New-York tribune., 1922-12-04
On the Screen
Lon Clancy in "Blind Bar
gain" at CapitOI' Elsie Fcrgu'
SON in ''Outcast" at Rivoli
Bv Harriette Underhill


What you do not know sbout Mr..
Einstein and rsistiyity you will not
know when you come out Of the Capitol
Theatsr. where a picture called RE
versibillty and Rslativity' Is playing
this week.
We had looked forward 10 this, be-
iisvinF that after we saw II demon
strated on the screen we should know
what the fourth dimension was, or Is.
Vow We have seen Il and we do not
inow any more than we did before, be-
cause Professor Delmsr Wilson has
treated relatiyity a. hippantly as
though Il we're q mother-in-law, and
'ho only thing one does know Is that
70 one end Of a mulo should catch up
With the other end and pass II, then
What had been the bind end would be-
rome the fore end, and the mule would
be travelling backward. This may also
be applied 70 motor ears, plansts ana
policemen, and that's relatively The
picture proves n.
one day last week Fred Edwards
cams back to the Tribune otiee With
story be was suspicious Of. A man
had been arrested on Broadway for try
ng 20 sell bO-cent pieces In little en-.
velopcs for 2J cents each. mo one
would be such q fool" said Frederic.
n must be a publicity stunt"
what did the man sayl" we asked.
Nothing. only that q man ought to
snatch % a blind bargain. A blind
bargain bet that's itl It's q swell
little name for q NOVEL"
And that's Vhst Barry Pain, or some
one over az Goldwyn, thought when he
named Lon Chaney's latest picture,
- Blind Bargain is an interesting
name. and 70 Is the theme, but the
picture Is hlled With nothing but
promises. OF course. 10 Is remarkable
ihe way Lon Clancy can be q hand
some siK.foOt surgeon IN a top hat.
white waistcoat and q passepartout
morning coat and can talk 90 himself,
Is hide0us three-foot dwarf with twist
ID legs, protruding teeth and q parch-
ment face. But the picture seems like
0nt long chase--somebody trying 20
catch up with somebody else, or steal
ng stealthily up and down stairs be-
hind somebody or peeking through
ssyhoies, while the spectators sit pa
tently waiting for the nadman 70 op-
rate on somebody and either turn him
nto a misshEpen monstrosity or else
prove his contention that man should,
properly equipped, have the streagth
Il the OK and the longevity Of TIE
narrot.
Lon CLANCY was one Of bic expert
lnents gona wrong, and down IN the
iurgeon deep he kept other specimens,
also gone wrong, only the spectators
1sver we're allowed 90 see them. Then,
when ha iured the hero home and Of
fered 90 save his dying mother n the
hero would offer himself 20 be used
Tor guinea pig purposes, we were Ear
more interested In the scientific aspect
~ the thing than We were in the fool
sh hero and his petty love affair. Our
sympathies were all with the surgeon,
and we were sincerely sorry when,
after he got the hero al strapped on
ne table. oae Of bis ghaatiy saeri-
ices 20 science got out Of his cage and
broke the surgeons back. The hero
vas saved, but what about the sci
entists secret Of how 10 I've $50 years
The hero vas not only 10 have this
gift Of longevity or the experiment
turned out al right, but his mothers
iife was 20 Be saved also. We wish
he producers would offer the same IN
daeements 20 All scenario writers and
picture directors who premise 70 re-
frain, IN their next ten pictures. from
having a ballroom scene with water
festival afb toy balloons.
The stofy e almost Ike tbe one told