The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-13
AT THE STRAND THEATRE
Wednesday and Thursday, January
19 and 20.

Allan DWan's newest Production,
''In the Heart of a Fool" is a power
full epic of life. It's story by William
Novelist and Political Authority, is
brimful of red blood and action. It
is a truthful chronicle of what might
easily happen in any community-in
your life or mine. Every city or
neighborhood has its own Lorelie-
though not always as deadly as the
one in this Photoplay. Full of big
scenes and realism. The mine ex-
plosion and invasion of the hired mob
from the big city are genuine thrill
ers.
CAST
Grant Adams --- James Kirkwood
Margaret Muller (the Lorelie) -
--------------------- Anna @. Nilsson
Laura Nesbit - Mary Thurman
Tom Vandorn - Philo Mccullough
Henry Fem ------- Ward Crane
DR.. Nesbit (Old Linen Pants) -
-------------------------- John Burton
Mrs. Nesbit - Margaret Campbell
Daniel Sands (Hogtight Sands)
---------------------- Percy Challenger
Mortie Sands - Arthur Hoyt
Mary Adams --------A Kate Toncray
Amos Adams ----------- Emmett King
Violet Mauling ----- Maryland Morne
In the little city of Harvey, DR..
Nesbit-"Old Linen Pants an
important factor. He knows where
more family skeletons are locked in
closets than any other individual in
the community it is his business
to keep them secret. His daughter,
Laura, the leader of the younger
social set, although sought in mar
rage by half of the eligible young
men in the town, loves Grant Allen,
the editor of the local weekly paper.
Grant loves her even more than she
does him. At this juncture, Margaret
Muller-"the Loreie" comes to
Harvey to teach school. She engages
lodgings with Grants mother.
The Lorelie aspires to lead Har-
vey's social set and decides to make
Grant the means of obtaining her
wish. Laura, who in order to arouse
Grants jealousy, firts with another
man and they quarrel. At this juno
ture Laura returns to boarding school
and when she revisits Harvey, the
Lorelie has become the mother of
Grants illegitimate offspring. Grants
mother, to shield the Lorelie's reputa-
ton assumes the parentage of the
child. But Old Linen Pants knows
the secret and it places an impene-
trable barrier between Grant and his
daughter. Meantime, Grants mother,
unable to bear the burden of the lie
she is living, dies, and the Lorelie,
now in pursuit of Harry Fem, a
young lawyer, refuses to mother her
own child. Fenn's partner, Tom Van
Dorm, whose greatest kick in life is
the conquest of women, marries
Laura, who piqued at Grants SEEM
ing indifference, mistakes her mother
ing instinct of Van Dorm for love.
Fem marries the Lorelie. Eventual
" Lauras husband succumbs to the
Lorelie's wiles, their affair resulting
in the divorce of Fem and Laura
from the guilty couple. Grant, in the
meantime, gives up his work on the
paper and enters the coal mines as a
foreman. A terrific explosion follow
ed by a fire, occurs and ineattempting
to rescue his men, he is injured. He
is taken to DIR. Nesbit's home and ar
rives at the same time that Laura,
sick of heart, returns, having left Van
Dorm. In nursing Grant back to life
the fires of love are rekindled and
they decide to work together in bet
tering the condition of the miners.
But the barrier of Grants parentage
to the child remains.
A strike at the mines is declared
and clog Tight" Sands, the owner,
engages a horde of strike breakers
from the city to run Grant out of
town. In the melee that results when
they attempt to carry out his order,
Grams little son is shot and killed,
through the fault of Van Dorm, who
holds him up as a threat to Grant to
make him give himself up. The Lore
lie. her love turned to hate, kills Van
Dorm and goes insane.
Over the deathbed of his son, Grant
confesses to Laura that the child is
his own and not his mothers and that
this secret is the barrier that stands