New-York tribune., 1922-11-14
On the Screen
Alice Brady i'm Gamma Ascends''
at Rialto; Hope Hampton
i'm Brooklyn
BY liarriette UInderhill

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Probably Anna" will have chance
to ascend much higher in the screen
version of Alice Brady's play than she
did on the stage, because we have an
idea that the Interpolation of an ad-
venturess and lot of co-workers in
the picture are going to -emold the
plot nearer to the hearts desire of the
motion picture fans. Not SO with us,
however. We should be willing to
trade all the new peopls who figure in
the film at the Rialto for the chance
to hear Alice Brady sing as she did in
her play, Gamma. Aacsnds.'
The picture Starts off Just as the
play started, with Anna working in the
coffee house of Siad Coury. said Siad
being mixed up in some dirty deals
which, in the picture, involve the
crown jewels Of Russia. Of course. it
had to be crown jewels so that lovely
Nita Naldi could play the Countess
Rostoff. q
To our way of thinking, this charac-
terization of Alice Brady's is the best
thing she ever did on the screen. No
one can give more vim and dash and
girls than Miss Brady. She is quite
dazzling as Anna and she looks ex-
tremely attractive. David Powell plays
villain, the first time we remember
to have seen him do anything save
heroes. But, of course, he is not the
worst villain. If Charles Gerard
couldn'+ be that he wouldn't play. The
delight of his life is to be Kissed. The
cnly trouble with Charles is that he is
liabl, to be suppressed at any time for
| making vice SO attractive. He Is, In
vari" bly,, at least 100 per cent nicer
than the hero.
She stabs one villain and exposes the
other so that he goes to jail. Then
she marries the hero. Robert Ellis
plays this rather impossible young
man and Florence Dixon is the younger
slsee- who falls into the clutches OF
Count Rostoff {Charles Gerrard). Ed
ward Durand is excellent as Siad
Coury. Victor Fleming directed this
picture and the scenario was made by
Margaret Turnbull from Harry Chap
man Ford's play.
The comedy is called "A Lady's Man"
but in spite of that, Bull Montana is
Hungarian Rhapsody" and there is an
other instalment of Riesenfelds classi-
cal jazz.
Hope Hampton's newest picture, "The
Light in the Dark" is at the Strand
Theater in Brooklyn. This is it's first
New York showing, although it was re-
'eased last summer in Buffalo and has
been seen in number Of other cities
in the East, where it has been received
with enthusiasm.
1t is melodrama and the very poor
and very pure heroine falls in love with
the rich and disagreeable hero, who
lives on Fifth Avenue and is called
Warpurton. Of course, you couldn't ex-
peect anything very human from man
| who was invariably called Warburton,
even in the bosom Of his family.
The fact that this hero unearths a
cup, while hunting in Great Britain,
that is supposed to be the Holy Grail
gives the heroine chance to tell the
story of the Holy Grail to Tony Pan
te1li, crook, with all the virtues save
one. This story, Is done in color, and
have seen. 1t is done by the Eastman
process. When it was shown last sum-
mer as a single reel we exhausted our
vocabulary of superlatives on it.
Lon CLANCY plays Tony in much his
usual manner, but it seems that he is
at times prone to overact. E. X. Lin
coin is the Warburton who breaks poor
girls hearts, and Theresa Maxwell Con-
over is his sister, whose name is Mrs.
Templeton Orrin. Dore Davidson Is
excellent in the small part of Jeru-
salem Mike.
Miss Hampton is far more beautiful
than she ever has appeared before on
the screen, and this is all that is neces-
sary for Bessie, the pure-hearted hero
inc, as there is little chance for char
acterization. Clarence Brown young
director with ideas, directed "The Light
in the Dark"
Miss Hampton Is appearing in per-
son this week, Yesterday afternoon
she wore a peach colored and black
gown that made the women in the audi
ence groan with envy. Probably they
never knew that the song she was sing
ing was "The Picture That Had No
Frame by Harry Won Tilzer. 1t seems
to be case of "We love your songs,
but oh, that gown!" Will Rogers in
"The Ropin' Fool" Is the comedy.
The overture is melodies by Schu-
bert, with settings by John Wenger and
choreography by Nine. Serova. Grace,
Alma, Helen, Dolores, Elma and He'd
wig take part in this. Water Smith
sings "Bells of st. Mary's" and Everett
Clark and Mary Fabian axe heard in
Neapolitan songs.