New-York tribune., 1919-10-20
On the Screen
What Every Woman Learns
Proves To Be Real Tragedy
of the Films
By Harriette Underhill

What Every Woman Learns" is
rather aippant title for what proves
70 De real tragedy. Thomas Ince has
Snosen this title for the picture which
ne IS presenting at the Ratio. wiz,
Enid Bennett in the stellar role. but
we cannot grasp it's relation to the
pa. 1t is true that some women T.
earn Just what Amy Fortescue learnsl
from matrimonv, but it is rather dis
courag1ng to the prospective brides and
,enedicts to cali THIS domestic cras
What Every Woman Learns
., MISS Bennett is always appearing a,
tne wronged wife, and she certa'-, :,
pays these parts delightfully."-, put we
preIerred her as the less unhappy wife
IN stepping Out" for that gave her a
she has fund.
In the new picture Amy Fortescue
Is married to Dick Gaylord. Irving
Gum mmings makes the most of the part
n put ne Is only what John Watson calls
~ nim severai times during the playa
damn fool" Of course this did not
,,ppear in the titles, but William Cow
IN. who pla. ed the role, was 40 w.
nement that one aid not have to be
especially up in lip reading to know
"nat he was saying.
~ was satisfaction to every one
IN the audience: He voiced their feel
.hss wnen D'ck Gaylord stood up at
sne c'uo and drunkenly declared: *
Know how to manage my wife. Why.
she will eat out Of my hand" VIZ
wondered how soon the hero would
appear and make him eat those words.
Then over at a table in the corner Of
the club we caught sight Of Milton
Sills and knew that Gaylord's hour
OF reckoning had rome.
=, IL appears that, in spite of the fact
that her husband is a brute at home
and cad abroad, Amy loves him. and
So when he goes home with a we'll
deserved black eye she tells him thew
nave both been wrong, and suggests
thelr starting all over again Alas,
", IMe futil1ty of those second starts
Ihey are ever short-lved.
Dick just went on acting as badly
as he could-and he could-and fnallv
ne shot Melrose and then his wife
shot him. Only she was a better shot
than he was. and she finished the lob.
Then came the trial, and the Judge
and the unexpected witness for the
defense, until we were sure that it
was going to be one of those dream
pictures and that Amy would awake
and say, "Oh, Walter, I've had such
terrlDle cream. | dreamed | was
married to Dick GAYLORD" Nothing of
the sort happened, however, and the
trial goes on to the bitter end.
Enlu bennett Ooes mucA with her
delicate touch to relieve the pic.ur
il its more sinister moods. Milton
Silla is always rather q pedantc hero
and you are sure that living with. him
would soon become bore because he
would insist on being noble al. the
time. However. in the final fadeaway
it looked as though Amy was going
to try it,
Fred Niblo directed the picture.
he has # domestic life is
presented in Making Good With
Mother" There is a colored Pathe
r sque Catalonia" and the Rialto
Magazine.
o.u.o.. Howes sings "Because"; Pau
Grippe, 'cellist, plays David Pepper S
Vito" The overture is from La
Traviata."
If you are very fond of Charlie Ray
do not go to see "Crocked Straight"
at the Rivoli, unless you are a so one
of those persons who like to be har-
rowed and made to weep. But if you
INSIST on going we shall spare your
feelings in a measure by telling you