New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
On the Screen
Frank keenan, Scores il
More Trouble" at
the Rivoli

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the first motion pictures that anybody
saw were mostly Pathas We didn't
think much of them. They showed fat
french women with bangs and fat
French men with mustachios. But
now times have changed! Yesterday
we saw two Pathe pictures, both of
which were away above the average.
They were Frank keenan, in "More
Trouble" at the Rivoli, and FANNY
Ward in "The Yellow Ticket" at the
Rialto.
More Trouble" was adapted for the
screen by Ouida Bergere from the
story by Edgar Franklin.
AS Lemuel Deering, Frank keenan,
does the best work we ever have seen
him do. He is inimitable. There is q
mystery in "More Trouble" which
seems impossible of solution and then
1T turns out to be the simplest thing
IN the world. One might call the play
tragic farce. Perhaps there never
was any suca thing but there is now
and More Trouble" is it.
Lemuel Deering is a mill owner who
has a son. He is pure and noble
youth who dons his dinner jacket only
to go to the Y. M. C. A., and yet of q
sudden, bills of a most discriminating
nature start to pour in, $5831 for to-
bacco, $2OO.19 for taxicabs, $50O21 fol-
wlne,and finally a note for S25,OOC
signed with the name of Harvey Deer
ing.
Deering, ST., demonstrates with his
son, only to be told, Father, l did not
90 it, but I cannot tell you any more. ,
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failures all because the sanity young
Deerlng refuses to disclose the secret
of the bills. He finally is landed in
jail and then is mysteriously rescued
and why? No one can tell until he
finally does tell
There is small maids part which
is played so cleverly that it stands out
even with Keenan, in the foreground
Ihe person who played it is not named
we'll done.
Jo1n Gilbert is we'll cast as the
ssanctimonious young Deering ano
Helen Dunbar looks very handsome ir
small role which calls for fine clothes
! and extreme hauteur. The picture was
directed by Ernest G. Warde.
Inc comedy was "The Katzenjammel
Kids in "Swat the Fly" Every one
seemed to enjoy it, although it seemed
w 10 do luOuSu IL lacked community
and plausibility of plot. Also Mrs
Katzenj jammer did not play with the
repression which we admire.
49, The overture was selections from
Il Pagliscci." Franz Sc1ubert's "Mo-
ment Musical" was danced by Rita Lee
Jeanne Gordon sang 90 Divine Re
tdeemer" with a violin obbligato by Al
Derto Bachman and a cello obbligato
by William FEEDER. The light opera
number was ut Happened in Nord-
"The Yellow Ticket" at the Rialto
is very interesting picture. While
1T IS not at all like the play in which
"A. II. Woods presented Florence Reed
and John Barrymore few seasons
ago, at least the story is the same, but
the Interpretation is quite different.
Fanny Ward is cast as Anna Mirrel
and as usual she gives a performance
which satisfies the mind even if it does
not always satisfy the heart. Perhaps
1T is that her art is too perfect; she
knows too we'll the value of every
move, at any rate Miss Ward makes
Anna 3n Mirrel very lovely but very
self-possessed young lady.
There is much in the picture which
one missed in the play, and there arc
some things which were in the play
which are missed in the picture Fol
instance, Milton Sills, clever actor that
he is, does not bring to the part OF
Julian Rolfe any of that impudent
ronchalance which characterized Bar.
rymores Interpretation. He is merely
handsome and earnest young man
But, of course. no one would miss the
comedy if they had not seen the stage
play. And Stills is not comedian
His forte is tragedy, and we think that
the work he did in the "Honor Sys-
TEN" has never been surpassed on the
screen.
The first part of the picture shows
Annals life with her parents, the death
of her mother and her escape to St.
Petersburg with the aid of a yellow
ticket. Here Anna assumes the name
and the garments of a dead friend
Marya Varenka, and eludes detection
for some time. But she is finally
traced by the secret police and iden-
titled as the holder of a yellow ticket
This ticket is proof that Anna is an
outcast
Warner GLAND is cast as Baron
played in the original production
GLAND is excellent as the detestable
baron, and of all the villains we have
seen him play we think none has been
better done than the Russian diplomat
AS in the stage play, Audrey dies
with hatpin in his heart, but, some
how, the scene was not convincing, OF
at least it was not as impressive as il
should have been. Neither was the
scene where Count Rostov consents
to let Anna and her lover escape to
protect the good name of Audrey, as
though he ever had one.
The picture as a whole, however, is
extremely entertaining and particu
larly we'll acted. The cast includes
such notables as Armand Kalsz, Helen
Chadwick, Leon Barry and Anna Lehr
1t was directed by William Parke.
The comedy, being Fox. had lines
in it. 1t is called "Wild Women anc
Tame Lions" The overture is Verdi's
"Sicilan Vespers." Greek Evans sang
"Six Full Fathoms of Men" "The
Three Twins" was the light opera
number.
At the. Broadway Dorothy Phillips
will be seen all the week in "a Sou