Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1921 — Page 4
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Juifema Sato STirnes INDIAN APOLJS, II ID lAN A Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—Mam 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. . . ( Chicago, Detroit, St. Lonls, O. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising office* j Ngw *'york. Boeton, Payne, Burnt A Smith. Inc. THE FEW PERSONS who remainded indoors yesterday were either disabled or indeed lonely! THE CROWDS that greeted Gipsy Smith indicated that the city was ripe for the kind of gospel he preaches! GOVERNOR McCRAY'S statements relative to salary increase bills show a disposition to remember campaign pledges in the face of much importuning.
It Is Different Now Already there are beginning to emanate from administrative sources in Washington explanations of a necessity for postponing the fulfillment of Mr. Harding's pre-election promises. The first relates to the readoption of the Knox resolution for a separate peace with Germany. The exigencies of the campaign, in the minds of the Republican leaders, seemed to Justify the definite promise of the immediate passage of the resolution, to that element of voters who, through nationality and interest, were strongly proGerman. It was understood that that promise was a part of the considers tion for the Vierick-Berustorff support given the Harding ticket. That it proved effective no one doubts. The resolution was vigorously denounced by its patriotic opponents as an act of treachery to our allies, one that would bring upon us the deserved contempt of the nations with whom we stood solemnly pledged to attempt a world-wide peace. Now that the administration is functioning, what of this resolution? The word comes from Washington that its passage at this time might “embarrass” the allies in their efforts to enforce the terms of the Versailles treaty. Why now any more or even as much embarrassment to them as when the first meeting of the League of Nations was being held and its organization being perfected at Geneva? The Republican. Congress did not hesitate then to deliver a slap in the face of our friends by passing the resolution. The difference lies in the fact that that was before the presidential election. Now the friends of the resolution are facing a situation in which they realize political expediency cannot be the controlling element. It is a question for serious statesmanship and Senator Lodge and other Republican leaders, know that the passage of the resolution will place a stigma upon the Harding administration that never can be removed.
‘Businesslike* Mayor Charles W. Jewett's promise that the $175,000 garbage plant be purchased from James P. Goodrich et al. would “pay for itself in a few years” has gone the way of the coliseum, terminal market, improved Btreet car system and other things promised at the beginning of his administration. Reluctantly, his sanitary board has permitted the fact to become known that the garbage plant is being operated at a loss of more than $33,000 a year and that the administration is unable to collect more than about four-tenths as much garbage as was collected under a contract, in spite of the fact that the population of the city has increased at least a sixth since the contract was effective. Previously, before the Goodrich crowd conceived the ides, of unloading a junk pile on the Jewett administration, garbage was collected and disposed of in Indianapolis for approximately $50,000 a year of the taxpayers’ money. Under the "business-like” administration of Mayor Jewett, $75,000 a year is being spent collecting less garbage, $33,000 a year is being lost in disposing of this garbage, and the city is paying interest on $175,000 of bonds issued to buy a plant one of whose owners swore could not be worth the cost of junking it In other words, the sanitary district is now spending approximately $116,000 a year to accomplish what used to be done for $50,000, and the $175,000 Investment Is steadily shrinking into nothing. Is it any wonder the sanitary board is reluctant about allowing its reports to become public property?
Wedding Cake It is said that the wedding cake is one of the exceedingly few things handed down in England customs, wherein, in the culinary art, an appeal to the eye is made, as well as to the taste. In the good old days no other dish was prepared with such care and lavishness and made to please the looks. The hearty British ate meats and fish, had bread and few vegetables and at the wedding feast stout, ale and beer were consumed in large amounts. Apparently there was nothing delicate about the feast until the cake came. There all the art of the cook was utilized and all the guests were expected to enjoy the feast of vision. The richer the bride, the more important the marriage, the greater was the cake displayed. America has borrowed this from the English, just as she took the salads from the French, and it is a peculiar fact that on cakeß and salads alone is extra work and pains bestowed to make them pleasing to the eye. Taste and smell are usually sufficient, with a little garnishment possibly, to tempt the appetite. Many elements enter into the consumption of a meal, after the first pangs of hunger are allayed. Cleanliness, taste, service and surroundings all contribute to the enjoyment of a crust and a cup of cold water. So does peace in a home and contentment, but it is peculiar that an optical appeal is not made more generally. Here is an undiscovered realm for some genius, for to the layman It is impossible to imagine a more tempting manner of serving buckwheat cakes or a good beefsteak than that in vogue since the time of the establishment of the nation.
