The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-08-22
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, with Il Can Explain featured at
the Princess today, but there ism t
much to the story except humor-
Gus situations that are really very
funny, and that is about all that
they are meant to be.
The scenes are laid in the
United States and South America
and the story concerns principally
two young business men. one OF
whom is intensely Jealous of his
wife, so much so. that he thinks
his partner is trying to steal her
affections, and will not listen to
explanations.
He decides to send the i'm
! agined home wrecker to South
America to look after their busi-
ness interest, and thus be rid of
/! him, to lind that he has only jump
led out of 1.-The frying pan into the
fire. It is Tor laughing purposes
only.
! Harry Myers in the title role of
Robinson Crusoe" is the added
feature. and this is serial that
has been Very interesting to fol-
| low.
The Dixie
While there seems to be a diver
sity OF opinion among critics of
! the silent drama as to the merits of
! the story Sonny the screen YER
sion of which is showing at the
Dixie today they all agree that
Richard Barthelmess in the dual
role, he is called upon to portray.
| lives up to his reputation as re-
markabIe delineator of chara cter.
1t is quite different from any
I thing that he has given to the
screen and while there are not the
tense dramatic situations that made
| of Way Town East and "To1'able
| David the great successes that
! they were, there is tender human
| touch and heart interest, that Is
very appealing. and interspersed
! throughout the flO are bits OF
| comedy that relieve the tenseness
of feeling occasioned by pathetic
or tragic scene.
The story relates how two boys
go to war, and SO alike are they.
! that even their officers cannot tell
| them apart, and because they are
being constantly taken for each
other they become buddies al
i though, they come from entirely
J, different walks'of life Joe, the poor
! boy has no folks, but Sonny has a
blind mother and young sister back
| home, and when he is mortally
wounded he implores Joe to take
i his indentification disc and return
to his home, when the war is over
Joe is reported killed, and as
Sonny he goes back to the home
| of his dead comrade. Shell shock ex
plains away a great many things,
but the Intuition of the moth er,
blind though she be, detects a diff
| ference in the manner of the
strange boy and her own. Sonny
| and later makes it known. Pathe
i News completes the program
Tbs Nelson
The writer o.. "The Restless Sex
| goes long way around to tell us
just what is the matter with the
girls of today and then, only in 4
| flash, at the close. are we given q
glimpse of what is Offered as
! solution Of problem that has been
discussed pro and con.
We do know that there is a
great deal of unrest il the world
today, but we do not believe as
many writer's Of photoplays are in
clined to do, that setting forth the
morbid. unhappy side of lie CON
stantly before the theatre going
public will tend to bring them
! back to a saner way Of living and
! thinking.
The power of the screen. IS IN
limited and as an educational fac
tor it's possibilities cannot be dis
! puted. and there is NJ question
! that the characters. standards or
life and ideals of future. genera
lions are being largely Influenced
by the scream.
Then, how important it Is. that
our young people have as their ex-
ample in the lives of Screen char
! acters. as portraying life prob
lems.' those who will inspire OF
teach by their experiences thar
virtue is its own reward and those
who sin must bear the scars.
The Restless Sex" may be true
to life in some respects. but is far
fetched in others. and intro uces
scenes in q road house and at an
artists bah THAT are perfect orgies
which only make an already weak
story off nsive.
In the closing scene We nave
left us, the beautiful thou.bt-ano
this is the redesming feature "
the story-that the love OF the
| man Of their heart. and baby arms
to bind tighter the home tie. IS,
the pancea for all the ills OF the
restless sex
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