Show S The Third Degree Given High Nigh Praise e in Following R Review view From Motion Picture News t s i Re ft bye first fint of the photoplay masters master master- s which h the General Film company 1 release by the new service which w wit it it will ill soon Boon inaugurate has r reached the l. l careen een The first public exhibition of r the Lubin five part five part production of O Charles Oharles Kleins Klein's famous drama The Third Degrees Degree was given last Monday at the American theatre second Forty-second street and Eighth avenue New York I- I f City f T Taking this production as es a criterion i 1 the new naw service which will Win endeavor endea r to supply films long enough to furnish an anI Ii I evenings evening's entertainment at nt the rate of I one a a. week will wiIl be enthusiastically re reo s I i The Lubin production of The Third Degree is meritorious enough to compose a satisfactory evenings evening's entertainment enter enter- I in itself Settings and Players Good i r. r This motion picture is tho the result of t ji considerable work For a a. long Jonie time t the Ute forces of the bl big Lubin plant were f j concentrated d upon i it It was produced by Barry Bury ONeil O'Neil then head director The settings e without exception live tun fully up to the tho a demands of the th st story ry f Interiors of the house of Jeffries Sr of the courthouse and policy station ani and ami amian an exceptionally courtroom set I j were noticeable iTo I To secure the players actors and ac tresses were carefully picked from irom the Lubin forces force Gaston Bell lato late of ot oft ott t plays Howard J Jeffries t Jr l J-l while filar Carlotta of a Doti is Anne his wih Robert Dunbar is well WAn cast and aud I does doea some lome fine work as Howard J Jeffries Jet Jef ef fries frier the father with Lillie Leslie as ashi j Ms liis wife Bernard Siegel is a perfect t type e and a II good actor a as Dr Bernstein Others Othell era in the cast are George Soule Spencer as 8 Richard Brewster Brewst r Robert whittier as Robert Unde Underwood Robert Li Graham Jr as u. u bellboy and Bartley tJ McCullum as the police captain McCullum Me- Me Ic Cullum had a a. difficult part The police captain of tb the pIa play possesses a strong hypnotic wilL This idea of forcefulness forceful forceful- ness McCullum tried hard to portray t F The action cUon of the motion picture parallels par allele that of the play which so 80 gripped audiences for a a. lon long ti time mop but the pi picture picture pic pic- ture has hils more material in it U. The action starts before the action a of ot the play did The opening of the tho picture shows young oung Jeffries and Underwood Un Un- V l derwood chums at college Somo Some vel very it good campus scenes are shown Young h J Jeffries tooling feeling too good hurts tho the i feelings of ot eo a waitress Annie Annio in in l a col col- cue The Tho next day goes he-goes in and j I apologizes Incidentally good scenes of ot ofa I Ia a college football game are shown Young Jeffries gets to gambling and is finally naJIy expelled but not before Underwood Under wood has borrowed money from him Howard and the tho waitress now fast friends are married Meanwhile Howards Howard's Howards How Bow ards ard's father father a widower marries a again in the Jad lady being an old dame name of Underwood Under wood and his patron as an art student When Howard brings brings' his wife home his father disowns 1 him m. m Underwood has opened a studio using the name of Mrs Jeffries Sr to dr draw w patronage But he he is caught aught in shady deals with us masterpieces cs She withdraws her support and thill thins things s go o ill for Underwood Underwood Under- Under wood financially Underwood makes a a. alast alast last appeal to Mrs rs Jeffries threatening suicide if she he does oes not Dot come to his aid The Tho fa Third Degree Is 16 Inflicted Meanwhile things have ha-c been goin going from had bad to worse with Howard an and his wife He lIe takes to drinking a again in She gets a job as a waitress in Childs' Childs and takes in washing One night Howard is too convivial He goes to Underwood's Underwood s 's studio to ask uk for the mone money owed him and falls asleep on the sofa At this time Mrs Jeffries Jounce comes in Underwood throws a screen around the he sleeping Howard Aft After r a storm stormy interview Underwood I ma makes es hoof He shoots himself When the police pollee arrive Howard Ho is naturally held for the tho death I Captain Clinton in an impressive scene puts him through the third de- de gr e. e Three men Howard nard the ca casin captain cap cap- tain sin and a stenographer sit in in iu a n. dar dark darkroom darkroom room under a dome domo light aroun around the table across which Underwood fell foU when he ho shot him himself eli Howard finally collapses and a