New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15

huge cuspidors groups of mustached
sombreroed and armored men of the
ily-be-damned type. Also there is
chaste senorita, who rustles for
drinks. At one side is roulette
wheel.
The Boss Of the Show
: And the whole outfit is owned and
presided over BY a slender, dudish
looking man with a little black mus
tache, dressed la Broadway, which,
Of course, is sinister. This gentle
nan, who always stands at the end
Of the bar, is enamored of the chaste
one-otherwise there wouldn't be
any plot Always there is the Mexi-
can half breed for q villain, or a
drunken lnjun. Mexico ought to sue
the motion picture world in general
for such exploitation.
Our hero, of course, is near
Herculean. sharp-featured chap,
wearing big hat and leather
breeches that must weigh a ton in
such weather. He always looks at
YOU with half-closed eyes, giving the
impression that he's very chivalrous
but very dangerous proposition TO
tackle You know at once N you
would if you were a fan like re, Just
what he's going to do when the time
comes.
Suddenly the half-breed grabs the
chaste one around the waist. That S
the cue for orr hero. Now there's
the devil to pay. And, my, how that
hero, scorning the use of a gun, does
knock EN- out One after another
Of the huge fellows is hoored by
hin in the general head heels
mix-up. John L. Sullivan in his
prime never could have wrought
such havoc with a whole barroom
full Of toughs.
have been fed up with that sort
Of thing for years. And yet I love
it. There is little theater near
where live, and l go into the con-
crete gallery thereof and sit in a
N-cent loge seattle most aristo-
cratic part of the house-along with
bunch of coatless and, for the
most time, breathless men and boys
smoking cigarettes, pipes or cab
cage leaves, as per pocket. We love
that sort Of thing, the dashing up
and down mesquite-covered hills by
the hero and his pursuers, or the
mad race of the machine carrying
the Eastern scoundrel, who is try
ing to escape with the money he has
swlndled these poor, untutored sons
OF the plains by selling them fake
mining stocks, and whose bones, if
ne escapes the bullets of the justly
Indignant ones, will later be found
on the alkali plains.
An Element of Weakness
Inc way these lily fingered East
GhefS go out and beat the West
efners at their own game, and in
'neir own barnyard, at that, is a
weakness in the story one has to
overlook. But what's weakness of
piot among fans?
y, men the inevitable happens. The
"aA Street sharp escapes through
ram of bullets that makes one
wonder at the ineficacy of powder
sAa ball. He comes to New York
a''a We next see him seated in a
magnificent dining room, surrounded
" beautiful women and swells. Sud-
4'aiy they all look around as if an
lsument were taking place out in
nc nall. Then in lumbers the hero,
spurs and sombrero discarded for
sure clothes, holds the whole crowd
up and makes the sharper disgorge,
Notwithstanding the pleadings Of
Sle beautiful blonde daughter, whom
VIC nero Immediately worships. Or
WI nero goes down to Wall Street
!, with the few thousand bucks
,'e ooys in the hills have lent him
y, MS Joy ride East upsets all the
.a'cuiatlons Of the Standard Oil
10"d. That's part of the pic
'a.e don't care for. There's some
Jung improbable about it that
Jars me.
Another thing jars me. 1 hereby
'sister my solemn protest against
- l mean the rape scene. / hate,
ys'ne and abominate it. 1t is rarely
sssn'asic and always brutal; it is an
eppeal to the bestial side of us, and
- 0Osessed producer believes many