The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-12
BOLSHEVIKI JOINED
BY MARY PICKFORD
Prunes Drive Her to Drink and
to Cast Her Lot With
the /. w. w.
IN DADDY LoNG-LEGsr
Marguerite Clark, Norma Tai
madge and the Late Sidney
Drew in Screen Plays.

Mary PicSford in "Daddy-Ions.Lers"
which opened at the Strand yesterday,
becomes Bolshevlk. Prunes are the
cause Of 1t. As q twelve-year-oid Red
In an orphan asylum she leads a stri,xe
OF the other ]. w. w.'s-wbich in thi.
case means Infant World Wreekers-
against Americas staple joke. But n
few frowns from the orphanaxe mistress
are enough to Ole Hansonize the re-
Deilious youngsters and make them bury
their faces in the dishes.
All but Mary, who Is founding
rescued from an ash can and christened
Jcrashd Abbott with an inspiration
furnished by q telephone book. Still
mutinous and unreconstructed she Is
hung out into the institute grounds,
without even the hated prunes to keep
body and soul together. Tier only at
tendant is co-conspirator. q small boy
whose undisciplined nature II clearly
evinced in the freckles that run riot over
his face.
They pray to heaven for something
to eat-anything but prunes-and a
tramp Immediately acts as Providence
He answers their prayer by throwing
over the orphapage wall q box Of sand
wiches and a rug OF cider--useless to
him. but falling on the young outlaws
heads like mama from heaven. After
devburing the sandwiches the mutineers
proceed TO disregard the warning to
look not on the cider when II is hard.
Act Like Real Bolshevists.
They get drunk like regular Boishe-
visits. On the part Of Judy Abbott 1t Is
very dignified case Of she'll shock,
but it Is jag none the less-one of
the funniest Juvenile jays ever brought
before the public Her freckled accom-
plice does most accomplished bit Of
souse artistry giving a lifelike imper-
sonation Of what is technically called
a happy bun. Then they wabble indoors
and proceed TO give the asylum routine
the blind staggers.
This Is but one departure from the
original stage version of Jean Webster's
story. which on the screen offers Little
Mary an opportunity once more to don
short dresses, let down her hair and play
one of those child roles which seem to
come like second nature to her. There
are other wide variants Of the legitimate
success which actually enhance the film
adaptation. introducing occasional sentl-
ment and then the next minute bringing
in some genuine comedy just to take the
taste away.
OF course II sticks to the ground
work OF the story. and there Is the
wealthy benefactor who takes Judy out
Of the orphan asylum. which regards
her as an imp and which lie run on typi-
cal cinema asylum lines that would be
good for a thorough investigation In real
life. The girls unknown patron enables
her to get a college Geographically
NJ. A. standing for movie actress
H. sGN
and discovers that her benefactor is
none other than the man she has
learned to love. undaunted by his gray
hairs. Miss Pickford gives one Of her
most diverting performances in many
months and judging by the enjoyment
of the audience yesterday Is likely to
set married couples looking into ash
cans for prospective literary celebrities
Marguerite Clark at the Rialto like
wise appears In n play which protected
Ruth Chatterton from the weather on
the spoken stage. The screen version of
Come Out OF the Kitchen" sticks more
closely to the dramatization. which A.
Z. Thomas made from Alice Duer Mil
ler's novel. and thereby loses in novelty
and in opportunities to let little
laughter and daylight in on the original
Nevertheless II is eptertainin comedy,
and even the kitchen seems attractive
under Miss Clark as a Southern girl
who. with her sisters and brothers. de-
cides to lease the ancestral home TO a
rich Northerner for a good price. thus
enabling a necessary operation to be
performed on their father by committing
hari-kari on the family pride.
The reason why Claudia DdiHDerfeid
adopts a brogue when she and the other
younger members of the family mas
querade as the servants remains as
much OF a mystery as ever but fortu-
nately the screen saves the spectator
from much of this debutante Irish. Miss
Clark looks too preposterouely alluring
as the new cook who can't cook. and
apparently the only excuse why Eugene
O'Brien-capital as the Northerner who
ultimately mortgages her affections
doesn't see through her sooner is that
love is blind.
Comedy by the Late Sidney Drew.
For the rest OF the comedy week here
Hugo Riesenfeld has listed Harold, the
Last of the Saxons." among the last of
the late Sidney Drew's comedies with
his wife, which IL highly diverting satire