The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-25

/ back again'-and all that sort of thing >
| So
| We proceeded to take them in" one
| BY one.
| You've been to them all no doubt your
self and probably you enjoyed THE Miser
and His Daughter Nell" like Polly and
did
| This one is something different Polly
said before she had seen the picture.
! The audience at this Show. as at the
last, was made up of struggling humani-
| ty--an classes and conditions--everybody
on common ground-from the policeman
with his blue uniform to the small boy
barefooted and snaggled toothed who oc-
cupied the seat with us, while the film
unfolded and Polly remarked:
Isn't the girl pretty? Pity she hasn't
something brighter in her life.S
Don't you worry. Lady" the little
snaggied toothed, red headed boy said to
Polly, as If she had directed her remark
to him, She'll come out all right"
He's right 1 confirmed. Believe me.
no flowers ever bloom and die alone on
the other side of the footlights."
And sure enough, the little snaggled
toothed boy and I were right, for just at
that moment a. sailor boy appeared on the
scene. He came when he was most need
ed, for the old Miser had just hit Nell,
awful hut where they lived, and Jack
came along and took her in his arms
Then he decided to go to sea, but they
got engaged before he left-of course
The story for the moment seemed to
hang in mid-air but presently it took a
turn for the better when Nell came trip
ping in and found her father counting his
gold.
He promptly checked her for discovering
that he was rich, but two strangers hap
pened in just at that m0ment and res
cued her, and the old N1ser keeled over
very properly and died.
Then Nell rose from the bare footed
country girl to q person of great ease and
elegance, and many pairs of Shoes and
She drank interminable cups of tea, and
was swell lady"
She received a letter (Which turned out
to be forged, of course) from Jack say
ing he had married another, and she
pinned and dropped and was about to marry
the son of her landlady--in fact the man
at the piano had nearly finished Lohen-
grin-ing her to the altar when Jack
rushed in and after few hot words of
explanation. took Nell in his arms, and
True Love won out. and the ceremony
proceeded and we hope they lived hap
PLY ever afterward."
"They are all alike-tfie stories in the
pictures," said Polly. Let's try another
1t was by this time nearly the luncheon
hour, but we sped on and the Arcade. -
into Which we turned and bought our tick
cts from the smiling, little, pink checked
girl in the "Gilded Cage was filed with
people on the same mission bent as our
selves.
The first picture was Tried For His
Life" and Polly began to say she wished
she hadn't come to this one because she
knew they'd shoot and thered be a hang
Ing in it-but there wasn't.
The prisoner at the bar, the judge and
the jury were shown first, and it all
looked rather prosaic for a few minutes,
when suddenly a pretty girl (of'course) ap-
peared, and everybody sat up and took
notice.
The girl, as the story unraveled. held
the center of the stage; she was the
daughter of the accused man, and she had
two admirers, and they were both at the
trial
The story became very exciting4-as to
which of these two she favored-and a
half hundred men in the audience leaned
eagerly forward waiting for chance to
be of service if any violence was shown to
her during the trial. and the two adj
mirers were not equal to the task.
Everything was cleared up. however. but
still--no decision was made by the pretty
girl as to her lovers-when suddenly the
encourag ing words were flashed on the
screen:
Virginia Makes Her Choice"
When she chose the best LOCKER" and
he took her in his arms, every man in the
audience sighed, and wished he could ex-
change places with the hero, and not one
of them begrudged the mite they had paid
to see so charming love story beauti-
fully told.
what does it all mean, anyway" Polly
asked lielplessly after we had taken in
our sixth show, lunching between times
1.-The story is always the same when you
take out the slightly varying accessories,
stage properties and"
, "Just this" answered. ut means that
love is as big an issue NOW as it was
when Leander swan the Hellespont to-
ward the light in Hero's window
And the men and women and boys
and girls who crowd these places?" Polly
asked. What does 1T all indicate to
you."
That love is the dream In the busl-
ness of life,' / replied, thoughtfully mo
matter what the story Is. the play, the
Moving Picture Show-just so 1t deals
with a broad shouldered, six footer, as
handsome as he's dashing, and a girl with
a. flower face and dimpled elbows who
meet and Iove-the appeal is UNIvER-
SAL. The cigarette smoking youth in his
white fiannels and the craps shooting
messenger boy in his fiashy uniform, the
banker who had eaten too much lunch
at the club, and the truckster who hadn't
had enough, the ribbon counter clerk, the
typewriter girl and you and. I--ai meet
in the Moving Picture Show, while the
Little God Of Love is probably holding
his fat. little. chubby sides and laughing
at us ALL"