The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-02-21


. 49,.
~Ds.maged Goods" the drama that
upset the country two years ago and
became the greatest stage sensation
the ration has seen, is to be shown
here in motion pictures.
It's announced that this remarkable T
picture has been booked by the Cres- +
cent theater for a run of three days +
The first showing will be given next
Thur sday.
The motion picture version OF Dam !!
aged Goods" is even more remarkable
than the speaking stage play. 1t tells !
more of the strange inner mysteries
of tie plot than was possible on the
stage
Most remarkable OF all. the same
actors who presented this play in its
history making run on the speaking
stage viii be seen in the pictures
Richard Bennett and his whole cast
of c6-workers. all actors Of prominence
on the speaking stage, enacted the
play before the cameras Of the Ame-l-
can Film Company al Santa Barbara
The most painstaking and expensive
vorl. was necessary TO tell this story
on the screen with the force it de-
man led and yet with the delicacy nee
essary.
Tie plot deals with the disease
which has been held an uncomfortable
thing for centuries. But it is related
so ramatically, so clearly and inter
estI1gly that it must interest every
one and offend none.
Tie picture was shown before the
most critical audience that could be
gait cred when the Mutual Film Cor
portion through which it is released
gave a private advance screening OF
Damaged Goods at the Broadway
theslter in New York On that occa
sion 1000 doctors. lawyers, social
wor kers, men and women youths and
girls among them. saw the picture and
sat through it in spenbound silence
Then as the closing subtitle flashed
on the screen the audience broke int
applause that lasted for five thunder
ing minutes
The reviewers and critics Of hard
hearted New York have been unstint
ing in their praise of this picture
One OF the nation best known critic
of the film drama wrote:
The mutual version OF Damage
Goods' is free from the faint whic
int eres in most Of the sex problem
plays. 1t does not parade evil tina
good may come Of it, it does not linge
over the horrid and morbid TO titilIat
perverted tastes under the preachin
of a great moral lesson.
There is a distinct and powerfl
drlmatic element in the story, var
alton OF the tragic idea that cons
quences are Implying. that the vi
and virtue OF man or woman ar
as sailable on a thousand points an
that few of US will emerge scatheles
from the conflict with temptation
Damaged Goods is not problel
play catering to the morbid. but a ge
ufle tragedy AS such it surely
entitled TO take its place in the fl
literature Of the day"
For the making Of this picture r
markable array OF extraordinary
cilities were necessary, among the
arrangements had to be made TO tai
a arge number OF scenes in a real he
pi.aI Elaborate settings for the fill
ing of the many and costly interio
were required.
In the scenes which portray t
~fero"-if he can be called hero
al the victim OF quack doctors there
a vivid exposure Of the methods OF t
NJ edical swindlers and a powerful
gIment for the ethical physician.
The picture abounds in hum
touches, and here and there in sp
o. the dire tragedy Of the plot the
are touches of humor
The story of the play is center
about a young man known to the ?
as George Dupont the role tai
by Richard Bennett, the star OF
speaking stage drama. The action
the picture play shows how this yol
nan. well born, well reared, an no
student at his college, is lured
abandon and lead to spen dthe nj
with a woman OF the half-World.
Weeks later the terrible consequ
,yrongdoing by a designing woman
his own social caste
The pathway to evil is thus brol
Then comes a love affair with a I
girl, interrupted by the plans