The modern Cinderella gets the idea that she would like to go to the ball and accordingly she makes herself an Oriental costume from a lamp-shade and a curtain..


A Rural Cinderella is less a pastoral fable than a feverish collage of celluloid thrift, a movie stitched together from chicken-feed sacks and the shimmer of kerosene. Director Rupert Julian—moonlighting from his usual gothic cathedrals—turns a barn into Versailles and a lampshade into haute couture, all before break...

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Erle C. Kenton

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" A Rural Cinderella is less a pastoral fable than a feverish collage of celluloid thrift, a movie stitched together from chicken-feed sacks and the shimmer of kerosene. Director Rupert Julian—moonlighting from his usual gothic cathedrals—turns a barn into Versailles and a lampshade into haute couture, all before breakfast. Louise Fazenda, her arms already legendary for slapstick elasticity, plays the unnamed scullery drudge with a rubber-face that ricochets between abjection and ecstasy in the..."
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