New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-13
THE PLOw GIRL"
SEEN AT STRAND
Nae Murray Charming !a in
Film Whose Situations
Are Hackneyed
DEVILS DOUBLE E.,
SHOWN AT RlALIO
Sins of Her Parent Is
This Weeks Academy OF
Music Feature

-,. plow Girl" with Mae Murray
-. ,i,le role. is the feature at the
- this week. Miss Murray is
i.-,ie in the role Of a waif Of South
49,, who comes into her own. She
s,.r,v Of form. beauty Of express
.,3 the beauty Of youth. Fur
- she is cute without ever be-
,cvravatincly so. One does not
=. Miss Murray's euteness. Rather
.,rlsuds 1t. Il is convincing.
srss Plow Girl" is full Of hack
.-,5 situations, but they are handled
,reverly that the play cannot fail
!. ,isase. Theodore Roberts is quite
.,S,rful in the part Of James Var
~ =, ex-bushman Of South Africa,
"a steals Margot from her dying par
-. when she is a baby and forces
~ 70 be q farm drudge. So obnox-
III, does he make himself that when
!, heats Margot for falling down a.
.. though and is in turn beaten by
vno,t Dexter, the theatre rang with
.-,lsyse. Il takes a tense situation
IA virile acting 10 bring forth ap-
,l,vse from q Sunday afternoon audi
e,es 8. the Strand.
Vrio,, Dexter. who is John Stoddard,
Ia. been sent to Africa TO find the
s-,rssauchter OF Lady Brentwood.
ssirras dull as movie lawyers general
r. ave he overlooks the one best bet
"a never dreams that Margot is the
rrl But the audience knew II from
he moment Edyth Chapman said "lf
sbe we're alive now she would be eigh-
teen wears old" Miss Murray did not
look 50 old as that, but il is impossible
10 fool a movie fan. He knows.
Beirr hard pressed for money, Stod-
sa-8 determines 10 substitute Margot,
whom he has purchased from Narley
for $50 for the missing heiress. This
he does. and grandmother and grand
laughter Immediately fall in love with
each other.
Later Marcot becomes conscience
stricken az the deception which is being
praetsed and she tells Lady Brentwood
the true story. Lady Brentwood re-
eeives the news very calmly and the
audience begins TO suspect that maybe
II is going 20 be surprised after all.
Yarley breaks in just at the end Of the
confession. He has read of Margots
social successes and wishes TO share
the gains. John Stoddard, too. arrives
lust in time 20 be led, with the others,
10 a room which is opened for the oc-
,asion, Here a life sized painting OF
Nargot's mother reveals he fact that
the little waif is the real heiress, and
just before Marley died he confessed
Oh. There was then nothing more
needed but q closeup embrace between
The lovers. This was supplied.
Enid Markey called William Hart
at the Rialto yesterday,
Ind he retaliated by calling her saint
and an angel. II was in 1.-THE Devils
Double" that all this took place, and, as
rsual. Satan was much more fascinat-
ing than the saint. Enid Marley, as
Naomi Tarleton, was g0od-in fact, ag~
srayatingiy good.
Naomi is the meek and loving wife
n Van Dyke an artist, who is painting
! picture Of Lucifer, and desires a
model As soon as he says He must
have a lean, evil, saturnine face, with
. firm mouth and cold eyes, a powerful
lace which shows a tortured soul held
Ia leash every one knew he was look
ng FOR William Hart. After he dis
overs him in an Arizona town, whittier
le has gone seeking health, Bowie re-
uses TO pose. preferring to play cards,
boot up towns and drink whiskey.
But after he sees Naomi it is PLAIN
ailng for the artist. She induces
Bowie 10 pose for the picture and en-
lures her husbands insults with a
neekness which should have brought
her an inheritance of the earth.
Most wives. under similar conditions,
rould have told their lord and master
% take Lucifer and 90 TO place where
he would feel most at home. Naomi is
.venged. however. for robber shoots
Ter husband, and she is rescued by
Bowie. whom she has just repulsed.
Later Bowie renews his wooing'
which has become legitimatized by