New-York tribune., 1918-07-29
On the Screen
Doug" airbanks Would Be
Lost if Some One Had Not
Had Camels to Spare

First of all we wish to thank &C. H."
of New York, and ar. S." of "The
Philadelphia North American" for
their kind words. They, at least, do
not agree with "a former fan" and
they approve of all we do. SO they
nave given us courage to do what needs
must be painful task, viz, to speak
disparagingly Of two persons of whom
we have always been extremely fond
Blanche Bates and Douglas Fair
banks.
MISS Bates is at the Strand in a
picture called "The Border Legion" and
Fairbanks is at the Rivoli in an ex-
travaganza called Bound in Morocco. +"
OF Miss Bates and her screen vehicle
more anon-but first let US settle the
case Of the People against Bound in
Morocco"
We do not know now to classify this
picture. So we called it an extrava-
ganza, which may mean anything, only
IN this case it does not. One thing oniy
do we know of the designers of Bound
IN Morocco'-there is madness in their
method.
Now. we do not lack a sense of hu-
NOR, and once upon time Douglas
Falrbanks was the cleverest comedian
on the screen save one. But now he is
never allowed to rest for a moment
He is whirled, shot, stabbed, arrested
bombed and abducted fifty times in
each reel
In the first place George Travelwell'
is discovered in cell fastened to the
wall by steel bars. The title says that
he is much attached to Morocco. Then
some one throws bomb in the window
and Douglas says, George Travelwell
how ever did you get in such q predica-
ment?" And then the story goes on to
tell how George got in sucn a predica-
ment.
1t happens that he was driving his
car peacefully across the Sahara Desert
when a motor cop pursued him and at
tempted to arrest him for speeding
Douglas drove straight ahead and into
a party of Arabs who were summing
themselves on an oasis. Here his car
stuck. but he leaped from the car,
seized the motor cycle and travelled
night and day until he arrived at the
city of Bagdad or somewhere. Here
the daughter of the American Consul is
going to be forced into the harem of
the Sultan, so Doug dresses up as a
harem beauty and throws the Sultan in
the pool and escapes with the girl Of
course they are not allowed to escape
unmolested, and this calls for the Fair
banks stunts all over again.
They finally reach the point where
Douglas is discovered in the cell with
the bomb and he has to be saved
He is.
Some persons must have had lot of
camels and Arabs and sand on their
hands. So they wove them into a
story for Douglas Fairbanks. 1t isn't
fair to Douglas-no, nor to the people
In the cast are Pauline Curley, who
plays the girl; Edythe Chapman, the
mother; Tully Marshall, Ali Pail
Shush, Frank Campeau and Jay Dwig-
gins. Allan Divan wrote and directed
the picture.
The overture is "Bacchanale" from
Samson and Delileh," with "The Merry
Widow as the light opera number
Gladys Rice sang Garry Me Back to
Ole Virginny" and Greek Evans rem
dered "Roses of Picardy."
Hayes Hunter is presenting Miss
Bates at the Strand in "The Border
Legion" an adaptation of Zane Grey's
novel.
We wish we dared to quote the lit
tie boy who sat behind US in the thea
ire, for we agreed with everything he
said, only he put it straight from the