New-York tribune., 1922-10-16

eoapseu the STORY Tor the screen
and Joseph de Grasse directed 1T.
before the feature picture there il
q very charming ballet by Fokina. II
is called Lies Sylphides." Although
1t is so beautiful, you can't hefp re-
membering the Lilies" who ramboled
there last week. Tho overture is from
"Pagliacci.'
Alfred Lunt went with us to the
Rivoli, and, Of course, he is the man
who invented "Clarence."
How do you like it?'' we would
say Mt intervals, and he would ex
claim ecstatically, "That lovely child!.
he was referring to May McAvoy, who
plays the incorrigible Cora, and, after
we got outside, before we could ask
him again how he liked it, he said:
y think Miss McAvoy is one Of the
pest screen actresses ever saw. What
has she played in besides Sentimental
Tommy'?" To which we replied: "Sha
has played in some very bad pietures
and hasn't had q decent chance. and
Jesse Lasky has a fortune there in his
hands and doesn't know it.n
She is beautiful, whimsical and tai
ented, and there can be no doubt in
the minds of all who see "Clarence"
that May McAvoy "a the real star of
the occasion. Wallace Reid in the
title role is excellent--better than we
had any idea he would be. 1t seemed
a Charles Ray part and we were afraid
that Wallie would look too handsome.
But he doesn't mas caught the
spirit of the thing very we'll.
N spite Of that and May McAvoy's
presence, too, the picture is not to be
compared with the play, or perhaps it
would be better to say that we. were
disappointed in it. 1t seemed sort
Of .cramped in the direction and de-
tached groups were photographed
without your feeling that they bore
any relation to the other detached
groups which had been photographed
moment before. Scene after scene
which we had looked forward to slipped
by without registering anything in
particular and the jealous and hysteri-
cal wife wasn't bit amusing. And
do you remember Mary Boland in
the partl
On the other hand, the scene
where Miss Pinney and Clarence
follow Cora and intercept her elope-
ment was very we'll done. Clarence
was just the sort Of person to shake
the breath out of man, Instead Of
Ayres plays the govefness and Kath-
lyn Williams is the step-mamma Rob-
ert Agnew is amusing as the male
fiapper who writes poetry to the gov
ernness; Edward Martindel makes n
handsome and much narrowed papa;
Adolphe Menjou is the william.
Clara Beranger made the scenario
and William de Mile directed it.
African Picture Thrills
On the program is a fascinating pic
ture called "Man VS.. Beast" it pre-
sents the most thrilling moments Of a
two-year expedition in East Afric,, bv
the late Louis Shuman. Sometimes It
was SO realistic that we had to shut
our eyes and stop looking or faint.
When 1T comes to a trapper we'd
rather see than be one
The overture is Beethoven's "Moon-
light Sonata" and there is Prizn1a
picture called "Its Inspiration" The
program says that the story told in
the picture Of the composition of the
sonata is only legend, but we were
all ready to accept it as true before
we spoke to the greatest authority Wa
know, H. E. Krehbiel. He told us
how it came to be written and that. t.
originally was called something quite
different. And then Alfred Lunt whis-
pered to US and said, Beethoven was
deaf when he was as old as that and
he could never have heard the blind
girl playing out in the woods" And
our ignorance had been bliss!
There is pretty thing called "For-
est Idyll" preceding the feature pic
ture and comedy, Funny Face" fol-
lowing it.
At the Capitol the, feature is PRS
oner of Zenda." At the Rialto there
is double feature bill "The Face in
the Fog" and J. E. Williamson's "Won-
ders of the Sea-" This will be reviewed
tomorrow.