New-York tribune., 1922-03-27
On the Screen
Old Successes Revived at the
Rialto; 'Beauty's WORTH at
Rivoli. Fails to Charm
By Harriette Ujnderhill

Hugo Risenfeld has planned n sort of
old home week at the Rialto He will
revive seven of the best pictures of the
last few seasons and it is happy
thought for the pictures which we have
seen lately have been absolutely dis
couraging. Even with all of our en-
thusiasm for the silent drama we find
that our defense is becoming less
sturdy as time gees on. 1t isn't that
we haven't the courage of our convic-
tons, but we are losing our convc-
tlons, anu how terrible it must be to
feel as H. L. Mencken feels!
picture cal ed "Beauty's Worth" is
at the Rivoli. All children of twelve
years old and under ought to eniov
this unless they are overdcveloped ed
mentally. How adult actors and
actresses can go on registering such
bunk on the films is more than we can
understand. Come what might we
should defy the director, throw down
our tools and cali strike.
The opening title nips in the bud
any hope you might have that you were
going to see an entertaining picture
1t is something about youth often mis-
takes the glitter of personality for the
pure gold of a noble character, and YOU
sigh "Stung again!" and sit back pre-,
pared to see the heroine, an innocent
and unsophisticated girl fall in love
with an attractive youth who has no
real character and then at last say
my eyes have been opened. love this
man because he has a heart of gold.
The expected happens in the ensuing
SIX reels, only you really wouldn't be-
lieve unless you see it that a hero
could be so didactic and so obnoxious
He painted niCtnrpc op1 ,bo, \ 10.
said you can sell them to your rich
friends he said, "Do not call those
society snobs my friends!" Another
horribly scathing remark, which must
nave cut society to its empty heart
was, go back and tell them | am an
artist and not q trainer of wild ami
mails" or words to that effect. He said
this to the girl with the unrouged
lips and the sun-kissed cheeks who
made the society snobs look like a lot
OF painted puppets when she asked
him to conduct some charades.
AT times this hero got so heady and
wordy that we had to look away to
keep from hurting something at him
straight through the screen. The fact
that that nice Frederick Stahlberg. who
conducts the orchestra, stood between
us and the hero was all that saved him
"heH ne SAID with Smlrk now
shall choose a girl who has not only
great beauty but who also has real
WORTH and of course the heroine with
the sun-kissed checks and the unkiss ed
lips was the honored one.
Marion Davies plays this heroine
Prudence Cole. She is a Quaker CIR
who is invited to visit at Bar Harbo,
and then all of the rich society peopl,
bait her as Of course rich society peo
pie always do to one who is not ir
"our set" The hero is named Cheynt
Rovein, and he isn't going to see thi.
sweet bud blighted, so he furnishe.
startling and beautiful poems for he1
and the man she fancied proposed t,
her. 1t was only then that she dis
covered the difference between infatua
tion and true love. She really love
the dedatic young man. OF course i
you were on the job you'd have al
mixing of this in that first title ant
wouldn't be forced to worry all tn
way through for fear she was going t.
marry the wrong man.
Forrest Stanley plays the worth,
man. Halam Cooley plays the un
worthy young man with the glitter o