Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1919 — “THE END OF THE ROAD.” [ARTICLE]

“THE END OF THE ROAD.”

“The End of the Road,” to be shown in the Star Theatre Friday, October 24, is a remarkable photodrama, which has occasioned widespread comment due to its daring revelation of sex facts. Its baring of sex facts and the terrible penalties imposed on those who stray along the path called “primrose” is accomplished with such artistry, and with so notable an absence of the sordid and vulgar, as to have won for “The End of the Road” high praise as an entertainment and favorable comment as a weapon in the nation-wide campaign for a “cleaner” country. The terrible menace being fought by this picture is described by authorities as the greatest danger facing the future of the country. It finally has dawned on the minds of those in close touch with the investigation of the situation brought about by sex indulgence unguarded by acquaintance with facts that the seat of the danger is ignorance. It—is -tnis uangerous xgnorance which is routed by ‘ The End of the Road.’' No ,oneT~WhO~ sees this picture need suffer the misery of the victims j>f recklessness nor inflict the penalties on wife and children, even to the third and fourth generation. It is for that reason that fathers and mothers in other cities have brought their sons and daughters to see it; that they might be' forearmed. The nature of the picture has made it necessary that a prohibition be placed on attendance of children under 14 years, unless accompanied by their parents, or bearing their parents’ consent. In Chicago, where the picture ran for four weeks, and in Cleveland, where the Euclid Avenue Qpera House, The K. & E. Theatre, played it three weeks, thousands of young people saw the picture in their parents’ company. “The End of the Road” is a piece of wonderful photography, telling a sweet story, which with the punches which drive home the lesson worked into the text of the story so artfully as almost to be taken into the mind unconsciously. Some of the punches are so shocking, however, as to make everyone sit up, literally. It is these punches which drive home the lesson of the picture. Richard Bennett, star of “Damaged Goods,” who has devoted his great talent to teaching this lesson, is the star in this picture. Opposite him plays Claire Adams, a star new to filmdom and described as the most beautiful girl in the pictures. She is so winsome a heroine that all who see “The End of the Road” fall in love with her. They are supported by a strong cast and the direction, by Lieutenant E. H. Griffith, who produced the wonderful picture, “Fit to Fight,” shown to Uncle Sam’s soldiers in the training camps to keep the army “clean,” is 1 far above the usual. The picture will be shown from 1 1:30 to 11 o’clock Friday.—Advt.