Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-09
GLORIA AND RUDY
MAKE WORLD TOUR
New Film Takes Them Mostly
All Over the olobs-Wallaoe
Reld Has Good New Play

STANLEY - SOMEBODY Sn0ulO nave
christencd this weeks film feature "A
Quick Tour oi Europe" or "A Sight.
Travel % pictures lures; and fashion displays
are generally confined 10 a single reel.
but in Beyond the Rocks" they are
Jumped together in six, under the au.
thorship Of Elinor Glyn. Gloria Swan
son and Rudolph Valentino are the In
corrisible lovers.
This tour dc luxe starts in nn Eng
lish seacoast town, wherein 10 shown
how a young English nobleman with
the first name Of Hector. rescues from
drowning Theodore Fitzgerald, who is
a mere clip Of girl. but looks and
acts like 81. Love never runs smoothly
with Mrs. Glyn, however, and 50 Theo-
a decrepit old millionaire. who started
as q grocer and 10 looking for title.
The first. stop. .over is In the Alps.
wherein is shown how Theodore has TO
nurse her ailing husband. She takes
time of. however. and. while crag
scaling, tumbles and is rescued again
by the ever ready Hector. Here the
love story boils over and stays that
way for five reels.
A two minute stop IL made in Paris.
only for the purpose Of showing that
Theodore and Hector are In q bad way
for liking one another. and also. to
fashions, posed against Versailles
London is only paused at. and time
for lunch Is allowed at an English coun :.
try estate, where the two lovers get
simply tangled up in their fondness for
one another, and the innocent old hus-
band wakes up to the fact.
The audience has just time to catch
ito breath before they are trundled of
to Africa, where the love story gets a
final chance to blaze and the husband, I,
who offends in that he stands in the
way of the younger folks affairs, let's
himself get killed by an Arab. The
tour ends at an unnamed station-a
water. The love affair SINNERS away,
now that the husband il dead. to a
conventional and unexcited conclusion.
Robert Bolder does an excellent piece OF
work as the husband, and June Elvidge
is like q fresh. clean breath Of wind
in a thick and oppressive dollhouse, but
her role is small.
Ksriton--Everybody likes a picture
with plenty Of good action and n
minimum Of the usual superficial
hokum. Such a film is Across the
Continent" and. although 1t never pre- :
tends to be anything more than an
hours entertainment, IL does it's work
50 efficiently and 20 smoothly that II
must be counted as far above the aver
age.
The title explains the plot. There Is
an old automobile manufacturer (played
by Theodore Roberts) who enters into q
trans continental race against a more
famous rival (Walter Long,. The son
Of the first manned wallace Reid) Is
about to drive another car, but seeing
his fathers disappointment. switches
| and agrees to drive the family brand
| which Is little and nothing to look at.
OF course. BY ingenuity and daring he
wins the race.
Reid is a most likable and unspoiled
hero. a typical American boy. and dis.
appointment that he does not try big.
ger things is dissipated in his interest
Ing depletion Of this chap who started by
despistng his fathers brand Of car, and
ended by driving It to victory. To say
that Roberts is good Is, to photoplay
star of this picture, with his famou,
cigar, his pride over his make Of auto
mobile, his genuine grief at his apparent
defeat and his sly and amusing watch
over his sons love affair.
Arcadia,-Another of the screens ex.
ponents Of fapperism is seen to advan
tage In Midnight" Constance Binney
is the lady and the picture was made
some time before she startled the ma :
tives by setting the pace in a New Yorl
popularity contest. Frankly speaking
there IL nothing about 'Midnight" OF
its star to produce encomiums, but i
will serve as moderately good enter
tainment.
Midnight" concerns a girl broush,
up in luxury, whose life is nearly
wrecked by one Of those "spectres from
Jack Mulhall IL a sincere and intelligent
leading man, and William Courtleigi
displays his accustomed skill in a goot
part. Arthur Hull is acceptable as thu
'heavy."
Victorta-Jackson Gregory's novels
are popular for screen ada aptation, ant
generally make the kind Of films that thu
fans like. MAN to Man." in which
Harry Carey rides and shoots, is nc
exception. 1t is hard and fast. dyed
in the wool Western stuff, and, a!
such, ranks with the best.
| a cattle stampede. IN winch JOO(
animals showed intelligence and spiri
in their picturesque extra" roles. is ,
feature Of the picture. An unusua
feature Of MAN to Man" Is that /,
combines the "South Sea Island dere
lict" variety OF story and the ranch o.
the West kind. The hero is recalled
from a wastrel life at Tiva- -Tiva I,
handle his fathers ranch in Arizona
Regent-Garcth Hughes IS seen in an
other comedy role In "I Can EXPLAIN. ;
which fits his personality to r. Th.
plot Is combination Of straight com
edv and wild farce, amounting at time,
almost to extravaganza. That II is Offer
Silly Is due both to director and star
but the latter's admirers will, no doubt
overlook that. The hero is n business
man who Is enlisted bv the wife Of hi
senior partner to help her secretly inves
some of her own money. The HUSBAND
scents a scandal. and later when tn,
three take the same ship to South Amer.
lea the hero Is kept busy saying, ~ car
explain"
Capit0l--Fannie Hurst's story o
Hester Nevins. the "girl with the crep,
de chine SOUL" has received good screen
presentation. Seena Owen distinguishes
! herself as the heroine OF this screen
version Of Back Pay" and Matt Moore
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