Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-29
.OVLECRAMS
OF THE WEEK
Buster Keaton and Jack Holt
at Stanley; "Silas Manner"
at the Aldine

ouSter NeatOn comedy ana foreign.
made spectacular picture based on his.
torical facts of the French revolution.
Yet. that is just the game that the
hlm houses will run here next week, and
II, to the above mentioned, n pictur-
iscd version Of George Eliot's "Silas
Manner" "a Peter B. Kyne. western
yarn with Jack Holt, and a frothy
comely ,melodraina with Bebe, Daniels
are. nddcd the. oihelette. WIFI be com!
paete. And this is the way they line
upF , e.
TT'S more, than likely, that many of
=. those who visit the Stanley next
week will be going to see the laugh
less. Blister In his; newest effort, The
Bhrksmith. 49, The name conjures up
pictures of Buster trying with con-
tinous gravity to shoe recalcitrant
horse, or Buster posing, a Ia Longfel-
low, under n spreading chestnut tree
Tor the California euuivalent).
At all events, 1t would be futile to
deny that this lone male member (in-
law) Of the Talmadge family now acting
upon the silversheet, is pretty near
atop the field in screen comedy. And,
somehow, here il one screen comedian
whom one would never urge to essay
dramatic part. Unlike Lloyd and
Chaplin. keaton's super serious face
gems to be made for laugh producing
poses only.
LNOLLOW1NG close on the heels Of
4 the triumphantly amusing 'Dicta-
tor last week, we have, as the main
feature of the Stanley bill, another
story filmed for the second time. This
time, Peter Il. kyne is the author and
1t is his "l'arson of Panamint" that
has been filmed.
1t wasn't so very many years ago that
Dustin Farnum, then Lasky star.
appeared as the engaging young man
who regenerated small mining and
gambling town of the west. The her
oine was that very charming and at
tractive Winifred Kingston who played
90 often with Farnun, and made so
striking n figure in his David Gar
rick"
This time. it is Jack Holt who dons
the clerical garb and spreads the gos-
pei by a combination of sermons and
the gentle art of knocking man down
After appearing in immaculate evening
clothes for number Of pictures, Holt
seems suddenly to have reverted to the
wilis, for in North of the Rio
Grande." "Man Cnconauerable" and
the present feature he has been a two
fsted man of action who wins by force
rather than diplomacy.
THERE is no epoch of history that
1 appeals to the film makers quite 80
much as the French Revolution. and
next week the Palace is to have a really
exceptional picture based on the life OF
Danton land incidentally named after
him when it was shown abroad) and
introducing, rs an equally importan,
figure, the sinister Robespierre.
This will not be the romantic and
youngish Danton of Monte Blues
characterization, riding half way across
France lor so it seemed with Mr.. Grif
fifth "stall!ng' for suspense) TO save
his sweetheart. Decidedly not. The
present Danton will be played by tina,
remarkable continental character man
Emil Jannings. Louis Nv Of Passion,
Henry VIII Of Deception" and Phar.
oah in the film of that name.
Inc main NlUprenCe between l'dS-
sion' and the present film which h
burdened with the silly name of "Al
for a Woman is that the former story
revolved about n woman (Du Barry
while this one is concerned principally
with two men. Both of them were
! directed by men who had some thought
\ 70. authenticity and adherence to his
torical accuracy. Lub!tsch managed &c
4
ling yarn besides. Let's see if Dimitr
i Buchowetzki can do as well.
"All for Woman" reached this
country when historical (or costume
pictures were still in the discard from
awakened them. The fact that Phia
delphia has been almost year in get
ting this feature has also meant a change
in the public's taste, or at any rate II
the film producers ideas of the public.
taste.
Entirely exclusive of the foreign
product (Which specializes. apparently
in costume dramas) we discover thu
following pretentious offerings of thi
variety soon to come from American
Hood" Marion Davies in "Wher
Knighthood was in Flower" Madg'
Kennedy in Dorothy Vernon Of Had
don Hail." Bert Lytell in ITO Hav,
and to Hold" Ingram's The prisone
Of Zenda - Norma Talmadge In 9Th
Eternal Flame Nero" 'Salome,
"Oliver Twist" Lorna Doone" ant
"Under Two Flags"
II passion" and Deception" an
"All for a Woman started this tard,
stream. they and their makers are in
deed the benefactors Of the American
public.
Those who remember that wonderful
piece of acting done by Werner krau
in "The Cabinet of DR.. Caligari" vii
be interested to know that 1t is he VIII
plays the malevolent Robespierre
Philadelphia is almost inexcusably lat
in getting this treat, but the fact tina
Il IS treat and big one, still re
mains.
TIME other interesting film debut mex
i week will be "Silas Marner," a
adaptation of that George Eliot move
over which students without numbe
have poured (under compulsion) to Sc
cure credit for English ten or five o
forty.
George Eliot has not been especiall
popular with the guiders of film destin
les, unless possibly English picture
makers have made adaptations wh!c
Lave never come across the water.
must be admitted, though, that ther
IL little in mill on the Floss, DAME