The New York herald., 1921-12-12
Wife Wins Over
Vampire in Don't
FELL Everything
New Film Drama With Wal
lace Reid Has Entertain
inc Moments.

RIvOLI-W allaee Reid, Miss Gloria
swanson and Elliott Dexter In don't
Tell Everything" Paramount pie
tnre written by Lorna Moon and d.
rected by sam wood.
The heroine's aversion to fish. after
her yourg husband had virtually kid
mapped her into marriage and then told
her they would spend the honeymoon
rapturoualy casting for trout at the
hunting lodge of the other woman,
seemed to be the only point at which
she would win the sympathy of some
of the audience who dislike anythinl.
caught with worms. Otherwise Miss
Gloria Swanson made the girl quite cold
and unattractive, so that it was small
wonder the husband should turn toward
more viVacious fish,
The movie pundits evidently have de-
cided that the vampire is going out
and that it is time the wife came to
have more of run for her money. In
this picture they have helped her to
win out by sending her at the hunting
Ddge with cake, champagne and
lobster, at a time when hubby and his
feminine sporting pal are marooned
there by the rain with nothing but beans
to feed the grand passion. 1t seems that
calories will win a man over casting
every time.
Besides. the battle for TomnV,s heart
seemed as good as over when his wife
appeared in a furry, shakoed outfit that
might have been made for the revival
or The Chocolate Soldier" At any
moment one expected her to advance to
the front OF the screen, take the hero $
hand and sing MY Hero" blinking her
eyes superbly. And one could tell pretty
well that Tommy wouldn't succumb to
the other woman's allure, for though she
gave to him every opportunity when
they We're fishing, he didn't kiss her lin
splashed face. Only true love could
attain such heights.
1t is graver, sterner Wallace Reid
that one meets as the young man who
tangled himself in n web of his own
preVarications, for having been deprived
of further opportunities to appear as an
auto racer, Wallie seems to be facing
the serious reality that life is earnest.
however, he is allowed to break the
speed laws once, so he can still smile
occasionally
The one true. human touch is al
lowed at the finish to Miss Dorothy
Cumming as the frustrated pal. who
didn't follow the celulod line of least
resistance and pair off with Elliott
1STNSSA' INC pdCHeiOT Irlenu, perhaps
because he had been feeding her philoso-
pf ic platitudes. That seems to be Dex-
ter's principal business lately. and he
does 1t here without ruftling his hair.
The censors have made an odd dis
tinction here, for though they permit
Tommy in dressing gown to be seen
entering the bedchamber of his secret
bride, he is not allowed to be seen
leaving 1t. Then again. they have
passed natty little final fadeout with
TWO pairs of shoes at the foot of a bed
But then. this is no more anomalous
than tue title of the piece. for so far as
the pertinence of Don't Tell Every
thing goes, the picture might just as
Wen have been called "Oh. Fish 20 1t
has its entertaining moments, principal
~ through Mr.. Reid. and some of the
symbolism, like the card game is so
obvious you can't miss il with one eve
closed.
Triart Productions contributes an
other or its beautifully winsome photo
pays based on great paintings in "The
Bashful Suitor,' done with rare taste
after Josef Israers subject in the Metro
politan Museum of Art. in which Miss
Mary Brandon and Pierre Gendron re-
veal that the master artists know quite
as much about life as any film director
There is a charming Dutch dance as
prelude by Myrtle Immel and Felicie
Sorel: Tsehail<owsky Concerto" on
the Ampico. and "Snooky's Fresh Heir"
Chester comedy which gives humanity
chance to appreciate the comic art of
monkeys