The Washington herald., 1914-02-06

The success OF selffsnnesS, q new
Thanhouser release, Is the story of a
country girl who did the "Beaux Brum-
mel of city without being done" as is
the usual case.
Irene was not so simple as she looked.
She was early convinced that the only
way to get ahead in the world was to
use everybody-and In the small town
where she lived she practiced her theory.
She never for a moment intended marry
ing either Bert or Jim. but she kept them
both guessing. and meanwhile learned
from them bookkeeping and stenography
which she turned to good account in get
ting a position in New York. The un-
scrupulous Wall Street operator. whose
confidential secretary she eventually be-
came. got into trouble with the govern
ment. Fearing the testimony of his
stenographer. he gave Irene a large sum
Of money and told her TO go to Canada
on a vacation. The simple little country
girl. however protested that her con-
science would not permit her to run away
and when he had pleaded in vain. she
played her trump card. ''Of course a
wife may never testify against her hus-
band she said-he saw 1t was a case of
marrying the girl or going to jail. and he
chose the former alternative. Irene was
pretty. and she made a very presentabIe
wife-but without love as a ballast. she
plunged into all sorts of eStravagances,
and in the end was the ruin OF her hus-
band. and of her own happiness
.The Success. Of SeIash...s.- and two
great plays today. Colonial. es7 Pa. Av.
ADV.
Fathers sometimes make terrible mis-
takes and one of the most frequent is to
allow their daughters to grow up in
boarding schools away from the protect
ing influence OF their homes. The father
in '-Thorns of the Gay White Way" al
though the proprietor of a tenement
house dive. is reallySa believer in the
square DEAL and fairly worships his
motherless daughter whom he has placed
in a private boarding school There is a
splendid moral lesson to be gained from
this gripping Warmers Feature. Ii tears
the veil OF glamor from New York's
wickedest thoroughfare and shows plain
ly Its pitfalls and dangers. No one will
be able to see the downfall Of this in
nocent girl without shudder- to think
that such conditions still exist in our
great cities. The producers have sue
ceeded in painting the Gay White Way
SO black that no one seeing this produc-
ton could ever be tempted to follow its
alluring lights. Yet there is a story of
great interest carried through the three
parts-one that the observer will follow
breathlessly.
When the superb Kalem four-part
adoption of the famous drama. "A Cele-
brated Case" Is released, motion picture
patrons will see a production which will
rank as one OF the best photoblays ever
flashed upon a screen. The original stage
production was one of the most popular
plays of former times, and was per-
formed the world over.
The extraordinary cast of PLAYERS, the
tremendous heart-interest of the story,
and the wonderful views of the battle OF
Fontenoy shown in the course of the
drama, raise this far above the average
photoplay. While the average motion
picture shows but one or two of the
leading stars in the armament of the
silent drama, "A Celebrated Case con-
tsins such performers as Alice Joyce.
Courtot. Guy Coombs. Alice
Harry Millarde, Helen Lind
roth. Jerry Austin. Henry Hallam, James
b. Ross. &c.
Three thousand men were employed in
an effort to make the scenes of the battle
Of Fontenoy, the last word In realism |
The terrible charges into the mouth Of
the deadly cannon. the terrific hand-to-
hand struggles between the English and |
the French, the desperate bayonet
across fields swept by a hail OF
shot and shell are calculated to raise the |
spectators to the highest pitch. No more |
vivid pictures of war have ever been |
filmed. /
Another of the unusual scenes shows |
he pitiful existence of the galley-slaves |
rhe sight OF the miserable wretches toll |
ng at their oars under the cruel whips |
,f the guards raises a lump in the throat |
md dims the eye. "A Celebrated Case"
s one OF the few photoplays that will /
be remembered long after it has been
.een. |