The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-02
WRONG MARRIAGE
RIGHYED IN FILM
"True Heart Susie" Tells the
Story Of q Plain Woman's
Loyalty. -
WARNER BACK IN MOVIES
"The Man Who Turned White''
Featured at the Broadway
Other Bills.

The Strand this week answers the
discussion that has been raging as TO
whether men prefer to marry plain but
faithful damsels or the frivolous type
with an. inlaid complexion. d. w.
Grfmth's latest picture, True Heart
SUSIE says they like to wed the mas
terpieces Of painting. but repent after
ward when they see the wife with her
mask on and wearing curl papers.
Readers who have been keeping
abreast Of this controversy day by day
Will, therefore, be all the better pre-
pared to graphic with this bucolic idyll
or a girl with more heart than face who
remains faithful to her youthful ideal
even when he grows q mustache and
marr1es the wrong pair of eyes
Though her hero even in their school
days can never force himeeH to the
point OF actually kissing her-always
foozling his approach shot at the last
minute-she pawns the family COW and
chickens to send him to college without
revealing lis benefactress, having DE-
cided she AMPLY must marry q smart
man"
But after graduating and preparing
for the ministry. the young man, fos-
lowing Susie's own advice that people
always look up to a minister with a
Wife," marrtes on the fly a futter headed
little milliner who In addicted to such
denominations an powder, paint, ciga-
rettes and motion picture magazines
AFTER the awakening loyal Susie ia
compelled to shield the butterfly, to pre-
vent her husband from learning exactly
how bad bargain he picked up, but
In the end-well, there's the usual end,
In which the wife In disposed of SO that
the clergyman can finally plant that
kiss where 1t win do the most good.
An Appealing Story.
One might have wished that Mr.. drif-
nth. with the same courage which made
him fasten a tragic finish to Broken
Blossoms" would have eliminated the
conventional happy ending and stuck
closer to the probable facts In this ex-
position of n problem that seems to have
started bothering him about the same
time that Il set readers pens agog. But
as 1t fs he presents a simple and appeal
Ing story. illuminated with flashes of
genuine humor that make one suspect he
Ia out after the scalp Of James Whit
comb Riley on the screen.
Lillian Gish. once more allowed to
wear quaint. frumpish clothes, plays
role that seems to havS been grated
upon her personality. Robert Harron
acts with engaging naivete the part Of
the clergyman. looking q good deal like
Sir James Barrie-in fact, there is more
than suggestion in the picture of an
Americanized window In Thrums"
Among other customary features Is
an artistic Outing Chester scenic: a
Lyons and Moran comedy. waiting at
the Church." which literally races all
over the map, and excerpts from aida, %
interpreted by the orchestra with the
help Of the Sphinx. a yellow moon and
the Sahara desert done in blue.
Another Problem Play.
The Sahara itself forms the back
ground for THE Man Who Turned
White" the main film at the Broadway.
which brings H. b. Warner back to the
movies. apparently in response to a dis
tress signal for an actor of his proved
ability. Here again is problem pre-
sented-whether man should keep
silent and bear dish 5nor for another man
because the latter has saved his life
when the bullets are flying.
Mr.. Warner portrays an officer of the
Foreign Legion IN Africa who Is court
martialled for a disgrace really belong
comes an Arab bandit sheik. waging war
on the whites to settle his private quar-
rel with the race. One of his captives is
a beautiful girl, characterization. no
less-and because OF her appeal to his
better instincts he frees her, resumes
his white drill suit and cane and in the
end IL exonerated. principally through a
desert fight in which he saves her from
a gang Of ARABIA who mean TO be bad
but are rotten marksmen.
Though the picture sticks rather
closely to the usual desert trails, and
there's not enough development of the
idea conveyed in the title, 1t has stir
and color. some striking night scenes,
and altogether is an agreeable improve
ment over the aggravating war drama
that opened B. S. Moss's management
there And one Is always prejudiced in
favor of Mr.. Warner. In addition there
is very messy and amusing comedy
by Lawrence Semon. with q monkey who
Is a relief from the ordinary screen
comedian
other Screen Attractions.
At the Rialto Tom Moore in "one of
the Finest" gives an entertaining sketch
of the troubles of q young traffic cop
while trying to make an heiress fall in
love with him. Twice he has to cross
her path-oncs to warn her against
speeding in her car and again to save
her life-and each time she resents his
interference. Only marriage can recon-
cile her to him.
At the Rivoli Ala Nazimova returned
In 1.-The Red Lantern" and readers de-
string TO refresh their memory on this
picture can drag out the copies of this
paper: of two weeks ago. 1t might be
said that Nazimova played as well as
ever.