The New York herald., 1921-08-01
Roscoe ArbuckIe
Provides Nep Fun
in Crazy to Marry
Some of His Antics Show He
Cannot Entirely Live Down
His Past.

ROSCOE Arpuckie, noW Trying TO 1--we
down his nickname Of Fatty" in Para
mount pictures is not quite able to live
down all his past, for in the latest pro-
duction. Crazy to Marry" at the Rialto
this week. there Is more than u splash
OF his old director, Mack Sennett.
Arbuckle falls into fountain is thrown
irto a newly made cement sidewalk and
has struggle with a fiivvor as some
OF the incidents in the hectic series of
thank you rGrm" bumps he gets in the
pay.
The scenario prepared by Walter
Woods from Frank Condon's story is
! almost too ingenious. for the observer
iads himself almost dizz1 trying to keep
Up with 1t, especially when the auto
n obiles take TO goiry around in curves
-as they always teem to be doing in
the movies. The OBESE comedian has the
character of a surgeon filled with the
notion OF curing criminals by operations
He is virtually rammed into matrimony
b. match making mamma who doesn't
stop at throwing her daughter into a
pool In order that the physician may
re scue her at the expense of his clothes
and his bachelor freedom.
On his wedding day. however the sur
& ron runs away with girl who has
mistaken him for her taxi chauffeur.
but in trying to avoid his would be
n,other-in-law by speeding 800 miles
away he only runs into the wedding
party again, and though damaged by
he flight, he Is still able to be stood up
before minister and married to his
unwilling soul mate.
Thief Proves an Angel.
An habitual thief who persists in fol-
lowing the surgeon about because he is
anxious to be operated upon proves
ultimately to be a rescuing angel In
VOLTS clothing, or something of that
| SORT
The hunor OF tho picture which
sometimes hits the high spots. Is largely
Incidental. due to Fattys by-play and
I! ere have been fow funnier episodes
before the camera than his herculean
| erorts to put up a one man top In a
rainstorm, In which even man and
half like Fatty seems unequal to the
JOB. Also there Is a wedding at which
Sennett should have been one OF the
grests. One was a little disappointed,
however when the police failed TO BE-
as frolicsome as the keystone cops and
never once fell out of a pursuing auto
mobile.
Lila Lee is winsome as the girl who
unwittingly kidnaps the medico. and
Laura Anson, Edwin Stevens and Bull
NJ ontana are also adept in dodging In
ard out during Fatty's mad rushes
Won Suppe's Beautiful Galatea"
overture: y Dance Algerienne" by
Lillian Powell. and solo by Edoardo
A.bano are other numbers. while Irv-
Ing Cummings. in a short feature,
'rricked," maintains the reputation OF
the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
on the screen-particularly in rousing
f-ht with two criminals in which every
o.e bites every one else with great
gusto.
Thomas H. Ince. stepping aside for
little from his customary triangular
motive. puts the mother eternal of the
screen to work again In Mother o
Nine at the Strand. Based by C.
Gardner Sullivan on Charles Belmont
Davis's story. THE Octopus" it con-
Germs 2 financial genius who deserts his
wife in the drunken belief that her
boy is the son of another; the son. who
obtains job from the father In the
| city without knowing the Iatter's
| identity. and a quarrel between the
two in which the flnancier is ac-
| c!ientally Killed. thus paving the way
for another OF the favorite court scenes
OF the films.
How the mother prevails on the
jury to free her boy against the false
\ testimony of her dead husbands
sweetheart Is something that will
prove acceptable to almost any one, ex-
cept possibly lawyers
| Betty Blythe abandons Oriental
seductiveness for time in this photo.
play, and Betty Ross Clark. Lloyd
| Hughes. Joseph Kilgour and Claire
Mcdowell are others who make this
melodrama as good as almost any popu-
lar sorg one might mention.
A new 'ToonervIllc Trolley" comedy.
Sport Pictorial. Boys: Grieg's
Peer Gynt Suite" by the orchestra,
and numbers by Madeleine MacGuigan
and the male quartet are also SUBJ
mitted in evidence.