The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-01
WASHINGTON,

On the heels of her phenomenal
Goldwyn success, THE Kingdom of
YOUTH" comes another Madge Ken
nedy triumph. "a Perfect Lady" the
Goldwyn perturbation Of Rose Stahl's
popular stage play by Claiming Pol
lock and Rennold Wolf. which comes
to the Washington theater beginning
Wednesday.
Lucille Le Jambon (Madge Kenne-
dy) Is fond OF the town of Sycamore,
though the constable, at the request
OF morality committee, has stopped
the performance Of the Merry Models
BurlesQuers, Of which Lucille Is the
leading figure. Chief among those
who closed the show is the Rev. David
Grayling. He urges her to leave the
troupe and later, unknown to him,
Lucille open an. fee cream cabaret.
Again she encounters opposition from
the committee, and John Griswold,
the deacon, threatens to have her BAN
ished from town. He once more en-
lists the aid of the parson, though the
latter has grown fond Of Lucille.
She announces that she will give a
free motion picture show, and Syca-
more, including Griswold and his fol-
lowers, turns out in droves. The pic
ture proves to be an expose of Girls
void Joining with chorus girls in a
gay little party while on visit to
Chicago. Her scheme not only frees
her from persecution, but results in
the parson asking Lucille to be his
wife.
Mabel We're is a young and popular
writer. She shares pretty little fiat
with Maud Bray. suffragette of de-
termined character.
Mable is engaged to be married to
Gerald Vantage, but she has become
aware of growing dissatisfaction with
her somewhat priggish ffance. How
ever, she tries to ignore this discon-
tent, working. Off her unrest in her
own original ways.
One OF her ways" is to advertise
for a husband She hopes to obtain
good copy from the applicants, and
she invites three Of them to call.
Adams, a butler, arrives, in whom
Mabel sees prospects for good story
She accepts his invitation to tea for
the following afternoon at the house
where he works, telling her that his
master will be out Noel Corcoran is
the third applicant, to whom Mabel
does not show the interest that she
feels in him.
The next day she keeps her engage
ment for tea, only to find that the
butler works at Noel Coreoran's
house. He informs her that her fl
ance is making bets with the men at
the club that she will not answer any
more letters in reply to her ad. Mabel
decides to punish him, so she answers
two of the newly arrived, lurid letters.
Vantage discovers 1t and after a
quarrel they break the engagement.
When Noel learns of the broken en-
gagement he calls and succeeds in i'm
pressing Mabel with the fact that he
is the right man for her.
This is the brief story of the inter-
esting and amusing comedy, "a
Lady's Name" in which Lewis J. SELF
nick presents Constance Talmadge,
and which Select Pictures will offer
to the Washington theater on Friday
and Saturday. .
"The Moral Deadline." the new
World Picture which will be shown
on Sunday only at the Washington
theater is strikingly Interesting and
jam-packed with entertainment. 1t is
a picture that every film fan who is
looking for the best in entertainment.
will enjoy to the utmost.
From every angle this is, dandy
picture-it has an unusual plot, ia
nous and popular star, it has wit, hu-
NOR and sentiment and il Is superbly