New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-14
Despite Drawbacks II Is
Apparently Profitable
in the Films.
LONESOME PINE"
SEEN AT STRAND
Some Good Fighting in Daphne
and the Pirate" at the
knickerbOcker.

Evidently there is money IN The
moonshinng business or so many mo-
tion picture actors wouldn't continue
in IL. !, has its drawbacks, OF course,
for the handsome revenue officer will
inevitably triumph In the end. But it
is a good job while IL lasts. Prac-
tically al that one has to do is to hide
behind a thick clump Of bushes and
poke out q gun once in a while. And
although ones means Of support van
ish with the happy ending, what does
j, really matter? There will he another
scenario writer along in q day or two.
TO qualify as an arch -moonshiner,
however. 10 is necessary at one should
have z daughter She should be cigb-
teen or twenty years Of age and fond Of
running around i'm a Zicgfeld costume.
Somehow it never appens that d moon
sinners only child is a boy. Similarly.
the Bureau Of Internal Revenue never
chances 10 put married man on the
t-sl Of The moorshiners. There is a
special providence that seems TO do
nothing but watch over film producers.
Perhaps 10 is unfair 10 classify John
FoN's "Trail OF the lonesome Pine"
shown this week az the Strand, merely
as another moonshining picture. All
ci the familiar ingredients arc there,
but the author has compounded them
to better purpose than usual. Given
IN onion ard silver OF bacon. a good
cook viii turn out more sppeuzing
dish than viii a poor one.
There are thrills, suspense and good
acting in "The Trail Of the Lonesome
Pine" Charlotte Walker is seea IS
June Tolliver, the role she created in
Iugene Walters dramatization. She is
cf captivating heroine as ever ban
a.Ccd q revenue officers wounds. Tteo-
lore Roberts does excellent work as
the father undoubtedly one of his best
ca -racteriza, iOus since he entered the
Inns. Thomas Ncighan and Earl Fox
also are highly satisfactory.
The heroine Of Daphne and The
Pirate" fights. bites and kicks her wa
through Che picture. Early IN the iilm
it requires ten women and three or four
mer 20 subiugate her: little later she
IcEq Doat'o4d OF pirates. Ana the
hero 81 also q scraDpcr lie is better
fclcer than Lou-Tellcgen claims TO be.
and ho proves it by lighting his way
through q roomfui OF foes, leaving a
.rail Of dead and dying behind him. At
the end OF the picture the nero and the
heroine marry a sequel showing their
lie together ought 20 MAKE good
D.m.
D. would have 20 be d spirited picture,
however. 70 Guido the new film at the
Kn.ckerbocker Even with The efforts
OF the hero and the heroine excluded,
Daphne and the Pirate contains some
OF the best lighting ever seen on q
screen. When the pirate ship CLASHES
with the kings vessel IN mldocean one
sees regular scrap, and when 1T ~ all
over there is some real plank walking
ON the part of the pirates. The whole
thing happened back ia the year lbs,
when q white Wig on male mead 8
ufed gentillty and white towel SIG
uiied piracy u is q bully picture, for
which ID. W. Griffith is said 10 be re
sponsible.
In the acting there was room for IN
nrovcment. Lillian Cish Is scarcely q
s.ar.sdespitc the infeXble rule OF the
profession ,Aat one ls a star when one s
name precedes the name Of the attrac-
ton ir the billing. Miss Gish IS a ca
uable coined eunc, but there her talent
ends. The leading man is Elliott De-
ter. who IS by TO means remarkable
actor