Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1924, Page 21

(Continued from Page Twenty.) it. to accomplish great things in fu- ture, if it continues in the avay that it has begun. Palace—"The Navigator." Buster Keaton firmly upholds his laurels, in his latest film, “The Navigator,” which is shown at the Palace Theater this week. Entirely aside from the comical aspects of each situation, Mr. Keaton's talent for giving the human touch and the reality of his reaction in every in- stance seems to approximate real genius in this picture. There is only a small select group of comedies of the past at which entire audiences have sbricked hysterically. “The Navigator” may be added to this group. The story Is a satire on the well known plot of a young man and girl alone on a ship that drifts to sea and is wrecked near .a cannibal. island, where the natives waver between bes lieving the wrecked couple to be white gods and suspicion that they are merely material for a juicy din- ner. Suspicion wins and the natives pursue the white couple until a miraculous rescue ends the chase. In “The Navigator” the hero is a wealthy young chap who has played all his life and never taken things seriously until he falls in love and is jiited by his sweetheart because she doesn't consider him an asset matri- monially. He plans to 1 for Europe, but gets on the Wrong ves- sel, a ship belonsing to the heroine’s father, and the girl herself comes on board to seek her parent. Enemies of the girl's father cut the vessel from its moorings and then the ad venture begins with these two, both unused to taking care of themselves, alone on the large ship. Their early cooking experiments, their final ar- rangements for sleeping quarters in the boflers of the ship, Buster's duel with a swordfish in deep water, and the fight with the cannibals are high- lights for laughter in the film. Kath- ryn McGuire sives Buster excellent support in all the scenes. The couple offer a reminder of Charles Chaplin and Edna Purviance before Mr. Chap- lin became a millionaire. “Dixie,” the Yale University his- torical film, is delightful. Pathe Topies of the Day and ral selection are added at- tractions. Metropolitan—"Sundown.” “Sundown,” the First National pic- ture at Crandall's Metropolitan this weck, presents an imposing spectacle of the last of the caitlemen of the great Western ranges. A tremendous stampede of what must have been th ds of le, § which actually wreck an entire house; a sensational prairie fire; long, long trails of cattle, winding off into the distance, as far as the can reach; the story of a great love developed tn the face of dire hardship—these elements all fuse into a whole which breathes of the grandeur of heroics. It cannot fail to remind one of “The Covered Wagon.” Perhaps it could scarcely be sald that this picture approaches the class | of a real epic. In spots it is a bit | slow-moving and “pos: It might be more spirited with a stronger antithesis or a meaner villain. But i i tn Passenger Sailings to Europe 'WHITE STAR LINE ‘Weekly sailings from NewYork to Cherbourg, Southampton Cobh (Queenstown) and Liver- L oo RED STAR LINE ‘Three sailings each month from New York to Plymouth, bourg and Antwerp. AMERICAN LINE~ Regular schedule from New York to Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg. ATLANTIC TRANSPORT LINR Sailings every fortnight from New gark to Cherb‘g!;u and London. WHITE STAR-DOMINION LINE ‘Weekly sailings from Montreal and Quebec to Liverpool. Winter Attractions :I:rllz- Sruise oo Red | Sear Liner largest ship_ever fewornioe Aoiiic, 1925 0 4 Mediterranean Cruises (46 days) on ‘White Sear Liner Adriatie and Saar Liner Lapland. West Indies Cruises (30.31 days) ‘White Star Liner Megantic, For full details address Cruise Department. its . presentation of a great move- ment=the driving out from Govern- ment fanges of the big cattlemen and their myriads of beasts by the on- . _|march of the “gentle fingers of prog- ress” In. the form of “nesters” and settlers on quarter-section farms— this presentation is worthy. The love element is clean and strong. Bessle Love is the New York City girl, who, with her father and little brothers and sisters, went West to homestead, only to be nearly killed In a stampede, and thelr home liter- ally: torn to the foundations. Roy Stewart plays the hero, your.g son of the cattle king, who on the exodus of the herds into Mexico picks up the stranded little family: and has them carried on the “chuck,” or cook's wagon of the great drive. Hobart Bosworth is convincing as the “hard” father, an old-time cattle- man, head of the group moving to Mexico. picture is the cook, full of humor, full of fun, full of comical and hearty good nature. A Fox news reel, with good plc- tures of the world series. also, re- ccived .generous .applause, and ca-. 'gaylr}' crowds filled the houge yésters ay.- e - = Rialto—"Three Women." The “eternal triangle” gives way to a “quadrangle” with distinct delinea- tions in ‘‘Three Women,” the Ernst Lubitsch production, which opened a j week's run at the Rialto Theater yes. terday. Somehow, strolling down that long lobby after viewing this photoplay one's thoughts run to the fact that it is a sad commentary on human nature that it expects a man to be constantly surpassing his previous masterpieces. on” and the Lubitsch of " Because the latter did not come up to what the former gave the right to expect, at least one of those who sat through the presentation yes- terday was disappointed. And the dis- appointment was not the less keen be- cause of the sincerity of the effort that failed “to produce the enjoyment of dramatic situations which was antlei- pated. ‘When such tried and proved screen performers as Lew Cody, Pauline Fred- erick and May McAvoy fail to touch the heartstrings, and when a director with the sincerity of purpose of Lubitsch fatls to build his situations up to the breath.taking climax and satisfied conclusion he is capable