New-York tribune., 1918-03-05
On the Screen
Woman and the Law" New
Fllm, Based on the De
Saulles Case

"0man and the Law" V,jl;,n
roN picture, based on the Do sa,,11oa
Ca case IS being shown at the Lyric
heatre for two weeks.
mere are a number Of remarkable
,e@'ures connected with this picture
III 'he hrst place, it is the onlv n;ctnro
We ever have seen where +bo 1aad:,,u
character was played by two different
persons.
noVh slrls who appeared as Mrs Ia
sale are dark, but their personalities
were so different that it was onita
startling to think that Jack never no.
'iced the difference, polygamous though
h was.
we are inclined to think that the
hfst Mrs. La Sale was Winifred Allen
Al'"ough no name appears on the pro-
gramme. The second one, who appears
aleer lapse of six years, is Miriam
cooper. But if Jack did not care. no
one else should, and both girls are
very lovely.
Ramsay Wallace is Jack La Sale,
and II his performance was true to life
no one could doubt that Mrs. Jack was
quite justified in what she did.
Ihe story opens in Chile and shows
blanquetta Del Castillo as child.
Particular attention is called to the
TACT that the maternal instinct is
strongly implanted in her. Even at the
age OF three she is playing with dolls
"hen most modern children are study.
ing Freud.
Jack La Sale is sent by his father
10 reform IN Chile, and after following
the young heiress to Paris he marries
me- against the wishes of her parents.
The fact that he is married makes
little difference in Jacks life. He
maintains an establishment for Miss
Josie Sabel. and even takes little Jack
there to call
divorce is finally arranged. ard
the child is disposed Of by allotting
him TO his mother Tor seven months
III the year and to his father for the
remaining five
loved little children as does the Kai
ser or the wolf who ate up Red Riding
Hood. managed by fraud to get COM
plete possession of the child. Blan
quetta shot him. and n very good thing
too Her father should have done il
IN the tirst reel when he would !
woolng go, only then there would have
peen no picture.
In spite of the fact that the picture
was finished up in a hurry there is no
trace OF 1t in the production, nor in
the titles. which are excellent. The
direction is by Il. a. Walsh.
The other day some one said to Us:
I'm not going to the Rialto this week,
because George Beban is there, in One
More American which simply means
one more Italian. | think he's great,
but he Is always the same" SO we
WISH to state first of all that he is
rot Just the same in his new picture
1t IS true that when the public finds
tnat an actor has Z penchant for some
particular type 1t often refuses to al
low HIM to 90 anything else, and some
times it is Il bit monotonous
But this picture could stand all
alone, even without the star. which is
Z pretty good test. The story is inter
esting, and the cast is so excellent that
II might be classified as all-star Ray
mond datton is seen in Il role quite
different from anything he has done
before He Is Bump Rundle. a prize
fighter, and when one remembers that
1t Is Hatton one can only think. What
splendid actor he Isl" Nice Jack
Holt, who was 1Iatton's rival for the
hand OF Mary Pickford in The Little
American was cast for a part which
did not bring him on the screen often
enough
Helen Eddy, who did such remark
ably good work III His Sweetheart ("
had similar role in the new picture
Camille Ankcwich gave a splendid por-
trayal Of the frightened Italian wife
/ she was far loyelier in her shawl and
earrings than she appeared to be in
her previous picture, Stella Maris'
Beban is as perfect as ever in his
characterization of the Italian Luig.
Ricardo
Like all true lovers of the motion
picture we are a stickler for happy
endings Nv hat boots it to repeat"
that they are not artistic? Perhaps
not, but they are nice and comfort
able. and if people only want to see
life as 1t is they might as we'll stay
home.
So, for the sake of those others who
insist on happy endings, We beg to
state that Boss Regan is apprehended
the nice doctor is vindicaCed, Bump
Rundle is accepted and Luigi and
Maria are reunited
NJ. Desire La Sale sang the pro-
logue to Il Pagliacci" Annie Rosmer
offered another selection from the
Leoncavallo opera. 1t was the Birc.
song The overture is "Capriccio
ltaiien.' The chorus sang Luigi
Derza's "Funicul-Funicula
The comedy is called Sheriff Nelns