New-York tribune., 1922-08-01
On the Screen
"The Bonded Woman at the
Rialto, Is Play With
a Problem
By Harriette Underhill

Dy T1drrlctte OndeYhlll
The Bonded Woman" at the Rialto,
is problem play, the problem being
this: How did Betty Compson get
money enough to follow John Bowers
all over the globe and why did she
want to follow him anyway? John
Bowers is nice leading man, usually,
and everybody loves him, but not when
he is such bad boy as he Is in this
last picture-drinking whisky and
cursing and letting his face go without
shaving. The opening title says that a
woman will admire a saint, but that
she will follow sinner to the ends of
the earth, and the picture goes on to
prove it. We are quite willing to admit
that sinners are more attractive than
saints. but they have got to be at least
clean before we can get up the en-
| thusiasm necessary to take a trip to
Singapore on the chance of reforming
one Of them. Especially when you are
leaving at home Richard Dix, hand
some, suave and smooth shaven.
There is splendid storm in the first
part Of the picture, a storm which
sweeps John Somers, the sinner, into
the life of Angela Gaskell, the girl.
Angela's father is a sea captain and
when his ship is about to plunge to
the bottom of the ocean he makes the
men pull off in the life boats and he
| decides to stick with the ship, but his
ilrst mate bats him on the head, rem
cering him unconscious, and then saves
him against his will. They get on a
life raft and when you see the mate
risk his life to save the ships parrot
you know he is going to be the hero
IN spite of the fact that he swears
and gets drunk. Being the hero doesn't
mean that you have, necessarily, to
be heroic, but only that you are the
one the star marries.
Richard Dix is the real hero. He is
| not only handsome, but he ia wealth.
and good. Therefore the girl chooses
the other one
We did not find the picture as in
teresting as it should have been in
view of the fact that it has two Of
| our 1avorite leading men in it. II
was taken from the story bv John
Fleming Wilson called "The Salvap;ng o.
of John Somers." Albert LIE Vino mads 8
the scenario and Philip Rosen directed
the picture. e1'oo
hugo Riesenfeld conducted the or
chestra through that colorful overture.
.orpheus in the Lower World" and
sisel sd's, that came some more of Riesen-
feid's classical jazz 1t was the fea-
ture of the evening. Martha Crshsm
does Moorish dance in Prizrna coiar
Adrian da Silva sings Within the
Garden Of Ny Heart" and Emma Noe
sings the Bird Song" from "I Pagliac-
cl. Ihe comedy is a Robertson-Cole
called Pop Tuttle's Clever Catch"
The picture at the Capitol this week
IS called The Country Flapper," at
ieast that is what the program calls it..
AS we passed out OF the theater at the
end OF the performance we heard peo-
pie calling it other things. This is we
peheye, the first picture which Dorothy
Glsh made after she headed her own
company. 1t must have been made a
long time ago and it probably would
have been just as we'll for all CON
cerned if it had never been released
at all. In an effort to make it better
or perhaps one should say less bad
~ mas eeen ntted with set of new
titles; People laugh at these titles.
but they grow tiresome, for thew are
that smart Aleck variety which are
full Of slang and puns.
Joseph Farnham, the title writer. has
done nobly, but he must have known
from the beginning that it was a for
lorn hope he was leading. We kept
thinking how ashamed Dorothy Gish
and Glenn Hunter were going to be
when they looked at the picture. Is
this what happens to stars when Mr..
Griffith leaves them alone for a few
| minutes?
The picture was directed by Richard
Jones and ne has made his people act
as though they were escaped inmates
OF madhouse. Besides Miss Gish
and Mr.. Hunter there are Mildred
Marsh-very pretty and sister of
Mae and Marguerite Marsh-Tommy
Douglas, Harlan knight, Raymond ana
Albert Hackett and Catherine Collins.
The most interesting number on the
picture program is Hy Mayer
Travelaugh, "Such Is Life on the
Riviera" There is also a beautiful
Prizma called "The Unselfsh Shell !"
The overture is Southern Rhapsody"
and "The Blue Danube" is played as a
lighter number
Matilda Locus is playing a return
engagement at the Capitol. She is the
tweive-year-old pianist who was so en-
Enthusiastically received a few weeks
ago. She is heard in Mendelssohn's
"Capriccio Brllante." Gambarelli and
Oumansky dance to Kreisler's "Caprice
Viennoise." Thalia canon does sill
houette dance called 1.-THE Country
Flapper."
"The Prisoner of Zenda," Rex
Ingram production, opened last night
Forty-ffth Street, with Alice Terry as
the Princess Flavia and Lewis Stone
as Rudolph. The production will be
reviewed Tomorrow.
Deer Defends Txuc, noo.