The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-25

Many Big Scenes in "UnpardonabIeI
Sin" Disrobing Incident Presented
in Intensely Dramatic Manner
Without Pandering to Low
Tastes.
There are big scenes" without num-
Der in 1.-THE objectionable Sim which
| is to be shown at the Isis theatre to-
morrow, but biggest in point of in
terest and suspense though, paradox
cally. smallest" in point of characters
involved. is the disrobing scene, which
has been attracting the attention of
the public wherever the tremendous
photoplay feature has been exhibited.
In the development of the story.
Blanche Sweet, appearing as Dimny
Parcot an aggressive American girl. in
company with Matt Moore as Noll VIM
sor an American working with the food
commission In Belgium, finds herself
entering the military lines and forced
to submit to the most careful search of
her person for possible hidden docu-
ments. Methods used in making these
military searches have received suffi-
cient publicity to make the average
man familiar with them, and it is
pretty generally known that but little
respect was paid to the feelings of
modesty, which were natural on the
part of women who fell into the tolls of
those ordered to make the searches.
In 1.-The objectionable Sim Miss
Sweet is shown alone in a room with
one of the most repulsive characters
that has ever been represented on the
screen. Article by article, down to the
last filmy garment, her clothes are re-
moved, despite her protests and despite
her desperate struggles. The scene has
been photographed through diaphrami
of silk, and the two characters appear
in silhouette. It is remarkable, too.
that so realistically has the situation
been worked out that there is not even
| the slightest suggestion that this truly
sensa tional bit has been dragged in by
the heels" to pander to tastes which
are low or depraved.
Another exciting incident of the pic
| ture. entirely different in it's nature,
shows the escape of the principals from
the clutches of those who would detain
| them. A regulation automobile supply
truck, driven at break-neck speed.
crashes through rough and unbroken
fields. across little streams, and
| through gulleys and bitches, only a
short distance in advance of a power
full military touring car. which finally
gives up the ghost when it finds the
going too hard. What the little ma
chine accomplishes is wonderful, and
the situation is one that makes for
progressive and spontaneous cheering
on the part Of any audience before
which the picture is shown.
"SaIome" Contrasted With Other Bara
Roles.
| What a galaxy of brilliant creations
edorns the oor--ai-- gallery of Theda
Baras screen career! Woman after
woman, famous in history or literature
| has come to life under the spell of her
marvellous art, and. conJured from the
/ cold written page. has gone down to
posterity a vivid. breathing reality.
The vampire II. "A Fool There
Was" the glorious vet pathetic Du
Barry. the wronged, unhappy sister in
1.-The Two Orphans" the romantic low
able Cigarette in Under Two Flags"
| the tender, tragic Juliet, the Immortal
Cleopatra. and a dozen other superb
portrayals-any one os them would
have brought Miss BaIa enduring
| fame.
1t is only natural that most of these
great characteri=at;oHs should have
been of the hig1ly emotional t"pe,
for Theda Bara plays upon the feelings
of men and women with wiZardry ur-
approached by any other actress en-
stage or screen. She herself can sound
the depths of human passion, and thus
she sways the pa ssions OF her kind as
swaps waving wheat.
In "A Fool There Was she was the
destroyer of the souls of men--scorn-
full. sneering, heartlsss as piece of
marble. In 'DuBarry," sine aad all the
charm, all the winning graces of the
worlds most celebrated courtesan. In
1.-THE Two Orphans" she touched every
heart with pity for the sweet, unfor-
tunate girl who suffered for others
crimes In Under Two Flags" she
captured press and public with the
fire and spirit of her portrayal of the
brave little martyr who died for her
countrymen. In Romeo AMI Juliet"
she set new ideal for all who here
after essay Shakespeare's most pa
thetic tragic heroine. In Cleopatra"
she dazzled America by the ravishing
splendor of her acting as the siren
\ of the Nile"
| And now comes "Salome"i Some
| thing of all these other characters,
yet different, more vehement, more
tensely tragic, more alluring. more
daring than any feminine portrayal
lever before attempted in dramatic art
Theda Bara's supreme triumph! Pas
time Sunday.