The New York herald., 1922-03-13
Cops Are Shown as
Human in Romantic
Film Come On Over
Irish Colleen Is the Leadin Q
Character in New Rupert
Hughes Picture.
CAPIT0L-1sCome On Over" a GoIdwyn
picture written hy Rupert Hughes and
directed by Aired Green.


picture written ~ Rupert Hughes and
directed by Alfred Green.
New York's finest should be proud Of
this picture n which cops are for once
shown as L....g:s beings, and not stern
upholders of the law or uniformed black
guards bounding a poor girl whose only
fault is that she has committed crime.
For one thing, J. Farrell Macdonald
gives as pleasantly juicy an impersona-
ton Of Manhattan police sergeant as
you could want-you're sure he's the
kind would let small boys go or playing
ball on t:io park grass.
Then the force In a couple of hours
turns up missing girl in the big city
as easily as though she were an auto
mobile with license plate and other quick
means Of Identification. 1t is a rapid
fire piece of work, yet no one gets any
medals for tits all part of the days
routine. Yet to indicate that the cop
per who discovers her in the park Is
not really an exceptional wizard he is
shown with a quite human frailty. He
Is disclosed flirting with a nursemaid
just before he bags the wanderer. The.
real wonder is that he was able to notice
the girl at all while talking to the maid
The girl is an Irish colleen, who has
followed her youthful lover to this coun-
when she thinks her broth of boy has
been philandering, for she mistakes his
perfectly platonic friendship for girl.
whose father the lad, as a motor truck
driver. Is helping to lash to the water
wagon. Rupert Hughes has drawn with
deft hand the danger that a handsome
and engaging Irish lad runs when he
leaves his sweetheart in the old country
and meets young women who don't mind
falling in love. Even IL he had the skill
of boxer, It seems he couldn't dodge
their arms around his neck
The suspicion arises that any normal
youth of romantic Celtic blood wouldn't
struggle very hard. especially in the
close cuddling of the modern dances he
is learning. But. no, Mr. Hughes's hero
must remain true. though it's long
way to Tipperary. Likewise one has a
feeling that the lovers misunderstood
ing is prolonged principally to fill In the
program. Aside from these points and
a tendency to become sentimental
after the time honored fashion OF Tom
Moore-the picture has the same cheer
ing effect as Shamrock. Perhaps the
sentimental passages wouldn't seem
saccharine either. IL the musical ac-
compartment didn't fiaunt Mother
Machree" and kathleen Mavourneen"
so much.
There are various shrewd, honey
touches that Hughes knows so well hom
to smuggie into story. Particularly
entertaining is the Irish Jig competition
in a luxurious home between two elderly
women, girlhood friends in Ireland, who
do breakdown, although one of them Is
now a parsonage Of society and clogs In
silks and high French slippers. Miss
Colleen Moore was hand picked by fate
for the girls part, and Ralph Graves
plays affably the young Irishman who
loses his Job so regularly that he can't
keep his promise to bring his sweetheart
over. and she has to be imported by
some one else.
An elaborate Irish program with Her
bert's Irish Rhapsody" and Hioernlan
dances and songs appropriately frame
the feature, while "Noah's Ark" the
third episode OF the film version Of the
Bible. is interesting. If you don't bother
about what it all means.