The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-20
.FOUQUE FAIRY TALE
 'UND|NE" ADAPTED
 ID 4MOWE" SCREEN
Manager Griffin Announces Celebrated Subject at the
 Alcazar for All the Week

Marager Sydney Griffin Of the Alcazai
 announces for the entire week opening tomorrow, the Blue Bird five part fea- ture of 'Undine,' an adaptation of the fairy tale of Foque, by Walter Woods and produced by Henry Otto. with Miss Ida Schnall as the star. Today the AL
 cazar will have another Blue Bird fea ture 'The Sphink," with Herbert Kelcey
 and Fife Shannon.
 "The Spinx"
 A comedy drama of the better type, pie turing an enjoyable and human episode in the lives of a father his son and an
 actress The latter is at first presumed to be a woman of the vampire sort, as
 all men love her and she will have none of them. Later the observer is relieved
 to find her woman of the sweet ador-
 able kind, who has simply been misun- derstood
 Fife Shannon is all that could be de- sired in the leading role. She never suc-
 ceeds in looking very vampirish, it is true but the weird Egyptian settings and her oriental costume helps in the illusion The father, portrayed by Herb ert Kelcey, is already in love with the actress. He sends her flowers and comes nearer be- ing the man of her choice than anyone | else.
 Then the son, Charles, comes under the spell of the actress He goes with his
 sweetheart to the play, where he be- comes wildly enamored of the Sphinx. He l forgets his sweetheart and all else but /! the actress haunts the stage door and wings. and makes himself a nuisance generally. The son is an artist and in-
 duces the Sphinx to pose for him, at which time there is good scene be-
 tween the actress and the neglecte
 sw eetheart.
 There is a strong dramatic situation when the relationship of father and son becomes known. Even the Sphinx had
 not suspected it. She accepts the father
 and turns the son back to his true love after many stormy scenes. Charles Compton does some very commendabls 3
 work in the part of the son There is perhaps, too great disparity in the age;
 of the actress and the son. but this is forgotten as the piece proceeds. Louise Huff and Beatrice Noys are in the supporting cast; also William A.
 Beehtel. who does much to keep things
 moving in the studio scenes.
 | ''Undine'
 Blue Bird photoplay, 'Undine, is a | i've part dudpldtlOn Dy waiter w OOuS | of the fairy tale of Foque Henry Otto has travelled to one of the Santa Barbara group of islarEs which lie % miles off the coast of California. The location is ideal. The shore line of the island is
 marked by volcanic cliffs. In places the waves have pounded out deep caves which | in the picture are used to full advantage, forming the backgrounds for scenes that | in the entirety are rarely picturesque.
 The story is of the sea and forest, with ] it's nymphs and morails
 1 Being story of the sea and of nymphs Mir Otto has been bold enough to make | his character approximate the conception | of the average mind as to what consti- l tutes nymph-as that average mind is taught by artists and writer to picture 1t. While it is true these denizens of the deep are not clothed in overalls. it can
 not be said "undney is subject chil- dren should not see. For children will be delighted with it. It will appeal to l them as a vizualization of many pages out of their own books As to the re | ception of the picture by adults it can | be said it is purely matter of mind. Or I if you like you may shift about the
 phiaseoogy of the last half dozen words The vital fact is the picture is thing
 of beauty.
 1 The story is told ill narrative form. A man reads to his little daughter the. tale
 of Undine. Five or six times the story