New-York tribune., 1922-03-20
On the Screen
The Glorious Fool Is at the
Capitol and The Green
Temptation at the Rivoii
By tIarriette UnderhiIl

a picture called THE Glorious Fool''
is at the Capitol Theater. The program
says it is by Mary Roberts Rinehart
but it is in reality taken from two of
her short stories. tAe names Of which
we have forgotten. The irst is the story
about the probationer in hospitnl
Jane Brown, who was nursing a man
named Billy Grant His tcmpcrature
reached lo6, and it was then he began
70 beg Jane to marry him. She thought
he was delirious. and was so apitatcd
that she spoiled it with two rs on the
chart. At last he asks for the minister
and Jane sends for one. When he gets
there, expecting to give consolation to
the dying, Billy starts in again. and
tins time Jane says YES" and the
ceremony is performed. His tempera-
ture tails to 10l and then TO 80, and
the young husband gets well.
a second short story of Mrs. Rine-
harts Is taken for the second part of
the picture. 1t is about the younp eirl
IN the ward who has baby but re
fuses to look at her young daughter.
Finally Jane Brown persuades her to
tell her trouble. As we remember in
the story the girl says. "He never
would have thrown me over if the baby
hadn't been coming" And then Jane
gees out and hunts up the delinquent
and he promises to marry the girl.
In me picture. however, the title
reads: 'lt was a hasty marriage. but
ne never would have thrown me over
1t the baby hadn't been coming" which
OF course makes her a good girl and
makes the picture all right for the
pubic to gaze on. Then when the
reluctant AL is finally dragged to the
bedside OF the girl and her baby he
promises to take her back again and
the little mutt" too, as he calls the
child. The rest of the picture is Just
4 logical ending and, so far as we
Know, WAS not IN either of the short
stories which made up the first part.
ana we do not know why it is called
Ihe Glorious Fool 1t doesn't seem
to tit any of the characters
4. Mason Hopper directed the pic
tQre and he has preserved the atmos-
uations, no people doing unnatural
things. The characters appear as
though they had stepped from the
pages Of Mrs. Rinehart's book 1t has
evidently been directed by q man with
IMAGINATION, put into continuity form
by writer with imagination and
played by actors and actresses with
imaelhatlon' inc result is a charm
ing picture.
Helene Chadwick has found the per
tect role in Jane Brown, the consccn-
Ious probationcr; Richard Dix is splen-
ild as Billy Grant, the "booze hound"
who reformed, and Vera Lewis, Kate
Lester. Otto Hoffman. Theodore Won
tltz and George Cooper are all more |
han adequate.
Lilly koVacs, the young pianist who
some time ago at the Capitol, |
IS playing return engagement. She |
was heard in Dolmany's "Rhapsody in |
!. major and Liszt's "Campanolla."
There is the usual advertisement with
Doris Miles, Charlotte Lemaine, Gam
22arelll and Oumansky. Thomas Nc
iranahan, a tenor with a perfect voice.
made his debut. singing "For You |
Alone:' The overture is Tchaikowskys
'Capriccio Italien.'
At the Rivoli new Tony sarg sill
rouette comedy. The Original Movie"
was advertised, but although we sat
tHrOOgN the