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DougJas MacLean In Joyous Farce Of Aero MishapsMetropolitan Has A Forceful Play, “Anna ChristieGoing up Going up I ko n rocket # me Ui3ai *• Sailing In T.n all \f c thoi uorde express ti * mad wild flight of Mr Street a* well as do thosf lt;f the popular pong written for thr nuslcal shov. Going Ip upon whUh the comedy at the Palace the utei this wee' Ir basedGoing Up ts light joyous full of.rre3hneBs cihaim and spontaneity— a wonderful pla of love and thrills and airplanes Tt is a laugh from ^tarl to finish and the clove? subtitles diew. enthusiastic response from the audience- e«terdav Douglas MacLean gives n. delightful mpersormflon ofthe author Mr Street but Hallam Lool^y ilmost teals stellar honors b Ms excellent woik as Mr Streets friend Mr Brow \ Dainty fragile lit tie Marjorie Daw of the dark eyes Hild wistful ftrnilf* as the heroine gives a very capable per formancft fl e direction n accurate ne\ or for a moment does It ot'trntep the bounds f faxci and become burlesque—-and the photography Ih xceedlngly clever especially during Uu airplane flightThe storv is that f f tomtd} which m turn from the pta l lames Montgomery entitled The A\lator and concerns the Hdvlt;.nturfH cf Mi Street who has wrltttn the \c ir s best seller a booa ailed Going Up but who has nev i ecu up in an airplane He goen to the fieri shire Hills seeking refuse frlt; m publicity but finds that his famlt; has spie.td before him Pcad^ to leave he no its the girl of 1 Is Ircame lt;Marjorie Ihv. ) and declde« to r i *ai» i. omes to the hotel one lui a J rfn(h ice and war veteran played ly Khar cis Mat Donald The well meaning frlendt. of Street arrange ani lurunee flight for the Uo ifter many ludicrous situations Struct finds himself ly the air and then thethewasmusical vi rltteninn begins Despite cverxthlnH h ever he is saved for the final fad* utPUking I caches ib the I itest Mack Sennett and is 21 rcwrlon to the old SennCtt das of bathing *Jrls \n I limb cllspl y As a bu^lesqu it s rather risque In parts but udds to a hilarious billThe nows r*d pi tured the fate1 Mr \K i1siti s Tuneial and w as r cciced In r»\(ront silence lij the AU lloucc SundayGood Acting Saves Otherwise Medium To Fair PicturesHistoric Fredericksburg down in Ole \ Irgmny—where most of the pic turo w rb filmed—li* said to hftv* turned out en masse to see The Steadfast Heart when H was ’shown there recently Tha citizens are rep resented as having voted the picture the best everThose who- saw The Steadfast Heart at the Rialto yesterday and Ust night would hardly go as far hs th it in recornmending It If they are IvpUclI movie fans they have n°pn P clures that were much betti r However It Is very nicely that they have rarely Been better acting on th* part of children than what tbey saw In The Steadfast HeartThe picture which Is based on a *torj by Clarence Budlhgton K*l land has *lt; its locale Rainbow a c-nobhiah little town in Southern Vlr glnla On !K outskirts In a dirty tumbledown shant} lives little Angus Burke Hlb father is 21 lazy mean w Ife beating sort of with an unexplained come The mother Is and partly InsaneOne night a pbese comas to *h* ghanty after the father The mother laboring under a hallucination lella the boy that the men In tho po*»so are. robbers and placing a shoteun in hlis hands lolls hjm to uhoot tft« first man who enters the doorThe lad killa a sheriff 1b tried for murder and through the effort® of a few sympathetic friend*, 1s acquitted* The verdict However ti an unpopular on*.Following th* trial Angus Ip adopted by the kindly editor of the town h one and only newspaper 'Despite this, hoVever he remains a social outcast in the town, the boyaRealism is depicted in the motion picture version of Anna Christie Eugene O Neill b Pulitzer winning play of 192., which Sb shown at the Metropolitan this week The Thomas luce production has been contrived to give a variety of popular appeal sinking ships in heavy fog barroom fight* the lure of tho boa the revela tlon of the tortured soul of a young girl who thinks Bhe can not marry her lover because of her pastAlthough the motion picture would not win a Pulltoer prise It should be well received by th* public The bU*e play enjoyed sflong run In New York and was recently presented In Wash Jngton acclaimed by critics through out. the country While something has been gained by transferring th* play from the stage to the screen there 19 a loss too It Is hard for the spec tator to be eon* inced that Anna would fall Jn love with the stoker who shows nothing: In Ills nature but good naturcd arrogance and a pncbaht for fighting A feu more feet of film would ha* s helped him Into being a bstt*r sort of chapBlanche Sweet as Anna la ae ccptabh William Russell makes a dramatic figure of Matt Burke the stoker George Marion plays the part of Anna* father the role he created on the stageAnna Christie u on* of O Neill s most forceful playa The father thinking that hh daughter Is all that Is purr aod daxent wants to keep her from The temptations of the big city and at the same time the curso of th* aea which caused him to neff lcct his family and in reality has ruined the daughter because of the neglectAbna regards herself as a social outcast but will not tell her father or lover the truth until she is forced by her conscience when there Is no escaping th* whim of th* lover that they mhst marry Immediately After she tells the two what has happened to her she Is left ttiort* with her tor tured soul while the men seek forget* fulness in drink From this point th* story mo'en rapidly to an Impressive climaxThe interest is unbroken to the end O Neill has mad* the sea and its gripping lure the scene • f th* story ex eept for an insight into the life of the girl on u farm in \unn*»oia and the conditions unde** which ehe wa« caat oxi her own resourcesWaring s Pennsylvanians billed as the add*d attraction ' have develop ed into the principal attraction l£aeh week of Lhelr stay here la marked by surprises pleasing to tho public The ability of Fred Waring tho young director of the organization la shown better than ever this week by the arrangement of the renditionsThe orchestral accompaniment to the feature by t.he Metropolitan 3 m phony orchestra 1$ very good and with a comedy and newsreel com pletcs th* programdt;t:lioftoiiccllViCoaC*'£Of.dPPrt:\r-liNUa11Uoan individual source of In a dopo addicthis age constantly taunting him about his parentage and hiB shooting of the sheriffHis bltteroBt enemy 1$ Malcolm Crane jr a boy hia own ag* The two early fall In love with Util* Lydia this town * wealthiest and moat aristocratic ^daughter The picture unfolds th* fight waged by the pair to win the hand of the girlAngus Is sent away to school by the editor and at the age of 23 he la shown working as a reporter on a big metropolitan dally Whan th* editor of the Rainbow Observer falls sick he returns to Rainbow and takes that publication overImmediately upon iua arrival fie starts a fight upon the father of young Crape is the head of awildcat oil company which I* bilking th* townsfolk out of their savingsHe expoa** the fraud catches the elder CJ^fcne in th* act of running off with the cortiparty a funds and In th* end win* the gfrlJoey Dopew gives a splendid char acterlaatlon of Angiis Burke In th* juvenile episode Miriam Battista also does wait as Lydia In that episode Jerry Pevlne a® Malcolm Cran6( jr actually arouses hate in the hearts of his audience an unusual achieve rnent far a kid Marguerite Courtot is Lydia grown up, and Joseph Striker, Angus Mary Aldeh |» Aftgus*mo the 11There is a screamingly funny * Our Gang* comedy and some gbod news pictures of Woodrow Wilson s funeral
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Washington Post
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Mon, Feb 11, 1924
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