Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-09

crt Of thing.
,,,,., ,be Stanley and Stanton Thea
Wi.n nast;nuing the presentation Of
t Tan And sand" and Monte Cristo. =
"Bloou '"' respectively, botf
pictures that stand
Stanley dnG 80 far above the
Stanton runs average as to be
Remain worthy Oh sStena ;.,ern.,
reek will naturally turn to the
ea w at the Aldine, Karlton and
I,esdis. and it's here we discover that
,iThn red line.
r,.;rstance. the Aldine will have
~. Three Must Get There's, ir
III Mar Linder. the French come
xns' .s attempts to parody the dueline
aan athletic romanticism of Douglas
l.hsnts In the role of Dumas famous
Jiero, d'Artagnan.
- IA the Arcadia will have Red Hot
,..nce'" an Anita Loos John Emer
Somsa =. mssoncoction burlesquing the mythical
un,dom romance of modern fiction.
''ISi I"t lust to show how thin that red
~. the Karlton will present q
sn1i nuIi roaring melodrama. ''The Storm.
isnsdon Mccormick. which on the
vas mellow melo" enough to be
Erny but which. on the screen. is said
- ssi he The acme of screen thrills.
: OF THESE many years, at a tim.
! Ii when Charley Chaplin was still
,l,ving on the stage with "A
kisht in an English Music Hail. or IL
nj That, when he was first capering
md d srotesquing with Mabel Normand
rnd.r Mack Sennett's doughy anu GUS
hrd. ME reign, we used to hnd when
- went TO the movies the comedies OF
Mar Linder, an ingratiating French :
rsn. m made BY Pathe Freres In Paris.
S'hsy were. as mater Of fact, generally
aupid and humorless. but sometimes
thsy had stunts and chases and falling
So,ises which were as remarkable In
those days as Lyman Howe's famous
runaway train. az
| charley Chaplin had fitted from Key :
stope to Essanay to Mutual, Mr.. Spoor.
the Essanay head, imported this same
Ms, Linder with the intimation that
Ss was to become rival to the one
and only Charlie. Alas. like the too
Quick stardom of Lila Lee. the plan
1s,led. Linder, under the handicap Of
new and strange conditions, and per-
hans suffering also from. none too good
Sndh &C. cooperation. made some inane
and futile films and departed again for
| beloved France.
But. Ike the EXPLORERS of the New
World, he was still determined and
confident. and he has since those days
made other comedies on American soil.
His latest, and easily most successful,
Is "The Three Must Get There's. ~
This is the second bur!esque of the
famous Dumas romance, Bobby Vernon
and the Christie forces made clever
little two -reeler,
su,.Lo,eore, "A Barnyard Cav
Popular for shown last snring'
Prodies II seems n shame,
too, that Chaplin
himself didn't make his promised YER
don, but we will be recompensed II he
ever gets around to his rumored trnv.
esty on the forthcoming Fairbanks
"Robin Hood" Charley, you may have
read declares that his comedy piece
de.resistance will be to appear at the
portals of one of those vast Norman
castles in his bathrobe, call in the fam
ily cat, put out the milk bottles and
draw up the portcullis.
mo ADD to our list of extended film
! runs we will have 1.-THE Storm, "
which is promised for two weeks at
the Karlton, to be
House Peters followed. by the
d Last Has wny. by the long
4 Good Ono awaited "Mas-
querader" for an
ether fortnight.
Screen plays of the great out of
DOORS" ''the open places" and 1.-THE
north woods" may come and go every
day Of the week, and still the fans
like them. 1.-The Storm" is said to be
the "granddaddy" of them all and to
Be something far and away above the
average thriller of this sort. For ex-
ample, character delineation has not
been forgotten by the scenario writer
Or by Director Reginald Barker. Even
In the face of the raging forest fire
Or the blizzard, House Peters, Virginia
valli and Matt Moore are said to Undue
their roles with humanity and reality.
We welcome House Peters back into
zeal prominence with pleasure. For a
long time he has been appearing with
enwavering sincerity in cheap and in.
!erior pictures, but we remember all
the way back to the infant days of the
nye'reeler when he swashbuckled in
The Pride of Jennico" and later when
ns acted with Mabel Van Buren, and
Theodore Roberts in "The Girl of the
Golden West"
WHILE me're on the subject of melo-
" dramas. IT'S impossible to resist
mention of the fact that another king
gM kind, "The Fast Mail" toilI hare
Me honor OF playing at three different
WeH Philadelphia houses nert ceek,
me ' Imperial, Locust aud Am mbassador,
w Gt Me Ntron- -Nirdlinger chain. This
xeek' George r. Sims, renocned author
me'odrdmds Orer In England, died !;
:. name recalls to mind a dozen Drurp
Tshe mrtlers. Just so, the name of
inneotn ). Carter recalls a dozen paper.
n, SacR hrt''ers Of tohich "1'he Fast
A''' "a' a good example.
ANITA LOOS and John Emerson
nave, on several occasions, stepped
vIer the thin red line" They made
RsWUyare RsWanr,e for Douglas Fairbanks called
,st;.Iia and Wooly," which aimed to
fSsn fSHe the Western screen yarn; later
nh, I produced some fairly successful
Frr0ss Fes % on wartime subjects with
Sl Wonl iruex in the leading roles.
booIo they've come out, on their own
Hpr,,, with an avowed travesty Of the
''ner OF Aenda' and "Graustark"
Frn,L - kind of thing.
g. Bibulous Hot Romance"
King in Film and it sounds like