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SfIFFITH PRESENTS NEW
DCTURE AT THE RALTE
i* : from the book of life, “A
r oe of Happy Valley,” is the
Sasgic, the one and only David Wark
SEHMIth contributes for the Rialto pro-
SEram all this week
EEERvery hear of Happy Valley?
FREA quiet lttle place, just a cradle in
)] " hills along the Ohlo river, v\hprr‘
& lAYnma ran the boarding house
| ind the Timberlakes lived down the
~ 2ond a bit.
% Jit's about these Logans and the
i @Mimberlakes and the old Auntie
miles #nd others that Griffith telly
EEB his “Romance of Happy Valley.”
gor the first time in five years the
S Sgreat producer has wrapped his film
‘@round homespun humanity; and he
(ERe found a classic in its folds, vivid
§R action, laughable in details and
3 in effect.
8 Of course, it's sweet Lillian Gish
nd Robert Harron who have the
3 jding parte. And the picture bears
Bl the touches of its great producer,
(@he one and only Griffith who pro
‘ffuced “The RBirth of a Natlon”
sHearts of the World” and other im
- imor sereen offerings.
‘& "A Romance of Happy Valley” gives
#the Rialto a master production with
. , ming theme delightfully han
led, a picture that will be acclaimed
s ‘& pastoral olassie second to none.
_@it's thoroughly a Griffith pleture from
(@Ntart to finish, the newest Artcraft
- BWhich is one that is superior In every
2 ASB Is customary with Mr. Griffith,
e has supplied the best procurable
imer yer' to interpret the various
e “A Romance of Happey Val
: 9." Chiof among these is Lilllan
G, a charming Griffith player who
mcorpd so notable a triumph In “The
. SGreat Love;” Robert Harron, a prom
inent young leading man, and George
e , & veteran player of great
- {iponulal L.’vho created a deep Im-
P N his portrayal of the Ger
pan-American in “The Hun Within *
&o&;fidl:: male roles. Kate
ru a ented actress, also has a
0 role. Others I the cast include
™ Nicholls, . Bertram CGrassby,
orter Strong, Adolphe Lestina, Lydia
enm Titus, Andrew Arbuckle and
frances Parks.
_Nestling in the hills along the Ohio,
| Happy Val mfl“fihflvfil in
: m breeches,
vh Lm. a prosperous farmer,
mE & boarding house. His wife is a
plig! devotee, while his sons, John
. n, Jr, 18 a growing lad, who
Par the delights of city life from
chance boarder and who as a result,
ants to go to New York. John is in
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+- : : ;555 s He could “smell” a “turn” of the market, but he couldn't :
- down the smell of onions on his breath. ‘
T He could squeeze as close a deal on the Stock Exchange \
'~ .::- as old John D. himself, but he never wore creased trousers. -
T He, like the untidy wife in “Old Wives for New," was :
T a matrimonial bankrupt. :
” Did you see “"@ld Wives for New?" Then you can have :
i a good laugh on ""hubby” when you see “Don’'t Change ;
T Your Husband.” .
B He will pile up a million dollars in Wall Street if his wife :
- asks him to. R
& Mighty men of untold wealth listen attentively when he .
' cares to speak. "
4 ~But his wife sniffs his onion-laden breath, and gasps for "
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. She feels like a worm when he walks beside her. .:E
- Remember the shabby wife in “Old Wives for New?" L
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H DeMille pillory him. N
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:E " James Denby Porter, “The Glue " & A ";EE
: 1:: King" Shrssnbnen F."l()tl Dc'xh-.r & 'l.p )\.i \? I ‘/E::
- Leila Porter, his wife, Gloria Swanson : £ A HE
T Schuyler Van Sutphen, a globe i\ JEY
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love with Jennie Timberlake, who has |
metropolitan notions ag regards dress
and who seeks to monopolize Jaohn's
attentions. Mrs. Logan prays that her
hoy may be converted and his idea of
going to the wicked city be banished
forever from his mind. She s suc
cessful, for John accepts the faith
and hecomes engaged to Jennle But
while plowing one day, he backslides
and defiantly announces that he is
going to New York and after one year,
when he hopes to have acquired his
fortune, he will return to claim his!
bride. He goes to New York, and|
vainly devotes his inventive genius tu‘
the perfection of a jumping frog. Hel
fails to return home at the end of the !
year, but nevertheless Jennie is
primped up awaiting him. Kight years
pass before John returns. Mean
while affairs have gone badly at homo,‘
but mother and Jennie are there to
{IWe him a warm welcome. Happy
alley becomes happy once more, but
how, the picture itself reveals. The
finish is a remarkable one in every
respect and the story truly is filled
with thrills, expectancy and irresist
ible heart appeal.
Earle Williams Is
Big Alamo No. 2 Star
“The Highest Trump,” the third Earle
Williame release in his new series. Is at
the Alame No. 8 on Monday and Tues
day, 15 a fascinating and most unusual
romanee of the great war, the story
of an American aoce In the United States
secret service and, at the same time,
winning the Imperial Cross in German
secret pervice. He leads a squadron
of German bombing p&:au over Parls
ufi!“on the same d“ wns three Hun
[% the Daitle pesios o Wimnce fiaser:
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ors hhbsoulglo rot. and determines to
kil him _gfon he is revealed ap &
twg. e mystery element is sus
ulu‘“ to the ‘"7 I'h“" whotn ‘!n'hm
at txn o s arrest, is shown
to be tgr an rupon-?blc for the Al
led drive which ends the war.
