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SATURDAY, MAY 10 1924.

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REVIEWETTES.

*The Midlander." By Booth Turkington (Heineman, 78. Gd)Tarkington in serious mood, and a weeny bit dull. i His Dan Oliphant is a first j räte fool; and of such is the Kingdom of Heaven; but his j wife Lena is perfectly hellish i

"Judgment Eve." By H. C. Harwood (Constable 7s. 6d.) j Short stories, stirring and creepy, about all sorts of odd

"Seven.

and avan people. Devils" tells of one of the Leven ones who marries" 4 witch and dies oddly after a night of devil-worship.

"The Pirates' Who's Who. By Philip Gosše (Dulau 108.)

denths of the buccaneers is į warranted to cause acute dis- j· turbance in any kindergarten

j school in the kingdom. Adults who walk the income tax plank have little or nothing to learn about free- Looters.

jours ("And Henri-replies laconiculties "bini). Ote seizes her by the lange plends. "I love my husband femain !" Cliallange leaves: then |ly "Aujourd kjú é était neccsadire... wrist. They stand five to face glu-1 can not harm ini." You are she calls Henri.

D'ailleurs ce que je suis pour lui, ing of ech other, “Ainsi, roitú où | furturing tus bath. You are dragge She does not think abut sheraught beʻvớt cu foi qu'it juut qu'il le scufe". | nous ('#1 "sommes !' - saga «flenri, | wyg yourself with memories. There is to take the child's photographs. But she can'r disimss "Challonge. [("Par tört," "Héline replies, „in Frothing more that this busband of Their place is by him.. "Yoss can A man with strange ideas und et voice of sarcasin, almost yours and these mess of his enke them, he says bitterly, I don't at was difficult to argue with him, of hates, “Ta'cs fe mistře jel, d'obéi-touch you." "Hélène breaks down. wart them. She can understand Bem should buvo been there tổ

var, Jene væverroi pas Chaitange. Tu "You go on hyging sind talking, his thrusting away with hatred hurve shown mai up, It was heres content? Ta us ce que stop! It is all-over now, Take me everything that recalls her. "Thit way to leave everything ty lioner. [conlais", She moves away," "Al-

and do Wlar you will:“de de me what wrong hus the little boy done?” Fu-was-elever-she-wijs not, Dies | Fandy! Beste iet. - C'est moi qui dicatsphide-pour-one de Don't torture mo he cries out, "pol suite d begune idle," "Chads fort. Je ne veut pas de cette de-se pas a cons dire à quel point remake your life elsewhere", "The kalker" tells "her","" "guaj pastait etsejate. Je ne pourras pats supporter je vous aime ! C'est, Murriute) schuld is a thing of the past. The arce, antenate, destrer tunjoursga il reste en tog un aloute ou ate que vous importe! Pots we voyez gestion is the future", "one Why Magantung pemesince mes, bonus obscure, s "Non! Non ! #

Comune pajunt que tout soit runs hatchu vous est égal, diurs, leads-Ilened we part-like tange, dicquisite. Je ne l'en em suis pertue, et was 'beez qua uijs?" "Bone one is waiting for Dans quelques prendre : Je suis une femme pintar.. you," he says, "have you not tist de-, peene "pus: ... temps, j'espere que ce sera bientot, Prenez rencz ! Prenez ! „put | Boney even" to disappeng, quietly?** |

me trus tenet de nous druzie does not want her martyrdom.

have tried, it can't." There are three chameters in Hol

préfères. V. Si c'est, in dis he can't inke her on taas terms. **This soonens futile and peedlessly phy, flet, the, ware, Henri, tine

posenaste lot. To es jeun

Hester tes, venir tei, quus attentra, pantif. He nses to go. ushund, and Challange thus leavel-|

