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Show CONVICT WRITES VIEWS SEES LESSOR fa PICTURE RICIIARD INLOW, serring a life sentence for murder, was among the inmates at the Utah state prixon yesterday who witnessed the presentation of D. W. Griffith's great motion picture pic-ture play, "Way Down East," and he has furnished The Telegram Tele-gram with a criticism of the production. Here it is: By Richard Inlow honor, among these boys as you'd find anywhere, either inside or outside of prison. During the play, whenever villainy received a reverse, and when virtue seemed to win a point, there waa the universal handclap and applause of appreciation. These boys ure as sensitive sen-sitive of the rights of others, and we venture that few there be behind these walls who have at their door this worst of all crimes, the one portrayed por-trayed In the picture. -The thanks of Warden .Stornt and the other officials and onhe entire prison body go to this company, and to The Telegram and to Mr. (ioodcell of The Telegram, who made It possible possi-ble for us to see the play. BRINGS RESULTS. j It Is a lesson that will bear fruit, i A wonderful story. A story of woman, wo-man, a story of life, a review of life where the natural desire for the right, and honor, and virtue. whr strict puritanical Ideas of justice are Interwoven Inter-woven with the pangs of the -human heart. Indeed, a lesson from life; a lesson worth learning; a lesson all should learn: a lesson that sinks to the very depths of the soul. It carries one back to mother, and sister, and home; to the Innocence of childhood, to the dear old farnv the home life, the homely "Vlrtuesr brings tn the surface the finer sentiments, the delicate emotions, the deeper, finer. Inner feelings; strips the calloused cal-loused shell of insincerity and hypocrisy hypoc-risy from Its placement and lets one look In upon himself, as well as upon others; thrills the mind, melts the heart, stirs the soul; depicts and portrays por-trays beautifully some of the Biblical truths, the villainy, the deceit, the nefarlousness of man: the Innocence, the virtue, the purity of woman. HITS SOCIETY. We here have learned some leaons which, by the play, some others have not learned. We have learned that In each act of ours la a aced sown of Kood or evil; that It will bear fruit of good 4r evil a hundred fold; that each day la both a so win time and I- accordingly evolutionary or devolu-tlonnry, devolu-tlonnry, constructive or destructive. If our hearts have been frozen In the winter storm of despond; If we were floating to the abyss of oblivion on tha Ice cake of den pair, down the river of crime, we may perhaps be thankful that we have been rescued from that condition and turnd about face and made to see the mistake, and to be given an opportunity to look In upon ourselves and to make such reparation of character aa will enable ua to find and to sea the path leading to the road of good citizenship. URNS CHARACTER. It may be that our frozen hearts of stone are thawing out; that we are undergoing the smelting process, where the human melting pot, that mighty crucible, the cast Iron furnace of experience. Is the great reduction works of our characters. Let ua hope that this smelting process proc-ess has had a qualifying influence on our perhaps hardened natures, and let lL- conveys , mapy of Jar-. reaching Import. It la a caatigatlon of society and strikes at the habits and the customs and the life of some I of the Idle rich of both aexea. It la a strong arraignment of the position mnn la selfishly permitted to hold, aggravated by woman's Inhumanity to woman, the disloyalty of women to each other, being prone not to forrlve nor to protect each other at the right time. This praetlca Is shown at the outset among those at tha ball, the rivalry to excel, the envy created, the desire to outstrip, to outshine, to outdo. Under tha cloak of rich society there sometimes lurk practices which can almost be concealed by wealth, by the Idle rich, a sort of social treachery concealed and enshrouded by bewildering bewil-dering formality which seems to permit per-mit trading In women's souls. MANY PHASES. All the phaaes of human nature are Riven a part and a place In the production. pro-duction. How rendy woman is to tell on the young girl. How quick man to "investigate," and to censure, and to elect. Yet when the spark of real. Irn. Inve has once been I'M"1'1' carries the real ana the true lover to the fight for supremacy and to the brink of the abyss of death and to the successful and daring rescue from an Icy grave of the one he loved, meanwhile mean-while throwing the mantle of charity beautifully around the situation. That good old homespun love I. too, the real love, the love that counts, the love that stays, the love that means something. It is unaided and unhindered unhin-dered by wealth, unfettered and unhampered un-hampered by formality. IMPRESSES HEART. The production carries with It an Impresslvenees that sinks down deep Into the hearts of th. audience, both Individually and collectively, and make, each one take stock of himself. him-self. There was not a dry eye In the house and you might be surprised to find here as grest a degree of loyalty to th. high character of woman, as great a desire to see the right prevail, aa high an appreciation of acts of us hope that time (these years of eit-peajence) eit-peajence) may have made of us seasoned sea-soned timber and tempered metal, and that through that seasoning and tern-perlng tern-perlng we aie better equipped to enpe with the great problems of life; that ws are more prepared for the constant con-stant discipline to which mortal man is continually subjected in his upward and onward march to better and higher high-er things. Let us hope that we have profited by contact with the sharp points of life's many angles, and that w. have absorbed of the good and of the truth sufficient to be better able to withstand other emergencies should they appear. NEVER ENDING. I believe that Ufa I. truly a progression, progres-sion, a continued change. We progress snd advance Just to th. extent that w. labor and .xert. If only in the right direction, constructively and not destructively. That I believe Is true of the here and the hereufter. It Is an unending line of effort. To grow and progress, experience., sad experience., experi-ence., are sometimes necessary. These are the acid tests of character by which we get the necessary prepa- I ration for duty and service. These t experience, must come sometime, I somewhere. Are they not Inevitable to all members of the race? We must enquer and llv. down, llv. away the bad tendencies, and as assiduously foster and cultivate the good; sort, snd sift, and strain, and purify. Our upbuilding Is the result of our own efforts, and depends on the degree of effort put forth, and It would seem that we must he perhsps an intt-gral though a minutlve part of the general unfoldment and development of the great scheme of things. It Is a splendid old world, still: full of cheer, gladness and hope, extending still Its hand of opportunity In Its various lines of endeavor. I am convinced con-vinced of the kindness of people, snd I reflect on the thought that the world Is full of Joy nml worth: that It Is worth while, and that It la worth while to try, to strive, to endure, and to continue to look up and on. In faith j and hopefulness. |