of, there is something amiss somewhere. Just to put a finger on it is difficult, but it seems that lack of co-ordination might be the worm in the wood. Here we have the story of a man about whom revolve three women—a mother, and Pauline Frederick made the.ideal one for this photoplay; a daughter, and May McAvoy left little to be desired in this role, and the well known “other woman,” ably charac- ierized by Marie Prevost. Lew Cody's individual performance was delightful, as the center of feminine attraction. Pierre Gendron, as the juvenile lead, ‘was acceptable. The plot runs into a murder of the man by the mother, to atone-for her sin and to free her daughter whom he had married. But between direc- tion, interpretation of the story and presentation of it by the cast, although individually these details were by no means imperfect, the little gossamer threads which should bind these fab- rics together in the play which satis- fies were not there. For an unknown director the presen. tatien would be. creditable. . But Lubitsch did “Passio; A comedy, “One Third Oft,” by Irvin 8. Cobb, demonstrates how much a thing on the screen can be unlike a kit from the pen of a true humorist. An orchestral potpourri arranged by Bailey F. Alart, conductor, rendered by an orchestra which brought to Washington little bits from “Marjorie” and the “Scandals” to the itz Revue” and “Kid Boots” is an outstanding joy. Columbia—"America.” D. W. Griffith’s great epic, “Ameri- ca” {8 being presented this week for the first time here at popular prices at Loew's Columbla, and the first-day audlences yesterday not only respond- ed to its dramatic appeal with ap- plause, but with vocal cheers. There Is no doubt that this picture One of the best bits in thehas achieved a “place in the sun.” It goes down in the history of the mo- tion ploture as one of the high lights of the art. So well known {s the story by now that a review in detail seems unneces- sary, but of special interest to Washing- tonians: is the stirring appeal of the hero, Nathan Holden, as, at the head of Morgan's mounted rifiemen, he rides to the rescue of the embattled ‘American forces at two places, saving not only two contingents from the British, but his_sweetheart, besieged with others in Fort Sacrifice. For it was the 3d Cavalry of Fort Myer, Va., which assisted the producer in stag- ing this part of the picture and which provides some of its best thrills. The horsemanship of Paul Revere in his famous ride also is excellent. Griffith has succeeded admirably in catching in nis own crafty fashion the blood-Kinaling, spiritual tone of that early America and transeribing it onto c-lluloid so as to make Erown men weep, applaud and checr. Its in- fluence cannot but be a power for pa- triotism, Twining itself through the produc- tion is a tender love story between the northerner, Nathan Jiolden, excel- lently played by Nell Hamilton, and Nancy Montague of Virginia, played oy Carol Dempster—and the propor- tion of the love astory to the picture Is sufficient amply to relieve it from any complaint of “patriotism propa- ganda.” From the standpoint of in- terest alone the picture is compelling. Lionel Barrymore provides a bril- liant character as the villainous Brit- \sher, Capt. Walter Butler, in his raids through New England and northern New York. Battle scenes at Lexington and Concord are thrilling and the love scenes are characteris- tically Grifithian. The Columbia Or- chestra provides a fine musical score. Central—"There's Millions In It.” Plotting and counter-plotting ga- lore by rival groups intent on gain- ing the right to take over newly discovered radium deposits in Europe furnish the background of thrills for There's Millions in It,” the main photoplay attraction the first two days of this week at Crandall's Cen- tral Theater. With Catherine Calvert as the he- roine of the hectic doings, the pic- ture launches into an exciting suc- cession of adventures, involving a race to London from the radium fields by the true discoverer, Anthony Bar- raclough, and an impersonator of the discoverer with evil intentions. Clive Brook plays the original and the im- R 4 ,1;," allidh 4 ,; ! J I“ L ’i.j‘um‘ i o .1;‘!'lll ‘Ill"'“l';‘ W | poater without having to resort to a Lon Chaney disguise. Everything ends happily when the real Barra- clough outwits his enemies and wins the -concessions .to the untold wealth he had discovered. 3 Running the radium picture a close race for honors, is the second Jack Dempsey’s “Fight and Wi series of films. Jack has.a chance in this edition to display some of that famous /squared-circle ..maneuvering for which he is famous, without in- curring the displeasure of Federal authorities. Taking the part of Ti- ger O'Day, heavyweight champlon, Jacks knocks out a fake ‘Tiger,” who was with ideshow and who oftéered $200 to any one who could stay in the ring with him for three rounds. Jack stayed, but not with his chal- lenger. A “Boneyard Blues” comedy was an added attraction. Ambassador—"Sundown." Bessie Love, a popular young actress, who has not been seen on local screens for some time, with Hobart Bosworth, Roy Stewart and Charles Murray, made “Sundown.” a plcture depicting the life of the cattle rangers of America, an unusually in- teresting film to patrons of Crandall’s Ambassador yesterday. The picture is described at length for the Metro- politan Theater. Lyman Howe's “Hodge-Podge,” a news reel and plpe organ selections co:lnplele the program at the Ambas- sador. e Co-Ed Breaks Leg in Fall Special Dispatch to The Star, ELKINS, W. Va., October 13.—Miss Catherine Cody, a student at Davis- Elkins College, sustained a broken leg when she was flung from an au- tomobile driven by Dow Strader as the machine made a sharp turn in the road which leads from the college to the main road. Strader's car was filled with students, and Miss Cody wns one of three or four riding on the running board. 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