New-York tribune., 1921-03-28
8. On the Screen
Dorothy Phillips Atones for
Dulcinea's Titles in Man,
s Woman. Marriage, at Strand
BY Iiarriette Underhill

Dorothy Phillips we love; we also
fJvcihcr work ON the screen. We love
man. we love woman. we love mar
fiage.s but we dc not love "Man, Woman,
aiwrriagese although Dorothy Phillips is
the star. ~
AS we were leaving the Strand Thea
ter, yesterday at the close Of the Allen
sHoluba T. production we met Art Samucls.
How do you like the picture ~ we
i Good work for Dulcinea." he re-
plseds. "You know, she wrote the titles. .
ar1rWe, didn't know it, but we suspected
its See here. we have made note of
II soa thesedge of our program. We did
that at the moment Victoria remarked
that every cluod has silver lining. or
+ that itawas never too late to mend, or
that 1T was always darkest before dawn.
or something of a similar nature,
r essAseli,s ,ssfsaid Mr.. Samuels, "Victoria
was rather bromide person. but Won
mus; admit she did not say when she
lett .hcry ryhusband, Il am going out into
fhe ehena Spaces" and she might have
the: air. as vulgar people say.SN '
:, &. what she said was: 81 was first vour
wiling slave, then your unwilling fash
ION plate, and now l am going to live
my own life" We have good memory
1or titles, and the next one seemed
rather anti-climatic to us. Perhaps wa
arc wrong; here it is: "The great mother
hsart Of the world-the new Victoria
Sne has her own law Office"
80 victoria is the heroine of oman.
,Mooman' Marriage" and plays the better
talf of the title role. David Courtnsv
s IS the other half. Now Victoria nrovss
not only that hope springs eternal Int
that faith and charity are equally ar;Ie
and indefatigable.
Victoria is strange child who was
aIways more pure than her companiona
When she began to grow up she BEGAN
to thlnk, and every time she thought She
had strange visions of distant past.
Ihis brought scenes of the cave man. of
Ionstantine's court and its bacchana-
;lan reveis and of those days when the
iadies wore inverted cornucopias on
their heads to which were attached
long veils. All of these visions were
shown on the screen. and certainly
nothing has been spared to make the
picture success. These scenes are
probably as elaborate as Intolerance" !"
only. We are afraid that many Of the
spectators were filled with that very
thing. Wy
- ~ to1id parents WOuIQ marTY her
on to man named Schuyler. But he
was not good man ard Victoria did
not love him. One day the coarse fell
1pw found his unwilling fiancee cutting
sFp psas in the garden. One of the bios.
SONS had fallen to the ground with q
broken stem. 1t suggested something
to Schuyler's evil mind. He had q
crude way of setting his doubts at rest.
"Are you good girl?" he said. care
yous innocent?"
Now, Victoria was a good girl, for
when she visited her other lover in his
law office (she met him when he got
caught in "a bear trap) she only left
a fresh bunch of flowers for his desk
and then came right home; but she
was not go innocent she did not under
stand the question. "Are you :" She
parried; and then she proceeded to
make him believe that she was not all
that she should be, so he would break
the engagement. He ran into the house
and told her father, keeping his hat on
alb the, time, and he didn't remove it
until Victoria ran in, too, and told
father that she was only joking--that
she was a good girl. Schuyler didn't
believe her at first, but when he re-