New-York tribune., 1920-09-07
ON the Screen
Louis Sherwin Has Done Excel.
lent Things With 'Milestones'
at the Capitol Theater
By Harrietse Underhill

ny E1aTrlctte ONOerNllI
Louis Sherwin has done excellent
things with "Milcstoncs," the feature
picture at the Capitol Thcater this
week. Indeed, one might say that
"Milestoncs" has gathered considerable
moss since it was produced few sea-
sons ago, for the Arnold Bennett-Ed
ward Knobloch play seems particularly
adapted to the screen and Mr.. Sherwin
has adhered pretty closely to the orig
inal in making his scenario. The pic
ture was directed by Paul Scardon and
presented by Samuel Goldwyn. There
are no stars nor featured players.
The story tells of the loves, ambi-
tions and disappointments of three gen.
eratlons and has to do with the rela-
tive merits of wooden ships and iron
ships and later of iron ships and steel
ships. The story takes one from 1860
/ to 1912. John Rhead is in love with
Rose Siblcy and Sam Sibley is like
wise bethrothed to Gertrude Rhead
! But John has a notion in his head--a
mad fad-for iron ships. And SO it
comes to pass that two houses are very
| much divided against themselves. Ger
trude will not marry Sam and Rose
! may not marry John. But Rose and
John elope behind q black and white
tandem, not taxi, and then after defy
| ing the powers that be they force their
| own daughter Emily to marry horrid
old Lord Monkhurse when she loves
Arthur Preece. The opposition plat
form blackballs Preece because he
lelieves that steel ships will take the
place Of iron ones. But Emily has no
backbone and she marries papa'a choice
of & husband and lives unhapb':t until
Re dies; and then, when her own daueh-
/ ter wishes to marry the man OF her
choice she kicks up as great fuss as
the widow of Lord may with propri-
ETY. and refuses her consent. =,
The picture was beautifully done and
we'll acted in spite of it's lack of stars.
Now, some one who disapproves of the
star system is going to call the fore
going non sequitur.
The only familiar faces in the cast
were those of Gertrude Robinson, who
VAS vas Rose. Others we're Lewis Stone,
who was John; Alice Hollister, who
played Gertrude; Harvey Clark, as
Sam; May Foster, Gerald Pring, Boyd
Irwin and Correan Kirkham.
Samuel Rothapfel has taken up the
presentation end of the Capitol The
ater. since we went away, and even if
we hadn't met him in the lobby we
directors.
The program opens with "Dawn-
land" shown 10 the first movement of
the peer Gynt" suite. The next
number is ballet solo BY Doris
Miles, Amtras dance from "Peer
Gynt" Then comes cello solo, Hun
garian Rhapsody" played by Helen
Scholder; the Capitol News, extracts
from "Cavallera Ructicana," with
Marie Stampleton Murray and. Bertram
Peacock, as Santuzza and Alto; the
Gamberelli and Oumansky, and inter-
lude, you're in Love-" and Mack
Sennett Comedy, OTIS Boy"
"The Roundup" is the feature pic
ture at the Rialto.
But Arbuckle remains true to type,
for as Slim Hoover he is more or less
Of q comedy sheriff, not scorning to
get q laugh by tumbling off his horse,
or tipping over the table, or splitting
his coat and waistcoat up the back.
Mr.. Arbuckle once said to us: 81
don't want people to laugh just be
cause Pm fat There is nothing funny
in being fat" But, although there m ~
not be to the owner of the embon.
point, there always is to the beholder
and if one has it one may as we'll capi-
talize it. Mr. Arbuckle can ride and
shoot and even climb mountains ,and
roll cigarettes with one hand, and
strike matches in the air as we'll as
ever Bill Hart did, in spite of his too,
too solid flesh.
Fortunately, in jumping from slap
stick to drama Rosco Arbuckle has at
tempted nothing heroic. Just before the
final fadeaway, when he sees the lady
of his dreams in the arms of his rival,
he says weepingly Nobody loves fat
man." and he has remembered this all
through his new picture. Personally, we
really expected to see him appearing as
rival of our own Bill Hart, a bad, bad
man, who wore plaid shirt, rolled his
own cigarettes, struck a match by wav-
ing it through the air, and then fell
down, oh, so hard, when a sweet young
blonde looked at him! We had name
all picked out for him, too. Satanic
Sam" it was.
| Tom Forman made the scenario ard