The Washington times., 1921-02-05
Tears Mask From Hypocrisy in
Th, Great Movel in Pictures
BY ANNE DUNLAP.

Those who dare to turn their eyes
inward to look on the bare-stripped
truth should see THE inside OF the
Cup" But the picture is not for him
who folds his hands in sanctlty
across his breast and lifts his eyes
to heaven while sin corrupts his soul.
The picture is the latest of the Co.'S
mopolitan Productions 1t carries
with II the full strength of Winston
Churchil's novel. "The Inside of the
Cup" that brought such a storm of
criticism from the modern Pharisees
on its publication few years ago.
From his book the scenario has been
taken.
william p. Carleton, as the young
rector, John Holder, has kept careful
watch over a little flock of parish
toner's.
The young minister receives a call
to the rich and fashionable church
of st. John. There the veil is torn
from his eyes by the daughter of his
weaIthiest vestryman. Eldon Parr, AMI
he begins to see the inside of his fold,
foul and evil, as it is.
The Sunday morning religious E[
don Parr is banker. He has driven
his daughter. Allison edith Hallor)
from him, running a clerk, once in his
employ, and the clerks little family.
He had persuaded the Trusting hire
ling to put every penny of his saw
ings into worthless stock. and when
the weak dared to criticize the strong
Garvin, the clerk, found himself with
out a job. f..ta ~
~ Eidon Parr also has a son. Preston
Parr Jack Bohn), who loves Kate
Marcy. shop girl. Kate's employer
also is one of the st. John Yestry-
men who wears a holy face for the
and on weekdays keeps his
cunning little eyes ever searching 10:
the girl in his store who dares TO
sit down during work hours.
Wallis Plimpton, busybody
grown fat by, pushing the weak stiil
further into the gutter and mask
ing behind the respectable title or
real estate dealer, learns of PARIS
love for the little salesgirl.
The son tells his father of his de-
sire to marry. Instead of objecting,
Eldon Parr tricks the boy, who soon
enough finds out and swears to drag
the name Of "Parr" down and down
and down as far as human wretch
edness can take a name. He does
not forget his vow.
When the young Rev. John Holder
first appears among his new fold Of
wolves masquerading in sleeps
clothing. he believes only the picture
before him, fully confident that the
side unrevealed to him is quite as
shining and pure.
But he finds a child dying in a
tenement where there is no food to
nourish him, no ice to cool his fever,
no help for the weary mother, no
work for the half-crazed father. And
he learns that this is the home" OF
Garvin, the duped and discharged
bankers clerk.
In a tenement across the way he
finds a calloused, brazen girl living a
life of shame. And he learns that
this is the sweet little Kate who
once earned an honest living behind
a store counter.
Finally he finds his richest vestry-
mans own son and daughter driven
from their home by their fathers av-
arice and greed and vanity. He tries
vainly to lead him into the way of
fair play to his fellows. Already he
has flung wide the doors of ST. Johns
TO the poor as well as the rich.
But 1t is not until Death slips his
cold fingers about the heart of Eldon
Parr and terrorized him with a
glimpse into the unknown that the
inside of the cup is made clean.
"The Inside of the Cup" begins the
second week of its Washington en-
gagement at Loew's Columbia tomor'
row