Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-21 | Page 7 | A Masterpiece of Film Production at the Utah Theatre

A MASTERPIECE OF FILM PRODUCTIOWAT TI UTAH THEATRE Alice Joyce Exhibits Fine Art in Latest Picture, 'The Vengeance Ven-geance of Durand" The science of flirtation with its sharps and flats, its lifting of loft eyebrows, eye-brows, its coy glances, its demure shrinking and sidewlso glances, is 'all portrayed to the very limit of the themo at last on the screen. Vitagraph is Issuing a iilm that frankly tears flirtation apart and reveals its anatomy. ana-tomy. This production is entitled "The Vengeance of Durand,"' which will be shown as the feature attracttion at the Utah theatre today, j Alice Joyce, star or the picture, is called upon through some of its most dramatic situations to employ flirtation flirta-tion upon four different men. The young woman is cast as Marlon and later as Beatrice Durand, a bride who commits suicide, and a daughter who works revenge of her mother's death, through flirtation. Tragedy marches along spiritually beside the girl who contrives and applies flirtation. It is a tragedy of her own soul. Beatrice Beat-rice using all the arts and artifices of the vampire, is called on to wreck and destroy the souls of not only unloved courtiers, but that of the man she worships. wor-ships. Miss Joyce through it all conveys con-veys a sub-conscious suggestfon of her sorrow under every smile. In tho end tho girl wins her way against fate and is saved for a happy fulfillment of dreams. In addition to this, is shown a most funny Sunshine comedy. oo