Show buc I Lucile ucile le Taft in n The J the Drifter at Broadway A S J A plot which holds the interest from fromi i st start rt to to finish and vigorous delineation of ot character make The Drifter conspicuous ous s among amons the photo features f of the hour lo r. r This produced at atthe th the Gaumont studios is presented by Richard Garrick's star all-star company at attha tha Broadway today with Lucille Taft and Alexander Gaden in the leads Miss Taft the fascinating Southern girl whose beauty and brains make her one of the most successful stars before the camera camera plays Faith Willis In the opening openIng open open- ing ng chapter chapler she is simply a very sweet lovable young oung girl But the closing act reveals her a. a ag as a woman loyal and cou- cou almost beyond belief Upon her herself herself herself self control her fealty and valorous silence depends the regeneration of The Drifter whom she has loved and trusted despite everything Mr Gaden's Garten's capacity for dramatic psychOlogical psychological pay pay- contrasts Is the faculty which f chiefly has made possible his remarkable Impersonation of the title role The Drifter Drift Drift- er r Harold Derwent familiarly known inC in his in-his his fleetest days as Pittsburg Hal Ual is isan an Idealist whose character is undermined under- under I mined by a a- single vice vice the the passion for I gambling In him a call to preach the I gospel l struggles with the lure of the 1 gaming earning table He Me los loses s faith in his hil better better better bet bet- ter nature and chooses the wastrels wastrel's path 1 bound l for Years the l later other on end d aol a of railroad nowhere train like a lucky luck number on the last desperate tow toss of the dice a fighting chance for Derwent's manhood turns up tip Some of Mr Gaden's best work is III realized real- real at this psychological turning point df the play He I makes r of it a wonderful moment o J From ro a poor ede devil fl about b u to dc drain r rAhe the Ahe last dregs of despair h he Is recreated before our eyes into a human being fired anew with the determination to make good No more vivid example of what hope will do for a man ever ba haa hag appeared in motion pictures Harold Derwent a I senior at divinity school deeply in love lo with Faith Willis cannot overcome his passion for betting on horses He tries to reconcile his conscience conscience conscience con con- science by promising himself that when he becomes a minister h he will give his winnings to the poor The flaw In his character Is betrayed to the college authorities authorities au au- au- au old Is expelled by Jl one 30 of Faith aW th the f insists students I i that and he en Har Harold liar liar- will till redeem himself But Derwent has lost confidence in his better nature Believing himself unworthy of Faith he goes out Into the world Their attachment Is broken off Several years later Harolds Harold's su success cess in beating the bookies has made him one of the spectacular ul figures e of the American Amen Ameri r te can turf He is f found at all the race meets in the company of Madge a de designing designing designing de- de signing woman who pretends to love him Fortune turns against Pittsburg Hal lIe He Is deserted however by Madge Harold Harold Har liar old gives the last horse nor so in his string to Eddie his faithful Jockey and declares that he Is through At the railroad railroad- ad station he hands the agent all the money he has lias and asks for fora 6 a ticket as far as the cash will take him On the tho train he neets n ets William Ashton who is going to take charge of a church In the town of ot Royal Royalton ton The two strangers strang strang- ers are mutually struck with their re resemblance resemblance resemblance re- re semblance to one another That night the train Is wrecked and the minister is kilted killed Derwent Impersonates Ashton and becomes becomes becomes be be- comes the pastor of Royalton church He lie receives a letter from Mrs Ashton tellIng tell tell- ing him that she is returning from the bedside of her sick father On her arrival Derwent and Faith recognize one another 1 Faith alth learns Harolds Harold's story For the sake of Derwent she Is silent A thief confesses confesses- to the minister that I he has stolen a a. thousand dollars' dollars worth of Jewels Derwent restores the gems gems- and discovers in their owner Madge Madlie She blackmails her Mr old lover and compels him to stake as a trust fund on the Royalton meet Harold turns over the money to the Jockey falling failing to recognize his old boy Eddie To complicate matters matters mat mat- term still further Madge brings upon the scene a child who she claims Is Harolds Harold's son He lIe loses however Ruin seems Im mm- Imminent immInent when Eddie restores to him the and confesses to having hid the mone money At the same time the spurious child i is III proved to be E Eddies Eddie's dle's little brother Madge P plays her l last c card eard testifying r sree h n r that th the minister and the notorious Hal are ono Faith falth stands stands stands' by the man and she he is believed Faith and Derwent fco go to a distant city where they are quietly married i A 1 |