The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-03-29
THE RESURRECTION
A Remarkable Interpretation OF Toll
stoy's NoveI-BIanehe Walsh in
the Principal Role
Reviewed by Louis Reeves Harrison, a
Celebrated Critic of New York
In Motion Pictures at the Ideal Theater
Monday Matinee and Monday and
Tuesday Evenings, March 81
and April 1
Continued from Yesterday
CHATTER III.

Katusha is dismissed from service as
a dangerous woman by two untempted
old maids and returns 10 her forlorn
home. There a child is born who only
survives a few days, just long enough
to tear the finest tendrils of a woman s
heart. When her money is all gone
she is turned adr'ft eharaeterless from
a social point of view TO shift for her
self. She obtains humble employment
at the house pf farmer, but he is no
better than the rest of his sex. He has
only initiated rustic oveFtures when
he is caught by his wife and chastised
for attempting to wander from his
own nreside, while Katusha is again
set adrift, and this time she is COM
pletely without resource. She begs
for glass of water at an Inn by the
roadside and attracts the ettention of
one of those dangerous women Well
known to the police of New York as
well as those Qf st. Petersburg, who
mask eomplete moral degeneration be-
meath guise of elderly Fespeetability,
a class Of women responsible for the
disappearance of hundreds of girls in
large cities under mysterious cireum.
stances-they never dare return.
The young peasant girl Is enticed to
a shaWy place OF amusement where
bright costumes, Russian dancers and
alcoholic gaity combine to give q SEM
blance Of the life supposed to be worth
the living. There her utter ruin is ac-
compHshed, and her degradation is
made complete by an accusation OF
murder, The degenerate who keeps
the place has the wine of travelling
| merchant dFugged for criminal pur-
poses while he is in Katusha's eem-
pany; an overdose is given by accident
and he expires while alone with the
| unfortunate girl. Cireumst tanoes point
| to her as the murdress, and she is ar
rested for the crime.
She now enters upon the utter de?
moralization of a Russian prison for
| women She is thrown into close asso-
ciatiQn with sisters In misery who dull
| the pains of her humiliation and suf-
| fering with drink. She resists this
habit with all her feeble resources
until after the trial. On that oeeas-
| ion Prince Nekludov happens to ht
summoned to serve on the jury, He
does not recognize in the accused the
womaf5 he started on the wrong road
and agrees to a verdict of guilty
1 While setnence of life servitude in ST.
berian prisons is being pronounced i
| dawns upon him that the victim ei
social vengeance is the woman who
yielded to his passing fancy from
pure love because he had masquerad-
ed his true sentiments.
The prince is unique. He actually
regrets running a woman born in al
humber social class. Hard as this i!
to believe, he experiences profound re
morse. After a period of tremendeu:
self-struggle he visits the prison
Katusha has at last yielded TO intem
peranee and is brought before TIL,
/ prince in a state of semi-tntoxication
she mechanically takes the assistance
he proffers-she has grown to regaro
the acceptance of value from men as
sex privilege-then 1t dawns upon he
| with the author of her ruin. A mora
change sets ini her mind is suddenl.
purifiedi she tears the money int
fragments and filings 1t in the face o
her seducer.
The effect of her scorn upon tn
man who suddenly discovers himsel
to be damaged and spotted, closel.
following his period of se1f-analysi
and remose, is a powerful one. He ha
failed to find his true ideal within
himself and seeks the strength h
lacks in enc who has done no wron:
except by his initiative. He break
with the untried woman to whom h
has become engaged and decides I
lift part Of the heavy burden Katush
is doomed TO carry by marrying he
and sharing her exile.