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Show "Child for Sale" Pleaset Cent Patrons ' Ivan Abrameon's latest film production, "A Child roc Bale," vhlrh la playlnc at the 2em theatre, la Intensely Interesting from atart to flnlah. Tha dramatic momentum mo-mentum tha picture attalna at the outaot I maintained throuskout tha six reels. Krery anal of the aocial problem (not - arx that the atory sets forth. Is outlined wits, unerrlna precision la the varioua sltuatloaa. with tha result that rarely Is there to ho found a feature which unreela wit such perfect sequence aa "A Child For BaJe." Tse atory deal with th. trial and tribulations, for the moat part, of Charles Htoddard, a poor artist livh-nT with his wlfa and two children In Greenwich VII. lace. Aa a result of his extreme poverty. hts wife dies, leavina him to fight alone the battle of exlatenco for the remaining family trio, but the prevailing conditions of the day drive him to sell one of his children for fiaog to a rich childless woman wom-an In order to provide the necessities of life for his other child. When his son returns and tearaa of the aale of hla little; lit-tle; flster, the hert-broken boy causes his father to realise hts terrible error. He returne the money to the woaaaa and gets hts babr hack. Through the Illness of one of hla chtl riren, he becomes acquainted with Ir. Oardner and hla wife Ruth, the wife's wealthy parents, the Ham eon a, snd Dr. Ctardner'a nurse. Catherine Hell. William Hamson la the an let's landlord, whose Iff he saves after a series of very Interesting In-teresting attuattona. Finally it develops that tha landlord's wife ia th mother of the poor artist whom she hasn't seen sine her former divorced husband carried off their son when he was a 1-year-old Infant and took him to England, where he lived most of his Ufa. afre. Harrison telli the story to her daughter, the doctor's wife, and tosrether they arrange to make lifs more comfortable comfort-able for the poverty stricken srtlst and hia children. This la done, with the result re-sult that several very dramatic problems prob-lems are crested, not the least of wMch Is the doctor's suspicion that hla wifs haa become unduly fond of the arttet. In tha and, ths matter ia straightened out by a confession to the satisfaction of all concerned, including those who witness the picture. The players la ths picture have been splendidly cast. Thus. Gladys Leslls pias the role of the doctor's young wire In a thoroughly envabie and piquant manner. Cr urn too Hale, as the struggling strug-gling artist, does some of the best dramatic dra-matic work of hla career In this picture, and Julia twayne Gordon gives a beautifully beauti-fully sympathetic performance as the ultimately discovered mother of the srtlst. srt-lst. William Tooker looks and acta like the capitalist he portrays, and Anna Lehr stands out prominently In her role of a nurse. William Lfcnvldeon. as the doctor, acts Intelligently, and, aa for the children, chil-dren, Bobby Connelly and Ruth Hull! van. it is seldom that one finds children in the movies with such keea histrionic acumen snd lnteTligenoa. Halt lAke's little e-y ear-old songbird, June Virginia Purrington. brought the howee down with her beantlrul singing nd dever dancing. Her rendition of -who Wants a xaabyt" won prolonged 1 eppaauae, j |