New-York tribune., 1922-10-31

y nsppena that "Olivcr Twist. - su.s
wisn opportunities for q rhiiS isss
sscsae. and he may lssitinaf~ix H. s ~,
~ sns things which fans 30 love 10 ace
- Admitting Audience
80 ne tneater IL allied with long a,ehs
| m admiration and exclamationa n
% asht that sweet" whenever jackie
a laughs, prays. rams, eats, doesn't
eas, Or says X want some more
finae we see Dickens story
ga sne screen we realize that we never.
=. .eaa Dsckens for his stories but for
sne remarkable and usually horrifyinr
pis1ufes which he paints. For instance.
9s. We never have forgotten that when
oaiNer went RS mourncr to his frsf
FUNERAL he was taken to a place wbich
VAS SO barren and so poor that even
me rats were gaunt and hideeua with
hunger. "Asi
Some Of the stiles in the new n;e-
| tVfe were OF nature TO send as hacl,
| 70 the book again for reference One
eltle says that Oliver was apprenticed
10 an undertaken and that It was a
grave Undertaking, and another title
says tnat when Mr. Bumhle proposed
e tue gentle lady who presided over
Buiable be?'' 'As
| On the other hand we saw i,nme-
| aiateiy that the titles never could
nave been taken from the book, for
o,saens ois does strange things. He has
oiiveF say, as he gazes at the portrait
! o. ms mother, wno diod at his birth
! something like this: ''What a sad vet
beautiful face, sir. I feel strange
| longing as gaze at the picture. and
when l!teic Dick left his last message
Tor Oliver, he said: II feel that {
! nave only short time on cartfa and
| | WISH to scnd my love to little Oliver"
! New whet If title writer had made
these workhouse children talk ike ibat
at the age of eight or nine years!
I why, no children ever really spoke SO
/, excepting Elsie Dinsmore and little
! Rcilo.
Dickens No Screen Writer
So the picture at The Strand is not
| Dickens to US, and We realize quite we'll
that 1T never could be done on the
screen Dickens was one author who
wrote with 10 thought OF the screen
possibilities of his stories. But the
plcsnre ,s an entertaining story beau
/ tifuiiy done--a story Of poor l:ta:e
boy OF seven years who endured q lot
I OF hardships, was SO fascinating all
the time that you couldn't feel sorry
! for him, and wao came out very nicely
. in the end with plenty TO cat and for
! tune besides.
Lon Chaney played Fagin, the Jew:
enough, come to think of it, he didn't
] iook IKE a Jew and no reference was
made TO his Semitic strain. Anyhow,
! Wnoever heard OF a Jew named Farm :
| Gladys Brockwell is Nancy, George
Siegmann is Bill Skies, James Marcus
Is Mr.. Bumble, and others who did
| excellent work We're Aggie Herring,
| Lionel Beimore, Edouard Trebaol.
! Iaylor Greves and Carl Stockdale.
There is on the bill another Fokiae
4 ballet, Martha" played as an overture.
/ and prologue to "Oliver Twist" sung
| by the quartet.
| There is something radically wrong
with Queen Of the Moulin Rouge" at
the Cameo, and we suspected it long
eeIore the people in the theatcribegan
/ 20 laugh loudly at the tragic ianpen-
ings of tina heroine and the hero ne
] ianny how funny man can lock when
/ ne reseues his sweetheart from the
river II he lays her down on the pier
! ana fnen steps over her prostrate form
/ TO get on the upstage side.
+! But IT was before that that thev
& a"gah TO laugh. 1t. was when the
. Queen stood up to receive the denunci-
J aI'ohs OF her erstwhile lover that the
I SPECTATORS merriment overca1re them.
And truth to tell she did look terri
/ ely awkward there Oh her throne. with
those. large bare legs and two lace
/ curtains hanging, one on either aide.
| wired and suspended from the belt.
There is oniv one suggestion we wish
4 to make. When the lover rusaes in.
1 instead of saying whatever it is that
he does say we should make him say,
Make way for me, that may crown
/ hcr." Then it would be comulete.
i In spite CT the fact that neither
| this critic nor the people aroand us
| Sunday night carcd for Eaa picture
We are able to predict with certainty
| that il is going TO male Il lot OF money
! in that place called "on tilo road" 1t
shows Paris, the Mont.nartre and
everything.
/ Martha Mansfield plays the lead and
that is one trouble. She is not able
to fulfill any OF the requirements Of
! the part and she does not screen very
/ we'll. Joseph Striker is the hero. Ray
! Snallwood directed the picture The
overture is the "Red Mill" and there
is Neely Edwards comedy called
Accidental Wealth"