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NEW YORK AMERICAN APRIL 27, 1922
'Reported Missing,' Owen Moore Screen Farce, at the Criterion
By ALAN DALE.
^WEN MOORE is a new one on me. I've seen most comedians when they have started to commede and have workfd my way through their agoniesj/"But Mr. Moore burst upon me in "Reported /in)?." at the Criterion Theatre, as a full-fle<i6ed I man who can take it all away trom the sterec star, and who certainly did It
Me i& '6? meiancholy type, and a bedraggled de
meanor, and he wears occasionally the horn-rim glasses that have made the fortune ot one Lloyd. Apart from these facts, Moore is agile, sinuous, persuasive, and expressively pantomimic. More cannot be' asked for from any picture star. Rah for Owen
f^^^n "aejiorted Missing" he has one of those melodramatic farces that are never wholly melodrama nor farce, but a happy melange ot both. The picture whirls with in<:ident, with escapes — absurd and otherwise— with rush and push and vigor and vim. There are moments when everybody is racing after everybody else, revolving, circumnavigating and generally rough-housing. Why? There's a reason. _
I'tie a^Ue hero, anxious for his "oj>tlon on certain ships, and pursooed by the Japanese villain, finds himself on board ship with his lady love, and all sorts of sinister characters. The villain always pursoos him, but — he Is every Inch the hero. He is also a humorist, which saves him, as a sense of humor nas saved so many! And he is confronted with another humorlpt, the grimaclc Tom Wilson. Wilson is a scream from start to finish, and he is pitted against Owen Mooce with the most felicitous results.
"Reported MiESing" needs no more cnticium than does the post.
3ble oC comedie3_/"It talks for iteelf, and it talks louqiy. U_3liuJkr;
in no silence, and it is irresistible^ There are no custard pies ana no " ■ lemon meringues. There ane. moreover, admirable sub-titles, filled with mirth. The heroine was not too frightfully pretty, but Just comely enough. ' " word, aon't b« "reported"' from the Criterion, as sea it^
CRITERION THEATRE — "E<port«d MlesiDg." A SeLzDlcIt pinara.
THE CAST.
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Pauline D^e Paulme Guron
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J. Youjiff Toco Tamamoto
Andrew Puna Eobert Cain
Cftptain Kerffuson Fmnk Wiuid^rlee
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LEWISaSELZNICK
presents
REPORTED ^ MISSING
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OWEN MOORE
Directed by .Henry Lehrman
NICHOIAS M SCHENCK
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