Show E W WS S of P HOT 0 P LAYS LAY'S Y S SAND AND RJ Z 3 K L 6 I Ii THE OCTOROON i Kalem Makes a Fine Feature Picture Based on Bo Famous Famo Melodrama Melodrama Many Many Thrilling Situations Among the le legitimate dramatic productions pro pro- that have havo mado their mark murk on I tho the American A stage few c are arc tuoro adaptable to tho requirements of or the motion picture producer than that famous famous fa fa- fa- fa old melodrama Tho Tho Octoroon written by Dion Though tho the story it tells tes and the times and nd questions it deals leals with have ha long since Bince ceased cased to possess tho the vital interest they did at tho time tho pia lla was as written the subject is replete with is thrilling situations situ situ- that servo sor to make mako the tho picture one o of unusual inter interest t. t The story is that of a young man who returns return to his home in tho the south after ninny many years years' ears absence It is durin during slavery days and when the young oung man lUan falls fas in 10 l love e with an octoroon girl irl a difficult situation is created This is further complicated whoa when a former overseer buys t tho ho unfortunate girl irl at an anau au auction tion of slaves ves after ha having stolen her freedom papers To make mako matters worse this overseer or who is the villain main of f the play kills hills a R boy bov and rifles the mail bag ho he carried co containing valuable ble letters Subsequently the o overseers overseer's oer's crime is discovered disco by means menns of or a photograph which was taken at tho the time the tho murder murden mur mur- der den was as committed and ho is arrested and placed upon a ri river er steamboat to tobe tobe be he taken to jail He sets firo fire to tho the boat and escapes s but is followed by bythe bythe the Indian companion on of the murderer boy bov who finally kills hills him hint With the cn discovery of the overseers overseer's overseers overseer crime the freedom papers papers of the octoroon octoroon octo roon noon girl irl are aro recovered to together ether with sufficient Buffi- Buffi sufficient the letter lottor containing containing- a a. draft of amount to release the plantation from the debt to the tho overseer But tho octoroon believing n abe eho is doomed doom cd to become tho the slave slavo of the tho overseer o commits com corn commits mits suicide jut just iu t as her hor freedom is regained re no gained and her lover lo is thus thu released In producing this picture the tho Kalem Company has secured I tho the true trite southern atmosphere The scenes scene were ero taken talton in Florida a and are aro beautiful to the tho last degree de ee Guy Coombs takes tho the part of George Georgc Peyton tho the leading male character character char char- character acter and Marguerite Courtot is particularly particularly par par- charming In in the tho part of Zoo Zoe tho octoroon Tho fire firo on the r river riverboat riverboat boat is sufficiently r realistic to satisfy the most tug exacting critic it i gives ics cs a distinct dis dis' thrill Exciting indeed d is tho the chat chase o of tho the o er overseer jer 1 by the Indian It Itis Itis is with considerable lc suspense that we watched the frantic flight of the overseer over o overseer seer and the stealthy stealth trailing of his bis victim bv by tho the avenger We not permitted 1 to witness th tb j final struggle le in JU its entirety hut but a white clutching bi hand banri trembling for a 3 moment above c the reeds of a swamp nit and presently the tho an- an ap ap- l of r the thc Indian wiping bi his nis knife tells the tho stor story of vengeance That the Kalem players have done j justice to tho play in this excellent I production will ill be he the tho verdict of all who see it The story tOT is il well told toll and the picture in its tl e entirety t ret retis is fully as HS interesting in n. n as tho the dramatic rendition It will prove a 3 The Tho Octoroon n will be the attraction at mit- traction u at the tho American merican theatre today Friday Frina and Saturday The performance o will vill willbo bo ho continuous from 1 12 noon to I 11 r p p. p in |