New-York tribune., 1920-02-23
On the Screen
Marjorie Daw Pleasing In s'The
Rivers End," This Weeks
Strand Picture
By Edwin II. Blanchard

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A New York that has been so recently
at the mercies Of the Weather Bureau
and the Street Cleaning Department
should be interested in "The Rivers
End" the feature picture at the Strand
this week. for the scenes are laid jr
the great white north. But the picture
has much more to 1t than lics in its
temporary appeal to. recently be-
leaguered picture-goers; FOR there is
told a moving story, rich in beautiful
scenes and we'll acted.
The first scenes Of the flm, which
was adapted from the story by James
Oliver Curwood, show John Keith
hunted for several years for the mur,,
der Of Judge Kirkstone, a victim oi
the long arm Of the Canadian Mounted
Police, through the efforts Of Derwen.
! Conniston. But on the long trip back
from the far north with his prisoner
| Commission is stricken with disease and
it is then, when Keith refuses to leave
the sick man to save his own life, that
friendship comes between the two men
who were hunter and hunted. In log
cabin in that frozen country Keith
watches over Commission, and when the
latter grows certain that he Is to die
he suggests, because Of q remarkable
resemblance between them, that Keith
take his name at his death and return
to the post. Keish is carefully coached
for the part he Is to play, and when
Commission dies the hunted man turns
south with q new name.
| At the post Of the Mounted Police,
Keith reports under his assumed name
the death Of himself, and passes sue
cessfully the scrutiny Of his new sister,
Mary Commission, and Mcdowell. of the
Mounted Police, neither Of whom had
seen Commission for more than three
years. But Shan Tung, a willy Oriental
attached to the post because of his
uncanny memory for faces, had seen
Keith ct the time Of the Kirkstone
murder, and was not deceived.
From this point complications como
in love with Miriam Kirkstone, the
daughter Of the murdered man, and
has already a secret with which to
menace her, for he and she alone know
that it was Peter Kirkstone, and not
Keith, who killed Judge Kirkstone.
With this secret he forces the girl
nearly to the point Of surrender, but
no goes too far, for when he threatens
to disclose Keith's identity unless the
masQuerader aids in the plans against
Miriam Keith defes him. Hard upon
the heels Of the defiance. comes a fight
in which Shan Tung is killed and Keith
lays some dozen Cinnamon low; the
building catches FIRE, and Miriams $
brother dies from burns just after he
has confessed to the murder of his
father.
Miriam and Mcdowell come to un-
and at "the rivers end" Keith and
Mary Josephine, his erstwhile sister,
meet in a new and ever old relation.
Mary Josephine, let it be said, in the
person of Marjorie Daw has very in
genuous and irresistible interpretion,
and Lewis Stone gave dignity and
strength to the part Of John Keith.
In addition to this exceptionally
good feature picture. there are the
the bill, ,as we'll as a comedy, Monkey
Shines" Of the musical numbers the
overture depicting the gradual evolu-
tion of Yankee Doodle from the Pill
grims' day to our own is fairly inter
esting.
The bill at the Capitol this week de-
serves very slight Recommendation, and
that slight recommendation comes be-
cause of certain partially redeeming
features Of the feature film, 1.-THE For
bidden Woman" in which Clara Kim
ball Young gives moments of pleasure,
great amount of satisfaction as a
whole
In this picture, which begins with a
promise of vision of Partisan night
life (than which, oh, sagel there is no
greater vision), brings Clara Kmball
Young to US as Diane Sorel, noted
Partisan actress. She is noted and
brilliant and beautiful, but she is
singularly free from all worldly knowl-
edge, for when she learns from Edward
Harding, playwright and producer,
who is old enough to pretend to play
the benevolent uncle. that Andrew de
Clermont, with whom she has dined
for three nights in succession, is mar.
ried, Diane dismissed this suitor alb
ruptly. The dismissal comes so ab-
ruptly to poor de Clermont that he
makes 1t the occasion OF committing
hari-kari in his loved ones boudoir.
Diane, being an actress, is naturally
torn to pieces by the publicity that
follows this last devotional act of her
lover, and flies to America with Ed
ward Harding for rest and an attack
upon the Broadway stage. At her first
stop in America she finds Malcolm
Kent, an author, who has crawled into
the wilderness near Montclair with
only his books and his dogs to produce
masterpieces. Kent rapidly loses in
terest in masterpieces on paper as he
sees more of this masterpiece of sis
ter art, and the end Of the picture is
almost in sight when Diane carelessly
starts investigating Kent's collection
Of photographs, and finds one pf his
| sister, whom coincidence discovers to
be Nine. de Clermont, the wife of the
suicide.
Thereupon explanations which are
misunderstood and misunderstanding
which are not explained threaten the
course of true love, until Nine. de
Clermont arrives providentially from
France and tells her very righteous
brother that Diane repulsed the ad-
vances of the lamented de Clermont
Then you know the rest; Kent and
Diane meet on q convenient spot within
eye shot of Edward Harding, who can
stand in the open window and play the
benevolent uncle to the death.
AS we have said, there are redeem
ing features: There is very wonder
full dog and there are scenes of real
beauty and there are moments when
Clara Kimball Young acts with power
and beauty. In the terse manner OF
the ancient oracles, we would advise
her to avoid the profile, except fol-
purposes of kissing.
1t was presumably from the very
lofty motive of bringing art to large