"THE OLD HOME STEAD."

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17814, 13 July 1923, Page 13

"THE OLD HOME STEAD."

STARRING THE GRAND OLD MAN OF THE SCREEN. New York in ISSS, visualised on tho screen! Handßom cabs, queer-looking Derby hat», cobble stone streets, gas lights at the Btroet comers; a horse oar, drawn, however, by mules; Chinamen wearing queues, women wearing basques and email bustles and impossible hate, small boys with funny-looking trousers or still funnier short ones; all the paraphernalia of Gotham in those- days before automobiles, radio telephones, wireless, motion pictures, and other laxnilia: thing 3 oi to-day. Persons, who live in Manhattan to-day or thoso wjho havo lived there will be carried buck on the wings oi memory whoa tiie=e street scenes iox "The O.d HomeBtead," s, Paramount picture, are thrown on the screen. James Cruae, the director, was careiui that no anachronism.! shouid slip through, and it will be difficult to pick flaws in any incident of the famous old pi*?. which, is now to be seen in enlarged and elaborated form on the silver sheet. T. Boy Barnes, as Happy Jack, steals ft pair of Bhoes in this sequence, which shows a Blreet around Third avenue in 1685. £to hands the bhoes to lleuben, played by Hajrrieon Ford. Later Theodore Roberts, as Unole Josh, comes along and offers Happy Jack a dollar before recognising in him the tramp who escaped goal and took Reuben with him. The property department, as well as the experts on building sots and other technical work, wero resolved that nothing should oreep in the picture that didn't' belong there. An example of how iax accuracy is followed is shown in this little discussion. Director Cruze planned to have four boys harmonising on a corner of the street. "Let 'em sing 'At""" Laurie,'" someone suggested. "Make H 'White "Wings'" waa the decision. "That wa3 popular along about tho period of '85." There is a practically all-star oast of players in "The Old Homestead," which will be the' star attraction at Everybody's Theatre nert week, commencing at tie matinee on Monday. Theodore iioberte, "the grand old man of the screen," is seen as TJncle Joshua Whitcomb, while George Fawoett has tho part of Eph Holbrook. Important roles are in the capable hands of T." Boy Barnes, Fritzi Ridgway, Harrison Ford, Ethel "Wales, Tames Mason, Kathleen O'Connor, and others. The box plan is now open at The Bristol, end reserved seats may be hooked thera or by 'phoning 4925.