The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-26
ADJUSTMENTS

A brief story of Lois Weber's pow
erful dramatic production, Even As
You and l."
Dominick Garlic and his gentle
wife, Selma, begin their married life
with high ideals and noble purpose
even as you and l.
Their safeguards and projections
and the three statutes made Y Dom
inick-South, Love and Honor. These
they cherish and determine never to
part with them.
Held gently aloof by their idealism,
the young sculptor and his wife are
beloved but alien figures in their lit
tie Bohemian world. in which are an
artist and his wife. The wife is the
victim of Jacques, an Imp of Satan,
with whom she is always flirting.
Satan broods much of the time be-
cause of the perfect love of Selma
and Dominick, for though he has or
dered the Imp to reak in upon this
harmony, the Imp has failed,
And Satan, having failed to tempt
them, sends harpy by name of Cleo,
beautiful, fashionably dressed girl,
to pose for Garlic as an image Of
Lust.
Finally, Cleo is rewarded, for with
her sensuousness, she conquers Dom
inick's honor. But love escapes her.
Selma has witnessed the passionate
scene between Dominick and Cleo
and suddenly falls to the floor, un.
conscious. Hurting the harpy from
him, her husband guiltily raises her
and lays her on the couch. Lying
there, weak and i'll, she listens to
Satan. He tells the sculptor that
money has dried many tears Of fair
ones and asks him why he doesn't
give his lovely wife some of the lux
uries due her youth ad beauty. And
so Honor Is sold to the Devil.
The young wife is very susceptible
to sympathy, so Satan sends another
Imp, Stray, to prey upon her. So
insidiously does he gain her friend
ship, that Selma is not conscious Of
her dependence upon him.
| With Honor gone, Loves vigilance
released. Youth has no protection.
Dominica, has become a great drinker
/ and now tries to work under the in
! fluence of iquor-failing miserably.
! While IN a road-hOuse at supper,
Jacques. the Imp, suggests a toast to
! Dominick's lovely wife, and to her
present consoler. For Selma is not
with her husband, and Stray has come
: to visit her. unexpectedly, knowing
she is alone. Domlnick, infuriatcd
/ by the insinuation. rushes madlv
home and finds Selma in StraT's
arms. Yearnlng for sympathy, -ho
has not realized Stray'S purpose u1-
II her husband dashns INTO TIE room.
strides to his wife and brutallr
strikes Hcr again and again across
/ the mouth.
Saturnicka again appears and Dom
! mick sells him Love for mere pit
! tance-
Selma, snatching up a paper-knife,
! flees to the church and is about to
stab herself, when a friend prevents
the action. Selma tells the friend
! that with Honor and Love lost and
but Death.
/ Meanwhile, Dominick, still in a
! drunken stupor, is aroused b" lac
ques. who tells him that having
i Youth and money, he can soon find
Forgetfulness. On their way from
+ the studio. they meet Selma and the
! fr,ero, but failing to recognize his
wife. Dominick staggers past her.
! Leading his victim to cafe, the
! Imp soon has DOminick so besOtted
that re finally drops him carelessE
into the gutter and vanishes. And
he following morning Satan comes
10 the wrecked sculptor TO jeer at
, him Gnd mock him. Garlic, how
ever, cares for nothing but drink and
begs Satan to buy hs Youth. Now
Dominick's hair is tinged with gray
/ and h.: face is worn and haggard
Satan remarks, "Your Youth is not
worth a farthing, it is already crumo-
| .in~ &c ruins"
| Years. pass by. Tortured by the
,GrUnk"rd's thirst. Dominick falls to
the .Ienfh- of I'll immortality. IL