Show Crane and Keaton I IScore Score at Gem I IThe The Saphead produced last night I at the Gem theatre with William II IL I Crane and Buster Keaton as costars costars I proved royed to be one of of the biggest events of the season Here was a screen play ith that at t carried with it u the very breath of Lire life The characters were developed as real human beings far removed from the conventional types of the screen I The story grew naturally out of the lives Of the characters and it grew with that I queer mixture of ot comedy and tragedy I. I that Is an essential part of human ex- ex ex ex- The story concerns itself with New York society and the stock exchange Nicholas i Van Alst Alstyne ne is a miner in Arizona Arizona Arizona Ari Ari- zona left a widower with two children Bertie and Rose In addition he has a award award award ward named Agnes With a fortune accumulated in the mines he goes to New York and enters the financial world It t is a world that takes grip of him and I holds his interest to th the exclusion of the three children Bertie liberally supplied with money but rather short on the brain supply I drifts into a fast set of wealthy young oung men about town At his club he is known as The Saphead His sister Rose gets married to a broker Mark Turner Turner comes of good family but has become known as somewhat of a rake The ward Agnes is off ata at ata ata a finishing school Bertie Bertie has as- as fallen n in love with Agnes and and they are to be married when a family scandal breaks Mark Marl Turner has I had an an affair with a woman named Henrietta Henrietta Henrietta Hen Hen- rietta Reynolds There is a child The woman dies and leaves letters showing Mark is the father On Berties Bertie's wedding day Mark MarIe cleverly throws suspicion on Bertie Bertle The marriage is called off Bertie Bertie Bertle Ber Ber- tie tle is disinherited with only a check for to see him through the world The general outline in the development of the story closely follows the drama The New Henrietta by Winchell Smith Smith and Victor Mapes upon which The Saphead Saphead Saphead Sap- Sap head is founded The New Henrietta In turn was adapted from Bronson Howards Howard's Howard's Howards Howards Howard's How How- ards ard's play The Henrietta produced back in 1887 and regarded as one of the thereal thereal real classics of the American stage I In The Saphead William H H. Crane as Nicholas Van plays the role he he- created in The Henrietta and re recreated recreated recreated re- re created in The New Henrietta It Is Isa isa Isa a role that Crane has made so distinctively distinctively distinctively his own that it is hard to think of ot any other actor playing it The rich mellow art of ot the great stage comedian is here seen at its highest degree of perfection Buster Keaton as Bertie The Saphead was continuously funny funny funny fun fun- ny but the fun comes from the humanity humanity humanity human human- ity of the characterization not from the slapstick tricks by which Mr Keaton gained his fame The fascinating widow Mrs Opdyke Is played by Odette Tyler the former star and played with de- de delicious de de- licious finesse S T The popular O rector of a a- fashionable gr New w York r church the fie Rev I Murray Hilton Is enacted by Edward 1 Jobson an unctuous comedian who plays with fine gusto and relish Edward Connelly Connelly Con Con- ConI I nelly neny as the old man Musgrave while I Inot not given the opportunity to repeat the triumph he scored recently in Shore ShoreAcres ShoreAcres Acres makes the character stand out distinct artistic achievement as a Carol Holloway decorative to to a high with h ha beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- degree played Rose Turner precision and Beulah Booker was wasa a in ing charming Cummins i fn little t long heroine heroine- a O hero o as to o Agnes screen in Irvin Irving Irv- Irv audiences au- au proved roved himself an n excellent di as Inthe in inthe villain as Mark Turner Others Jeffery the cast were Jack Livingston Williams Edward Alexander Katherine Alfred Hollingsworth Hollingsworth Hollings- Hollings Albert Helen worth and Henry Clauss brilliantly constructed scenario The written b. b by June J ne Mathis The The director di- di was Herbert F. F H. H Webster Webster Web Web- rector was responsible for the art ster was and Harold m for the InterIors photographY The whole production production clean had the tho advantage of being produced produced pro pro- tion the personal direction of under IS Winchell Smith author co-author of The New ot of successes successes suc- suc and a a. number stage Henrietta including The Boomerang and The Fortune Hunter |