Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-07-17 | Page 3 | Charlotte Walker in ''Kindling''

CHARLOnE WALKER IN "IB" New Lasky Feature Picture Released Last Monday Considered Con-sidered Masterpiece. Following the release, July S, of the international spy play, "Tho Clue," with Miss Blanche Sweet as the star, the Jesse L. Lasky FeaturePlay Company Com-pany released through tho Paramount Pictures Corporation Monday, July 12th, the picturization of Charles Ken-yon's Ken-yon's play, "Kindling," by arrangement arrange-ment with E. J. Bowes, with Miss Charlotte Walker as the star. This production, in which Miss Walker makes her debut as a picture actress, is considered by Mr. Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille, director general of the Lasky studios at Hollywood, California, to be one of the masterpieces master-pieces of photodramatlcs. There is a happy co-ordination between the star and the play, Miss Walker's beauty being intensified by the drabness of the East Side tenement localities in which the action of the play takes. place One of the. notable features of IH the lilm-play is the fact that the en- jH tire production was made in Caltfor- H nia, where half an entire city block H of tenements was built and the con- IH gested conditions of New'' York's H crowded section are pictured with all their realism. Charles Kenyon's play, "Kindling" IH comes as near as any native work for tLe stage to be called the "great H American drama." Its fundamentals H are basic. Tt's problems are .the prob- jH lems of existence in- the toneraont and sordid sections of a,ny great H American city. The terrors of parent- IH age in the shims is a thenle which H the play handles fearlessly, yet dis- H