The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-20
Oh, Lady, Lady,
Is Still Diperting,
Epen as a Movie
Bebe Daniels Alluring in One
Time Musical Comedy at
the RialtO.

The greed OF the movies, short on
story material but long on film, was
shown yesterday at the Rialto, when
oh, Lady. Lady" the musical comedy
piece regnant here couple of seasons
back, was found 10 have fallen into the
omnivorous nav Of the films. So beset
are producers for ideas that they were
willing to take this piece by Guy Bolton
and p. G. Wodehouse, strip it Of its
music and by carefully blending Bebe
Daniels-not to mention Harrison Ford
and Walter Hiers-with the settings and
the gowns. whip IL into shape so that
one scarcely recognizes II as a musical
comedy graduate, because it has some
thing of story.
The result, like the original, is fairly
dlvertlng. though Warehouses; own pic
ture Of the young man who became q
nero because he lost his trousers at n
house party was more amusing. In
TACT this Realart product directed by
Maurice Campbell suffers through stick
ing too closely at times TO the original.
Tor lines that entertain on the stage by
being obvious are flattened by the
harder blacks and whites of the screen.
However, the story has the original
twist In that starting with the eonven-
tional situation Of the young man who
nervousy fears boylsh sweetheart
may come to break up his present en-
easement, has a friend hire a vamp to
scare the earlier love off, only to have
his country lnamorata and his siren turn
40 on rd N o
woman who has become an actress and
learned how to get cinders in her eye at
strategic moments.
Miss Daniels AIIuring.
OF the leading trio the roly poly HERS
was perhaps the more interesting. NOV
ing about with the ludicrous anxiety Of
ono who expected to have fate fall on
his neck at any moment. Miss Daniels
looked pretty and aliuring in a Polly
with Past role but failed to differ
entiatc between her various incarnations
with quite the chameleon skill of Ina
Claire. though she wore her gowns with
artistry. Ford. as her other lover had
little TO do, but bore this with a pleasant
smile
A Mack Sennett comedy. "A Freside
Brewer" for all its jollity, pointed the
sad moral that except at nome the VOL
stead law will get you In the end, The
orchestra added Overture Trumphae,'
a spirited composition by Maurice Baron
which won second prize in Dr. Hugo
Riesenfed's competition to it's repertoire
under the lead of the composer, and Carl
Rollins and Gladys Rice toed the line
with solos
At the Strand "Isobel, or the Trails
End" pictured version OF James Oliver
Curwood's Northwestern adventure story,
starts with n fight en- a whaling ship,
continues with rush through several
more fights in the snow and on the old
cabin hearth. and Just misses bathos by
an ending in which the heroine has hys-
terics for no other reason than that
film story must be stretched so far and
no shorter.
Naturally enough, It concerns the hunt
Of a sergeant Of the Royal Northwestern
Mounted Police for a man accused Of
murder in defending his wife, for mem
bers Of the r. ~ NJ. +. on the screen
seem to spend all their time hunting
down other men who are too impulsivc
with weapons. House Peters sustains
interest in spite Of a repetition OF stua-
tons. and Jane Novak is pleasantly
agreeable as the wife with two lovers.
though in her Eskimo furs she can't re-
frain from using a mincng. sophisticated
walk