New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

information of considerable value"
Doesn't he. Under the circumstances,
doesn't he express himself something
elegant
"Oh." WE snarl at ourselves "try not
to be n cheap prigl Look At the plct-
urc, not Mt the titles. Who fusses about
the librottoa OF grand opern7 Don't
bother met" For tho Lone Wolf, re-
viylng In communicating something TO
the commanding officer with truce ON
trace OF passion, impudence and on
orgy" But when another title coming
along discloscs that he is merely i'm
parting the story Of his lifo. and of
what he has been doing since no last
met the commanding oflicer-the In
formation OF considerable value. mean
while, waiting its turn-~.wo can but
suspect TINT nil Ia not we'll with the
picture ltsclf-thnt we must fenr, for
that vital pulse we had fclt boating,
something worse even than tho Hun
horde, onward hurting its he'll hounds
Of hate. IA MIR, Ince would, too, prob
ably, but does not. say
And the truth ia, we wait 30 long
for the valuable information that It is
cold before it gets to US; we never
quite grasp what it Is, only that it
takes the Lone Wolf sailing to Amer
lea aboard an English ship captaired
by high official Of the German Sc
cret service, who, when some distance
out, observes a young lady and
wounded officer Of the English secret
service and hurriedly puts on an entire
false beard as good way Of avoiding
remark among the passengers who have
known him without it. He then runs
his ship SO as to have her blown up
by submarine, apparently in order to
obtain information concealed in
small cylinder carried by the young
lady, who confides it to the Lone Wolf
about five minutes after she has first
spoken to him. And chat night" as
we say in the movies, he and the Ger
man agent and the mnions of the Ger
man agent fight In and out the ship,
and up and down the ship, and round
and round the ship, firing revolvers
and hurting knives, without attracting
the attention Of human creature
even in deck stateroom; the passen-
gers, as submarines have lately been
observed in the neighborhood natu-
rally sleeping with extra soundness.
The minions knock the Lone Wolf on
the head. Taking his cylinder, they
toss him into the sea shortly before
the ship is torpedoed, and, just before
she submerges, wave washes him
aboard the submarine. Here he passes
himself off as the ships German agent
and is carried to the submarine base
near Martha's Vineyard, where, lust
as news Is received contradicting the
Lone Wolf, the submarines second Of
acer handily gets drunk and murders
the captain, whereupon the Lone Wolf
possesses himself Of $4,000 and re-
volver and escapes.
In New York we meet all our friends
from the torpedoed ship, whole and
dry and chasing each other with un-
checked speed, only in reverse order,
1T being now the German agent who
has the cylinder and the English agents
who pursue. But when we found the
headquarters Of the English secret ser
vice to be in charge of still another
German agent, we begin to lose
the presence Of mind with which
the Lone Wolf Immediately hides
behind curtain, and when there
enters German agent number one
and it transpires that all he wants
with the cylinder is to sell it
back again to the English government,
we collapse and drop out Of the race.
Just as we recover consciousness the
Lone Wolf discovers the English lady
to have been abducted by the Ger
mans. Following to their headquar-
ters this time-he does not stoop to
appeal to the police, preferring to haul
himself in what our ignorance calls
dredging scoop to the top Of an I'M
finished skyscraper, whence he can
jump across the alley to the enemy
roof and rescue the lady all alone. As
there are only twenty or thirty Ger
mans, and the Lone Wolf is backed by
his VOLTS cunning (Which, up to this
time, we cannot but feel he has some
what sparingly employed), he easily de-
fcats and hands them over to the 20
lice, now butting in on their own &C.
count, RECEIVERS the cylinder, lately re-
stolen, and hears from the lady, whom
he has hitherto supposed in love with
the English officer, the unprecedented
news that the officer is only her-wc
think we won't repeat the chaste do
nestle relation which the officer bears
TO her; we think we haven't the nerve
for it. But whatever we leave obscure.
we believe we have established the
fact that the pictur's title is not un-
| justified
II our synopsis has also betrayed the
fact that "False Faces" strikes US as
wildly, sky-hootingly and uproariously
funny, we cannot too quickly add that
at least the fun is sky -hootng, up
roarious and wild. In any drama few
things affront US like anema, and it
will have been gathered that "False
Faces" does not suffer from this dis
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