New-York tribune., 1919-02-17
On the Screen
Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch" and Lion and the
Mouse" Are Pleasing

In eighteen hundred and eighty
blank yacht belonging to Earl of
Swank was shpwrecked on a desert
isle, and the Earl and his wife and
their baby chile were washed up OR
the sandy beach; and the baby, Of
course, let out screech. They
grabbed the kid and he's here to-day,
d man brought up in the baboon way.
lhls Will be easy to understand if
Sunday you viii 90 to the Strand.
"Beresford"
When we arrived at the office last
night we found this telegram awaiting
US. AS we had already been to the
strand and had seen "Beresford of the
bapoons,' we knew that the telegram
was from James Montgomery Flagg and
referred to his newest comedy, which is
beng shown this week.
Perhaps "Beresford of the Baboons"
is as funny as Perfectly Fiendisb
flanagan We cannot quite decide. be-
cause in our mind we mad listed the
other comedy as the best we ever had
seen But "Beresford of the Baboonsp
certainly is worth looking over. at env
rate. 1t is delightful in it's satiric
aHaaptatlon Hi of the monkey-man idea
UAh Sll,h Rowland, who is always lust a
t.ole plt funnler than you think anv
one can be, plays Bere ford, the baboon
!.a'l' i'' ana also ms cousin, who seeks to
keep the title from him.
ne feature picture is "Mrs. Wicos
OF the Cabbage Patch" with Marrue-
rite Clark as Lovey Mary. Miss Clark ,s
,aIehts are admirably suited to the por
Jrayal -S9i OF Mary, and it is charmingly
oo"e' ne supporting cast is excellent.
700, Mary Carr is Mrs. Wiggs. Vivia
ogden IS wonderful as Miss Hazv.
Gareth Hughes hasn't enough to do
as Billy and Jack MacLean is an at
JractlVe bad boy as Dick Morgan. Lola
Hernandez, May McAvoy and Wanda
Valle are Asia, Australy and Euro
peana.
1t is some years since We saw the
play with Bessie Barriscale as Iovev
Mary, and somehow it doesn't seem
nearly as plausible now as it did then.
NO doubt the fault is our own.
halph Corey played trombone solo
that we thought was "Waiting," the
song which Clifton Webb sings in
Listen, Lester until we looked at
our programme. Then we saw that it
was "Oh, Dry Those Tears and now
we know why waiting" sounded so
familiar.
The Ladies' Strand Quartet was de-
lightful in the rendition of "Songs Of
Long Ago sung in the shade of the
old apple tree.
On the picture programme was an
other analysis of motion pictures called
"Juggling,' and scene in natural col
ors, Picturesque Japan" There was
also the Strand Topical Review The
overture is "Fantasie Hongroise," with
Carl hdouarde conducting.
DR. Leonard S. sugden and Alice
Joyce are rivals this week at the
Miss Joyce because we had rather be
entertained than educated any time.
DR.. Sugden is lecturing with Priz-
ma picture called The Lure of Alaska, -
and as 1t is shown on the screen it is
alluring. Although as we watched the
doctor being dashed around on little
raft on some wild Alaskan stream we
decided that "we'd rather see than be
one"
This is the beginning of a series of
pictures and lectures. DR.. Sugden was
formerly q lieutenant with the Royal
Mounted Police of Canada. He has a
sense of humor and you'll like his
lecture.
The feature picture is "The Lion and
the Mouse and we wish to say first Of
all that we enjoyed every foot of it,
Miss Joyce does better work, to our
way of thinking, than in any picture
we have seen her in. The juvenile is
none other than Conrad Nagel of For
ever After" fame, and he could make US
like even an educational film, we be-
lieve. The last picture we saw him in
was Little Women" when he played
Laurie. His jefferson Ryder Is even
nicer. Anders Randolph is the Lion"
Needless to say, Miss Joyce is the
"Mouse." And speaking of mice, Miss
Joyce refused to make a personal ap-
pearance at the Rialto this week be-
cause she said she had stage fright.
''The Lion and the Mouse" is one of
the plays which suffers nothing by its
transfer to the screen We liked it
better in its present form but, no
doubt, we are prejudiced. The picture
is a Vitagraph and was directed by
Tom Terriss. Everyone knows the
story, so there Is no need to go into
that. Suffice to say it has not changed
in the last decade
The comedy is Judge Rumhauser,"
and there is the Rialto Magazine The
duet from Verdi's LA Forza Del Des-
tino" is sung by Martin Brefel and Ed
ouardo Abano. William FEEDER, 'cellist,
played Chopins "Nocturne:" The over
ture is "Finlandia' with Hugo Riesen-
field aud Nat w. Finston conducting
At the RivoH 'F'alse Faces" is the
feature picture.