Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-25

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1 The Americana to be shown ~
the Ditmas today and tomorrow with
Douglas Fairbanks in the role OF
Blaze Derringer is one of the most
spectacular and colorful productions
through which the master screen
athlete and lover has aver catapulted.
It is lurid with big adventure, n
| with dangerous situations n tingi-
ing with the spell Of Spanish ro-
| nance.
Hired to operate the mines of an
American company. Fairbanks ome
down to Patagonia anticipating
trouble. He finds the rightful presi-
dente in jail, and his daughter locked
up in her home. The presidente's
daughter is ravishingly beautiful. She
is overwhelming "a knockout" The
mining engineer loses his heart, heart
and piece of mind. In the moonlight
he climbs to her balcony and sees
strange things In her dark eyes. Also
he learned strange things from her
lips. There is an inaccessible luz
geon In which the senorita's father Is
imprisoned. Together with a big
scowfooted darkey Blaze gets to work
| freeing the former presidente. The
enemy watch his moves. He is ar
rested. bribed and again watched
Meanwhile a revolution is brewing.
/ But the mining engineer wins out
after some big battles that wriggle
the hair on a spectators head. The
fun Is fast. furious and sparkling.
with a dandy Douglas Fairbanks
windup In THE Americana" Roy
Stewart in THE F1y-God" is the add
ed attraction today and tomorrow.
MAJESTIC.
Miss Helen Price of Palm Beach,
Havana, n Glasgow, Missouri. Is a
popular young Southern society girl
who makes her screen debut in
Moral Suicide" which will be shown
at the Majestic theater tomorrow,
Friday and Saturday.
When the big company was making
the exteriors on "Moral Suicide near
| Palm Beach, Florida, a member of
the cast became seriously i'll. Fearing
that too much delay would be caused
by sending to New York for a young
woman to fill the place of the I'll &C.
tress, the casting director turned his
attention to he many young ladies
wintering at Palm Beach. in the hope
of finding one with the dramatic abil-
ity to meet the situation.
After many trials and at a time
when he had almost given up hope.
the director CHANGED upon Miss Price.
great granddaughter of Sterling
Price, the famous Major-General of
the Confederate army and one. time
governor of Missouri. The directors
1 bChitn IaAhC " a haPPI Ch0s maj
his selection is a fortunate one is
proven by the grace, poise and ability
with which she plays an important
role in the picture.
Miss Price spends her winters at
her parents villas in Florida and
Cuba. She is not only a leader in the
younger set of Florida, Cuba and
highest social circles of Washington
and New York.
The director declares that he has
never met a young woman who, with
out previous experience, showed the
histrionic ability and talent possessed
by this young society girl.
STRAND.
A tale of the Canadian wilds, a pic
| ture of primal passions, wherein the
Tyranny Of fear is at last conquered in
a woman's heart and her fight to re-
gain her soul and self-respect finally
is won against fearful odds-this IS
"Tyrant Fear" the latest Paramount
~photoplay, In which the ever popular
Dorothy Dalton is the star.
Miss Dalton has exempliied a
wonderful versatility in her recent
picture successes, n n need only
witness Love Me" and hen see
"Tyrant Fear" to each the conclu-
sion that nene save an artist of the
highest attachments could essay two
characters so Numerically opposite
and do ZACH full justice. Yet this is
what Miss Dalton has done according
to those who have made a study OF
the two roles alluded to.
In this typical Thomas II. Ince pro-
duction, which is to be shown Mt
the Strand theatre today, Miss Dalton
will be seen as Allaine Grandet, a.
Canadian girl, daughter of a decadent
Frenchman, whom she fears. He sells !
her TO a ruffianly trapper. who in turn |
plays her as a stake in a game of
cards and loses her TO a gambler n
keeper Of a dive. Still under h In
fiuence OF fear. Allaine endures
everything until n day she shoots
and wounds her master. an act which
m~agically transforms her nature,
banishes her inherent fear n makes
her a courageous woman, capable of
great deeds.
Allaine finds her husband dead in
a snow drift and eventually weds the
pianist of the dance hall. who had
b~efriended her and whom she has
learned TO love. Thurston Hall ap-|
pears as Dane. the pianist: Melbourne
Mcdowell as Dermot the dive keep
| err, and William Conklin as Latour
the trapper. Lou salter and Carmen
Phillips enact the leading women's
roles.