Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-24
FRED STONE EXCELS
IN FILM AT STANLEY
Lila Lee Begins Career as Screen
Star-Tom Mix at Victoria.
Edith Storey at Arcadia

NLEy-.T Goat with Fred stone III,
Frances Marion. Aircraft play.
Fred stones advent into the realm Of
motion pictures is a success. He will un-
doubleday duplicate the popularity among
film devotees which he has heretofore en-
joyed on the musical comedy stage. In "rhe
Goat his first flm. he Is always his own
familiar self. and the camera has recorded
all Of the mannerisms he has made famous.
THE Goat" Is the title applied to the
people who double" for the famous stars Of
the screen. He is n mechanic who liz urged
by his mother TO enter the movies and be-
come a second Fairbankshart hero. He does,
but with very disastrous results.
The other players have little to do. hut
Fannie Midgely. Rhea Mitchell. Sylvia Ash
ton, Winifred Greenwood. Raymond Hatton.
Charles Ogle, Ernest JOY, Charles McHugh
and Philo Mccullough do good work.
rom the story BY Tom Gallon. Paramount
The ladder TO the top rung of success is
often beset with trials for the novice, and
Lila Lees first movie appearance Is some
what handicapped by an Indifferent story.
But there is much more to this actress than
Just the fact that she left the vaudeville
stage for a career in the movies.
Lila Lee Is a pleasant little girl OF six
teen. whose potential ability Is not revealed
in her first film vehicle. Harrison Ford Is
her leading man and Raymond Hatton Is
seen as the father. Bud Duncan. William
Brunton. James Spottiswoode Aitkin. Euntce
Moore and Mayme Kelso have important
parts.
The Cruise of the Make Believe takes its
title from the imaginary voyages taken by
the heroine in a boat she has constructed In
her back yard. The hero is an author who
seeks local color and finds that he. can aid
the father financially. He. of course. marrtes
the daughter and their honeymoon Is spent
on a regular yacht.
v~IToRIA.'Fame and FORTUNE With Tom Mix
Directed by Lynn Reynolds. from story by
Charles Alden Settler. Fox play.
It is more than probable that Tom Mix
will gain fame and fortune II he continues
to make such excellent pictures as Fame
and Fortune" He Is a Foxy" Douglas
Fairbanks. only his actions and the manner
in which his stunts are put over are far
more daring than those attempted by the
Paramount star. Mr.. Mix has a happy fac
ulty for realism as a portrayer of western
types. The present western tale gives new
angles to the familiar situations In which
the hero, heroine and two villains are in
volved. 1t is the work Of Bennett Cole.
Kathleen Connors is the charming heroine,
and the bad type is well portrayed by George
Nichols. Annette De Foe. Val Paul and
Clarence Burton were in the support.
"ltaly's Flaming Front" a series of Ital-
ian war pictures, IL an ADDED feature.
REGENT The silent Woman" with Edith
Storey. Directed by Herbert Blache. from Lois
I"llutrs story. Metro play.
Emotional acting has been Edith Storey's
best work upon the silver sheet. and in this
newest Metro play she is given full oppor-
tunity for the display Of her talent. She
Is cast as one of the angles In the eternal
triangle situation. and her character Of a
girl of the lumber camp could hardly be
improved.
There is a wealth of human interest in
this tale of the Hudson Bay trading post,
for it tells of the death of a wife who was
carrying ON a Irritation with the villain and
how the friend took care Of her little boy.
The trip to the East and the marriage of
the heroine to the boys father ends a tale
and gains for the heroine the title of THE
Silent Woman Frank Mills has the inn
portant role of the husband. while Joseph
kilgour is the villain.
Geraldine Farrar is the featured player at
the Palace In The Turn of the Wheel" a
Goldwyn play. while the Strand and Locust
are showing The Hun Within" which has
Dorothy Gish and George Fawcett as stars