Exhibitors Herald (Apr-Jun 1922)

64 I TOM MOORE IN MR. BARNES OF NEW YORK (GOLDWYN) Well produced and excellently acted screen version of Archibald Clavering Gunter's popular novel and play. Moore gives a delightful characterization and is given good support by Naomi Childers, Anna Lehr and Sydney Ainsworth. Directed by Victor Schertzinger. Five parts. Tom Moore is herewith presented as a dashing, romantic gentleman of Manhattan, who finds adventure on Corsican soil. It is an excellent adaptation of the Gunter drama and the producer has faithfully reproduced the dress of the period, the early eighties, as well as the backgrounds against which the drama is enacted. The picturesque continental backgrounds, glimpses of a French railway station and scenes of a fashionable pleasure resort all add materially to the picture's success and Mr. Moore's radiant smile will bring joy to the heart of every Moore fan. The story has many excellent exploitation angles, concerning as it does a duel, an adventurous young American, a solemn oath of vengeance, and two pretty girls. A pretty Corsican wedding is a feature of the picture also. It pleased audiences all week at the Adams theatre, Chicago. There is a merry twinkle in Mr. Moore's eye and the play is replete with humorous incident. Naomi Childers was an excellent choice for the beautiful Enid and Anna Lehr well cast as Marina. Sydney Ainsworth played Danella, Lewis Willoughby was Anstruther and Otto Hoffman played Tomasso. Mr. Barnes, an American traveler, becomes involved in a Corsican feud when he unexpectedly is a witness to a duel between a native and an English naval officer. The slain man's sister, Marina swears vengeance. She employs an artist to paint a picture of the duel and has it hung in an art gallery in Paris, where detectives watch in an effort to discover the murderer. Barnes sees the picture and overhears a beautiful English girl tell a friend that she has fallen in love with one of the men in the painting. The picture is his own and he follows her as she goes to catch a train. Through the connivance of the porter on the train he starves the girl. Enid Anstruther, into a friendly relationship with himself. By the time Nice is reached he is head over heels in love with Enid and suspects her brother, Gerard, about whom she has told him, is the naval officer implicated in the duel. Gerard is deeply in love with Marina who has refused to marry him because of a vow. Her guardian. Count Danella. wants to marry her and conspired to have her marry Gerard and then tell her that he is the man who killed her brother and force her into avenging his death, leaving Marina free to marry him. Through Mr. Barnes, it comes out that Gerard had loaned his pistol* to a fellow' officer and that it was the latter who shot Marina's brother, leaving the way clear for Gerard and Marina, for Enid and himself to get married. XHIBITORS HERAL Tom Moore in "Mr. Barnes of New York.'* (Goldwyn) EDGAR JONES IX LONESOME CORNERS (PATHE) This Edgar Jones Production is a tale of the Canadian border with a rather out-of-the-ordinary twist to the story that makes it an absorbing program feature. Picturesque atmosphere and a typical north-woods fight are its outstanding features. Edna May Sperl has the feminine lead. It is five reels in length. "Lonesome Corners" should prove a satisfying program feature. It has a unique story, that of a man in the northwoods who steals the wife of another to make a lady of her. An element of mystery has been effectively injected into the plot and for some footage it is doubtful as to the real purpose of the kidnapping. Henry Van Bausen is the third character in the story and the incidents are woven almost entirely around the aforementioned trio. The acting is excellent, as is the photography and atmosphere. Henry Warburton has been forced to take residence in the big outdoors for ten years under the terms of his father's will. In a period of lonesomeness he has married Nola. a youthful, untamed girl of the woods country. As his time of probation in the woods is about to expire he faces with apprehension the thought of bringing his backwoods wife into civilization with him to meet his wealthy friends. Grant Hamilton, a wanderer, is living at the cabin wTith him and when he learns Warburton's attitude he determines to help him in his own way. He kidnaps his friend's wife and for a whole year keeps her in a house in a remote part of the woods where, under the tutelage of a nurse she learns to become a perfect lady. The absence makes Warburton realize he really loves the girl in spite of her social shortcomings and during her absence he carries on a frantic search. The only word he receives are mysterious notes at the end of each month which tell him of the progress his wife is making but with no intimation that he will ever get her back. On the twelfth month Hamilton returns with Nola to Warburton. She is completely changed and displays a knowledge of social etiquette that astounds him. Then Hamilton tells him the secret— of the preparation he has been making to prove that Nob is worthy to accompany her husband to civilization, a thins which Warburton himself had been indifferent to take the trouble to do. There is a happy reunion. D May 20, 1922 SPECIAL CAST IN THE CLOSED DOOR (.KLEIN) French-made picture, produce! partly at St. Moritz, dealing wit! theory of spiritualism. Thrill aplenty, and some very beautifu scenic shots in the Swiss Alps Produced by Livingston Phelps directed by Robert Saidreau. Dis tributed by Edward L. Kleir Length three reels. An out-of-the-ordinary picture, inter esting in story, and timely in them, dealing as it does with the much-di: cussed theory of "life after death." Ha: dicapped by some poor photography i interior sets, and over-exposure in soir of the outdoor stuff. The scenes at S Moritz, however, are very attractive. The leading role, that of Dr. Lucia Bernard is played by Jean Herve of tr Comedie Francaise, and is very we done. Madame Paula Bernard, the wit is interpreted by Countess Marie Kuti zov. This part is not so well done, a though it is a minor part, soon finishe Mile. Martha Ferrare plays "Jaquelii Tessier" and does it well. The story is told to his pupils b "Professor Hanteuil" (Yves Martel head of the Psychical Research Societ as proof of actual materialization of tl spirits of the dead. He calls to their a tention a lonely figure, that of Dr. Lucif Bernard, then tells his story. Bernard finds his love for his wif Paula, waning. He tells her he loves a: other, Madame Paula Tessier, and d , spite the wife's entreaties, packs his ba and leaves to join the other woman. C the way he is hailed by a peasant \vi 1 begs him to come to his afflicted chil The professional instinct triumphs ai the doctor saves the child. Meanwhi the distracted wife, walking blindly aloi the cliffs, falls, is picked up with an ug wound on her head and carried hon' The doctor, again on his way to join 1 sweetheart, is told of his wife's accide and hurries back. Jacqueline, angered his failure to keep his appointment, sen him a note saying she will stop at i house, sound her auto horn three tinn and if he does not respond, go out of i' life forever. The horn sounds just the doctor is about to perform the oper tion that will save his wife. He Ieav her to die and flees with the other woma At St. Moritz he tries to find happinc: but the memory of his failure to do I duty pursues him. At last, to please Ja queline, he joins a party of masqueradei His dead wife appears to him. He is ti rifled. He appeals to the doctor, H,i teuil, who tells him the dead have be known to appear. Driven from St. M ritz. he insists on going back to the pla where his wife died. Jacqueline goes prove to him his fears are childish. 1 door to his wife's room resists his effoi to open it, but when Jacqueline goes it. it (lies open. Despite his protests S enters. There is a shriek. He rushes t" find her dead, the huge mirr •.mashed, and on her head a scar exaei like the one he had failed to operate I mi his wife. Later, a falling tree ki Bernard, a similar sear being made ' his head. Not cheerful, but mterestii