Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1920 — DEFENSE OF BAD FATHER COSTS GIRL HER FREEDOM [ARTICLE]

DEFENSE OF BAD FATHER COSTS GIRL HER FREEDOM

Jennie Malone, the character played by Norma Talmadge in “A Daughter of Two Worlds,” loved her father so much that when the judge, who was about to dismiss the charge of forgery against her, recognized him as Black Jerry Malone, keeper of a low dance hall, and assailed his reputation, she broke into a bitter tirade against the court with the result that she was ordered held ufider heavy bond. The scene in the photoplay, which will be screened at the Princess Theater May 4 and 5, furnishes one of the best bits of acting in the film version of Le Roy Scott’s novel of the same name. Jennie calls the old judge a hypocrite, pounds the bench and shakes her tiny fi§t in his face. “How dare you speak to my father like that?” she asks indignantly. The judge’s attitude of leniency promptly changes, but Jennie’s Uncle George gains her temporary release by providing bond to Insure her appearance at the trial. , Jennie does not wait for her trial. She is tfiken away to a fashionable boarding school, where, under an assumed name, she breaks into the “upper crust” of society and meets the man who wins her love. The stain of the past creeps into her new environment, and Jbnnle faces a complex situation when the life of a friend of the underworld depends on her revealing the whole truth. — Advt.