company of that name, wrote his New York offices that in his opinion a picture entitled "The Cheat," for which Fannie Ward acted the principal roƓle, was the finest picture the company had ever produced, and that when it was exhibited he believed Miss Ward would be hailed as a great tragedienne of the screen. Recently from the Lasky Studios in California.
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