New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-25
On the Screen
Strand Feature Exposes Law
less Practices Of Food
Spectators

Because grapefruit is forty cents
half portion and lobster a dollar and
q half for the same amount, and also
because milk is thirteen cents a quart
and bread ten cents loaf, some one
has written a remarkable play called
@Tbe Public Be Damned" which is
bsirr presented al the strand this week.
Unless YOU have a good grip on your
.emper. do not go 10 see this picture
FOR YOU are going 90 be so enragee
when YOU learn how your hard earned
dollars are being flched from you that
Won are liable 10 get up and smash the
screen. And the worst Of it all Is II
is true. or. as Shakespeare said, lis
true. It's pity, and pity tits It's true
The featured players in "The Public
Be Damned" are Charles Riehman and
Mary Fuller. but this is one case where
the play is not the thing. It is the
truths which it contains that count.
The picture starts of by showing the
uprisings Of the poorer people IN the
large cities. who are becoming quite
elusive merely because they are
hungry. They think that their wages
should be increased, SO that they may
have enough money 10 buy food 10
make them strong enough 10 work 10
earn money TO buy more food. Never
satisfied. these poor people And then
there are the farmers. They, too, are
dissatisfied because il costs them more
10 raise their crops than they can get
for them. They say that 2i2 cents
Quart for milk is too little, and that
the prices which they are offered for
potatoes make the raising Of them an
expensive food. Another lot Of people
ubo are dissatisfied? Where, then, is
the well known optimist? All, here he
is discovered at last, IN the person OF
the food trust. He smokes a fat cigar
and laughs as women and children
not in Belgium, either-are trampled
under foot. In spite Of the old adage
about love being responsible for the
fact that the earth travels through
space, tis really he who makes the
world 90 round.
The picture shows Charles Richman
g. tho man enjoying predatory wealth.
and Mary Fuller as the woman VINO
showed the country d way o'' "a
difficulty.
The Public Be Damned" is most
timely in this period, when the whole
.''- Pr 'VoNi-- 20 wy 60 - ,,.;tb
eng '.' .l-s ~ 49, h., ene,t
'''-' an" our money "a,
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OF. De--lc'N Cd o,,.r
Nm. - 't III en- CO. ,1tro-
S,.oS a.. Sd, c-.,..l',3 ~. triido 4 Gel
linz Fl,-or H,.,l. Win Rennett and
Cisi,e 10 49, rte, ssrc. "Wii o. the
Wigr." and "sf- lads Chloe" and were
enthusis.-.csllv rerciyed John Hen
drieks re,arroe "A soldiers SONG" and
Sally IN Op~ Allev" The comedy is
FATTY Arbuclic ,r bts nov picture. "Thc
Rough House"
must have been difficult 20 get to-
''her a programme which would not
quite cclpscd by Douglas FAR
kss new picture, wild and
Hoolly.' which is being presented at
10 K.aito this week.
Io say that this picture Is entertain
'ng s putting 10 mildly, but II Is dihl-
cut % ind words ia which 70 httingly
ectcrbe Fairbanks performance. If
ono did not know this popular comedian
're would declare that the pictures
we're faxed, for - seems Impossible
.fat any human being could 90 "nat