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Show "The Sage Hen" Is Shown at the Gem Mortifr love, IdraHsfd. rlortfl"' and Immortalized. Im-mortalized. 1 the thrai of-"The Sare Hen," the rMnir Xwls-I"athe feature that was shown for the first time at the Gem theatre yesterday and will continue until next Knday. This iibotoplay contains a depth of emotion emo-tion and a breadth of appeaj, th action teams- plae. In the old West when the world's adventurers the best and the worst flocked to Its hUls In answer to the lure of ifolcl. The lawlessness of those frontier days, a woman's stniKTie aKainst unjust and malicious persecution and the turmoil of a crude country are all depicted vividly and melodramatically. It Is essentially a heart Interest story and contrasts the love of a mother for a son and adopted dauKhter, with the loce of a man for a maid, but the romance baa been woven together with a irrlppInK, Interest In-terest holdlne; plot that permits many moments of tens, action and breath catching- thrills. . Clariys Brockwell rives a superlative performance aa "The Sane Hen." As the younir mother flithtinpr for her son, and later as the old mother pleading and then entirely effacing Herself so that he may never know the storv of his mother's disgrace, dis-grace, she tugs feelingly at your heart strings. Other splendid work 1s done by Ullian Rich, Wallace MacDonald, James Mason. Arthur Morrison and Helen Caw. The Heart of Arizona." now being filmed at Universal City under Uie direction di-rection of Kdward Kull. will bring Fileen Sedgwick back to two-reelera. Miss Bedgwlck, prominent as a serial star, will have ample opportnntty to display her daring In the forthcoming Western photodrama- |