Hypocrisy Exposed And now a rirt appears within the lute, and all is not peace and harmony among the Republican brethren in Washington.. The failure of the Republican Congress to pass the Fordney emergency tariff bill over President Wilson's veto was a humiliating confession that It was a scheme conceived in sin and born in iniquity, a flagrant attempt to fool the farmers by a proposition that was a fraud on its face. The fraud having been revealed to the public, its perpetrators now try to detract attention from it by proposing to discuss the repeal of the excess profits tax law. How soon one may expect it to be done is debatable. Judging by the time that has elapsed since it ought to have been done under the recommendation of the Democratic President, it might take the Republican Congress two years. The manufacturers who are demanding the enactment of a tariff law with schedules higher than those of the Payne-Aldrich law\ are strong enough supporters of the administration to make their demand felt that they be taken care of first. As the repeal of the excess profit tax will be followed by a sales tax which will affect every buyer of many of the daily necessities, it is a good guess that the manufacturers will be first repaid for their political help by the pansage of anew tariff law.
Vindicating Wilson! We have no doubt that former President Wilson chuckled to himself when he read President Harding’s message to Congress urging the ratifies tlon of the Colombian treaty. That the present administration will have to adopt many other plans urged for the settlement of our national affairs by the late President, every one knows who is familiar with the history of Republican politics. The Colombian treaty received as vigorous denunciation at the hands of Republican Senators as the treaty of Versailles. In fact, language even more intemperate was used in argument against it than was used in opposing the League of Nations. Yet the judgment of the Democratic President has come to be adopted as the rule of action for the Harding administration. Time may be expected to vindicate the attitude of Mr. Wilson in many other affairs of the Government.
American Doctor Hope of Lepers All Over World
(W. D. Boyce, owner of Tlie Times, on nay to New Zealand with his west by southwest expedition, interviews I)r. V. O. llea-wr. who la devoting his skill to perfecting a cure (or dread disease.) By W. D. BOYCE. EVERAL years ago when I was on a trip through India I stopped over in Rangoon, In Burma, and became very much interested in studying the condition there as regarded leprosy. Among other things I wanted photographs of the leper colony and asked Merl LaVoy, who was with me on that trip, too, in his capacity as photographer, to get me some snapshots. Os course I expected him to poke his camera through holes in the fence and take the pictures at long range and was surprised when he came back with close-ups of the lepers.
