The sun., 1919-06-16
CHAPLIN REAPPEARS
IN FAVORITE ROLE
New Screen Play Brings Him
Back as Picturesque
Vagabond.
w. 8. HART AT THE RIvOLI
A Rex Beach Production
Given by Owen Moore
at the Rialto.
W. 8. HART AT THE RIvOLI

Charlie Chaplin has taken that diiapi-
dated old ruit out Of pawn and ut the
Strand this week. in "sunnyside." his
latest picture, returns TO the screen
after long absence in one Of his earlier
roles as high class vagabond. in which
the uniform and dress suit Of his later
incarnations Is discarded In favor of
haberdashery built for roughing Il He
roughs It this time in sunnyside, coun-
hotel porter on whom the hotel pro-
prietor practises his daily punting and
drop kicking.
In this photoplay Chaplin has aban-
doned, along with his boiled shirts, prac-
tically all Of his customary slapsticlS
mechanism, so that the custard pie IL
n dead issue with him. Accordingly the
fun In the picture, plentiful as It Is, has
more OF the simple. STRAIGHTFORWARD
homespun quality and Is less like a dog
fight than usual. In fact this time he Is
more kicked against than kicking. Like
Grifnth. he has returned to nature--in-
deed In one part he returns to It with a
bump.
Rides . Cow Out Of Church.
That is Immediately after he performs
the Douglas Fairbanks feat of riding q
risky cow out Of church. Very few
men can ride a bucloing COW, let alone
ride one out of church and appear funny
Chaplin does both, until q powerful
heave from the COW hurls him to the
ground and into dreamland. He dreams
of dancing In the wood with sylvan
nymphs In one of the most divertins
burlesques OF classical prancing ever ex-
hibited. 1t Is an Adolf Bolm ballet n la
I. w. W., and the pity ia that every
classical terpsichorean advertisement
doesn't have a satyr with a plug hst
and kidney feet.
| 1t would hardly be fair to divulge the
course Of this story. written and pro.
duced by Chaplin himself, except to say
that he has an amusing rivalry with O
1 city dude for the hand of a country
belle. wooing her with the help OF q
parior organ and sticky flypaper. It's
| not Chaplin's most entertaining picture
but many will enjoy IT because of The
quaint, homely touches. such as having
a hen lay an egg right into the fryinl
| pan.
| Wallace Reid appears in the Longer
! feature, You're Fired" an adaptation
|
and displays q keener sense of coined,
than he has heretofore allowed to show
| through his evening attire and polished
| hair and manner. His part is that of 0
wealthy young man of leisure, told gruff
| ly by his prospective father-in-law. Il
| hold a job for n month without beinl
fred before getting the hand of the fail
daughter. who tries various Jobs unsuc
cessfulIy but always forestalls his bosl
by resigning before he Is fred. In thu
end, as an armor clad halberdier in {
picturesque Italian restaurant, he wini
the girl by exposing a conspiracy agains
her father. even though he Is compelled
to serve soup armed capable and t.
drop Il all over his fair ones gown.
Wanda Hawley shows OFF Mt her pref
test as the girl. and Theodore Roberts
plays with his customary authority Al
the railroad president-he is one of tn,
most effective millionaire bearcats OF
the screen. The other side OF the ex
celIent comedy bin 10 balanced by Her,
Comes the Groom." an Outing Cheste,
scenic of Africa which is Romeo ant
Juliet" laid on with backing.
w. 8. Hart at the Rivoli.
At the Rivoli William S. Hart. II
Square Deal Sanderson." supervised b,
Thomas II. Ince, once more comes dust
ing through tho alkali to the aid OF {
damsel who has set the villain up to hi
tricks. In this story by Charles Alder
Settler more sudden death is handel
out than has broken loose In one movi,
since the war. Seven men are shot
not to mention 5000 cattle who drinl
not wisely but too well of poisone,
water. Hart plays a cowboy who i'm
personates the brother OF a girl who ha
| hae hAr IN
prevent the town boss from running
away with her ranch and the girl her
self.
The idea handled along the customar,
lines has a new turn OF speed at tn
end in the way that the dastardly houn
who Is pursuing her Is hoisted out o
harms way. Hart has an opportunit
to do equestrian tricks and make a
original escape from Jail that nearl
tears out the side OF the prison. an
In general seems to enjoy himself. An
Little carries out her side Of the bar
gain well as his pseudo sister.
At the Rialto owen Moore illustrate
the dangers OF sightseeing. playing tn
part OF a young man attending the Ne'
Orleans Mardi Gras who Is accused {
stabbing another man Just because
can't control his curiosity and refrai
from looking ON while the murder
committed. Worst of all the victim
the cousin of the girl he loves. whic
always complexities matters. The scree
play, written and supervised by Re
. Beach, is n fast kaleidoscope OF cole
and ends In the satisfactory way OF
dained OF all scenario writer's. Fatt
Arbuckle does his worst TO Western vi
! lains and the jaws of the audience
"a Desert Hero"
, At the Broadway Ethel Clayton
I captivating as the heroine of Me-
: Women and Money" that eternal trinit
OF the movies.