The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-17
FRED STONE, BACK
TURNED, ROPES MAN
Lassoing Is Big Feature Of
"Johnny Get Your Gun"
at the Strand.
ELSIE FERGUSON IN FILM
Plays in "The Marriage Price"
at Rivoli-"The Brand"
Shown at RiaIto.

good movie actor of Class A nova
days must include lassoing as part of
his artistic virtuosity. Not the ordinary
oiothesline singing. either. but trick
stunts with lariat. such as roplng a
man with ones eyes closed. Therefore
Fred Stone. IN his latest picture. Johnny
Get Your Cum" at the Strand. proves
himself superfine film star.
He introduces a novelty even to
cinema lassoing by turning his back on
q man and then roping him ten yards
away. Stone makes that rope crawl
up the Villains legs as though It were
Virginia creeper. Later he lassos the
villain from a balcony, yanking him out
OF an automobile. after having hurled
the moose around virtually everything
else-in fact this adaptation OF the stage
comedy by Gardner Hunting would prob
ably collapse II It weren't for manila
hemp.
Incidentally johnny Virgins lassoes
the affections OF a girl. and the only
thng he doesn't snare Is the plot. We
oefy any one to catch that However,
the story. which indicates that cow
punching Is not really the proper thing
at Palm Beach, succeeds in it's obvious
purpose Of gaining laughs as a ground
work for Fred Stones legs.
II Il easy to detect that Johnny's ex-
periences were especially arranged for
stone. because a cowboy. in sending
Johnny to impersonats himself and save
his sister from marrying a Duke, says
the sister will not suspect anything be-
cause "she hasn't seen me since I was
Kid and will think grew UP homely."
Threat With Cigarette Case.
Johnny not only delouses the family
or Dukes but with cigarette case
threatens false friend into handing
over Ill gotten gains. To accomplish
this Stone rides a horse UP steps, rides
a bicycle down steps, turns somer-
sault over table with the bicycle and
ends by walking up the side of build
Ing, holding on to rope. He does viz
tually everything that's good for
broken neck except fail from an air
plane-and there's still hopes for his
next picture.
The strand programme contains also
James Montgomery F1agg's latest satire,
The Last Bottle" a vision of the days
when rum will be in a class with radium
However. this picture seemed to amuse
less than others by the artist, perhaps
because prohibition declines as a Joke
the nearer It approaches.
At the Rivoli the audience watched
The Marriage Price" show Elsie Fergu-
son up as a screen actress. Yes, Stree,
the picture revealed Miss ferguson as
an absolutely worthless performer be-
ne t.Na
bers of her own Aim company is depicted
advising Miss Ferguson to drop all idea
OF acting on the stage or the screen.
Hciress Has TO Go to Work.
But that IS because Mlss Ferguson
does some really fine chara cter work In
displaying the fearful technique OF a
socially prominent helress reduced TO
working for a living, who makes a fall
ure OF the movies so that by a subtle
irony Miss Ferguson Is actually shown
being fired for incompetence. In the end
the right man-who through wyndham
Standing was made TO look as II he ac-
tually possessed all the movie virtues
gets her. after some stock transactions
which aren't so involved in tape ae to
prevent Miss Ferguson from growing
honestly emotional oveT the certificates.
The marriage price. by the way, Is
plate OF soup. See ~ It isn't.
AT the Rialto Is Tho Brand" Rex
Beach's latest, in which Kay LAUREL
Follies girl who goes TO
Alaska, with trouble bound to ensue.
Mr.. Chaplin runs amuck in another re-
vival, The Bank" The Chaplins will
both be at home at the Broadway for
another week.