New-York tribune., 1919-08-19
On the Screen
Charles Ray Is Seen Again as a
Country Bumpkin in His
Latest Film

Charles Ray is at the Ria,to mi,
week in picture called "Bill A'H9 Henr~ rn''
~ IS most amusing little storv to1d
IN the usual Ray style. 'oio
w., ms mas been full week. fo,
Charles Ray and Elsie Ferguson ape ape
our best beloved on the screen ord a ,',e g
nave had both of them. We
Our idea of the millennium in n;c+-
ures IS a ,photoplay with Miss Fer-
euson Tor the heroine and Mr.. Raw for
Inc nero. OF course this never can
De, out 1t is pretty good to have them
ootn IN one week and, as Cecil de Mile
thing" nave every
=, Ray is seen in the character of Bill
: henry Jenkins, 80 o'clock guy in = q
8 o'clock town." but he knows how ~ "a
play poker! One of the e"nws mos+ now irter to
esting scenes in the picture depicts q
poker game in progress. Bill Henrv
is the come on" and as he loses his
him. "so'''eS Win
~. Then another hand is dealt. Walter
Iilers raises and his hand is shown on
M me screen: He holds four sevens.
Ihen two drop out and a man across
the table boosts. His hand holds ''t,poa tbpoa
treys and pair of deuces. Bill Henry
IS undecided, but finally he. too. raises
when the pot is boosted again Raw
stops and says Didn't you say to al.
ways raise on flush ?" and the excite
ment grows intense. One man bohind
us called out mot unless YOU got a
royal flush, you boob" And his com
Panlon answered "Let him alone
bet he's got a royal flush and don,t
Hnow it, And we, too fancied that tho
1lush must be at least straight flush,
ror blll Henry was playing to save his
S"eetnearts farm from being bought
up ana SO, OF course, he had to win.
When finally the man with the full
house called Walter Heirs threw down
nls TOUR sevens saying, "The pot is
flush" "''' oea' d
Yes" answered Bill Henry meeklv
thought so, too, so | drew four
queens" 1t was delicious moment
and every one IN the theatre applauded
There was 5000 in the pot and RiIl
Henry bought back the farm for his
girl and saved the day.
but there is rascally lawyer who
made considerable trouble and messed
thlngs up, but not permanently.
EDITH Roberts is the girl who owned
the farm William Carroll is the ras-
cally lawyer and Bert Woodruff and
MRS jennie Lee Courtright and Uncle
an4 Aunt Jenkins. The story is by Lois
SCtI'her ana the direction by Jerome
Mack sennett comedy is called
The Dentist" There is the Rjalto
dm1fagazine including Relaxation" and
Happy Hooligan."
ne overture is a symphonic poen, hv
Saint-Saons "Thc Spinning Whenl of
Omphale" " '''e' u
Martin Brefel sings an aria from
The Elixir Of Love" The LIGHT onera
number is MADAME Sherry" with a
solo by Vera Myers.
No doubt there are many persons
VINO nave succumbed to the lure of the
cinema only within the last two wears
ana many; like US, who never have
seen Intolerance
,,h for these there is a treat in store.
thcy have chance to see Mae Marsh
IN IN rea! picture, for she is now at The
george NJ. Cohan Theatre in a Grifith
production called "The Mother and the
Law" '''ei anu '"e
The picture is really one of the eni-
sodes in "Intolerance," but if has haan
enlarged, as was The Fall Of Babv.
ion'N another episode, so that it runs
LOT an hour and a half
AS we left the theatre woman he
nina US remarked, II never had en-
many thrills in an hour in NV life ;,
about it, way
IN plenty of pictures we have seen
tnese near executions. but. somehow
always' before we have had the com.
lof'anie assurance that they couldn't
possibly XIII the hero, and in this nirt1
ure We are not so sure
"A director who sacrifices everything
10 realism, as does the great Grjffit h
might N find it in his heart to let the
boy DIE just as he did the Father and
the Baby. '''' u
j.. Anyway, it is too exhaustinc to par
tlclpate IN such a chase in a racine
car after the Governor of the state
VINO is Just ahead in the Black Diamond
express, and we couldn't stand it to
take the trip very often, but we
wouldn't have missed it for the world
Mae Marsh is even more wonderful
than we dared to expect. in spite Of all
we had heard of her worl. in the Grif
fifth picture.
Robert Harron has all of the sim
plclty and sincerity which charactcr-
lze his other work, and Miriam Cooper
never has done anything better than
"lhe Frlendless One" Others in the
cast are Vera Lewis, Sam De Grasse.
Walter Long, Barney Bernard and Mar
garet Marsh.
At the Lyric Helen Keller opened in
y-on ~ III