Arizona republican., 1916-08-13

Ing With the sun shining on the broken | window panes. Glancing back into the ! valley their own little home presents | the same appearance and they return | home satisfied. The photoplay attempts | to delineate the futility of vain desire. l The co-stars are supported by very | able cast including the adorable Lit 1 tie Billy Jacobs, James Neill Mabel | Van Buren and Marjorie Daw. Writ ] ten by l.. Y. Jefferson and directed by George Melford it is said to be one of the most notable symbolic dramas ever presented on the screen. On August i7th will be offered Pub 1 lie Opinion" with the brilliant Lasky star Blanche Sweet, as the chief fac- tor in the exposition of this screen problem play. It was written espec- ially for her by Margaret Turnbull, celebrated novelist and screen dra- amtist The main role in Public Opin- | ion" is totally unlike any interpreta- ! tion yet presented on the screen by Miss Sweet In each Lasky photoplay ] in which Miss Sweet has appeared she 1 has fortunately been permitted to give an entirely different characterization She has heen seen as ragmuffin. n member of the Royal Russian house. hold q Swedish maid of all work, an | anarchist and in Public Opinion" she appears as a trained nurse on trial for murder. How a sensational newspaper report prejudices the mind of the pub lie against this young woman, who is absolutely innocent of all wrong. and how her whole future happiness is jeopardiZed by what is supposed to have been one false step. forns the main theme of this gripping play. One of the unusual features in this pho- todrama is the effort of the spirit of the woman the nurse is supposed to have poisoned to direct the hand of justice toward the guilty person. Throughout the story until the mur- derer is finally forced to confess the spirit of the dead woman tries to bring the guilty to justice. The cast includes Earle Foxe, Edith Chapman, Elliott Dexter, Tom Forman and Raymond Hatton.
 The production is one of the most lavish the Lasky Company has ever made. The big court room scene is an excellent replica of that in which the trial was held upon which the story is based.
 On August 24th, exhibitors will un- , doubtedly be pleased to learn, Sessue Hayakawa the noted Japanese actor. who created a sensation in The Cheat" and followed with another stel- lar success in Alien Souls" returns l to Paramount theaters in a unique . photodrama entitled the Honorable , Friend written especially for him by Elizabeth McGaffey and prepared for the screen by Eva Unsell.
 In "The Honorable Friend" Hayaka- . wa will be seen as a young Japanese ? gardener working for wealthy, un- ? scrupulous Japanese curio dealer The old man is desirious of a bride and sends Hayakawa's picture as his own 10 Japan-it being the custom among Japanese in America to procure their wives by forwarding their photographs to Japan-and Hayakawa is sent to the dock to marry the Japanese girl
 having been told that she is to be his wife. When he brings her before the wealthy old curio dealer, his ideals are shattered as he is informed that she is to be taken away from him. How af- fairs are finally adjusted and the two lovers are reunited is presented in an unusual and most dramatic manner
 The photodrama was picturized for the Lasky Company by Edward Le Saint, and the production is unusual ir it's excellence. Hayakawa is sur rounded by a cast of distinguished ar
 lists including Tsuri Aoki, Raymond
 Hatton. Billy Elmer and others.
 On August 2Sth Lou -Tellegen, the renowned dramatic actor appears ir ]
 to the celebrated Geraldine Farrar
 which occurred as the continuation oi a romance which began in the Lasky studios. The screen medium by which
 he is restored to the photoplay is "Tht | Victory of Conscience" written bN
 Margaret Turnbull from the story bS
 Alexandra de Jannelli and directed by
 George Melford. In the course of tn,
 story Lou Tellegen faces the path iron s..s
 druing which he overcomes his base | impulses and learns a lesson to whicl ! he has always been indifferent-tha
 true womanhood is the most vaiuabl,
 possession on earth. The role of tn,
 woman in this production, whose par
 in the story the dramatist has ex
 pressed through the characterization
 of cafe dancer, is played by Gle,
 Ridgely. Miss Ridgely on this occa
 sion adds another notable impersona
 tion to her already remarkable screel
 repertoire.