"THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE"
Ernst Lubitsch has finished iuX first production for'Warner Brothers,' "The Marriage . Circle." Mary". Pickfordj Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, and other film luminaries who saw the picture were enthusiastic, about it, and acclaimed it as a'■ new departure in the history of screen art. "The Marriage Circle" is added proof of the .versatility,of Ernst Lubitsch as a director, states a correspondent of the "San Francisco Chronicle." After the grand. sweep of "Passion," that made Pola Negri famous, after the alluring romance of "Rosita," that gave a .newrMary: Pickford to tha screen, Liibitsch has this time created an intimate modern society dramarwith a Viennese 'setting and a small of only six people, * consisting of Florence Vidor,' "Marie) Prevost, Monte* Blue, Adolphe: Menjou,: Greighton Hale, and Harry Myers. ■ Not only, is the-story of "The Marriage Circle" very unusual, and full of unexpected twists and turns, but the treatment is also most unique, with its deft mingling of humorous, tragic, and satirical elements. • • .
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 21
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