Among the pictures was that of a man who, the superintendent of the colony sold, was the worst case he had. It la presented herewith because this is a story about the latest developments in the treatment of leprosy. Peculiarly euoueh, it is from Burma, ton, that couo-s the first ray of hope ever extended to the lepers. Burma, by the way, is the country in which there are more lepers than anywhere else 1n the world. Leprosy for many centuries has been considered the worst of all diseases, probably because it always had been the one disease for which scientists could discover neither a cause nor a cure, prom long ago has been handed down to us the edict that the leper must live his life alone. In ancient days the leper was compelled to announce his presence wherever he went with a cry of "Unclean, unclean,” that all who heard him might give him a wide berth. Today the know n leper is Isolated and, until very recently, left to await his death with the firm conviction that nothing could cure him. Leprosy is not confined to any country Cases are to be found all over the world and climate or conditions seem not to have anything to do with causing the disease. DOCTOR AMONG MAKUR.A VOYAGERS. It was interesting then to find aboard the K. M. S. Makura the man who probably has examined more lepers than any ether physician in the world. Or. Victor (5. Ileiser of New York City. For twelve years he was the chief health officer of the Philippine Islands, and was associated with Dr. William C. Gorgas. the man who wag regarded ns one of the greatest authorities on contagious dis eases, and who was for years chief of the United States Federal Health Service. Dr. Helser since 1914 has been connected with the international health board of the Rockefeller Foundation, find has traveled all over the world, studying diseases of all kinds and in all stages. I found him most affable and willing to tell me a grent deal about the disease which Interests him most—leprosy. lie has personally examined and Inspected 10.000 cases and can speak with authority. •‘Leprosy,'’ Dr. Hetsof sold me, ‘Ms not reeessjrily contagious, but it is comniun Icable. In other words, a person might live with lepers and not contract the dls ease and again he might not. It seems to be pretty well agreed, however, that it requires long find intimate association with a leper to catch the disease. Science never has been able to trace the cause. Many experiments have b**en made In an
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TUESDAY. MARCH 15. Good and evil influences contend today, according to astrology. While Venns la in benefle aspect. Mercury, Uranus and Mars are adverse. It is a fortunate rule for weddings, making for harmony and congeniality. There is a sign most encouraging to those who write or make plans concerning theatrical enterprises, for they will impress the public mind, which Is open to suggestions while this configuration prevails. Marriage is subject to many disturbing tendencies at this time, due to the power of stars that encourage strong individualism. Persons whose blrthdnte It is should not travel or make any important changes at this time. There may be many incidents that disturb old conditions, but they should he overcome. Children born on this day may he Inclined to be careless and restless, but they can be trained to be'very successful, for they will have good hearts and keen minds, In all probability.—Copyright, ID2L
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effort to find a cure without avail. From India, however, came a dew which put us on what appears to be the right track. In India leprosy is very common. There are probably 200,0-© known lepers there. And it was in India that was discovered the gynocardate tree, from which comes chaulmugra oil, which seemed to do the work. Burmese lepers apparently knew the value of the oil, for they seemed to find relief la chewing the leaves and bark of the tree. Sir Leonard Rogers, a physician there, was about tho first to experiment with chaulmugra. Like others who experimented with the oil, he found that the principal trouble was to get it down the patient's throat and keep it down. It has a most nauseating effect and many methods to get It into the system of a patient were trlod. It was given internally, Injected, given with a hypodermic needle and by other mehoda, but the cure seemed almost as bad as the
KEEPING HOUSE WITH THE HOOPERS
