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Strand Theater, Friday, January the 30th
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Ward Greene, special writer for the Atlanta Journal, says of “The Miracle Man,” at an advance showing:
“Thi> Miracle Man,” the widely ad
vertised picture which opened Monday
at the Forsyeth Theater for a week’s
run, was given a special showing Sun
day afternoon at the Forsyth, and we
who saw it liked it better than any
picture we have seen in a long, long
time.
Some said afterwards it was better
than a sermon, that people ought to
be required by law to see it. Maybe
so. But for fear some of the utterly
lost who do not care for sermons will
dodge "The Miracle Man," let it be said
that it is none of your milk-and-water
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morality plays. If it is better than a
sermon, it is better, too, in a manner
of speaking than a trip to Chinatown
or a plunge into the pages of “Lime
house Nights.” No gush or sloppy sen
timent. It’s the real stuff, with mo
ments that might become mawkish
turned by a bit of slang into a laugh
along with a tear.
“The Miracle Man” as you probably
know, was written by Frank L. Pack
ard. It had a great success as a novel,
(ieorge Cohan adapted it for the stage,
and now it has been made the basis
for a picture, which is ccrtan to be a
record success, for the story is carried
THE WINDER NEWS, WINDER, GA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1920.
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GEORGE LOANE
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out in letter and spirit, with only a few
slight changes.
Crook plays are always fascinating,
none more so than this. From the
time the screen unrolls on the slums
of New York, with their foul streets,
teemfhg with fouler humanity under
the roaring “L,” with their bulls and
their fly-cops ,their opium joints and
their Chinks, the Frog and the Dope;
Tom the leader of the gang, and the
girl, Rose, from the time they pull
their eome-on game and assemble to
split the swag, until the scene shifts
suddenly to the little town of Fairhope
and the Patriarch, like a prophet of
old, standing stark on the hilltop above
the majestic tides, the spectator is en
thralled.
He follows the fortunes of the gang
with keen interest in their plan to
pull the biggest come-on game of all,
with the blind and helpless “Miracle
Man” as their bait, with the Frog and
his cripple fake as the first miracle
that shall draw thousands to the hill
top and make them all rich with the
dollars poured out by the grfcteful
multitude. And then, gradually, as
the spirit of the “Miracle Man” and
the spirit of his people begins to creep
over the audience even i\s it does over
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the characters in the play, the spec
tator experiences a change in his own
heart, until, at the end, when he rises
from his seat and goes from darkness
i JIt o light, though he may not have been
“conrerted by a sermon” he realizes
that he has been under a spell stronger
than many sermons—the spell of a good
story.
“The Miracle Man" is a good story—
the scenes are beautiful—the sunsets
and the sea-—and the acting—notably
that if the twisted man—is beyond
praise.