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Show THRILLING STORY AT THE AMERICAN Love, marriage and divorce are all featured in "The House Divided,"' which opens at the American theater thea-ter todav, starring Herbert Kaw-hnson, Kaw-hnson, that inimitable male lead, and Miss Pvlvia Breanior. ''The House IividcJ' is the picturiation of Kuth Hoit Houcicaul' 'r famous novel, "The Substance of His House." The photonlav, taken from the novel from .v.- ' t t;-. Tlr.n-.S.iiiIt nu'hnr of niunv popular romances, and dictate i to Margaret Mayo, the plarwrifcht, is said to be th" latt word in photoplay art. Tbt author apparently lound her inspiration and title for the novel in a nuoTation from the "ong of Bons." to the ettcct that "many wa'tM can not iucnch love, nor can the floods drown it; if a msn cives ail his sub-stanco sub-stanco of his house for love, it would utterlv be com! em iu'd. " Cn this thfine thr nntlior has built a dramatic Mnry of hie, m.irriajre and divorce, her characters brinjr mlercst-in;t mlercst-in;t and intollicont indiwdnils prominent promi-nent fictionally in social and political lif-. ' M :uic, which hnn always been of the best at the American thca'er, will be gf.itiv augmented his wck with special spe-cial p'roprann. Ullie Smith ' sixteen-p;"c? sixteen-p;"c? concert orchestra will pive appro priatc selections during 'he showing of the picture, and S. H. William, noted l organist, will piay a Fpecial three : week" ' cnnatnmt. starting todav, ! prc ious tn his departure for New York f it v to join the Thicao irtnd Opera companv. A Harold Llyd comedy and I'athc lie view will compile the pro-pram, pro-pram, which will run today and to-x to-x morrow. |