The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-10-05
CROWDS FLOCK TO
SEE ENF ORD FILMS
a Feature of the Advertising
Mans Literature Is the Free
Use of Quotations From the
Scriptur0-Henry Beat
tie Is Left Out.
RIG H ND. vA.-special.--

r 1 c H NJ o N D, VA-Special--
Beulah .Binford is using the story
of her life to point a moral and adorn
a moving picture tale OF the Beattie
murder.
Report reaches here that the min
the entertainment while people in
that State are almost climbing over
one another to see the films.
Beulah has come out in the open as
a rerormer. and ner manager mas Sc
lected number Of scriptural quota
tons TO Increase the rorce of the les
son she is supposed to teach.
The picture discourse, if so il may
be designated, is designed especially
for the edification of mothers and
with Beulah as the central figure
depict the downfall of a young girl
who is finally represented as the in
mate OF a prison.
To appreciate the full extent of the
audacity that marks the tactics of Beu-
lah's manager, one should see the big
poster which has been used in West
Virginia to advertise the moving pic
ture show.
This poster contains a life-size col
ored Autograph of the erring Beulah.
whose face. as portrayed on the paper,
looks as innocent as that of the ill
fated Marguerite in Goethe's Faust"
Around the youthful head cluster
nine Scriptural quotations, all printed
in large type, so that he who runs
may read.
The Autograph, at the top, contains
this inscription:
Come now and let us reason to-
gether, saith the Lord; though thy sins
be as scarlet, they shall be as white
as the driven snow; though they be
red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah /: 49,"
At the bottom of the advertisement
the West Virginia public can read
these words:
81 wish to go into every house
in the land and tell my story. 1t
would help mothers and daugh-
tiers to understand the world.
s'WOUID TO GOD i HAD
KNOWN THE WORLD BETTER!
Other Quotations From Scripture.
The other inscriptions on the poster
are as follows:
HE that is without sin among you,
let him first cast stone at her. -
St. John ST.
and are heavy laden, and L will give
you rest.'-Matt. 11:2S.
Wherefore 1 say unto thee, her
sins which are many are forgiven.
st. Luke 7:47.
''They that be whole need not a
physician, but they that are sick"
Matt. 9:12.
"And Jesus saith unto her, neither
do 1 condemn thee; so and sin no
more. st. John S:12.
For if We forgive men their tres
passes, your Heavenly Father will
also forgive you."-Matt. GA.
For 1 am not come to call the
righteous, but sinners to repentance"
Matt. 9:3.
Judge not, for as We judge, so shall
We be Judged."-St. John III.
West Virginians Flock to 1t.
Gg..N@ Of NIaA
Chesapeake and Ohio. who recently
had to go to Chicago on a business
matter connected with his railroad
| (not the Beattie case), was amazed,
on stopping over in Charleston, to see
that town wild over the Beulah Bin
ford show and almost plastered with
| its literature.
| He says that the folks there are
literally eating it up" and that the
places where the entertainment is be-
ing given, cannot accommodate all
those who wish to see and learn-and
| reform.
1t will be recalled that the police
authorities of several cities, on hear
| ing about the Beulah Binford show
was to be put on within their gates,
| issued orders forbidding its presenta-
ton. In no way baked by this, the
girls manager threw the matter into
the courts and in all the cities where
he contested save one-Savannah--
he won his Tight
And so the show goes on.
| A Paying Proposition.
That 1t was considered a good bus
mess venture in West Virginia is evil
denced by the fact that the rights for
the Mountain State were purchased
for $4,000. And present signs indi-
cate that the moving pictures will ul-
timately yield profit of perhaps as
mSch as 100000 to somebody.
4 IL should not be understood. how
ever. that the show people come out
in the open and represent their high
class moral entertainment as a scien-
tific reproduction OF the Besttie MUIR
der.
oh, no; not they. -.