The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-23
Edited By RICHARD F. LUSSIER. NOTED FILM STARS BOOKEDAT STRAND
 FOR PRESENT WEEK
Lima Cavalieri, the Worlds Most Famous Beauty, in ''The Shadow of Her
 Past"

It is a week of stage and film stars for the Strand theatre this week.
 Mae Murray, Theodore Roberts, Lima Cavalieri, L. Buratore, Owen Moore, Hazel Dawn, Frank Losee, William Couthleigh, IT,, Charles West and Earle Foxe are among the stir ring names of the theatre and motion picture screen that are booked in photoplays at the Strand theatre this week. Miss Cavalieri is the famous grand opera prima donna of that name.
 THE DREAM GIRL"
 Miss Mae Murray is the star of The Dream Girl" a five-part Lasky-Para- mount feature at the Strand theatre to- day, tomorrow and Tuesday. This Is thrilling, whimsical story written espe- cially for the Paramount programme by Jeannie McPherson and was produced under the personal direction of Cecil B. De Mile.
 The story has to do with a little child of the slums who, believing her dissolute father killed, runs away from her tene- ment home In an ash barrel she has found dilapidated volume of King Ar thur and His Knights of the Round Table" and her romantic brain pictures Sir Galahad coming to rescue her.
 Lured by the dance music from the house next to the orphanage, where fancy dress ball is being held, she climbs over the wall and there in the garden comes face to face with her knight.
 How she is taken from the orphanage, saves her sweetheart's sister from the clutches of an interruptions crook, again encounters her father and eventually is united with the man she loves, is brought about by a series of unusual incidents.
 Theodore Roberts as the father is said to have done the best character work of his remarkable career either on the stage or on the screen. The brilliant young English actor, Earle F'oxe, is seen as the young college student who appears to The Dream Girl' as the magic knight
 Other members of the cast are James Neill, Mary Mersch Mrs. Lewis McCord and Charles West.
 THE SHADOW OF HER PAST"
 The most famous beauty of the world is Lima Cavalieri, and her debut in mo- tion pictures is announced in The Shadow of Her Past" a five-part Pathe Gold Rooster play, at the Strand the atre on Wednesday and Thursday. A short synopsis follows:
 Elyane Chalmers. a beautiful Ameri- can girl studying in Italy, becomes en- gagged to Peter Marsant, a promising young painter. Sometime later, how ever, Elyane jilts Peter and betroths herself to a young duke whom she meets at a party given by his mother. Later she goes to Paris with the young duke, and Peter is left behind-dis- consulate.
 Deserted by the girl he holds dear est, Peter applies himself to his art with such a fervor that his master piece is given place in the art ex- hibition. Elyane, accompanied by the duke. goes to the exhibition and is so impressed by the picture that she asks her companion to purchase it. The latter goes to Peter, and is ordered from the house. So incensed is he at the reception, that he challenges Peter to duel. A.
 The latter accepts and is wounded in the encounter. When Elyane learns of the trouble of her former sweetheart she yearns to see him once again. They meet and are reconciled, but she re- alizes that there is an intangible bar rier between them and takes poison and dies. Peter returns, but finds that she is-dead.
 UNDER COVER"
 On Friday and Saturday Owen Moore, the husband of Mary Pickford and fa- nous for his own achievements, is CO., starred with Hazel Dawn in Under Cover," film adaptation of the famous stage production of that name by Roi Cooper Megrue.
 If you were young woman, born into the smartest set in New York society it your younger sister had committed a crime, if in order to save her you were forced to become a secret agent of the United States customs to aid in the de- lection of a man who had smuggled a S2OO,OOO necklace into this country-if you fell in love with the smuggler you were compelled to pursue, if it became choice between your sister and the man you loved. what would you do?
 If you were a man who had smuggled a necklace through the customs, if you had suspected that someone of the gov- ernment agents was on your trail, if you learned that the girl you loved was trying to send you to prison, if you were com pelled to fight her, what would you do?
 These are the absorbing questions that are thrillingly and dramatically answered in the Famous Players Film company's s elaborate picturzation of the recent stage sensation, Under Cover, which was written by Ro Cooper Megrue The stir ring clements of this celebrated drama have been woven into a photoplay of ex- citement, mystery. surprise, love and laughter, that is yet not without it's tear.