The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-03-25
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s%ensuous beauty. The South Sea
Backgrounds are those a veritable art.
list would select to paint. They are
pictured from an appreciative point
OF view with always a certain in
definite glamour suggested that be-
speaks marvellous camera work.
Perhaps less attractive but none the
less fascinating are misty and mysti-
cal glimpses OF the Limehouse dis
trict in London. They hint at deeds
dark and strange; mystery fits in and
out; the spectator feels suspense
aroused by CONSCIOUSNESS that some
thing must happen
From the outset Il girl of warm
temperament and pure ideals is
thrown into strong contrast with those
whose Idols of Clay" stir nothing but
animal passion and hideous greed.
Even the man who wins her single
hearted alteration is no gallant adven-
turous youth of motion picture legend
but a cynical egoist, spoiled by pre-
yious misadventure, accustomed to
value everything only in reference to
his own personal interest. Nothing
her with him and during her
soul-destroying experiences except ma
tive moral sanity and sweetness.
"The Wolf"
The trait of superstition, commonly
attributed to simple folk, but which,
in fact, is to be found in all minds.
receives dramatic treatment in Vita
graphs new film, 'The Wolf" with
Earle Williams as star.
1t is the omen of the wolf howl that
expresses the human trait in THE
Wolf" Jules Beaubien, Jhe French
Canadian trapper, while trudging
through the trackless forest to the
town where he has been told he has
a sister he has never seen, hears the
bowling Of a wolf. In the next mo-
ment his foot stumbled upon an OBJ
ject in the snow.
The object proves to be the form of
a dead girl with an infant on her
breast. This girl was Jules sister.
II occurs again in The Wolf" when
Hilda MacTavish, the prosecuted,
frightened little creature whose charm
has inspired a man 20 seek her ruin.
hears the wolf howl. She accepts the
sign as warning.
"FaIl of Babylon"
THE Fail of Babylon" as big as
Intolerance" a spectacular romance
dealing with the ancient city of Baby
lon and produced with all the wealth
of barbaric customs and garb of that
day. This is one of the biggest pic
lures ever brought to Maui.
There are remarkable pictures show
ing King Cyrus, standing in his great
chariot ordering the siege of Baby
Ion.
"Lure of Ambition"
Lure of Ambition" the William
Fox superproduction featuring Theda
Bara, is an unusual as well as intense
iy dramatic photoplay.
AS the title indicates, the story is
founded upon the proposition that a
woman of adequate will power can
scale any heights if she is fired by
ambition. In this case Olga Dolan, the
role enacted by Miss Bara, is a girl
of the utmost determination to sue
ceed in order to compensate herself
for a vital wrong done her by Cyril
Ralston-whom she foolishly loved.
Miss Bara makes Olga Dolan one of
the most interesting of screen heroines
She gives a wonderful impersonation
Of the girl who is transformed from
a trusting creature into a woman of
the world.
"StrictIy Confidential"
True comedy at its best is revealed
in Madge Kennedy's new and delight
full Goldwyn picture, Strictly Con
fdential." The story is he film YER
sion of Jerome X. Jerome's interna-