Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1919 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

AT THE STAR THEATER FRIDAY The Great Photodrama, “The End of the Road.” That a new day has dawned in the discussion of sex is nowheru more strikingly apparent than in the presentation of such a picture as “The End of the Road,” whic-> is to -be shown Friday in the Star theater. It is a photodrama of such daring and containing such shocks as to have aroused comment throughout the country. But it is, withal, so sweet a story and so cleverly constructed and enacted, that it avoids giving offense, etven with its ehocks It used to be that talk of sex .was banished to the places of secrecy—with all the opportunity for perverted facte to find lodgment in the minds of boys and girls. Now it is recognized that this very secrecy bred the ignorance and recklessness whiwh has been found to have tainted hundreds of thousands of our unen and women, with a distinct and terrible menace to the future of the nation. “The End of the Road” has been declared the most powerful weapon in the organized fight to banish secrecy about sex from all parts of the country. It does its part—never dodging facts in scenes nor mincing words in titles in covering the subject of sex relations and the terrible penalties of ignorance and recklessness. In cities where it has been shown 1 physicians have reported that men and women have brought their cases to them, with recovery assured in thousands of cases, where, formerly, the victims of their own ignorance would have gone to the grave silent, and left behind a taint which might extend even to the third and fourth generation, with blinded and crippled babies in its wake. It is this mission which has made “The End of the Road” the most-discussed picture of the decade. In it appear Richard Bennett, famous star of the legitimate stage, who placed on the boards “Damaged Goods,” in violation of all tradition, and Claire Adams, declared the most beautiful girl in fllmdom. A strong cast supports them in a story of love and its obstacles in which the paths of two girls cross and recross, the one finding misery because a foolish mother permitted her to gain her sex facts at a perverted source; the other finding perfect happiness “at the end of the road” through the wisdom of a mother who talked to her about life and its dangers from her early teens. The picture will be shown from 1:30 to 11 o’clock Friday in the Star.—Advt.