The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-13

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 A-< days" for amusement? m tell you. We sat at home swelter- ing all day; ate fried chicken and fried corn and watermelons until we almost
 "busted;" rocked in big comfortable chairs on the front porch until bed time. and then turned in" for the night.
 Now. If you please. It's very different; there arc the movies" the Lord be praisedi and if anybody doubts that they are appreciated. just step in some day or night at one of the big play houses and see for yourself! went yesterday and saw one of the most beautiful pictures, and inciden- tally one of the biggest crowds that I've ever witnessed in Birmingham at a motion picture show" and for more than an hour I had the time of my life" transported through series of
 "hrllers" and interesting situations, that made Pauline Frederick in the W onderful picture Sold stand out as a mile stone in the history of the movies"
 In the first place I may say that I'm d Pauline Frederick fan"
 Live always liked her--long before she became world famous as a beauty; back in the days when she was with Francis Wilson-later when she made her big hit in Joseph and His Broth CTS" at the "Century"-before the "screen" claimed her for one of it's shining lights
 Pauline Frederick has physical pull chriture, blus; she Is marvellously beautiful on the screen too; there's a big difference, you know; it's like a lot of pretty people who make ugly pictures, while the homely ones take beautiful ones-but Pauline Frederick is the exceptions; she's beautiful on the stage and on the screen, and she is splendid actress besides.
 When she played "Zuleika," in Joseph and His Brethren" I recall the fire acting she did in the scene with Joseph (Brandon Tynan) in which the temptress with all her wiles and beauty and insinuatons tries to lure him from the straight and narrow path. James ONeill, Howard Kyle and magnificent caste in this beautiful biblical play formed splendid background for the art of this clever actress and she sur passed even the fondest expectations of the critics themselves on the premier presentation of MT. Parker's play in New York
 Since then-nearly everybody has seen
 Pauline Frederick in "The Eternal City," on the screen, and everybody has been enthusiastic about her beauty and her acting.
 Now she is presented in quite a differ ent vehicle, Sold
 When Tettrazni first came to this coun- try one wag asked another: What is Tettrazini, a skin disease?"
 T think so," said the other. T was skinned out of s1o for seat to hear her. Right here want to say that this story doesn't apply to Pauline Frederick in Sold" because you won't feel that you've been "sold' if you pay your perfectly good 20 cents to see the show, for it's worth 10 times the price just to see this beauti- ful creature pose in the-er-er- we'll not quite, but almost altogether On the other hand, you'll be "sod" if you don't see the show q apologize for all this "punning'' and going on I know it's awful, but remember these are ''dog days and a person is likely to do most any old thing).
 While I was trailing my thought through "Sold" and linking this little clue | with that one and observing the eternal l triangle (dealt with, by the way. in an entirely new and original manner in this piay) I was reminded of a conversation I overheard in New York once or the top l of Fifth avenue bus between two typi- l cal Sixth avenue "shop girls" which ran about as follows:
 l 'Didja read that story in Collier s,
 dearie, where a perfumery clerk smelled
 a grand fragrance on a dame that sat be- hind her at the theatre and her beau fol-
 lered the female home in taxicab an got | let into a poker game where he dropped l 4000 bones which he'd won that day on
 a 20-to-1 shot but come off with the scent
 secret, which was that the gamblers wife
 had jest mixed the contents of four bot | ties careless like. and they sold the recipe
 to perfume king fer $5OO0 an called the
 result Bridal Blush?'a Ain't that what
 yuhd call practical Romance? I been