New-York tribune., 1920-12-13
On the Screen
''Passion" at Capitol Shows Life
of Du Barry; ''The Juck-
Inns" at the Rivoli
By Harriette Underhill

Passion the intimate story of the
little millner whom the world came to
know as Du Barry" is what it says on
the program at the Capitol this week.
And it is an intimate story. 1t seems
to make you know Jeanne as no other
tale ever has done. The title we object
to. 1t doesn't fit the story; then we
have had that explained to US SO often.
Titles for pictures are selected be-
cause they will look we'll in cleo
trio lights or 20 get the people in
the theater in the first place or some
thing like that. But if the world knows
the little millner as Du Barry also, we
think the world will know the picture
as Du Barry and not as passion"
Half the people we met. on our way
going to see Du Barry. The other half
asked If we were going to see Pola
Negir.
AS the captivating little milliner
who gazed in delight not unmixed with
wonderment as the cupid-stricken
flocks fell before her, the star is
superb There is never hint that she
IS not a young and joyous creature
who expects to earn her living by max
ing hats until perhaps some day she
may marry Armand de Faix and have
six children. We have always felt that
Du Barry was an ingenious person,
innocent of wiles, and that is what
Pola Negri makes her. if she stalked
her prey there was never any hint of
it, and if she had lived now even her
most Jealous contemporaries could not
have referred to her as "vamp" No.
they would probably have put their
heads together and said: "They're all
crazy over Jeanne and she's always
giving them the air." The selection
OF this star to portray the countess
Du Barry was happy thought Besides
belng spontaneous and gay and totally
without affectation she is very lovely
to look at. So it all seems perfectly
plausible when we leave all others and
forget their allegiance and worship at
the shrine Of the Du Barry If she
powdered her nose on the way to the
guillotlne the incident is not shown
IN the picture. Zone moment more -
! she shrieks, "life IS so sweet" and then
the last of the three candles is extin-
gulshed and you know that Du Barry is
dead.
S. L. Rothapfel has represented the
triangle OF Louis AV, Armand de Folk
and Du Barry by using three Candles.
One at time they are snuffed out. or
course, every enc knows that Du
barry g lNe had more than three cor
ners. instead Of triangle. one mirht
suspect that IL was at the least an
octagon. But the others were but Incl
dents-men sent by kind Providence
to help little Jeanne out of unpleasant
situations, and, happily for her, Jeanne
could love often and lightly.
Passion" is Fir National pro-
duction, and VIC should say that it is at
least so and 44-l00 per cent perfect
,x,.1o ,lI II
done the cast is capable and the story
and direction are excellent. Mr.. Rothap-
fel has arranged prologue which is
very effective. 1t is done by the Capitol
ballet corps, with Mile. GanberelN and
Alexander Gum ansky. This is the onIv
thing on the program with the feature
picture.
At the Rivoli Theater The feature is
George Melford production, called
The Jucklins," taken from the book by
Opie Read. 1t is one of those Southern
stories of before-the-w times. whom
the strongest young man in the vicinity
used to desert the plow and 90 and try
TO teach school to lot Of hoodlums
who insisted on ducking him in the
pond and tacking sign upon the
schoohouse door, "No teacher. no
sch ool.' Monte Blue is the hero, who
is strong enough to break up the gang
and keep his school going, and Incl
dentally marry the belle of the county.
VIXEN the story opens all of the plain.
honest hearts were in the keeping az
some rascally person with money. But
all the time the honest hearts were
calling for their true mates.
The picture is well done and it is
entertaining, but we SHOULD have liked
more chicken fights and such like and