New-York tribune., 1921-03-14

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give the play an unhappy ending.
titled "The Blizzard" featuring Jimmy
Aubrey in Chaplincsque movements.
Mary Fabian. soprano. aud Emanuel
List, baritone. are soloists, and the
Ralto Magazine las a fresh line OF
news events. The Rialto Orchestra
plays the "lrish Rhapsody by Victor
Herbert.
The story of gay philanderer Is di-
vertingly picturized at the Rivoli Ihea-
ter this week. Louis Joseph Vance's
"Beau Revel" was originally an absorb
ing story, but on tho screen it loses
some of it's grip and inclines to the
melodramatic.
The plot is unusual in that faith
er and son are rivals in love. and
age is sacrificed at the expense of
youth. 1t is not pleasant picture or
a cheerful one. for it ends with sui
eide. While a great deal more might
have been done with the continuity and
titles OF story Of this texture, the
character work is onspicuously good.
tinction and force into his part to de-
gree rarely seen on the screen. Flor
encc Vidor. in the role of Nelly Steele,
dancer. is excellent. The other parts
are taken by Lloyd Hughes, Kathleen
Kirkham Richard Ryan, Harlan Tuck
err, William Conklin, Lydia Titus, WIZ
liam Musgrave and Joseph Campbell.
The picture is dull in its episodes. The
characters sustain the main interest. 1t
Paramount. John Griffith Wray dl-
rected it. The scenario is by Luther
Reed.
1t abounds in cabaret scenes. nov
eltv is introduced when Nelly Steele,
who is in love with Beau Revels son,
pirouettcs through sea foam. The illu-
sion is that she is dancing under water.
Beau, whose one redeeming feature is
his love for his son, is dismayed to
find that Dick wants to marry cabaret
dancer. He tries to persuade the youth
that she is in the class of butterflies
that he, as middle-aged roue has
pursued all his life. He boasts that he
can have Nelly at his apartment within
two weeks. Father and son pledge their
honor on the test, and Beau enters en-
Enthusiastically into the chase: But
having pursued butterflies until he IS
more than adept, he falls in love with
the girl and asks her to marry nm.
She loves Dick, and he removes him
self from the path of youth and love
by falling out Of window.
There is Christie comedy entitled
"Wedding Blues" Selections from Vic
tor Herbert's eileen" are played as
St. Patrick's week feature. Betty Ander-
sen and Fred Jagel sing "To Wild
Rose" and Professor Firmin Swlnnon
plays an organ solo.
This is an Oriental week at the Capi.,
tol Theater. The picture "A Iale OF
Two Worlds" by Gouverneur. Morris,
is Chinese, and the music is adapted to
the theme. There is forced air about
the picture, as if the actors We're
dressed up in Chinese clothes, planted
in a Chinese background and told to
perform. The spectator never really
manages to lose himaelf in the story
and believe that he is witnessing
street scene in Shanghai.
The first part of the picture repre-
sents life in China. Then it abruptly
city. There are so many loose ends
in the story that it is confusing, if full
of color The child of American pa
rents is kidnapped in the East. Years
later he is found in America, living
among the Chinese and resembling
them in many respects. Some of the
character parts are taken by real Chi
nese. j. Frank Clendon plays the lead
and the other characters are Beatrice
Joy, Wallace Bcery, Z. A. Warren,
Margaret McWade, Jack Able. Arthur
Soames, Edythe Chapman, Dwight Crit
tenden and Irene Rich. 1t is Frank
Lloyd production by the Goldwyn
Studios.
Victor Herbert's "Irish Rhapsody" Is
played by the orchestra. Mile Gam
bareli sings "The Swan" There is
Bruce Scenic Study, water Trails"
"Nola," a Silhouette scene, is given by
Leon Leonidow, Doris Niles and Gladys
Waite.