Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-04

L
ksflton carries over Her Husbands
wAst's What Gloria Swanson
% Leafing feature, which
HilM Heuses opened in the mid
die of the week:
the Victoria presents "a Stage Ro-
menee," costume drama relating in
ctaelts In the life Of Edmund Kean, the
9esAd aeter Of q by-gon day, with
William Farnum in the leading role
eter ibhetson." that beautiful
4lht at the Capitol, and Foolish
Wtves," one OF the most elaborate
sPeetacles the Aims have known, con
ttnaiae at the Aldine.
4 nIRECTOR GEORGE MELFORD
eeytainly likes to roam far aiield
feF his picture settings. In THE
0Feet .Impersonation' he used Africa,
0osmany and England for backgrounds
end created them all out at Hollywood.
10 sThe Wise FOOL he transplanted
ectsFs and audience to Canada in the
favorite Gilbert Parker country. In
"The Sheik" he was again in Africa.
this time in the desert country. with
quantities Of sand and an exotic love
stesy, which became a craze.
Nov he (that is, Melford) has gone
e see, and Moran. Of the Lady
1etty," promises to be just as pic
tute9Que in setting and rowing in char
actel as Its predecessors. Though it
X9R't mean much to screen fans.
Moran. Of the Lady Lefty" is ore Of
lt0nk Norris well-known works.
Dorothy Dalton must have taken this
picture very much to heart, as she per.
mite herself in it to appear as a rough.
Nennish, bobbed haired creature Of the
6torm, who IL as much at home In the
crows nest as the average farpcr is OH
fhs dance floor. Rodolph tthe first name
b really all that is necessary plays the
part Of a San Francisco society favor
ne, who Is shanghaied on the sailing
ship over which Miss Dalton has com =
mand. Naturally, as has always been
the case from the classic Captains
Courageous Of Kipling to the average
Magaxine bunkum, the kid glove
swell" becomes a man in his rough sur :.
1snHdings. The climax is fight waged
lltween him and Walter Long (eyer
trustworthy. ",villyun". since his Gus
& = HThe Birth Of Nation'(. in the
zssias Of the ship.
GONE Of the more cautiously inclined
~ critics Of cinema hooted derisively
WAen It was announced that Rex In.
1xan was doing "Turn to the Right. "
lt esrtainly seemed like a prodigious
j&Rp from Balzac to Winchell Smith,
Tut there was no particular reason for
siea5ins Of it as drop.
"Turp to the Right is the modern
typs Of bucolic story. accentuating the
fun instead Of the 'begone from me
door. yc are nc
CoRsedu 10 longer a, che-ild of
tsssxssd in mine kind OF
1n-1a Fir, drama, As theatre =
Z goers we'll remem :
bOe, II tells about q country boy, who
i9 upjuStly sentenced to a term IL
prison and who, on his release, come:
ApDs to fnd his mother and sister ir
! dlfoct poverty and q mortgage about t.
- toreclosed by the village skintint
Tia youth, with the help of two
jack Mulhnll plays the hero's role
Z Alice Terry. now Ingram's wife and his
charming leading woman in The Foul
HossWsp'' and "The Conqvsrinl
Z lpvG," in the heroine, and Harr,
Myers and George Cooper have the ia
es1sAy roles, Gilly and his partner
tie two crooks. Myers, by the way, i
sathsr novel exception to the regula
IA hlm ruls. From the niche of one of tn
thpepgh q variety of circumstances an
tkeA came right back up to fame. Hi
.sConnecticut Yankee" showing mex
! week at Fay . has been to date his high
wAtsp marx George Cooper is anothe
On favorite. His "heavy" characteri
setiens with the Vitagraph Compan
wAsA he played with the Dorothy Kelly
JtMes Morrison team are well remem
bSrsd; It's not often he INDUCES i
IT'S not exactly rural surrounding
that serve as background ft
Miss Lulu Bett,' but rather the in
Il tolerabls dullness of small town com
nuAities. ZOha Gales novel (whC
became a play and won the Pulitz'
prlse) was intrusted to the careful an
paAastaking hands Of William De Mill
aMd from all accounts he has produce
: photoplay of far more than the aver
see merit.
LeiS Wilson has the role OF Il
drudge wife. who lin the film, anyway
1naAy revolts and smashes most of ii
furniture In her home in frenzy
independsnt spirit. Clarence Burto
who 10 another of those splendid sore,
character men who is beginning to con
Into his own. plays the role of her mil
efable husband (who actually has al
other wife at the time) and Theodo
Roberts plays Dwight Deacon; Hell
Bprsn, Mrs. Dwight Deacon; Eth
WSies, Grandma Bett, and Milton Sill
Nell Cornish, the man Lulu loves a
finally finds happiness with after
ss 6onestie revolt.
Although, as has been said before
fhjD column, the screens natural pro
Ghee 10 the recreation Of the va
NJ. Dc Mule past or the insie
~ oRpeeOI Of into the far-aw
NJ a6 Details corners of /
y 80 globe, rather tn,
- attsmpt to analyze minutely a
Ss 1uloat social, sociological or psycholo
IN problems, nevertheless, it is d
tinntly encouraging to find men of ,
caliber Of William De Mile putt
their undouSted artistry to work
woFthwhile themes.
Aeeetss OF small details, just a.
Esothey has long been master of
enes. After the Show" Conrad
0nest OF His Youth" (his best to dat
,eS3 ssRhat Every Woman Knows (Bar
~ ~ shopM bs srreened) and IN
" nney Mndness' are the wor
oeeeeors of Miss Lulu Bctt" II
H1Sectorial megaphons, and thor
Nd their faults, they all contain
tlpminstion Of bright points
Assua art:
IN 10 " from ths purposs OF
eo5smn 10 eIcIuds note of 4
~! tvism.eA of Mia G!oria sW'