Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 16, 1923

Rupert of Hentzau. With the stock of good stories available for the screen rapidly dwindling, one has a frantic desire to call out the National Guard, the Shriners and the Girl Scouts for a solemn processional of thanksgiving when a good novel is cinematized in the manner of living to which its characters are accustomed. Nay, furthermore, these characters themselves are personages; the list: Elaine Hammerstein, Marjorie Daw, Lew Cody, Bert Lytell, Bryant Washburn.

For those who do not know the story from Anthony Hope's novel, it need only be said that...

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