New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-21
MARY PICKF0RD
EATS SPAGHETTI
She Is an italian for a
Time in Poor Little
Peppina."
THE BLACKLIST"
A FINE PICTURE
Film at Strand Suggests the
Colorado Strike-Blanche
Sweet the Star.

Mary Pickford can smile. and smile,
and still eat spaghetti. In Poor Little
Peppina." shown yesterday st the
Broadway, Mary is an Italian Of IF
teen years or thereabouts. She even
sacrifices those glorious curls and be-
comes q boy for a while. II is needless
TO say that she is captivating girl or
boy. with curls or without. To Poor
Little Peppina" she brings every ounce
Of that art fer which she Is famous,
and It must be added that Poor Little
Penpina" needs il. For Kate Jordan has
merely rewritten Cinderella" and
called il her own.
Mary is really Lois Torrens, whose
parents have millions and move IN
limousine society. Soldo and Nillato
kidnap her in infancy, and she is raised
as an Italian peasant Now, Mary
doesn't look any more like an Italian
peasant than Roszika Dolly looks like
Charles f. Hughes. But she contrived
10 act like one, and the audience was
quite willing to be fooled. In the
course Of events her captors endeavor
10 marry her to Padrone Something or
Other, and Mary properly hit him with
q loaf of Italian bread and killed him.
Then she fed, in boys clothes, and
booked as a stOwaway on Vessel
bound for New York.
Now enters Hugh Carroll. Assistant
District Attorney Of the County of New
York. lie comes TO Mary's rescue when
her presence is discovered. and obtains
for her luxurious accommodations II.
tho steerage. Mary Pickford in the
Storage! At her salary. In New YORK
she miraculously contrives TO fall IN
with Soldo and Nillato again, who. II
must be explained. had come TO Amer
/ ica some wears before. They give her
a Job tending bar, with time of oc-
casionally to pass counterfeit money.
But she escapes them and becomes
a messenger in male attire, re-
memberl Then follows her arrest on
the counterfeiting charge. and. as mo-
ton picture luck would have II, the
District Attorney was sick that day
and Hugh Carroll was taking his place.
And so on, and so on, and so on.
Eventually she is restored 10 her mill
jonaire parents, and eventually, also,
she is proposed 10 by Hugh Carroll.
This happens three years later. when
Marv's curls are fully grown again
Poor Little Peppina" is rather trite.
but Mary Pickford manages TO make
IL interesting.
"The Blacklist" at the Strand,
takes for its theme the recent mine
troubles in Colorado. In some partic-
ulars il follows that story closely; in
others it breaks away. 1t marries the
! daughter of a striking miner to the
president Of the concern, for example,
which is a development beyond the
dreams of even Mother Jones.
Despite the improbabilitv of its de-
nouement, however. "The Blacklist"
is a fine, dramatic and really gripping
picture-ouite the best film that the
Strand Theatre has shown in months
4 It depicts the eviction Of the strikers
BY the mine guards. the battle between
/ guards and miners. the firing Of the
tent colony and the death Of women
and children. 1t Is In every sense a
strong flm-up to the marriage Of
president and miners daughter.
/ On the musical programme is THE
! Relgian Refugee Quartet" the msm-
( bers Of which, according to the story,
escaped from the Germans and reached
America via Holland. They sang a
song about Kentucky.