New-York tribune., 1917-12-17

I style. He is disagreesble old mser
who has no appreciation of anything
but money, for. even after he tricks
the beautiful Marcia into a marriage
he sets about trying TO divorce her as
soon az he secures the devil stone.
Here he displayed considerab acu.
men. for who could be expected "a
withstand Wallace Reid? Surely not
a fisher maid straight from the land
Of Brittany.
The story has some Inconsistencies
which one has merely to overlook and
60 on enjoying il. For instance, it is
not made plain how Marcia came 10
find the devil stone in the first place
nor how she knew whom to return il
20. Then. too, she displayed unbeliev-
able aptitude for rhetoric, etiquette
and sartorial effects. She graduated
Immediately from fisher maid to a
fine lady.
Miss Farrar looked her best in the
costume Of the fisher maid. Her won
derful hair. flying loose, and the Brit
tany cap were most becoming. As a
matter Of fact, she exemplifies that
beauty unadorned procerb, because she
is really regal beauty, and not mere
ly pretty.
Hobart Bosworth played the part OF
Robert Judson, a man whose pleasure
il was to go around after somebody
had murdered somebody else and hold
magnifyng glass up close to every
thing to find out If there were any
blood stains or finger marks on them.
Any one else would hay e looked ride
ulous doing this. You would have eN-
pected him to exclaim, "Quick, Watson,
the needle" but Hobart Bosworth is
so digniied and sincere that he was
quite convincing in the role.
James Neill, Gustav Won Seyfertltz,
Ernest Joy and Mabel Van Buren, COM
pleted a cast that was more than ade-
quste.
The comedy was "The Unmarried
Look" with Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew.
Gladys Rice sang "Sally in Our AL
ley" and had to respond to a half
dozen encores. James Price offered
Bizet's "Patrie." Bella Uyary offered
zimbalone solo, aid de Ballet" by
Chaminade.
The usual double bill at the Broad
way this week is headed by Violet
Mersereau in "The Girl by the Road
side.7 Violet is the girl. and she hap
pened to be by the roadside because
her horse had stumbled and thrown
her, which gave her chance to make
her appearance on the screen in most
becoming black velvet cap and cunning
white riding breeches. But to, the
credit of the effervescent young star
be IL said that even with such in
centives at no time did she yield TO the
h., lulu
Robert Hill is n nice person, whose
screen name was Pendleton, and he
happened along just in time to MIN
lister to a sprained ankle and carry
Violet into his hunting lodge TO escape
a storm. -,
The second picture is "The High
Sign" with that attractive person, hef-
bert Rawlinson, as the star. Mr.. Raw
linson's best known picture was Tome
Through" Bluebird, which was SHOWN
at the Broadway last season.
In this new picture the star is gwen
annie opportunity TO display his versa
tilitv. He plays sort Of Douglas
Fairbanks role. and. without seeking to
initiate that popular comedian, he plays
it extremely well. ~,
Violet has a brother named Cecil
Owen. who proves TO be merely
whited sepulchre, and before the happy
ending comes Violet finds it necessary
to convict her own brother Of being a
counterfeiter. "The Girl by the Road
side" is one of the best things Miss
Mersereau has ever done.
At the Academy of Music a new Fox
picture called This Is the Life was
shown. H. u