(The Hooper*, an average American family of live, living In a suburban town, on a limited Income, will tell the reader* of the Hally Times how the many preseut day problems of the home are solved by working on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them dally In an Interesting review of their home life and learn to meet the conditions of the high cost of living with them.) MONDAY. A heavy snow had fallen In the night and baby Betty was confined Indoors when her mother made her round of the house, straightening up after Sunday and making out her list of necessary supplies for the week, to be purchased when she went In town later In the day. Before going up stairs she had left Betty playing with her dolls In the living room, but the child, casting about for some way to amuse herself that was more exciting, took off her sandals and stockings and began pattering about iu her bare feet. She was greatly enjoying the lark, until she suddenly stepped on a splinter from a piece of stove wood that hail been dropped on the rug. and her shr.ck of pain brought her piother hurrying from upstairs. lustead of picking the splinter out of the sole of her little foot with a needle, as ,1s the usual method of busy mothers, when she saw It was burled deeply In the flesh, Mrs. Hooper steamed It out Instead. Partly filling n large mouthed glass Jar with water hot enough to be steaming but not hot enough to bnrn, she held Betty’s foot over the top of It, pressing It In slightly until the flesh about the splinter was softened and the pores opened. The little piece of wood was thus dislodged without hurting the child in the least, and in a much safer and more sanitary fashion than picking it out with a needle. She used the last of the dloxygen In the house to disinfect the wound, and recorded in her notebook that another bottle would have to be purchased for the medicine closet. Helen needed anew tooth brush, and Roger’s bath towel was worn out, and ready to be reduoed to wash rags. She needed a pair of atockIngs herself and the needles and coarse thread thaw she had noted last Monday were added to her list of absolute necessities for the week. Her pantry showed a need of potatoes, prunes, tapioca, corn meal and flaked codfish, besides she usual dsiry supplies, and the fruit aud vegetables that would best fit her menus. She planned to have less meat and a little more fish this week, as with the coming of Lent the market in town was supplied with fresh fish oftened than at other times, and there was also a much better choice. Luncheon and dinner were composed
disease until Dr. Isador Dyer of New Orleans, La., discovered that the addition of camphor made it possible to hold down tho oil by removing most of Its nauseating effects. ABSOLUTE CURE IN LARGE PER CENT. “Since then rapid strides have been made In the treatment of leprosy. In Hawaii, where the work has been done under the direction of Professor Dean, president of the University of Hawaii, it has been possible to cure absolutely from 25 to 30 per cent of the lepers who were given treatme it and to arrest the disease, or stop it from spreading, in virtually every case. During the last two years eighty lepers have been discharged as cured at Honolulu. It requires about a year to cure the average case In Hawaii. In other places cures have been effected in as short a time as three months and In still othr places, the Philippines for Instance, two years were required to cure. Os those treated one-tenth were cured entirely and In half of the entire number of cases the symptoms disappeared.” Dr. Helser has charge of the work for the International Health Board in the Eastern Hemisphere. Just now he is going to New Zealand to find out what makes its residents so healthy. At the same time he Is planning a trip which will keep him abroad during the rest of the year in an effort to locate the p'aces where the tree which furnishes' chaulmugra oil grows. So far the supply of these trees Is limited for they are not known to grow any place but In Burma along the Siamese border. The number of lepers in the world Is estimated at from 2,000.000 up and the trees which are now available are not sufficient to furnish the needed amount of oil. “Are you afraid of catching leprosy?” I asked Dr. Ileiser. “There Is always that danger,” he replied , “but it would not alarm me very much if I were to find a leprosy spot on my body. I know that with chaulmugra oil a cure is certain if the disease is caught in time.” "What Is the most interesting thing you have found in your study of leprosy ?’’ “The Joy with which the lepers greet me. There was a time when their faces bore only a look of despair. Today their eyes are shining with hope and the gratitude they display when they see me is the greatest reward I ever want to receive." ANOTHER FORWARD STEP TAKEN BY. U. S. The United States Federal Government recently took a forward step in the treatment of leprosy when it acquired the State leper colony of Louisiana ai Iberville parish. In the future all cases of leprosy will be promptly transferred there and treated. On the island of Mokogl, one of the Fiji group, the British government maintains a model colony for lepers. The Island was bought for that purpose alone and cost $50,000. About 300 lepers are under treatment there now In mo-iern buildings and are nursed by the Sisters of Mary, a Catholic organization. Two white men are in charge of the colony. The island's gardens furnish food enough to virtually support the colony. They are cultivated by hired labor and lepers who are able to work and wish to do os are paid wages, too. Fiji is probably as well governed from a medical standpoint as any group of islands lu the world. To guard against both leprosy and elephantiasis hospital stations are located In all of the islands, at even the most remote points and medical and Is always within reach of the natives.
