New-York tribune., 1918-11-11
On the Screen
Lieutenant Bert Hall Tells
of His Experiences
at Rivoli

Every once In While during the
performance at the Rivol this week
Lieutenant Bert Hall. the American
aviator, who is one of the two surviv-
ing members of the Lafayette Esca-
drllle. steps out on the stage and
tells the audience OF his experience
en- Pair. The speech is made lust
alter the fadeaway in his new picture,
"A Romance of the Air" based on
LIEUTENANT Hall's book.
This picture is interesting mainly
because one knows that much of what
happens on the screen is true. 1t is
a story of spies and miraculous
escapes, and even if Dulcinea did say
1t, Truth is stranger than fiction"
Before we say anything about the
picture we wish to give a vote Of
thanks to Edith Day, who plays the
American girl in Germany.
This is the first time we have seen
Miss Day on the screen and she is
charming. At first you think that
Se she Is not pretty, and then her firm
little chin, with dimple in it., and
her straight, dark hair begin to at
tract you and then you decide that
Day has is .od taste and wonderful
screen personality.
Inc story begins when Lieutenant
Hall has been slightly wounded and
being forced to bring his plane to
earth inside the enemy lines he
quietly changes clothing and identi-
tication cards with his dead adver-
sary and is carried to German hos
pltal to recover.
Here he meets Edith Day, child
hood friend, and they plan to escape
into France via the air
All would have been we'll if it had
not been for Florence Bellings, the
false friend, who persuaded Edith to
help her. too, to escape into France.
or course, every one knows that the
part OF the story is not true which says
that stray bullet ends the life of
Florence Billings and Franklin B.
Coates, COSBY.
Stuart Holmes is the Archduke of
Moravla. He is also the arch villain.
There is n man named Joseph Lertora
who plays Lieutenant LIE Roy. Miss
Day was called upon to choose between
the two ~aviators in the picture, and
she chose Lieutenant Hall. We know
OF at least one person who would have
made different choice.
Emo Papee conducted the orchestra
through Tschaikowsky's "Solonelle"-
1872" as it is usually called. Gladys
Rice sings "Then You'll Remember
Me-" from '"The Bohemian Girl" in
delightful manner. Greek Evans con-
tributes "A Son of the Desert Am l."
There is the animated pictorial, per-
sonally edited by Mr. Rothapfel, and a
picture called "Bird Studies," which
shows the domestic life of that wonder
full bird, the pelican, and other "rara
played as a light opera number, and
the comedy is a Fox Sunshine called
"Mongrels"
Twelve times at the Rialto, yester-
day, couples decided to change their
seats, which happened to be in our
row, so that made twenty-four persons
who passed between us and "a Woman's
Experience" And, as one of them was
little boy who forgot his cap, that
makes twenty-five.
because most people like to view the
feature picture sitting still. They
usually chose the overture for the time
to change their habitat and adjust any
other little matters. And yet, in spite
of this ingress and egress, we know
pretty we'll what "a Woman's Expert
ence" is about. 1t is story which
teaches that virtue is found in abun-
DANCE in the country and hardly at all
we like the city so much better. We
always did prefer Salome to Elsie
Dinsmore.
And Agnes Raydant thinks that she
likes the city better, too until she
spends year there and finds her hus-
band ruined in business, in the hands
of a beautiful adventures. Corene
/ uzell and herself party to the death
OF Lord Sulgrave or at least an acces-
sorry after the fact.
But it seemed to us that the author
had deliberately chosen incidents which
would prove his case versus the CITY.
for we know lots of people who have
lived right in New York for mere than
q year and still are just as good as
when they first came from Brooklyn.
But this was not the case with Agnes
and George Roydant, and things finally
became so complicated, with Corene
Uzeli writing backmailing letters, and
Robert Cain lying dead behind a screen
IN Miss Boland's room, while her hus-
band explained to her in the fore
ground that he was ruined, that every
one thought it was going to be a dream
picture.
We fully expected that Agnes would
rub her eyes and say to George: ooh,
what terrible dream | have had.
Never, never must We leave uncle to
live in the country alone"
OF course, it would not be fair to tell
how things do turn out; suffice it to say
that there is fairly satisfactory adj
justment.
Miss Boland is not quite so salts
factory on teh screen as on the stage
because YOU cannot see her lovoju