referas la pm, En somune, c'est "na- cous poir, et nevien Espever, favourį go, she Waspers, (*kop "me? ler, the custoditan indu of altaus | wealth and excrement, bad, jeud as- į na ine" sendes chose, „g'est bientet, e qui nous aneg ki.. plus fontes Iva rangentes-non crust (Tam your wile." "But you are,This record of the lives and who had come to live ned them. I sukous cout No Hélene, and she gruze" - C est bien un peu, era. Après die uns, múric, évoluée, plús au dessus de mes forces. Muts now promised to another. Jou ar The play was first acted at the encouraged him. She is turn, sainsi tiens ; avoir des enfants, c'est | femme, treniels en question..., m'en ailes, pent-cize..... unt, de nothing to me any more! Comedie Françate, in Paris on bod, when Here tells her tail she dron; mats i cic, ugutt ga na, nimis | certaines elgės, ・・; Pirqjust par poux aiffe. # # Hélène, je pozus į vid of ab! Butthink whet yet #RE MINH THẾ HỆ HINH | THE BAS, IC Ngu are sure số thu, tiết december iver. Comédie tras die so. Mid will now. se savons comme est cifragant, vintage

de m'est arres de penser qu'un jour de vous-même. Françoise campany which visthed Urallange again, or it she does, est unger! Arot un" arnd R

Ta my comparerats à d'autres... neen alter Vous en after, she doing. To leave you is to lose my- -London played it thens during the will be merely ves disinses litra. him, est levride !!! Denars Near-

„J'accepte di tutte, et le risqne, gasps. "Ol

"Qrm set without you, I am nothing". 1922 Moun. These Whe saw Mat,

(usperäted by this wild talk

Thatfange des armes pour porter, he replies, "West fim. She admits thur she had told (ind dame ket piný Hélène have some

Teads to detestac ruin, est en

int: le mystère, la marcanté Ta Mtu vie est mangace, "ulous ep

langru thái sào Feal Min. **DU something, which they will not easily.

mous dirigeant toujours dansar même

ne le connats pas; c'est un grand aller sobs Helen, NC'est moi que hayê hạm, noks tunni, de ne suis forget.

sets, évat en vrcusant to menie mat- argutage!" Mais j'ai un avantage n'winai pas tu force",

Acer, qu'est-ce nue fière que nous arrierrins un jone a

auski, molt la me, commute, C. de

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estorant him, "Tot me cela erut dire d'ai été prise dans | suttefatre ve goat, leur Sexdat jond

virus ant moi defcrats aussi en toi, go." he says "You can't be my wife, | un orage où je ne ine conndissais pits, de asas, dy 'depan), de pärjat felene!

*Answer !** Say *** Land", anf1 | vipistre mrigin mary par quelqar Does a perfectar att f

The next som-the ground at the g. She looks at him with her in- chose d'obscur qui m'rauftait en Well, Sou tell me, "What you Helime Y

shared

Inissent third vet is between Hera as mense eyes in which a ferful joy bas ne

'incertitude, were.married at 20-as line cars to tell Challange tiu. E dal, at der hallange. She rails at him, fe begun to shine., He stretches out an ejror. S'il

appetri ragedy Stars qq ist-ce que c'est had said that this peitovijon, oner

*Helsi", erta de Camole, je Farmais, "Mais She loves Lor Jashant and thinks mour &'me puw file de ringtattained, is always his pets frames de Fair. Dissi- his hands towards her.

nepimais pas, puisque je herself, happy. But she is restless, ans ! Penses-cons craiment quad ways the sund, always, alw!" i drvant lui, lui cacher quelque They gake at each other. She is

Henti enters, n'ai pas pu partit. She continues and then she will not admit it. le sache ce qui le est ce que vile And There is something in whites, per pas. "est une almost in his arms.

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cantable. Mors and Challang widraws.

1 plead; Henri nesiste hur, for he slightly hard. In the first seme donar C'est le serome damne qun | sala & pfre maison, pens, put erhorst is alles

Ho all seems ended. Hélène will | bus bean crnelly wounded. Finally the situation gradually intohis itself. | compte eher aue prime! Petarda ample-Elle est parfaite, notre mancharners Fones conica me laisser lease Charente to stay with a sister he inflores her to leave him and to First die voluing bride "gai serabut est une eleiton, le choge eisrient soll, Celte Charente aussi est, et Pipes: Tous alles partir d'une in Paris. She will not come back, go to bed. "Allons, allans, va te tonjones, Elle defendail srs goals, d'un être arrivé à lui-memes qui satt ute...

