Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-21

SStT>HE FOUR HORSEAiEN OF THE
i APOCALYPSE comes TO the
Stanton, with Rudolph Valentino
name in the cleo
Bcffp Compson trio lights. now be-
IN Fitch Play cause OF the craze
% KcrIfo, that has started
h''''"" over him on the
bsrt OF feminine admirers. Rex In
gram, the director. and Alice Terry
might lust Ms well be starred, nut
such are the ways Of the films.
Betty Compson can he seen az rne
Karlton in picture that Is called 'Ihe
Isw and the Woman" which is, in
reality, Clyde Fltch's Woman in the
case" under a screen monde plume.
The fourth picture. tho costume
drama. Judgment. which will be
shown at the Arcadia, is Victor Hugo
MARY Tudor" made into a film by
foreign company, whose players are not
generally known to American fans
TT HAS ever been customary for GER
i tain actors and actresses 10 say:
relative TO the respective merits OF
screen and stage. why when a picture
is done, it's done for good ana al! but
on the stage, I always have the chahce
10 experiment with and improve lily
parts. t.z
trovertible. but, so far. photopIay
audiences have, not suffered so much
from this particular thing as they have
from the fact that so many eXcelient
film subjects were screened in days When
they couldn't do Justice 10 them. either
artistically or mechanically,
livery ONE who has followed the
IL pictures from their so-Called In
fancy" can name a dozen or more MINIS
off-hand, which they would like to see
= done again because their first produc-
ton did not satisfy them. FaVorite
novels and plays were massacred III
their picturizationS before today gen
eral level of excellence was attained
Often they were perfectly satisfactory
at the time they were made. but their
crudities are only too clear when placed
alongside of today's products.
For example, I remember very well
production of Mary Johnston,s ITO
Have and to Hold" which Wallace
Reid and Mae Murray co starred in five
or more,ycarS ago. Here is Corking good
material for picture built on 1922 lines.
The same goes for THE Girl Of the
Golden West" which with Theodore
Roberts. House Peters and Mabel Van
Buren was an ace Of its kind back In
1918 or 1915. whenever 1t was pro.
duced, but which would look sad II
shown now.
The producers are evidently awake to
tho vast amount of material that Is
available to them for reproduction
with the added facilities they have n
command. Cecil Il. de Mile made over
The Sauaw Man" not long ago. and
later re created The Golden Chance
under the changed title of Forbidden
Fruit
And. right at hand. Is this Clyde
Y Fitch play, The Woman in the Case,
which has also suffered by the name =
changing epidemic.
Another Film Pauline Frederick
Reuipdf Is did 1t for Famous
Comi1o n number Of years
ago and our re-
p membrance OF it was that It was mighty
good but. technically. anyway, they've
probably wrought great improvement in
II. And. week after next, there comes
10 the Arcadia THE Call Of the North, 9"
based on the play of the same name and
he novel Of Stewart Edward White
called "Conjurer's House" Robert
Edeson starred in an earlier version OF
the same yarn and old man Roberts
played the Factor.
ARIZONA got two chances, the sec E
ond with Douglas Fairbanks. and now
Wally Reid is TO be starred in another
filmed version of Richard Harding
Davis The Dictator" one Of John
Barrymore's screen comedy successes.
Here are a few suggestions for re-
Alming. though in many cases fhe
stories mentioned were splendidly pic
turized at the first try and only i'm
nrnvaI fari'itin4 DNalp thpir rnVlVnl do .
sirable: Belasco's Good Little
Devil" in which Mary Pickford and
Ernest Truck once appeared that
happy, care-free comedy, Are You
Mason" the vivid Russian romance,
THE Sewers; Mark Twain s
''Pudd nhcad Wilson" A.; that stunning
thriller, MY Oficial Wife" which
James Young directed for Vitagraph
in days when FIVE reelers were novel
ties: THE Governors Lady. which
Edith Wynne Matthison did sc
charmingly; The Day of Days, ir
which Cyril Scott took n flyer into
movies; "Ivanhoe, " whose most pre-
tentious filmed version was in -four
reels. with Leah Baird n good many
years ago; Winston Churchil''
Crisis Hichcns Garden of Allah
lmentioned on several occasions as
Norma Talmadge vehicleD: 9Th,
Prince and the Paupcr," poorly don,
once on time with Marguerite Clark
and "Oliver Twist" which was giver
an ais version several years ago
with Raymond Hatton, Marie DorO
Hobart BoswOrth and Tully Marshall
LIVER since reports have come il
~ from California concerning tn
production Of The Lane That Had y,
Turning" I've not been able TO get i
out of my head that this is q costum
picture, though l know perfectly well /
isn't. Perhaps the fact that beautiful
Agnes Ayres, its star, appears in
number of scenes in the gArb o
marguerite" in Faust" which role
as an opera star, she sings, causes tn
confusion.
As matter of fact The Lane Tha
Had No Turning, though it Is by Gil
bert Parker (wAO has not infreOuentl
dabbled In the field OF historical ro
mance). is a story with a modern set
ting. albeit that setting moves prCtt
constantly from one continent to an