Moving Picture World (May 1919)

May 31, 1919 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD 1381 REVIEWS AND ADVERTISING AIDS (Continued) ish outrages. Arrange for extra performances. If you do the advance properly you will need to give them. Do not book the play for less than three days. Advertising: Aids: Half sheet, one sheet, three sheet, six sheet, twenty-four sheet. Half-sheet window card. Herald. Three slides. 8x10, 11x14, 22x28 lobby display. One, two three and four column cuts. Real photographs of Aurora Mardiganian. Music cue-sheet. Lobby paintings in colors from sensational stills. "I'll Get Him Yet" Dorothy Gish Is More Amusing Than Ever in Bright Farce Released by Paramount. Reviewed by Edward Weitzel. THERE isn't any two ways about it ! Dorothy Gish is in a class by herself. She is the female Charlie Chaplin of the screen — Chaplin of the later manner — of the refinement of method, but the old sureness of touch as exemplified in "Shoulder Arms." The younger of the Gish girls confirms this assertion by her acting in "I'll Get Him Yet," a somewhat different picture made from a story by Harry Carr, editorial writer on the Los Angeles Times. Elmer Clifton, the Paramount director, has caught the spirit of the theme, which is pure farce, and the action proceeds in a series of sharp and deliciously humorous incidents supported by witty subtitles. Not one of the situations ever really happened, but the author's invention is clever enough to make that fact of little moment. "I'll Get Him Yet" starts of? on a new track and runs along smoothly with a lot of fresh ideas in the tender, but not enough to carry it to the end of its route. Susy Faraday Jones is the daughter of a frightfully rich old chap, who gives his offspring an interurban trolley line just to keep her out of mischief. She becomes general manager of the road and has great difficulty in keeping all of her male friends, except the man she wants, from proposing to her. She starts out on his trail and never lets up until she has the right chap's name on a marriage certificate on the line above hers. This is accomplished after Susy has promised not to touch any of her father's money but live on her husband's salary — she already has several millions of her own. The material up to the point where three of her old suitors invade her home and she is obliged to hide them from her terribly jealous husband is surprising novel. It then becomes necessary to employ the familiar devices of the usual French farce. As each suitor appears he is popped into a closet or hidden undei* the sofa. The always laughable chasing in and out of doors follows. It is all exceedingly well done, however, and precious few spectators are going to laugh any the less heartily on account of these ancient devices. Played as "straight" comedy the picture would reveal many amusing features, but it is the rapidly and thoroughly developed gift for farce-acting possessed by Dorothy Gish that makes the entire performance an unbroken string of spontaneous laughs. Every incident of which she is a part is tricked out and adorned by bits of byplay that are so quickly and so accurately done they rival the best efforts of the masters of pantomime. The art of knowing just how far to go in everything connected with her class of acting is shown to perfection by Dorothy Gish. Of the supporting cast Richard Barthelmess and George Fawcett are the most useful members. As Scoop McCreedy, the reporter who marries the heiress, the first named understands the seriousness of good farce acting, and plays his part in the proper key. George Fawcett's Bradford Jones is a piece of fine character work. Ralph Graves, Edward Peil and Porter Strong are a capable trio. Susy Jones is the only female character in the story. Cast. Susy Faraday Jones Dorothy Gish Bradford Warrington Jones, George Fawcett Scoop. McCreedy Richard Barthelmess Harold Packard Ralph Graves Robert E. Hamilton Edward Peil William R. Craig Porter Strong Story by Harry Carr. Directed by Elmer Clifton. The Story. "I'll Get Him Yet" shows that true love stops at nothing, while the trolley road owned by Susy Jones stops at every place except the town where Susy goes to live after she is married. Susy is a particular young woman who refuses all her well Dorothy Gish Shows Richard Barthelmess that she can whistle in "I'll Get Him Yet." to-do suitors and sets her heart on the man who refuses her because her father owns So many railroads and other money making pieces of property. Scoop McCreedy is a returned hero from France, who hadn't thought much about a rich father-in-law until he went to ask "Skinflint" Jones for his daughter's hand. The old man's sarcastic remarks about a fortune-hunter coupled with the unpleasant sensation of being thrown out of the house brought Scoop to the frame of mind where his wounded pride and certain physical injuries made him turn his back on matrimony, and dodge Susy every time she came near him. But Scoop didn't know how much that girl loved him — -and having her own way. When her irate parent told her what he had done to Scoop, the lady of the returned hero's choice looked her father defiantly in the eye and spoke these words, "I'll Get Him Yet!" The Job was not so easy as it sounded. What man in his right senses would continue to run away from a lovely girl, heiress to millions? Scoop was that man. But Susy finally won him over by promising not to touch one penny of her father's money after they were married. All might have been well if the Scoop McCreedys hadn't gone to live in a town on a trolley line owned by Mrs. Scoop. While still Miss Jones and bent on earning a reputation for fast time on her road. Scoop's wife had given the order for the non-stop. Her husband and a committee of indignant fellow townsmen forces her to head a delegation to the office of the company and demand the order be changed. Two of the head officials, both old suitors of Susy's, are badly mixed up by this affair, but their boss makes them grasp that her order is to stand, without betraying herself to her husband. The two officials and her private lawyer come to the McCreedy home to see Susy on business. Scoop, now the editor of a local paper, is jealous of his wife and suspicious of all her male callers. As the different men arrive she hides them, fearing the return of her husband. He gets back in time to give the three old suitors a scare of large proportions, and to learn that Susy is cursed with three or four millions. After considerable pleading on her part. Scoop concludes to forgive her for being the owner of great wealth and the heiress to a great deal more of the same. Progrram and Advertising Plirases: Dorothy Gish Star of Bright and Amusing Farce Comedy That Will Make You Shriek With Laughter. How a Clever and Determined Girl Succeeded in Landing the One Man Who Would Not Run After Her. The Story of the Terrible Handicap the Ownership of a Trolley Line and a Few Millions Proved to Be When the Girl Set Out to Capture the Man She Loved. A Different Kind of Comedy That Will Arouse an Unbroken String of Spontaneous Laughs. Dorothy Gish in Deliciously Humorous Role Showing That as a Laugh-Maker She Is in a Class By Herself. Advertising Angles. Play up Miss Gish for your big point. Hook up with the late plays you have shown in which she appears. Then bear hard on the story of the girl who ran a railroad but who could not keep her husband from getting jealous. Work such points as "She had three men hidden in the room while she solemnly assured her jealous husband that she loved him only, and the funny part is that she really meant it and she hid them just to keep hubby from wholesale slaughter." Make a lobby cut of that six-sheet. It will be worth your trouble. Advertising Aids: Two each one, three and six-sheets. One 24-sheet. Lobby displays, 8x10, 11x14 and 22x28. «.^uts from one to three columns on star ana production. Advertising lay-out mats. Slides. "Rustling a Bride" Lila Lee Follows a Letter to the West and Meets With Adventure and a Husband. Reviewed by William J. Reilly. THE Paramount picture, "Rustling a Bride," contains good entertain, ment value and will make an excellent program feature. Its fund of interest is steadily maintained, although there are no moments which will bring the spectators to their feet. It is a Western story and the locations are {Continued an page 1383)