New-York tribune., 1918-05-06
On the Screen
Jack Pickford Is Natural as
"Mile-a-Minute Kendall"
at the Rivoli

Olive Thomas once told US that when
her husband, Jack Pickford, objected
to anything he just shut his eyes and
waved you back with his hand with
the palm held toward you.
We remembered this when we saw
HIM yesterday at the Rivoli in "Mile-
a-Minute Kendall and we wondered
if he had done this to sister Lottie
when she annoyed him as Rosalyndc
dAubre. the chorus girl sweetheart
We shouldn't blame him if he did,
Tor II one cannot act as one feels
toward ones own sister, when may
one so act?
Although Lottie Pickford has no
resemblance to the famous children.
Mary and Jack, still we never for a
moment lost sight of the fact that the
vampire was the sister of the hero,
and no one else forgot it, either.
All around us were heard whispers
Of "How much older is she than
Mary "She doesn't look at all like
the others, does she ?" and "Do you
think she is pretty"
The scenario was made by Gardner
Hunting from the Owen Davis story
and it proved to be excellent screen
entertainment.
Jack Pickford is Kendall, who earns
his sobriquet not alone for his burn
'cm-up procivties in motor car.
was Jack, too), and he drives too fast,
and he loves not wisely, but too often;
but with it all. he finds time to do
some practical Xperimenting with
motors which will run without gaso-
lene.
Not satisfied with this he decides to
dabble in matrimony and he selects as
his partner Rosalynde d'Aubre, a
young woman who had decided that
matrlmony was safer than other things
because men We're so tickle Rosa
lynde was not the sort who would
bother her head about economic indie
pendence or anything like that.
But late, IN the gulse OF misplaced
milk wagon, collided with Kendall's car
when he was attempting to steal the
coy Rosalynde away from her furnished
fiat in the Golden, and so he met or
rather renewed his acquaintance with
Louise Huff.
Louise believed in him and nursed
him through a fractured skull We
thought she was foolish, but perhaps
she had not known as many mile-a
minute kendalls as we had. At any
rate, in this case, she was right and
we were wrong, for he perfected his
motor, mended his ways and married
Louise, who wore gingham frocks and
fiat heeled slippers.
Miss Huff played with her usual
sweet simplicity and charm and Jack
Pickford was just himself as Kendall
the highest praise we can offer
'His Smothered Love" is the comedy,
and in the picture programme are
"What the Ice Age Left" and the ami
mated pictorial.
The overture is Grieg's In Autumn" F."
Jeanne Gordon sang "Fauline's Ro-
NANCE" from "Piquc Dame" and Lieu
tenant B. C. lillian. of the Royal Ca
madam forces, sang Freedom for All
Forever"
Charles Ray, our favorite screen
child, is at the Rialto in picture
called "Playing the Game" Charles is
Larry Prentiss, another mile minute
young man, only Larry doesn't learn
his lesson until he nearly kills man
and is sent to his uncles ranch down
on the Mexican border, where cacti and
bandits abound.
result of Larry's sprinkling oats along
the white way in New York and the
bandits sprang from everywhere.
In the beginning Larry meets Lillian
Lorraine, and he falls in love with her.
But Larry has a bad temper and he
objects to "Babe's" handing over his
jewels to another man. Then come
the fight, the alarm, the flight and the
reformation.
Moya Shannon is the curly-haired
child who wears a costume not unlike
a modern conductorette's, but much
better fitting. Come to think Of it, we
heartily recommend this picture to Mr..
Shonts. If he could make his minion-
cites look like Doris Lee people would
ride up and down on the Broadway
cars instead Of going to the movies.
That is the way Larry felt about it,
too, and when the overseer offered him
$1.50 a day to work on the ranch, he
turned around, caught sight Of Moya
and accepted the offer. Then he
played the game" until he had beaten
every obstacle, including "Flash"
Purdy. before he revealed his identity.
The picture is not much different
save for the fact that Ray wears ex-
tremely good-looking clothes in the
first act But it is very nice picture,
indeed, and Ray is as fascinating as
the first day we saw him, which, by
the way, was in "The Coward" Also,
he does some things that we thought
only Douglas Fairbanks or Bill Hart
could do.
The supporting cast is more than
adequate. The picture was directed by
Victor Schertzinger.
"Spain, the Land Of Enchantment,"
and "Mutt and Jeff" complete the
picture programme.
The overture is Rossini's "Semira-
mide." Annie Rosner sang "My
Dreams" and Ricardo Bonelli sang
"The Moon Drops Low"
There are two things that we wish
wearing her hair like q Circassian girl
and the other is playing married d
women. We wish to see her do little
girls because she does them 80 we'll
Outside Of these two things she may do
anything she likes and retain our ad-
miration, which she always has had.
At the Broadway this week Miss Muir
ray is playing in "The Brides Awaken
ing" a Universal picture. which pre-
sents husbands - some husbands = in
their true light. Lew Cody is Richard
Earle. who marries his ward, Elaine
for her money She is all prepared to
love him. but she has a rude awakening
and she suffers all sorts Of indignities
until he is shot.
This is not giving away any state
secret, for every one knew from the
first that he would be shot; but we
don't intend to tell who shot him.
Ashton Dearholt is again the hero
and Elaine must have fallen in love
with him, because he has such per