New-York tribune., 1918-02-25

Flagg's "The Man Eater" one of the
Girls You All Know" series.
Mabel Beddoe offered "The Pipes of
! Gordon's Men" and Herbert Waterous
sang Bruno Huhn's "Invictus" and
"Old Folks at Home"
The overture was "SchoherazAde."
Daniel Wolff, who is so popular with
Strand audiences, played McDowell's D
minor concerto second movement.
If only Billie Burke had destroyed
the will az we hoped she would! Surely
she was quite justified: but then, if she
had done so. she would have been an
heircss and there would have been no
villain, and we would have missed a
chance to see Lionel Atwell, who is the
most delightful he-vampire we have
seen in long time.
All of this happened in Ewes Daugh-
ter" which is the feature picture at the
Rialto this week.
There is nothing new to say of Miss
Burke She has thousand fresh
charms, with which to intrigue. ones
fancy. but critics vocabulary is lim-
tied, and so, like history, he must re-
peat himself
Billie has little trick Of putting on
pretty bauble and then standing away
to get the effect IN the mirror. When
she does this she stretches her fingers
wide apart and holds her hands out in
front of her and gives little birdlike
pats to her decorations In a most fasci-
mating manner. This is only one of the
things which she does differently from
any one else.
We love her in sweater and sailor
collar, and we love her in a dinner
gown and in peignoir. In fact, we
love her most any way and always feel
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to gaze on her.
How we hated Martin Simpson Bates
when he struck Irene with his sticki
Speedy retribution followed. however.
for his heart. or whatever it was that
he had for heart, failed him at that
moment and he died. That was the
time that Irene found the safe open
and had chance to destroy the unjust
will which left $1,000,000 to charity and
only $4,000 to each of Martins daugh-
ters. Irene resisted the temptation.
however, took her 900, and went to
the city to have good time until the
money was gone.
The screen version follows the play
closely. but in our opinion it is more
interesting. Lionel Atwill plays the
part which he created in the Grace
George production He is Courtenay
Urquhart, the villain, who afterwaro
turns out to be not so much of u
villain. He was at least a gentleman,
and if one is born so it is difficult to
live it down.
That was one of the nice features of
the picture. There we're no extreme
types like sinless ngenues, noble
heroes and depraved villains. No one
cried "I'll make you eat those words!"
as an introduction to a terrible fight
in which the heroine is accidentally
shot. Irene Simpson Bates. John Nor
ton and Courtenay Urquhart were peo-
pie just like the people who were
watching them from the front of the
theatre.
Thomas Meighan, who always marries
Billie Burke, married her again after
she had had her fling. One of the
p,ettiest things in the picture was the
light on Billie Burke's hair
The overture was Goldmark's an the
Spring" The Ampico reproducing
piano, which is something quite new.
rendered Edward Grieg's Concerto"
First Movement"
There was Chorus and Cavatina,"
sung by the Rialto chorus and Louis
Denman. The comedy was Mr. and
Mrs: Sidney Drew in Before and After
Taking" H.