New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-23
Orphan Annie
I'm New Picture,
Forget-Me-Not'
Half of the Profits Will Go
to a Different Orphanage
Each Week of Hts Rum


day and it probably will stay there for
long time because 1T is one of these
pictures which are designed to make
people do, what they love best to do,
viz: cry.
one-half the proceeds Of the box Of
fee will be donated by Metro to the
different orphan asyIums, and it will
start with the Israel Orphan Asylum
at Arverne. The picture ought also to
stimulate the plan of adoption when
fected as at semi-private showing
that we rushed out and adopted two
orphans; but perhaps we ought to ex-
plain that they are only half orphans
and that their father is fascinating
young physician Of eur acquaintance.
Let US warn you before you go to
see Forget Me Not; do not 60 to scoff,
for you may find much to criticize If
you go in that mood. Perhaps you
don't believe that the hand OF Provi-
dence is guiding the long arm of Co
Incidence and in that case you won't
believe that three people could float
around all over the globe and yet man
age to meet at the psychological mo-
ment again and again.
Perhaps you won't believe that a
mother could thrill at the touch of her
ten-year-old child whom she had not
seen since she had abandoned it at the
~ fnv sGa De- y
believe that young man could go mad
at the death of his young wife and
then suddenly come out of it at the
sight of the young girl he had always
Loved. But if you do not believe these
things and if you do not like the pic
eure keep it TO yourelf and remember
those orphans who are going to benefit
by it. 1t was the memory of those
orphans that made the picture SO popu-
lar with US. e s~
Only one thing we are going TO
criticize: We, do not like to see men
Of twenty-five or 30 play boys parts,
and Gareth Hughes, who Is clever
and an ardent young actor, does not
look twelve. We were filled with con-
ficting emotions when he said to the
kind lady who came to the orphange TO
adopt him, 'Im just big, rough fell
low. Don't adoptme; adopt Ann" And
him to bed and Che title said that at
last he would have a mothers care.
Bessie Love played the little girl, Ann
but Miss Love isn't yet twenty and she
can look any age from five up, like
! Mary Pickford. %,
The story starts off with poor
mother whose husband is desperately
ill and whose baby Is crying for food.
Finally, she can stand it no longer and
she takes the. child to home. A crib
is placed in the reception room and
notice says that any child placed
there will be left for one hour and in
that time. the mother can make up her
mind finally. 1t was 3 o'clock when the
mother left the baby, Ann, and the title
; says "Csme that mother to the park
etc. When. it is ten minutes TO 4
by the cathedral clock she suddenly de-
. cides to keep her child and rushes back
. totfind the crib empty. Then she learns
that the cathedral clock. was five min
:, ,utes slow. mo, we do not know why
she did not GO in and explain matters
to the management, only she didn't
s, She mourned for. years, and 1t was
> years before she finally found hel
child. By that time she had grown
very rich, but she hung around the ole
( spot and "came day" when the mother
Z sQverheard the janitor tell the old sex
= ton about seeing mother leave he,
child years before. When she ques
toned him he had kept track of thu
child all those years and could tell hel
just where to find Ann.
No, we do not know how he knew
which her child was after they tool
her in and put numbered tag on hel
wrist, especially as the home was later
destroyed by q fire, which made ,
. cripple of little Ann. But he did know
otherwise the mother would never have
found her child. She had adopted
Jimmie, who lost his mind when hi.
y young wife. died and they all met a
= AIMS concert that night. The mothel
= went there, guided by the janitor'!
memory, and the boy went there guided
by his own. You see he had always
loved Ann. No matter whether 20,
love the picture or not you are going
p to love Queenie, who plays a prom
: inent part. 1t is case Of three star.
- in film, to say nothing of the dog
- The third star is Otto Lederer, whs
plays an old musician.
The A. NJ. P. A, representing the
advertising and publicity branches o.
= the motion picture industry in The
! East, has enlisted in the emergenc,
:, drive for the Israel Orphan Asylum also
: The following screen artists --hav.
. promised their cooperation: Dolore:
! Cassinelli.. Marion Davies, Johnny
Hines, Alice Brady, Jack Holt, Hope
>. Hampton, Mabel BALM, Hugo Balm
Zena Keefe. David Powell, Pearl White
Betty Blythe, Richard Barthelmess
!, Pauline Garon, Gwynedd Vernon and
Lucy Fox.
The exact nature of the part that