New-York tribune., 1922-10-09
On the Screen
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N Way Down Eas,,
BY Harrietse IInderI,;ll

! Z :. 0'tsS ssShu mas Its hur-
saas' and u makes tho ending Of that
ssase classic quite as exciting 80 +ha
9.itith picture. The Old Homestasan
l.uha It's way to the screen yester,.v
a. t1e Capitol Theater via Fa,nam.
riayers- Lasky. 1t was NOT rn+;l -
very last reel that it occurred % =,
tnat similarity between the Two IA
pays and then, probably, We nevsr
MA nave thought of it If son,eona =
hs Tau not been inspired to nut IN tba.
pig storm 1t was q naarvelons ~ r;I,
itE gorgeous, hair raising hraath
na.tihg storm and when Ann r,,shaa
ous IN 1T and Reuben dashed aftar eu hea
we should have given a whole Ia -
oe anie to follow. That moment =, wso ~
sne IIrss IN our life when we wantsd
shmtereiy shn. TO he a picture star. on
swan4 as ram ana thst galel why they
nweps owel ann clear off the precipice and
over TO the other side of tho ,a,;aa. ssau
put she wasn't killed, because sha ,.e,
caught in tree. And then Rsnha,s
GrawIed out on the tree and reacnsd
neI. Her clothes were torn off. her hair
was IN wet strings and the terrific
Wind tore them both as thew nlungaS
through the storm, Oh. Now ,,a s:s
ENJOY that part of the production, NJ NJ
IL was not in the. stage production
Inc rest of the picture followed the
play pretty closely as we'll as we can
remember Somehow we missed The
erlginal, bat have seen many reviyals
rom time to time. "The Old Home
| stead" rivals "Uncle Toms Cabinn GO
a habitation for itinerant Thesnians
James Cruze directed the picture and
q lot of the credit should go to him
Tor the beautiful way in which nc has
done it. But those who adapted this
story for screen use and those who
made the well known characters eao
real also deserve al lot of honorable
mentior. The scenario is the work Of
perle.y Poore. Sheehan and Frank
Woods. Theodore Roberts is Uncle
Joshua, and to let you know Just how
good the cast was they also had George
Fawcett in the picture. One of these
inimitable character men is all that
any one could reasonably expect in any,
production. George Fawcett plays the
hard old Eph Holbrook, who holds the
mortgage, but who is "a just man.
Barnes as Happy Jack
The beloved T. Roy Barnes is that
beloved vagabond, Happy Jack, and
Harrison Ford does better work as
Reuben than we ever have seen him
do. FRITZ Ridgway is fine as Ann and
James Mason does very we'll with the
UNPLEASANT part of Lem. Kathleen
o.Connor is beautiful as Rose, the girl
who goes wrong. Others who contrib
ute much to the joyousness of the
occasion are Ethel Wales ..as the old
maid with two ardent lovers, Edwin
brody, Frank Hayes, a. Wall Coving-
ton and Charles Williams. The pic
ture has been dressed in the costumes
OF the period when it was written
along about 1885, we fancy. Next to
the storm we enjoyed most the scene
where Uncle Josh breaks in on his old
friends party" in New York and SAYS
to the Mortified hostess "Do YOU re-
member, Nancy, when you used to ride
the old white mare bareback to school /?
And Gee, you had the fattest legs!
One more word in praise of the direc-
ton: The picture never once gets
maudlin. .f :
This, program at the Capitol has been \
divided into two parts and the picture
with the prologue takes up the entire /
second half. Mr.. Rothafel has ar
ranged an elaborate prologue in which
ballet corps and chorus participate.
They sing "Auld Lang Syne," "All.
Sound Round with 'Woolen String"
NY SWeetheart's the Man in the I
noon, N The Bullfrog," Little Annie
Eooney, Say az Revoir but not
Goodbye" and other favorites of the
period. The first half Of the nro-
gram consists of "Tannhauser'' as an
overture and the Capitol Magazine, "
At the. Rivoli esf
Yesterday was a red letter dav. for
we ". saw Two n enjoyable. pictures. Over
aT. az ehe hivoh. They are presenting
Inc Face in the Fog,'' and we knew
before we vert in that we were going
70 IKE it because seena Owen is In, it.
lhere rs something about that young
woman which makes YOU believe any
thlng she tells you and SO far she
never has disappointed. us. She il ONE
OF the screens very best actresses,
Lionel barrymore is just about one
hundred times assseffective on the
screen he used to be, too. Why, we
can remember. when he Registered
nothing at all when he worked before
the camera. He is, especially good, in
this part. Boston Blackie Dawson
reformed crook. The story Is excel
lent for the screen, land it has been
presented SO well llthatit holds your i'm
terest to the last, flicker. OF course
the cast is made up, OF stars, and each
one is excellent; hut the director has
lett no loose ends anywhere. 4 When the
picture is finished you feel So pleas
antly rewarded for having waited pa
tiently for the denouement, for we defy
any one to guess what is going to hap i
pen. 1t isn't that sort Of story
1t begins on a very foggy. night in
New York. Gustav Won ,Seifertitz is
begging in front of big restaurant.
when, in spite of the fact that he is
supposed to be blind, he suddenly sees
face peering at him through the fog
and collapses from fright. You may
understand this when we tell you that
the face he sees Isl that of Louis VOL
helm, "the hairy ape" From that
moment things move swiftly and we
advise you, unless YOU want to get left
by the wayside, to watch the screen
closely, for the story is very involved.
1T isn't one of those things where you
can come in in the middle of it and
take up the thread.
We are not going to tell you thing
about the story. It's too good to tam
per with. Mr.. Barrymore: is the hero and
Seena Owen is the heroine, but they
d1 not marry each other. Miss Owen
plays the Grand Duchess Tatiana,
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