New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-28
On the Screen
The Danger Trail, with Mr..
Warner and Miss Hem
ing, Disappoints

"The Danger Trail" with II. B.
Warner and Violet Heming as the feat
ured players, is rather disappointing,
not because there is not enough Of il,
but rather because there is too much.
The picture seems long succession Of
tying and untying Warner. OF threaten
ing him with death and Of hair
breadth escapes. Once. when he was
about 70 be destroyed by bomb. he
sho; the fuse in two without exploding
the powder.
Miss Heming. too. is disappointing,
for none Of her blonde beauty is APP
parent on the screen and her work
lacks inesse.
on the other hand. there is a fight in
a small cabin which excels in realism.
Warner is John Rowland, a young
civil engineer, who has been placed in
charge Of the construction OF q branch
Of the Hudson Bay Railroad. lie i'm.
mediately becomes involved IN a feud
which started IN previous generation.
and IL il not until the end that they
find that they have the wrong John
Rowland.
The family which has the grievance
consists Of three brothers. Pierre. Max
and Francois Thoreau. and a sister,
Meleese.
The fight, the best part Of the pict-
ure, takes place between Jean Croisset,
played by Lawson Butt, and Mr..
Warner.
There are some wonderful snow
scenes. and some extremely picturesque
dogs figure conspicuously. but the
story lacks continuity as well 2 plsusi-
bility.
A sample programme Of whss
Thomas A. Edison purposes publishing
each week under the title Of Conquest
Pictures" was shown Yesterday.
The programmes will comprise five
reels. and the pictures will be comedy
or dramatic stories of travel, etc. In
each there will be one, two or three
reel pictures and other short subjects.
The first programme included The
Half Back" BIZ Ralph Henry Barbour;
"Puss in Boots" a fairy story told in
silhouette; "A Vanishing Race" which
was a short scenic Of the Blackfoos
Indian Reservation: The Sea Horse" a
study of the peculiar fish: THE Dino
saur and the Missing Link" a most
amusing group Of animated manikins,
and Captains Of Tomorrow" present
ing a dress parade at West Point.
OF these, 1.-THE Half Back" was the
most pretentious. Il was in three
reels. with Yale Boss as Joel March,
the halfback. and proved a most enter
tanning picture, despite the fact that il
had no heroine.
Forthcoming programmes will show
Richard Harding Davis's Gallagher"
Robert Louis Stevenson's kidnapped"
Anna Sewell's BLACK Beauty" Kirk
Munroe's "Under the Great Bear" and
Ralph Henry Barbour's "For the Honor
Of the School"
Treason" Buebird picture. which was
SHOWN yesterday in the projection room, IS
a war story, is scenes laid somewhere in
Europe. The countries were identified Sta
soldiers wore helmets.
The photography Is beautiful. and some
wonderful effects are obtained. Early in the
picture a vast field Of peaceful sheep in
some mysterious manner fades away and
becomes a ghastly battlefield. The fights
are stirring, and those who ike war pictures
and blood and thunder viii ike Treason
but che people in the play are not sufficiently
interesting for one 70 really care what be-
comes Of them.
The men all look pretty much alike and
one wonders how Flora Natarie. the heroine.
knows when she is talking 20 the villain and
when she is entertaining the hero. There IS
little 70 distinguish them.
The best part comes near the end. when
there u p race between two motor cars going
sixty miles an hour. IL appears 10 nave
something 10 do with a stolen code. The
picture has the usual ending. presumably a
happy ending. I.