Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-11-20
movies" WILL SHOW
Fake Consumption Cure Evil Interest
ing Drama Tells The Right and
Wrong Way To Cure Tuberculosis

How thousands of consumptives
lose their lives annually by taking
fake cures for tuberculosis. will be
depicted in motion picture film
which has Just been produced by
Thomas A. Edison. in cooperation
with The National Association for
the Study and Prevention of Tuber-
culosis.
The film is entitled 1.-The Price of
Human Lives" and will be placed on
exhibition in theaters throughout
the United States on December 2. 1t
has been designed to further the Red
Cross Christmas Seal sale and the
&c neral apti-tuberculosis campaign.
The story of the picture centers
about the wealthy proprietor of a
drug concern named Gergory Cort and
his laughter Beth. Ia the earlier
scenes of the play striking contrast
between the lavishly furnished Cort
hons and the dingy tenement room
of Nellie Linn is given.
While Cort and his family live ia
luxury and happiness, his principal
source of income is derived from the
sale CT a fake consumption cure call
ed "Concura. Nither his daughter
nor any If his intimate friends know
the exact nature of his business.
Nellie Linn is shown taking Con
cura" to cure herself of a hard
cold" while her lover, Ed Grant,
goes to fake consumption cure doc
tor in answer to a newspaper adver-
tisement.
Beth is engaged 10 young man by
the name of Harry Bruce, whom Cort
finally induces to become his adver-
tising manager by showing him the
huge profits he makes in his business.
MEANWHILE Beth, as a result of her
interest in Red Cross Christmas
Seals, has llisted as a social service
worker and in this capacity becomes
acquainted with Nellie and Ed. She
becomes friend of the family and
attempts to urge them to stop taking
fake cures for consumption, including
"Concura. Neither of them pay
much heed to her advice until one
day Nellie receives a letter telling
her that a near relative had just died
from tuberculosis, simply because
she had delayed proper treatment too
long by relying on "Concura. Mel
lie shows the letter to Beth, who
declares that it is a crime to allow
the manufacture and sale of such
false remedies.
Burning with Indignation, and
with the wrapper of the "Concura"
bottle in her hand, she goes to the
Office of the company, where she finds
to her surprise and sorrow that the
business is conducted by her own
father and that her affianced husband
is the chief promoter Of the swindle.
Shs refuses to recognize her lover
after this discovery and tlrgives her
fathsI only after he has promised to
make full restitution as far as he
can TO the suffering consumptives
whom he has robbed. AS part of his
reformation he sends Nellie and Ed
to sanatorium, where they may be
cured.
The closing scenes of the story
show Gregory Cort as a changed
man. Bruce is also seen in a new
role, namely, as the friend of the
Linn family and also as the manager
of the Red Cross Seal campaign.
The story closes on Christmas eve of
1918, with the lovers restored to
each other, and Ed and Nellie max
ing good progress on the road to re-
covery. The National Associatio for
the Study and Prevention of Tubercu-
losis 106 East 22d street, New York,
will send, free Of charge to any one
literature on fake consumption
"cures" and will be glad to give as
much infor nation ss possible with
reference to particular alleged
"cures" for this disease.