The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-02
TN THE PICTURES SAND QUIT
nr H. s. RYALL
Features for today:

Features for today:
 Rialto: Mrs. Vernon Castle in "Patria. Mabel Taliaferro in Wife by Proxy Triangle: Dorothy Dalton in "Chicker Casey"
 THE GREAT SECRET" PUBLIC AT
 LAST
 Another big serial has it's beginning to- morrow. Francis x. Eastman and Bev- erly Bayne are at the .Trianon in the first episode of The Great Secret" the $5OO00O Mutual serial which is now showing in more than 5000 amusement houses in the United States. ! This great screen novel is shown in i 15 chapters, one chapter to be released each week.
 | fully told, and is really motion picture novel that ranks with the best stories of Dumas, Gaboriau or Sir Arthur Co., nan Doyle.
 "The Great Secret" was written by the famous playwright, Fred de Gresac, and was adapted for the screen and directed by William Christy Cabanne It portrays amazing conditions in the greatest city in America-conditions with which even police officials were not familiar until few months ago, when Commissioner Woods and the district attorneys office came into possession of startling facts regarding the operations of men of wealth and influence who were hiring gangsters to carry out their plans.
 But the story of The Great Secret" is not based on these facts, which are only incidental to the main theme Of the powerful screen novel. Through each chapter runs stirring love story, with wealthy New York clubman and poor girl as the hero and heroine THIRD EPISODE OF "PATRIA" TO- The third episode of "Patria," the stu pendous preparedness serial featuring Mrs. Vernon Castle, will be shown at the Rialto today
 With the war clouds hanging black and threatening today, the theme of this splendid picture drama should be un- usually appealing.
 "Patria' has for it's subject the pro tection of the American home against in- yasion, and Mrs. Vernon Castle plays the utdl rue LII d SOCidl UuLttIlly dllu q SiAl of the dance halls.
 "CHICKEN CASEY" PLEASES. Dorothy Dalton in "Chicken Casey" showing at the Triangle, is pleasing large audiences at this picture thea tre.
 Miss Dalton enacts the dual role of an actress in classic dramas and girl of the underworld
 Chicken Casey is about the best picture shown here this week.
 WIFE BY PROXY" AT RIALTO. Mabel Taliaferro is at the Rialto to- day in "A Wife by Proxy"
 In this new production, Metro wonderplay in five acts, the little star is seen as an adorable Irish lassie, fresh from the Emerald Isle" Her name is Jerry, and her wtnsome ways captivate all who see her. Jerry finds employment in the home of a million aire, who all unwittingly is the cen ter of a great plot. Jerry finds that he is being made the victim of a rascal ly blackmailing scheme, from which he cannot extricate himself without time- 1y aid.
 The only solution for him is to marry some good woman whose inter est in him is not based solely on his money. Jerry is the woman. Her res sponsibility seems to end there, how ever, and she becomes "a wife by proxy" How the wife by proxy be- comes a wife indeed is the problem solved by this strong and stirring photoplay.
 To Little Mary Pickford
 from
 A Former Admirer
 in Alabama
 GRACE. I, who am poor in money and lands; I, who am growing old Importunate in my demands,
 Give thanks for more than gold; For the sunlight flooding the morn-
 ing hills;
 For the wild geese winging high For the wind-swept clouds whose
 glory fills
 The panoramic sky; For the green sod thick with For the scent of the fresh-turned
 loam;
 For the low door that laughs at the touch of me
 For the naples that guard my home; For the hours of the twilight mad
 rigal--
 For these I thank Him much For my mothers old face and the
 nights that fall
 As soft as my mothers touch; For the labor that my two strong
 hands find
 The art that the first man knew For candle light and wilding wind For prayers, and pictures and you!
 MARGARET H. Birmingham, February 2 FORTUNES OF FIFI" FOR MAR
 MARGUERITE CLARK.
 Snow White" and her seven little dwarfs neatly packed away in celluloid to the accompanying plaudits of the to the accompanying plaudits of the hard at work in the Famous Players studio under the direction of Robert G. Vignola on an adaptation of Molly SewelPs we'll known play, "The For tunes of Eff" which will be released on the Paramount programme this month
 As Eff, Miss Clark will undertake a new role for her--the part of an act ress on the French stage. Though this Is not the first French girl that Miss Clark has played on the screen--"Silks and Satins" found her in mediaeval irance-she has never played the ex- tremely difficult role Of an actress Tf-A f~1