entirely of “left overs” from the Sunday dinner; the remains of the leg of mutton making a savory meat pie as the main dish for the evening meal. After luncheon she did her principal marketing for the week, but deferrerd her other shopping until Thursday afternoon. At tea time she told Roger that she had discovered a crack in the top of the kitchen stove, and that when it was cold he would be expected to mend It with a filling made of ashes and salt. Also one of the faucets in the kitchen sink was leaking. Helen wns reminded that her laundry bag was ripped at the bottom and needed a now binding; that her hair brush must have a thorough cleaning; that the cord of her bathrobe was missing and that one bedroom slipper bad a torn lining that must be mended. The menu which Mrs. Hooper planned for Tuesday is: —BreakfastOrange Juice. Cereal. Bncon. Egg and Potato Hash. Buttered Toast. Coffee. —Luncheon Cream of Vegetable Roup. Bread and Butter. Canned Fruit. Cocoa. —Dinner— Irlah Stew with Dnmpllngs. Greou Peas. Scalloped Tomatoes. Fruit Salad. (Copyright, 1921.) the bargello. Q. What Is aud where is the Bargello? O. K. R. A. Tho Bargello Is In Florence and Is a National Gallery of Art. CLIMATE AND PETROLEUM. <3 Does climate have anything to do with the quantity and quality of petroleum that a well will produce? J. N. M. A. The Bureau of Mines says that so far as they know, the climate does not have any effect upon the quantity or quality of petroleum produced. NEW TARIFF BILL. Q. What are the duties on wheat, corn, wool and cotton provided In the new tariff bill? F. R. K. A. As passed by the House the schedules are: Wheat, 30 cents a bushel; corn, 15 cents a bushel; unwashed wool, 15 cents a pound; washed wool, 30 cents a pound; scoured wool. 45 cents a pound, with a compensatory duty of 45 cents a pound in addition to existing duties upon the manufacture of wool; long staple cotton, 7 cents a pound, with a compensatory duty of 7 cents a pound in addition to existing rates upon the manufactures thereof. These schedules may be changed, of course, in the Senate.
•PASSION’ REVEALS POLA NEGRI AS A FINE ACTRESS Arliss? ‘ Devil’ Wears Monocle— 4 Faith Healer* Draws the Tears
A woman's petticoat changed the history of France. This petticoat fanned inti flame the smoldering flames of rebellion which removed Louis XVI from the throne of France aud swept Into power the “citizens” of France. That is a thumb-nail history of Madame Du Barry, once a little milliner, who rose to the dizzy pinnacle of being the “toy” of Louis XV, king of France. That Is the story of the film drama. “Passion,” a sweeping and overpowering triumph of the screen, which is being revealed at the Circle this week with I’ola Negri as Du Barry. “Passion” marks the first invasion of foreign films into this country since the war. It was directed by Ernst Lubitsch, who Is called “the Griffith of Europe.”
STAGE BEAUTY PLAYS FAMOUS ROLE
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In “A Slave of Vanity,” Miss Pauline Frederick has a chance to create for the movie screen the part of Iris Bellamy, the chief character In Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s drama, ‘Tris.” Miss Frederick In the first part of the story has one of those dressed society roles of a woman who has been left a fortune by her late husband's will. The husband, beiug more modern than most husbands, pro-
‘‘Passlon" will undoubtedly be the dramatic film triumph of the year and l am not forgetting Griffith's “Way Down East,” which comes under the head of film melodrama. I earnestly confess that I doubt If “Passion” for the intensity <-f Its scenes, for the broad treatment of Its historical theme and overwhelming and crushing mastery of direction and developing S'-enlc detail, will be equalled, let alone surpassed, within the next few years. We have an opportunity in this movie to see for the first time that continental actress, I’ola Negri, who is called ‘ the Theda Bara" of the continent. Why, I do not know because Pola Negri Is an actress and “Passion’ is not a sex movie. In the first place, i’ola Negri is the perfect type for site rule of Du Barry. The second, the picture Is flashed on the screen, Negri Is seen trimming a hat while she smiles the smile which caught the fancy of a weak king and changed the history of France. In the milliner days, Du Barry wns known as Jeanne Vaubernler, who loved with all the warmth of youth another youth, named Armand. Then Jennne gets the eye of a “fast” member of the court. Events sweep Armnnd into the Bastille for murder. Du Barry, struck by the beauty of Jeanne, turns her