New-York tribune., 1920-04-19
On the Screen
Don't Ever Marry" at Strand
Is ChocE1 Full of Chuckles
and Smiles

Don't Ever Marry" the feature pic
ture at the Strand this week, is COM
edy of situation. Lack of space pre-
vents us from giving this picture the
detailed comment that it deserves, but
it will be safe to recommend it TO all
sorts of friends. There are chuckles
planted here and there and smiles are
very thick. In the competent cast are
Marjorie Daw, Matt Moore, Tom Guise,
Herbert Standing and Wesley Barry.
the freckled-faced bellhop, real find
as child actor. If Marjorie DAVIS
work is not as distinctive as it was in
THE Rivers End" it is nevertheless
good. On the picture bill there is
comedy cartoon, pictorial and
scenic. Musically, the program in
cludes "Bells of st. Mary" sung by
Malcolm McEachern. and Suppe's
Morning, Noon and Night" as the over
ture. A very good bill, all in all
AT the Rialto, in celebration Of the
fourth anniversary of this theater,
Charles Ray is offered in paris Green"
the formula for which must have been
usual rube stuff plus melodrama."
That's the picture: Charles Ray as his
awkward, amusing, rural self. with
some wholly unnecessary melodrama
thrown in. Not a particularly good
sample of what Ray can do. "The
Pawnshop,'' Chaplin revival, is more
amusing than most of the revivals
seen, and contains some of the great
Charlot's more restrained moments. To
introduce the feature picture there are
shown scenes of Paris; there is also a
pictorial. The musical feature of the
bill is Liszt's "Sixth Hungarian Rhap-
sody," with czimbalon solo by Bella
Nyary. Lack Of space forbids the ex-
planation of this instrument, but go
hear it,
Not all safe crackers are as handsome
or as easily intrigued by pretty face
as is Lee Randall, alias Jimmy Valen-
tine, splendidly played by Bert Lytell
at the Capitol Theater. But this does
not prevent the screen adaptation Of
tine" from being simple, clean and
plausible melodrama. The action scenes
are carried out with convincing reality
and the humorous episodes of the film
are helped along by carefully written,
bright titles.
1t is unusual, to say the least for
man who has just been released from
prison cell to be given a position of
trust in a bank. That is what happens
to Lee Randall, no longer the Jimmy
Valentine, as he was known to his as
SOCldteS IN CRIME anO TO the detective
forces Of many cities. He is on the
road to regeneration after career of
safe cracking. and he stays on the road,
taking one of his confederates along
with him. For three years detective
searches for him. finds him and is
thrown off the trail by seemingly un-
shakable alibi until, to save the little
daughter of the bank president, who
has been locked into newly con-
structed vault, Lee, alias Jimmy Valen-
tine, makes use of his former skill and
knowledge OF bank vaults. Instead of
being made prisoner by the detective.
Lee marries the daughter of the bank
president. Besides the splendid per-
formance Of Bert Lytell, VIOLA Vale, Eu-
gene Palette and Wilton Taylor act
we'll
"Edgar's Hamlet" Booth Tarkine-
ton comedy, and topical and news films
are also on the program. "Pagliacci,"
which was first presented at the Capitol
early in March, is again being sung as
the chief musical feature