Mais alors, velte auncy, men mart.

Alle-Pas-en! Allez Henri will do all he can to give her reposse. 11, fait tres froid. Et th sa personnalité aust a husband quie and camp, ce qu'il reats Layla charente, mitre ele naise de cous-on! Alles-couser Challange her freedom se quickly as possible es de peine counerte, Attends, a sob, but her, whole body is con glot dement Tgrauniqit." Qart. berante se dane quand elle se domes Charente... Et puis, Faunc pres

vulsed by it. Ilari stops. He des scènes. Tu le rapéties? Quels Vois une jeune fille est toujours chong, note muuson de Charentes her tixedly and says "*Mala | "Adieu, "Hélène, Ah, Je we Assieds foi là un instant"

gat tiennes Pons mentred C'est moi que rous suppose pus

There is a Fallos standing by looks at feline's body, how lying. Fit Fanner suivante, la Charcute! stages! Et nous avions pourtant prise), S

aimer, Heliné! Tous esyra bira | yorder, à prendre avec toi, quof the low-place. Benri opers it ani jozenų mariage d'amour". "And now *** Istre !** Hélène hugsts in. "C'est Ei bojonis, et loude nedre vie, toire que bank en vous le crie malgré cons que es ut qui te rappelle takes haullar of pine-needles, prostrate before the file. He goes

dité quejanzai bientot trente ans gossier ce que vous dites! C'est pelite maison de Charente !***

Vong n'aimez 17. And Then Hélène must Pourtant, si ta voulais red affrent le pie de te jenprese. grossint et eest tune? Vous e The lays pass and Hélie beconfesses "Eh bien, oni, là, je sais romserver. quelque chose,des J'ai tout ce que je peurais déstrer, less She is Clelluge lo comes more and múnerestless. She made. de ne pense qu'à souvenirs, enjin,, quelque chose, el même davantage. "Bu, asks Henei, call her Fugland."

eneaminges Challenge and then fors | poùs, ... Je suis hatée par rider emporte tout ce que tu cowlzas”. tu ne mes plus comme drunt?

Then Influss the last scene of the bids him the house. At the begin image... Je n'en pour plus. Je The third act Gods Hélène in the - Hélène replies, de first net, a ser in which the paying, of du third det Henri surprises ruin a bout, s. L'orts pages, que je course of dat same night, sitting t'aime plus, evidemment, de tu même photo slot Hélène is analysed wild | Hökens in the parks waiting for Chadse pur femme posseder. J'ai alone in hoe drawing room. thal Jucon qu'autrefois, „bais ce n'est pas aptazing subtlety. It is the crisis of ¦ lange. He tells her dat this sore hesun de rus.

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Ben lange conness and implores her to the fire. She approaches resurfatly how head, he kisses her hair-a kiss moms biva, Autrepas, li m'intimi | the play,

of this con nút go on. Be-las der-moi la jemmar que Pênis, leuver at once, to fly with him." She "Giva it me. I'll de iv"." "No""" | which clings. She taums, and pas-, de me sentals mar tanke parlite Helbor tells Houri how she las nacks a mistake "La femme est un de ne peux passer de rons. is on the pain of doing so, bút | She starts back, shocked at being so pill dreant, foi de me erratais, dismissed Challange, “Papait dre inférieur qu'il "mut garder. | Vous riendrez contraire. She can't drug herself away from her useless. The pur-redles ende simately holds up to him a wet face. de de devais têtes Mais je sarais | Bisonls comment. She rhapsodizes | comme une chose,, 'Cu_n'es "qu'unge Vous serez mon ami. El rette bone.“Does he put know that her and flenri, tises "Oh what trouble Heinkes her in his arms, as he tra bien que tu avais used. Jr about the leans of the evening femur, comme londra les femmes, monstruosité; any, jemnie, cuting little boy died here?" "No! he1am giving you!" "Sit down". Padorais sous ma érette. A pre- She wants to be fondles. "Tiens ("Fluit folle går de compter que hemi, ingut dens hommes, it had forgotten. But fancy his for She hesitates, holding back her would have taken a child. sent, je l'approuve encore, ef i ne L'asseoir un peu supris de moi, attrais assez de coeur et de mish paar | faudra bien, qu elle disparaisse getting! Come! She wants to look tears. "Sit down", "She obeys, me récolte plus. Mais tu ne'n'ipti- { Tu depraix. Ho flux sõites | mépriser velte volupté d'élre un ob- | Vous ne me demandere: pas trop de | al. Challange close "Comine c'est "Warm yoursel!''. miduis plus de de mânais, "Pa} entsanprès de moi, le montrer plus | jel'de conriálise, cette satisfaction de molai