Into his pampered darling Only for a while does she bask In the sunshine of his smile. He has a mission for her—to obtain the payment of a delayed note for money loaned the crown. She must lavish her smiles on one of the king's officers. Ah, when Louis gets a peek at the Petticoat of Jeanne, he becomes fascinated and for about five reels Jeanne becomes the darling o’ this weakling ot a king. The wealth of the state Is wasted npon this siren as the people In the streets of Paris starve and suffer under unjust taxation. The story this far Is told In (rraphtc detail by the director of the film. He has painted history as correctly as possible. His biggest triumph, outside of registering the emotions of Negri, is the results obtained In handling the mob scenes. When the Paris mob runs riot that is the time the overwhelming power of this movie catches the spectator. The fiarne of freedom pictured on the screen surges up in your heart in a few seconds the spectator, mentally of course, becomes a part of the mob which pulled Louis XVI from the throne, opened prison doors and turned the streets of Parts into a sewer of blood. Du Barry is snatched from her place of seclusion, tried by the citizens, condemned to die, placed in a cart and hauled to the guillotine. That scene, when Negri as Du Barry faces the mob, Is the supreme dramatic moment of the Boreen. Nothing more dramatic lias ever been filmed. Instead of the director showing the sharp knife of tlie guillotine fall, he indicates the end of Du Barry by permitting a lighted candle to be snuffed out as if a wind of destiny destroyed its light. “Passion” Is tho dramatic cyclone of
the sllve? screen. It administers the dramatic wallop of the hour. It Is masterful. “Passion” Is not to be missed by those who like big pictures done in a big way. At the Circle all week.—W. D. H. -1- -|- -ICONCKRNING “THE DEVIL” AND MR. GEORGE ARLISS. The devil wears a monocle and a winning smile which he plays on his "victims. That Is the conception of the “devil” in a movie version of Franz Molnar’s drama, “The Devil.” In 1908, If I am not wrong In my dates, two legitimate producers presented “The Devil” In two New York theaters at the same time. In one cast was Mr. George Arllss and In
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vldes In his will that his wife should re-marry only when she desires to forfeit her right in his estate. The struggle of the woman is an Intensive and a dramatic one and the big scenes of “Iris” has made the play a strong offering. The supporting cast Includes Nigel Barrie, Arthur Hoyt, Daisy Robinson and others. This new movie employing the services of Miss Frederick is on view at the Colonial all week.
the other was Mr. Edwin Stevens. The theatrical war engaged In by these two “devils'* was more or less a sensation. The rnpvie producers have selected Mr. Arliss to apppear in the movie version of this stage play. Yesterday afternoon I saw for the first time the movie version with Mr. Arliss in the chief role. His “movie devil” Is the same cunning, clever, powerful, monocled evening dress character as he was on the stage. If we boar in mind that the character Impersonated in the piny is symbolic and not actual, but rather the evil Influence of the mind and the imagination, we will have a better understanding of the gigantic task which the producer had before him in making a movie of this symbolic story of the efforts of evil to defeat truth. In the first place. Mr. Arliss has had the good fortune of having some really artistic Interior settings. This enables Mr. Arliss to “act” very much like he does on the stage. As he is a master at facial expressions, the camera registers Mr. Arliss with striking results. I am Interested in the movie work of Mr. Arliss because he is the latest of the big ones on the stage to “fall" for the movies. He has been wise in impersonating as his first movie, a character which added to his fame on the sage. Ills work is always polished and well rounded and he scents to have stepped from the spoken stage to the wordless screen with, no evil effects. Aiding Mr. Arliss are several wellkuowu stage and screen players, such as Miss Sylvia Breamer, who plays the role of the model, Mimi; Miss Lucy Cotton. wuo plays the role of the young wife, and who was seen on the stage in “Turn to the Right;” Edmond Lowe, a capable stock and movie actor; Rolan Bottomley, who plays the role of the unsuspecting husband; Mrs. George Arliss and others. Those who like to be serious will appreciate “The Devil,*’ tilth Mr. Arliss. It is a serious attempt to display the ability of a recognized actor. The picture may appear to some to be “slow” In action. but this impression will be ehangeu before the picture is half through. To make you laugh, the bill Includes Harold Lloyd In “Now or Never.” At tho Ohio all week.