New-York tribune., 1922-03-28
On the Screen
Man 10 Man." With Harry
Carey. at Central. an Excel.
lent Western Picture
By Harriette Undcrhill

Being forced to refuse an invitation
TO lear Geraldine Farrar in "Manon'
because you have to attend the open
ing of motion picture, doesn't make
you feel very friendly toward that
picture, and besides, we are so tired
OF Western stuff that we feel like
walking out on them when the title
writer says "and now let us go out
TO Gods country; to the great open
spaces where men arc men Yet with
all this we are forced to admit that
"Man to Man" which opened at the
Central Theater last night is a West
err picture worth seeing.
Imagination has gone snto the making
Of this picture and Imagination seems
to be the thing that producers Of pie
lures are extremely short on At one
time we had almost come to think that
Charlie Chaplin and Rupert Hughes
had all of it, but Man to Man proves
that Stuart Patton, who directed it,,
Jackson Gregory. who wrote the story
and Harry Carey, who starred in it,
all have fair share.
Story Shows Originality
The story is so different from the
rur of Western pictures that we shall
speak of that first. 1t opens in the
South Sea Isles, which is in itself a
novelty and very rostful to the eye
which was wide open expecting view
of the Rockies or desert waste with
Pinto pony coming out of the hori-
zon carrying his tired master.
Carey is Steve Packard, a derclict,
who receives a letter nearly q year old
which has followed him all over the
world, saying that his father has died
and left him a ranch in Wyoming. To
1aD Dct no pylth
a halfbreed adopted daughter. A lot
Of things happen to Steve on this
ranch, but not one Of them is any one
Of the things that have happened to
heroes on ranches in the past.
There is also girl, but she is not
in the least like the girls ono usually
finds out in the open spaces whore men
are men. And Steve doesn't say: 81
could go straight if ] had pure
woman's love" and there is no title
which says that she is a pure girl
one piece bathing suit and rides and
shoots and helps corral the steers when
there is stampede, and is altogether
q very fine sort of person. Lillian Rlch
who plays this part, also seems TO have
imagination.
Stampede Thrilling Thing
This stampede is stunning thing
and VIC never saw SO many cows to-
gethcr before in our life, and had no
idea that they could move so fast.
And then when you think that it is
all over because the hero has taken
the heroine in his arms and said 6
love YOU" you find that the thrills
have Just begun. There is a fight in
tho mountains when the hero and the
villain stand man 10 man. which again
is different from anything we have
seen,
50 this picture seems made up Of
surprises and anything that savors Of
tho unexpected on the screen is in
deed gratefully received,
AS we'll as VIC can remember 1T the
present writing, no other Western
hero has pleased US nearly so we'll as
Harry Carey. He never tries 10 be
noble, he is an excellent actor and
we're willing TO wager that he has a
wonderful sense Of humor. A sense
of humor is a God given thing, not
because of what it makes q man do,
but because Of what it prevents him
from doing Also at the present writ
ing it seems that "Mar to Man" is
the most interesting Western picture
we ever saw.
There is prologue called "Moon-
light in Tahiti and dance by 1ilietta
The old movie, "Going Straight has
been hold over for second week
King Bacgott is the star and he is sup
ported by Mary Pickford. 1t makes q
-r-onlld comedN.