New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-03
Hector TurnbulI Lets Her
Sing Silently in His
Moving Picture.
PASSION PULSATES
IN "TEMPTATION"
Mary Pickford Seen to Excellent
Advantage in 1.-THE Founding"
at the Strand.
BY HAYWOOD BROUN.


Perhaps 1t is the California climate.
Or then again IT may be Miss Farrar.
/ Wen wager that when Hector sat here
he did not think in terms Of purple
passion. If he commanded this ma
chine to set down Miss Farrar ad-
vances slowly and playfully twists the
head of Pedro de Cordoba" The Trib-
une typewriter would shrink from his
touch or the 1s62-63 file Of the paper
would tumble upon his head No. sir.
Hector Turnbull never got his inspra-
ton for Temptation" here in our
library.
On the other hand. picture q warmish
day in Southern California There is
a knock at the door and the director
enters accompanied by an intense lady.
Here he remarks casually. els
Geraldine Farrar." Playfully he adds
Now that we gotta her. what are we
goin' to do with her."
Under such circumstances it ia at
least 10 TO that the scenario writer
would run his fingers through his hair.
Put fresh sheet of paper in mis- type
writer and dash off Temptation"
Other people have and will and Hector
Turn0ull has.
In other words. the film which was
shown ~ the Broadway Theatre yes
terday afternoon never quits the beaten
path of screen ard theatre precedent.
1t is quite impossible and decidedly
good fun. The author has imagined
that Geraldine Farrar Is an opera
singer, and he allows her TO sing silent
lv. Her name is Renee Dupree and she
is loved by Julian and Otto. Julian
is an impecunious musician and Otto
is rich opera director. Otto can give
her everything and Julian nothing, so
naturally she hates Otto and adorcs
Julian. Beer in two rooms and n bath
IS better, says Hector, than champagne
10 duplex apartment Renee has that
idea, and she loses her Job with the
opera company because she spurns Otto
Muller.
Julian loses his Job, too, and takes
TO pudding He proves a most indiffer-
ent workman. and is carried home more
alive than dead, but in a critical con-
dition, just the same. The doctor de-
F NAditN lIdb y NlldN Will Nlc unless MS
opera is produced. and Renee attempts
TO persuade Muller TO put the thing on.
He agrees if she will sacrifice herself
TO him. Renee makes the bargain and
the opera is produced, but she is re-
lieved of carrying out her part OF the
agreement by the fact that former
mistress kills Otto just in the nick of
time.
The most amusing scene in the play
shows the loungers i'm low resort
thrust into tears and penitence by
Geraldine Farrsr's rendition of Home,
Sweet Home"
Miss Farrar is an interesting figure
on the screen, but "Temptation" does
not begin TO give her the opportunities
which Carmen" afforded her. Pedro
/ Cordoba plays excelently in her sup
port as Julian. and Theodore Roberts
is sufficiently villanous as Otto Miller.
Mary Pickford can do more with her
nose than most motion picture act
resses can accomplish with mouth. eyes
and hands combined. "The Founding"
at the Strand this week, is moderate
/ ly skilful picture play, in so far as it
tells an interesting story and an eX-
tremely clever one In prsviding Oppor-
tunities for Mary Pickford. Miss Pick
ford plays the part of twelve ear-old
founding, and plays IL as nobody else
in FINLAND could. The remarkable g.
fusion Of childishncss which Miss Pick
ford brings to the spectator in the mo-
ton picture theatre is not dependent
merely on the fact that she is short
/ I'm stature and girlish in figure. She
has many of the tricks Of the child. and
can assume. or appear 70 assume. the
child's point of view in regard to any
given happening.
The programme does not give the
name of the director Of "The Found
ling" but he has done his work ex-
tremely well. A number OF children
are used in the picture to good effect.
but none Of them seems a bit more Of
"A child than Mary Pickford. The play
tells the story Of an artist who aban-
dous his baby when her mother dies
and later seeks out his missing daugh-
ter The head Of the founding asylum
palms off fictitious and wholly un-
suitable daughter at first, but later the
artist gets the genuine Mary Pickiord
article and Is satisfied.
Next to small children, the most
fascinating live objects arc puppies,
and they also play an important part
in the film. They are excellent actors,
entirely devoid of that self-conscious
ness which so often mars the acting
Of the full grown dog.
Marie Doro. in "The Wood Nymph,"
is the feature film at the Knicker-
booker Theatre The plot provides that
she shall wear Greek draperies be
cause she looks particularly well in
Greek draperies. The author Of the
scenario hangs the idea upon the girls
mother, but it is actually his own. Miss
Doro PLAYS the part of Daphne, "a
child Of the forest" She has never
been kissed. That is attended to later
in the film by William Jones. He
comes upon Daphne in the forest and
she takes him for Apollo because he
wears a sport shirt and looks like the
Young men in the clothing advertise
ments.
The climax of the play is reached
when the forest catches fire, and
Daphne and her mother are rescued
while still quite underdone. The res
cue serves to unite Daphne's mother
TO her husband, from whom she had
been separated and puts Daphne into
the arms of William Jones. Much of
the photography is excellent, but the
story is silly. Marie Doro is bit in
sipid. but that could hardly be avoided
in such part. The forest fire scenes
are remarkably thrilling.
Weber and Fields are seen IN IA
miliar stvle of knockabOut comedy
called "The Worst of Enemies" The
explosion of piano In the middle OF
the tank I'm Turkish bath provides
the most interesting feature of the
MAY Bessie Barriscale and Bruce Nc