New-York tribune., 1919-02-25
On the Screen
Charles Ray Captivates All by
His Comedy in His Latest
Film, The Girl Dodger'

In our enthusiasm we rushed from
the Rlalto Theatre last night and told
every one we met that "The Girl
Dodger' was the most delightful pict-
ure we ever had seen and that Charles
Ray was better in this new play than
he had ever been before.
And then, when we sat down to write.
we thought it over calmly, and tried to
think If we really did like "The Girl
Dodger" better than all the other pict-
ares we had seen.
in our mind any more enjoyable oc
casIon than the view of THE Girl
Dodger," and we are quite sure that
hay gives out just little more Of that
human Wistfulness which makes his
comedy SO aluring.
1t is impossible to resist him. He
wears spectacles and he is absent
minded, so much so that he spends all
OF his money for books and forgets to
pay his rent.
After his landlady turns him out he
IS engaged by The Gloom Buster" to
coach him, and so he meets "the girl"
He has been told to meet Pinkie La
Rue OF musical comedy, but instead
he meets Anita Graham, the seasons
most soughtafter debutante. and so
simple is he that he never knows the
difference.
In the course of events Ray (the
girl dodger) buys dress suit and then
goes to dance at a big hotel and
loses his trousers through .hs mex
perience in handling ice cream,
crook and other events.
Just how he manages to do this is
told quite plausibly, and as the girl
dodger" lodges about trying to conceal
ms lack OF neither garments you suffer
with him all of the agony which every
one has at some time suffered in that
dream of a like nature
He finally wends his way into Anitas
clothes closet and finds a pair of rid
ing breeches. He is wearing them with
his evening coat and waistcoat when
he proposes to the seasons most de-
sired debutante, and he is accepted.
Doris Lee is the girl, Hal Cooley is
the Gloom Buster and Leota Lorraine
is Pnkie.
Jerome Storm directed the picture,
and he has handled it most adeptly.
The titles are especially good and the
humor is irresistible.
Also there is Charles Chaplin in his
old Essanay picture, "a Night in the
Show" which proves conclusively that
which his followers have given him.
He was an artist then, just as he is an
artist now-simple. direct, complete
and inimitable.
Director Riesenfeld intends to show
the Chaplin classics from time to time,
which we announce with JOY.
DR.. Leonard Suyden continued his
lecture, "Alaskan Revelations" with
the Prizma pictures which illustrate it.
James Harrod, who has a beautiful
tenor voice, sang "Audobe" and "Flow
er Rain" The overture is selections
from "Faust.'
AT the Broadway Theatre Monroe Sal
isbury is appearing in picture called
"The Light of Victory" 1t always is
difficult to review a picture without q
programme. for we never can remember
anybody who appears in it save the
star.
But "The Light of Victory" has all
of the thrills people who go to the
movies love to experience. There is a
man who continually calls for gin (and
his plight is SO pitful that we just
know how our heart is going to be
wrung after July y, only this man is
on an island in the South Sea aad his
gin is administered to him by beau
tful half breed girl who is the vam-
pire in the case.
But the real girl knows that the man
may be saved, and so she sets sail to
find him, and her ship is torpedoed by
a U-boat, which makes her captive.
And you are almost sure that even the
clcvcrest scenario writer never can
make things come out right in the end.
THE Light of Victory" is good en-
tertainment from every standpoint, and
we know of no one who plays Ozark
men" any better than Monroe Sails
bury, The photography and the ex-
teriors are particularly fine.
Besides the feature Charlie Chaplin
is seen in "Shoulder Arms" and "The
Pest" and there is the usual pro-
gramme of news pictures and music.
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