Mr. Willilams has a role in which he
always i# seen at his best, that of a
detective or secret service agent, RF it
is of Interest to note that he collab
orated with 1. H. Van Loan in writing
the story. It is a splendid action ple.
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urtd ?ur\hy Prank Keonan, the ol
Atlanta favorite, comes in “The Mid
night Btage.”
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IfI'_IARST 'S SUNDAY AMERICAN — A Newspago_r'for People Who Think — SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1919.
D. W. Griffith Has New Feature
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Top, a scene from “Don't Ch&"\%‘u Your Husband,” at the Strand. Bot
tom, Robby Harron and Lillian Gish, the two big Griffith stars, in D. W.'s
latest master film, “The Ramance of Happy Valley.”
Grace Cunard’s Novel
‘ ‘Marriage Proposal
Mise CGrace Cunard, who will‘appear
in “After the War,” a five-reel Argosy
feature of a woman's sacrifice for the
-rn she loved, at the Tudor Theater
néxt week, has received one of the most
novel marriage proposals on record.
It came by letter from a personage
known as AN Kasin Bula in Tripoli,
worded as follows:
“Ah, beloved of all women, whose
smile is like the glint of the golden
sun, come out of the screen to me.
I would take you In holy wedlock
apd make of you favorite of all my
twenty-seven wives. 1 ' would- heap
upon you all the wealth of the opu
lent Bast”-—and so on.
! There are six pages of the letter,
| When Miss Cunard finished reading it,
she smiled:
k "w"ell. his intentions are good, any
way,
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One of the most perplexing prob
lems arising out of the great war hul
been made the hasic theme of a phe
toplay in which Grace Cunard, known
from coast to coast as “The Serial
Queen,” will appear at the 'l’udor‘
Theater next week, the engagement
beginning Monday. ‘
The' feature is called “After the
War? and was prepared for tho‘
sereen by Harvey Gates from Kings
ley Henedict's story of the sa.mel
name,
Gerve, prima donna of the Opera
Comique in Paris after the war, lived
a life of mystery. Beautiful, cul
' tured and kind, she was the idel of
the patrons of opera, but of her pri
'vate life they knew notlLln[. The |
presence of a child in her home add
ed to the mystery, D‘uyq'l.e. the
French Minister, proposed marriage
to her, but she refuaed him. Signor
P)’ienmt.n, the Italian Ambassador, sug
gested that Gerve probably was
mourning her soldier lover, Phillipe
Sardonia, whom she had not seen
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WEEK, BEGINNING JANUARY 27,
MEET THESE MYSTERIOUS WOMEN IN THEIR OWN
ADAMLESS EDEN.
William Farnum
WILL SHOW YOU THE WAY
In His Btirring Dramatization of ZANE GREY'S Thrilling
Waestern Story, 3
" The
Rainbow Trail
SEQUEL TO ‘RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE.”
Zane Grey writes of ‘‘Sealed Wives'’ in ‘‘The Rainbow
Trail”’ as women living apart in a hidden city of the wilder
ness—as ocoupants of an Adamless Eden. Shefford, the prin
cipal character in the remarkable story gains access to the
city and there finds the dream girl—‘‘the Sago Lily’’—for
whom he has long searched the plains, the deserts and the
mountains of the great West,
Mr. Grey was asked for a statement explanatory of the
term ‘‘Sealed Wives.”’ This is his answer:
‘‘Sealed Wives Are the Extra Wives Mormons Have in
Secret.’’
since the days of the war.
| One day in Paris, at a benefit for
war orphans, the seeret came out.
| Gerve met Phillipe again and, at thé
same time, clm:mace to face with
Karl Wetz, a so German officer,
and his wife. Phillipe tqld Gerve how
the years nf carnage had falied to kill
his love for her, and begged her to
become his Wif’. Gerve loved him
still, but she refused him. |
In a room in her apartment, Gerve
showed her child to Phillipe and toldy
him how she had sacrificed herself
one day during the war to Wetz, in
‘order to save him (Phillipe) from a
firing squad. Phillipe refused to be-
Ilieve she had done this just for him,
and left. Phillipe had always be
lieved Wetz had procured his reprieve
merely as an act of friendship.
Vyera, wife of Wetz, who had be.
comu jealous when she saw the flagh
of recognition in the eyes of both her
|husband and Gerve when they met,
ldetermlned to learn whether there
had been an affair between them, £he
called at Gerve’'s apartment. While
she was there, Wetz, who had feit the
old desire for Gerve returning, called
to see Gerve. Vyera hid in an ad-
Joining room.
‘When Wetz attempted to force his
attentions upon Gerve, she showed
him her child. Even this failed to
shame him. Then Gerve took her re
volver from a drawer, At that point
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Vyera rushed into the took the
revolver from Gerve -mm Wets,
“I killed him,” she told the oflbfl
She was not permitetd to suffer
Vyera's deed, however. The conclus
sion of the play depiets, in an ape
pealing manner, the means by whisch
she was absolved of blame and how
the barrier to her love for Phillipe
was removed,