The sun., 1919-06-23
CHAPLIN AND RAY
IN FAYORITE ROLES
The Two Charles Furnish
Screen Comedies of Char
acteristic Brand.
KID MCCOY ON SCREEN
Dorothy Dalton Appears at
the Strand in "Other
Mems Wives"
KID mccoy ON SCREEN

the SCfan0 In "Utner
Mems Wives"
Two famous Chariies Charles Ray
and Charles Chaplin-they are at least
as famous as charley horse-started
furnishing yesterday at the Rialto the
stimulus for carrying New Workers.
through another week. Ray appears in
Hay Foot, Straw Foot" a photoplay in
which Thomas H. Ince has supervised
the influence OF Gen Grant on screen
comedy. Charley Of the ducks legs 10
revived In Easy Street." an earlier Aim
In which. for q change, ne uphoids the
police force instead Of wreoIing It
Once moro Ray playa the part Of a
rustic, though this time the rural youth
he portrays has less than the usual
amount of rublshness-perhaps because
Ulysses s. Grant BRIGGS IL bound to be
alert when connected with tffe greatest
war ever undsrwritten by the Germans.
BRIGGS, having enlisted and met a young
dancer at q camp entertainment where
he was himself q hilarious failure, res
cues her from the clutches OF q NOUS
tached gentleman who has promised TO
further her stage career-but 'unfortu-
nately he has to save her and spoil the
Villains complexion In road house
which In not supposed to be on a dough-
boys calling list.
For this and the general mess he
makes Of law and order In his Tight with
the bounder young Briggs serves his
inaugural term In the guardhouse, Just
when his grandfather. Federal veteran
Of the civil war, and an old Confederate
neighbor visit the camp In the expecta-
ton of seeing him promoted from private
to corporal on sheer merit alone. AZ he
keeps silent to shield the girl, his con-
duct hardly seems to the two old cronies
to be what Gen. Grant-or Gen. Lee
would have recommended. for they have
enjoined him to model himself on these
illustrious fighters in the. army, 90
that a glorious military career would be
bound to come.
The Hue and the Gray.
However, the girl reveals everything
and Briggs Is honorably discharged from
custody-though II hardly seemed pos
sible this would be done 30 promptly In
actual experience, not at least without
the Coloners signing form 6s5-x A q.
10. Among other excellences of the pic
ture, the final scene of the heroine she'd
ding face powder on the hero's shoulder
Is mercifully brief.
The two old cronies have entertaining
passages imbuing Briggs with the spirit
Of Lee and Grant, drilling him in the old
manual OF arms in preparation for war
and finally causing him to symoolize the
union OF North and South in the recent
conflict by sending him OF to enlist in a
costume composed OF equal parts OF Fed
e.. "
amusing opportunity Ia missed In not
showing the paralysis accustomed by
Brtogs's arrival at camp In this outnt
but perhaps that was eliminated by the
eagle eyed lynx who did the cutting. :
The picture does not fail to live up tc
the Ray brand Of humor, especially In
the scene whore he tries to perform al
the camp theatre the magic tricks he
learned in a correspondents course-and
his legerdemain has blowout. Doris
Lee supports him charmingly. and Ray
Is himself with his wistful seriousness
and his expressive little gestures and
wriggles-he can wriggle almost as wei
as Chaplin.
Chaplin, OF course, runs true to form
in Easy Street" Besides glowing
Bruce scenic, Shutdown" with vocal &C
compartment of stage. there Is strong
musical programme, consisting of "Tht
Bat" overture, the "Caro Nome" from
| "Rigoletto," sung by Rosa Lesca, ant
Hawaiian Moonlight" planted on thu
marimbaphone by Frank Wolf and
Harry Edeson.
"Other Mems Wives" at strand.
Dorothy Dalton at the Strand ex
hibits in "Other Mems Wives" another
Ince offering. her talents as an emo
tional coloraturist. She depicts a societ!
butterfly. born to do nothing but lool
forward to wealth. who finds on tn
death of her father that she has no
where to turn for her next 800 gown
In her desperate dependence on tn
bounty of friends she becomes q tool Il
an intrigue to obtain evidence agains
q husband that will enable his VIII
to divorce hin and marry the fnancie
Of her choice. But In the end sh
rebels against the plot-such Is the higl
standard of ethics insisted upon b.
movie directors-and in the end marie
the right man-call 1t reward, IL yo
wish.
Tho acting in this photodrama, par
ticularly that of Miss Dalton. 10 capabl
of arresting attention even In the fac
of the ultra lavish settings. They ar
30 lavish that the office of an averag
business man looks as roomy and ornat
as the audience chamber Of a king
Another poignant romance is reveale
In Mack Sennett's comedy. Hearts an
Flowers" which has one of tho hes
fights ever put on at a wedding. TIL
orchestra gives forth THE Merry Wive
OF Windsor" Walter Pontius and An
Rutledge have their big moments wit
solos, and a color analysis of motto
reveals how wonderful we are whe
we flop around on the horizontal bars.
| At the Rivoli Capt. Robert Warwic
fnds II easy to make the transition fror
khaki TO the civil war uniforms OF use
cret Service" especially with Wand
Hawley TO lead him on. The stage sue
cess Is improved by transplanting to
new soil, possibly because the work
done by a well balanced cast, whic
applies to Norman Selby (Kid Mccoy
as a lieutenant. Alice Joyce at I'll
Broadway in "The Spark Divine" bear
the strain Of forced marriage well.