New-York tribune., 1918-06-04
On the Screen


are going to be married. We don't
know just when, but they were still
talking it over when we left the Park
Theatre last night, where Stolen
Orders is being presented.
"Stolcn Orders" is William Brady
production. The story is by Charles
Whitaker and the direction by Harley
knowles. That is triumvirate produc-
tive ct the best, so it is not to be won
dcred at that the picture is the most
interesting melodrama we ever saw on
the screen
II IS seldom indeed that one finds
picture SO entirely satisfactory in
every detail. Montagu Love as John
Le Page leaves nothing to be desired.
He IS handsome and manly and ne
plays with 4 directness and a sim
piicity which are delightful. Kitty Cor
don is nicer than we ever have seen
her before. If one saw nothing but
Miss Gordon's clothes the evening
would still be success. She wears
billions of dollars worth of furs,
sabieS, eraline, chinchilla and silver
loA, until 1t Was not to be wondered
at that she found it necessary to raise
some money to pay her bills other
than tnat provided by her husband,
Admiral Gavestcn
KITTY did not really mean to. be a
spy, however. She did steal the papers,
put 1t was only after Jonn lie Page had
persuaded her that he belonged to a
peace society which was trying to end
Sh -, l..
that III giving him the stolen orders
she became the Kaisers aid.
= Inc story is interesting from the
hrst foot OF film and never for one in
slant IS interest allowed to flag. It
starts with John LIE Page working in
the office of loan broker. and right
mere Is an opportune time TO speak cf
the excellent performance o. the peo-
pie in the smaller parts. There were
no programmes, but the man who
played the loan broker was remarkably
-clever.
lie Pages young daughter, Madge
Evans, must have an ocean voyage to
save her life. and, when, through
peculiar and thrilling chain of circum-
stances, John finds the safe omen and
thousands of dollars worth of Jewels
and curious begging to be stolen, he
cannot resist the temptation. He steals
the Things and takes Ruth to Europe,
and then twelve years pass,
I ana an when Ruth is grown up she is June
Elvldge Later she meets Carlyle
Blackwell, who is Kitty Gordon's
brother -ln-law, and they decide to get
married.
But when Admiral Gaveston discov-
ers that the papers are stolen he orders
everyone to be searched and starts
with ms brother, Carlyle. Now brother
Is carrying in his pocket an incrim-
mating letter which German count
has written to Mrs. Gaveston; so,
rather than be searched, he leaps from
the snip into the ocean and swallows
the letter or something. 1t is all very
exciting.
But 1t all comes out right after LIE
Page had attempted to escape in
thing that looked like a Zeppelin But
we didn't understand where he got
this big balloon, nor where he thought
he was going in it. However, being
kept in the dark on those two points
did not even dent our complete enjoy
ment of the story
Sometimes we know a picture is
times we know it isn't good, but we
do like it, but "Stolen Orders" we
know is good and we do like it.
And the Kaiser never got those
"stolen orders" The seal wasn't even
broken.
"The Models Confession" the feat
ure picture at the Broadway this week,
is much nicer than it sounds. 1t isn't
really models confession, unless one
might call the statement made by beau
tiful Mary MacLaren in the last reel a
confession. We could think of much
better name than that for the picture.
Beauty and the Beast" would be good,
for there was a beast who had two
beauties, Mary MacLaren and Edna
Earle.
Mary was model in Armand's
costumery, because she was trailing a
man, but she revealed nothing of her
past until near the end of the picture,
when the car in which she was driving
with this man was sent over a cliff and
he was killed. Then she tells her fiance
why she has been stalking this man
and betrays the fact that she is heiress
to million.
There were some clever and good
looking Juveniles in the picture, but
we couldn't identify them. The produc-
tion is away above the average picture
and the mystery is we'll concealed.
Therefore, we shall tell nothing of the
plot. The model is entitled to make
her own confession. H. u.