The Washington herald., 1914-01-20

In the first part of the fifty-two rec
serial, "Our Mutual Girl" released at the
Colonial Theater today, the very latest
fashions in gowns and hats and furs and
shoes and lingerie will be carried to every
part of the country where Mutual movies
make time fly.
There is a strong heart-interest story
running through the entire series. in
which this simple country girl is taken
to New York and nodded into a Fifth
avenue society belle, but its chief inter
est will be I'm showing to those who can
not visit the. great. metropolis and Its
environs, the gay life Of the great city
and the leading people who participate
in il.
This charming heroine will be seen
in all the great show places of New York,
at the opera, the horse show. the inter
collegiate football games, in the fore
most hotels and restaurants. and in the
smartest shops, on the greatest steam
ships and meeting the most prominent
social, financial. political and artistic ce-
lebrities in their actual surroundings.
Among those who have already been
photographed on the film with her are
Mr.. and Mrs. August Belmont. Otto Kuhn.
the active partner in the famous bank
ing house of Kuhn. Loeb & Co.; Mime.
Tetrazzini. the renowned grand opera
soprano; Paderewski, the great pianist;
Gerardy, the 'cellist: Ysaye. the violinist:
all the prominent stars of the stage now
playing at the principal Broadway thea
tiers: the foremost men and women in
art and literature, and those of nation
wide political prominence
But that which will appeal most In
timately to the women devotees of the
screen will be the elaborate and up-to-
the-very- garments with which
the Mutual Girl will be outfitted at the
cost of a good sized fortune
Norma Phillips. Of the Mutual COM
pany, will play the title role, and she
has posed for these pictures. Maym
Kelso is playing the New York aunt,
Jiquel Lance, the count who seeks the
hand of the Mutual Girl. and Antonio
Moreno. the country boy sweetheart, who
follows her to the city.
.Our Mutual GirI- Cost n Fortune to
produce. Colonial Thea, 927 Pa, today.
ADV.
Louise Lester in her inimitable new
character sketch of Calamity Anne. goes
herself one better than in her last ap-
pearance OF Calamity Anne's Dream" /"
Her acting is perfectly natural, so much
so. in fact, that one would almost believe
her to be the novice in society dress she
purports to beS
Her appearance is decidedly grotesque,
and will provoke wholesome amusement
while attesting her astounding versatility.
The Nestor Company has begun the
production of their second two-reel COM
edy, entitled 'She Was Only a Working
Girl" 1t bids fair to be a worthy run
ming mate to their recent two-reel
comedy success, when Ursus Threw the
Bull
John A. Stepping will play the part of
a villainous capitalist. Eddie Lyons will
play the part of the honest elevator boy,
while Ramona Langley will be seen in
the title role.
The production is to be a ripping trav-
esty on old-style melodrama. Nellie, the
working girl, goes to the wicked city to
make enough money to save the old home
stead from the villain. She falls into the
snarts of the wicked capitalist and his
foreman, and from thenceforth there is
thunder and lightning, hair-breadth es-
capes, heroic rescues and hair-raising
chases-all in the standard melodramatic
style of thirty years ago-until finally
the honest elevator boy saves the girl.
outwits the villain and spends the re-
mainder of his life on the farm drink
ing buttermilk.