The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1922-05-13
Management of Local Theatre Shows
Regard for Mothers Week and
Will Mark the Beginning of Next
Week With the Showing of Won
derful Film For Two Consecutive
Nights.
over THE HILL" FILM FEAT.
URE TO BE PRESENTED.
Picture Shown in New York for $500
VIII Be Shown in Bay St. Louis
for the Price of 40 Cents-Special
Concession Made-This Simple Yet
Wonderful Picture Has Shattered
All Precedents.

Ever thoughtful and considerate,
and with due Difference to the occa-
sion, the management of the A. & G.
Theatre, the theatre beautiful" an
nounces that Mothers Week-begin-
ming tomorrow and continuing all
next week-wilI be duly observed.
For the occasion there will be pre-
sented on Monday and Tuesday
nights a William Fox super feature,
based on Will Carleton's famous
poem, "Over the Hill" This picture
comes from a years run in New York
City, where it was shown at $500.
At no place will it be exhibited fo1
less than 55 cents, including war tax,
but the management of the A. & G.
has been granted a special conces-
sion, and will charge 40 cents for
adults, including the war tax, 20
cents for children. This is an un-
usual concession.
Witnessing the screen version Of
Will Carleton's cover the Hill," one
can understand why it played one
solid year in New York city, and was
there seen by more than 100000
people. 1t picturizes the universal
family, and, best of all, the universal
mother.
Sedate men, auStere men, old and
young men felt the tremendous urge
of it's emotion and it's sparkling shafts
Of humor as a harp responds to the
musician who plays it, and tears
real, watery tears-rolled down
many a cheek which had not been so
affected since childhood.
The picture is ten-reel affair,
wholesome, clean, inspiring. 1t is
not a great spectacular extravaganza
calling for massive settings, gilded
scenes or an expensive cast; yet with
it's homely story, little old-fashion-
ed mother, an affectionate but weak
willed husband, six kids, a dog and
humble home, it has an appeal
which sets the other and more pre-
tentious showings in the shade.
There is a Mothers Day feature to
it, too, which appeals to welfare
workers everywhere, for one is watt
ed, as it were, on a magic carpet into
ones own home, and in the warp
and woOf of the carpet is woven the
silver threads of a mothers great
sacriicial, unselfish affection for the
bone of her bone and the flesh of
her fiesh," and through it all there is
a song of home that leaves an ache
in the heart and a glow N the soul.
1t brings out the meanness, the
pettiness, the coWardice of US; but,
thank God, it also shows our fneness,
our generosity and our nobility. One
cannot help thinking after seeing the
play that man whose Christian
mother stands up for him at the Gate
will be able to carry on very good
argument with St. Peter.
No one should miss cover the Hill,"
which opens in Bay st. Louis next
week. 1t was cast without a star,
Mary Carr, who assumed the role of
Ma Benton, the mistreated mother,
has gained international fame as an
actress, and Johnnie Walker, the
''black sheep" of the story, has been
named a star by William Fox.
According to statistics and expert
estimates which have come to the
New York offices of Mr.. Fox, more
than 80,000,0O0 people will have
seen the film. Agencies throughout
| the world have clamored for the priv
ilege of distributing it outside of the
countries in which Mr.. Fox maintains
his own organizations. Only recently
the Middle East Films, Ltd, closed
negotiations for distributing cover
| the Hill'' in the Orient. England,
Japan, China, France, Spain and even
Russia, either have seen the picture
or will see it in the near future.