Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-02
Theatre NewS
DITMAS


Miss Margarita Fisher is we'll suit
ed in her latest American-Mutual
production, THE Primitive Woman"
which Is to be offered at the Ditmas
tomorrow and the City Thursday.
The story is by Henry Albert Phil
lips. and the scenario by William
Parker. while Lloyd Ingraham, one
of the best known directors in Amer
lea, has had charge of the produce
ton.
The plot involves certain strange
adventures of Nan Graythorpe. a
clever and pretty orphan debutante,
over whose affairs a rather flexible
guardianship is exercised by her
brother Ned. Edward Burnham, a
close friend of the Graythorpes, Is In
love with Nan, but she treats him
rather cavalierly.
The young woman. displays small
Interest in the masculine sex until
she encounters Professor Stephen
Graves, engaged IN anthropological
research, whose Indifference to what
he terms modernism" piques her.
She determines to interest the stu
dent.
Mans dancing of The Eskimo
Fling" a highly modernized version
Of igloo folk movements. merely con-
firms the profession in his first I'M
pressions of Nan, and he goes away
to his bungalow in the Catskills to
write a treatise on The Primitive
Woman"
Nan goes to the hut of an old
mountain woman she has befriended
and in the rags of a mountain maid
compels DR.. Graves to WOO her. he
believing that he has found his prim-
tive type.
Nan is found by her brother and
compelled to return home, but it
didn't take the professor long TO find
her again. Then followed the newt
able proposal.
Strand.
When II Is said that the star in
Miss is Mary Pickford. little more
need be added. To the motion picture
theatregoers Of the world Mary Pick
ford is-well, she is simpIy-the in
comparable Mary Pickford, Amer
ica's Sweetheart" and Our Mary"
the idol of the film fans wherever
motion pictures are shown. Admit
tedly the queen OF motion picture
stars. Mary Picktord's art still is In
process of development to the end
that It's expression improves marvel
ously with each new portrayal che
essays. In Bret Harte's masterpiece
OF ''the days OF old, the days OF gold"
her genius has galvanized 'Mliss' into
q sentiment being, the living mbodt-
ment of the dream OF her creator.
and Of the romantic period in which
she lived.
When Bret Harte wrote "M'liss" he
could not foresee thu furore II was 10
create in every circle where literature
In its purest form is appreciated and
welcomed. Hailed as q masterpiece.
"M'liss' had an enormous sale and
its popularity was unbounded. II
was dramatized by Clay NJ. Gree:e
about thirty years ago and for many
years II was a reigning stage success.
The story OF 'Mliss Is a charming
tale Of California ir the golden days
Of 'ls. A wild. untutored girl. the
daughter of q dissipatod father. Mliss
Is a tender. courageous girl who
knows how to take care OF herself.
When a handsome school teacher en-
tiers Red Gulch. Miss goes TO him to
abe learned" and Cupid snares them
both. When Miss father is murder
red and suspicion rests upon the
school teacher. she ave him from al
avengfng mob and the real assassin
being found M'liss and school teacher
are made happy. The story may sound
conventional. but there are many sur
prises in the picture for Our Mary's'
admirers.