The sun., 1919-04-28
FLIVVER STARS In
CREASED LIGHTNING
Charles Rays Mechanical
Mount Shakes Well in
Play at the Rivoli.
THRILLS IN GREAT RACE
Geraldine Farrar in ''The
Stronger Vow" at the Strand
Pleases as q Latin.

IL used to seem iDdisputable that
Charlie Chaplin. when grabbed by the
throat and choked violently by a rough
neck. shook better than anything on
view In moving pictures. But after
seeing Charles Ray In Creased Light
ming at the Rivoli yesterday. one is
convinced that the renovated fivver in
which he appears has an even more
vivacious tremolo movement.
But though one OF the passengers on
the first ride of the knockabout auto
mobile is the pretty daughter of the
towns crotchety banker whom the
young man is trying to win, Its gaso-
lene earthquakes can't shake her liking
for him out Of her. In fact. she's all
agos as much as the machine, for has
not the hero who Is the village black
smith and mechanical wizard. turned
the old wreck from a tenth rate AFFAIR
into the semblance of a second hand car
In order to satisfy her desire for q
motor car In which she can go sparkling?
Not stopping there. Andy Fletcher
builds his own racing car, Creased
Lightning" which Is like the dollar
watch, plain but insisting on going I'M
der any circumstances. He enters this
in a race on the village Founders Day,
which becomes a competition between
thrills and laughter. Just as II Is
growing very exciting he has to leave
the contest to chase n pair of bank
robbers. but that proves still more ex-
citing. since II gives Ray a chance to
| leap lightly as gazelle from one car
to another In full fight,
Besides demonstrating his ability as
n driver In this picture, Ray once more
R..--~ lSt. ~. - a.. "A.
| OF one of the small town types with
which he is becoming the Denman
Thompson of the younger set in the
films. Wanda Hawley affords him
| charming assistance in the romantic
passages which keep the comedy from
becoming clogged with machinery. AL
| together It Is a photoplay that should
| be seen by everyone who owns a fiivver
or hopes to operate on one some day
| which mean practically everyone pres
| ent.
| At the Strand Geraldine Farrar in a
modern thriller, THE Stronger Vow.
arouses the caution that one should
think twice before promising ones sell
to kill any one. Dolores de Cordoba
member OF a Spanish family occupying q
very high position In the Pyrenees
gwears to slay the man who assassinated
her brother in one of those incessan'
blood feuds that help to maintain the
Castilian reputation for livelness
| A Poser for Farrar.
After she has gone to Paris and mar
ried a handsome compatriot, her cousin
Pedro, still undiscouraged in his desire
to make her his own, informs her that
her husband is the elegant assassin. The
wife Is then faced with the neat conun-
drum OF fulfilling her vow on her owr
team mate or OF having the band OF
Apaches headed by Pedro do away with
him in their original way It's a poser
but any one interested in the way the
movie director solves II can readily finC
the answer at Forty-eighth street and
Broadway.
Miss F'arrar rises to the emotional de.
mands OF the picture. but though one
likes to see her In barbaric roles. one
prefers that they shouldn't be in eve
ming attire. She looks more Latin thar
some of her supporting cast, who. capable
as they are on the histrionc side. are
made up too much like Dons overlait
with talcum powder. The notable ex-
ception is Hassard Short. who is ever
more OF an Apache than Gordon and
William Dooley.
At the Rialto Elliott Dexter. supported
by a high standard OF cinema art II
For Better. For Worse" gives his usua
finished performance as the doctor who
wants to help put the war over, but /,
forced to stand by the soalpel at home
His sweetheart drops him for a uniform
but of course the real girl comes along
which gives one an opportunity to OBJ
serve for the second time in the weel
that Wanda Hawley has the smile. tn,
| eyes and the makeup of success