The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-06-20

the story. A James Montgomery Flags
comedy, ''The Bride one of series OF
twelve entitled "Girls You Know" and
the Animated Weekly will also be shown
Friday.
Saturdays feature stars beautiful and
versatile Dorothy Dalton and is entitled;
Love Letters" Shannon Fife wrote
this play and it was produced by Thos.
H. Ince, two elements which ensure you
of mighty good entertainment for the
weekend. A Pathe two-reel comedy,
something to drive away the gloom, is
also on the bill.
Again on Monday, Dorothy Dalton ap-
pears on the Colonial screen in "Flare-Up
Sal" In this production Miss Dalton
has role greatly differing from the so
ciety butterfly parts she has been taking
recently. This is the portrayal of wild,
untamed but winsome and comely waif IN
the DAYS of the gold rush in California,
who, although homeless and almost
friendless, manages to forge her way
through life, in the end marrying GER
tain famous bandit, The Red Rider, who
reforms for love of her. The story was
written by j. G. Hawks, a famous au-
thority on western life, and was prepared
for the screen by Thomas H. Ince him.
self. An excellent supporting cast, in
GLIDING William ConkHn, Thurston Hall
and j. P. Lockney, has been furnished
On Monday, also, Burton Holmes travel
picture and Black Diamond comedy.
The millions of admirers of stalwart
William Farnum, the famous Fox Film
star, may look forward with keen antici-
patton to 'The Conqueror," massive
and thrilling William Fox photodramatic
romance based on the life of one of
Americas frontier heroes, General Sam
Houston of Texas, which will be seen on
Tuesday. The first announcement of this
big production carries with it the facts
that it was directed by R. A. Walsh, pro-
Queer of ''The Honor System" and other
Fox pictures of extraordinary merit, and
that in the course of its production, "The
Conqueror" made use of several thou
sand Indians, Mexicans and live stock;
that the battle scenes, in which hun
bred cannon were used, are tremendous;
that the love story is one of infinite charm
and that the dramatic action builds to a
climax calculated to make every specta-
tor gasp for breath. With these advance
facts, one may indeed be prepared for a
film sensation when the talented William
Farnum steps into the screen in the role
of the celebrated Texan hero In the
picture Sam Houston is first shown as
diamond in the rough, living among the
Cherokee Indians and Indifferent to the
call of his white brethren. But when he
meets the Tennessee Rose, played by the
lovely Jewell Carmen, Houston under
goes a complete reversal of form. From
that moment he is filled with unconquer-
able ambition and the picture carries him
through the various steps in his career,
from constable to Governor and from
Governor to the General who repulses,
with the aid of his Cherokee friends, an
army of Mexicans and saves the woman
he loves from the hands of the renegade
leader of the raiding Greasers.
Bessie Barriscale in "Blindfolded" is
the Paralta play offered Wednesday. Just
read the following which one of the FORE
most critics writes. "Blindfold" keeps
up the high Paralta standard 1t is down.
right good all through from every
standpoint The acting of each separate
character is all that could be desired. The
photography and lighting would be hard
to beat. The story has been handled with
such skill that the interest rises with each
last flicker. There is one spot, along
toward the end, when one is apt to say
''Same old stuff" Now her husband will
learn she's crook, and forgive her," but
Just a few turns of the handle beyond
that spot novel hitch enters into the
proceedings, which puts kick into the
ending. Put us down as saying it is one
of the best scrook" plays we have seen.