The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-01
THE LITTLE LIAR" AT
TRIANGLE THEATRE
High Class, Thought Pro-
voking Productions Are
Announced

Manager L. B. Leftwich announces
for this weeks Triangle programme
at his Triangle theatre, known former
ly as the Odeon Two theatre, at Twen-
tieth street and Second avenue, Miss
Mae Marsh. Robert Harron and Frank
Keenan,. in two superproductions.
Today, tomorrow and Tuesday Man
ager Leftwich will present to the
delectable taste of the high class movie
patrons of Birmingham 1.-THE Little
LIAR" a five-part Fine Arts-Triangle
comedy drama, which features Miss
Mae Marsh. the star of THE Birth of
a Nation" and Intolerance" and Rob
ert Harron.
1.-THE LITTLE LIAR"
1.-THE Little Liar is the story of a
misunderstood child Maggie" is the
daughter of poor and ignorant parents
brought up in, squalid surroundings
but possessed of that Inevitable and
greatest attribute of gina
ton. The workaday world about her
is but a passing show; her real world
in which she lives, is world of beauty
and romance and adventure, its founda-
tions laid in her own mind, it's super
structure built of the tales she reads in
the novels of Scott and other famous
creators of fiction.
To the childs mind fiction is truth
and the sordid facts of existence are
unworthy of attention or credence. To
this view she persistently adheres. with
the result that among the other chill
dren of the neighborhood she becomes
a great favorite as teller of mar
Vicious, tales, while to their parents
and hers, she is merely an incorrigible
liar, who should have her bad habit
whipped out of her.
Neglected, ill-treated, the little girl
finally falls victim to evildoers, who
make her an unsuspecting scapegoat
for their misdeeds. Too late, the spark
of genius is discovered Before it can
be famed into flame by those who
reco gnize In her dreamings and scrib-
blings a supreme gift, it has flickered
out. j. ~
Here is a story which may be called
to the attention of parents as some
thing that every parent should see,
and whose lesson every parent should
learn-the lesson of seeking gently to
understand and guide the mind of a
child, rather than harshly to adjudge
the child guilty of falsehood or stupid
ity, and punish it for these seeming
faults.
THE THOROUGHBRED
Frank keenan,, whose forceful char
acterizations since his motion picture
debut have won him millions of new
followers, soon will be seen in a new
type of role when he Is presented by
Thomas H. Ince on the Triangle pro-
gramme as the star of a vivid drama
of the south entitled THE Thorough
bred" This is a Triangle play from
the pen of c. Gardner Sullivan, and is
expected to show Keenan's remarkable
versatility more than has any of his
previous vehicles.
THE Thoroughbred" acquires it's til
tie not from Keenan's chara cterization.
but from horse about which the plot
of the story revolves. 1t tells the tale
of fine old southern gentleman and
his daughter whom Miss Minta, the
thoroughbred has helped to maintain
in dignified comfort by her earnings on
the track. 1t concerns, too, the eff
forts of young minister who is in
strumental in causing the adjustment
OF racing in the state, and thereby
ruins his chance of winning the girl.
The climax of the story finds express
sion through the clergyman's subse-
quent repentance for his anti-racing'
activities and his efforts to make good
the damages they have done.