Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-02
'NOVLEGRAMS
OFTHE WEEK
rio seven Seas Are Combed in
Merit Weeks Films and the
Past Delued Into

r,HE wide worlds the limit on Phila
ae,nbia's photoplay screens next
- Probably never before have sc
rv far corners of the Seven Seas
nan MAN. brought, at the same time, before
-. eyes of the stay-at homes. The
XII Xii rings of Spain, the sunny harbor
| Marseilles. the bleak wastes OF
Alaska, the dazzling mountain tops OF
Western Canada, the greenish wastes
II the Pacific and the native haunted
jnnales of the South Sea Islands are all
kere. For good measure. there are two
Aims which leap not only space, but
fine as well, and set us down in the
land Of yesterday.
Here. then, is one of the greatest
orovinces of the films-the ability to
king far.away lands and peoples to
An, doorstcps--remarkab exemplifcd
IN eight out of nine films in downtown
houses.
Y1IRST of all, there is Blasco Ibancz' s
I"Blood and Sand at the Stanley,
, picture made. to be sure. in sunny
california. but said to capture the
atmosphere of the bull fights of Madrid
and Seville as well as IL it had been
taken on the spot.
This colorful romance which. by the
way. opened this
The Rise morning, was de-
and Fall of scribed more in
i"'""'' umns last week.
Suffice It now to say that It conccrns
Juan Gallardo. child of the people. a
vain and yet fascinating toreador, who
las become an idol of all Spain. only
10 meet his downfall because of pair
q woman's eyes.
They do say that as Rodolph valen-
tno plays the role. Gallartlo is far
more the romantic hero and far less
the spoiled and tempcramental man
child that Otis Skinner made him on
the stage. Aside from that fact, and
also that (probably for fear of the
censors) the love affair of Gallardo and
Donna Sol has been tempered. June
Mathis. who made the adaptation. has
not strayed far from the channels Of
the novel and play. even to the extent
Of leaving the tragic death of Gallardo
In the arena.
ture. is man who has shown re-
ptHteult UlS uullllf W lHS
color and life and spirit Of romantic
lands and bygone days. In The Mark
OF Zorro he put upon the screen the
adobe missions of the Mexican border
and lower California in The Three
Musketeers'' he caught the dash and
-erve of one of Frances most romantic
fes. In Blood and Sand" he is said
to have transferred to the screen much
Of the Kaleidoscope picturesqueness of
iostng Spanish crowds. sun -drenched
bull.ring stands and moonlit love-
making.
IF FRED NIBLO re- -created the at
l mosphere of another land within the
confines Of the State Of California.
Emmett ]. Flynn went him one better
BY producing, in the same State. not
only another land, but another era.
His subject is none other than our
beloved Monte CriSto' and the filmed
version of this Dumas classic. scheduled
to open today. but postponed, viii be-
gin an indefinite engagement at the
Stanton Theatre Monday.
Once again Edmund Dantes will re-
turn home to his beloved Marseillas
from q sea voyage and plan happily
Tor his approaching wedding; once
again his rivals and enemies will pio.
MS downfall; once again poor EGmunl
will be arrested and almost freed by
the Kings Prosecutor. wien that
his own good that the young man
anguish in prison; and so once again |
Edmund will be thrown into the dun
geon of the Chateau DIFF and remain
there twenty years, first almost a
ravlng maniac. then in the throes Of !
despair and. finally. buoyed UP by the
nope OF escape; once again he will meet /
his, fellow prisoner, the Able Faria,
and receive from him the secret of !
ihe buried wealth. and then, once again
EDMUND will escape by q rusc and
employ the enormous fortune he finds
N bringing misfortune and disaster on
he neads of his betraycrs. only to
nnd, In the end, that revenge is not
Always so sweet as he pictured it.
Dumas to story of adyen.
Lire Again ture this. and
on the Screen splendid material
for the screen,
too. especially the more coherent and
Tell.knit first part.
.. Une piece of casting. that of Robert
Mckim as the villainous De Villefort.
ras gem of good sense; Virginia
Brown Faire. one of the younger
Nleen set who is making quite a name
!9r herself, plays the exotic Haidee:
mat ace of character man. Spottis-
wood Aitken. is the Able Faria young
ana r personable John Gilbert is Edmund;
= Ls'elie Taylor. recently the vampire"
q y a Fool There Was is Mercedes,
Siae girl who could not wait for her
over and Caderousse. the shifty- eyed
is'e.h = IN keeper, is depicted by William
TIE makers of "The Valley of Silent
Men, the Aldne's feature merit
.MIeek, decided to be original, and so
Neg ment up to the Canadian North
Igeh to get their back grounds for this
.uMes Oliver CurnOod, yarn, instead of
meksng the "snoW STUFF" in the in.
'V,taote Truckee, CahU.
cost In the role of the heroine Is
S;I%, n;Ma fubens. ~ho usually plays much
''."nnaer '.ne and less strenuous roles (as in
Aat Aamtamn1resque' or Find the Woman"D.
yas y;x mho, IN this case, has all kinds of
wtat n.rt mountain. climbing stunts 10
fsmo'm. An unusual case Is that of
,S rsw CodH chose sleek and nell,
yvUmea .mn,n person has almost al,cays been
,,., p"ged ~ Matching riildiny, but mho
ny md urea OF being booed and hissed,
, ,,an - npw trying to reform and become
we'll behaved hero.
!.
ND then we'll call for a song of
iorin the sea"-is In order when men,
,Tns the karlton's feature. 1t Is
,a.eI Inc Bonded Woman" and is
M On John Fleming Wilson's salty
somsrSs, S,pty' ,,y' The Salving of John
h a',on soiI,n IN this case was the deck ]
4 W culIl1lp shin ~. |