New-York tribune., 1922-12-05
On the Screen
Lorna Doonc" at the Strand
Recalls Some Perfect Days
TO Crown-Ups
By Harriette Underhill

Lorna Doone" seems 10 as a prettJ
ane picture and there is no doubt that
Maurice Tournsur. Who made Il. spared
no pains 70 make Il as perfect as could
be. II you are disappointed In th'
screen version IL probably will be be-
cause you have loved and lived with
the characters when you were very
young and that the thrills and
romance have fingered IN your memory
in an exaggerated form. whenever
story IL put on the screen and you
feel disappointment on viewing the
pictured version II Is n good idea 10
read the story over again, and, as .
rule. you will find that II really isn't
a. thrilling ~ you thought; IN fact
hardly as thrilling az the photoplay'
We tried this with "To Have and %
Hold" "The Three Musketsers.
prisoner Of Zenda," and when
Knighthood Was in Flower" 80 We
shall add "Lorns Doone" 70 The list
without reading II over again.
The photography and the settings IN
"Iornn Doone." which We neglected 20
sny might be viewed at the Strand this
week. are 90 magnificent that one would
be entertained even II there we're no
plet az all The picture Is at all times
feast 20 the eye. but especially 30
when Madgs Bellamy r. standing be-
tween the landscape and the camera.
There is a young lady who appears TO
be perfect as far as the naked eye can
see. She certainly is a beauty, and
lust what lovers Of Lorna Doone al
wavs had hoped Lorna looked like.
Frank keenan, gives a splendid per-
fornanee Of old Sir Ensor Doone, and
Donald Macdonald, as young Carver
Doone. and John Bowers. as John Kidd,
are also very good. The last fight
when the villagers. believing Lorna Is
dead. rise up 20 e1terminatc the
Doones. IL the most exciting part OF
the picture. So don't get up and leave
when the heroine finally is clasped In
the hero's arms. There IS lot more
% follow, and John gets Carver IN
one glorious fight. Then, % make his
vengeance complete. he raises him high
IN the air and hurls him into the bay
II is a very satisfactory bit OF work
from every angle.
OF course. every one knows the story
Of the farmer boy who met the young
lady Lorna just before she was
stolen by the plundering Doones. Old
Ensor Doone reared her as his child,
and she was quite safe In the den OF
cutth-oats until he died. Then John
Kidd came into her life agaln-the
farmer boy grown up, and the bravest
Of them all. He used 20 love 70 hsn
and toss about the logs which hoated
fin the beautiful river, but the river
wa. damned as we'll ns beautiful, and
one dsy the treacherous waters swept
him over tho falls which thundered on
The rocks hundreds Of feet below. He
floats by chance into the den Of thieves
and Lorna finds him. That is when the
trouble really begins.
The titles are a little too honeyed,
but people had precious way OF
speaking q couple Of centuries ago. ard
the title writer's do not seem 70 have
cvointeJ As fast as other mortals.
Harry Sharp furnished the Photog-
raphy. 81,
sTazv Bones" and there is a picture
called "Odds and Ends" Preceding the
feetnye is beautiful Fokine ballet
and prologue sung ey fen9les !,
Newell. The overture is II Guarany'
Iti our opinion that "The Chiekasha
Rome Crusher" is better entertainment
than "A Daughter Of Luxury" which
IA nominAlly the feature picture ai
the Rlalto this. week. ~ Daughter OF
LUXURY" 10 made from the play "Ine
Impostor," By Leonard Merrick and
MIebael Morton. but IL seems TO have
retained little Of Merriek in is eellu-
loid form. Agnes Ayres is the star
hut she "a quite ovcrshadowed by TIE
suprorting cast. which is unusually
GOOD. In fact. Tom Gallery, Howard
Ralgton, Edward Martindel, Sylvia Ash
ton. Zasu Pitts and Robert Shable mas
NOT be stars in the sight Of man, bu'
they surely are in the sight OF heaven
Miss Ayres plays Marty Fenton, who,
while she is proudly starving 70 death
waiting for an estate 20 be settled'
happens TO get mixed up with Charlie
Owen. who married for money and got
only that. Surprised by his wife's re-
lations while on a visit 10 New YORK he
introduces Mary as his sistcr-in-law,
and she as the rich Mary Cosgroye
is the object Of all their attentions.
She accepts an invitation 20 stop with
q family named Nolford, who desire
TO get rich quick b. marrying Of theiF
very nice young son 20 an heireas.
Thus Mary becomes the impoStor.
Among the interesting features Of
the picture are the titles, which appear
TO have been done by a master hand.
Beulah Marie Dix adapted the story
for the screen.
"The Chickashs Bone Crusher" Is