New-York tribune., 1922-11-13
On, the Screen
Unusual Mary Makes s'Tess' an
Unusual Picture; Capitol
Film Defends Husbands
BY Harriette UnderhilI

It is d strange thing but we never
have spoken to Mary Pickford. We
never have come fsee TO face with her
and never have touched her, 30 we do
not really know that she is hesh and
blood, and are very mucn inclined 30
doubt it. Olive Thomas ence said TO
us: II can't describe Mary TO you. She
isn't like anybody else, and sometimes
don't really believe she is just hu-
man being" And after seeing her in
"Tess Of the Storm Country" you sure.
ly feel that she can't be "just human
being"
Some one at the Strand remarked
yesterday that Mary had come back.
and we wanted to ask when she had
been away. She took short stroll
when she made Little Lord Fauntle-
roy" but that wasn't because the lob
was too big for Mary; rather because
Mary WAS too big for the Job. Az we
watched her play Tess, the squat.er's
daughter, we never felt SO strongly be-
fore that Mary 10 the Peter Pan of the
movies. Not line mars the perfect
contour OF her face, not curve to In
dlcate that she is not still sixteen; her
eyes are larger and more beguilingiy
luminous, it seems. than ever before.
IN short, we think that Mary Pickford
is perfectly beautiful and the best
actress on the screen-with the excep-
tlon OF Elsie Ferguson and Pola Ne4ri,
VINO are, OF course, quite as good but
quite different. Little did we think
tnat we ever could gaze on q golden
xryttt II ..
man IN the stomach and think it was
cute. And Mary, as Tess, does this
again and again, and worse, too.
Has Many rmitators
We never saw Miss pickford in her
early days, but have pretty rood
IDEA from what we saw her do yester.
Gay IN this story which she has re-
viyed that she is responsible for all
the cute ingenues with fuzzy heads who
have been drinking tea out Of their
saucers and jumping up and down on
the sofas In the parlors and making
murder for the last five years. Yes.
we recognize the original of which we
nave seen SO many spurious and awful
go ahead and fall down in the SOAP
suas ana kick people IN the shins or
chest and let your hair hoat until
you're sixty, and long may it wavel
The first "Tess" we ever saw so
thero> was no chance of comparison:
and, although they do say that "Tesso
~ass Miss Pickford's best picture II
could hardly have approached this one
technically, it seems. Charles Kosher
mas ms name on the program, along.
with the rest of the stars and he
snonld nave, tor tha photography is
son who did not see "Tess" In it's
earlier incarnation probably every one
knows the story of the squatter's
daughter whose heart was SO much
peter than her grammar. Just where
the storm country is the story does
not tell, but 1t seemed a pretty lone.
some place. No wonder the "hilltop-
pers," as the squatters called the peo-
pie. who lived in the big house on the
nil, tell in love with undesirables. A
man keeps his children so housed nm
that they never have chance to see
any attractive people of the opposite
sex ana then he expects them to make
brilliant marriages. Well, his SON
married Tess, who, it is to Be honad '
learned not to call babies "brata" be.
fore her own were born, and his
daughter died of a broken heart after
leaving an illegitimate child. There
was a title in here which read. owe
must be married right away" and the
censors changed 1t to "We must do
something right away" "Where;s the
sense in that? you ask. We said the
censors did it. ''AS
Supporting Cast Is Unusual
The people in the supporting cast
are not the usual people that one sees
on the screen. An extremely attrac-
tive juvenile named Lloyd Hughes.
who has something very like Douglas
Fairbanks about him, plays the rich
mans son who falls in love with Tess
after she takes a bath. She risks
tfls in the third reel, although she
remarks that 'Tt air bad business. 4
man died of taking bath once. .
Gloria Hope is excellent as the fright
ened daughter who had child and
then let Tess take all the trouble and
all the blame. Miss Hope has lust
the proper amount of no vitality for
these parts. Forrest Robinson gives
a performance as the old fisherman
that seems almost inspired, and David
Terrence, Jean Hersholt, Danny Hay
Robert Russell, Gus Saville and Nine,
de Bodamere make up cast that is