Anyone who has not seen "Old Ironsides", now playing at popular prices at the Metropolitan, has a treat in store which even the propinquity of a dreaded examination cannot, mitigate. Besides the great patriotic strain which runs throughout the plot, the vivid historical background, the nautical realism, there are five individual dramatic performances which transcend almost any recent histrionic portrayals of the cinema. Charles Farrell and Esther Ralston perform beautifully together; Wallace Beery and George Bancroft make the screen's best comic pair; and Johnny Walker as Decatur is a gallant and heroic figure. Of course, the "Constitution" has the lead and holds it.

One of the choicest bits of the film is the episode at the wheel which the hero neglects at an inopportune moment to take the enticing Miss Ralston in his manly arms.

"Havana" the current stage attraction, is almost worth seeing of itself, a notable fact concerning a Metropolitan vaudeville entourage. R. A. S.