Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-03
"A SOLID GOLDEND DI0
AND DASTOLEN pLT1
Humor of Vagabondage and a
Minxhood Featured at.
Stanley and Arcadia
BY the Photoplay Editor

sTANLEY--''Thc Golden Fool" Essan4y
Berthelet. - y MT
Here Is truly delightful picture, quai1
blending fancy and the fun Of realism. AZ
all about young American edition Of eexI
beloved Vagabond" who turns from booooA
ana copy-reading on q newspaper--tO t-
primal sanities" of the open road. In coxllti
posing his little tale the author has follower
almost as many mental paths as his vtv1<l
cious hero. Characters pop UP, cause ue to7
smile and then disappear suddenly and to-
good But the method Of tho story does not
spoil Its effectiveness. which II OF . fresh
winning and whimsical nature BryAAt
Washburn. who might be said to stand Tor
the pleasant prose of movie juvenility, ~
Charles Ray stands for it's more touching
and poetic aspects, IL fitted with n corktng.
part. This he enacts credlbly agTceablyl
and naturally The production Is far htghSe
In quality than any other Essanay the edf
tor has ever seen. and the direction export
assured and polished "The Golden Fool"
Will charm any audience" that bankers tor
good. clean jollity. imaginative trislsueae
and the flavor and scent Of youth.
ASCApIA-"Berrowea rlumsrs" :. Koy,rssr
O. HAWKS Directed by Raymond Z. West
Photographed by Charles Stumar i
Viewed purely as piece OF cornposf'ions|
latest effusioD from tho Incc studio Is quite
as beautiful as anything that company hos
turned out. Costume plays often fail IN.
photoplay.. but usually II is becauHe they
are badly done, with no observance OF
periods and dresses and manners. author
Hawks takes US to Georgian days In ErB-
land introduces us to no less grand per-
son that John Paul Jones, puts Miss Bar
riscale before us in the gliise o. an 1yieh
madcap (the sort that IS continually putsin0
4. til hal rpn0
to convince us Of the veraciousness OF the
locale. The characters. Of course, are h'Rh.
| ly impossible. and to ask us to accept that
old dodge of the girl dressing in a soldiers
uniform without being detected would be IN
sulting except in the most gossamer-like Of
| farces The hero is Irish. too. After four
reels of light comedy, with dash OF slap
stick this hero starts something by fn.'
''aairr manor full of British soldiers, ana
acting in an interesting but insane manner
| common to romantic heroes The director
has been especially happy in his treatmens
| Of camera a-angles, and his sets are big
and imposing and good to look at But
| the right toning for direct interior lighting
isn't washy pink, Mr.. West, but yellow
| which gives body to photography, insteaa
| Of making It look fat Miss Barriscale -
attractive in her patches and silks and RAGS
and dirt A more youthful man might havs
been found for the hero's part, though.
| 'HelTs Bellies new Mutual speCiat lor
| immediate release which shows twenty
minute review of the dress parade and evo-
lutions of the Forty-elghth Highlanders,
| crack Canadian regiment, that fought at
| Vimy Ridge, constitutes one OF the prin-
| cipal picture news features of recent issue.
| The famous regiment appeared In Grant
| Park Chicago, Monday morning, and the
| Mutuals 500-foot picture was screened the
/ same evening.
| The picture shows Colonel ]. s. Dennis
| and his staff receiving American army and
| navy officials and prominent Chcagoans:
| the salute to the United States Naval re-
1 serves, arriving to act as escort; the nag
4 of the Seventy-first New York Regiment.
| being carried across the continent by the
| visitors the march of the Forty-eighth
| down Michigan boulevard escorted by
| mounted police and naval reserves and
| close-ups of the principal officers. Lieu
| tenant Colonel Dennis, Lieutenant Colonel
| c. w. Darling. Lieutenant Aleck Sinclair
| and other interesting personages