New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-08
SHIPWRECK BEST
In PRIDE CLAM
Mary Pickford a Scotch
Lass i'm Feature Film
at the Strand
NORMA TALMADGE
ON RIALTO SCREEN
Academy Has William
Farnum i'm "The Price
of Silence"

The best scene In 1.-THE Pride Of the
Clam at the Strand this week. is the
shipwreck. Not tho first of these ma
rine disasters, where Mary Pickford
stands on a rockbound shore and
watches her fathers boat dash to pieces
on the rocks; but the second one, where
Mary herself is caught in the hold OF
the unseaworthy old fishing vessel she
had used for a home. Advance stories
we're sent out while the picture was in
the making stating that Miss Pickford
had narrowly escaped death by drown
ing IN this scene. II is easy to believe
after seeing the picture. for il is the
most realistic shipwreck that ever has
graced the screen.
Up to the time Of this narrowing ex-
periencc Marget MacT6vish had led
rather monotonous existence. She
had been provided with only the usual
things to do-driye geese, play with
kittens. jump over brooks and make
tea for father. All Of these she per-
formed in her customary charming
manner. looking as pretty as only Mary
Pickford can look.
Marget was in love with jamie Camp
bell and Jamie was in love with Mar
get. and they might have lived and
died happily IN the little fishing town
had not JAMES foster mother decided
20 write a letter 10 Jamie's real mother,
who proved to be the Countess of Dun
stable. The strangest part OF this re-
lationship was that Jamie looked every
bit as old as his mother, so Marget
could not be blamed for suspecting
that something was wrong when she
found the two in close embrace.
10 was after JAMES parents had in
duccd Marget TO break with her lover
that she cut the moorings OF the old
boat and drifted out to sea. Then
comes the shipwreck, which buoys up
the whole play. If a sinking boat may
be said to buoy anything. jamie had
joined his parents on their yacht. but
his heart was with Marget on the old
fishing boat, so il Is not strange that
when he sees the boat on the horizon
he Immediately recognizes II and sets
out in lifeboat TO rescue his darling
Marget is trapped in the cabin Of the
boat. but jamie rescues her just as the
vessel goes under. And il really goes
under. too The final scene shows
Jamie and Marget wrapped in blankets
and drinking hot lemonade aboard the
Yacht. They had received the neces-
sary parental blessing.
Something which Norma Talmadge
does or something In the way she looks
80. IA .sh no %
emotions suggests NaZimova. IL is par
ticuIarlv noticeable i'm "Panthea," the
uhoto-drama In which she is starring
AZ the Rialto. The play is 40 well cast
that II the characters were merely 20
walk of and on the screen the story
would tell itself. Roger Lytton looks
exactly as Baron de Duisitor should
look. Earle Fox is entirely satisfactory
as Gerard Mordaunt, the disappointed
musician Count Won Stroheim is per
feet as the police lieutenant.
Panthea. the role created by the
beautiful Olga Petrova. is a part full Of
possibilities. Miss Talmadge scores
on every count. She rises 10 great
heights in her scenes with the baron
where she pays the price he demands
for producing her husbands opera.
on the musical programme was
Vicente Ballester. who rendered "Le
Roi de Lahore" and Helen Jeffry, the
violinist, whose Here Kate" was we'll
received. The overture was the ballet
suite from Queen of Sheba.' Among
tho pictures shown were THE Pest, -
with Mr.. and Mrs. Sydney Drew; Lion
Cubs" and the Topical Digest"
"Panthea" viii be shown at the New
York Theatre to-day and tomorrow,
and Miss Talmadge viii appear in per
son.
william Farnum is far too popular
a nerson for one to enjoy seeing him
4 -. p.