New-York tribune., 1922-11-20
On the Screen
Last Scenes of ''T'he Pride of
Poiomar" Make Up for
Oninteresaing Start
BY Harriette Underhill

The Pride of Palomar" is the feat-
ure picture at the Rivol and .fiye min
utes before it drew to close wa yvera
ABOUT to walk out feeling sure that
1t would run true to form and that
the only thing left was to throw in
the clutch" and hear the heroine saw
Yes" on the hero's shoulder. AS a
matter Of fact, we had seen just about
All we could stand of that particular
nero ana II the heroine had TO ac-
cept him, as, of course, she had. we
didnt care to see her do it.
Then we remembered that the ORIG.
lnai piano trio were to appear next
and would play "pll Build a Stairway
TO Paradise" and if we wanted N
near that we had to stay, so we staved
thereby seeing THE Pl de of Palomar'
v,lndlsafed. v, Either the director made
ehe last scenes in the picture first.
"hen everybody concerned was fresh.
or else he made them last and the
suit Of enthusiasm for an irksome task
nnlsned. They were by far the best
part part OF the, picture, so good, in fact,
That the pleasant feeling which ner,
Eaaed our being amounted almost to
Irorelveness. And even the author,
fe1er q. kyne, had an ace up his
sleeVe-Ilt was surprise finish, which
maae the hackneycd tale seem not
quite so hackneyed.
mere was something in the direction
Oh those fina! scenes that was so diff
teaent from the rest of the picture that
IT really seemed us though any man
could have done the whole thing. II
s.ddenly changed from financial
,melodrama--one Of those where the
nero Is tr.ing to keep the old home
stead out of the hands of the un-
sefupulous financier, who is. Of course,
the rather of the girl--and because a
geht!e comedy with the enemies Joining
hahas ana pitching all CT the Japanese
land- sharks and agents and clerks out
W OF the window and shaking hands as
they rocked with merriment. Then the
unseTeupulous ~ nas financier says: am give
you sz,ouo,0oo for your land, but. tell
me, now much did you win on vow
horse in the Derby?" and the hero
says, \ didn't win cent. never bet,
nut | knew that you would make hiu
offer for the land If you thought /
nad money to pay the mortgage" and
then instead of having the conven-
tional fade out with the he-and-she
business, the pride of paomar takes
MS bride-to-be and shows her the lamp
which burns in The chapel. saving
so long as there is a single Farrell
left on earth this lamp will not be ey.
tingutshed," and she replies, .Long
may it burn"
AZ we were director we should
never choose Mr.. Kyne's stuff If we
wished to slime, for his stories are all
more than "twlce-told tales; so per-
Isp nsps u was not Frank Borgaze's fault
that "The Pride of Palomarn acted as
though It was never going to get pader
way and then, n en- it did. 1t acted as
though 1t was neyer going to stop, AS
matter OF fact. the course it took was
sach . familiar one that the story
fEaghe have found itssway about alone.
&c seemed to carry on It's own momen.
tun anu all the actors must have done
the things which they were doing
oozens Of previous times.
Don Miguel Farrell owns a ranch In
southern California which is mort
gagged for 100000. When he learns
that his son, Mike, has been killed in
the war he dies ana the son does not
return until after the funeral ia oyer,
On the train he meets "the eirl.n she
eners 20 cat his steak for him In .ha
dining-car, which Seemed pretty taueb
on the steak until you learned that III
hand was injured Then the head
steward Of the dining-car was exoner-
But her father is on mis- way 10 /
,oreclcse the fnorsgage on the FarrejI |
Iarfss and the. boy sinds that as he. i |
'eturning soldier, is the sole heir. hs |
ias year &c raise the money, nei
.ourse he does i with Fandango. snI
the family equine pets nanne
5, $, ana they All live happily ever after.
ne nero never knew how fast Fan /
1ango eonIa run until one day he ran
way WIN sae heroine. This scene