“THE CRYSTAL CUP”
DOROTHY MACKAILL’S BEST "What she regards as the most unusual characterisation of her screen career is portrayed by Dorothy Mackaill in the First National Picture, “The Crystal Cup.” Miss Mackaill interprets the role of a girl who is brought to detest men and to rid herself of their attentions makes herself as masculine as possible in dress and mannerisms. Her final awakening to the natural reactions of her sex provides a highly dramatic and unusual plot, which has been taken from the daring novel by Gertrude Atherton. Jack Mulhail, who has proved himself one of the most versatile of good actors, has a very serious role in “The Crystal Cup,” and gives a very fine performance as the hero. Some of the settings are particularly lavish, and the cast is a particularly fine one, including as it does Rockcliffe Fellowes, Jane Winton, Edythe Chapman and Clarissa Selwynne. An intensely dramatic story with some lighter moments in the tightly-knit plot, “The Crystal Cup,” takes its place among the most unusual productions of the year,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 238, 28 December 1927, Page 15
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