The New York herald., 1921-03-07
Douglas Fairbanks
In NeW Acrobatic
Stunts in The Nut
Climbs Through Furnace Flues
to Rescue sweetheart
Other Pictures.

Wild, hut IT, will have to view Douglas
Fairbanks in THE Nut at the Strand
this week to learn how really TO cavort.
Having apparently exhausted the hand
Il ring possibilities of the West. he
comes to our village to turn few hip-
fops, mental as we'll as physical, and
to find that while the way TO mans
heart may be through his stomach the
way to his womans heart Is through the
furnace.
The story, by Kenneth Davenport,
was ADAPTED for the screen by William
Parker and Lotta wood--doesn't tie
latter name fit IS per cent. OF the see
mario writers? Il is an airy bit OF en-
gagng nonsense, rather incoherent at
times but extremely enjoyable, because
it let's Fairbanks work in an ingratiat-
ing smile occasionally and bound zeal
ously from pillar to post
Moreover. one doesn't have to work
out a situation and feel terribly complex
and worldly, for the villain and hero are
plainly marked.
The tale also enables Fairbanks to ae-
velop more of those schoolboy tricks IN
sleight of hand and to make love very
originally by means of waxworkS. lie
Is an inventive youth smitten with
young girl who wants to enlist the aid
Of the best society persons In her chart
table schemes, and while trying 70 get
them interested III nearly asphyxiates
party, bounds through the streets III II.
v. DIS and finally, ia order to rescue
his sweetheart from the clutches Of a
gambler. climbs up through the furnace
iiues-which Is new way of breaking
his neck, even for Douglas. the titles
are lively and the picture is the kind OF
rare dream that makes you wake up
chuckling
And there is a wealthy young man,
Pernelius FanderbrooE, breaking in as
cub reporter. who is jostled by the
police just as though he were truly a
newspaper man. Besides LisZt's Second
Hungarian Rhapsody" and vocal offer
ings. THE Shippers Treasure Garden"
featuring the bonneville Trolley, offers
something refreshingly droll. though not
strictly unknown to patrons OF the new
municipal troIeys.
Lying Lips" at Capitol.
Lying Lips" at the Capitol illustrates
the danger when a motion picture pro-
ducer strives to be too startling, for
twice yesterday the spectators were car
ried so far beyond their depth in their
feelings that they Uttered when the
director expected they would be gnaw-
ing their programmes. The first time
Thomas H Ince. in adapting May
Edginton's story to the films, "overshot"
the mark with his camera, was when
bride of the English arstocracy
stopped her wedding at the altar before
brilliant gathering scene that
1 lrk4t afrH titra
If that capable actress, Florence Vldor.
had been directed to play 1t less sensa-
tionally, instead OF finging UP her arms
as though she were being thrown to the
lions.
The second overdone occasion was the
fainting At OF the brides mother when
she read in the newspapers the revela-
ton that her daughter was already mar
ried to another and promptly keeled over
in the fashion that a villain does at the
end of a Mack Seunett comedy.
There are some contradictions in the
story, such as Blair CornGdUs noble
plan to shield tho girl with whom he
was shipwrecked by taking another
name when he is rescued so thd' she
can say she was the only surviS or Of
the wreck--whereupon after THIS gall
liant expedent. Blair goes and taunts
her for casting him aside after she was
saved
While the theme OF the story is that
love triumphs over everything. II is the
god Of Mammon. so heartily scorned all
| through the picture. who gives love the
victory in the end. The young English
society girl who casts aside an English
army captain for a millionaire. then
falls in love with a man she meets In
the Canad an forests. only to reject him
later becHusc he Is poor and she loves
luxury finally yields to her love for
him-after he has fallen heir to the
esta tea OF relative in England
Yet despite such flaws. the picture
has many elements Of greatness. The
| blowing up Of steamer by q stray mine
was superbly done and gave Ince and
his immediate director. John Griffith
Wray an opportunity not only TO show
the madly claw.ng mob as the ship
subsidized In the waves but 70 dodge
cleverly the desert island situation that
Is beginning 20 get on the pubic &
nerves. Instead, he maroons his hero
and heroine on the derelict remains OF
the ship. giving them three days IN
which. by their own ceremony. they can
do the usual procedure OF being mar
ried in the sight of God"
The incident BY which the lightning
storm frightens the girl on the wreck
into a realization OF her love for the
man was consummately arranged and
ncted-in fact the acting all through
was several knots ahead OF the story.
over and above her prepossessing looks.
FLORENCE yidor showed discriminating
intelligence as an actress. House Peters
hss one of those strong. attractive faces
that was made for women to disilluson.
and he was just what man would
actually be in such marine disaster.
"The Guded Lily"
"The GiIded Lily" at the Rivon is
chiefly notable in that II turns Lowell
sherman from q long career OF villalny
an stage and screen and makes man
an him at last And Sherman does SO
well ~ the Broadway blighter who Is
tho only one among her admirers 10 do
The right thing by little cabaret girl
that he would seem to have been worth
saving long ago Miss Clara Beranger,
N writing the scenario for Paramount,
has had the courage to make her metro
uolitan clubman turn out 20 be made
of cloth OF gold. while the country boy
with the clear eyes is composed Of
shoddy--thus smashing screen tech
nique 10 bits.
When tho country hoy II accepted BY
,i,a cabaret dancer out of three lovers