The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1916-07-08

a whole community by his personality
during an exciting trial, finally estab-
lishing the Innocence of a youth un-
justly accused. There is gripping
love story through the photoplay.
THE Fourth. Essate" : Vivid Nsws-
paper Play.
News--not I'M its concrete form,
but in ali its many phases-is the
E,keynote OF THE Fourth Estate" a
| William Fox phatoplay starring Sam
uel j. Ryan, Ruth Blair and Clifford
Bruce, which win be shown Tuesday
at the Grand. The play reeks of
news, and s'reeks" is used intention
ally in defiance of any existing law
of diction. No lesser word would do.
The productions does not SAVIOR of
news, nor teem with news, nor hinge
on news. It reaks with news-news
and the multiple agencies employed
in its collection, publication and dis
| tribution.
Few newspaper photoplays have
met success because Of their glaring
intidelity to actual conditions. ''The
Fourth Estate" however, has been
purged Of Inconsistencies. Its scenes
were made in the offices and the me
chanical departments of the Chicago
| Herald, and the atmosphere Of GeWs-
paperdom- that mysterious, little
known realm i'm which thousands labor
that millions may know the daily en-
! tries in the worlds diary--has been
| faithfully recorded.
No other profession or industry
cali it which you will-has SO many
diversified types as newspaper MAX
ing No other vocation SO completely
humanizes its workers, those super
energized men aRd women whose sole
purpose in life is to emancipate from
chaos the news Iof the day. All of
these types are portrayed in ''rhe
Fourth Estate"
IL brings one face TO face with CON
scienceless copy readers, adjective
oozing sob sisters, murderous-hearted
city editors, naughty copy boys, stoop-
shouldered makeup men. f2ciie-pen-
ned rewrite men, and alert reporters,
besides the many other types found
in the news and mechanical ends OF
the present-day paper.
| ''trhe Fourth Estate is founded on
the famous stage success of the same
Ilame written BY Joseph Medill Pat
terson, one OF the owners OF the
Chicago Tribune, and In proclaimed
to be not only the greatest newspaper
play ever produced, but one of the
most vivid pi1lssting dramas yet pre-
-,
| Fannie Ward III Teaaessass
Is1rdaar.'
Fannie Ward, the distinguished Am
erican star, who scored such triumph
in the Jesse L. Lasky production Of
.'The Marriage of Kitty" and THE
Cheat" will be seen as Tennessee"
in the photodraInatization Of the ia
nous story, ''Tennessee's Pardner, :"
at the Grand next Wednesday,
The heroine Of the story is a little
girl Of sixteen whose father had been
murdered whenshe was 2 child, while
on the way To California with his
family in search Of gold, and whose
mother had eloped with the assassin.
| Little Tennessee is taken care OF
by Jack Hunter, q homeless boy, who
makes her his partner in anything he
may gain. He leaves the baby with q
priest until she reaches the age OF
sixteen. Then, as he has discovered
the famous Nugget mine, ne makes
Tennessee" half owner and sends
for her. He has always kept up the
deception that 'sTennessee's father is
still alive, and when the grl arrives
at the little town of Sandy Bar IN
seach Of her Daddy he has not the
heart to tell her the real truth.
Romaine, the man who killed Ten
nesee's" father, has turned road
agent. He meets '.Tennessee' and
decides to win her love and steal her
fortune. How affairs are finally adj
justed and little Tennessee" re
stored to her mother, is necessary to
be seen to be enjoyed.
The cast supporting Miss ward -
one of unusual excellence and CON
sists of such well-knoWn artists as
Jack Dean, Charles Clary, Jessie Ar
mold, Raymond Hatton and others.
From a photographic standpoint
The production is said to be unusual,
the company having spent many days
in the rugged Sierras for the filming
of the beautiful exterior scenes. The
Lasky Company considers "Tennes-
sees Pardner' one Of its best pro
duetiOns.