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Show Western Drama Is Strong Card at Paramount DEPICTING a character of the west, with the requirements of which he is thoroughly familiar, and which is bound to accentuate his fame as being perhaps the foremost actor of the day in strenuous western characterizations, William Wil-liam S. Hart, as usual, carried his enthusiastic en-thusiastic audiences with him in the presentation of his new Artcraft photoplay, photo-play, '-The Tiger Man," at the Para-mount-Emnress yesterday. In "The Tisrer Man," his admirers have another virile brute whose inner consciousness con-sciousness is awakened through the religious re-ligious fervor of a little woman, and which leads him to make what must ever be an enormous sacrifice that of yielding yield-ing himself up to justice in reparation of his frequent atrocious violations of the law, in order that this woman and her ascetic husband, a minister of the gospel, might hold religious services undisturbed by the lawless and hostile element of the community of their adoption. Needless to say, this new Hart picture is full of excitement, starting in, as it does, with the escape of the Tiger Man and companions from jail and their subsequent sub-sequent meeting with a stranded emigrant emi-grant train on the desert, where the Indians In-dians attack them in hair-raising fashion. A troop of cavalry Is seen in the distance dis-tance and an attempt is made by the travelers to light a beacon to summon help. The Tiger Man realizes that, while this may save the emigrants, it must Inevitably In-evitably end in his arrest and punishment. punish-ment. He frustrates this attempt at the the point of his gun and then proposes to permit the lighting of the flare on condition that the preacher's young wife accompany him in his escape. To save the majority, the bargain is struck, and the outlaw rides away with the woman to a mountain fastness. After a vain attempt to destroy herself, the woman swoons. It is now that the regeneration regenera-tion of the Tiger Man begins. The story ends as it should, with the return of the wife to her husband, who, through the assistance of the Tiger Man, is enabled to hold divine services after the tin-horn gamblers have been run out of town. Then the hero walks in on the sheriff and gives hhmself up to justice. The balance of the current show, which goes for the next three days, is distinctly dis-tinctly entertaining.' The Burton Holmes travelogue on Alaska in summer time establishes the fact that it is a land of huge fruit and flowers, while the News Weekly shows the launching of the first concrete ship and numerous scenes on the French and Italian battle fronts. |