The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-05

ther insists that she marry Schuyler
 To her comes dim memory of having
 lived once before and of being given
 in marriage as wife to dissipated old
 man of the fourteenth century, but the
 intervention of her Knight who, of
 course, was David, saves her.
 Awakening from the vision, she tele-
 phones to David, who is just in time to
 rescue her from a marriage with
 Schuyler He and Victoria are married
 and agree that David is to keep up
 his humanitarian work with Victoria
 as helpmate. When their first child is
 born a visualization of the time when
 women ruled came to Victoria. Always I'she and David figure in her dreams.
 After one year of marriage came mis-
 understandings, David longs for wealth
 and sacrifices his principles in the at
 tempt to get it. Victoria tries through
 faith and truth to keep him straight. But anoher woman comes into David's life and Victoria sees the futility of struggling further. David and Victoria separate. Later she is nominated for the Senate and wins, while David fails
 of reelection. and is sent to prison as grafter. Victoria brings to him in his hours of suffering the sympathy of their first love and then the story speeds on to tremendous climax
 climax which is brilliantly illumi-
 mated with truths sent straight home
 to men and women of every age.
 The drama opens and closes in the present, but in between come the stone age. the Roman and the mediaeval, admitting of scenes in which thou sands of players sweep across the vision The transition of the lives of
 David, the man and Victoria, the wom- an. from the present into the remote
 past is accomplished with that ''art which conceals art" Thus the specta- tor witnesses the various reincarna- | tions as if he were turning over life's l pages. David, whether in the present | facing life's ideals yet succumbing to | temptation, or, as Constantine, the i pagan emperor, converted to right by | the Christian slave, is one and the l same, while Victoria, representing woman, steadily gains place and pow | CT through the years by virtue of the | highest attributes of womanhood A i thousand colorful incidents dovetail into this mosaic of the screen, this drama eternal Man Woman Mar riage."
 l Of the actors in the least" of Man Woman Marriage" there is no doubt that their talent and ability are large ly responsible for the success which Iias attended the picture, for Dorothy Phillips as The Woman" and James Kirkwood as The Man" are the per lection of appropriateness for these two big roles.
 | Dorothy Phillips wor- is tremen-
 dously satisfying; her grace and her understanding of the part idealize it.
 for it is very trying and difficult
 part to play, while James Kirkwood is
 eminently suited to the leading role which he essays so, wonderfully playing as Dorothy Phillips does, the same parts all the way through the
 picture--the lovers, the husbanad and wife. the man and the woman.
 Especial mention must be made of that remarkable actor, Ralph Lewis whom you recall, I'm sure, as stone man" in 'The Birth of Nation'-who plays The Father with such finesse.
 and, of course, Robert Cain has been splendidly cast as Schuyler"
 Man Woman Marriage" is one of the biggest pictures, one of most am-
 bilious screen productions ever ex-
 ploited-in point of photography, cos tuning and theme and it is we'll