ferme, u risage d'homme. No! She is sitting in front of the fire, puis, je je suis développée ... de tender were mud. 2. Commeat Your» (se sentir une proie! Pesh mol gni But Challange claing all "th She won't go to-night. Slig has pre- lif up by die flames. The moves I'l continue à croire que li m'és super- | 'n qu'il (Challanges sente er que tu rais recebir Challange. Rentre mise eest erogable alors groens parations to malo-morrow away and is on the point of leaving. irur, mais je ne me seni plus, ... es pour qui, si të m'abandonnés Igai- | la maison." Dépêche,fol," She de- [11éne, wringing her hands, "Chul- ¦ "Yes". She loves "Challange, but **4 | the room. Hene tries to suppress Paris.)

The world leg leven" għal auf Henri and Hilöate." "They are well- jodu and live in a busfind compuS Charente where the whole acon of flu play wil plaer Hélène is prade 2, there was one child- why, bug he died in infancy,

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"Still She Wished for Com- puny." By Margaret Irwin (Heinemann, 79. Gd.),--Tells of an eighteenth century ghost, a desperate rake, who fulls in love with a twentieth century typist. Morbid but jamusing.

Helen restless wondering eyes follows to her, and standing holt up- low him, and then she says faliqring

ly "Wind are you going to do! "Your right behind her he passes; at last nine going to make a tire?" "Oh, just

a blaze with these pine-needles. ho beats over her and roughly, avec. You're shivering***

is not ine espèce de jongue tendre, seizing worth it." He kneels in front of

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WORLD

SCREENLAND

MOTION PICTURE PRODUCEK.

TELLS WHY NOVEL WAS PURCHASED.

Lecture Dealing With Women.

How aro serean stories chosen? Is a gripping story the only requisite?

Is a celebrated author's name alone responsible for the fabulous prices paid for the screen rights of famous stories?'

the screen rights to the story and the next morning began negotin- tions for its purchase.".

Is the public's likes or dislikesed in celluloid. known and if so does the producer' try to give it what it wants?

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But one could question endlessly and with little result. The truth is that every story ever produced has been bought for a different

"I want to marry Anthony be- cause husbands are so often ‘hus- lands,' and I must marryŝa lover. "I refuse to dedicate my life,to posterity. Surely one owes aş much to the current generation as to one's unwanted children."

Accordingly, money was not

"The Beautiful and Damned" is a novel of to-day. It is a bit sophisticated and frankly realistic never for Mr. Fitzgerald han donned the rose pink spectacles with which so many novelists view spared, and the pictufe, when their stories. His hero and heroine finished, testified to the lavish are not the perfect, sacharine and scale with which it had been utterly impossible persons one has made Claborate reproductions, grown accustomed to meeting in for instance, of the glittering the pages of novels or amortaliz-interiors of New York's Lafes andreabarets, are so perfect that Anthony and Gloria whose no one would ruppude that these courtship and marriage form the scenes were taken three thousand theme of the novel are far from miles away from Manhàitan. being the standardized thing in Special dancing instructors were heroes and heroines. Instead, they engaged to coach the actresses in have their faults, and plenty of the dances described in the story; them, at that, while the vicissi the interiors showing wealthy tudes of their life are largely homes have never been expelled, As in the case of "The Beauti-brought about by their own mis- and the result is a picture at once fut and Damned the F. Scott Ftakes-truly a modern departure realistically exact and brilliantly" Fitzgerald nuvel which has created from the novel popular a few years beautiful. | so much interest in literary circles

and which has been produced for age in which Fate could indulge Mr. Warner expressed himself in any caprice she fancied but as perfectly satisfied with the the screen by Warner Brothers, whose leading characters must manner in which his orders had these reasons are very often must always be kept stainless and been accomplished, and has been interesting in themselves.

