Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-22
MOVING PIcTuRE ATrRAcTIoNs.


A powerful and tense picturization
OF Rex Beach's most popular novel,
" The Barrier" viii be the excelIenr
attraction at the Colonial tonight.
The story tells Of the love for Merridy.
pretty young school teacher from
Vermont. By two sturdy men, honest
John Gaylord. and gambler Dan Ben.
nett. Both become suffers for the
hand Of the maiden. Bennett wins
her slmost against her will, and Gay
lord retiree TO bis mountsin hat crush
d and hopes. The murder Of Merridy
by her Jealous husband, who accuses
Gaylord of the CRIME, after the latter
fed with the Bennetts' little daughter,
that she may be saved from evil in
4 fiuences that surround her. Later,
the child, Necis" grows up in the
belief thas Gaylord is her father ard
an Indian nqusw, with whom he lives,
IL her mother.
To the district comes a company OF
United Ststes soldiers, ard enc If
them, handsome young Lieutenant
Burrell, loves Necia, who worships
/ him. Bot the Indian blood that il
supposed to run in her veins is 1.-THE
| barrier" between them. Poieon
Doret, big hearted Frenchman, slso
loves the girl. and it is through ME no
bility and self sacrifice that happiness
comes to the girl ana Der soloisr-lovsr,
after many exciting experiences for
them all.
The arrival of Dan Bennett. his rec
ognition Of mis- long lost daughter, the
renewal of the contest between him
and Gaylord, and the participation ia
the plot Of number Of other chsrEc-
tiers cause a succession of happenings
that produce thrill after thrill. There
are several man-to-man" fights, and
many scenes of sentiment and humor.
The mountain, desert end river scenes
are beautiful and picturesque, and tue
difficult chsra terizations are carried
out in an able manner by a carefully
selected cast. Mitchell Lewis il es-
pecislly effective 10 his portrayal Of
| the lovable Poleon while Mabel Scott
! is first mother and then the child, act
ig both parts with feeling and emo
tional appeal.
! rom Tic HIeb AnC
rier" proved an amazing success, be.
cause it is a great picture greatly pro
duced and is the highest development
of the pnotodrsms. 1t is picture
long to be remembered. Paramount
Photograph also.
Monday, matinee and evening, Mar
guerite Clark, in "Bab's Burglar.
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At the Republic Theatre Tonight.
Actual battlefront conditions have
never been so faithfully reproduced II
a motion picture as in For the Free
dom of the World" to be shown ar
the Republic Theatre tonight.
Since the war began there have
been literally hundreds of military pic
lures Or 3duced, but without exception
when they have depicted a battle
scene the result has simply been some
movie directors idea Of war. In this
one. however, men VINO know war a.
it is in the trenches supervised the
battle scenes, and for the purpose OF
realism, an elaborate system or
trenches was built. Officers returned
from the front line in France have ex-
I pressed the belief that the film must
have been made over there, so perfect
is the realism.
"For the Freedom OF the World"
was made with the cooperation OF the
| Canadian authorities. The story
based On the American Legion OF the
Canadian Army, tells for the fret
time of the thousands of young Ameri-
cans who answered the call to fight fer
liberty before their own country had
entered the war.