Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1919 — “THE MIRACLE MAN” RANKS WITH THE GREAT FILM MASTERPIECES [ARTICLE]

“THE MIRACLE MAN” RANKS WITH THE GREAT FILM MASTERPIECES

Fine Big Story in Paramount-Art-craft Picture Will Grip the Audience. Published originally as a novel in Munsey’s magazine, written by Frank L. Packard and later dramatized by George M. Cohan and presented with phenomenal success on Broadway, the Paramount-Art-craft picture, “The Miracle Man” comes to the Princess theater- on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 26 and 27. As a motion picture thi? absorbing story has been hailed by

the critics as one of the finest productions ever seen on the screenWith scenes laid in the haunts of criminals in New York’s Chinatown, In a little village on the side of a giant mountain and on the shore of a roaring ocean, the opportunity for wonderful photographic effects has been realized to the limit. But the chief interest is in the striking story, which centers about the venerable figure of an old patriarch, who is credited with the power to heal the sick and make crippled limbs whole ag&br. To him come Toani Burke and his band of crooks from New York’s Chinatown with the idea of cashing in on his powers. But it doesn’t work out as they calculated, for hidden away in each of them is a leaven of good, which dlowly comes to the surface under the influence of their wholesome environment. In a most marvelous way the criminals are reclaimed from the paths of crime. A cast of unusual ability enacts the Important roles in the picture, headed by Thomas Meighan, a well known leading man, and Including Elinor Fair, Betty Compson, Joseph J. Dowling, Lon Chaney, W. Lawson Butt, J. M. Dumont, Lu-i cille IHiutton and F. A. Turner.—• Advt.