a signed confession is ex ox torte from him In police court ho he is held for the tho murder Both scenes are aro strong The accused man gives s Wll way and falls bUs limp imp he is boo boosted ted up and made to go fO on with the tho confession This happ happens repeatedly Jeffries Sr not only refuses to befriend be be- I friend bi his son eon but will wih not allow his I lawyer yer Brewster to take the tho case Then Annie Annie- tho the wife gets get in her good work l After re repeated efforts and overcoming heartbreaking di discourage discouragements discourage discourage- ments meats she he pains gains a Bro Brewster scar car carrI rI r ram I Iam am not a criminal lawyer he says sas u My r husband is not a criminal s she he e replies Finally he is persuaded to undertake un un- the defense Reconciliation Ends All At the trial the scene is intense Dr Bernstein goes on the stand and d zig I confounds the testimony of the police captain Annio Annie to save the name of the tho other woman says she be is the Mrs Jeffries to whom U Underwood derwood addressed his letter The police ca cap ap tain tarn fights in vain ain vain to hold bold to his bis met meth methods but Howard is freed and he and his W wife wife rush happy happ- from the courtroom Then the wife of Jeffrie Jeffries Sr rises to the occasion by confessing to her ber her husband husband husband hus hus- band that it was she who o visit visited d Un Un- derwood Jeffries Sr r. r shows his hi high h caliber by forgiving her and a general reconciliation follows Tho The whole picture maintains a high pI plans R throughout hout It has the weight of the tho Klein name and nd the success of the tho drama from which it is adapted The adaptation is excellent The picture pic pie ture is one which per se is of great value due The sets Rn nu and acting are good the cast pleasing In addition that Lubin photography and excellent direction direction tion prevail There Ther is nothing more to toay say ay nor is there hero any need to say more From Prom the tho New York Dramatic Mir rort The leThe Third Degree will start the General Film company's new photoplay photoplay photo photoplay play masterpieces masterpieces' series off to a fine fino start With the name and success the play ha hn has already won with the stamp of the Lubin trademark there is ill no doubt of the tho th b big biff success 8 that awaits the photoplay Reviewing The rhe Third Degree is a a. difficult proposition The story tory has already already already al al- al- al ready proven itself b by the tho only real test popular success We are arc therefore there there- therefore fore on only to judge fudge the film presentation as a film The Lubin company has shown sense e in the Hie photoplay seD production production pro pro- ro of the picture The aim nae nas as been never to take tae anything for granted grant grant- ed but to treat the story just as an original original- plot and fully funy eq explain lain every ever minute detail Never at an any time inthe in inthe the tho unfolding of The Third Degree would the spectator be in doubt as to the meaning of tho the action portrayed To achieve this result then the film has l laid laia itself open to the char charge e of ot being too long too slow in its development development develop develop- ment of the crux of ot the plot But tholo aro are points for the ml microscopic critic the tho average spectator Tom Dick or Harry rry will thank think this ot one of ot th the best points point's about th the film the e fact that he heis heis is never in doubt the story is b unfolded clear and true before his eyes It might IIII ht be said that the tho development does dorn not wring the last drop of dramatic tension possible out of the situations furnished by y tho the bare outline of th the tho story Tho The cast of the tho Third De Degree Degree- ee is la isun unusually unusually un usually well balanced and the work e of all en seems to be b singularly wry 1 n i w 4 La Administering the Third Degree a V V VV r 4 r k C Cx Ck x 4 b HL V VV Vt V V 44 V t A 1 v A r. r I t X E N Famous Court Scene eerie in The he Third Degree Baston Bell as Howard Jeffries Jr who by b- means of the II third degree confes confesses es to a murder of which he be is in inthe inthe in inthe the end proven innocent by br the efforts of his hit wife contributes the best work The settin setting show show considerable thought and the dire directors director's tor s 's snork work ork was as fully up to the standard Your Four patrons Mr rf Exhibitor Exhibit r will Jike ike the Third Degree It is s five r reels rel I of satisfaction No attempt has been de deto to o throw the story at the th spectator but rathor rather rather- it unfolds like a a. smoothly smoothly- told novel th the p pages t turning om overdone after the other VI in logical consecutive order W W. |