Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 20, 1923

Ashes of Vengeance. Bad though it is, the title of this picture—Norma Talmadge's latest—has one redeeming feature. It seems to have attracted all of the bad taste and cheap sensationalism scattered around the Schenck studios and vented them in one trite expression. The rest of the production is consistently tasteful and enormously worth while.

The large news of a Norma Talmadge picture should concern Norma Talmadge. Accordingly—she is exceedingly beautiful and a moderately good actress. She can command and she can weep. She has a...

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