H. M. Warner, of Warner absolutely above reproach.

Imagine it heroine of-well, not Brothers, was attending a lecture

so many years ago at that--writ dealing with present day condi- tions and the influence beauty anding in her diary as Gloria did.

"We talked about 'love'-how vanity have exerted on the woman of to-day and incidentally on the banal. With how many men have

I talked about love?

reason.

chaotic "state" society is passing-

| through. To illustrate his points The lecturer used "The Beautiful and. Damned" for the text of his | vivid talk. Mr. Weber was most enthusiastic, about the telling arguments of the lecturer.

"The talk was most impressive,” said Mr. Warner. "I realized how trus was the lecturer's contention that beauty is so frequently damn- ed and that he could not have taken a more effective subjett for bis lecture than, Mr. Fitzgerald's novel.

"I could see that a subject só absorbing and, which" made' so tremendous a appeal to a lec. turck's, audiaque wouldbe doubly, effective as a screen subject and as such would reach a great muny more audiences who would react to the story as we were that evening. I'decided the and there to procure

KENNETH BARLAN CHI BRAUTIFUL, AND DAMNED

WORLD THEATRE

LAST SHOW TO-DAY

THE MOST STARTLING AND AMAZING

REVELATION OF MODERN DOMESTIC LIFE

DAYTIME

WIVES”

been sighted the previous evening.

was related upon the return to made early one morning when she America of Mr. and Mrs. Martin und Mrs. Johnson, accompanied by Johnson from their two-year hunt their gunbearers and bush-beat- glad to find that the verdict of ing expedition in Africa where ers, had gone to a water hole crities and patrons of the movies "Trailing African Wild Animals," where a herd of elephants had justify the painstaking efforts of was photographed. This remark all concerned in picturizing the abte photoplay is coming to the Shortly after reaching the | story, which has Marie Prévost-as World Theatre.

water hole there was a commotion The girl was Mrs. Martin John- in the underbrush and two ele- its star.

The millions of photoplay goers. son herself, and the elephant was phants stalked through the clear- who have seen the screen version of the largest that has been killed ing to the water. of "The Beautiful and Damned" in Africa in a number of years. they scented danger and the Immediately are grateful for the chance that Mr. and Mrs. Johnson encountered feniale returned to the bush. The led Mr. Warner into the lecture elephants for the first time on Johnsons were not then within and decided him to picturize the their trip when they were near the range of the elephant's vision, but novel. If he had not been so region of Paradise Lake, more the monster caught their direc vividly impressed with the story's than one thousand miles from tion by scent and turned toward eloquence, they would probably Nairobi, where the expedition them, Mr. Johnson fired four have missed one of the most started.

times, each shot missing as the gripping stories ever filmed,

Elephant hunting is the most huge beist lunged

over the dangerdus, as well as the most ground. The distance ipetween exciting sport there is, for the them and the animal had shorten. monster, is able to hear and scented until they were within range of at a distance of five or six hundred the elephant's vision. As Hoon feet, although his vision is limited as he saw them the elephinat An elephant dislikea noise of any instead of retreating, Mr Jalin to a range of less than fifty yards, lowered his tusks and charged.

sort and is startlod-into-the-san-bent on one knee and, raising. How an elephant weighing wildest fury by the mere snapping her heavy elephant gun, frest one nearly five tons was brought down of a twig. His rage in this respect shot. The beast crashed to the with a single shot by a slip of a is only surpassed by his fear at ground and the space between him girl weighing sercely more than the sight of a field mouse.

and Mrs. Johnson was less than one of the hire monster's tusks. Mrs. Johnson'

twenty feet.

GIRL'S SHOT

Brings Down Five-Ton Monster.