The sun., 1919-03-03
FILM PLAYS RESCUE
ABANDONED FARMS
Mabel NOrmand Shines in isis
Hopkins" as Given at
Strand Theatre.
FARNUM IN MAN HUNTER
Attractive Bills Are Offered
at the Rivoli, the Rialto
and the Broadway.

Tho two principal pictures at the
Strand yesterday rescued two aban-
doned farms and made them valuable.
at least as movie settings. Mabel Nor
mand in isis Hopkins'' rediscovers once
again the dramaturgic potency of hav-
ing n barn on the premises. while the
shorter comedy, Love-" containing rs
II does Fatty Arbuckle, may be said to
register more than the standard per-
centage Of butter fat required Of dairy
farms.
Goldwyn's filmed version OF the classic
Sis" comic cousin OF East Lynne" en-
ables Miss Normand to demonstrate that
q girl may be a heroine and yet stick
to ptstails to the final fadeaway. One
rather expected that toward the end she
would graduate into Marcel waves and
form fitting velvet riding habit.
This seemed all the more probable in
Miss Normand's case after the photo
play had shown her being sent to a
girls seminary to learn algebra and be
otherwise denatured. and after she had
won from the villain $16.000--which. 10
the masculine view at any rate, should
have provided her at least one fash
ionable gown. But no, Miss Normand
was unswervingly true to the shapeless
Bingham dress which was the mode in
New Harmony. 1t was a courageous
consistency. since the loosely fitting
wrapper robbed Miss Normand of much
charm
However, she more than compensated
for this with her diverting performance
as the shrewd feminine rube who en-
joys Standard Oil boom with the aid
nf nf rfl ~
water, an inauisitlve dog and a credulous
villain who oughtn't to be allowed out
with his check book.
MAN Hunter" at the Rivolf.
At the Rivoli William Farnum in THE
Man Hunter" discloses that when a man
has set out to nurse his own little hymn
of hate not even a good ducking in the
| sea when he is shipwrecked on a desert
island can wash 1t out Of him. As Far
| mum in this Fox cinema depicts a man
OF wealth who seeks revenge on the false
friend who ruins him and sends him to
jail it is only TO be expected that, once
Farnum rumples his pompadour and puts
on his fighting face. there will be some
bully good scraps and plenty Of work
for the wrecking companies.
There are, in fact, three exhibitions
of manhandling-one of them during the
realistic casting away OF Il steamer in a
| tropical storm. when one might think
even wronged man would ind other
things to occupy him besides choking his
betrayer. It Is only on tho desert island
that the man hunter has the proper sur
roundings In which to finish the Job
The picture has many thrills, but fol-
| lows we'll WORT groves, such as that
leading hero, heroine and villain to the
desert island. though even here there ID
an innovation. in that they remain only
two weeks instead of the customary two
years. Farnum, capably supported BY
Louise Lovely. does the part OF the gen,
| tlemanly gorilla with "A fine despera'
ton.
Fannie Ward In "Com mon Clay. ;"
Fannie Ward, presented at the RialtC
| by A. II. Woods In Common Clay" in
dicates that the Harvard school Of
dramatists can look natural even on th'
| screen. This adaptation OF the pr!z'
play by Cloves Kinkhead portrays. with
| the same appeal as IL, gtage success, tn,
fluctuations of cabaret singer. who, n.
| n domestic servant, becomes too domesti,
| with the son of the house. Miss War,
plays the part of the young girl so wei
one would never guess her age was
we'll every man for himself when 4
comes TO finding these things out from
Who's Who"
| Domesticity also invaded the Broad
way with Mary MacLaren in THE AmaS
ing Wife" while Charley Chaplin II
"a Dogs Life" displayed once again tn
hard life Of man with nowhere TO Il
but Jail