New-York tribune., 1921-10-10
then going on and telling the begin

then going on and telling the begin
ming OF it..
Glenn Hunter Is the lover, but VIC
Ike him better in boy parts than we do
in lover parts. Montague Love is good
a s the wicked Balzamo. Frank McCor-
mack is the doctor. The scenario was
turc was directed by Chester Franklin.
On the picture program also are g
post-naturo picture, "Le Voyaguer," !"
Monday"
The overture Is "William Tell" Mary
Fabian sings Rim -Korsakoff's "Song
of India" and Eduardo Albano sings
the Prologue from II Paglacci." Jo-
seph Alessi played "La Paloma" on the
trumpet, and so infectious was the
melody that the old bald-headed man
in front OF US wi9gled his head and
snapped his fingers in imitation of
castenets till his wife chided him into
silence.
Yesterday afternoon We went 70 tire
Strand to sec "T Accuse" and when it
was finished we said, $50 do I, | ac-
cuse the French of making very bad
pictures" and yet they err in such an
ingenious way that the feelings which
they arouse are not so much impatience
at the stupidity of the thing as a gentle
tolerance amounting ar times almost to
forgiveness. The actors and the di-
rector proceed with a pleased compla-
cence which can only mean that they
think they are putting over big idea
in great shape.
II Accuse" is what the hero is always
shouting whenever he secs ruined viii
lage or ruined lady. He means that
he accuses the Germans Of every con-
ceivable which it not exactly
a new idea. Yet, it IS war story and
all the scenes are shown in the trenches
and on the battleields. just as they
have been shown IN hundreds Of other
pictures. In the end the hero goes mad
and he describes to his listeners how
he saw the dead rise from Flanders
Field and accuse the world OF not being
worthy Of their sacrifice. 1t is grew
come sight, only by that time many Of
the people in the theater were asleep.
SO IL the picture was intended to carry
any message it should haVc como ear
lier in the day.
The story lasts for six years, but ii
seems much longer than that. We
might have forgiven them for show
ing another war picture, but we could
never overlook tho fact that it was
woven around the most tawdry sort of
love affair, whers some terrible men
we're in love with a startled heroine
who had wart or mole on the
bridge Of her nose and a double chin
Such little defects should be attended
to before she has closeup again.
One OF the men who was in love with
her was her husband-well and good
The other was q poet-not SO good
He wrote poem "To the Sun" and the
flrst time he read it to his old mother
she fell asleep. He refused to sec the
handwriting on the wall, however, and
insisted on reading it 10 her again
when he came home on g furlough.
This time she died. When the heroine
sees that her jeans mother is dead
she says: Gle must truly love me, as
he allows my trouble TO precedc his
own"
The titles are all az bad az they can
be, though probably the fault was in
the translation. Whoever did them
may. have known French, but he GER
tainly did not know English. 1t is
nearly as bad in this respect as that
Ita!ia2 picture which was shown al
the Xippodrome early in the season.
1t is not SO bad in other ways, how
ever, and neither is it as bad as 1.-The
Spirit Of '76," picture made from a
Civil War story.
The audience received it very polite
", though q laugh was NOT entirely
suppres essed when at the end OF a har-
rowing deathbed scene the "heavy'