The Mount Holly news., 1919-11-25
A Miracle Picture


in city, Saturday afternoon
crowd men and women watched silence the last scenes OF pic
tured drama The music of orchestra died the pang VISION
the faded bahed the still throg
half stream
ed quetud that shone
curious enec would follow what called an
cunning combination OF hu-
photograI min something finer than the
mere exhaon or conenmn that may be created any
bion impressed; they gen.
Tor DAY from the stirring or momentous or themes OF
For it has the stinc
lion being artistic achievement The phoopay called
The Miracle Man" a miracle picture
the
nderon criminals hear of the strange powers of
patriarch village whose beauty of life and faith have
to
b;b t an - eot tho enterprise Their
unconscousy they fall under
themselves transformed
lifted by faith from deav eansed ennobed manhood and woman
is simplicity yet the
human heart modern as yesterda US news yet
striking magnificent settings
specace
power comparable
dazed atmosphere suggestion
vid feeling the
this lies its of beauty tranquility
than in those sorddess and ferocy Its maerfu
but its quetude irresistible steals into the heart like exquisite
lives the memory like a haunting
Artistic exceptional thing Acting which
vuaized emotion
been blended by genius into new accomplishment he makers Of TINS
a O
Thus the magic of the produces effects for the description
of which provide effective There
are episodes in the Chinatown dens which would be memorable by reason
their appalling glmpses
those conoon of the pretended cripple whereby he the
mercy OF passeTspy the cold vay and rapay OF the leading criminal
who debauch goodness itself
the girl who is the lure Yet things from the
genheness
Masking
hearing
spirit already world
darkness that
of the evil that enveops him He has against
purity
The pretended miracle adoly wrought before the
craw1s painfully
the old slowly himself feigned
shape throng
of gratitude
face stifens lines ong
him another victim not listed in the criminals drama of dpo
barely
the fraf little body He has miracle believes
gaze
patriarch himself
bird the path The pitu little fas
with
clever play when told words the pictured reality itself
the spectators
a soundess of thanksgiving
Here might easily
succeeding episodes would fatally diminishing conviction
appeal The triumph of the story that what follows give
authenticity and still deeper significance to the auacous conception To
those under the Of
power
nrang no less mracuous what they witness now In the
it
nquerng of hardened wills the physical and spiritual regeneration
those who had thought detase lofte
humanity.
creation picture
arned all the rewards bring potential
values in the phoopy which only might develop The acting
which might easily have udrou
Clancy repusive
cripple and Joseph Downing the patriarch give poaya that realize
spirit the theme would
= that f ptt c SON i rh INC - a, pps ais @ . :. - pr - s
feline purified
At the ends far more than trick of makeup
he cleansing the panomimic
appears the
deeting changes of her expression
umed at first mocng become
table transfguraion within
these artists there
needed the creative
contribution of George Tucker striking
INVESTING of searching power verify
he literal hardly notable is
he restraint and discrimination with subject
deazalon pretense that it is not
egeneaon made offensive by degrading
# theatrical Interpolation.
precisely of spirit of artistic endaavor
the deplore marng the
armon by stupid censorship only have scenes of vital significance
satisfy arbitrary expressed essential
supposed Illuminate. Having the picture in its first nuic state
heavy editing this state we can
momentariy later
Eliminated we believe by the producer hmselfthere was NOT n
line story Not the
beauty power
shine even thru the disbursements by official inenn
this newspaper critic
ut would have no apnea for 4he sop,istaad andonce Of
let it filed theatre that highly
1t 80 and is still being
ulured territory 1he reality
unuted feelings who
witness it, emotions sentiments which
everywhere human
magic the motion picture the
eole be dazzed specaes
ingnui places
the heart opened to them that the