New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
New Yorker Always Fares
Badly in Moving
Picture Play.
Drawn AND VIRTUE
OF WEST PREVAIL
Bessie Love Attractive In Hell
to Pay Austin" at the
Rialto.
By HAYWOOD BROUN.

Moving pictures haven't caught up
with things as they are. The films are
striving TO preserve the fallacy tha'
the East is efFete and the West red
and bloody. They wilfully overlook
what soft living and Ford riding have
done to the backbone Of the West.
They neglect the score OF the last
football game between Michigan and
Cornell, the ineptitude Of Carl Nor
ris, the political theories Of William
Jennings Bryan, the attitude of Sena-
tor Works on the submarine issue and
the service aces Of Williams in his
fve-set victory over Johnston.
Nevertheless, whenever 4 picture be-
gins with tall Westerner chopping
down a red oak or juggling a pan OF
gold we know that by and by New
Yorker will be punched on the jaw.
Hell to Pay Austin is the name OF
the film and the hero at the Rialto
Theatre this week. Old He'll To Pays
trip from Gods own country to points
prevailed over no less than five gentle
men in evening clothes whom ne met
in the sort OF New York fiat which
is popular in the movies. But for his
coming Briar Rose would never have
been rescued from the white slavers.
You see, the belief that Western
men are more than match for East
ern ones is bound up with the theory
that Western women are not. These
girls of the plains may ride and shoot,
take whiskey straight and play aces
and Fights judiciously, but not one OF
them can escape unaided from the
hands of a hard-faced woman in
five-room fiat and a peignolr.
He'll To Pay came in time and Briar
Rose was rescued. The film at the
Rialto is quite silly, but that does not
prevent its being amusing and for the
most part well acted II must be said
for the movies that they can furnish
entertainment even in the most puerlle
of Plots. An interesting factor IN the
film is the acting of Bessie Love. Miss
Love was recently seen 70 advantage
with Douglas Fairbanks in Reggie
Mixes In" and she is 4 most winsom
performer, who smiles prettily and
cries very nicely Wilfred Lucas does
good work is He'll To Pay Austin.
According to the Press agent, Paul
inc Frederick chose the part of the
dutiful wife in The Woman in the
Case" at the Strand this week because
she wanted 70 convince her vast picture
public that she was not always bad
woman.
"The playing of this heroine on the
screen" says Miss Frederick, will
serve to break the spell of wickedness
which seems 70 have been cast abou,
me, and it will, | hope, prove to the
public that one can act extremely sweet
as well as extremely naughty, and that
what we do on the screen has nothing
whatever TO do with our real personal
ity. Il would undoubtedly prove quite
a shock TO many people to learn that
live lust like normal person IN per-
fectly sedate Park Avenue apartment
where my mother is general factotum
and that | can cook almost anything
that is cooksble"
We don't think Miss Frederick acts
we'll in The Woman In the Case" but
perhaps she can fry eggs and poach
them, too, we'll wager.
Miss Frederick was quite pleasingly
wicked in a way Of her own when she
PLAYED Bella Donna" for the films
some time back, but Of late she has
picked up a number Of Theda bara
tricks. Waving for the moment the
question of whether or not Theda bara
is the wickedest woman in the world,
the fact remains that she has r1gnt
to be wicked in her own way.
The best thing on the Strand Dill is
His Rival" with Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney
Drew. The short plays which the
Drews have been doing for the last
wear represent just about the best work
being done for the films, as they show
the wide possibilities Of picture farce
which is not mere knockabout.
william Farnum is seen in The End
of the Trail" at the Academy OF Music.
This picture, which is produced by
William Fox, shows Farnum in the role
of trapper. The film marks the &C
tors last appearance in Western role.
Cleo Ridgeley and Wallace Reid are
at the Broadway Theatre in The
House Of the Golden Windows" which
is Famous Players-Lasky production.
S7,5OO,O00 BACKS
NEW FILM COMPANY