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Her sunny heart changes evil into good
James Oppenheim, the author of this interesting study of the human heart, has shown the spiritual side of his mind rather than the artistic side. In complexion it is very much like Jerome K. Jerome's "The Fourth Floor Back." Not dramatic as a whole, it contains five incidents each dramatic in itself, but really a repetition. Little Annie is a cripple and in the picture she symbolizes human kindliness. Her sunny heart changes evil into good, unconsciously, wherever she goes. She crawls up stairs, five flights; at each landing she comes on people whose hearts are at variance; there's a struggle going on in every instance and the cause of this is some form of evil that is blinding a human mind so that it can't for the time see clearly. Annie is like a light: when she comes, the victim is cured of blindness and recognizes the evil for what it is. In every case her good is shown as overcoming the evil. No, it doesn't convince at all: but it deals with pleasing things. Annie is played by Helen Coughlin; the part didn't need acting, Robert Brower and Mrs. C.J. Williams play her parents; Edna Flugrath and Mrs. Wallace Erskine are the people on the first floor; Bigelow Cooper and Mrs. William Bechtel are on the next; Gertrude McCoy and Harry Beaumont are lovers at odds on the next; Elizabeth Miller and Edna Hamel are on the next and Barry O'Moore is on the fifth floor. - The Moving Picture World, December 21, 1912
- deickemeyer
- Apr 8, 2017
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