New-York tribune., 1918-02-21

But it was q good battle. The illus
trIous Mr. Donln was sliding spikes
hrst every inch of the route Between
The two they used up lot of Louis
Quinze furniture and about two hun
drcd dollars worth of marble statu-
ary.
The bulls broke up the battle and
pulled Barrymore off. He had a
crotch hold and a double scissors on
Mike, anyhow. and it didn't seem ncccs-
sary to keep any ono up later. Aris-
ing and dusting himself off, Mike
snarled:
Course yer. They'll stow me away.
but whcn | do me time I'll come back
and got YER!
Barrymore nonchalantly lit a cigar
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All in all, Mike Donlin is a pretty
falr movie actor. Tony Kelly. who
wrote the scenario of "Ra1lcs," didn't
give Mike any the better OF the
breaks, and it looked as though he
called a couple OF bum strikes on the
famous National Lacquer. But Mike
was there or thereabouts most of the
time except at the blow off, when he
does a cuckoo from fourth floor Win
dow. Not even umpires ever gave
Mike a raw deal like that, whatever
their personal desires may have been.
Plays Professional Crook
Mr.. Donln is playing the profess
sional crook in "Rafes," while Mr..
Barrymore is the amateur cracks
man. 1t seems d strange thing there
arc so many professionals in the
crook business when an amateur has
all the better Of it.
An amateur crook has his own mo-
tab and his shofah not to mention his !
town apartments and his country /
home. When he looks at the bankers |
daughter she curls up like a college
diploma and begins calling him Dad (
dy." On the other hand, a protes- I
sional crook according to the NOV
ies-can't walk down a street with.
out stopping every three or four steps
to look behind him. This wastes a
fcssional crook also has to locomote
with his shoulders hunched, besides
wearing a checkcrcd cap and patch
on his trousers. If a Jane makes eyes
at him she has passed forty Or prob
ably has wooden leg.
The Messrs. Donlin and Barrymore
are in pursuit of a diamond necklace
that is owned by dowager who had
more chins than Woolworth has nick
gets the necklace first, but as he is
lamming out of the joint Barrymore
hops on him and they shove Mike
into the dungeon keep
Mike is seen first in the garden Of
an English country home. Like most
English country homes in the movies,
this one had straycd or become los.
and is located over on Long Island.
This makes it handler for the pro-
ducer, while contributing the full
quota of atmosphere
Mike Wears Cap
Mike is wearing a checkered cap
and suit of clothes that seems TO
have been raised on barbed wire
fence. His whiskers are grown out
like he has fallen asleep up at Doyle's.
He buns around in the garden while
a house party of London swells is
bility of a burglar visiting the house
that night. No one of them thought
10 look in the garden or their worst
fears would have been confirmed.
When the house party hits the hay
Mike begins running wild on the bases
He steals the diamond necklace away
from the Duchess of Chins, and, as we
have said, is taking a run-out powder
when Barrymore horns in and spoils
the whole works.
That is where Mike makes that
speech about Course YER" He is sup
posed to be Cockney professional
crook. If for nothing else Cockney
crook should be pinched for his Lam
guage.
Mike escapes from the cell which
the English country home has con-
veniently located in the basement and
he trails the amateur cracksman to
that worthy's apartment in London
London apartments have a way of
over on Park Avenue.
Mike does not go up the elevator
and enter Mr.. Barrymore's apartment
by the front door That would be
altogether too simple, and would i'm {
part an unprofessional touch that
would forever stigmatize Mike as an
amateur. A professional crook should
preserve his professionalism at all :
costs.
Climbs Up Fire Escapes
Consequently Mike climbs a number
of fire escapes until he reaches the
,oof. NO one except a few small bows
Town on Park Avenue observed him. so
t doesn't hurt the plot any Once on
he root he produces a coil of rome
md makes one end of it fast, tossing '
ne other toward the ground Then he III
slides down the rope and enters the
-mateur cracksman's apartment with a :
lear conscience, for he has lived up 5
% every rule of motion picture ethics +
governing professional burglars. t
Sure enough Barrymore is IN bic Y
'partment, and when the amateur secs t
ms rough professional person he
lghts another cigarette and drawls.
Well, my good man. 40
But Mike is in no mood to be good T
canned by Mr.. Barrymore, and he !
lra"s an automatic "gat" and saws. y y
curse yer! have yer." or some. u
hing Cockney like that. '''e- !,
mr. barrymore suggests that thew =
n1rJi oon1 onlss 1, IN the matter of the dia- t,