—W. D. H. -I- -!- -!* "THE FAITH HEALER” 19 ANOTHER SERIOUS MOVIE. There is another movie in town this week which calls for some serious consideration. It concerns faith and the power to heal. It Is called “The Faith Healer” and was produced by George. Melford. In Its general theme it Is somewhat similar to “The Miracle Man” but does not possess the remarkable types as the last named movie did. That “The Faith Healer” possesses power as a movie to make people feel the hidden message of the story was we.ll demonstrated to me yesterday afternoon at the Isis when a big man and a woman cried softly to themselves as some of the scenes were being reflected on the screen. When a movie can obtain such results it demands serious consideration. I noticed there were many tear-stained eyes in the audience. It appears to me that a producer has not given us as strikingly developed a
story from a character standpoint aa wag done In “The Miracle Man” and yet In “The Faith Healer,” the story seems to grab one and hold the Individual by the Implied meaning of the story. Let It be said to the credit of the producer that “The Faith Healer” Is not mushy. The story In a nutshell concerns a young shepherd who suddenly receives the power to heal and he continues to do good until he discovers he loves a woman with a past. The power to heal leaves him for a short time and an angry mob stones him, but In a well-directed scene he discovers that his love was faith because he learns to forgive. Then his power returns. The healing scenes are well directed. Milton Sills enacts the role of tho healer, but it Is the work of Ann Forrest as the girl who scores the acting triumph of fthe movie. At the Isis all week.—W. D. H. -I- -I- -IPKETTT LEGEND FILMED WITH MARY MILES MINTER. The latest Mary Miles Mlnter vehicle is a sweet little Irish legend, called “All Souls’ Eve.” There Is a theory that on All Souls’ eve the spirits of the dead return to earth. With this theory as a starting point, Anne Crawford Flexner wrote a stags play and It Is now a movie. The story concerns the return of the spirit of a mother to her once happy home. Following the mother’s death, sadness and desolation filled the little home. The spirit of goodness of the mother enters the body of a little Irish tnaid servant and the spirit of the mother enables the Irish maid to bring happiness back to the home. Miss Minter has a dual role, as she plays the mother role as well as the Irish maid. The manner in which the “spirit” scenes have been handled shows the rapid steps in the advancement of the art of photography. Jack Holt, Carmen Phillips, Clarence Geldhart and others support Miss Minter. At the Alhambra the first half of the week. -I- -I- -IMR. FOX CONTRIBUTES A DARK MELADRAMA. William Fox, the movie producer, has contributed a melodrama to the screen under the name of “While New Y'ork Sleeps.” In this movie the producer has contrasted certain extravagant phases of life. Part of the scenes are placed in the so-called wealthy circles and the other scenes in the evil underworld. As this department has reviewed the picture before, it is not necessary to repeat our critical opinion. Nothing but clouds in this movie and no sunshine. “While New Y'ork Sleeps” may be found at Mister Smith’s this week. -I- -i- -IBILL RUSSELL HAS ANOTHER BREEZY HOLE. As long as Bill Russell acts In movies which have their scenes in the West, Russell is in his element. Such a picture is “Bare Knuckles,” now at the Regent. Russel! has one of his breezy outdoor roles which has made him famous. There is plenty of action to this story. Many of the scenes are placed in the Sierra Mountains. One of the big scenes is a blizzard. Russell has a chance to give the picture a knockout punqh by using his fists and knuckles at ths end of the picture. The bill Includes Snub Pollard in a new comedy. At the Regent all week. -I- -I- -i- ’ ’ THE STAGE. The offerings of the local stage today are as follonws: Ziegfeld Follies, at English's; John B. Hymer In “Tom Walker in Dixie,” at B. F. Keith’s; Mile. Henrietta De Berries and her models at tho Lyric; “Nearly a Prince,” a musical playlet, at Loew's; “Kewpie Dolls,” at the Park; “The Deco-ators," at the Rialto, and combination vaudeville and movies at the Broadway. Al Jolson in “Slnbad” opens a threeday return engagement at the Murat Thursday.
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