South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-10
THEATRES
NJ TIE AUDITORIUM.

"Babblihg Tongues" with ar ex-
celient cast which includes James
Morrison. Grace Valentine. Artaur
Donaldson. Paul Capellani Louise
Beaudet and GLADDEN. James. is the
attraction at the Auditorium today.
The story is an interesting one.
Jose Moreau, a rich merchant
about 40 years of age, is ideally
married 10 Therese. beautiful
woman in her early twenties. who
9dOres him He is a generous ana
kindly man. and upon the death OF
an old and honored Fri nd, TO whose
assistance i'm the past he owes his
present fortune. he adopts into Ia
household The son of this friend
Paul Paul is 20 years old: he reads
poems and writes plays and is a
thoroughly fine fellow He feels an
almost hlial affection for Mons. Jose
and a wholesome brotherly friend
snip for Therese. They, in turn.
are beautifully fond of him. Nat
Urally. he accompanies them every
here in the social world: he sits
in their box at the opera. acting as
Therese's escort when her husband
is detained by business: and ne goes
walking with Therese of an after
noon. Society with sinister imagi-
nation, begins to look askance at the
triangulated households; tongues be
gin TO wag. and gossip grows. It'd
ings of the evil talk about town are
brought TO Mons. Jose by his broth
err Louis, who advises that Paul had
better be requested TO live i'm quar-
tiers of his own. Jose nObly repels
this suggestion as insulting: bu
Louis persists that only by such a
course may the family name he rem
dered unimpeachable upon the pub
! lie tongue.
Paul. himself. TO still the evil ru.
mOrs. goes TO live in a studio alone.
This simple move or his part sug-
.Scsts to erybody-todo eI mundo
that he must have had a real mo-
tive for making it. Gossip increases.
instead Of diminishing; and the
emotions of Therese and Jose. and
himself are stirred to the point of
nervous tensity. Mons. Jose, in spite
Of his own sweet reasonableness, be-
gins subtly 10 wonder if there could
be, by any possibility, any basis for
his brothers. vehemence. Louis
wife. Marie. repeats the tlak of the
town to Therese and turns her
imagination inward, till it falters
I'm self-questioning
The world at large whispers IN
thinkable and tragic possibilities TO
= h.. In rnT d inc mi nj
of Paul. He resolves to seek re-
lease in leaving for foreign shores.
But before he can sail away, he
ON erhears, in a fashionable cafe, a
remark which casts a slUr on The
rese. and strikes the speaker of the
insult in the face A duel is forth
with arranged 70 take place in a va
cant studio adjacent TO Paurs. When
Mons. Jose learns about it, he is
troubled by the idea that another
man should be fighting for his wife,
and rushes forthwith TO wreak ven
geance on the traducer. Therese
hears the news; and in order to pre-
won't both her husband and Paul
from endangering their lives. she
rusEes to Paurs rooms 10 urge him
70 forestall hostilities. Meanwhile
Ter husband encounters the SIAN
derer, and is severely wounded. He
is carried TO Paurs studio. Hear
ing people coming, Therese hides
herself in Paul's bedroom, where she
is discovered by her husbands at
tendants. Jose. wounded and en-
FEY cred. now at last believes the
vo:st.
Paul seeks and Stays Jose's as
saiIant. But now the whole world
credits what the whole world has
beer Whispering In vain Paul and
Therese protest their innocence to
Louis and his wife In vain they
plead with the kindly and noble man
they both revere and love. Jose
tul ses them, and dies believing in
their guilt Then at last, when they
find themselves cast forth isolate by
the entire world, their common ira
gic loneliness draws them TO each
other. They are given TO each other
bv the world The insidioUs pur-
pose Of "Babbling Tongues" has
been accomplished; Paul takes The