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Old Wives for New/The Whispering Chorus
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Of the two films on this disc, my favorite was 'The Whispering Chorus.' It starts out seeming straightforward enough; John and Jane Trimble are having a lot of money problems, and, feeling unable to deal with the humiliation of poverty and the devil on his shoulder any longer, John goes for the short-term solution by embezzling some money from his company. Afraid that the investigation into the mysterious disappearance of this money will implicate him, John goes on the lam and finds a body in a creek, which he uses to fake his own murder, leaving a note which claims he was murdered by Edgar Smith, the man who supposedly made him falsify the books.

Things seem to go well for awhile, but John soon discovers that one problem leads to another, and that what started out as a relatively minor criminal matter (his embezzlement) is now a major catastrophe, as he has to tell lie after lie to stay one step ahead of the authorities and keep up the lie he's forced to live. It gets even worse when Jane eventually decides to remarry, in spite of John's mother believing her son is still alive. Things come to a dramatic head when John can't take it any longer and returns to town. After six years away, with his appearance so changed, with everyone believing he was murdered, is anyone going to recognise him or believe his incredible story? What will be the final outcome of the massive lie he's been living? What will happen to Jane's unknowingly bigamous remarriage? It's amazing that this film was only made in 1918, since it just seems so much more complex and modern than the typical film of the late Teens. It even has the feel of film noir, a genre which was some time yet in coming.

'Old Wives for New' is a much lighter picture, in spite of a dramatic turn the plot takes at one point. Like 'The Whispering Chorus,' it too seems ahead of its time, in this case because of the social and cultural values expressed. Though many people associate things such as flappers, a greater acceptance of divorce, and decadent night life with the Twenties, these things were already around and gaining greater prominence in the World War I era. Like the similar DeMille films 'Don't Change Your Husband' and 'Why Change Your Wife?,' it deals with the subject of spouses who have been together for long enough for at least one of them to have seriously slacked off. The moral of this story too is that you shouldn't let yourself go so much just because you've scored a spouse and don't need to constantly worry about keeping him or her interested in you. Sophy Murdock, the wife in this picture, has definitely let herself go. In a flashback, she appears as an attractive 18 year old girl, but now that she and her husband have two children who are almost grown, she's lazy, frumpy, and overweight, whereas her husband Charles is still youthful-looking and physically fit.

Urged by his son Charley to take a two-week vacation to get away from his failing marriage, Charles gets a fresh outlook on life and the boost of self-confidence he was lacking for so long. On this camping trip, he also falls for Juliet, who is young enough to be his daughter, and though she breaks things off when she discovers his true age and that he's already married, Charles continues to think about her after he returns home and gets his divorce. The plot thickens when he gets caught up in a scandal involving his friend Tom Berkeley, and Juliet's name comes up, even though she had nothing to do with this. How will Charles keep his would-be paramour's reputation clean, and will he reconcile with Sophy or decide to stay divorced and remarry a woman who's barely legal and young enough to be his own daughter?

While these films not be perfectly ideal first silents for someone new to this era, I would recommend the disc to someone interested in lesser-known films from the Teens, or someone who wants to see what Cecil B. DeMille was doing before he became associated with decadent epic films.

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