New-York tribune., 1922-05-09
On the Screen
Beauty shop" al Rialio, "IIis
Wifc's Husband" at Cameo.
Lady Codiva" at Central
By liarrictte Underhill

By llarrictte Undcrhll
An intellectual young director said
to us the other day, There are no
such things rs good pictures or bad
pictures. 1t is simply question Of
whether YOU like them or not" and
this was brought to our mind yester-
day when VIC sat through the pseudo
comedy The Beauty Shop at the
Rialto. To us it seemed tho last word
in bad pictures, and yet the golden
haired Venus who sat behind us just
managed TO escape nervous prostra-
tion induced by girlsh laughter.
"My Gawd" she gasped, that there
Ray Hitchcock'll be the death o. me
vet She said Have you ast my
guardcen for my hand| an he said
yes, an he gave me his foot. Are
you Rettin them titles. Joe ?"
So YOU never can toll. And the title
which the young woman quoted WAS
not bit funnier than any of the
others. In fact, We thought there WAS
one even funnier than that. 1t read
"When am proclaimed king will tho
peoole crown nc ," and the answer
was "I'll crown you myself
A musical comedy has been so named
because it isn't musical and it isn't
comedy, said some pessimist. and we
can teAN'lN tHht "hSh NHc music lS
removed entirely musical com edy has
very little to recommend it. The
Beauty Shop" is as tedious thing as
We have sat through, in spite of the
fact that the cast is allstar. Ray
mond Hitchcock is supported by Billy
Van, James Corbett, Louise Fazenda.
the beautiful Fairbanks twins, Diana
Allen Montague Love and Lawrence
Wheat; but who ever conceived the
idea of gathering them together for
such an effort was like the servant who
went out in the backyard and buried
his talents, Edward Dillon directed
mopolitan Productions.
There is a Harold Lloyd comedy,
"His Royal Highncss,' which is much
more entertaining.
The overture is from Madame But
terhy"; Evelyn Herbert sings "Auf
from "The Blue Para
disc and Edoardo Albano sings Maria,
Marie"
Betty Blythe is at the Cameo
| Iheater in picture called His Wifc's /
Husband, taken from Anna Katherine !
Green's story, "The Mayors Wife"
While we did not like this second pic
ture Of Miss Blythe's quite as well as
Fair Lady 1t is an interesting pic +
Husband" is 8 good, honest melo- /
drama with the villain blackmailing
the Mayors wife to make him with /
draw from the race for Governor Miss /
blythe gives q fine performance and |
she holds your attention every moment. |
Perhaps that is why you believe in the /
story, for as q matter Of fact, if .
there are any glaring Inconsistencies
they do not obtrude themselves dur
ing the run Of the picture. After you |
are outside you may ask yourself why /
the Mayor was so ready to believe that |
J John Brainard was really married to |
his wife, and not to the other girl, who
claimed him, and why Olympia, her
self, did not believe it after she had
seen the woman shoot him through the
window Also, the code which he said
he invented, is one known to every
school child. We. ourself, used to use
it twenty years ago
However, His Husbands Wife" re
mains an interesting picture.
Miss Blythe is always suitably
gowned and some Of the things she
wears in this picture are very lovely
The star is supported by Arthur
Carewe as the pretender, and Huntley
Gordon as Hizzoner the Mayor George
Fawcett represents the political party
Webb directed the picture.
The feature is surrounded with
good program Of music and short pic
lures, including Harold Lloyd Bebe
Daniels-Snub Pollard comedy called
ASK Father
At last Lady Godiva has done her
famous ride before the camera, and
around this has been built a picture
Iln1 or IA
ture at the Central Theater this week. |
and it moves as slowly as the milk |
white charger which carried Godiva on |
her ride, the most popular thing of it's
Kind until Paul Revere tied her for
first honors. Tennysons poem has /
been enlarged SO that Godiva has a
father and lover, who WAS an archi- I
tect and jealous rival VINO puts the !
grim ear up to his dastardly plan of /
having his young wife ride through the /
town clothed in her chastity.
There seems TO be enough material
as they have if now for a rousing good |
melodrama, but it all moves so SLOWLY |
mat YOU can't possibly get reused.
Hedda Vernon, large. heavy bean !
ty, plays GOdiva, but the Young woman
VINO portrays the Jealous rival is the !
real star Of the picture. She resem- /
bles Pola Ncgri and still has little
the look of Petrova about her. We
should like to see her do something |
worth while. The wicked earl met a
terrible fate in the end and Godiva |
was free to marry her true love The |
picture might be construed as an ar |
gument against bobbed hair.
On the program is the overture from
Aida" Bob and Bill" picture and
Harold Lloyd comedy, Number,
Please This is the third of L]ovd's
comedies we have seen on Broadway
this week
/ ire on Hotel Roof Arouses