The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-28
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WASHINGTON.

hOHldnCe ana ATaDcIld. AnOJncl
distinctly Constance TaImadge pic
ture, will be seen at the Washington
thesster on today and tomorrow, when
she is presented by Lewis j. Selznick
in her latest Select picture as Ara
bella Cadenhouse, charming young
widow.
Arabeila is very young widow and
is already considering the possible
ties Of second marriage. She is be
loved by Bill, boy she has known
all her life, but she wants romance
thrills and mystery in her next ALI
arce and laughs at Aunt Efie's sug
sestion that Bill would make an ideal
husband.
Henry Atteridge, Westerner
crude and unconventional appears
and Bill sees there is danger OF Ara
bella being swept of her feet by his
advances. He plans counter irri
tant in the person of Estabrook, fad
dist. cubist and exponent Of the free
love ana souLmate ideas of the ultra.
modernist school. He is, in fact, a
faker OF the first class.
But Arabella is attracted by him
and comes very near to becoming
Seriously entangIed with this indivfd.
ual. When Bill sees this he supplies
another counter-irritant in the shape
Of Peter, very young boy
Peter succeeds in winning ArabelIa
away from Estabrook. He plans an
elopemcnt, but his plans are frustrat.
ed when BIZ appears with noted
scientist, DR.. Henry. Arabella is again
attracted In new direction. The IA
nous eugenist Is an ardent, if some
what scientific and cold blooded, WOO
er. 1t gets up to the point of a we'd
ding-when, luckily for Bill, the doc
tor forgets the date and is half an
hour late for his wedding. At the last
moment the now disillusioned Ara
bella refuses to marry him. He in
dignantly leaves.
Bill and Arabella both decide that
preparations for perfectly good we'd
ding should not be wasted; and as
fBill decides Arabella has had enough
disillusioning, he takes her arm and
they walk up the aisle to the strains
of the wedding march.
Alice Joyce, IL Is conceded, scores
her greatest screen triumph In "The
Lion and the Mouse" the Vitagraph
super-feature, which will be seen in
the Washington theater on Monday
and Tue sday. The story was written
by the late Charles Klein. and the
picture is adapted from the famous
stage success of that name.
MURRETTE.
When a Stacker wakes up to a re-
alization of his true position in So
ciety, then we will also make up his
mind that it is never too late to
repent" This happens in alias, Mike
Moran" Wallace Reid's new Para
mount picture which will be display
ed at the Murrette theatre today and
Saturday. .
Mr.. Reid, as Larry Young, is a
Stacker who when he is drafted, brides
former convict who really wants to
fight for his country, to assume his
name, with the result that the con-
Wet goes to the front and is killed
after making the name of Young ia
nous for bravery.
Larry loves a girl whom he believes
is wealthy, and who fails to undeceive
him, fearing that when he learns
that she is a. lady's, companion, his
love will vanish. The death of the
convict arouses Larry's soul and he
enlists and performs such deeds Of
valor under the convicts name of
Moran, as the latter did not dream
Aof doing. When he is carried desper-
vately wounded to a hospital, he meets
his sweetheart. and after mutual con-
LESSONS, the road to happiness is
opened.
The picture is an excellent one.
1t was directed by James Cruze. writ
ten by Grin Bartlett. adapted by Will
NJ. Ritchey, and Ann Little is the lead
ing woman.