The sun., 1919-05-19
zoo TRANSPLANTED
TO MOVIE SCREENS
Animals, Wild and Otherwise,
and Babies Too Seen in
Current Shows.
INCOME TAX MAKES HIT
Plots Are All Replete With
Human Interest That
Pleases Audiences.

Animals are all the rage at the Strand
and Rivoli this week. and II can be said
mat MIN producers are at last taking
up the quadruped ldngdom-thouFh not
seriously. Babies OF course-that other
big Human Note that movie directors
know Is bound TO fetch 'em--come in for
recognition, but they can hardly be
called animals. A prospective patron
can put himself in the best mood for
either programme by first visiting the
roo.
At the Strand the beast,es bounce
ABOUT like tho animals at a shooting
gallery in Roaring Lions and Monkey
Shines" q comedy which reveals a
monkey that Ia the oleverest comedian
on the screen, with the possible excep-
ton OF Charlie Chaplin. He Is an ugly
creature, looking as though he ought
to be dry cleaned and threshed, but
ne displays a sense of comic suspense
that entities him TO Kidney feet, a plug
hat and a cane.
With the help OF an elephant he res
cues baby from all sorts OF psrils, in
GLIDING the demonstrative attentions OF
an escaped lion. though the baby appar-
emily Is quite composed and let's his
leonine acquaintance roar without trying
to accompany It Despite hts virtues the
simian has a weakness-the bottle-and
he robs the infant. Besides the rampant
lions. which are savage. but humorous
this heller SHELTER farce contains a camel
and skunk that 10 as funny as skunks
always are-in the pictures. The ele-
plants gayety, on the other hand. Is
rather ponderous. taking the trite form
OF pouring water over the inoffensive,
The audience laughed brightly yester-
day and exclaimed Aren't they great 20
Coiiies I'm . Mystery Film.
Even the feature film presenting Ethel
Clayton In mystery drama THE
Woman Next Door" contains a couple
OF collies, but a more important verte-
brate Is sleuth hound. This detective
discovers that Mrs. Schuyler, the young
and vivacious wife OF an elderly mil
lionaire. In really the woman next door,
plus secret passageway, wig and
a desire to see life. Her husband, who
maintains his own double standard but
believes his wife should maintain the
virtuous seclusion OF a harem inmate.
goes for a gay evening with the woman
next door. discovers the deception. tears
on the wig and tears up the party.
AS result he IS killed, but the wife,
who is at first suspected, Is finally
cleared in time to snuggle up against
hoi youhB cigar pocket miss
Clayton is satisfying as the wife whose
unsympathetic husband follows the cur
rent movie fashion OF branding her-in
this instance with a lit stogey Noah
Berry conveyed the domineering quality
OF the husband, though he was not 50
successful In suggesting the sophistica-
ton supposed 10 result from profitable
toying with the stock market The
photoplay. interesting as II was. might
have gained by violating the sacrosanct
canon that a playwright must let the
audience at least into his secret before
the great detective plumbs It in a burst
OF inspiration.
An Outing Chester Scenic besides a
thrilling forest fire exhibits deer high
3umping-presumably TO work up an APP
petite-but curiously enough none of the
musical numbers is geological.
Rich Girl Wins Reporter.
Dorothy Gish in the feature at the
Riyoli. TN Get Him Yet" portrays a
wealthy girl who hounds a reporter into
marrying her, his heart being willing
but his pride needing some coaxing
Shaw no doubt would be tickled to ac-
knowledge that he provided the philoso-
phical stimulus for this man hunt, which
even carries the rich huntress through
the fiery ordeal OF eating chill con carne
In a lunch wagon.
The income tax provides additiona
motive power for the artificial but hila.
rious comedy-the tax really is amusing
when you see II on the screen. The hard
headed father not only turns an electric
road over to his daughter TO escape the
revenue impost, but he refuses the re.
porter's request for her hand because al
the moment he is feeling the tax is de.
signed to make him pay the cost Of thu
war. One OF the most laughable mo-
ments occurs when an inquisitive cal
gets its back up at a man whom the
heroine is trying to conceal under q
couch from her Jealous husband. 1t al
ends agreeably. with the reporter mad,
manager of the girls railroad and al
least one observer was pleased with tn,
Implication that newspaper men car
manage Notwithstanding a railroad
and q woman.
Besides PriXma indicating, accordine
to the programme. how to enjoy 900, 0OO(
acres OF grandeur at the Glacier Ma
tional Park in Montana, Harold Lloyd II
comedy. Back TO the Woods" has Z
hand to hand fight with a bear and ther
discovers that brain simply wants 9
drink OF booze. The biggest laugh Of
the bill came after pictures Of Ruth st
Denis and Ted Shawn's classic dancers
cavorting about at large, when the mex
title was suddenly flashed. animals
Wild and Otherwise" This pictur,
showed the hnppiest baby in history
one who was allowed 10 lie unmolestet
In a bath of mud. and later Of Jam.
At the Rialto Pauline Frederick doe.
doubly successful work in Cosmo Hamil
toms drama, "One Week OF Life" fol-
she plays a twin role. as a woman who
wants to leave home for a week to Sc,
her unacknowledged child and as a cir
who takes her place in the household by
virtue OF one of those remarkable re,
semblances that the movies can evoke al