The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-22

stage OF being numbered thluH
10 a longing for mans estate again.
the heights OF tense situation and
magnificent acting seem reached
But II is In the scene where the
warden helps the convict preseri
his case to the governor tina. tn
actual crux is reached. William Il
Tooker as the governor contributes
his share 20 a bit OF life that . to-
real and throbbing 10 be thought o!
I'm terms OF the magnificent work
that makes II triumph OF acting
The governor is touched by the
pictured beauty of the gSrl the con
vict wants 10 save. He is horrifed
at the thought OF the selfish motbeI
who Is bent on wrecking that girl's
life for her own selfish ends. But
he can see no way out of the i'm
passe. lie feels that IL "Heliotrope'
Harry is free he will save Alic,
only by killing the woman who
threatens the girls happiness. H.
believes that in signing Harry
pardon he is also signing TIL
woman's death warrant.
The convict pleads. The warden
puts his name to the pardon and
goes surety for Harry. At lasi.
carried beyond all the orderly fact
Vi llltB INC
leaps to his feet and addresses thu
convict-not as the governor of the
State talking to number. but a.
man to man. He asks Harry's word
of honor that he will not kill thu
woman he hates so terribly becaus,
he fears that she is planning NOR
than to kill the girl he loves az
terribly.
NEW LIFE.
When you see the convIcl
straighten back his shoulders. riss
from his hunched and shrinking
posture and reach up toward the
manhood he has lost you are goinr
to know a thrill more deep and
primitive than the most touching
love scene has ever given you
Something in you will rise and sing
when Harry is free at last-tC
serve his daughter, the daughtel
who may never know him
And then the clever crook works
out the plot that has Matched In the
back Of his tortured brain. Hello
trope was his passion always. He
wore a sprig of II in his button
hole. He sprayed his clothes with
the perfume. He smiles sardonicai
ly as he goes back into the worlo
and enters the fight for a girls
happiness with his weapon-helio.
trope.
Haunted by the perfume, whicl
suggests that she is going mac
through fear OF the man who hates
her so, the woman-acted tigress-
fashion by the vivid Julia Swaync
Gordon-goes through a protracted
agony of Illustration. When she is
ready to reach out and destroy her
child's fragile house of happiness
the perfume of heliotrope comes be
tween them. With q cleverness Of
idea and perturbation I shall not
destroy in the telling, Heliotrope
sets his will and his wits to match
those of dangerous woman.
THE FINAL SACRIFICE.
spike" sees no way out H.
cant look down the trail to a happ,
ending. And there is no happy end
ing for "Heliotrope" Harry excep,
in terms long ago expressed by q
great hero of romance who stood
on the guillotine dying for one h,
loved and said:
1T is better thing ! do than !
have ever DONE"
"Heliotrope" Harry makes his
sacrifice. He makes his daughter
happiness possible. The consum-
nation Of his dream comes as q
climax of thrill piled upon thrill.
At last the movies" have had tho
courage to see how life must tako
its toll. Logically, sincerely, beau
tifully and even breathlessIy, 'Helio-
trope" Harry's plot works to it,
supreme conclusion.
It's worth seeing. It's worth
thinking about.