Show f Hail ail ail- the Woman f Opens Today at American J f Mall Hall the Woman Thomas II If Ince Intensely dramatic masterpiece which comes to the American theatre cheat heat e today is a P powerful erCul production of universal appeal built on the theme of or modern American womanhood It is from the master pen 1 r iv s of C. C Gardner Sullivan and was directed T by John Griffith Wray under the personal 55 4 supervision of Thomas I IL Ince Inca This Tills play is a it classic in in motion picture interpretation on of human motives due alike to the universality ot of Its appeal and to vivid characterizations h by Florence r r c Vidor d j Madge 1 Bellamy t rJ 1 Lloyd lg d' d K rs shall Hushes Hughes and d Theodore others B so in a Roberts cast t of f Jn unsurpassed Tully Marrs Mar Mar- brilliance and genius Hall tail the Woman reflects drama from the screen so 80 poignantly real as to enthrall enthrall enthrall en- en thrall the most critical audience It Is an epic of noble womanhood sounding the I very depths of the drama of life lite The sto story deals with Oliver Beresford Theodore Roberts a grim and anel bigoted New England farmer whose uncompromising uncompromising i creed Men and their ther son first disposes harshly of womans woman's destiny Ber r son D David Lloyd Hughes t fu M who Is studying for the ministry I secretly se secretly se- se j I creth marries Nan Madge Bellamy step-daughter step of the old village odd-jobs odd man and their union unton Is about to be I Iman blessed with a child The elder Beresford Beresford Beresford Beres- Beres ford learns of ot NanS Nang condition and of his hisson's I Ison's sons son's responsibility True to her promise to her weak husband who stands In fear Cear of ot her father tather Nan does not announce I that she Is Davids David's wife The elder Beresford buys off the brutal odd-jobs odd man matt Tully Marshall and Nan Is driven from home She goes to New York where her child is born and where she I falls Into a life of shame through want and poverty Her husband David maintains maintains maintains main main- I a cringing silence Judith Beresford Florence I beautiful daughter of the Intolerant Purl- Purl j tan takes a Nans Nan's Nan's Nans P part and is s likewise j nd driven from borne e eP through ou a c combination combing combing- I tion of ot circumstances She meets Nan In j I New York and when Nan dies takes care i j i of or the child Before she dies Nan tells j I Judith of ot her marriage to David Time passes and Judith decides that her brother broth broth- I er shall clear Nans Nan's memory emory and name s and nd recognize his child She and the child arrive In the old New England home on the day th that t David Is to be ordained a missionary to foreign lands As he I stands before the congregation Judith confronts him with his child Overcome t 1 with with- remorse he confesses his sin and recognizes his child I 4 The play passes from one tense situation situation situa- situa j tion to another and has a a. heart heare appeal I such euch as has seldom been equaled It ranks as the greatest screen classic of ot the decade I |