The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-10-17
Blanche Sweet Stars in "The

Blanche Sweet Stars in "The
objectionable Sin" at the Temple
Next Tuesday =.
The Parcots. father, mother and
two charming daughters-live in
Southern California At the time
the action begins, Stephen Parcot,
the father, is in the far north pursu-
ing his vocation as an explorer.
Mrs. Parcot has hurried overseas to
Belgium to bring back one daughter
who has been placed in a convent
there. Dimny Parcot (the lead in the
picture, played by Blanche Sweet,
who also appears as the other sister
in several parts of the production)
is alone in the beautiful Parcot home.
She receives a letter from her loved
ones abroad-a letter that almost
sends her reason tottering from its
throne-a letter that tells her that
invading soldiers have committed
against both her mother and her sis
ter the objectionable sin.
The letter has been one last note
of explanation, and a plea that moth
er and sister be forgotten, cry that
their disgrace be shielded from the
world.
With the letter carefully hidden In
a wallet, Dimny, half crazed with
grief and not figuring the difficulties
of the task she has set for herself,
sets out to find her loved ones.
Her train is delayed just outside
a little town in the middle west. A
chance travelling acquaintance offers
aid. and later as Dimny and her &C
quaintance are walking through a
shaded street in the little village Just
at dusk, the acquaintance smitten by
Dimny's beauty, attempts to force
his attentions upon her Dimny col
lapses her reason fees. Only a
zephyr OF the breath of life remains
Weeks later she RECEIVERS her
strength, both mental and physical
to find that she has been nursed In
the home of the Windsors
NolI Windsor. an undergraduate at
the college in the little town, has
learned to love Dimny. She tells
him her story-and torn between the
fear of all men and the thought that
she may waver from her path OF
chosen duty, leaves the home without
| announcement to continue on hel
journey.
Soon after young Windsor answers
his country's call to serve with Hoo
ver's Belgian relief commission in
the devastated country He arrives
! in Washington TO secure his pass
ports and discovers Dimny who has
been in the capitol city for some
time unable to continue her journey
for the reason that the government
has discontinued the issuance oil
passports to unmarried women. Mol
and Dimny effect marriage of con
venience, Dimny's passports hein2
/ securable in no other way.
! Upon their arrival in Belgium
NolI, husband in name only. finds
i it possible 70 do much to aid Dimny
in her search for her people To
gether they travel the devastated re
! gions. even penetrating the enemy
country-for in those days the Uni
ted States had not entered the war.
! A veritable pawn of Fate it is
Dimny's misfortune to encounter tbs
/ very beast who had ravished her sis
/ ter. When he sees the fresh young
girl from California. Colonel Klemm
mistakes her for her sister whom
/ he has so shamefully treated in Bel
GUM. He is mystified-and his pas
sion still leads him. Because he
thinks Dimny a spy against his gov
eminent and because he wishes tc
possess her again, as he thinks
Klemm hounds Dimny and Noll ev
erywhere they go.
Klemm is outwitted. Dimny's
mother and sister are found. but not
before a second horror in her frai
young life has snapped the thread
that tied the little sister to Earth
and bitter disgrace.
Dimny. her mother, Noll and an in
teresting little group of refugees
who have been made members of the
party, are making a mad dash for
the Holland border when a bullet
sends Mrs. Parcot close to the brink
of death. When she RECEIVERS she
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