The sun., 1919-03-10
RIALTO INTRODUCES
ITS COMEDY WEEK
Even the Music Is Intended
More for Funny Bone
Than Ear.
DREWS ARE RIDICULOUS
Dorothy Gish's Uppercuts Save
King Of England and Presi-
dent of Il. s.

This Is comedy week at the Rialto,
and the management has picked an all
American comedy programme, DR.. Hugo
Riesenfeld acting as the Walter Camp
OF the screen.
Even the music with the exception OF
ono number. is intended moro for the
funny bone than the ear. It is to be
hoped in view of the success this
style OF programme had with yesterdays
audiences that Director Riesenfeld will
not go TO the opposite extreme for
violent contrast and institute a trag edy
week, with the comedy number in the
form OF one OF those pictures Of gloom
provided by the imltators of Charlie
Chaplin.
Right from the start the pictures get
after ones ribs. with Mutt and JEFF In
the magazine section seeking to get the
reward for a lost dog and developing
their usual hydrophobia. Then come
Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Drew in another
of their new at homes before the camera.
revealing that the unwritten subtitle for
Once a Mason" is Always Wife
Cheater" This Paramount comedy con-
Germs the attempts OF an inquisitive wife
! TO worm out OF her husband the Masonic
secrets about the goat" and other rites,
and the way in which the husband
makes a goat out OF her. The Drews as
usual are efficiently ridiculous
Miss Cish's Comic Feet.
In the longer Paramount photoplay,
Boots Dorothy Gish has an oppor-
tunity TO show what capable comedians
her feet ara This hlm among other
thrills introduces the rather rare
| spectacle OF two women scrapping q
fast go in cellar without even time
out between rounds the prize being a
bomb. English slaveys can't be &C
| undernourished as they're generally
| represented. for in the role OF one
Dorothy Gish displays a hard right as
part OF her act. We'd be willing 70
match her any day against Geraldine
Farrar for the feminine screen cham
pionship.
Incidentally BY her uppercuts she save,
the King OF England, the President Of
the United States and the League OF Ma
tons from being blown 20 bits by Boil
sheviki, who are already making them.
selves felt in the cinemaS Miss GisN
also does some neat work in the Una
clinch- Harold Lloyd rivals her In hold
ing on and then carrying on In a Path'
farce. Look Out Below" which ought q
| convince any one that O love affair 1:
pretty tame unless conducted on top o.
a skyscraper.
| Moonshine Romance.
Rushing up 70 the Strand with the las
| line OF this comedy. what the man II
the moon saw" still burning in one.
mind. one find II repeated az the othel
house In "A Midnight Romance" which
is largely moonshine. A young man o.
wealth. wandering on the beach under
lunatc orb. espies a girl gypsying AROUND
| with the waves IN a one piece affair anC
promptly falls in love-or rather, dive!
into II. At least one reviewer found Jacl
Holt as the hero rotten diver. the re
viewer being that kind OF diver himself.
| Anita Stewart carries cloak In thes
scenes, but makes the best use of It b.
not wearing II. II has r. sure fire efTec
on the hero, resculng ham from the vile
OF designing adventures equipped witt
peroxide and past Crowned heads ais
get into this picture--one can hardl,
keep them out of anything nowadays
and Il is the sort OF Aim romance that 1
high school girl would just adore TO &C
in, or at least see, In addition there Il
The Village Smithy." which is Macl
Sennett's comedy propaganda with I
quaint gentleman who smokes a pip'
through his ears.
At the RivoH Norma Ts!madge II
The Probation Wife" escapes from 1
Broadway cabaret into reformatory
! and fees from that into matrimony, Will
Thomas Meighan as the contugal gait
keeper. The plot OF this Select picture
runs from the Bowery to Times Square
where 1t gets tangled up in the MARTA
shuttle system. At the Broadway Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Chaplin receive al
callers, though maintaining. as It were
separate establishments for "A Dog
Life" and when Girl Loves"