Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-11
INCE PRODUCES
A POWERFUL MOVIE.

INCE PRODUCES
A POWERFUL MOVIE.
| Life. Life stripped Of all its artihcias-
! ities-just plain raw life.
| The shattered things Of steel and wood
and brass that held them back from
death. fast slipping into the sea and
carrying them with It. The first chance
to be herself She takes it. Then the
chance for rescue. Contact with the
world. Worldliness conquers-for a mo-
ment, and two hearts are broken.
That's the situation IN Lying Lips"
| Thomas II. Ince's latest spectacle,
screened at the Colonial this week. Mag
nificent mountain, river and ocean scenes,
glittering interior sets, fine new devices
for telling world old truths aud splendid
acting make the problem and solve 1t
with a completeness worthy Of the Ince
reputation.
] Nance Abbott-Florence Vidor-1ower
| Of London society, is engaged 10 Willie
Chase. middle aged man Of wealth, much
to the sorrow OF her real SELF, but TO the
extreme satisfaction Of her mothers i'm
| poverished estate To get away from
| tiresOme Willie for while before they
are married she visits her uncle and aunt
In the wilds OF Manitoba. Blair Corn
wall-House Peters-who lives in a
cabin on his ranch nearby with his out
I
soul In a night scene Of moon-lit beauty.
Then she awakens to the fact that she
can not be happy in a rude hut. Start
| ing back to England, she is followed on
I the same boat by Blair who has decided
to win the things which will provide the
| kind Of life she desires. The ship
strikes a floating mine. half Of it is
blown away by a boiler explosion and
they are the only ones left alive.
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Nance let's her soul reveal itself and
they pronounce the marriage vows before
| God Almighty alone But a battleship
appears and the desire for her old life
leads Nance to plead with Blair to hide
and let her be taken of Of the wreck
alone In a dramatic scene he casts her
from him and consents. He disappears
and Nance realizes what she has done
too late She is rescued. Blair pushed
off on a raft.
Back in London Willie Chase gives a
resplendent party to bring back to Nance
her old gayety. but into the midst Of It
walks Blair COrnwell, who has been made
rich by the death Of a Canadian rela-
tive. He mocks her but permits their
secret to stand. A few hours before Blair
sails for Australia Nance, at the altar
with Willie, casts society and the news
/
sion that she can not go on with the
ceremony because In the eyes Of God
she is the wife Of another man.
BIalr's lawyer and confident finds her
/ in time to tell her he is sailing with
out knowledge Of the noble thing she
| has done and rushes her to the docks in
/ time to get her on the vessel just after
Blair. In his stateroom, has read the
/ extras
l. ! l.
/ WALLY AGAIN SPEEDS
BUT NOT IN AN AUTO.
! Wally wops his hat.
Wally also goes without shave or
sleep for four days.
He gives orders to railroad presi-
dents daughter, In the belief that she Is
! his new stenographer.
And then he marries her.
A regular guy, that Wallace Reid in
The Love Special" at the Alhambra the
first half of the week regular pic
ture, too, built, apparently just for hand
some, lovable Wally.
Holding back rivers that threatened to
eat up the railroad presidents prop
erty, thwarting a crooked director of the
/ presidents company, rescuing section
/ hands entombed by tunnel cave-in,
driving a locomotive through a blizzard
that no one else dared face, and putting
| life into all kinds of parties are stunts
assigned to Wally which he carries Off
with dizziness and dispatch as Jim Glover,
construction engineer. All the characters
are likable in part and performance.
Theodore Roberts as the president with
warm heart beneath his crust, and Ag-
mes Ayres as his daughter play up to
Wally well
] Woman ouCb IN 1--we 81 and man
help but be entertained by 1t. Light,
wholesome amusement.
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Barrie there is a delightful hour and a
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