The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-07
THREE B|G STARS ON PROGRAMME AT THE TR|ANON THIS WEEK
To Appear in House of a Thousand Candles, ""Blind- ness of Devotion" and
 My Madonna"

ure in announcing this week three noted
 stars on his programme for the Tri-
 anon theatre. On Monday and Tuesday
 the Selig V. L. $. E. feature, "The House of Thousand Candles" from the ia
 nous novel of Meredith Nicholson, with 1 Harry Mestayer and Grace Darmond in
 the leading roles, is offered, Wednes- day and Thursday sees the film debut of the noted tragedian, Robert B. Man tell, and his wife, Genevieve Hamper, 1 in The Blindness of Devotion," Fox feature. Friday and Saturday, Olga Petrova will appear in a Metro sub | ject, My Madonna,' from the poem of Robert Service
 In "The House of Thousand Candles" the Selig companys has successfully 1 filmed the great story of hate, mystery,
 adventure and secret passageways and hidden gold from the popular novel of Meredith Nicholson. Harry Mestayer and. Grace Darmond are the co-stars in the piece and the entire 5000 feet of | film teens with vivid interest,"
 | The story of "The Blindness of De- votion, in which the celebrated dra- matic star, Robert B. Mantell, and the beautiful Genevieve Hamper make their | first screen appearances under the eX- elusive management of William Fox, is one that combines beauty, love, hatred, revenge and action. It contains mag niflcent settings superb drama and the | photography is faultless, comprising as i 1t does all the resources in command of
 the director of the picture, J. Gordon l Edwards.
 ! Briefly told the story of ''The Blind ness of Devotion' which is by Rex In-
 gram, the well known novelist and play
 wright, is follows:
 ! General Gaveraux, a noble old soldier. dies leaving his son Pierre alone in the world. Count de Covnay, a brother of i ficer of the dead general. adopts Pierre, who grows to manhood in the care of | the kindly count. As the years pass i by, the count becomes desperately in fatuated with Renee Delavoix, an ad- venturess On her account he fights a
 duel with Gaugin, a man about town,
 and is severely wounded. While he is l recovering from his wound, Renee visits i him, and the counts infatuation for the 1 adventures becomes more desperate 1 than ever. In the meantime, Bella, the counts beautiful niece, and Pierre have fallen in love. The count Is called to l the city from his country estate on an
 urgent errand connected with military affairs. Pierre, who was supposed to have left his guardians place to join l the regiment of which he is an officer, meets Renee when she makes a flying visit to the counts estate during the counts absence. On his return from the
 city he discovers Renee, the woman he loves to distraction, clasped in Pierre's arms The discovery of the liason is
 shared by Bella. who bravely says; l "In spite of all, Pierre, I will marry you to save my uncle's honor. but l twill be your wife in name only" ] The marriage of Pierre and Bella arouses the sleeping demon that turks
 in Renee's soul She plans to poison the count whom she planes for robbing
 her of Pierre's affection. She places poison in cup from which he IS about
 to drink, but the count, who has been watching her in the mirror. changes | the cups. and Renee herself drains the
 poisoned vessel to the dregs- climax
 of overwhelming power and tremendous dramatic force follows this striking j situation. Rarely, if ever, has a screen drama been brought to such pitch of
 dramatic and thrilling realism
 "My Madonna"
 | The next release on the Metro pro- gramme is My Madonna" produced at l the Popular Plays and Players studio
 and starring Mime. Petrova, the marvellous | emotional actress. 1t will be shown at I the Trianon on Friday and Saturday. l The story of My Madonna" picturized from Robert w. Services poem by the same name, is briefly as follows:
 l Robert, poor artist. has a vision of a wonderful Madonna. He seeks vainly
 for a model, until he meets. accidentally. the beautiful Lucille, a woman of the demimonde. She is attracted to the shab- l by artist, and forsaking her fashionable acquaintances, goes to pose for him. Rob- ert paints a wonderful picture of the
 Madonna. using Lucille for his model, 1 and they fall in love.
 l Unknown to Robert, Lucille persuades
 an art dealer to buy the painting of the Madonna. which at once brings Robert 1 fame and a comfortable fortune. The ! artist and the model are married, but I with the access of wealth, Robert grows | cold in his devotion. Robert meets the l Baroness, a woman of the world, who
 comes to sit for her portrait, and subse- Quentiy spends much leisure with her. | Later he meets the Baron, her husband, 1 who had known Lucille before her mar riage. The Baron is delighted at Rob- ert's interest in his wife. to whom he
 is quite indifferent. hoping that he can | now win Lucilles affections.
 Robert comes to keep an appointment | with the Baron at his house. and finds
 him lying dead in the hall He had just been murdered va workman, whom he \ had wronged. He picks up the knife l with which the crime has been committed. just as the Baroness and her servants enter. Convinced that Robert is responsi- ble for the death of her husband. the
 Baroness accuses him. and he is convicted
 and sentenced to life imprisonmenG