Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1919 — STRIKING SCENERY FOR BIG STORY IN “THE MIRACLE MAN.” [ARTICLE]

STRIKING SCENERY FOR BIG STORY IN “THE MIRACLE MAN.”

I Crook* in Clover in the Dramatic I Paramount-Artcraft Photoplay. / From the sordid slums of New York’s Chinatown to the grandeur .of high mountains and the majesty ।of the ocean—that is the range of the setting in “The Miracle Man,” a big new Paramount-Artcraft picture, which is coming to the Princess theatre next week. The samel expansiveness of vision reflected in the absorbing story, written by Frank L. Packard and later dramatized by George M. Cohan, and ! produced with striking .success on Broadway. 1 The central figure is a whitehaired patriarch, who lives in the 1 hills near the sea and who has reputed power to heal the sick and ' crippled. Tom Burke and his band * in their haunt in the New York underworld read of his miracles and conceive the idea of capitalizing . them for their own gain. Sb they go to the town where the old man lives and frame up a miracle for him. To their surprise they discover that he really possesses the healing powers accredited to him. Gradually under the beneficent influence of their new environment there is worked a transformation iin the hearts of the crooks that ' mak'es Rose, the gangster’s beautiful decoy, the charming girl she is at heart, that evolves a farm hand out ’of a dope fiend, and finally brings out the better nature of even the hardened, sophisticated Tom Burk himself. In the hands of such capable artists as Thomas Meighan, ' Elinor Fair, Joseph J. Dowling, Betty Compson, and others of similar merit, this powerful story becomes a vital living thing and one of the greatest dramatic spectacles the screen has yet revealed.