The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-03-28
THE RESURRECTION
A Remarkable Interpretation of Toll
stoy's NoveI-BIanche Walsh in
the Principal Role
Reviewed BY Louis Reeves Harrison,
Celebrated Critic of New York
In Motion Pictures at the Ideal Theater
Monday Matinee and Monday and
Tuesday Evenings, March 81
and April 1
1continuea from Yesterday)

fCOuttnueG from 1eSIeTody1
These experiences tortured him at a
later period, but all unnecessarily. The |
spirit Of nobility that was in him rose
out of what we affect to despise in |
others. and he was now in possession
of many important secrets relating to |
two-sided human nature. He emerged
from raw self-satisfaction to COM
prehension OF his fa1libility and real
ization that he might accomplish
something for humankind by dra-
matte illustration of the wrong done
those of clean starting point and
criminal environment on whom society
seems to wreak uncalled-for veng
eanee.
During his elf-dissatisfed struggle
he wrote towards .'Resurrection'-heI
was always trying to show that i'm
perfect beings can not act perfectly in
world where mot perfection but pro-
gress is mans normal condition but
not until he had passed over the sum
nit of his literary fame into the
grandeur of sunset life which illu-
mines the world with radiant colors
did he attempt to show in this form
THAT we must aim ahead of present
/ practices rather than cruelty punish
them. His instrument, the contrasts
of human personality in varied en-
yironment, he wrote the novel to
Istimulate the tenderest sentiments in
human hearts.
The novel had its troubles with the
press censors of st. Petersburg-there
lis a very rigid censorship of the press
in Russia for the purpose of prevent
ling the circulation of anything obnox-
ious to the present political system
and some parts of 1t were eliminated,
but there is enough of it as it Is of no
value to admirers of To1stoy in other
countries. The great essentials of the
STORY remain, and the motive behind
its pictures of unhappy phase Of
! life still existing fully warrants their
J presentation.
The photodrama adheres to single
line of action, that pertaining to the
central figure, Katusha, a country girl
of superb vitality, faulty training and
limited experience. With a negative
personality. that of quiet and unas-
Stunning young woman waiting in half
innocence for the alliance that is to eff
feet a great change in her life, and
wondering what nature designed her
for, Katusha has that mysterious
magnetism which attracts men of all
Il classes. Her experience from the
outset, from the time we see her fare
foot and working in the fields, is that
of a creature who may find in love
her supreme exaltation, yet she is Civ
en- no view of man save that side OF
him which increasingly seeks to appro-
pirate the object of his desires
She has rustic suitors, both raw and
half baked, who try all their clumsy
: arts on the girl, but she preserves her
own moral integrity to the end that
she is given what is supposed to be a
: superior environment. She is placed
in service with an aristocratic family
composed principally of two maiden
ladies' There she performs her duties
satisfactorily until dashing nephew
Prince Nekludov, appears on the scene
and even she makes only faint re-
2 Spouse TO his ardent protestations The
handsome young prince persists in
e trying 10 enlist the interest of this at
2 traetive servant until, after the expira-
ton of two years, she falls mad1y in
love with him.
This constitutes her first and only
crime Under the social conditions
q prevailing at the time and place the
result is inevitable. Cupid is no re-
u specter of conditions. As clever
). Frenchman has put 1T:
"Iamour. est enfant de Boheme.
I III ma jamais monnu de loi"
G In plain English. Cupid is too much
of Bohemian to respect the laws I
might be further said that custom
gives immunity to the man and lay.
e all the burden of sorrow and shame
on the woman as well as the penaltie.
I paid for subscribing the established
: order of society. What leads to the
humiliation and debasement of the Low.
: ing girl is a mere incident with tn,
i young prince. He leaves her to cour
: and win woman in his own sphere o.
t society after forcing a small sum Of
money upon her, and the flame of hop,
he lighted in her heart fickers a littl,
p while, only to die out forever.