The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-04-03
1.-THE GIRL PHILTPPA"
AT THE TABB
THEATRE APRIL 5
CHAMBERS NOVEL IN FILM
Anita Stewart in Splendid Role,
Based on Powerful Story.

showing of "The Girl Philippa" is at
hand. This Robert w. Chambers
story, superbly staged under the
supervision of Albert f. Smith,
president of Greater Vitagraph, and
with dainty Anita Stewart starred
in the title role, is all ready. It
will be run on April 9Th, at the Tabb
Theatre.
The furore created by "The Girl
Philippa" when it ran, a short
time ago as serial story in The
Cosmopolitan Magazine, is fresh in
the memory Of all. To every one
of the millions of readers of The
Cosmopolitan, the stirring adven-
lures of the wistful Philippa became
household topic the world over
The plot is fundamentally, fasci-
mating. Phhilippa, d giTi OF uristo-
cratic mold, is discovered as the
serving maid in an obscure cafe
somewhere in France. She sparkles,
jewel against background of in
finite world tragedy-at once baf-
I fling and piquant.
A burly animal of task-master,
the host of the tavern, Wildresse,
holds the key to her past and to
her future. Into this seething en-
vironment, fate draws conflicting
personalities from the capitals of
the earth, after which the plot spins
dizzily about the frail central figure
of the girl herself.
Back in her childhood there was
q fatal catastrophe in a Balkan
kingdom. In France she is living
u really bizarre, but on the surface
prosaic, life. Come now Warner,
the American artist; also Halkett
and Gray, the Englishmen; Hoffman,
the Teuton; Asticot the Paris safe
blower and Apache, and spies and
couriers, gendarmes and armies.
The powder train burns merrily!
A hostile foreign power has stol-
en- the secret of a war engine divulg
ed to Great Britain by Americans.
Halkett and Gray, secret agents of
England, are dispatched to recover
the plans. Warner, an innocent
dreamer in the meadows of Ausone,
is electrically dragged into the
plotting. After several encounters
the plans are recovered and part
of them entrusted to Warner. AT
once Philippa becomes the first an
tagonist in his new made peril.
She is a spy!
Love solves the danger of the
young hero, but doubles it for Phi
lippa. She spies now for him-at
the risk of her own life. The in
trigue is turned from now on
against her. She naively transfers
herself to the protection Of Warner.
Wildresse, the master spy, is fooled
by her when she burns some of the
papers he has stolen from the artist.
Flaming with anger, Wildresse
sends his crew of assassins after
the artist. A siege of the Peach
Tree Inn, Philippa's new refuge,
abounds in suspense and action,
and it is about to fall when gem
darmes dash up to the rescue.
They also announce new crisis
the declaration of war with Ger
many.
Wildresse is spurred to more des-
perate efforts. Attacking the
Englishmen with his cohorts, he
secures part of the plans that they
have and shoots Gray. The latter's
name is used as a blind for a spy
to approach Halkett at the Peach
Tree Inn. Halkett's life is saved
by Philippa, who fells the spy with
a lamp. After an exciting fight
she fees to a convent with the
papers, is ovcrtaken, and kidnap-
ped-and again is in the hands Of
Wildresse.
The Inn owned by Wildresse, is