New-York tribune., 1922-09-25

away and go to live on o farm where
| Mary lives.
| Here, finally, Marmaduke's mother and
| father are lead by detective, end
| they take their little boy in their arms,
| Then tho lonely millionaire sits down
| on the edge of the feather bed and
says at is years since | slept in one
like this on the old farm" and his wife
lsays, eyes, blackwell, we have been so
surrounded by riches that we have let
the poverty of neglect sweep from us
| the happiness to be found by the fire.
side" or words to that effect, and after
the kidnapper has proved that he is
really a great detective he marries
Mary.
Mary is not so simple as she looks,
for when he turns to her to propose
she runs away and has him follow her,
SO she receives her proposal In the
most beautiful place by the river
Russell Simpson appears without any
whiskers and proves that he looks just
like Bill Hart. Nina Redman, Richard
Tucker, Eulalie Jensen and Snitz Ed
wards are also in the cast. Wallace
Worsley directed.
& feature of every Rothafel pro-
gram is the ballet, hut this week il is
especially gorgeous. Queen of Sheba"
it is, with the Capitol quartette and
the ensemble and the ballet corps.
The bee danse is done by Zanou.
Lerches, O'Donohue, Larma and
Avery. Flower song is done by Betsy
Ayres. The veil dance is done by
Gambarelli and Oumansky. Erik Bye
is the king.
The overture Is Liszt's "Second Hun
garian Rhapsody" Erik Bye and Jus
tin Lawrie are heard in "Kol Nidre."
The vocal arrangement is by Will
liam Axt.
pink Gods" is the feature at the
Rialto The story is something like
one that Ethel Clayton appeared in
while ago at the same theater 1t
was called, we believe, "The Sins of
Rozanne," and was all about a girl
who was cursed by an Indian woman
so that she could not resist diamonds.
In "Pink Gods" Bebe Daniels also
plays Fl diamond addict.
The title says that that form of mad
ness Is more terrible than being drug
addict. At any rate, Lorraine Temple
rever got over it until two minutes
before she was killed, so the lesson
did not do her much good. AS we
that the story is by Cynthia Stockley,
and she it was who wrote "The Sins
of Rozanne," if that was the name, so
Miss Stockley must have known two
young ladies who were diamond ad-
diets.
"Pink Gods and Blue Demons" the
original story was called, which in
terpreted means pink diamonds and
blue diamonds, The picture is fairly
amusing, but never for a moment do
you believe word Of it. Neither Miss
Stockley nor Penryhn Stanlaws, the di-
rector, are noted for their sincerity.
but they do produce stuff that is mo
mentarily entertaining. Even when
you were being entertained the most,
however, it was not so much by the
situation as by the actors manner of
handling that situation. "Bebe Daniels
did that well" or Raymond Hatton
was great in that scene," you would
think.
Miss Daniels is Lorraine Temple, the
wife of young colonel, who is sta
toned in South Africa. John Quech,
owner of the diamond mines, is a
friend, and it is he who detects the
diamond madness with which the wife
OF has friend is afflicted. In seeking 20
cure her of it by teaching her a terri
Bile lesson he lures her to his home
just as an overseer, who has been op-